Is Akudama Drive good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Akudama Drive is a TV series from Fall 2020 by Pierrot Co., Ltd.: 12 episodes, about 4.8 hours in total, finished, 7.6/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, thriller, 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
- 12
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 4.8 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2020
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Pierrot Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.6/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, robots & AI, crime, cyberpunk, drama, dystopian, gore, found family, martial arts, politics, post-apocalyptic, psychological, sci-fi, space, thriller, tragedy, violence, gaming
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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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Akudama Drive?
- About 4.8 hours for all 12 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Akudama Drive have?
- 12 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Akudama Drive finished?
- Yes, Akudama Drive is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Akudama Drive good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Akudama Drive is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Akudama Drive listed?
- Akudama Drive is on AniList (id 116566) and MyAnimeList (id 41433); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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