Is Seiken no Blacksmith good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Seiken no Blacksmith is a TV series from Fall 2009 by Manglobe Inc.: 12 episodes, about 4.6 hours in total, finished, 6.7/10 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 4.6 hours for the run, 6 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
- 12
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 4.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Manglobe Inc.
- Score
- 6.7/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, light-novel adaptation, comedy, slice of life, demons, drama, ecchi, fantasy, historical, detective, magic, monsters, nudity, romance, seinen, swordplay, 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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More like this: action · adventure · light-novel adaptation · comedy · slice of life · demons · drama · fantasy · historical · detective · magic · monsters · romance · seinen · swordplay · yuri.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Seiken no Blacksmith?
- About 4.6 hours for all 12 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Seiken no Blacksmith have?
- 12 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Seiken no Blacksmith finished?
- Yes, Seiken no Blacksmith is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Seiken no Blacksmith good for a group?
- Yes. Seiken no Blacksmith is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Seiken no Blacksmith listed?
- Seiken no Blacksmith is on AniList (id 5940) and MyAnimeList (id 5940); 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