Is Canaan good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Canaan is a TV series from Summer 2009 by P.A. Works Co., Ltd., P.A.Works: 13 episodes, about 5 hours in total, finished, 7.27/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, thriller 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
- 13
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 5 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- P.A. Works Co., Ltd., P.A.Works
- Score
- 7.27/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, crime, drama, gore, friendship, gaming, love triangle, military, mystery, politics, superpowers, psychological, revenge, sci-fi, seinen, slice of life, supernatural, thriller, violence, war, 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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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Canaan?
- About 5 hours for all 13 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 7 evenings.
- How many episodes does Canaan have?
- 13 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Canaan finished?
- Yes, Canaan is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Canaan good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Canaan is tagged drama, psychological; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Canaan listed?
- Canaan is on AniList (id 5356) and MyAnimeList (id 5356); 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