Is Shangri-La good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Shangri-La is a TV series from Spring 2009 by Gonzo K.K.: 24 episodes, about 9.2 hours in total, finished, 6.83/10 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
- 24
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 9.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Gonzo K.K.
- Score
- 6.83/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, light-novel adaptation, coming of age, crime, cyberpunk, drama, fantasy, ghost, mythology, politics, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, seinen, supernatural, tragedy, zombie, urban fantasy, violence, 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.
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More like this: action · adventure · light-novel adaptation · coming of age · crime · cyberpunk · drama · fantasy · ghost · mythology · politics · post-apocalyptic · sci-fi · seinen · supernatural · tragedy · zombie · urban fantasy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shangri-La?
- About 9.2 hours for all 24 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
- How many episodes does Shangri-La have?
- 24 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Shangri-La finished?
- Yes, Shangri-La is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shangri-La good for a group?
- Yes. Shangri-La is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Shangri-La listed?
- Shangri-La is on AniList (id 5220) and MyAnimeList (id 5220); 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