How long does it take to watch all of Needless?

About 9.6 hours for all 24 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.

Is Needless finished?

Yes, Needless is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.

Is Needless good for a group?

Yes. Needless is tagged action, comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.

Where is Needless listed?

Needless is on AniList (id 6030) and MyAnimeList (id 6030); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.

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Is Needless good to watch with a friend?

Easy to drop in. Needless is a TV series from Summer 2009 by Imagin, Madhouse Inc.: 24 episodes, about 9.6 hours in total, finished, 7.09/10 across the listing sites.

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Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: 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: Summer 2009
Status: Finished
Studio: Imagin, Madhouse Inc.
Score: 7.09/10 across the listing sites
Tags: action, manga adaptation, comedy, ecchi, martial arts, shounen, magic, nudity, parody, post-apocalyptic, superpowers, robots & AI, sci-fi, seinen, swordplay, 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.

Do you and a friend both want to watch Needless?

Queue Up reads two public AniList lists and shows every anime you both have on Planning — with Needless flagged if it is one of them — then picks tonight's with a weighted roll or a bracket.

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Quick answers

How long does it take to watch all of Needless?: 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 Needless have?: 24 episodes of 24 min.
Is Needless finished?: Yes, Needless is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
Is Needless good for a group?: Yes. Needless is tagged action, comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
Where is Needless listed?: Needless is on AniList (id 6030) and MyAnimeList (id 6030); 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