Is Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures (The Testament of Sister New Devil DEPARTURES) is a OVA (home-video release) from Winter 2018 by Production Ims Co., Ltd.: 1 episodes, about 1 hour in total, finished, 7.06/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 1 hour for the run, 1 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 59 min
- Total time
- about 1 hour — one evening
- First aired
- Winter 2018
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Production Ims Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.06/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, light-novel adaptation, comedy, urban fantasy, demons, ecchi, fantasy, harem, magic, mythology, nudity, romance, sci-fi, shounen, superpowers, supernatural, swordplay
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale. Also listed as: The Testament of Sister New Devil OVA: Departures; The Testament of Sister New Devil: Departures.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures?
- About 1 hour for all 1 episodes at 59 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 1 evening.
- How many episodes does Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures have?
- 1 episode of 59 min.
- Is Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures finished?
- Yes, Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures good for a group?
- Yes. Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures listed?
- Shinmai Maou no Testament Departures is on AniList (id 100451) and MyAnimeList (id 36688); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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