Asian Drama

“No or stop, you unexpectedly say cute things.” The beauty assistant Natsume is forced to do pair sales with his junior Sahashi. Sahashi, who doesn’t take Natsume or his work seriously, overtook him in sales and annoys Natsume as he’s trying to act as a good superior…once his act is discovered and he’s threatened into becoming his sex friend?! Plus, he carelessly pushed the switch to awaken Sahashi… “Is it all right if I get serious?”.

This is a story set behind the cosmetic shop counter, with feelings of love appearing as Natsume finds his heart beating fast, although it irritates him.

(Source: MangaUpdates)

Adapted from the manga series "Cosmetic Playlover" (コスメティック・プレイラバー) by Narashima Sachi (楢島さち).

Tags: Beauty Consultant Male Lead, Cosmetic Industry, Co-workers' Relationship, Workplace Setting, Senior-Junior Relationship, Consultant Male Lead, Gay Male Lead, Gay Romance, Friends With Benefits, Forced Kiss (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 8

Duration: 60 min.

Country: Japan

Airs On: Tuesday

Aired: Aug 6, 2024 - Aug 27, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

An original anthology drama based on the theme of live streaming, that depicts the connections between online streamers ("livers") and their listeners.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 4

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Saturday

Episodes: 18

Aired On: Saturday, Sunday

Content Rating: G - All Ages

A cash-strapped young man, a gifted realtor and a pair of fake exorcists form an unlikely squad to sell houses haunted by spirits.

It tells the love story of piano teacher Wen Man and lawyer Huo Shao Ting, two people who are not good at expressing love; from temptation to suspicion to trusting each other, and being honest with each other.

(Source: Chinese = Baidu)

Adapted from the web novel "Huo Xian Sheng Guai Guai Chong Wo" (霍先生乖乖宠我) by Feng Yu Qing Qing (风羽轻轻).

Episodes: 24

Duration: 10 min.

Aired: Jun 18, 2024 - Jun 24, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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

Every day, bank branches encounter various problems like missing money, information leaks, loan problems & breach of duties. Hanasaki Mai's job is to go there and fix the problems. She is able to do so even though she is just a bank clerk without higher-level powers. Because of her character, Hanasaki Mai will not keep still when she sees a wrong. She's willing to stand up for the side of the weak, regardless of the relation between the top and bottom factions of the bank.

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

Oba Nana is the middle child among three sisters. She is 29 years old, single, and works hard at her job. She receives a promotion at her job to become the youngest assistant manager, but she feels anxious due to her friends getting married and having children. Her two sisters are 39-year-old Narusawa Mutsuki and 19-year-old Oba Hatsumi. Narusawa Mutsuki works as a certified accountant. She is currently separated from her husband due to her husband's infidelity. Oba Hatsumi feels unease with people her age who have their own life goals and pursue their goals. In order to comfort her feelings, she meets a man from a dating app.

One day, these 3 sisters face a big situation when their father suddenly goes missing. Due to that incident, they gather together.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Friday

"Alchemy" is a pseudo-science that attempts to create "gold" from various different combinations. One experiment to do so artificially brings to life a race of creatures, and the story revolves around an era where these experiments were being conducted in secret.

In the story, the artificial lifeforms known as the "Chemies", made to imitate things that exist in the world such as grasshoppers, were created from the art of the best alchemy techniques. Each and every one of them were carefully stored in "Ride Chemie Cards' until they were accidentally released all at once into the wild.

Our main protagonist, Houtarou Ichinose, is entrusted with the Gotcha Driver and the mission to recollect the Chemies that have been released into the world. Some are well suited for human companionship and if resonated with a good heart, Houtarou can fuse with them and transform into Kamen Rider Gotchard. However those that are influenced by human malice, there is a danger of them birthing monsters known as the Malgam. This is a story that explores the nature of good and evil, which are two sides of the same coin.

Will Gotchard be able to "collect them all", or will he let his carelessness mark the destruction of the world?

(Source: Kamen Rider Wiki Fandom)

Episodes: 50

It tells the story of the complicated love-hate relationship between Lin Yue Er, Guo Feng and Zhao Ding Hong. Lin Yue Er, the daughter of a general, wanted to marry Zhao Ding Hong to avenge her father's murder, but her plan was exposed before she could take action. She was "imprisoned" by Guo Feng for two years in the name of protection. After being rescued by her father's subordinates, Lin Yue Er transformed into a stunning dancer and infiltrated Guo Feng's side. She planned a revenge drama step by step. Returning to her hometown, can she clear her father's name and escape the vortex of love and hate?

(Source: KUKAN Drama English Youtube Channel)

Adapted from the web novel "Xia Nv Fu Chou" (下女复仇) by Shi Qian Ah (十千啊).

Episodes: 24

Duration: 10 min.

Aired: Aug 4, 2024 - Aug 19, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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

Gu Yi Zhong, the young master of the famous Gu Family in Suzhou, graduated from the architecture department of a famous foreign university. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Gu Yi Zhong insisted on staying in Suzhou, under the name of protecting cultural relics, while in fact he actually actively participated in Anti-Japanese activities.

In a rescue operation, Gu Yi Zhong was framed by the Japanese as a traitor within the party and betrayed overnight. Unable to prove his innocence and in order to find out the real traitor, Gu Yi Zhong took the initiative to infiltrate the Japanese army and became a hidden member of the Suzhou Secret Service Station. His hidden task is full of dangers.

(Source: Chinese = Douban || Translation = MyDramaList)

Release date: First 2 episodes were prescreened on Aug 5, 2024 (Cinema)

Tags: Spy Male Lead, Historical Fiction, World War 2, Web Series, Espionage, Investigation, Crime, Suspense (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 36

Duration: 45 min.

Country: China

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

Aired: Aug 6, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Tongrak is a writer of popular romance novels. While travelling in search of inspiration for his most recent novel, he chances to meet an irritating southern Thai man, Mahasamut. When they end up in bed together, however, Tongrak finds himself hooked.

(Source: Thai = Sanook.com)

Adapted from the novel "Love Sea" (ต้องรักมหาสมุทร) by MAME.

Episodes: 10

Airs On: Sunday

Located in the busiest part of the Eastern Market, Ruyi Inn is a serene retreat that has earned a sacred reputation among the people. Despite its tranquil atmosphere, the inn is protected by three individuals with unique skills: Madame Hong, the shopkeeper; Ren Fansheng, the accountant; and Wu Ren Ai, the cook.

According to this legend, Madam Hong's extraordinary ability to summon the "Flower of Lust" on her forehead and inhale its essence is said to grant her deepest desires. However, the inn's peaceful existence was disrupted by the arrival of A Lan, a skilled assassin from Xianyue Pavilion who has the Purest White Flower within her.

(Source: DramaWiki)

Tags: Short Length Series, Historical Fiction, Web Series (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 30

Duration: 15 min.

Country: China

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

Aired: Jul 11, 2024 - Jul 18, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

To protect prospective buyers from unwittingly buying properties with stigmas attached, the Happy Real Estate Agency launched the “Happy Stigmatized House App” and created a special investigations team to build a map and database of stigmatized properties across the Greater Taipei region.

Faced with paying off her mother’s debts and selling the stigmatized property her missing father left behind when he disappeared 18 years ago, optimistic and hardworking agent Lu An Chi takes on the Happy Stigmatized House App assignment. Desperate for money and not afraid of ghosts, An Chi partners up with rookie assistant Yo Da Chih, who can see dead people but loses his psychic abilities whenever he sneezes. Together, they begin a series of investigations into properties that have been stigmatized for various reasons. Along the way, they are gradually changed by their profound experiences, realizing that they are not just investigators and detectives but also psychotherapists, life consultants, and even enforcers of justice.

(Source: pavilion.taicca.tw)

Tags: Supernatural Being, Ghost-seeing Male Lead, Ghost, Suspense (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 14

Duration: 47 min.

Country: Taiwan

Airs On: Friday

Aired: May 31, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Late one night, in the old town of the seaside town, a bizarre murder occurred, and Guan Jingtang, a well-known local old man, died tragically in his villa. The captain of the criminal police, An Ping (played by Han Dong), was ordered in danger, and Shang Jie (played by Qu Jingjing), a high-achieving student of the provincial department, took the initiative to ask for help, and the two fully cooperated and launched a meticulous investigation. However, as the investigation deepens, various contradictory suspicions emerge one after another, coupled with the huge amount of cash that is missing, the familiar woman in red, the blood-red flower pattern, and the intricate interpersonal relationships of the Guan family, make the case more and more confusing. Not only that, but murders are still happening one after another, and the deceased have a lot to do with Guan Jingtang. Anping and Shang Jie withstood the huge pressure, investigated from the source, and turned out an old case, and Anping's master, who is also Shang Jie's father, died because of that case. Finally, Anping peeled back the cocoon, cracked the unsolved case, found out the real culprit behind the scenes who had long been psychologically distorted, and brought him to justice. Shang Jie also walked out of the haze, untied the knot that had plagued her for many years, and was determined to leave behind to inherit her father's legacy and fight side by side with Anping.

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

Episodes: 12

Duration: 40 min.

Country: China

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

Aired: Aug 17, 2024 - Aug 24, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Janghwa is the woman who gets everyone's attention and love with her gorgeous appearance. She had a perfect marriage and enjoys her luxurious life. She only concerns and cares about herself, and she's not changed after she got married. Hongryeon, the deprived single mother, has a dream of having a happy family of her own, but this modest hope is not easy for her. Nevertheless, Hongryeon is an energetic and optimistic person who lives her life to the fullest. The two very contrary women confront each other, as Janghwa abandons the mother-in-law and Hongryeon starts to look after her.

Episodes: 150

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

Duration: 30 min.

Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

A Taiwanese family comedy that reflect the daily culture of the people and also the problem of the transformation of a traditional cake shop. It discusses parent-child relationship, problems between mother in law and wife, the gap between generations and the dilema of maintaining tradition or modernization.

Episodes: 40

Duration: 60 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Aired On: Saturday

Ratings: 7.9

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Model Plawan has been a pad kaprao—no long beans—enthusiast all his life. Offered a hefty sum, he's hired to train at a well-known chef's table restaurant under head chef Chef Oab. His secret mission is to make Chef Oab fall for him and and to become his successor. Unfortunately, he's shaken by the harsh and stern-looking chef who smells like holy basil. Apart from being known for his skills in the kitchen, he's also said to be a serious perfectionist, instilling fear even in his peers. How, then, can amateur Plawan hope to measure up?

Adapted from the web novel "No Beans and Love Me More" (รักนี้ไม่มีถั่วฝักยาว) by Ninepinta (นายพินต้า).

Airs On: Friday

The story tells the story of Lei Xu (played by Zhang Yi), the director of the Airborne Juvenile Prosecution Department, and the unprosecuted prosecutor Du Ziyu (played by Qin Lan), the clerk Yang Tian (played by Xu Fan), the bailiff Xu Zhangli (played by Wang Zhener), and the assistant prosecutor Liu Liu (played by Zou Yuanqing) while handling juvenile cases, digging deep into the truth behind the case, caring for the juvenile and watering the future with love.

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

Episodes: 18

Duration: 45 min.

Country: China

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

Aired: Aug 14, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Timid and clumsy Atom has a crush on Matmi, the girl who sits next to him in class. He despairs when he borrows her eraser and sees she's written the name of another boy—Kongthap—on it. To make matters worse, Kongthap sees his name on the eraser that Atom drops and thinks Atom has a crush on him!

Soft and bubbly office lady Ayaka is madly in love with her senior at work, Hiroko! Two lovestruck coworkers who both think the other is straight totally crush on each other...~~ Adapted from the web manga series "Ayaka Is in Love X Love X Love with Hiroko"(彩香ちゃんは弘子先輩に恋してる) by Sal Jiang (サルチャン)

Episodes: 8

Aired On: Thursday

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

The lobby manager, Tu Xiao Ning, who works on the first floor of Huayuan Tower, is in a crucial period of probation. Ji Yu Heng, a talented young man working on the seventeenth floor of the tower, is a rising star in the business. They share a common desire to get married as soon as possible, and this is where two parallel lines intersect.

In Xiao Ning's eyes, Yu Heng exceeds expectations as a marriage partner. In Yu Heng's eyes, the youthful Xiao Ning once illuminated his life, and marrying her is his only firm choice. Just as the two muster the courage to establish their marital relationship, Yu Heng unexpectedly becomes Xiao Ning's superior. These childhood friends from ten years ago, through a twist of fate, find themselves in a dual relationship as colleagues and newlyweds. They work together to explore the meaning of marriage and life.

(Source: Chinese = Douban || Translation = MyDramaList)

Adapted from the novel "Ban Gong Shi Yin Hun" (办公室隐婚) by Qing An (轻黯)

Tags: Co-workers' Relationship, Workplace Setting, City Setting, Workplace Romance, Boss-Employee Relationship, Adapted From A Novel (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 32

Duration: 45 min.

Country: China

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

Aired: Jul 31, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Another year, another Lunar New Year, but Qiu Fei Fei isn’t looking forward to it at all due to the constant pressure to get married. To have a peaceful holiday, she spends a lot of money to rent a boyfriend for three days.

Her rented boyfriend, Ji Xuan, who is a drama student, does an excellent job, and Qiu’s mother becomes increasingly satisfied with him as a prospective son-in-law. Just as Ji Xuan is about to complete his mission and leave, an unexpected situation arises, causing him to stay at the Qiu household.

To keep the act going, the two sign a strict extension of their agreement. With the arrival of their friend Jin Ming Ming and her boyfriend joining the chaos, the four of them engage in a battle of wits and strategies, constantly shifting control, leading to one hilarious farce after another.

(Source: Chinese = IQIYI)

Episodes: 24

Duration: 10 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Aired On: Thursday

Ratings: 6.7

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

When an unprecedented heinous criminal is released from prison, a public bounty with a payout of 20 billion won is offerred for his murder. Baek Joong Sik is a detective, who must protect the killer from the citizens. Kim Kook Ho is the unprecedented heinous criminal and murderer. He is released from prison after serving 13 years. He has retained Lawyer Lee Sang Bong as his legal representative. Meanwhile, Yoon Chang Jae is a butcher who attempts to recover his missing money.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 8

Airs On: Wednesday

The play tells the story of Liu Xi, the macho president, who traveled to ancient times because of a mysterious jade bracelet and became Liu Xichao, the fourth young lady who had just married into the Hou Mansion. In order to return to modern times, he had to compete with several sisters-in-law for the right to be a housekeeper, patrol the village, make wine, and fight monsters, which also made Liu Xi slowly understand women...... As the saying goes, three women in one play, and the story of several young ladies with different personalities kicked off.

Tags: Short Length Series, Web Series, Time Travel (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 30

Duration: 10 min.

Country: China

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

Aired: Aug 15, 2024 - ?

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Transported back to the ninteteenth century by a strange cellphone, an entrepreneur is tricked into slavery and has to find a way back to the present day.

(Source: Netflix)

Episodes: 22

Duration: 42 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Aired On: Saturday, Sunday

The play is based on a true story, closely follows the people, and revolves around the theme of "resource-exhausted urban transformation".

At the end of the last century, the Wanshan Special Economic Zone in Guizhou Province faced a desperate situation due to the depletion of mercury resources. Feng Baiyang, the third-generation mercury miner, with a strong sense of responsibility and mission, tried to transform to revive the glory of the mercury mine, but in the end, it was difficult to resist the tide of state-owned enterprise reform, and 20,000 employees fell into a desperate situation. In 2008, there was a rare freezing disaster in a century, and the hearts of Wanshan people fell to the freezing point, Feng Baiyang led the cadres and masses of Wanshan to be grateful and forge ahead, work hard, and forge ahead with three carriages of the first, second and third industries, and take scientific and technological innovation and green development as the premise to achieve transformation and development, so that a city with depleted resources will be reborn and the dream of innovation and development will come true.

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Episodes: 28

Duration: 45 min.

Country: China

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

Aired: Jul 2, 2024 - Jul 17, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Sheng Shi has been in love with Gu Lan Shan since high school, but Gu Lan Shan is in love with Han Cheng Chi. The proud Sheng Shi could not accept this and finds a way to turn Gu Lan Shan into his woman. Gu Lan Shan feels that Sheng Shi has betrayed their friendship. On the day of the wedding, Gu Lan Shan tries to run through the help of her younger brother who unfortunately gets into an accident. Faced with high medical expenses, Gu Lan Shan turns to Sheng Shi for help, but he uses the situation as a bargaining chip to ask her to marry him. At that time, he believed that love was possession. Two people who don't know how to love enter into a marriage that is doomed from the start. One wants to get closer while the other wants to escape, always leaving the other scarred.

A collection of haunting stories, packed with twists and turns, inspired by the "Angkhan Khlumpong" radio program.

(Source: Netflix)

Tags: Tailor Female Lead, Death Of A Sister, Teacher Female Lead, Single Mother Female Lead, Haunted House, Anthology, Resurrection, Miniseries, Death, Curse (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 8

Country: Thailand

Airs On: Tuesday

Aired: Aug 20, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

Edamatsu Shino, who is 37, aspires to be a novelist and whose main source of income is a part-time job as a pest exterminator, one day he plagiarizes a novel written in a notebook he happened to come into possession of and ends up winning a literary award. Edamatsu Shino, who has suddenly become a popular author, sets out to find the true author of the novel with his editor, Miharu Katayama, who is 34. The key to this is the female classmates that Edamatsu Shino fell in love with in middle school. While reminiscing about his memories with them, he approaches the truth behind the "true author." A lot of bittersweet, beautiful, and quirky memories are brought back together with super unique girls. ~~ Adapted from the essay "Classmate no Joshi, Zenin Sukideshita" (クラスメイトの女子、全員好きでした) by Tsumeki Otoko (爪切男).

Episodes: 10

Aired On: Friday

Duration: 55 min.

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

The top star of domestic entertainment, Joy, incarnated as the goddess of revenge, and by chance "stole" the soon-to-be-scrapped robot 013 of the world's leading technology giant DeepMind, and staged a "witty" love affair of personal redemption and mutual cultivation. In addition, Xuan Siyan, the son of the head of DeepMind, was also swept in, falling in love with Joy and killing each other, abusing his body and heart. In 2029, an elaborate and shocking conspiracy will involve top female stars and cutting-edge AI bodyguards in the dangerous tech world and Vanity Fair, and people and AI will have unspeakable emotional entanglements......

Tags: Short Length Series, Web Series, Suspense (Vote or add tags)

Episodes: 24

Duration: 11 min.

Country: China

Airs On: Saturday

Aired: Aug 10, 2024

Content Rating: Not Yet Rated