Is Black★Rock Shooter (TV) good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Black★Rock Shooter (TV) (Black Rock Shooter) is a TV series from Winter 2012 by Ordet Co.,Ltd., Sanzigen Inc.: 8 episodes, about 3.1 hours in total, finished, 6.8/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
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
- 8
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 3.1 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2012
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Ordet Co.,Ltd., Sanzigen Inc.
- Score
- 6.8/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, coming of age, slice of life, dark fantasy, drama, fantasy, martial arts, friendship, gore, isekai, magical girl, nudity, psychological, reincarnation, school, seinen, superpowers, swordplay, tragedy, urban fantasy, violence
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 · coming of age · slice of life · dark fantasy · drama · fantasy · martial arts · friendship · isekai · magical girl · psychological · reincarnation · school · seinen · superpowers · swordplay · tragedy · urban fantasy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Black★Rock Shooter (TV)?
- About 3.1 hours for all 8 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 4 evenings.
- How many episodes does Black★Rock Shooter (TV) have?
- 8 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Black★Rock Shooter (TV) finished?
- Yes, Black★Rock Shooter (TV) is finished (8 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Black★Rock Shooter (TV) good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Black★Rock Shooter (TV) is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Black★Rock Shooter (TV) listed?
- Black★Rock Shooter (TV) is on AniList (id 11285) and MyAnimeList (id 11285); 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