Is Shinsekai yori good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Shinsekai yori (From the New World) is a TV series from Fall 2012 by A-1 Pictures Inc.: 25 episodes, about 9.2 hours in total, finished, 8.09/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged horror, psychological, 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
- 25
- Episode length
- 22 min
- Total time
- about 9.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2012
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- A-1 Pictures Inc.
- Score
- 8.09/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- adventure, boys' love, coming of age, drama, dystopian, fantasy, gore, horror, love triangle, magic, monsters, mystery, politics, post-apocalyptic, superpowers, psychological, revenge, romance, school, sci-fi, supernatural, survival, thriller, tragedy, violence, war, yuri
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: Shinsekai Yori: From the New World.
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More like this: adventure · boys' love · coming of age · drama · dystopian · fantasy · horror · love triangle · magic · monsters · mystery · politics · post-apocalyptic · superpowers · psychological · revenge · romance · school · sci-fi · supernatural · survival · thriller · tragedy · war · yuri.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shinsekai yori?
- About 9.2 hours for all 25 episodes at 22 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Shinsekai yori have?
- 25 episodes of 22 min.
- Is Shinsekai yori finished?
- Yes, Shinsekai yori is finished (25 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shinsekai yori good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Shinsekai yori is tagged drama, psychological, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Shinsekai yori listed?
- Shinsekai yori is on AniList (id 13125) and MyAnimeList (id 13125); 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