Is Meitantei Conan good to watch with a friend?
A commitment. Meitantei Conan (Detective Conan: The Gold-Star Answer) is a TV series from Winter 1996 by Tms Entertainment Co., Ltd., V1 Studio: 1205 episodes, about 482 hours in total, still airing, 8.22/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a commitment. 1205 episodes is about 482 hours of watching: at two episodes a night that is 603 evenings. Pick it as a running fixture, not a one-off. Rule: 100 episodes or more → commitment.
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
- 1205
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 482 hours — a long haul
- First aired
- Winter 1996
- Status
- Still airing
- Studio
- Tms Entertainment Co., Ltd., V1 Studio
- Score
- 8.22/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, crime, detective, drama, episodic, harem, school, idol, love triangle, magic, martial arts, mystery, psychological, romance, shounen, thriller, tragedy, gaming, workplace
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: Case Closed: One Truth Prevails; Detective Conan; Case Closed; Detective Conan tv.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Meitantei Conan?
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More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · crime · detective · drama · harem · school · idol · love triangle · magic · martial arts · mystery · psychological · romance · shounen · thriller · tragedy · gaming · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Meitantei Conan?
- About 482 hours for all 1205 episodes at 24 min each — a long haul; at two episodes a night that is 603 evenings.
- How many episodes does Meitantei Conan have?
- 1205 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Meitantei Conan finished?
- No — Meitantei Conan is still airing, so the two of you would be watching it weekly as episodes come out.
- Is Meitantei Conan good for a group?
- Yes. Meitantei Conan is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Meitantei Conan listed?
- Meitantei Conan is on AniList (id 235) and MyAnimeList (id 235); 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