Asian Drama

This drama is adapted from the manga of the same name, and tells the story of Yuya Ishida, a young editor in his 20s, who became the editor of a sports magazine because of his baseball experience, but went to a women's magazine that he was not used to due to transfer. Temporarily serving there was a culinary researcher in his 50s, Mr. Miya, who is a signature figure in the Kyoto dialect and a popular entertainer who openly gays and lesbians. Although Tomo was nervous, Mitsuya's food grabbed his stomach with ease. Staring at Tomoya's gentle gaze, cheerful character, and occasionally showing cuteness, I was helplessly attracted——!?

Adapted from the manga series "Mitsuya Sensei no Keikakutekina Ezuke." (三ツ矢先生の計画的な餌付け) by Matsumoto Ayaka (松本あやか).

Tags: Age Gap [Drama Life], Middle-Aged Male Lead, Café Owner Supporting Character, Editor-in-chief Supporting Character, Editor Supporting Character, Editor Male Lead, Researcher Male Lead, Age Gap [Real Life], Gay Male Lead, Gay Romance (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 10

Country: Japan

Airs On: Friday

Aired: Jul 26, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Kawakami Sachi is a normal second-year high school student with a peaceful family. Her parents accepted the love story between Sachi and her childhood friend Tsukishima Takara, and the two spent happy days together even though they went to different schools. Takara is a track and field club member, aiming to enter a prestigious university for track and field.

One day, Sachi noticed something strange with her body and discovered she was pregnant. From here, Sachi and Takara must face the realities of life, grappling with the question of whether they can have and raise children.

(Source: Japanese = natalie.mu || Translation = MyDramaList)

Adapted from the manga series "Ano Ko no Kodomo" (あの子の子ども) by Aoi Mamoru (蒼井まもる)

Tags: Student Supporting Character, Student Female Lead, Student Male Lead, School Setting, Teammates' Relationship, Classmates' Relationship, Caregiver Supporting Character, Housewife/Househusband Supporting Character, Teenager Supporting Character, Teenager Female Lead (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Country: Japan

Airs On: Tuesday

Aired: Jun 25, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

An omnibus film that tells the story of people of all kinds growing up like pets.

Duration: 2 hr. 0 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

It mainly tells the story of Li Changhuan, a Chinese Juncao expert, and his team who went to a South Pacific island country to use Juncao technology to improve the lives of local people.

Episodes: 24

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Duration: 15 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Miya, an ordinary office worker, lives in the bustling metropolis. At the age of 26, she is friendly and responsible at work, although she sometimes has to take the blame for others without a chance to defend herself. The nine-to-five job is monotonous and demanding, but Miya finds happiness in her free time after work.

Usually, single Miya does not rush home after leaving the office. Instead, she intentionally takes a detour down a street lined with restaurants and eateries, sometimes popping into her favorite one to savor familiar flavors or trying out new dishes on a whim. After satisfying her appetite, she will let out a contented sigh.

Such a girl, who knows how to live, is the kind of person you just want to sit next to and savor a meal with...

(Source: Youku)

Tags: Miniseries, Web Series (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 20 min.

Country: China

Airs On: Wednesday

Aired: May 29, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

39-year-old Yuko is a high-achieving and proud woman whose career ambitions took her from a sleepy part of Amagasaki City, to Tokyo. When she loses her job due to her “high standards” attitude, she loses her drive to do anything and ends up retreating to her family home where she lives as a NEET with her laidback joker of a father, Ryutaro. For years, the two get along until her 70-something old man brings home Saki, his 20-year-old bride-to-be. When the younger woman shacks up with the two, a comedy of manners based, quite understandably, on a scandalised Yuko’s “you’re not my mom!” attitude ensues as the younger woman takes to mothering her but when crises occur, Yuko truly begins to evaluate just what a family can be.

Azusa and Narumi are 2nd grade high school students who lack confidence and also any kind of ambitions. Hazuki, Tamaki and Mika are also unnoticed students at the same high school. These five girls form a dance club and begin to dance to get credits. They soon learn the joys of dancing and also learn to express themselves.

Duration: 1 hr. 55 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

South Korean influencers compete with one another in this unscripted social survival series to determine who has the most influence over social media.

(Source: Netflix)

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

This story follows the sweet and “overprotective” newly-wed life between Someya Yukito, a young master of an established inn in Asakusa, and Tsuruoka Io, a pure-hearted female apprentice training to be a chef. Tsuruoka was in the depths of despair until she found solace in the sweet konpeito candy given to her by Someya. Since then, she has earnestly cherished her feelings while training as a chef. Yukito’s affectionate words and actions reserved only Tsuruoka, along with his excessively cute jealousy, create an irresistibly heart-fluttering devotion with a charming gap that’s impossible to resist!

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the manga series "Kahogona Wakadanna-sama no Amayakashi Kon" (過保護な若旦那様の甘やかし婚) by Kodachi (こだち).

Episodes: 6

Aired On: Thursday

Due to family circumstances, high school student Miko Sonoda is forced to live at her uncle's boarding house. However, before she can arrive there, Miko is already met with a bad omen: while trying to find the place, she suspects that someone is following her! When her uncle comes to her rescue, the assumed stalker happens to be one of his tenants, leaving Miko embarrassed on her first day.

Miko learns that she will be living with five unique adults, including the accused man. Additionally, it turns out that he is Jun Matsunaga, a 29-year-old designer who seems to lose his temper easily. Having made such a humiliating first impression, Miko believes that only a miserable life awaits her. But in the presence of Jun, she comes to realize that living with adults is not so difficult after all—and there may even be enough room for romance.

(Source: MyAnimeList)

Adapted from the manga series "Living no Matsunaga-san" (リビングの松永さん) by Iwashita Keiko (岩下慶子).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Tuesday

This five-unit series tells the story of installing elevators in old buildings, demolishing illegal buildings, rent termination, anti-fraud, and noise disturbance from the perspective of the new and older generation of community workers. They focus on the difficulties people face on a daily basis. This series depicts the dedication of community workers to serving the people.

(Source: Chinese = nbtvv.com || Translation = Unbeliebubble at MyDramaList)

Tags: Neighborhood Setting, Family Struggle, Building Setting, Social Worker Supporting Character, Social Worker Female Lead, Social Worker Male Lead, Neighbors' Relationship, House Rebuilding, Community Work (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 45 min.

Country: China

Airs On: Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Aired: Jul 4, 2024 - Jul 8, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Three Hong Kong girls, who are in different situations and stages of life, have decided to leave Hong Kong and try to put down roots on the island of Taiwan due to their own reasons and expectations. However, there is often an unpredictable distance between imagination and reality. Faye (27), a Hong Kong girl, had planned to travel in Taipei and temporarily live in the family of her good sister Jia Jia, who married to Taiwan. Faye saw that Jiajia's Taiwanese husband Shuhao was meticulous and completely different from Hong Kong men, and had the idea of wanting to get married in Taiwan, and the diving instructor Lydia (35+) and her husband Leo (35+) have invested in immigrating to Taiwan for several years, and the couple ran a dunwater shop on Green Island with Taiwanese photographer Jiarong (30+). Yvonne (39) worked as an art contract teacher at a technical college in Taipei for four years, happily managing her "Ivan's World" blog, enjoying life and truly living in the present! Soon after, I received a notice from the principal that the Department of Fine Arts of the Technical College was underadmitted, and the school needed to streamline its manpower, and the first thing that came to mind was of course Yvonne...

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Episodes: 15

Duration: 60 min.

Country: Hong Kong

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

Aired: Jul 8, 2024 - Jul 26, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Breaking the traditional youth drama model, it is a campus story focusing on friendship, family love, and inspiration. The plot focuses on a 17-year-old protagonist and shows the audience the growth process of a group of young people living their campus life.

Episodes: 32

Duration: 35 min.

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Aired: Jul 6, 2024 - Jul 28, 2024

About a village head whose wife unexpectedly becomes pregnant ahead of the neutering surgery for Baek Gu, the Casanova dog of Onghwa Village, which is a long-awaited project of the village people. He suddenly ends up in the same situation as Baek Gu when he undergoes a vasectomy overnight as well.

Episodes: 2

Duration: 60 min.

Aired: Jul 5, 2024 - Jul 6, 2024

Aired On: Friday, Saturday

Brave fortune-tellers who've always read other people's love lives begin to predict their own love fortunes. In the tangled web of love, eight men and eight women pierce through each other's hearts! Between inevitable fate and instinctive attraction, can they recognize their destiny? A bizarre romance reality where fortune-tellers' hunches and senses, a bizarre dating reality!

Episodes: 10

Aired On: Tuesday

Ratings:15+ - Teens 15 or older

Travel YouTuber 'Kwaktube' Kwak Joon Bin visits an overseas driver’s restaurant. A travel program that makes friends with ordinary locals.

(Source: Korean = ENA )

Episodes: 12

Airs On: Saturday

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

After years of hard work, Gu Xiao Meng, an excellent high school teacher, and her designer husband Lv Xiang finally bought their own small house, but they also welcomed Lv Xiang's parents who came to Beijing for medical treatment in the name of vacation.

At the same time, Gu Xiao Meng's mother Liu Meiqin and younger brother Gu Xiao Song, who were in constant trouble, also came from Suzhou. Gu Xiao Song was repeatedly fooled by the intermediary in order to go abroad, so he sold his house in his hometown and threw Liu Mei Qin to Gu Xiao Meng.

Three old people joined this family, when the family was in a mess, Gu Xiao Meng learned that she was pregnant, so the couple began a tortuous life with these old people and their child. Although there are all kinds of troubles in life and career, the determination to protect love and home gives this couple courage. They work tirelessly and strive for their ideal life.

(Source: Youku)

Episodes: 40

Duration: 47 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

We always face crossroads, and some choice changes not only one's life but also the whole history. If you can live someone else's life today, what choice will you make? Through this game-changing history talk show, let's check out the possible situations in the dilemma games that can take place up to our choices, with the four hosts, Hong Jin Kyeong, Lee Yong Jin, Lee Chan Won, and Haewon. Moreover, in Season Two, we even cover the events that are ongoing right now. The choices are so closely related to your very life that you will feel 100 percent involved. Then, what choice will you make? And how will your choice change history?

Chord with audiences seeking genuine connections. This Korean reality show stands out from the scripted narratives dominating the genre. Love After Divorce creates an authentic space for divorced individuals to mingle and engage without relying on predetermined storylines. For those disillusioned with love, the show becomes a transformative experience, reigniting the hope and warmth associated with romantic connections. Having completed four successful seasons, Love After Divorce has undeniably resonated with viewers, marking its place as a refreshing and heartfelt addition to the reality show landscape. chord with audiences.

Episodes: 10

Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Thursday

Ratings: 7.2

Everyone has their own secrets; Do you dare to reveal them? Leading a busy life, office worker Mo has been indifferent to things around him. But after getting tongue-lashing by the chairperson of the Owners' Corporation, Mo uses a drone to spy on the life of the chairperson and ends up finding out secrets of different households.

The sunny and energetic fitness coach, the promiscuous dance instructor, the kindergarten teacher with a lovely smile, the loving couple who are professors, the quiet and reserved Indonesian domestic helper, the chairperson of the Owners' Corporation who monitors the housing estate around the clock... Everyone has a story.

While he spies on his neighbours, Mo spots his wife Ling in his neighbour's flat, and all hell breaks loose. The couple's tranquil life becomes full of turmoil. As Mo learns more about his neighbours, he finds himself knowing less and less about his wife. While the city's night is brightened by the countless lights from homes, there's darkness lurking in every household.

(Source: makerville.hk/en)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Airs On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

The story begins with the unexpected situation of the concert in Shanghai in 2008. Lying on a stretcher, the third brother, Deng Chang Fu, recalled that on the morning of the early winter of 1953, the fourth child of the Deng family, "the girl", was born in the village of Taiwan's family. The girl's talent in singing appeared when she was young, but her father, Deng Shu, firmly opposed it. Deng Shu retired from the army and began his career as a market stall.

The girl was puzzled by the depression and homesickness in her father's heart, but she became a little helper for her father to sell steamed buns. After graduating from primary school, the girl was not admitted to junior high school. However, winning the singing competition through the radio has become a regular shift for singing programmes. Deng Shu clashed with hooligans at the market stall, was beaten and injured, and went into a lawsuit.

Late at night, the couple felt that all this was due to the lack of a fixed store. The girl listened in her ear, loved her parents, became a signed singer, paid in advance, and used the money to top the store for her father. Deng Shu was moved when he knew. The girl finally made it to the stage and got countless good reviews.

(Source: WeTV Taiwan)

Episodes: 48

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Duration: 45 min.

Suddenly, I opened my eyes and found myself in a different world, a different life?!

Korean stars who have logged into their second lives. The house they lived in, their families, friends, and jobs... Everything has changed?! A strange and awkward life where the current life doesn't make sense at all.

In a random, unpredictable life where for some it's the biggest opportunity of their life and for others, the biggest crisis of their lives...

(Source: Korean = ENA)

Episodes: 8

Airs On: Thursday

Focuses on two insomniac schoolmates, a boy named Ganta and a girl named Isaki. Both worry about their constant lack of sleep. After a chance meeting in the school's observatory-turned-storage room, the two share secrets, and begin having an unusual connection.

After resigning from a big company, Lee Joon Ho returns to the academy where he'd studied, this times as an instructor. He's motivated by his lingering fixation on his first love, academy teacher Seo Hye Jin.

Seo Hye Jin has been a Korean language instructor for the past fourteen years. She became a star after the legendary incident labelled “Miracle of Daechi.” Just when her life begins to feel settled, former pupil and troublemaker Lee Joon Ho, who she'd helped get into a prestigious university ten years previously, shows up and stirs up chaos.

Episodes: 16

Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Airs On: Saturday, Sunday

Takeno Seigi runs "Koi no Mi", a nearly bankrupt cake shop in a shuttered shopping street. Since he was a child, he had loved the cakes his father made, and together with his wife, Aya, he inherited the shop from his parents, whom he lost at an early age. However, he ends up resorting to committing evil deeds in order to protect his cherished shop and family.

Mishima Kiko was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko was abused mentally and physically by her mother, stepfather, and younger stepbrother. She didn't belong to this family. Somehow, she disconnects from her family in Tokyo and moves to a seaside town in Oita. There, she meets a 13-year-old boy named Mushi. He has been abused by his mother and does not speak due to trauma from the abuse. Mushi reminds Kiko of herself when she was younger.

Duration: 2 hr. 15 min

Release Date: Mar 1, 2024

A Taiwanese opera family of generations sticks together and travels around the island to earn a living. On and off the traveling stage, they taste the flavors of life and experience joys and sorrows. Fearing no hardship, they fight together with resilience, presenting the story of their brilliant lives woven by laughter and tears on and off the stage.

Teenage Parents is an observational reality show following three teenage couples who experienced pregnancy, marriage, and childbirth. The program shows young parents' growing up as parents and responsible adults.

Episodes: 27

Duration: 1 hr. 24 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Wednesday

Magnificent Dogs follows two celebrities, Lee Kyung-kyu and Lee Yoo-bi, as they learn and train to be dog trainers. Kyung-kyu is famous for raising several pets for years, while Yoo-bi has never taken care of pets. The two are trained by Kang Hyung-wook, Korea's best dog trainer. They are very eager but realize slowly that adoring pets and training pets are very different. Can they succeed in becoming a competent dog trainer? The show covers the two celebs' daily lives and training while exploring the best way for people and pets to live in harmony.

Chord with audiences seeking genuine connections. This Korean reality show stands out from the scripted narratives dominating the genre. Love After Divorce creates an authentic space for divorced individuals to mingle and engage without relying on predetermined storylines. For those disillusioned with love, the show becomes a transformative experience, reigniting the hope and warmth associated with romantic connections. Having completed four successful seasons, Love After Divorce has undeniably resonated with viewers, marking its place as a refreshing and heartfelt addition to the reality show landscape. chord with audiences.

Episodes: 10

Duration: 1 hr. 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Thursday

Ratings: 7.2

It redefines dating shows with a family twist! Together with four pairs of biological brothers and sisters, they gather in a shared house to assist each other in finding romantic partners. It introduces a refreshing concept where siblings embark on a quest to find love, not just for themselves but for each other, all under the watchful eyes of their siblings.

(Source: Viki)

Episodes: 15

Duration: 2 hr. 15 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Aired On: Friday

Ratings: 8.2

How will popular actor Sugisaka Hana spend her filming break? This is the 4th season in this omnibus series that focuses on how an actor spends their vacation in between the filming of dramas and movies.

On the morning of her break from filming, Sugisaki Hana listens to the horoscope on the radio. “If you are a Libra, tidy up all your clutter today. Your lucky item is a round object!” Hearing this, she tries to clear her laundry, but the washing machine just won’t work. Sugisaki has no choice but to go to the laundromat which she is unfamiliar with and does not know how to pay the 300-yen charge. What she brought with her is a credit card and a 1,000 yen note. Sugisaki follows another laundromat user’s suggestion to get small change from the vending machine outside. However, she ends up getting entranced by the voice of a street musician that she happened to hear and buys a CD with those 1,000 yen…