Is Gunnm good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Gunnm (Battle Angel) is a OVA (home-video release) from Spring 1993 by Animate Film, Madhouse: 2 episodes, about 1 hour in total, finished, 7.07/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
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
- 2
- Episode length
- 30 min
- Total time
- about 1 hour — one evening
- First aired
- Spring 1993
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Animate Film, Madhouse
- Score
- 7.07/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, robots & AI, manga adaptation, crime, cyberpunk, drama, dystopian, gore, mecha, nudity, post-apocalyptic, romance, sci-fi, seinen, shounen, tragedy, violence
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: Alita Angel de Combate; Battle Angel Alita; Gun Dream.
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More like this: action · robots & AI · manga adaptation · crime · cyberpunk · drama · dystopian · mecha · post-apocalyptic · romance · sci-fi · seinen · shounen · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Gunnm?
- About 1 hour for all 2 episodes at 30 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 1 evening.
- How many episodes does Gunnm have?
- 2 episodes of 30 min.
- Is Gunnm finished?
- Yes, Gunnm is finished (2 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Gunnm good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Gunnm is tagged drama, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Gunnm listed?
- Gunnm is on AniList (id 1016) and MyAnimeList (id 1016); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists