Is Xingchen Bian good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Xingchen Bian (Legend of Immortals) is a web series (ONA) from Fall 2018 by Foch Films, Pure Arts: 12 episodes, about 5.2 hours in total, finished, 7.71/10 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 5.2 hours for the run, 6 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
- 12
- Episode length
- 26 min
- Total time
- about 5.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2018
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Foch Films, Pure Arts, Shanghai Foch Film And Tv Culture Investment, Shanghai Foch Film Culture Investment
- Score
- 7.71/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, donghua (Chinese animation), coming of age, cultivation & wuxia, demons, fantasy, historical, magic, martial arts, monsters, revenge, romance, swordplay
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: action · adventure · donghua (Chinese animation) · coming of age · cultivation & wuxia · demons · fantasy · historical · magic · martial arts · monsters · revenge · romance · swordplay.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Xingchen Bian?
- About 5.2 hours for all 12 episodes at 26 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Xingchen Bian have?
- 12 episodes of 26 min.
- Is Xingchen Bian finished?
- Yes, Xingchen Bian is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Xingchen Bian good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Xingchen Bian is tagged romance; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Xingchen Bian listed?
- Xingchen Bian is on AniList (id 105626) and MyAnimeList (id 38491); 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