Is Mo Dao Zu Shi good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Mo Dao Zu Shi (The Founder of Demonic Path) is a web series (ONA) from Summer 2018 by B.C May Pictures, B.Cmay Pictures: 15 episodes, about 6.2 hours in total, finished, 8.34/10 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 6.2 hours for the run, 8 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
- Web series (ONA)
- Episodes
- 15
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 6.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2018
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- B.C May Pictures, B.Cmay Pictures, G.Cmay Animation & Film
- Score
- 8.34/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, boys' love, donghua (Chinese animation), comedy, crime, cultivation & wuxia, demons, drama, fantasy, found family, ghost, gore, historical, magic, mystery, mythology, politics, reincarnation, revenge, shoujo, supernatural, swordplay, tragedy, zombie, 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: The Founder of Evil Magic.
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More like this: action · adventure · boys' love · donghua (Chinese animation) · comedy · crime · cultivation & wuxia · demons · drama · fantasy · found family · ghost · historical · magic · mystery · mythology · politics · reincarnation · revenge · shoujo · supernatural · swordplay · tragedy · zombie · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Mo Dao Zu Shi?
- About 6.2 hours for all 15 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 8 evenings.
- How many episodes does Mo Dao Zu Shi have?
- 15 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Mo Dao Zu Shi finished?
- Yes, Mo Dao Zu Shi is finished (15 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Mo Dao Zu Shi good for a group?
- Yes. Mo Dao Zu Shi is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Mo Dao Zu Shi listed?
- Mo Dao Zu Shi is on AniList (id 101972) and MyAnimeList (id 37208); 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