Is Shoukoku no Altair good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Shoukoku no Altair is a TV series from Summer 2017 by Mappa Co., Ltd.: 24 episodes, about 9.6 hours in total, finished, 7.2/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 9.6 hours for the run, 12 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
- 24
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 9.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Summer 2017
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Mappa Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 7.2/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, manga adaptation, coming of age, drama, fantasy, historical, martial arts, military, politics, revenge, shounen, swordplay, 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.
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More like this: action · adventure · manga adaptation · coming of age · drama · fantasy · historical · martial arts · military · politics · revenge · shounen · swordplay · war · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shoukoku no Altair?
- About 9.6 hours for all 24 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
- How many episodes does Shoukoku no Altair have?
- 24 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Shoukoku no Altair finished?
- Yes, Shoukoku no Altair is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shoukoku no Altair good for a group?
- Yes. Shoukoku no Altair is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Shoukoku no Altair listed?
- Shoukoku no Altair is on AniList (id 97984) and MyAnimeList (id 34547); 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