Is Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei (Night Walker: The Midnight Detective) is a TV series from Summer 1998 by Aic, Anime International Co., Inc.: 12 episodes, about 5 hours in total, finished, 6.76/10 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 5 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
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 5 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 1998
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Aic, Anime International Co., Inc.
- Score
- 6.76/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, video-game adaptation, boys' love, comedy, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, demons, detective, drama, episodic, gaming, gore, school, horror, magic, mystery, nudity, superpowers, psychological, seinen, supernatural, swordplay, tragedy, zombie, vampire, 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. Also listed as: Night Walker: Midnight Detective; NightWalker: Eternal Darkness; Night Walker - Midnight Detective; Night Walker : Midnight Detective.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei?
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More like this: action · video-game adaptation · boys' love · comedy · urban fantasy · dark fantasy · demons · detective · drama · gaming · school · horror · magic · mystery · superpowers · psychological · seinen · supernatural · swordplay · tragedy · zombie · vampire.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei?
- About 5 hours for all 12 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei have?
- 12 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei finished?
- Yes, Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei good for a group?
- Yes. Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei listed?
- Night Walker: Mayonaka no Tantei is on AniList (id 621) and MyAnimeList (id 621); 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