Asian Dramas Like Girls

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 navigate the same emotional territory: growing up and friendship. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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. Sousuke Shima is effortl…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: growing up and friendship.

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

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.

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 navigate the same emotional territory: growing up and friendship. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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.…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: growing up and friendship. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Han Yoo-hyun is 37, broke, exhausted, and completely adrift — her bright, ambitious 17-year-old self would be horrified. When that 17-year-old actually shows up from the past, they…

Both are built around 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.

Three friends scrape together their savings to buy a crumbling motel in a coastal town, dreaming of turning it into a boutique destination. What they didn't budget for: the local g…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: growing up and friendship. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

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

Both navigate the same emotional territory: growing up and friendship. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Former high school sweethearts are forced to reunite for a documentary sequel, reigniting old feelings.

Both navigate the same emotional territory: growing up. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.

Three women in their early 30s navigate love, friendship, and career in the Korean entertainment industry.

Like Girls, it leans hard into female friendship. The pacing is sharp comedic timing that earns the laughs rather than demanding them.