Is 3-gatsu no Lion good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. 3-gatsu no Lion (March Comes In Like a Lion) is a TV series from Fall 2016 by Shaft Inc.: 22 episodes, about 9.2 hours in total, finished, 8.2/10 across the listing sites.
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 9.2 hours for the run, 11 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
- 22
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 9.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2016
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Shaft Inc.
- Score
- 8.2/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, slice of life, drama, cooking, found family, friendship, gaming, school, iyashikei (healing), psychological, seinen, sports, tournament, 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.
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More like this: manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · slice of life · drama · cooking · found family · friendship · gaming · school · iyashikei (healing) · psychological · seinen · sports · tournament · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of 3-gatsu no Lion?
- About 9.2 hours for all 22 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 11 evenings.
- How many episodes does 3-gatsu no Lion have?
- 22 episodes of 25 min.
- Is 3-gatsu no Lion finished?
- Yes, 3-gatsu no Lion is finished (22 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is 3-gatsu no Lion good for a group?
- Yes. 3-gatsu no Lion is tagged comedy, sports, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is 3-gatsu no Lion listed?
- 3-gatsu no Lion is on AniList (id 21366) and MyAnimeList (id 31646); 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