Is Sidonia no Kishi good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Sidonia no Kishi is a TV series from Spring 2014 by Polygon Pictures Inc.: 12 episodes, about 5 hours in total, finished, 7.63/10 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, 6 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
- 12
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 5 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2014
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Polygon Pictures Inc.
- Score
- 7.63/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, aliens, manga adaptation, comedy, crime, cyberpunk, robots & AI, drama, gore, fantasy, harem, friendship, horror, love triangle, mecha, military, nudity, space, politics, post-apocalyptic, reincarnation, romance, school, sci-fi, seinen, survival, swordplay, tragedy, 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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More like this: action · adventure · aliens · manga adaptation · comedy · crime · cyberpunk · robots & AI · drama · fantasy · harem · friendship · horror · love triangle · mecha · military · space · politics · post-apocalyptic · reincarnation · romance · school · sci-fi · seinen · survival · swordplay · tragedy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Sidonia no Kishi?
- About 5 hours for all 12 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Sidonia no Kishi have?
- 12 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Sidonia no Kishi finished?
- Yes, Sidonia no Kishi is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Sidonia no Kishi good for a group?
- Yes. Sidonia no Kishi is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Sidonia no Kishi listed?
- Sidonia no Kishi is on AniList (id 19775) and MyAnimeList (id 19775); 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