Is Death Note good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Death Note is a TV series from Fall 2006 by Madhouse Inc.: 37 episodes, about 14 hours in total, finished, 8.62/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged horror, psychological, thriller, 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
- TV series
- Episodes
- 37
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 14 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Fall 2006
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc.
- Score
- 8.62/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, urban fantasy, crime, detective, drama, fantasy, mythology, horror, mystery, psychological, school, shounen, supernatural, thriller, tragedy, youkai
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 Death Note?
- About 14 hours for all 37 episodes at 23 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 19 evenings.
- How many episodes does Death Note have?
- 37 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Death Note finished?
- Yes, Death Note is finished (37 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Death Note good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Death Note is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does. At 37 episodes it also needs everyone to keep showing up.
- Where is Death Note listed?
- Death Note is on AniList (id 1535) and MyAnimeList (id 1535); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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