Is Otogizoushi good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Otogizoushi (Legend Of The Magatama) is a TV series from Summer 2004 by Production I.G., Inc.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 6.88/10 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
- 26
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2004
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Production I.G., Inc.
- Score
- 6.88/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, urban fantasy, detective, drama, fantasy, historical, mythology, ninja, reincarnation, romance, samurai, seinen, supernatural, swordplay, time travel, tragedy, 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: Otogi Zoshi: The Legend of Magatama; OTOGI ZOSHI - The Legend of Magatama.
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More like this: action · adventure · urban fantasy · detective · drama · fantasy · historical · mythology · ninja · reincarnation · romance · samurai · seinen · supernatural · swordplay · time travel · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Otogizoushi?
- About 10 hours for all 26 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Otogizoushi have?
- 26 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Otogizoushi finished?
- Yes, Otogizoushi is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Otogizoushi good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Otogizoushi is tagged drama, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Otogizoushi listed?
- Otogizoushi is on AniList (id 525) and MyAnimeList (id 525); 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