Is Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san is a TV series from Winter 2021 by J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.: 12 episodes, about 5 hours in total, finished, 7.06/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 5 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
- 12
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 5 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2021
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.06/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, cooking, cute girls doing cute things, slice of life, drama, friendship, iyashikei (healing), shounen, workplace
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: manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · cooking · cute girls doing cute things · slice of life · drama · friendship · iyashikei (healing) · shounen · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san?
- About 5 hours for all 12 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san have?
- 12 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san finished?
- Yes, Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san good for a group?
- Yes. Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san listed?
- Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san is on AniList (id 117067) and MyAnimeList (id 41556); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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