Is Shikabane Hime: Kuro good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Shikabane Hime: Kuro (Corpse Princess: Dark) is a TV series from Winter 2009 by Feel., Gainax Co., Ltd.: 12 episodes, about 4.8 hours in total, finished, 7.26/10 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
- 12
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 4.8 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Winter 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Feel., Gainax Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.26/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, demons, drama, gore, fantasy, horror, magic, monsters, nudity, superpowers, psychological, revenge, romance, shounen, supernatural, survival, 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: Mystery; Corpse Princess; Corpse Princess: Shikabane Hime - Season 2; Corpse Princess (Kuro).
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shikabane Hime: Kuro?
- 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 Shikabane Hime: Kuro have?
- 12 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Shikabane Hime: Kuro finished?
- Yes, Shikabane Hime: Kuro is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shikabane Hime: Kuro good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Shikabane Hime: Kuro is tagged drama, psychological, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Shikabane Hime: Kuro listed?
- Shikabane Hime: Kuro is on AniList (id 5034) and MyAnimeList (id 5034); 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