Asian Dramas Like Echo

By day, Kim Ji-yong is a top police academy cadet. By night, he tracks down criminals who escaped justice through legal loopholes — and kills them. When a tenacious journalist begi…

If you loved Echo's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, Vigilante delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same gritty and action packed energy throughout.

An audacious heist of the newly formed Unified Korea Mint: a masked crew of desperate people, each with nothing left to lose, takes hundreds of hostages and demands the impossible …

Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Kim Yo-han is a promising judicial trainee sent undercover inside a maximum-security prison to expose an illegal gambling ring run by powerful inmates. When his cover is blown and …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same gritty and action packed energy throughout.

A Korean-Italian mafia consigliere returns to Seoul to recover gold hidden beneath a building, teaming up with eccentric tenants.

If you loved Echo's protagonist you shouldn't root for but absolutely do, Vincenzo delivers exactly that. The pacing is kinetically paced — constantly in motion.

A group of noodle shop workers are actually demon hunters who capture evil spirits that prey on humans.

Both are built around trauma that shapes characters' every choice without reducing them to their wounds. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Two young men with exceptional combat skills become loan shark collectors to fight back against a predatory lending empire that is destroying ordinary people's lives. What starts a…

Same gritty and action packed energy throughout.

Detective Park Joon-mo goes deep undercover into the most dangerous drug syndicate operating across Korea, China, and Japan — a criminal empire bridging three countries. To gain th…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same gritty energy throughout.

A police detective becomes addicted to drugs after being unknowingly exposed, and investigates a drug cartel from the inside while battling his own dependency.

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same gritty energy throughout.

In a world where 80% of people have superpowers called Quirks, Izuku Midoriya is born without one — and still dreams of being a hero. When the greatest hero alive passes his power …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Based on true events: a Korean businessman living in Suriname gets arrested when cocaine is found in his shipment. The National Intelligence Service offers him a deal — go undercov…

Same gritty and action packed energy throughout.