Is Seikai no Senki good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Seikai no Senki (Banner of the Stars) is a TV series from Spring 2000 by Sunrise Inc.: 13 episodes, about 5.4 hours in total, finished, 7.74/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 5.4 hours for the run, 7 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
- 13
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 5.4 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2000
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Sunrise Inc.
- Score
- 7.74/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, aliens, drama, military, space, romance, sci-fi, war
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: Battle Flag of the Stars; Crest of the Stars.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Seikai no Senki?
- About 5.4 hours for all 13 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 7 evenings.
- How many episodes does Seikai no Senki have?
- 13 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Seikai no Senki finished?
- Yes, Seikai no Senki is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Seikai no Senki good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Seikai no Senki is tagged drama, romance; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Seikai no Senki listed?
- Seikai no Senki is on AniList (id 396) and MyAnimeList (id 396); 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