Is Elfen Lied good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Elfen Lied (Elven Song) is a TV series from Summer 2004 by Arms, Studio Guts Co., Ltd.: 13 episodes, about 5.4 hours in total, finished, 7.6/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged horror, 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
- TV series
- Episodes
- 13
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 5.4 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2004
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Arms, Studio Guts Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.6/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, robots & AI, dark fantasy, drama, ecchi, gore, harem, friendship, horror, love triangle, magic, military, nudity, superpowers, psychological, revenge, romance, school, sci-fi, seinen, supernatural, thriller, tragedy, 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: Elf Song; Elfen Song; Elfic Song.
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More like this: action · manga adaptation · robots & AI · dark fantasy · drama · harem · friendship · horror · love triangle · magic · military · superpowers · psychological · revenge · romance · school · sci-fi · seinen · supernatural · thriller · tragedy · urban fantasy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Elfen Lied?
- About 5.4 hours for all 13 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 7 evenings.
- How many episodes does Elfen Lied have?
- 13 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Elfen Lied finished?
- Yes, Elfen Lied is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Elfen Lied good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Elfen Lied is tagged drama, psychological, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Elfen Lied listed?
- Elfen Lied is on AniList (id 226) and MyAnimeList (id 226); 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