Is Slam Dunk good to watch with a friend?
A commitment. Slam Dunk is a TV series from Fall 1993 by Toei Animation Co., Ltd.: 101 episodes, about 39 hours in total, finished, 8.21/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a commitment. 101 episodes is about 39 hours of watching: at two episodes a night that is 51 evenings. Pick it as a running fixture, not a one-off. Rule: 100 episodes or more → commitment.
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
- 101
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 39 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Fall 1993
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Toei Animation Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.21/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, comedy, drama, friendship, school, shounen, slice of life, sports, tournament, 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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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Slam Dunk?
- About 39 hours for all 101 episodes at 23 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 51 evenings.
- How many episodes does Slam Dunk have?
- 101 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Slam Dunk finished?
- Yes, Slam Dunk is finished (101 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Slam Dunk good for a group?
- Yes. Slam Dunk is tagged action, comedy, sports, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Slam Dunk listed?
- Slam Dunk is on AniList (id 170) and MyAnimeList (id 170); 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