Is Hakuouki good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Hakuouki (Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom) is a TV series from Spring 2010 by Studio Deen Co., Ltd.: 12 episodes, about 4.6 hours in total, finished, 7.24/10 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
- 12
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 4.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2010
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Studio Deen Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.24/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, demons, drama, gore, gaming, harem, historical, josei, detective, samurai, shoujo, supernatural, swordplay, tragedy, vampire, violence, war, youkai
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: Dilute Cherry Demon: Strangely-spoken-of Shinsengumi; Hakuoki ~Demon of the Fleeting Blossom~.
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Related anime
More like this: action · demons · drama · gaming · harem · historical · josei · detective · samurai · shoujo · supernatural · swordplay · tragedy · vampire · war · youkai.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Hakuouki?
- About 4.6 hours for all 12 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Hakuouki have?
- 12 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Hakuouki finished?
- Yes, Hakuouki is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Hakuouki good for a group?
- Yes. Hakuouki is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Hakuouki listed?
- Hakuouki is on AniList (id 6895) and MyAnimeList (id 6895); 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