Is Naruto good to watch with a friend?
A commitment. Naruto is a TV series from Fall 2002 by Pierrot Co., Ltd.: 220 episodes, about 84 hours in total, finished, 8.06/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a commitment. 220 episodes is about 84 hours of watching: at two episodes a night that is 110 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
- 220
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 84 hours — a long haul
- First aired
- Fall 2002
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Pierrot Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.06/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, demons, drama, fantasy, martial arts, shounen, found family, friendship, mythology, monsters, love triangle, magic, ninja, superpowers, revenge, school, supernatural, 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.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Naruto?
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More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · demons · drama · fantasy · martial arts · shounen · found family · friendship · mythology · monsters · love triangle · magic · ninja · superpowers · revenge · school · supernatural · tournament.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Naruto?
- About 84 hours for all 220 episodes at 23 min each — a long haul; at two episodes a night that is 110 evenings.
- How many episodes does Naruto have?
- 220 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Naruto finished?
- Yes, Naruto is finished (220 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Naruto good for a group?
- Yes. Naruto is tagged action, comedy, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Naruto listed?
- Naruto is on AniList (id 20) and MyAnimeList (id 20); 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