Is Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder is a OVA (home-video release) from Winter 2015 by A-1 Pictures Inc.: 2 episodes, about 2 hours in total, finished, 8/10 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 2 hours for the run, 1 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
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 2
- Episode length
- 61 min
- Total time
- about 2 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Winter 2015
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- A-1 Pictures Inc.
- Score
- 8/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, comedy, urban fantasy, crime, dark fantasy, demons, detective, drama, fantasy, historical, mystery, mythology, shounen, superpowers, supernatural, violence, zombie
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: Black Butler: Book of Murder; Phantomhive Manor Murder Case.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder?
- About 2 hours for all 2 episodes at 61 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 1 evening.
- How many episodes does Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder have?
- 2 episodes of 61 min.
- Is Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder finished?
- Yes, Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder is finished (2 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder good for a group?
- Yes. Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder listed?
- Kuroshitsuji: Book of Murder is on AniList (id 20670) and MyAnimeList (id 23317); 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