How long does it take to watch all of BNA?

About 4.4 hours for all 12 episodes at 22 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.

Yes, BNA is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.

Is BNA good for a group?

Yes. BNA is tagged action, comedy, parody, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.

BNA is on AniList (id 110354) and MyAnimeList (id 40060); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.

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Is BNA good to watch with a friend?

Easy to drop in. BNA (BRAND NEW ANIMAL) is a TV series from Spring 2020 by Trigger Inc.: 12 episodes, about 4.4 hours in total, finished, 7.5/10 across the listing sites.

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Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: 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: Spring 2020
Status: Finished
Studio: Trigger Inc.
Score: 7.5/10 across the listing sites
Tags: action, comedy, coming of age, crime, detective, dystopian, episodic, fantasy, martial arts, friendship, school, idol, politics, revenge, robots & AI, parody, sci-fi, seinen, superpowers, tournament, tragedy, urban fantasy, violence, war

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.

Do you and a friend both want to watch BNA?

Queue Up reads two public AniList lists and shows every anime you both have on Planning — with BNA flagged if it is one of them — then picks tonight's with a weighted roll or a bracket.

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Quick answers

How long does it take to watch all of BNA?: 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 BNA have?: 12 episodes of 22 min.
Is BNA finished?: Yes, BNA is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
Is BNA good for a group?: Yes. BNA is tagged action, comedy, parody, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
Where is BNA listed?: BNA is on AniList (id 110354) and MyAnimeList (id 40060); 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