Is Bakemonogatari good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Bakemonogatari (A Monster Story) is a TV series from Summer 2009 by Shaft Inc.: 15 episodes, about 6.2 hours in total, finished, 8.32/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 6.2 hours for the run, 8 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
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
- 15
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 6.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Shaft Inc.
- Score
- 8.32/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, light-novel adaptation, comedy, coming of age, urban fantasy, demons, drama, ecchi, gore, fantasy, harem, ghost, mythology, school, love triangle, magic, magical girl, mystery, nudity, parody, superpowers, psychological, romance, seinen, supernatural, tragedy, zombie, vampire, violence, 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. Also listed as: Ghost Story; Monster Tale; Phantom Stories.
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More like this: action · adventure · light-novel adaptation · comedy · coming of age · urban fantasy · demons · drama · fantasy · harem · ghost · mythology · school · love triangle · magic · magical girl · mystery · parody · superpowers · psychological · romance · seinen · supernatural · tragedy · zombie · vampire · youkai.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Bakemonogatari?
- About 6.2 hours for all 15 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 8 evenings.
- How many episodes does Bakemonogatari have?
- 15 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Bakemonogatari finished?
- Yes, Bakemonogatari is finished (15 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Bakemonogatari good for a group?
- Yes. Bakemonogatari is tagged action, comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Bakemonogatari listed?
- Bakemonogatari is on AniList (id 5081) and MyAnimeList (id 5081); 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