Is Chihayafuru good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Chihayafuru is a TV series from Fall 2011 by Madhouse Inc.: 25 episodes, about 9.2 hours in total, finished, 8.16/10 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 9.2 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
- 22 min
- Total time
- about 9.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2011
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc.
- Score
- 8.16/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, coming of age, drama, gaming, school, josei, love triangle, romance, slice of life, sports, tournament
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: manga adaptation · coming of age · drama · gaming · school · josei · love triangle · romance · slice of life · sports · tournament.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Chihayafuru?
- About 9.2 hours for all 25 episodes at 22 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Chihayafuru have?
- 25 episodes of 22 min.
- Is Chihayafuru finished?
- Yes, Chihayafuru is finished (25 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Chihayafuru good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Chihayafuru is tagged drama, romance; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Chihayafuru listed?
- Chihayafuru is on AniList (id 10800) and MyAnimeList (id 10800); 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