Is Kingdom good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Kingdom is a TV series from Summer 2012 by Ikif+, Pierrot Co., Ltd.: 38 episodes, about 16 hours in total, finished, 7.8/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged 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
- 38
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 16 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Summer 2012
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Ikif+, Pierrot Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.8/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, coming of age, drama, historical, martial arts, military, politics, seinen, swordplay, thriller, tragedy, 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.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Kingdom?
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Related anime
More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · coming of age · drama · historical · martial arts · military · politics · seinen · swordplay · thriller · tragedy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Kingdom?
- About 16 hours for all 38 episodes at 25 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 19 evenings.
- How many episodes does Kingdom have?
- 38 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Kingdom finished?
- Yes, Kingdom is finished (38 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Kingdom good for a group?
- Yes. Kingdom is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Kingdom listed?
- Kingdom is on AniList (id 12031) and MyAnimeList (id 12031); 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 2026-09-23. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists