Is Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo good to watch with a friend?
One sitting. Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo (Children Who Chase Lost Voices) is a film from Spring 2011 by Comix Wave Films Inc.: 1 episodes, about 1.9 hours in total, finished, 7.5/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: one sitting. It is a film (about 1.9 hours), so the whole thing fits one evening — the easiest kind of anime to agree on. Rule: type MOVIE → one sitting.
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
- Film
- Episodes
- 1
- Episode length
- 116 min
- Total time
- about 1.9 hours — one evening
- First aired
- Spring 2011
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Comix Wave Films Inc.
- Score
- 7.5/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, coming of age, urban fantasy, slice of life, demons, drama, fantasy, mythology, isekai, magic, military, romance, seinen, swordplay, 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. Also listed as: Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below; Children Who Chase Stars; Journey to Agartha.
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More like this: action · adventure · coming of age · urban fantasy · slice of life · demons · drama · fantasy · mythology · isekai · magic · military · romance · seinen · swordplay · tragedy.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo?
- About 1.9 hours — one sitting.
- How many episodes does Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo have?
- 1 episode of 116 min.
- Is Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo finished?
- Yes, Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo is finished (1 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo is tagged drama, romance, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo listed?
- Hoshi wo Ou Kodomo is on AniList (id 9760) and MyAnimeList (id 9760); 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 2026-09-23. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists