Is Battle Programmer Shirase good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Battle Programmer Shirase is a TV series from Fall 2003 by Aic, Anime International Co., Inc.: 15 episodes, about 3 hours in total, finished, 6.88/10 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 3 hours for the run, 8 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
- 15
- Episode length
- 12 min
- Total time
- about 3 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Fall 2003
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Aic, Anime International Co., Inc.
- Score
- 6.88/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- comedy, urban fantasy, slice of life, detective, ecchi, episodic, fantasy, parody, school, sci-fi, seinen, short episodes
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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More like this: comedy · urban fantasy · slice of life · detective · fantasy · parody · school · sci-fi · seinen.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Battle Programmer Shirase?
- About 3 hours for all 15 episodes at 12 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 8 evenings.
- How many episodes does Battle Programmer Shirase have?
- 15 episodes of 12 min.
- Is Battle Programmer Shirase finished?
- Yes, Battle Programmer Shirase is finished (15 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Battle Programmer Shirase good for a group?
- Yes. Battle Programmer Shirase is tagged comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Battle Programmer Shirase listed?
- Battle Programmer Shirase is on AniList (id 579) and MyAnimeList (id 579); 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 2026-09-23. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists