Is Bartender good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Bartender is a TV series from Fall 2006 by Palm Co., Ltd., Palm Studio: 11 episodes, about 4.2 hours in total, finished, 7.32/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological 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
- 11
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 4.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2006
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Palm Co., Ltd., Palm Studio
- Score
- 7.32/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, cooking, slice of life, drama, episodic, iyashikei (healing), psychological, seinen, 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: manga adaptation · cooking · slice of life · drama · iyashikei (healing) · psychological · seinen · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Bartender?
- About 4.2 hours for all 11 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Bartender have?
- 11 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Bartender finished?
- Yes, Bartender is finished (11 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Bartender good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Bartender is tagged drama, psychological; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Bartender listed?
- Bartender is on AniList (id 1589) and MyAnimeList (id 1589); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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