Is Fullmetal Alchemist good to watch with a friend?
A couple of weeks. Fullmetal Alchemist is a TV series from Fall 2003 by Bones Inc.: 51 episodes, about 20 hours in total, finished, 8.35/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a couple of weeks. 51 episodes is about 20 hours: 26 evenings at two a night. Agree on a pace before you start. Rule: 13–99 episodes without a lighter tag → a couple of weeks.
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
- 51
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 20 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Fall 2003
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Bones Inc.
- Score
- 8.35/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, crime, robots & AI, dark fantasy, drama, fantasy, shounen, friendship, historical, isekai, detective, love triangle, magic, military, monsters, mystery, politics, revenge, swordplay, 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: Full Matal Alchemist/Stalowy Alchemik.
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More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · crime · robots & AI · dark fantasy · drama · fantasy · shounen · friendship · historical · isekai · detective · love triangle · magic · military · monsters · mystery · politics · revenge · swordplay · tragedy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Fullmetal Alchemist?
- About 20 hours for all 51 episodes at 24 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 26 evenings.
- How many episodes does Fullmetal Alchemist have?
- 51 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Fullmetal Alchemist finished?
- Yes, Fullmetal Alchemist is finished (51 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Fullmetal Alchemist good for a group?
- Yes. Fullmetal Alchemist is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Fullmetal Alchemist listed?
- Fullmetal Alchemist is on AniList (id 121) and MyAnimeList (id 121); 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