Is Shin Hakkenden good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Shin Hakkenden is a TV series from Spring 1999 by Public & Basic Co., Ltd., Public And Basic: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 6.98/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged tragedy 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
- 26
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 1999
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Public & Basic Co., Ltd., Public And Basic
- Score
- 6.98/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, robots & AI, coming of age, crime, mythology, dystopian, friendship, ghost, detective, martial arts, ninja, mecha, politics, post-apocalyptic, revenge, sci-fi, shounen, space, superpowers, swordplay, tragedy, zombie, violence, war
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 Shin Hakkenden?
- About 10 hours for all 26 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Shin Hakkenden have?
- 26 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Shin Hakkenden finished?
- Yes, Shin Hakkenden is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shin Hakkenden good for a group?
- Yes. Shin Hakkenden is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Shin Hakkenden listed?
- Shin Hakkenden is on AniList (id 1823) and MyAnimeList (id 1823); 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