Is Hai to Gensou no Grimgar good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Hai to Gensou no Grimgar is a TV series from Winter 2016 by A-1 Pictures Inc.: 12 episodes, about 4.8 hours in total, finished, 7.74/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged tragedy 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
- 12
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 4.8 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2016
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- A-1 Pictures Inc.
- Score
- 7.74/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, light-novel adaptation, cooking, crime, slice of life, dark fantasy, demons, drama, fantasy, harem, martial arts, friendship, isekai, magic, military, monsters, revenge, seinen, shounen, survival, swordplay, tragedy, zombie, violence, war, workplace
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: Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash.
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More like this: action · adventure · light-novel adaptation · cooking · crime · slice of life · dark fantasy · demons · drama · fantasy · harem · martial arts · friendship · isekai · magic · military · monsters · revenge · seinen · shounen · survival · swordplay · tragedy · zombie · war · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Hai to Gensou no Grimgar?
- 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 Hai to Gensou no Grimgar have?
- 12 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Hai to Gensou no Grimgar finished?
- Yes, Hai to Gensou no Grimgar is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Hai to Gensou no Grimgar good for a group?
- Yes. Hai to Gensou no Grimgar is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Hai to Gensou no Grimgar listed?
- Hai to Gensou no Grimgar is on AniList (id 21428) and MyAnimeList (id 31859); 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