Is B: The Beginning good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. B: The Beginning is a web series (ONA) from Winter 2018 by Production I.G., Inc.: 12 episodes, about 5 hours in total, finished, 7.43/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, thriller, 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
- Web series (ONA)
- Episodes
- 12
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 5 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2018
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Production I.G., Inc.
- Score
- 7.43/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, urban fantasy, crime, dark fantasy, detective, gore, fantasy, mystery, psychological, revenge, romance, sci-fi, superpowers, supernatural, thriller, 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. Also listed as: Perfect Bones.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of B: The Beginning?
- About 5 hours for all 12 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does B: The Beginning have?
- 12 episodes of 25 min.
- Is B: The Beginning finished?
- Yes, B: The Beginning is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is B: The Beginning good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. B: The Beginning is tagged psychological, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is B: The Beginning listed?
- B: The Beginning is on AniList (id 21665) and MyAnimeList (id 32827); 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