Is Ibara no Ou good to watch with a friend?
One sitting. Ibara no Ou (King of Thorn) is a film from Fall 2009 by Sunrise Inc.: 1 episodes, about 1.8 hours in total, finished, 6.9/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: one sitting. It is a film (about 1.8 hours), so the whole thing fits one evening — the easiest kind of anime to agree on. Rule: type MOVIE → one sitting.
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
- Film
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 109 min
- Total time
- about 1.8 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Fall 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Sunrise Inc.
- Score
- 6.9/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, drama, gore, horror, military, monsters, mystery, nudity, post-apocalyptic, psychological, sci-fi, seinen, survival, thriller, tragedy, gaming, 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.
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More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · drama · horror · military · monsters · mystery · post-apocalyptic · psychological · sci-fi · seinen · survival · thriller · tragedy · gaming.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Ibara no Ou?
- About 1.8 hours — one sitting.
- How many episodes does Ibara no Ou have?
- 1 episode of 109 min.
- Is Ibara no Ou finished?
- Yes, Ibara no Ou is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Ibara no Ou good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Ibara no Ou is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Ibara no Ou listed?
- Ibara no Ou is on AniList (id 6610) and MyAnimeList (id 6610); 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