Is Shikabane Hime: Aka good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Shikabane Hime: Aka (Corpse Princess) is a TV series from Fall 2008 by Feel., Gainax Co., Ltd.: 13 episodes, about 5.2 hours in total, finished, 7.29/10 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
- 13
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 5.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2008
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Feel., Gainax Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.29/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, coming of age, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, demons, drama, episodic, gore, fantasy, horror, idol, magic, martial arts, monsters, superpowers, psychological, revenge, romance, school, shounen, supernatural, survival, swordplay, tragedy, zombie, 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. Also listed as: Corpse Princess: Shikabane Hime; Corpse Princess (Aka); Corpse Princess: Aka; Corpse Princess: Shikabane Hime Aka.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shikabane Hime: Aka?
- About 5.2 hours for all 13 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 7 evenings.
- How many episodes does Shikabane Hime: Aka have?
- 13 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Shikabane Hime: Aka finished?
- Yes, Shikabane Hime: Aka is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shikabane Hime: Aka good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Shikabane Hime: Aka is tagged drama, psychological, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Shikabane Hime: Aka listed?
- Shikabane Hime: Aka is on AniList (id 4581) and MyAnimeList (id 4581); 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