Is Nisemonogatari good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Nisemonogatari (Fake Tale) is a TV series from Winter 2012 by Shaft Inc.: 11 episodes, about 4.6 hours in total, finished, 8.1/10 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 4.6 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
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 4.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2012
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Shaft Inc.
- Score
- 8.1/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, light-novel adaptation, comedy, urban fantasy, drama, ecchi, fantasy, harem, ghost, gore, mystery, nudity, psychological, romance, parody, seinen, superpowers, supernatural, zombie, vampire, violence, youkai
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 · light-novel adaptation · comedy · urban fantasy · drama · fantasy · harem · ghost · mystery · psychological · romance · parody · seinen · superpowers · supernatural · zombie · vampire · youkai.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Nisemonogatari?
- About 4.6 hours for all 11 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Nisemonogatari have?
- 11 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Nisemonogatari finished?
- Yes, Nisemonogatari is finished (11 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Nisemonogatari good for a group?
- Yes. Nisemonogatari is tagged action, comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Nisemonogatari listed?
- Nisemonogatari is on AniList (id 11597) and MyAnimeList (id 11597); 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