Is Given good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Given is a TV series from Summer 2019 by Lerche: 11 episodes, about 4 hours in total, finished, 8.18/10 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 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
- 11
- Episode length
- 22 min
- Total time
- about 4 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2019
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Lerche
- Score
- 8.18/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- music, manga adaptation, boys' love, comedy, coming of age, drama, school, josei, romance, slice of life, tragedy
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: music · manga adaptation · boys' love · comedy · coming of age · drama · school · josei · romance · slice of life · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Given?
- About 4 hours for all 11 episodes at 22 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Given have?
- 11 episodes of 22 min.
- Is Given finished?
- Yes, Given is finished (11 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Given good for a group?
- Yes. Given is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Given listed?
- Given is on AniList (id 108430) and MyAnimeList (id 39533); 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