Is Bakuman. good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Bakuman. (Bakuman Season 1) is a TV series from Fall 2010 by J.C. Staff, J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.: 25 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 8.17/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 10 hours for the run, 13 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
- 25
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2010
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- J.C. Staff, J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.17/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, comedy, coming of age, slice of life, drama, friendship, school, romance, shounen, workplace
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: manga adaptation · comedy · coming of age · slice of life · drama · friendship · school · romance · shounen · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Bakuman.?
- About 10 hours for all 25 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Bakuman. have?
- 25 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Bakuman. finished?
- Yes, Bakuman. is finished (25 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Bakuman. good for a group?
- Yes. Bakuman. is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Bakuman. listed?
- Bakuman. is on AniList (id 7674) and MyAnimeList (id 7674); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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