Is Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen (Saint Saiya: The Hades Chapter - Inferno) is a OVA (home-video release) from Fall 2005 by Toei Animation Co., Ltd.: 12 episodes, about 4.8 hours in total, finished, 7.73/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged 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
- 12
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 4.8 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2005
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Toei Animation Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.73/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, mythology, demons, drama, fantasy, martial arts, shounen, magic, superpowers, sci-fi, 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: Saint Seiya: The Hades - Chapter Inferno; Saint Seiya: The Hades Chapter - Inferno.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen?
- About 4.8 hours for all 12 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen have?
- 12 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen finished?
- Yes, Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen good for a group?
- Yes. Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen listed?
- Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Meikai-hen is on AniList (id 1253) and MyAnimeList (id 1253); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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