Is RideBack good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. RideBack is a TV series from Winter 2009 by Madhouse Inc.: 12 episodes, about 4.8 hours in total, finished, 7.4/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged 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
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 4.8 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc.
- Score
- 7.4/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, coming of age, crime, cyberpunk, drama, dystopian, mecha, military, robots & AI, school, sci-fi, seinen, tragedy, 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.
Do you and a friend both want to watch RideBack?
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More like this: action · manga adaptation · coming of age · crime · cyberpunk · drama · dystopian · mecha · military · robots & AI · school · sci-fi · seinen · tragedy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of RideBack?
- About 4.8 hours for all 12 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does RideBack have?
- 12 episodes of 24 min.
- Is RideBack finished?
- Yes, RideBack is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is RideBack good for a group?
- Yes. RideBack is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is RideBack listed?
- RideBack is on AniList (id 4618) and MyAnimeList (id 4618); 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