Is Shaman King good to watch with a friend?
A couple of weeks. Shaman King is a TV series from Summer 2001 by Xebec, Inc.: 64 episodes, about 24 hours in total, finished, 7.6/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a couple of weeks. 64 episodes is about 24 hours: 32 evenings at two a night. Agree on a pace before you start. Rule: 13–99 episodes without a lighter tag → a couple of weeks.
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
- 64
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 24 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Summer 2001
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Xebec, Inc.
- Score
- 7.6/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, urban fantasy, drama, fantasy, martial arts, shounen, ghost, magic, mythology, superpowers, reincarnation, samurai, supernatural, swordplay, tournament, 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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More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · urban fantasy · drama · fantasy · martial arts · shounen · ghost · magic · mythology · superpowers · reincarnation · samurai · supernatural · swordplay · tournament · zombie.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shaman King?
- About 24 hours for all 64 episodes at 23 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 32 evenings.
- How many episodes does Shaman King have?
- 64 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Shaman King finished?
- Yes, Shaman King is finished (64 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shaman King good for a group?
- Yes. Shaman King is tagged action, comedy, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Shaman King listed?
- Shaman King is on AniList (id 154) and MyAnimeList (id 154); 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