Is Legend of Basara good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Legend of Basara is a TV series from Spring 1998 by Kss Inc.: 13 episodes, about 5.2 hours in total, finished, 7.12/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged tragedy and not comedy: this wants attention and the right mood, not background chatter. Rule: heavy drama or psychological tags without comedy → quiet night.
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
- 13
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 5.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 1998
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Kss Inc.
- Score
- 7.12/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, crime, drama, dystopian, fantasy, post-apocalyptic, revenge, romance, sci-fi, shoujo, swordplay, tragedy, war
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 Legend of Basara?
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More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · crime · drama · dystopian · fantasy · post-apocalyptic · revenge · romance · sci-fi · shoujo · swordplay · tragedy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Legend of Basara?
- About 5.2 hours for all 13 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 7 evenings.
- How many episodes does Legend of Basara have?
- 13 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Legend of Basara finished?
- Yes, Legend of Basara is finished (13 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Legend of Basara good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Legend of Basara is tagged drama, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Legend of Basara listed?
- Legend of Basara is on AniList (id 633) and MyAnimeList (id 633); 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