Is Shin Kimagure Orange☆Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu no Hajimari good to watch with a friend?
One sitting. Shin Kimagure Orange☆Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu no Hajimari (New Kimagure Orange Road: And Then, the Beginning of That Summer) is a film from Fall 1996 by Pierrot Co., Ltd.: 1 episodes, about 1.6 hours in total, finished, 7.56/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: one sitting. It is a film (about 1.6 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
- 95 min
- Total time
- about 1.6 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Fall 1996
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Pierrot Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.56/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, comedy, urban fantasy, drama, ecchi, fantasy, love triangle, magic, superpowers, romance, sci-fi, seinen, shounen, slice of life, supernatural, time travel
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: New Kimagure Orange Road: Summer's Beginning; New Kimagure Orange Road; New Kimagure Orange Road - Summer's Beginning; New Kimagure Orange Road: And Then.
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More like this: action · manga adaptation · comedy · urban fantasy · drama · fantasy · love triangle · magic · superpowers · romance · sci-fi · seinen · shounen · slice of life · supernatural · time travel.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shin Kimagure Orange☆Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu no Hajimari?
- About 1.6 hours — one sitting.
- How many episodes does Shin Kimagure Orange☆Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu no Hajimari have?
- 1 episode of 95 min.
- Is Shin Kimagure Orange☆Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu no Hajimari finished?
- Yes, Shin Kimagure Orange☆Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu no Hajimari is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shin Kimagure Orange☆Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu no Hajimari good for a group?
- Yes. Shin Kimagure Orange☆Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu no Hajimari is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen. It is a film, so nobody has to commit to a schedule.
- Where is Shin Kimagure Orange☆Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu no Hajimari listed?
- Shin Kimagure Orange☆Road: Soshite, Ano Natsu no Hajimari is on AniList (id 2098) and MyAnimeList (id 2098); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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