Is Natsu no Arashi! good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Natsu no Arashi! (Summer Storm) is a TV series from Spring 2009 by Shaft Inc., Studio Pastoral: 13 episodes, about 5 hours in total, finished, 7.21/10 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 5 hours for the run, 7 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
- 13
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 5 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Shaft Inc., Studio Pastoral
- Score
- 7.21/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, urban fantasy, detective, drama, fantasy, friendship, ghost, iyashikei (healing), historical, isekai, parody, romance, sci-fi, shounen, supernatural, time travel, tragedy, zombie, 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. Also listed as: Stormy Summer; Summer Storm!.
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Related anime
More like this: manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · urban fantasy · detective · drama · fantasy · friendship · ghost · iyashikei (healing) · historical · isekai · parody · romance · sci-fi · shounen · supernatural · time travel · tragedy · zombie · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Natsu no Arashi!?
- 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 Natsu no Arashi! have?
- 13 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Natsu no Arashi! finished?
- Yes, Natsu no Arashi! is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Natsu no Arashi! good for a group?
- Yes. Natsu no Arashi! is tagged comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Natsu no Arashi! listed?
- Natsu no Arashi! is on AniList (id 5597) and MyAnimeList (id 5597); 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