Is Alien 9 good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Alien 9 is a OVA (home-video release) from Spring 2001 by Genco, Inc., J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.: 4 episodes, about 1.9 hours in total, finished, 6.77/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged horror, 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
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 4
- Episode length
- 28 min
- Total time
- about 1.9 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Spring 2001
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Genco, Inc., J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 6.77/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, aliens, manga adaptation, coming of age, slice of life, drama, friendship, gore, horror, magic, magical girl, monsters, nudity, post-apocalyptic, superpowers, psychological, school, sci-fi, seinen, tragedy, 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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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Alien 9?
- About 1.9 hours for all 4 episodes at 28 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 2 evenings.
- How many episodes does Alien 9 have?
- 4 episodes of 28 min.
- Is Alien 9 finished?
- Yes, Alien 9 is finished (4 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Alien 9 good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Alien 9 is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Alien 9 listed?
- Alien 9 is on AniList (id 1177) and MyAnimeList (id 1177); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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