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 …

Like Anne with an E, it leans hard into childhood romance. 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.

Xiao Yao has been hiding her true identity for years, disguised and living a quiet life after escaping a dangerous past. She is simultaneously caught between three men who love her…

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.

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.

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. The emotional territory — first love and resilience — is the same. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Crown Prince Yi Geon has been raised in perfect isolation, groomed to become a ruler who leads with reason, not feeling — until a woman from outside the palace walls crashes into h…

The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

In 1930s Shanghai, Shang Xirui is a Kunqu opera performer of extraordinary talent — a man who has devoted his life to preserving a classical art form that is slowly dying. Cheng Fe…

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.

After her family's sudden disgrace, Hua Zhi must hold what's left together while working at a jade business and navigating a world that has decided her worth is negative. Gu Yanxi …

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

Two orphans who grew up as fake siblings reunite in adulthood and must navigate the fine line between family and love.

If you loved Anne with an E's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Family by Choice 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.

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.