Asian Dramas Like Cruel Summer

A self-proclaimed mad scientist accidentally invents a method of sending messages to the past using a microwave. What starts as gleeful tinkering becomes a nightmare when he realiz…

If you loved Cruel Summer's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Steins;Gate 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 the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

A woman insecure about her looks becomes a masked internet streamer, setting off a chain of dark events.

Both are built around an obsession that consumes a character completely and thrillingly. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

A detective wakes up in a hospital with no memory, covered in someone else's blood, and holding a wedding ring that isn't his. As he reconstructs his identity, every clue suggests …

If you loved Cruel Summer's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Black Out 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 a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A disgraced journalist investigates a powerful business family and becomes entangled in a web of manipulation, desire, and betrayal with the family's dangerous heir.

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

A former genius detective, now a reclusive puzzle constructor, is pulled back into an active case when a series of murders with perfectly crafted puzzles left at each scene seems d…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

A genius high school student finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it. He decides to use it to cleanse the world of criminals, becoming a god-like figure call…

If you loved Cruel Summer's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Death Note 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 the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

Hiroshi Odokawa is a walrus who drives a taxi in a city populated entirely by anthropomorphic animals. He's antisocial, blunt, and an excellent conversationalist with customers he'…

If you loved Cruel Summer's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Odd Taxi 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 a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A doctor who's a superfan of an idol named Ai is murdered and reborn as her son. His twin sister is also a reincarnation with her own agenda. When their idol mother is killed by a …

If you loved Cruel Summer's narrator you can't quite trust — and love for exactly that reason, Oshi no Ko 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 the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

A scholarship student enters an elite high school and disrupts the rigid social hierarchy, uncovering dark secrets.

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is the kind of suspense that makes you forget to breathe.

A woman tells a small lie to impress someone, and that lie spirals into an entirely fabricated identity — a stolen name, stolen credentials, stolen life. Anna is a slow-burn psycho…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.