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Is Ajin good to watch with a friend?

A quiet night. Ajin is a TV series from Winter 2016 by Polygon Pictures Inc.: 13 episodes, about 5.2 hours in total, finished, 7.5/10 across the listing sites.

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Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged horror, psychological, thriller and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.

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
13
Episode length
24 min
Total time
about 5.2 hours — a weekend
First aired
Winter 2016
Status
Finished
Studio
Polygon Pictures Inc.
Score
7.5/10 across the listing sites
Tags
action, manga adaptation, urban fantasy, crime, drama, dystopian, gore, fantasy, horror, monsters, mystery, detective, superpowers, psychological, sci-fi, seinen, supernatural, thriller, gaming

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.

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Quick answers

How long does it take to watch all of Ajin?
About 5.2 hours for all 13 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 7 evenings.
How many episodes does Ajin have?
13 episodes of 24 min.
Is Ajin finished?
Yes, Ajin is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
Is Ajin good for a group?
Better for two than for a crowd. Ajin is tagged drama, psychological; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
Where is Ajin listed?
Ajin is on AniList (id 21341) and MyAnimeList (id 31580); 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