Is Shinreigari good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Shinreigari (Ghost Hound) is a TV series from Fall 2007 by Production I.G., Inc.: 22 episodes, about 9.2 hours in total, finished, 7.39/10 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
- 22
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 9.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2007
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Production I.G., Inc.
- Score
- 7.39/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- urban fantasy, drama, fantasy, ghost, horror, mythology, love triangle, mystery, nudity, psychological, school, sci-fi, seinen, supernatural, thriller, tragedy, zombie
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: Spirit Hunting.
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More like this: urban fantasy · drama · fantasy · ghost · horror · mythology · love triangle · mystery · psychological · school · sci-fi · seinen · supernatural · thriller · tragedy · zombie.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shinreigari?
- About 9.2 hours for all 22 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 11 evenings.
- How many episodes does Shinreigari have?
- 22 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Shinreigari finished?
- Yes, Shinreigari is finished (22 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shinreigari good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Shinreigari is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Shinreigari listed?
- Shinreigari is on AniList (id 2596) and MyAnimeList (id 2596); 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