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Is Master Keaton good to watch with a friend?

Easy to drop in. Master Keaton is a TV series from Fall 1998 by Madhouse Inc.: 24 episodes, about 9.2 hours in total, finished, 7.68/10 across the listing sites.

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Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 9.2 hours for the run, 12 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
24
Episode length
23 min
Total time
about 9.2 hours — a weekend
First aired
Fall 1998
Status
Finished
Studio
Madhouse Inc.
Score
7.68/10 across the listing sites
Tags
adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, crime, slice of life, detective, drama, episodic, historical, mystery, politics, seinen, violence, workplace

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: adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · crime · slice of life · detective · drama · historical · mystery · politics · seinen · workplace.

Quick answers

How long does it take to watch all of Master Keaton?
About 9.2 hours for all 24 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
How many episodes does Master Keaton have?
24 episodes of 23 min.
Is Master Keaton finished?
Yes, Master Keaton is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
Is Master Keaton good for a group?
Yes. Master Keaton is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
Where is Master Keaton listed?
Master Keaton is on AniList (id 1483) and MyAnimeList (id 1483); 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