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Is Simoun good to watch with a friend?

A quiet night. Simoun is a TV series from Spring 2006 by Studio Deen Co., Ltd.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 7.27/10 across the listing sites.

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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
26
Episode length
24 min
Total time
about 10 hours — a weekend
First aired
Spring 2006
Status
Finished
Studio
Studio Deen Co., Ltd.
Score
7.27/10 across the listing sites
Tags
action, adventure, boys' love, coming of age, drama, fantasy, mythology, historical, isekai, love triangle, magic, military, romance, sci-fi, seinen, superpowers, time travel, tragedy, war, yuri

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 · boys' love · coming of age · drama · fantasy · mythology · historical · isekai · love triangle · magic · military · romance · sci-fi · seinen · superpowers · time travel · tragedy · war · yuri.

Quick answers

How long does it take to watch all of Simoun?
About 10 hours for all 26 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
How many episodes does Simoun have?
26 episodes of 24 min.
Is Simoun finished?
Yes, Simoun is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
Is Simoun good for a group?
Better for two than for a crowd. Simoun is tagged drama, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
Where is Simoun listed?
Simoun is on AniList (id 879) and MyAnimeList (id 879); 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