Is Pale Cocoon good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Pale Cocoon is a OVA (home-video release) from Fall 2005 by Directions, Inc., Studio Rikka: 1 episodes, about 24 minutes in total, finished, 7.37/10 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
- OVA (home-video release)
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 24 minutes — one evening
- First aired
- Fall 2005
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Directions, Inc., Studio Rikka
- Score
- 7.37/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- coming of age, cyberpunk, detective, drama, dystopian, post-apocalyptic, sci-fi, seinen, short episodes, space, supernatural, tragedy
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: coming of age · cyberpunk · detective · drama · dystopian · post-apocalyptic · sci-fi · seinen · space · supernatural · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Pale Cocoon?
- About 24 minutes for all 1 episodes at 23 min each — one evening; at two episodes a night that is 1 evening.
- How many episodes does Pale Cocoon have?
- 1 episode of 23 min.
- Is Pale Cocoon finished?
- Yes, Pale Cocoon is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Pale Cocoon good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Pale Cocoon is tagged drama, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Pale Cocoon listed?
- Pale Cocoon is on AniList (id 770) and MyAnimeList (id 770); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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