Is Fruits Basket good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Fruits Basket is a TV series from Summer 2001 by Studio Deen Co., Ltd.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 7.73/10 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 10 hours for the run, 13 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
- 26
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2001
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Studio Deen Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.73/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, urban fantasy, drama, fantasy, found family, harem, iyashikei (healing), school, love triangle, magic, mythology, reincarnation, romance, shoujo, slice of life, supernatural, tragedy
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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Related anime
More like this: manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · urban fantasy · drama · fantasy · found family · harem · iyashikei (healing) · school · love triangle · magic · mythology · reincarnation · romance · shoujo · slice of life · supernatural · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Fruits Basket?
- About 10 hours for all 26 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Fruits Basket have?
- 26 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Fruits Basket finished?
- Yes, Fruits Basket is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Fruits Basket good for a group?
- Yes. Fruits Basket is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Fruits Basket listed?
- Fruits Basket is on AniList (id 120) and MyAnimeList (id 120); 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