Asian Drama

Hyun, a high school student, writes down his feelings for his friend Dong Ho in his diary. Then, Dong Ho sees the diary, and the two talk to confirm their feelings for each other. Can the ending for these two be a happy one?

(Source: Korean = kqff.co.kr)

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

This is a story of a rising model and actor whose love life is plummeting fast. On the very day he was trying to decide what to do with his life, fate sent someone with special powers to restore his previous relationship within seven days. However, nothing is this world is free. Everyone must pay something in return and that person is teaching him a very expensive lesson.

(Source: Bandai Channel YouTube)

Adapted from the novel "7 Days Before Valentine" (7 วันก่อนวาเลนไทน์) by Patrick Rangsimant (อุเทน บุญอรณะ).

Episodes: 10

Twenty-nine-year-old Tae Myung Ha experiences a bewildering twist of fate when suddenly finds himself transported into a fictional online game where he inhabits the body of a ninteen-year-old character. Soon, Tae Myung Ha embarks on a quest within the virtual world to bring happiness to a character named Cha Yeo Woon.

Despite his humble upbringing, Cha Yeo Woon has managed to excel in the national track and field championships, maintaining a remarkable reputation among his peers due to his handsome looks and athletic physique.

Cheon Sang Won hails from an affluent family and becomes emotionally entangled with Tae Myung Ha. His involvement adds complexity to the developing relationship between Tae Myung Ha and Cha Yeo Woon. Ahn Kyung Hoon, introverted and reserved, supports and assists Tae Myung Ha on his mission within the virtual world.

(Source: devdiscourse.com)

Adapted from the webtoon "Love Supremacy Zone" (연애 지상주의 구역) written by Aquram and Hwacha (화차), and illustrated by Kkokku (꼬꾸).

Episodes: 8

Duration: 40 min.

Airs On: Wednesday

Passionate dessert chef Shin runs a bakery and works hard to achieve his goal. One day, a boy named Peach joins the team.

(Source: GagaOOLala)

Episodes: 6

Throughout twelve stories. this series follows eleven couples, delving into friendship and romance.

Episodes: 24

Night, a senior literature student, was still unable to complete his final novel project because he didn't understand the concept of love. He had the chance to meet Dream, the owner of Tokyo Boy, and his close friend in high school whom he had lost contact with for years, and he never found out why Dream left his life. Then, Dream and Night rekindled their friendship. Night didn't even try to ask Dream about his whereabouts. He simply requested Dream to never again abandon him without explanation. After that, Dream assisted Night in finding the meaning of love for his work. He helped Night realize what love is, and that it's what Night had known all along, but he didn't accept it: Dream is his love. Cowardice kept Night from stepping forward, making him build up an iron wall and deny his feelings. Still, no matter how hard he tried, his feelings for Dream grew stronger by the day. Strong and obvious to the point where he couldn't suppress them any longer, but it seemed he was too late... because Dream was about to leave his life again.

(Source: Youku)

Adapted from the novel "Night Dream" (คืนฝันของฉันและเธอ) by Faddist or Po Fo (ปอฝอ).

Episodes: 6

Airs On: Saturday

Burdened with heavy debt, Mok, a technical college student, applies for a high-paying job as a caregiver to Day, a badminton player with partial blindness following an accident. Day hires Mok who—unlike other applicants— seems to take no pity on him. With so much time spent in each others' company, the two develop a deep bond. When Day learns he'll have approximately 180 days until he loses what vision he has remaining, how will he two weather the trials ahead?

Episodes: 10

Beside You (2024)

Gu Jing is a good chef who owns a creative and retro restaurant. He opens his restaurant anytime he wants. Gu finds that there is a boy who always gets the quietest seat, and that boy is Liu Li. Liu is a gay-themed novelist who rents a room upstairs from Gu’s restaurant. Gu starts to send Liu a bowl of spicy beef noodles. Gu has become the person that Liu confides in, the person who keeps him company during the breakup. Gradually, Liu realizes that his fantasies may be different from reality.

It is said that identical twins who are produced from the same egg will share a bond as if they were the same person. But not with "Sprite" and "Zee", the identical twins. Despite following the same route as an athlete from birth, both want to be the only one!

(Source: Lovemedia Thailand)

Episodes: 12

Duration: 49 min.

Aired On: Friday

Heeding the words of a fortune teller, Phloeng becomes engaged to Rawi, a boy from the countryside. Both enter into it reluctantly. Disbelieving the prophecy but appeasing his parents, Phloeng agrees to the arrangement on the condition that, should six months pass without the relationship deepening, he'll call it off.

Throughout his stay with Phloeng's family, Rawi is haunted by a spirit. When he begins staying with Phloeng, however, the spirit is quiet. It soon becomes clear that whatever is haunting the house is focused entirely on Rawi.

Adapted from the novel "Dap Saeng Rawi" (ดับแสงรวี) by CEO.

The story of KJ Agency, a well-known agency plans to create and produce a series. Including the artists development therefore gathering young people who have dreams Join the "Beyond The Star" project to develop capabilities in all aspects of the entertainment industry, but on the process to become a superstar. There will always be obstacles. Love, commitment, or dreams, which ones are more important?

(Source: 9naaproduction Instagram)

Episodes: 8

This work stars Akafuji Yuichiro, a popular and handsome actor, and Aoyagi Hajime, a former popular child actor who has the ability but is currently unremarkable. The story begins when they are chosen to play the double lead roles in the live-action adaptation of an extremely popular BL manga.

They start living together in order to prepare for the role and get publicity, but Akafuji has a curt attitude toward Aoyagi, and Aoyagi doesn't like Akafuji either.

However, there was a reason for his curt attitude. In reality, Akafuji was deeply in love with Aoyagi.

Akafuji tries his best to hide his feelings, and Aoyagi tries to get along with the other but mistakenly thinks that he hates him. The misunderstanding between the two leads to an unexpected slapstick comedy in this "Cohabitation Romantic Comedy".

(Source: TV Asahi)

Adapted from the manga series "BL Drama no Shuen ni Narimashita" (BLドラマの主演になりました) by Suzuri Machi (すずり街).

Episodes: 3

Duration: 60 min.

Aired On: Sunday

Jade works as a graphic designer. He is always the one in the middle. Middle child. He has got average grades in school. People around him, either his siblings or his friends, are so good-looking that he has always been overlooked or becomes just a middleman for those who want to know his siblings and friends personally. Jade has been in this situation for years and has to accept it unwillingly. He has built a high wall in his heart. He does not expect a romantic relationship since he has learned that whoever comes to him just wants to get close to the people around him.

One day, his office welcomes an intern called Mai. Mai is an attractive student who is popular among the girls in the office. Jade notices that Mai often stares at him and his friend, Uea. He thinks Mai is interested in Uea, and yes- he will become a middleman for this again. But he does not know that the one Who actually catches Mai's eye is him. Let's see what will happen when the middleman is not overlooked as before!

(Source: Deep Publishing)

Adapted from a novel by littlebbear96.

Episodes: 8

When good-humoured Golf is tasked with scouting locations, he meets unfeeling Pond. The two end up in a situation where they're forced to share a hotel room and their differences bring about new feelings in each other.

(Source: Thai = DoubleM Studio TH YouTube)

Episodes: 2

Duration: 30 min.

Aired On: Tuesday

Jin is a temporary elementary school teacher on his way to a permanent position when a traumatic event plunged him into a terrifying deep darkness. Three months later, a mysterious man named Kai provokes Jin's memories and feelings regarding the past experience through rapping.

Why is Kai obsessed with Jin? How does Jin confront his own "darkness"? Conflicts and battles for men who have been deeply injured inspire healing. And does true love exist on the other side?

Struggling, suffering, we will live.

Adapted from the manga "Koi Kogare Utae" (恋い焦れ歌え～R.I.P.～) by Miso.

Adapted from the manga series "What Did You Eat Yesterday?" (きのう何食べた?) by Yoshinaga Fumi (よしなが ふみ).

Episodes: 10

A shy introvert has a longtime crush on his handsome friend, but then again, everyone likes him. Feeling like he can’t compete for his affections, the introvert dives into The Legend of Saga, an online game where he plays as “idealize.” He befriends “thegreatmirae,” a cute healer who clearly has a soft spot for him… and who just so happens to be a real-life gangster. Could this tough guy be the ideal lover he's been looking for after striking out in the real world?

(Source: Tapas)

Adapted from the webtoon "The Ideal Relationship" (호형호제) written by Ken (켄) and illustrated by Nod.

Episodes: 8

Fifty-year-old Yuria has a quiet life teaching embroidery classes in her home, where she lives with her writer husband and his mother. Then one day her world is turned upside down when husband has a subarachnoid hemorrhage and upon arriving at the hospital, Yuria is met by a tearful young man who announces that he is her husband's lover.

(Source: MangaUpdates)

Adapted from the manga series "Yuria Sensei no Akai Ito" (ゆりあ先生の赤い糸) by Irie Kiwa (入江喜和).

Episodes: 10

Day is a violinist auditioning in pursuit of his dream. In that pursuit, he goes to Sangkhlaburi to compose music. There, he meets drawing teacher Mem. Through their time spent together, they develop feelings for one another. Their path together, however, is not easy.

(Source: Thai = 28 MDP Studio YouTube)

Airs On: Saturday

SuanSoon and Ongsa are boyfriends. Ongsa got into a serious accident because he was rushing back to celebrate Suansoon's birthday with him. Suansoon blamed himself and prayed if he could get back to the past, he would not get together with Ongsa.

Suansoon found himself in the past and warned Ongsa (high school age) about the future but Ongsa didn't believe him and became boyfriends with Suansoon anyway.

Ten years later, one day before the accident, Ongsa from the future came back to tell his younger self to not avoid the accident, because Suansoon will die if he does. Ongsa let the accident happen.

He woke up again in the past where he met Suansoon for the first time. This time Ongsa decided to change the future and didn't approach Suansoon...

(Source: Lazy Subber)

Adapted from the novel "Absolute Zeo Ongsa Sun" (องศาสูญ) by Salil (สลิล).

Episodes: 12

A young man moves to Thailand to attend a prestigious academy and realise his dreams of becoming a famous musical artist just like his late father.

(Source: Netflix)

Episodes: 10

Courageous men seek love in a six-day journey, discovering heart-stirring first love moments, dealing with unrequited emotions, misunderstandings, and conflicts. At the end of the journey, who will find their true match?

(Source: GagaOOLala)

Episodes: 10

In 1999, Dan's in grade eleven when he transfers to Saint Lawrence’s, an all-boys catholic school. His father is being treated at a nearby hospital for end-stage brain cancer; his mother died when he was only seven.

Dan is close to Brother Anurak, the school's dean and a psychologist. Brother Anurak tries to cure Dan of his sleep paralysis. In his dreams, Dan sees a shadow that suffocates him and it only gets worse when he transfers. Brother Anurak searches for meaning in the dreams; he believes Dan has some sort of complex pertaining to his father.

Dan causes a panic on his first day when he chooses a seat at the desk of Trin, a senior who mysteriously vanished at the lake behind the school a year prior. No one dares to sit at that desk, and no one dares throw it away. He gets to know his classmate Nai and roommate Josh as well as Cha-aim, a student from Saint Mary's who comes to perform in the annual play. As the four of them grow closer, they begin to look into Trin's disappearance while helping Dan evade the shadow that's plaguing him.

(Source: Thai = madan.fun)

Episodes: 14

A young ethnic Shan man moves from the war-torn Shan State buffering Thailand and Myanmar to Chiang Mai, Thailand. Refusing to return home to fight for the military yet undocumented as a refugee in the new country, he survives through sex work. To escape this bitter reality, he projects himself into the colourful lives of his clients.

(Source: seaficlab.com)

No hobbies, no friends, no lover. There are a lot of things that Kouki doesn’t have. The story begins when Kouki, an apathetic convenience store worker who struggles to find meaning in his daily life, is stabbed by a random thug. In his dying moments, he sees a beautiful angel with pure white wings.

Thinking he was being taken to the afterlife, he is surprised to wake up and find himself fully recovered. When he returns home, he discovers the same angel from before is already there. After learning that the angel has no memories and cannot fly, he takes pity on him and decides to let him stay with him for a while…

(Source: Japanese = Natalie.mu || Translation = Drama-Otaku)

Adapted from the manga "One Room Angel" (ワンルームエンジェル) by Harada (はらだ).

Episodes: 6

"No matter how much time we spend together, I’ll never become special to you."

Childhood best friends. Two halves of a whole. The cool, smart one who’s good at almost everything, and his average, dorky friend who struggles to do anything right­—Yamato and Kakeru. Always by the other’s side, but not together in the way they truly want to be. No matter how hard they try, their hearts cannot reach each other…

(Source: bato.to)

Adapted from the manga series "Kimi ni wa Todokanai." (君には届かない。) by Mika (みか).

Episodes: 8

Ban Dong Wook is suffering from chronic insomnia every night and it gets worse with the bad weather. One day in those painful days, he falls into a deep sleep next to Lee Do Hyun by chance. That’s how Do Hyun, the only shelter for Dong Wook, becomes irreplaceable to Dong Wook. Hanging out together, Do Hyun has a crush on Dong Wook and tries to confess.

However, it didn’t go well as planned. Dong Wook only receives a gift not knowing who gave it to him and Do Hyun misunderstood it as he was dumped. Stuck in a misunderstanding, they drift apart.

5 years later, on campus, they met again in the basketball game. However, they still have different feelings about each other. Their relationship, started with first love and ended in misunderstandings, continues again in campus. Will they be able to reconnect their broken ties?

(Source: IQIYI)

Adapted from the webtoon "Weather Forecast Love" (일기예보적연애) written by Gwendolyn (그웬돌린) and illustrated by Samyoung (삼영).

Episodes: 8

Over the past 3 years, both of them had grown apart. Venus decided to quit his job. He planned to return to his hometown to take a career break until his passion for work was reignited. In the meantime, he killed boredom through helping his older brother Janus who just opened a 24-hr. convenience store in a suburb. In the evenings, he would be responsible for small tasks such as delivering items to regular customers whose residences were located on his way home.

One day, Venus met a new customer,Sky. Sky became an incessantly good-humoured, highly energetic young doctor despite mountains of work at the hospital. Upon seeing each other again, they couldn’t resist the feelings.

(Source: iQIYI)

Episodes: 10

The staff in Xia’s company are known for their good looks and bodies, but there is a new employee, Yao Shun Yu, who is an exception of the rule. Yao is like a rabbit in the jungle who has signed his life away. His boss, Xia Shang Zhou, is always teasing kindhearted Yao. And Yao believes that if he works hard, he can have a better life. Even if his job is stressful and his boss is cranky, he can bear with it. But having a blind date with the boss and sleeping with him, that’s truly a tough job!

(Source: pavilion.taicca.tw)

Episodes: 10