Is Natsume Yuujinchou Go good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Natsume Yuujinchou Go (Natsume's Book of Friends Season 5) is a TV series from Fall 2016 by Shuka Inc.: 11 episodes, about 4.2 hours in total, finished, 8.35/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 4.2 hours for the run, 6 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
- 11
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 4.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2016
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Shuka Inc.
- Score
- 8.35/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, urban fantasy, slice of life, mythology, demons, drama, episodic, fantasy, friendship, ghost, iyashikei (healing), school, shoujo, supernatural, youkai
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: Natsume's Book of Friends; Natsume's Book of Friends Five; Natsume Yuujinchou 5th Season; Natsume Yuujinchou Season 5.
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More like this: manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · urban fantasy · slice of life · mythology · demons · drama · fantasy · friendship · ghost · iyashikei (healing) · school · shoujo · supernatural · youkai.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Natsume Yuujinchou Go?
- About 4.2 hours for all 11 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Natsume Yuujinchou Go have?
- 11 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Natsume Yuujinchou Go finished?
- Yes, Natsume Yuujinchou Go is finished (11 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Natsume Yuujinchou Go good for a group?
- Yes. Natsume Yuujinchou Go is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Natsume Yuujinchou Go listed?
- Natsume Yuujinchou Go is on AniList (id 21710) and MyAnimeList (id 32983); 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