Is Gankutsuou good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Gankutsuou (King of the Cave) is a TV series from Fall 2004 by Gone-Zo, Gonzo K.K.: 24 episodes, about 9.6 hours in total, finished, 8.09/10 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
- TV series
- Episodes
- 24
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 9.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2004
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Gone-Zo, Gonzo K.K.
- Score
- 8.09/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, aliens, boys' love, coming of age, crime, cyberpunk, demons, drama, friendship, detective, love triangle, military, mystery, mecha, psychological, revenge, robots & AI, romance, sci-fi, space, supernatural, thriller, tragedy, urban fantasy, 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. Also listed as: The King of the Cavern; Cavern King; The Count.
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More like this: action · adventure · aliens · boys' love · coming of age · crime · cyberpunk · demons · drama · friendship · detective · love triangle · military · mystery · mecha · psychological · revenge · robots & AI · romance · sci-fi · space · supernatural · thriller · tragedy · urban fantasy · vampire.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Gankutsuou?
- About 9.6 hours for all 24 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
- How many episodes does Gankutsuou have?
- 24 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Gankutsuou finished?
- Yes, Gankutsuou is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Gankutsuou good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Gankutsuou is tagged drama, psychological, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Gankutsuou listed?
- Gankutsuou is on AniList (id 239) and MyAnimeList (id 239); 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