Is Houseki no Kuni good to watch with a friend?
A quiet night. Houseki no Kuni (Land of the Lustrous) is a TV series from Fall 2017 by Orange Co., Ltd.: 12 episodes, about 4.8 hours in total, finished, 8.24/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: a quiet night. Tagged psychological, 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
- Fall 2017
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Orange Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.24/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, manga adaptation, coming of age, crime, cute girls doing cute things, slice of life, detective, drama, fantasy, martial arts, friendship, iyashikei (healing), mystery, post-apocalyptic, psychological, sci-fi, seinen, supernatural, survival, swordplay, tragedy, 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: Kingdom of Gems.
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More like this: action · manga adaptation · coming of age · crime · cute girls doing cute things · slice of life · detective · drama · fantasy · martial arts · friendship · iyashikei (healing) · mystery · post-apocalyptic · psychological · sci-fi · seinen · supernatural · survival · swordplay · tragedy · war · workplace.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Houseki no Kuni?
- 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 Houseki no Kuni have?
- 12 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Houseki no Kuni finished?
- Yes, Houseki no Kuni is finished (12 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Houseki no Kuni good for a group?
- Better for two than for a crowd. Houseki no Kuni is tagged drama, psychological, tragedy; it rewards paying attention, which a group rarely does.
- Where is Houseki no Kuni listed?
- Houseki no Kuni is on AniList (id 98707) and MyAnimeList (id 35557); 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