Is Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen (Saint Seiya: The Hades Sanctuary Chapter) is a OVA (home-video release) from Fall 2002 by Toei Animation Co., Ltd.: 13 episodes, about 6.3 hours in total, finished, 8/10 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 6.3 hours for the run, 7 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
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 13
- Episode length
- 29 min
- Total time
- about 6.3 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2002
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Toei Animation Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, comedy, mythology, drama, fantasy, martial arts, shounen, magic, superpowers, revenge, sci-fi, 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 - Sanctuary.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen?
- About 6.3 hours for all 13 episodes at 29 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 7 evenings.
- How many episodes does Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen have?
- 13 episodes of 29 min.
- Is Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen finished?
- Yes, Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen good for a group?
- Yes. Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen listed?
- Saint Seiya: Meiou Hades Juuni Kyuu-hen is on AniList (id 1257) and MyAnimeList (id 1257); 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