Is Medalist good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Medalist is a TV series from Winter 2025 by Engi Co.Ltd.: 13 episodes, about 5 hours in total, finished, 8.35/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 5 hours for the run, 7 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
- 13
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 5 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2025
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Engi Co.Ltd.
- Score
- 8.35/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, drama, found family, psychological, school, seinen, sports, tournament, 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 · comedy · coming of age · drama · found family · psychological · school · seinen · sports · tournament · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Medalist?
- About 5 hours for all 13 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 7 evenings.
- How many episodes does Medalist have?
- 13 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Medalist finished?
- Yes, Medalist is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Medalist good for a group?
- Yes. Medalist is tagged comedy, sports, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Medalist listed?
- Medalist is on AniList (id 165171) and MyAnimeList (id 55318); 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