Is Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan (World Masterpiece Theater) is a TV series from Winter 1990 by Nippon Animation Co., Ltd.: 40 episodes, about 15 hours in total, finished, 7.51/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 15 hours for the run, 20 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
- 40
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 15 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Winter 1990
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Nippon Animation Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.51/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- comedy, coming of age, drama, school, historical, romance, shoujo, slice of life
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.
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More like this: comedy · coming of age · drama · school · historical · romance · shoujo · slice of life.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan?
- About 15 hours for all 40 episodes at 23 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 20 evenings.
- How many episodes does Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan have?
- 40 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan finished?
- Yes, Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan is finished (40 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan good for a group?
- Yes. Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan listed?
- Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan is on AniList (id 1375) and MyAnimeList (id 1375); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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