Is Shigofumi good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Shigofumi (Stories of Last Letter) is a TV series from Winter 2008 by J.C. Staff, J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.: 12 episodes, about 4.6 hours in total, finished, 7.45/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged horror, psychological, thriller, 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
- 12
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 4.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2008
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- J.C. Staff, J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.45/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- light-novel adaptation, coming of age, urban fantasy, crime, detective, drama, episodic, fantasy, friendship, mythology, horror, love triangle, magic, magical girl, psychological, revenge, school, seinen, superpowers, supernatural, thriller, 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. Also listed as: Shigofumi: Stories of Last Letter; Shigofumi - Stories of Last Letter.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Shigofumi?
Queue Up reads two public AniList lists and shows every anime you both have on Planning — with Shigofumi flagged if it is one of them — then picks tonight's with a weighted roll or a bracket.
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More like this: light-novel adaptation · coming of age · urban fantasy · crime · detective · drama · fantasy · friendship · mythology · horror · love triangle · magic · magical girl · psychological · revenge · school · seinen · superpowers · supernatural · thriller · tragedy · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shigofumi?
- About 4.6 hours for all 12 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Shigofumi have?
- 12 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Shigofumi finished?
- Yes, Shigofumi is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shigofumi good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Shigofumi is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Shigofumi listed?
- Shigofumi is on AniList (id 3420) and MyAnimeList (id 3420); 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