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Is Hidamari no Ki good to watch with a friend?

A quiet night. Hidamari no Ki is a TV series from Spring 2000 by Madhouse Inc.: 25 episodes, about 9.6 hours in total, finished, 7.29/10 across the listing sites.

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Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged 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
25
Episode length
23 min
Total time
about 9.6 hours — a weekend
First aired
Spring 2000
Status
Finished
Studio
Madhouse Inc.
Score
7.29/10 across the listing sites
Tags
action, manga adaptation, coming of age, crime, drama, friendship, historical, detective, love triangle, nudity, politics, samurai, seinen, slice of life, swordplay, tragedy, violence, war, 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.

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Quick answers

How long does it take to watch all of Hidamari no Ki?
About 9.6 hours for all 25 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
How many episodes does Hidamari no Ki have?
25 episodes of 23 min.
Is Hidamari no Ki finished?
Yes, Hidamari no Ki is finished (25 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
Is Hidamari no Ki good for a group?
Yes. Hidamari no Ki is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
Where is Hidamari no Ki listed?
Hidamari no Ki is on AniList (id 2694) and MyAnimeList (id 2694); 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