Is Noir good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Noir is a TV series from Spring 2001 by Bee Train Productions Inc.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 7.45/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, 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
- 26
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2001
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Bee Train Productions Inc.
- Score
- 7.45/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, crime, drama, episodic, martial arts, mystery, psychological, revenge, seinen, tragedy, violence, yuri
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.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Noir?
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More like this: action · crime · drama · martial arts · mystery · psychological · revenge · seinen · tragedy · yuri.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Noir?
- About 10 hours for all 26 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Noir have?
- 26 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Noir finished?
- Yes, Noir is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Noir good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Noir is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Noir listed?
- Noir is on AniList (id 272) and MyAnimeList (id 272); 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