Is Beastars good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Beastars is a TV series from Fall 2019 by Dwarf Studios, Orange Co., Ltd.: 12 episodes, about 4.4 hours in total, finished, 7.86/10 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 4.4 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
- TV series
- Episodes
- 12
- Episode length
- 22 min
- Total time
- about 4.4 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2019
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Dwarf Studios, Orange Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.86/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, crime, drama, fantasy, gore, school, love triangle, mystery, nudity, politics, psychological, romance, shounen, slice of life, thriller, violence
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 · manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · crime · drama · fantasy · school · love triangle · mystery · politics · psychological · romance · shounen · slice of life · thriller.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Beastars?
- About 4.4 hours for all 12 episodes at 22 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Beastars have?
- 12 episodes of 22 min.
- Is Beastars finished?
- Yes, Beastars is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Beastars good for a group?
- Yes. Beastars is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Beastars listed?
- Beastars is on AniList (id 107660) and MyAnimeList (id 39195); 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