Is 86 good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. 86 (86 EIGHTY-SIX) is a TV series from Spring 2021 by A-1 Pictures Inc.: 11 episodes, about 4.2 hours in total, finished, 8.35/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged 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
- 11
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 4.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2021
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- A-1 Pictures Inc.
- Score
- 8.35/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, robots & AI, light-novel adaptation, cyberpunk, drama, dystopian, gore, detective, mecha, military, nudity, politics, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, seinen, superpowers, survival, tragedy, 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. Also listed as: Eighty Six; Eighty-Six; 86: Eighty Six.
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More like this: action · robots & AI · light-novel adaptation · cyberpunk · drama · dystopian · detective · mecha · military · politics · post-apocalyptic · sci-fi · seinen · superpowers · survival · tragedy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of 86?
- About 4.2 hours for all 11 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does 86 have?
- 11 episodes of 23 min.
- Is 86 finished?
- Yes, 86 is finished (11 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is 86 good for a group?
- Yes. 86 is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is 86 listed?
- 86 is on AniList (id 116589) and MyAnimeList (id 41457); 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