Is Kobato. good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Kobato. is a TV series from Fall 2009 by Madhouse Inc.: 24 episodes, about 9.6 hours in total, finished, 7.82/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Episodic: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 9.6 hours for the run, 12 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
- 24
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 9.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc.
- Score
- 7.82/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- adventure, manga adaptation, comedy, urban fantasy, crime, slice of life, drama, episodic, fantasy, iyashikei (healing), magic, magical girl, reincarnation, romance, school, seinen, shoujo, supernatural, 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.
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Related anime
More like this: adventure · manga adaptation · comedy · urban fantasy · crime · slice of life · drama · fantasy · iyashikei (healing) · magic · magical girl · reincarnation · romance · school · seinen · shoujo · supernatural · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Kobato.?
- About 9.6 hours for all 24 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
- How many episodes does Kobato. have?
- 24 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Kobato. finished?
- Yes, Kobato. is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Kobato. good for a group?
- Yes. Kobato. is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Kobato. listed?
- Kobato. is on AniList (id 5678) and MyAnimeList (id 5678); 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