Is Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation (Hunter x Hunter: Yorknew City) is a OVA (home-video release) from Winter 2002 by Nippon Animation Co., Ltd.: 8 episodes, about 3.1 hours in total, finished, 8.34/10 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 3.1 hours for the run, 4 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
- 8
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 3.1 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2002
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Nippon Animation Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.34/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, crime, drama, fantasy, martial arts, shounen, friendship, magic, superpowers, psychological, revenge, urban fantasy
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: Hunter X Hunter: Yorknew City Kanketsuhen; Hunter x Hunter: Yorknew City Arc Final; Hunter x Hunter: Yorkshin City Arc Final; Hunter x Hunter: Yorkshin City Kanketsu-hen.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation?
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation?
- About 3.1 hours for all 8 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 4 evenings.
- How many episodes does Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation have?
- 8 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation finished?
- Yes, Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation is finished (8 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation good for a group?
- Yes. Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation listed?
- Hunter x Hunter: Original Video Animation is on AniList (id 137) and MyAnimeList (id 137); 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