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Is Kuro no Shoukanshi good to watch with a friend?

Easy to drop in. Kuro no Shoukanshi (The Berserker Rises to Greatness) is a TV series from Summer 2022 by Satelight Inc.: 12 episodes, about 4.6 hours in total, finished, 7.2/10 across the listing sites.

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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 4.6 hours for the run, 6 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
12
Episode length
23 min
Total time
about 4.6 hours — a weekend
First aired
Summer 2022
Status
Finished
Studio
Satelight Inc.
Score
7.2/10 across the listing sites
Tags
action, adventure, light-novel adaptation, comedy, demons, drama, fantasy, harem, found family, gaming, mythology, isekai, love triangle, magic, monsters, reincarnation, romance, swordplay, violence

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: Black Summoner; The Berserker Rises to Greatness..

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Quick answers

How long does it take to watch all of Kuro no Shoukanshi?
About 4.6 hours for all 12 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
How many episodes does Kuro no Shoukanshi have?
12 episodes of 23 min.
Is Kuro no Shoukanshi finished?
Yes, Kuro no Shoukanshi is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
Is Kuro no Shoukanshi good for a group?
Yes. Kuro no Shoukanshi is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
Where is Kuro no Shoukanshi listed?
Kuro no Shoukanshi is on AniList (id 145260) and MyAnimeList (id 51064); 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