Is Haikyuu!! Riku vs. Kuu good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Haikyuu!! Riku vs. Kuu (Haikyuu!! Land vs. Air & The "Path" of the Ball) is a OVA (home-video release) from Winter 2020 by Production I.G., Inc.: 2 episodes, about 42 minutes in total, finished, 7.84/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 42 minutes for the run, 1 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
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 2
- Episode length
- 22 min
- Total time
- about 42 minutes — one evening
- First aired
- Winter 2020
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Production I.G., Inc.
- Score
- 7.84/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, drama, school, shounen, 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. Also listed as: Haikyuu!!: Land vs Sky; Haikyuu!!: The Volleyball Way; The "Path" of the Ball; HAIKYU!! LAND VS. AIR.
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More like this: manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · drama · school · shounen · sports · tournament.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Haikyuu!! Riku vs. Kuu?
- About 42 minutes for all 2 episodes at 22 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 1 evening.
- How many episodes does Haikyuu!! Riku vs. Kuu have?
- 2 episodes of 22 min.
- Is Haikyuu!! Riku vs. Kuu finished?
- Yes, Haikyuu!! Riku vs. Kuu is finished (2 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Haikyuu!! Riku vs. Kuu good for a group?
- Yes. Haikyuu!! Riku vs. Kuu is tagged comedy, sports, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Haikyuu!! Riku vs. Kuu listed?
- Haikyuu!! Riku vs. Kuu is on AniList (id 111790) and MyAnimeList (id 40262); 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