Is Oban Star-Racers good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Oban Star-Racers is a TV series from Fall 2006 by Buyuu, Hal Film Maker Inc.: 26 episodes, about 11 hours in total, finished, 7.45/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 11 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
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 11 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2006
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Buyuu, Hal Film Maker Inc., Synergysp
- Score
- 7.45/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, aliens, comedy, drama, family-friendly, mythology, magic, mecha, robots & AI, sci-fi, shounen, space, sports, 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. Also listed as: Molly Star-Racer.
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More like this: action · adventure · aliens · comedy · drama · family-friendly · mythology · magic · mecha · robots & AI · sci-fi · shounen · space · sports · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Oban Star-Racers?
- About 11 hours for all 26 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Oban Star-Racers have?
- 26 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Oban Star-Racers finished?
- Yes, Oban Star-Racers is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Oban Star-Racers good for a group?
- Yes. Oban Star-Racers is tagged action, comedy, sports, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Oban Star-Racers listed?
- Oban Star-Racers is on AniList (id 1212) and MyAnimeList (id 1212); 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