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Is Himouto! Umaru-chan good to watch with a friend?

Easy to drop in. Himouto! Umaru-chan (Beautiful Little Sister! Umaru-chan) is a TV series from Summer 2015 by Doga Kobo, Dōga Kōbō: 12 episodes, about 4.8 hours in total, finished, 7.24/10 across the listing sites.

manga adaptationcomedycookingcute girls doing cute thingsslice of lifeschoolparodyseinen

Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 4.8 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
24 min
Total time
about 4.8 hours — a weekend
First aired
Summer 2015
Status
Finished
Studio
Doga Kobo, Dōga Kōbō
Score
7.24/10 across the listing sites
Tags
manga adaptation, comedy, cooking, cute girls doing cute things, slice of life, school, parody, seinen

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: My Two-Faced Little Sister.

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Quick answers

How long does it take to watch all of Himouto! Umaru-chan?
About 4.8 hours for all 12 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
How many episodes does Himouto! Umaru-chan have?
12 episodes of 24 min.
Is Himouto! Umaru-chan finished?
Yes, Himouto! Umaru-chan is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
Is Himouto! Umaru-chan good for a group?
Yes. Himouto! Umaru-chan is tagged comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
Where is Himouto! Umaru-chan listed?
Himouto! Umaru-chan is on AniList (id 20987) and MyAnimeList (id 28825); 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