Is Petshop of Horrors good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Petshop of Horrors is a TV series from Winter 1999 by Madhouse Inc.: 4 episodes, about 1.5 hours in total, finished, 7.09/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged horror, 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
- 4
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 1.5 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Winter 1999
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc.
- Score
- 7.09/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, urban fantasy, crime, dark fantasy, detective, episodic, gore, horror, idol, josei, love triangle, magic, mystery, mythology, nudity, psychological, shoujo, supernatural, tragedy, 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.
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More like this: manga adaptation · urban fantasy · crime · dark fantasy · detective · horror · idol · josei · love triangle · magic · mystery · mythology · psychological · shoujo · supernatural · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Petshop of Horrors?
- About 1.5 hours for all 4 episodes at 23 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 2 evenings.
- How many episodes does Petshop of Horrors have?
- 4 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Petshop of Horrors finished?
- Yes, Petshop of Horrors is finished (4 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Petshop of Horrors good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Petshop of Horrors is tagged psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Petshop of Horrors listed?
- Petshop of Horrors is on AniList (id 326) and MyAnimeList (id 326); 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