Shows Like Racket Boys

Shoyo Hinata is short, athletic, and obsessed with volleyball. Tobio Kageyama is a genius setter whose perfectionism drove away every teammate he's ever had. They're forced to beco…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: perseverance and teamwork. Same funny and inspiring energy throughout.

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…

If you loved Racket Boys's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Skip and Loafer delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — growing up — is the same. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

A spy who needs a fake family for a mission. An assassin who needs a husband. A telepath child who needs parents. None of them know the others' secrets. All of them accidentally be…

If you loved Racket Boys's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Spy x Family delivers exactly that. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Hitori Gotoh (self-named 'Bocchi') is a guitar prodigy with crippling social anxiety. She taught herself to shred in her bedroom closet, dreaming of forming a band — except talking…

If you loved Racket Boys's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Bocchi the Rock! delivers exactly that. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Shouko Komi is transcendently beautiful, quietly brilliant, and practically deified at her new high school. She's also completely unable to communicate — not from coldness, but fro…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: belonging and growing up. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

A college weightlifter navigates love, friendship, and dreams alongside a swimmer at a sports university.

The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

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 Racket Boys's ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world, Reply 1994 delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — growing up — is the same. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Song Yi-heon, the most feared gangster boss in Korea, is in the middle of a fight when he wakes up inhabiting the body of a bullied high school student. Stuck as a teenager with no…

If you loved Racket Boys's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, High School Return of a Gangster delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — growing up — is the same. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

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

If you loved Racket Boys's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Prison Playbook delivers exactly that. The pacing is genuinely warm without tipping into saccharine.

Three female NIS agents who've been sidelined for various embarrassing failures are given one last shot at redemption: go undercover at a tech company suspected of leaking national…

If you loved Racket Boys's fish completely out of water — comedy and heart in equal measure, Good Casting delivers exactly that. The emotional territory — teamwork — is the same.