Is Ling Qi good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Ling Qi (Soul Contract) is a web series (ONA) from Spring 2016 by Emon Co., Ltd., Haoliners Animation League: 20 episodes, about 4.7 hours in total, finished, 7.08/10 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 4.7 hours for the run, 10 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
- Web series (ONA)
- Episodes
- 20
- Episode length
- 14 min
- Total time
- about 4.7 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2016
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Emon Co., Ltd., Haoliners Animation League
- Score
- 7.08/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, boys' love, donghua (Chinese animation), comedy, urban fantasy, detective, fantasy, martial arts, ghost, magic, romance, romantic comedy, superpowers, supernatural, swordplay, tragedy, youkai
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: Spirit Contract; Spirit Pact.
Do you and a friend both want to watch Ling Qi?
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Related anime
More like this: action · boys' love · donghua (Chinese animation) · comedy · urban fantasy · detective · fantasy · martial arts · ghost · magic · romance · romantic comedy · superpowers · supernatural · swordplay · tragedy · youkai.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Ling Qi?
- About 4.7 hours for all 20 episodes at 14 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 10 evenings.
- How many episodes does Ling Qi have?
- 20 episodes of 14 min.
- Is Ling Qi finished?
- Yes, Ling Qi is finished (20 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Ling Qi good for a group?
- Yes. Ling Qi is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Ling Qi listed?
- Ling Qi is on AniList (id 98031) and MyAnimeList (id 33605); 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