Is Chuuka Ichiban! good to watch with a friend?
A couple of weeks. Chuuka Ichiban! (Cooking Master Boy) is a TV series from Spring 1997 by Nippon Animation Co., Ltd.: 52 episodes, about 20 hours in total, finished, 7.36/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a couple of weeks. 52 episodes is about 20 hours: 26 evenings at two a night. Agree on a pace before you start. Rule: 13–99 episodes without a lighter tag → a couple of weeks.
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
- 52
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 20 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Spring 1997
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Nippon Animation Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.36/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, cooking, crime, drama, historical, shounen, 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: action · adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · cooking · crime · drama · historical · shounen · tournament.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Chuuka Ichiban!?
- About 20 hours for all 52 episodes at 23 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 26 evenings.
- How many episodes does Chuuka Ichiban! have?
- 52 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Chuuka Ichiban! finished?
- Yes, Chuuka Ichiban! is finished (52 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Chuuka Ichiban! good for a group?
- Yes. Chuuka Ichiban! is tagged action, comedy, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Chuuka Ichiban! listed?
- Chuuka Ichiban! is on AniList (id 110) and MyAnimeList (id 110); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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