Asian Dramas Like Derry Girls

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 Derry Girls's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Reply 1994 delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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 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 overlooked; she's actu…

If you loved Derry Girls's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Toradora! 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.

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

Like Derry Girls, 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 sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Five medical interns navigate the intense pressures of residency at a Seoul hospital, forming bonds and rivalries as they discover who they really are under extreme professional an…

Like Derry Girls, Resident Playbook is built around ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

A carefree young man from a North Korean defector family impersonates the long-lost grandson of a South Korean hotel mogul to fulfill the dying grandmother's final wish to reunite …

If you loved Derry Girls's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Curtain Call 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 sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

A famous baseball pitcher ends up in prison and navigates life behind bars with colorful cellmates.

If you loved Derry Girls's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Prison Playbook delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about a friendship that becomes the emotional anchor of everything else. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Ma Tian is a well-off transfer student who walks into an ordinary inner-city high school and immediately clashes with Lao Gou — loud, broke, and genuinely the most himself person M…

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.

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 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.

In the Joseon era, a widower with a troubled past makes his living by kidnapping widows for wealthy clients — a practice called "bossam." He accidentally kidnaps a royal princess w…

If you loved Derry Girls's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Bossam: Steal the Fate delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.