Is .hack//Sign good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. .hack//Sign is a TV series from Spring 2002 by Bee Train Productions Inc.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 6.95/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged 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
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2002
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Bee Train Productions Inc.
- Score
- 6.95/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, drama, fantasy, friendship, gaming, isekai, detective, love triangle, magic, mystery, psychological, sci-fi, seinen, superpowers, supernatural, swordplay, tragedy, violence, yuri
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.
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More like this: action · adventure · drama · fantasy · friendship · gaming · isekai · detective · love triangle · magic · mystery · psychological · sci-fi · seinen · superpowers · supernatural · swordplay · tragedy · yuri.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of .hack//Sign?
- About 10 hours for all 26 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does .hack//Sign have?
- 26 episodes of 24 min.
- Is .hack//Sign finished?
- Yes, .hack//Sign is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is .hack//Sign good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. .hack//Sign is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is .hack//Sign listed?
- .hack//Sign is on AniList (id 48) and MyAnimeList (id 48); 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