Asian Dramas Like Anne with an E

University students from across Korea share a boarding house in Seoul during 1994, while a future-flashback teases which of the men the central female character eventually marries.…

If you loved Anne with an E's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Reply 1994 delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Six friends navigate high school in Busan in 1997 — the height of the first K-pop idol wave — while a flash-forward wedding reveals that one of the men in the group married one of …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Set in the tangerine orchards of Jeju Island, two people fall in love across multiple decades — from the 1960s through the present. A sweeping, multigenerational saga about ordinar…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: resilience. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

1980s South Korea. A spirited young woman with a raw, electrifying voice joins a struggling troupe of female pansori and folk performers, driven by a dream she can barely name and …

If you loved Anne with an E's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Jeong Nyeon delivers exactly that. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

The next chapter of Ae-sun and Gwan-sik's multigenerational family saga, following their descendants as they navigate love, hardship, and hope in contemporary Korea.

Like Anne with an E, it leans hard into coming of age. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

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

Like Anne with an E, it leans hard into coming of age. 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.

Five first-year medical residents at a major Seoul hospital navigate the brutal learning curve of actual practice — the gap between what they were taught and what emergency medicin…

If you loved Anne with an E's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Resident Playbook delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

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 overlooked; she's actu…

If you loved Anne with an E's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Toradora! delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Sawako Kuronuma is kind, earnest, and completely terrifying to her classmates — her resemblance to the ghost from Sadako and her habit of talking to herself in quiet corners has gi…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: belonging and identity. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

A young woman training to be a nun pretends to be her twin brother and joins an idol group. As she navigates disguises, secret identities, and the pressures of K-pop stardom, three…

If you loved Anne with an E's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, You're Beautiful delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — belonging and identity — is the same. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.