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title: "How long to watch Dragon Ball Z? about 116 hours"
description: "Dragon Ball Z takes about 116 hours — 291 episodes, 1989 to 1996. What that assumes, how it breaks down, and how long at a realistic pace."
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# How long does it take to watch Dragon Ball Z?

**How long to watch Dragon Ball Z: about 116 hours**

291 episodes, 1989 to 1996

Dragon Ball Z is 291 episodes and about 116 hours in its original Japanese broadcast. Dragon Ball Z Kai recuts the same story to 167 episodes and roughly 64 hours by removing filler and pacing padding — the same narrative in a bit over half the time, which is the clearest illustration on this list of how much a runtime figure depends on which version you mean. The American broadcast originally ran 276 episodes because of edits and combined instalments. Watching Z alone skips the 153 episodes of the original Dragon Ball.

## The numbers

- **Total:** 4 days 20 hours
- **In hours:** 116 hours
- **Non-stop:** 4.9 days without sleeping
- **Covers:** 291 episodes, 1989 to 1996
- **At a realistic pace:** an episode a day
- **That works out as:** about 291 days

## What this assumes

291 episodes at 24 minutes, the Japanese broadcast version.

> Dragon Ball Z Kai tells the same story in 167 episodes, about 64 hours. The US broadcast originally counted 276 episodes.

## 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 |
| All of Dragon Ball | 10 days 15 hours |
| Bleach | about 163 hours |
| Attack on Titan | about 37 hours |
| Death Note | about 13 hours 34 minutes |
| 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 Dragon Ball Z?

about 116 hours — 291 episodes, 1989 to 1996.

### What does that assume?

291 episodes at 24 minutes, the Japanese broadcast version.

### How long at a realistic pace?

an episode a day — about 291 days.

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## Sources

- Calculated on this page — At One Place (/about/)