Is Key the Metal Idol good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Key the Metal Idol is a OVA (home-video release) from Fall 1994 by Pierrot Co., Ltd.: 15 episodes, about 8.5 hours in total, finished, 6.93/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, 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
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 15
- Episode length
- 34 min
- Total time
- about 8.5 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 1994
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Pierrot Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 6.93/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, robots & AI, crime, cyberpunk, drama, friendship, ghost, gore, idol, mecha, music, nudity, superpowers, psychological, sci-fi, tragedy, zombie, 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.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Key the Metal Idol?
- About 8.5 hours for all 15 episodes at 34 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 8 evenings.
- How many episodes does Key the Metal Idol have?
- 15 episodes of 34 min.
- Is Key the Metal Idol finished?
- Yes, Key the Metal Idol is finished (15 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Key the Metal Idol good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Key the Metal Idol is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Key the Metal Idol listed?
- Key the Metal Idol is on AniList (id 1457) and MyAnimeList (id 1457); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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