What is the longest anime episode of all time?

10 months ago by tgirlschierke to c/anime

I've noticed that most anime have 20-minute episodes, so I've decided to start finding shows that go higher than that. Obviously, a lot of shows have double-feature episodes (such as RIN: Daughters of Mnemosyne), but here's the top 5 I've been able to find.

Made in Abyss: "The Challengers", "Gold" [reportedly around 60 minutes each]
Hellsing: Ultimate: "Hellsing X" [67 minutes]
Pluto: "Episode #1.1" [71 minutes]
Oshi no Ko: "Mother and Children" [82 minutes]
Key: The Metal Idol: "System" [97 minutes]

Please do not recommend episodes that are below an hour in runtime.

ludrol 13 points 10 months ago

By carefully stretching the definition of an episode we could argue that Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya S2E1 has runtime of over 3 hours.

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VivianRixia 2 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure Endless Eight was only 24mins

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ludrol 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, but if we count the all of Endless Eight as one episode split into eight broadcasts then it's 24min*8=192min.

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VivianRixia 2 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure Endless Eight was only one episode, but I did get a sense of deja vu from it.

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Rottcodd 1 point 10 months ago

Um... no.

For better of worse, Endless Eight was eight full episodes. They seemed identical, but the actual point was that they only seemed identical and were in fact not.

And I'm reasonably certain that the underlying point, ill-considered though it might've been to try to make it the way they did, was specifically to frustrate viewers by repeating the same events eight times, to really drive home the point that Yuki experienced those same events, with the same full awareness of the repetition, 15,532 times.

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1Fuji2Taka3Nasubi 9 points 10 months ago

Frieren ep.1 to 4 were 4 episodes but were premiered on TV as a quadruple feature at around 2 hours minus advertisement time.

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e0qdk 9 points 10 months ago

97 minutes

At that length, I think I'd call it a movie/film even if it's part of a TV series's progression.

If we're including Japanese anime films in general, In This Corner of the World is supposedly the longest at 168 minutes for the extended version, followed by Final Yamato at 163 minutes, and then The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya at 162 minutes -- according to this list on Wikipedia.

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Alexstarfire 7 points 10 months ago

Attack on Titan final episode is 85m.

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SlartyBartFast 5 points 10 months ago

That episode where Frieza was gonna destroy Piccolo's homeworld in like thirty seconds but it was really like 30 days

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tamlyn 4 points 10 months ago

Does the Garden of Sinners series count. I mean that's all movies with the longest 120 minutes. But it's kind of a very long series

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tgirlschierke 1 point 10 months ago

All separate entries on MAL for what it's worth.

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Ghost 3 points 10 months ago

There's a few episodes of Detective Conan/Case closed that aired as 2 hour long specials. The longest I can find rn with just a quick search would be episode 345 at about 117 minutes.

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tgirlschierke 1 point 10 months ago

That's a good answer.

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nyan 2 points 10 months ago

I vaguely remember that I did not watch the anime adaptation of Atelier Ryza because the first episode was 3x (4x?) normal length, which should be >60 min.

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TonyTonyChopper 1 point 10 months ago

Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle is 156 minutes

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