Asian Dramas Like The 100

In a post-apocalyptic Korea where only deliverymen can move between territories, a legendary courier fights oppression.

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

2071. A catastrophic meteor strike has turned Korea into a near-uninhabitable wasteland. Less than 1% of the population has clean air; everyone else depends on deliverymen called '…

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

A detective framed for murdering his own wife by a powerful criminal organization is given a second chance — rebuilt with bionic enhancements by a covert unit — and sent back to de…

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

Season 2 of the survival horror epic. In the aftermath of the Green Home apartment's collapse, survivors scatter across a world that is fully monstrous — and Cha Hyun-su grapples w…

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Takemichi Hanagaki, a washed-up 26-year-old, learns his middle-school girlfriend was killed by a gang called the Tokyo Manji Gang. He time-leaps back to middle school and tries to …

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Lelouch Lamperouge is a Britannian prince-in-exile who acquires the power of absolute obedience: anyone he looks at must obey his command, once. He uses this to build a resistance …

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

Teenagers with supernatural powers discover their parents are former government agents, igniting old conflicts.

Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

Set in 1920s Manchuria during Japanese colonial rule, a group of Korean independence fighters and outlaws converge on a lawless frontier. When their paths collide amid brutal gunfi…

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.

The CEO of a groundbreaking lab-grown meat company becomes a target of powerful food industry forces and a shadowy conspiracy that threatens to destroy everything she has built.

Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is commits fully to every emotional beat — no half-measures.

High school students fight for survival when a zombie outbreak traps them inside their school.

Like The 100, it leans hard into ensemble teens. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is relentlessly intense — it doesn't really let you breathe.