Is Koe no Katachi good to watch with a friend?
One sitting. Koe no Katachi (A Silent Voice: The Movie) is a film from Summer 2016 by Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd.: 1 episodes, about 2.2 hours in total, finished, 8.9/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: one sitting. It is a film (about 2.2 hours), so the whole thing fits one evening — the easiest kind of anime to agree on. Rule: type MOVIE → one sitting.
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
- Film
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 130 min
- Total time
- about 2.2 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Summer 2016
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.9/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, coming of age, drama, friendship, school, psychological, romance, shounen, slice of life, tragedy, 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. Also listed as: A Silent Voice; Silent Voice; The Shape of Voice.
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More like this: manga adaptation · coming of age · drama · friendship · school · psychological · romance · shounen · slice of life · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Koe no Katachi?
- About 2.2 hours — one sitting.
- How many episodes does Koe no Katachi have?
- 1 episode of 130 min.
- Is Koe no Katachi finished?
- Yes, Koe no Katachi is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Koe no Katachi good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Koe no Katachi is tagged drama, psychological, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Koe no Katachi listed?
- Koe no Katachi is on AniList (id 20954) and MyAnimeList (id 28851); 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 2026-09-23. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists