Is Planetes good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Planetes is a TV series from Fall 2003 by Sunrise Inc.: 26 episodes, about 11 hours in total, finished, 8.18/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 11 hours for the run, 13 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
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
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 11 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2003
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Sunrise Inc.
- Score
- 8.18/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, crime, slice of life, drama, episodic, iyashikei (healing), detective, love triangle, military, ninja, space, politics, psychological, romance, sci-fi, seinen, tragedy, violence, 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.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Planetes?
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More like this: adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · crime · slice of life · drama · iyashikei (healing) · detective · love triangle · military · ninja · space · politics · psychological · romance · sci-fi · seinen · tragedy · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Planetes?
- About 11 hours for all 26 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Planetes have?
- 26 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Planetes finished?
- Yes, Planetes is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Planetes good for a group?
- Yes. Planetes is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Planetes listed?
- Planetes is on AniList (id 329) and MyAnimeList (id 329); 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