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How long does it take to watch Death Note?

How long to watch Death Note
about 13 hours 34 minutes
37 episodes

Death Note is 37 episodes and under fourteen hours, which makes it one of the shortest complete stories people recommend as an entry point to anime. It adapts the manga essentially straight through with no filler. The story has a hard structural break at episode 25 that divides opinion sharply, and viewers who stop there have watched about nine hours. It can comfortably be finished over a weekend.

The numbers

Total
13 hours 34 minutes
In hours
13.6 hours
Non-stop
0.6 days without sleeping
Covers
37 episodes
At a realistic pace
an episode a day
That works out as
about 37 days

What this assumes

37 episodes at 22 minutes of programme content.

Other anime

What How long
One Piece 19 days 12 hours
The Pokémon anime 20 days 21 hours
Naruto about 84 hours
Naruto: Shippuden 7 days 23 hours
All of Naruto, Shippuden and Boruto 16 days 4 hours
Dragon Ball Z about 116 hours
All of Dragon Ball 10 days 15 hours
Bleach about 163 hours
Attack on Titan about 37 hours
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood about 25 hours 36 minutes
Hunter × Hunter (2011) about 59 hours
Demon Slayer about 25 hours 12 minutes

Common questions

How long does it take to watch Death Note?
about 13 hours 34 minutes — 37 episodes.
What does that assume?
37 episodes at 22 minutes of programme content.
How long at a realistic pace?
an episode a day — about 37 days.

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Sources

  1. Calculated on this page — At One Place

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