Is Saiunkoku Monogatari good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Saiunkoku Monogatari (Story of the Land of Many-Colored Clouds) is a TV series from Spring 2006 by Madhouse Inc.: 39 episodes, about 16 hours in total, finished, 7.86/10 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 16 hours for the run, 20 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
- 39
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 16 hours — a season of evenings
- First aired
- Spring 2006
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Madhouse Inc.
- Score
- 7.86/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, light-novel adaptation, comedy, coming of age, crime, drama, fantasy, found family, ghost, harem, iyashikei (healing), historical, love triangle, mythology, politics, romance, shoujo, supernatural, swordplay, zombie, violence, war, 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. Also listed as: Tale of the Land of Colored Clouds; Tale of Saiunkoku; Tales of Saiunkoku; The Story of Saiunkoku.
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More like this: action · adventure · light-novel adaptation · comedy · coming of age · crime · drama · fantasy · found family · ghost · harem · iyashikei (healing) · historical · love triangle · mythology · politics · romance · shoujo · supernatural · swordplay · zombie · war · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Saiunkoku Monogatari?
- About 16 hours for all 39 episodes at 25 min each — a season of evenings; at two episodes a night that is 20 evenings.
- How many episodes does Saiunkoku Monogatari have?
- 39 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Saiunkoku Monogatari finished?
- Yes, Saiunkoku Monogatari is finished (39 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Saiunkoku Monogatari good for a group?
- Yes. Saiunkoku Monogatari is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Saiunkoku Monogatari listed?
- Saiunkoku Monogatari is on AniList (id 957) and MyAnimeList (id 957); 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