Is Strike the Blood II good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Strike the Blood II (Strike the Blood Season 2) is a OVA (home-video release) from Fall 2016 by Connect, Silver Link.: 8 episodes, about 3.3 hours in total, finished, 7.17/10 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 3.3 hours for the run, 4 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
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 8
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 3.3 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2016
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Connect, Silver Link.
- Score
- 7.17/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, light-novel adaptation, comedy, urban fantasy, demons, dragons, drama, ecchi, fantasy, harem, monsters, magic, military, nudity, romance, school, superpowers, supernatural, swordplay, zombie, vampire, 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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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Strike the Blood II?
- About 3.3 hours for all 8 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 4 evenings.
- How many episodes does Strike the Blood II have?
- 8 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Strike the Blood II finished?
- Yes, Strike the Blood II is finished (8 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Strike the Blood II good for a group?
- Yes. Strike the Blood II is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Strike the Blood II listed?
- Strike the Blood II is on AniList (id 21815) and MyAnimeList (id 33286); 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