Is Gake no Ue no Ponyo good to watch with a friend?
One sitting. Gake no Ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea) is a film from Summer 2008 by Studio Ghibli Inc.: 1 episodes, about 1.7 hours in total, finished, 7.9/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: one sitting. It is a film (about 1.7 hours), so the whole thing fits one evening — the easiest kind of anime to agree on. Rule: type MOVIE → one sitting.
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
- Film
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 100 min
- Total time
- about 1.7 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Summer 2008
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Studio Ghibli Inc.
- Score
- 7.9/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- adventure, comedy, urban fantasy, drama, family-friendly, fantasy, mythology, magic
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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More like this: adventure · comedy · urban fantasy · drama · family-friendly · fantasy · mythology · magic.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Gake no Ue no Ponyo?
- About 1.7 hours — one sitting.
- How many episodes does Gake no Ue no Ponyo have?
- 1 episode of 100 min.
- Is Gake no Ue no Ponyo finished?
- Yes, Gake no Ue no Ponyo is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Gake no Ue no Ponyo good for a group?
- Yes. Gake no Ue no Ponyo is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen. It is a film, so nobody has to commit to a schedule.
- Where is Gake no Ue no Ponyo listed?
- Gake no Ue no Ponyo is on AniList (id 2890) and MyAnimeList (id 2890); 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