Is Mai-Otome good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Mai-Otome is a TV series from Fall 2005 by Sunrise Inc.: 26 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 7.43/10 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 10 hours for the run, 13 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
- 26
- Episode length
- 23 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Fall 2005
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- Sunrise Inc.
- Score
- 7.43/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- action, robots & AI, comedy, coming of age, drama, ecchi, fantasy, love triangle, magic, magical girl, mecha, post-apocalyptic, superpowers, romance, school, sci-fi, tragedy, 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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More like this: action · robots & AI · comedy · coming of age · drama · fantasy · love triangle · magic · magical girl · mecha · post-apocalyptic · superpowers · romance · school · sci-fi · tragedy · war.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Mai-Otome?
- About 10 hours for all 26 episodes at 23 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 13 evenings.
- How many episodes does Mai-Otome have?
- 26 episodes of 23 min.
- Is Mai-Otome finished?
- Yes, Mai-Otome is finished (26 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Mai-Otome good for a group?
- Yes. Mai-Otome is tagged action, comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Mai-Otome listed?
- Mai-Otome is on AniList (id 99) and MyAnimeList (id 99); 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