Is Mushishi good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Mushishi is a TV series from Fall 2005 by Artland Inc.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 8.53/10 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
- 26
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2005
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Artland Inc.
- Score
- 8.53/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- adventure, manga adaptation, urban fantasy, detective, drama, episodic, fantasy, iyashikei (healing), historical, horror, mythology, mystery, psychological, seinen, slice of life, supernatural, tragedy, youkai
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 Mushishi?
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More like this: adventure · manga adaptation · urban fantasy · detective · drama · fantasy · iyashikei (healing) · historical · horror · mythology · mystery · psychological · seinen · slice of life · supernatural · tragedy · youkai.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Mushishi?
- About 10 hours for all 26 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Mushishi have?
- 26 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Mushishi finished?
- Yes, Mushishi is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Mushishi good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Mushishi is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Mushishi listed?
- Mushishi is on AniList (id 457) and MyAnimeList (id 457); 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