Motel California

Mitsumi Iwakura moves from rural Ishikawa to Tokyo for high school, armed with a five-year plan, an overachiever's work ethic, and almost no social skills. Sous…

If you loved Motel California's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Skip and Loafer delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Haruhi Fujioka accidentally breaks an expensive vase belonging to the Host Club — seven outrageously attractive rich boys who entertain female classmates for fu…

Both are built around a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. Same light hearted energy throughout.

Five families in a Seoul neighborhood navigate life, love, and growing up in the late 1980s.…

Both are built around a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Three college best friends made a pact: stay single together, stay free together, never let love complicate the group. Then one of them falls first — and the re…

Both are built around a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Ryuuji Takasu has a terrifying face that makes everyone think he's a delinquent; he's actually the gentlest person in school. Taiga Aisaka is tiny and easily ov…

Both are built around a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.