Is Shin Tenchi Muyou! good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Shin Tenchi Muyou! (New Tenchi Muyo) is a TV series from Spring 1997 by Aic, Anime International Co., Inc.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 6.89/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 10 hours for the run, 13 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
- 26
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 1997
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Aic, Anime International Co., Inc.
- Score
- 6.89/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, aliens, comedy, coming of age, slice of life, drama, fantasy, harem, detective, magic, mecha, superpowers, robots & AI, romance, romantic comedy, school, sci-fi, shounen, space, supernatural, 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.
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Related anime
More like this: action · adventure · aliens · comedy · coming of age · slice of life · drama · fantasy · harem · detective · magic · mecha · superpowers · robots & AI · romance · romantic comedy · school · sci-fi · shounen · space · supernatural.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shin Tenchi Muyou!?
- 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 Shin Tenchi Muyou! have?
- 26 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Shin Tenchi Muyou! finished?
- Yes, Shin Tenchi Muyou! is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shin Tenchi Muyou! good for a group?
- Yes. Shin Tenchi Muyou! is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Shin Tenchi Muyou! listed?
- Shin Tenchi Muyou! is on AniList (id 538) and MyAnimeList (id 538); 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