Is Nichijou good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Nichijou (My Ordinary Life) is a TV series from Spring 2011 by Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 8.3/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 10 hours for the run, 13 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
- TV series
- Episodes
- 26
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2011
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.3/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- robots & AI, manga adaptation, comedy, cute girls doing cute things, slice of life, episodic, friendship, school, love triangle, parody, shounen
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: Everyday Life.
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Related anime
More like this: robots & AI · manga adaptation · comedy · cute girls doing cute things · slice of life · friendship · school · love triangle · parody · shounen.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Nichijou?
- About 10 hours for all 26 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Nichijou have?
- 26 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Nichijou finished?
- Yes, Nichijou is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Nichijou good for a group?
- Yes. Nichijou is tagged comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Nichijou listed?
- Nichijou is on AniList (id 10165) and MyAnimeList (id 10165); 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 2026-09-23. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists