Is Kuuchuu Buranko good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Kuuchuu Buranko (Flying Trapeze) is a TV series from Fall 2009 by Toei Animation Co., Ltd.: 11 episodes, about 4.2 hours in total, finished, 7.71/10 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 4.2 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
- 11
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 4.2 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2009
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Toei Animation Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.71/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- comedy, slice of life, drama, episodic, psychological, parody, seinen
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: Sky Swing.
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More like this: comedy · slice of life · drama · psychological · parody · seinen.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Kuuchuu Buranko?
- About 4.2 hours for all 11 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Kuuchuu Buranko have?
- 11 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Kuuchuu Buranko finished?
- Yes, Kuuchuu Buranko is finished (11 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Kuuchuu Buranko good for a group?
- Yes. Kuuchuu Buranko is tagged comedy, parody, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Kuuchuu Buranko listed?
- Kuuchuu Buranko is on AniList (id 6774) and MyAnimeList (id 6774); 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 2026-09-23. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists