Is Salaryman Kintarou good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Salaryman Kintarou is a TV series from Winter 2001 by J.C.F., Jcf: 20 episodes, about 8.3 hours in total, finished, 7.42/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 8.3 hours for the run, 10 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
- 20
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 8.3 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2001
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- J.C.F., Jcf
- Score
- 7.42/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, comedy, crime, slice of life, drama, friendship, detective, martial arts, nudity, politics, school, 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: action · manga adaptation · comedy · crime · slice of life · drama · friendship · detective · martial arts · politics · school · seinen · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Salaryman Kintarou?
- About 8.3 hours for all 20 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 10 evenings.
- How many episodes does Salaryman Kintarou have?
- 20 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Salaryman Kintarou finished?
- Yes, Salaryman Kintarou is finished (20 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Salaryman Kintarou good for a group?
- Yes. Salaryman Kintarou is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Salaryman Kintarou listed?
- Salaryman Kintarou is on AniList (id 1608) and MyAnimeList (id 1608); 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