Is Kimetsu no Yaiba good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer) is a TV series from Spring 2019 by Ufotable, Inc.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 8.5/10 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 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 2019
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Ufotable, Inc.
- Score
- 8.5/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, crime, dark fantasy, demons, drama, gore, fantasy, martial arts, shounen, cooking, ghost, historical, horror, monsters, mythology, revenge, superpowers, supernatural, swordplay, thriller, tragedy, zombie, vampire, violence, war
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: Blade of Demon Destruction; Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba; Demon-slaying blade; Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Bonds of Siblings.
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More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · crime · dark fantasy · demons · drama · fantasy · martial arts · shounen · cooking · ghost · historical · horror · monsters · mythology · revenge · superpowers · supernatural · swordplay · thriller · tragedy · zombie · vampire · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Kimetsu no Yaiba?
- 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 Kimetsu no Yaiba have?
- 26 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Kimetsu no Yaiba finished?
- Yes, Kimetsu no Yaiba is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Kimetsu no Yaiba good for a group?
- Yes. Kimetsu no Yaiba is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Kimetsu no Yaiba listed?
- Kimetsu no Yaiba is on AniList (id 101922) and MyAnimeList (id 38000); 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