Is The iDOLM@STER good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. The iDOLM@STER is a TV series from Summer 2011 by A-1 Pictures Inc.: 25 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 7.59/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: 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
- 25
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2011
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- A-1 Pictures Inc.
- Score
- 7.59/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- video-game adaptation, comedy, coming of age, cooking, cute girls doing cute things, slice of life, drama, found family, friendship, gaming, iyashikei (healing), idol, music, shounen, workplace
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.
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More like this: video-game adaptation · comedy · coming of age · cooking · cute girls doing cute things · slice of life · drama · found family · friendship · gaming · iyashikei (healing) · idol · music · shounen · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of The iDOLM@STER?
- About 10 hours for all 25 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does The iDOLM@STER have?
- 25 episodes of 24 min.
- Is The iDOLM@STER finished?
- Yes, The iDOLM@STER is finished (25 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is The iDOLM@STER good for a group?
- Yes. The iDOLM@STER is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is The iDOLM@STER listed?
- The iDOLM@STER is on AniList (id 10278) and MyAnimeList (id 10278); 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