Asian Dramas Like Locke & Key

Tomoya and Nagisa leave high school behind and try to build a life together in the real world — jobs, a home, family, loss, and the specific weight of adulthood arriving faster tha…

If you loved Locke & Key's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Clannad: After Story delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A family with supernatural abilities is targeted by a con artist woman who ends up falling for one of them.

If you loved Locke & Key's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, The Atypical Family delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

Bulgasal is an immortal creature that cannot be killed — but 600 years ago, a human woman took his ability to feel and his humanity with her when she died. Now she has been reborn,…

The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Two brothers use forbidden alchemy to try to resurrect their dead mother. It goes catastrophically wrong — one loses his body entirely, the other loses limbs. Now they search for t…

If you loved Locke & Key's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Tanjiro Kamado returns home to find his family slaughtered by demons and his sister Nezuko turned into one. Rather than kill her, he joins the Demon Slayer Corps to find a cure — f…

If you loved Locke & Key's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A psychiatry ward caregiver who has never known love meets a self-centered children's book author with antisocial personality disorder. Their unlikely connection, along with the ca…

If you loved Locke & Key's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, It's Okay to Not Be Okay delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

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 Locke & Key's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Reply 1994 delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A young man accidentally joins a team of grim reapers who prevent suicides by helping the living resolve their pain.

If you loved Locke & Key's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Tomorrow delivers exactly that. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.

A middle-aged man on the verge of divorce wakes up 18 again and must decide if he wants to reclaim his past.

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.

A con artist discovers a hidden village where the souls of murder victims live, waiting for their cases to be solved before they can pass on. Forced to help them find justice, he t…

Both are built around grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.