Is Dantalian no Shoka good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Dantalian no Shoka is a TV series from Summer 2011 by Gainax Co., Ltd.: 12 episodes, about 4.8 hours in total, finished, 7.19/10 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
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 4.8 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2011
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Gainax Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.19/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, robots & AI, light-novel adaptation, urban fantasy, crime, demons, detective, dragons, drama, episodic, fantasy, ghost, historical, magic, military, mystery, mythology, seinen, supernatural, tragedy, zombie, violence, war
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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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Dantalian no Shoka?
- About 4.8 hours for all 12 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 6 evenings.
- How many episodes does Dantalian no Shoka have?
- 12 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Dantalian no Shoka finished?
- Yes, Dantalian no Shoka is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Dantalian no Shoka good for a group?
- Yes. Dantalian no Shoka is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Dantalian no Shoka listed?
- Dantalian no Shoka is on AniList (id 8915) and MyAnimeList (id 8915); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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