Is Princess Principal good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Princess Principal is a TV series from Summer 2017 by Actas Inc., Point Pictures: 12 episodes, about 4.8 hours in total, finished, 7.67/10 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 2017
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Actas Inc., Point Pictures, Studio 3Hz
- Score
- 7.67/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, adventure, crime, robots & AI, drama, episodic, friendship, school, historical, detective, martial arts, military, mystery, politics, samurai, sci-fi, slice of life, supernatural, swordplay, tragedy, urban fantasy, 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 Princess Principal?
- 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 Princess Principal have?
- 12 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Princess Principal finished?
- Yes, Princess Principal is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Princess Principal good for a group?
- Yes. Princess Principal is tagged action, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Princess Principal listed?
- Princess Principal is on AniList (id 98505) and MyAnimeList (id 35240); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
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