Asian Drama

Mizuki is a marathon runner forced to hang up her running shoes and find a job in the “real world.” She's been laser-focused on running her whole life and developed very little in the way of social skills, totally neglecting any thoughts of a love life. Her love for sweet food is the only thing that brings her joy.

When Mizuki takes a job at a high-end hotel, she turns out to be hopeless at it. With no experience or natural talent for customer service, she makes gaffe after gaffe. One day, she crosses paths with Kaji, a genius pâtissière who works at the hotel and has a reputation as a womanizer. Infuriated at how badly her post-running life is turning out, Mizuki vents at Kaji. Iinstead of angering him, her tirade inspires Kaji, who appoints her as his new taste taster.

(Source: Viki; edited by MyDramaList)

Adapted from the manga series "Sugar Sugar Honey" by Suzuki Yufuko (鈴木有布子).

Episodes: 10

Airs On: Monday

Mishima Zero is a 19-year-old mysterious transfer student who gathers a bunch of "failed" high school students to "destroy the world with him". Zero has a unique appearance and charismatic charm that allows him to penetrate people's hearts and manipulate people with his words. Led by Zero, the high school students form a group called "Mars" to break down and rebuild the society created by adults.

(Source: DramaWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Aired On: Tuesday

A sculptor who is determined to protect a jade ornament that can overturn the fortune of the country puts up a fight against sinister forces. Li Tian Shun is a jade sculptor from Beijing Old Street. He stands up against resident gangs to protect a national treasure. Despite his grassroots upbringing, he never retreats or bows down in the face of oppression, even as he almost loses his family. The neighborhood is filled with ordinary people, from Chinese opera singer Yang Shang De, Li Lian Zhang, camel herder Ding Guang Yuan, meat seller Ma De Shan, antique dealer Jin Zhao Ji, the temple's Man Wen Kui and a woman named Huan He Xiang, they display extraordinary courage amidst countless trials. When Ding Liu Lan returns home to Old Street as a Communist revolutionary, she brings with her a ray of hope for the future.

Turning thirty, Ploydao has hopes for success in her career and her relationships, but she couldn't feel farther from it. She works for a capitalist organisation and their demands don't sit well with her at all. Fortunately, she meets Namkhang, a psychologist whose advice leads her to quit her job and gives her the chance to restore relations with old friends, including former-boyfriend Chanin who's now running an enormous clothing business.

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Episodes: 20

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

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Set during the annual Hungry Ghost Festival, "Hungry Souls: From Hell, with Love" tells the tale of Bao, a catering chef with the ability to see spirits. Having been traumatised by hungry souls as a child, Bao has learnt to avoid ghosts or risk being besieged by their endless requests or menacing threats. During this year’s festival, Bao finds himself followed by the enigmatic and beautiful female spirit, Soo Lian. Having been a lost spirit for nearly 50 years, she has no recollections of her living memories or her untimely death. All that remains is her heart’s aching for a reunion with her lover, Hock. Upon realising that Bao could see her, Soo Lian implores him for his help. Bao’s attempts to ward her off backfire as she learns that his cooking seems to unlock the hidden mysteries behind her life and tragic death. Her relentless disturbance leaves a helpless Bao with no choice but to be her reluctant associate. What ensues is a rhapsodic, emotional, and treacherous entanglement, as the duo overcome their differences to unravel past lives and confront their destinies, all whilst coming to terms with their budding romance.

Faikham has to unwillingly inherit the spirit of Ka from her late mother. It can make her more beautiful by licking her face, yet gives her a terrifying form too. This spirit of Ka was once a beautiful woman, called Princess Oenglong who was brutal and evil. Now Oenglong strongly desires revenge on anyone who hurt her when she was alive. Even after her death, the spirit of Faikham's mother is still stuck under Ka's powerful control. Now Faikham not only has to save herself but also her mother from the claws of evil Ka. One day, Faikham has a chance to work in the palace, opening up an opportunity for Oenglong to take revenge.

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Episodes: 20

Loneliness and a casual attitude prompt numerous individuals to connect on dating apps, often resulting in infidelity issues. Many overlook the fact that seeking momentary enjoyment or happiness may exact a toll of enduring hardship. Even when individuals have families of their own, the pursuit of excitement through dating apps can escalate from initially casual intentions to formidable challenges in disengagement, leading to major family issues.

(Source: Viu)

Episodes: 5

Duration: 44 min.

Content Rating: G - All Ages

Aired On: Friday

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Episodes: 20

Duration: 8 min.

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

Adapted from the web novel "Xiao Ri Zi" (小日子) by Yi Bei (伊北).

Episodes: 26

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

An entertaining revenge drama follows Haibara Shoko, an ordinary high school girl who vows revenge after all of her family and friends are taken from her. Shoko, an ordinary high school girl, became an internet celebrity after she appeared in beauty streamer Tokumichi Hitoshi's video. However, her classmates, who are jealous of her success, lure her into a trap and film her being assaulted. As a result, the video goes viral and is spread across the internet - making her a target of hate.

To make matters worse, after her home address is revealed and her house is set on fire, she loses her parents as a result. And yet still, the digital tattoo remains on the internet. Suffering emotional scars, she ended up being taken in by her grandmother, where she lived a rough life. 10 years on, just as Shoko is deciding to end her life, she happens to see her former happy classmates on TV. At that moment, she vows instead to take revenge on them, and Tokumichi, regretful that he could not help in the past, lends her his support as her partner in revenge.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 29 min.

Airs On: Saturday

Their family had been broken by a misunderstanding that caused the twin brothers' separation. However, they are brought back into each other's lives because of love. The two twins crossroad in Wimala's life at different times. One twin, Thiwa, comes from far away. The other, Tawan, comes into her life during chaos. Which one will she choose?

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Adapted from the novel "Nai Roi Sai" (ในรอยทราย) by Arita (อาริตา).

Episodes: 22

Duration: 42 min.

Content Rating: 13+ - Teens 13 or older

Aired On: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

A collab drama between the travel guide book “Chikyu no Arukikata” and four celebrities who visit various places across the four episodes. Each episode will focus on a different actor and destination.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 30 min.

Airs On: Sunday

A love story that takes place in the present day and in the past. Tamura Takuro is 27 years old and works as an art teacher at a high school. He is popular among the students. Yayoi is one of the students in his homeroom class. She spends her days without a goal in her life. Tamura Takuro recommends that she joins the art club.

One day, Yayoi happens to see Tamura Takuro's sketchbook. The sketchbook contains countless sketches of a woman that Yayoi doesn't know. That woman is Yumiko. Yumiko was Tamura Takuro's Japanese language teacher and his homeroom teacher when he was a 17-year-old high school student. He loved his homeroom teacher.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Adapted from the manga "Sensei Sayounara" (先生さようなら) by Yasuko (八寿子).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 30 min.

Airs On: Tuesday

Yaemori Arisu runs a small restaurant named Alice’s Kitchen. She has autism spectrum disorder, which leads her to be stubborn at times and generally poor at communicating with other people. Her condition also allows her to have a phenomenal memory. She became interested in chemistry due to her single father, Yaemori Shingo, who teaches chemistry at a university. With her vast knowledge of chemistry, she understands nutrients and the cooking process from a scientific viewpoint. Her cooking skills are extraordinary, and her food always pleases.

At her restaurant, she works with her childhood friend Mitsumata Kazusa. Even though the restaurant is quite popular, they are the only two employees who work there. While Alice cooks dishes in the kitchen, Mitsumata is in charge of greeting and serving food to the customers.

One day, a young man named Sakae Kosei appears at the restaurant and asks to work there as a live-in part-time worker. Since then, Yaemori Arisu has experienced a big change in her life.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 60 min.

Airs On: Sunday

A story centered around a woman who, after a certain incident, vows never to fall in love again. However, by chance, she ends up living in a luxury penthouse together with a group of young male celebrities, who each have their own quirks.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Episodes: 10

Airs On: Sunday

The story is centered around three close friends, Kaori, Aya and Nao, who get together at a coffee house or their respective homes and engage in idle gossip.

(Source: Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the manga series "Black Girls Talk" (ブラックガールズトーク) by Makino Maki (マキノマキ).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 49 min.

Airs On: Monday

After the death of many of their friends, as well as their separation from Hibiki, Asuha, Kanae, Kashuu, Kaito and Yura enter Utopia, the city of humanity's last hope. They reach one of the two towers, where politicians gather, striving to restore the former civilization by establishing law and order. There, what the survivors witness is an absolute upper and lower world divided by the value of human life. In a world far removed from the utopia, Asuha, Kanae, and the others, torn apart between the "Tower" and the "Under," find themselves entangled in the final battle over Utopia. Eventually, they reunite, but this time as adverseries.

Chiharu is an office lady who has been cheated on by her boyfriend, and is transferred to Sapporo City, Hokkaido with her broken-heart. On her way home from work, she stops by a shop, "Bear Bistro", which stands quietly behind the alley. Chiharu meets Yuu, the creator of the "magical lunch" that fulfills the eater's inner wishes, feels her frozen heart slowly melting. A full bento of the northern bento full that will fill your stomach and your heart!

Jiang Lu, who also claimed to never get drunk, gave Liu Ya Li a taste of meeting her match, and for the first time in a long while, she found herself "drunk" on the spot. Awakening from her "hangover," Liu Ya Li vowed to find Jiang Lu, only to discover that the enigmatic man Jiang Lu was actually her new boss whom she had never met before! There seems to be more than meets the eye behind his ability to "hold his liquor"...

(Source: WeTV Singapore)

Episodes: 24

Duration: 13 min.

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

A woman is having an affair with a married man. She is Lee Hwa Young, a woman who doesn't feel guilty even after stealing her friend's husband.

Adapted from the manga series "Innai Keisatsu: Asclepius no Hebi" (院内警察～アスクレピオスの蛇～) written by Sakai Tsutomu (酒井義) and illustrated by Hayashi Ichi (林いち).

Episodes: 10

Duration: 58 min.

Episodes: 10

Since he was in his 20's, Natsume Shunpei was a world famous maestro and lived abroad, while working with renown orchestras. He was always passionate about music and his passion inspired other musicians. But, Natsume Shunpei has zero abilities outside of music. He is unable to do simple things like housework. His life has been focused on himself and his music. Something happened that changed Natsume Shunpei's life. Due to that incident, his family, including his daughter Natsume Hibiki, left him and he left the music field.

5 years later, Natsume Shunpei returns to Japan for the first time in decades to conduct an orchestra in a province. He meets his daughter Hibiki that he hasn't seen in 5 years and they begin to live together. Unlike her father, Natsume Hibiki hates music and lives her life without it. Her father's genius ability in music clouds his view outside of music and he is unaware of his daughter's feelings. Natsume Shunpei faces Hibiki as her father and her life, that stopped 5 years ago, slowly begins to move again.

(Source: AsianWiki)

Episodes: 10

Duration: 54 min.

Airs On: Sunday

Interactive film reviewer He Yihuan entered the VR world and became the blood wife of Xuan Ming, the ancient night tribe. She must break through the five great demon tribulations and prevent Xuan Ming from turning into a world-destroying demon before she can return to reality. The two lived and died together, and Yi Huan gradually fell in love with Xuan Ming, who was cold-faced and warm-hearted. Unexpectedly, a greater disaster quietly came...

Episodes: 25

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

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Episodes: 12

Duration: 8 min.

Aired On: Wednesday

Morally ambiguous, the Spiritual Heaven Sect is an influential sect that has remained in seclusion for years. Its Young Lady, Ling Xuan, encountered a pair of dying siblings during her travels ten years ago. In exchange for saving the younger sister’s life, she proposed a ten-year pact with the young man. She brought him into the Shadow Pavilion of the Spiritual Heaven Sect for training. If he could survive and graduate ten years later, he would become her assistant. The young man fought desperately and finally left the Shadow Pavilion alive with a new name, Ying Shi.

However, the Spiritual Heaven Sect has fallen into a vulnerable state. Ling Xuan’s father, the sect leader, coveted the Wanxin Technique and wanted to take it away from her mother. He incited chaos in the martial arts world and even turned against his own daughter. Forced to protect herself and devise a counterattack, Ling Xuan must disguise herself as a useless fool who is unreasonable and ruthless. At this very moment, Ying Shi is sent by the Shadow Pavilion to approach Ling Xuan in search of the Wanxin Technique. Through suspicions, testing, and dangers during their journey, they eventually build complete trust in each other. However, just as they have fallen for each other, Ling Xuan discovers the secret of Ying Shi's birth.

(Source: Youku)

Episodes: 24

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

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Episodes: 22

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

Dr. Du showed his remarkable talent for medicine but experienced the uncertainty of life in a disaster twenty years ago. After losing his beloved girlfriend and mentor in the same accident, Dr. Du left the disappointed healthcare system and became an EMT in a small clinic. However, he never gives up any life and makes up for his guilt in every service. With his frenemy Dr. Lee and associate Dr. Hsu all around his life in critical moments, he has to deal with patient-provider relationships and life value differences between colleagues. Dr. Du believes that the only way to reform the medical system is to be part of it again. However, the mysteries about the disaster twenty years ago will blow his life in more time.