Is Mushen Ji good to watch with a friend?
A couple of weeks. Mushen Ji (Tales of Herding Gods) is a web series (ONA) from Fall 2024 by Sparkly Key Animation Studio: 89 episodes, about 30 hours in total, still airing, 8.43/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a couple of weeks. 89 episodes is about 30 hours: 45 evenings at two a night. Agree on a pace before you start. Rule: 13–99 episodes without a lighter tag → a couple of weeks.
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
- Web series (ONA)
- Episodes
- 89
- Episode length
- 20 min
- Total time
- about 30 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Fall 2024
- Status
- Still airing
- Studio
- Sparkly Key Animation Studio
- Score
- 8.43/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, donghua (Chinese animation), comedy, cultivation & wuxia, demons, drama, fantasy, found family, mythology, historical, martial arts
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. Also listed as: Tales of Qin Mu.
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More like this: action · adventure · donghua (Chinese animation) · comedy · cultivation & wuxia · demons · drama · fantasy · found family · mythology · historical · martial arts.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Mushen Ji?
- About 30 hours for all 89 episodes at 20 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 45 evenings.
- How many episodes does Mushen Ji have?
- 89 episodes of 20 min.
- Is Mushen Ji finished?
- No — Mushen Ji is still airing, so the two of you would be watching it weekly as episodes come out.
- Is Mushen Ji good for a group?
- Yes. Mushen Ji is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Mushen Ji listed?
- Mushen Ji is on AniList (id 185721) and MyAnimeList (id 59953); 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