# Where to Watch Given

**Given streams on Crunchyroll — a beautifully understated romance about grief, music, and two boys drawn together through a guitar. It's tender, mature, and one of the best music anime around.**

## Where to Watch

- [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/given)

Crunchyroll is the home for the series — the full run lives there.

## Synopsis

Ritsuka Uenoyama is a talented but bored high schooler who's started to lose his passion for the guitar — until he meets Mafuyu Sato, a quiet classmate clutching a broken instrument and carrying an obvious weight of sorrow. When Mafuyu asks to be taught, and then reveals a startling voice, the two are pulled into the same amateur band and into each other's orbit. As Mafuyu slowly works toward writing a song about the loss he can barely speak of, a careful, aching romance takes shape. It's a story about music as a way to say the things you can't, told with real restraint and heart.

## Fast Facts

- **Format:** TV
- **Episodes:** 11
- **Premiered:** 2019
- **Studio:** lerche
- **Score:** 8.3

## Watch Order

This first season is the entry point; begin here before the films that continue the story.

- [Given Movie 1](https://hozuna.com/anime/given-the-movie) — sequel

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## FAQ

### Where can I watch Given?

It streams on Crunchyroll.

### How many episodes is the first season?

The first season runs for 11 episodes.

### Is it a romance or a music anime?

Both — it's a tender romance built around a band, where the music and the emotional story are deeply intertwined.