Is Boku no Hero Academia good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Boku no Hero Academia (My Hero Academia 1st Season) is a TV series from Spring 2016 by Bones Inc.: 13 episodes, about 5.2 hours in total, finished, 8.09/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 5.2 hours for the run, 7 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
- 13
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 5.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2016
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Bones Inc.
- Score
- 8.09/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, crime, cultivation & wuxia, drama, fantasy, martial arts, shounen, friendship, school, monsters, superpowers, superhero, tournament, urban fantasy, 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. Also listed as: My Hero Academia.
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More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · crime · cultivation & wuxia · drama · fantasy · martial arts · shounen · friendship · school · monsters · superpowers · superhero · tournament · urban fantasy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Boku no Hero Academia?
- 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 Boku no Hero Academia have?
- 13 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Boku no Hero Academia finished?
- Yes, Boku no Hero Academia is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Boku no Hero Academia good for a group?
- Yes. Boku no Hero Academia is tagged action, comedy, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Boku no Hero Academia listed?
- Boku no Hero Academia is on AniList (id 21459) and MyAnimeList (id 31964); 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