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Naruto(2002-2007)

4.2/5 (with 2,644 votes)

Naruto Uzumaki, a mischievous adolescent ninja, struggles as he searches for recognition and dreams of becoming the Hokage, the village's leader and strongest ninja.

Directed by Hayato Date

My Happy Marriage(2023-)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.2/5 (with 37 votes)

Miyo's abusive family deems her worthless – but together with her powerful husband-to-be, her true self and hidden powers slowly begin to shine.

Wonder Egg Priority(2021)

TV-14
| 23min per episode | Animation, Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 36 votes)

Ai, a young girl with shut-in tendencies, who tries not to interact with others. She keeps one of her eyes hidden behind her hair. One day, she happens to stop by a deserted arcade, where she meets "Aka." Spinning the gacha at their urging, she acquires a "Wonder Egg," and from that moment, her fate begins to change...

Directed by Shin Wakabayashi

Angel Beats!(2010)

3.9/5 (with 176 votes)

Angel Beats takes place in the afterlife and focuses on Otonashi, a boy who lost his memories of his life after dying. He is enrolled into the afterlife school and meets a girl named Yuri who invites him to join the Afterlife Battlefront — an organization she leads which fights against God. The Battlefront fight against the student council president Angel, a girl with supernatural powers.

Directed by Seiji Kishi

The Untamed(2019)

45min per episode | Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 38 votes)

Two talented disciples of respectable magical clans unit during the cultivation training and through many hardships they are together.

Vincenzo(2021)

TV-14
| 1h 21min per episode | Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama
4.3/5 (with 412 votes)

During a visit to his motherland, a Korean-Italian mafia lawyer gives an unrivaled conglomerate a taste of its own medicinewith a side of justice.

Directed by Kim Hee-won - With Song Joong-ki, Jeon Yeo-been, Ok Taec-yeon, Cho Han-cheul, Kim Yeo-jin, Kwak Dong-yeon, ...

Stranger(2017-2020)

TV-MA
| 1h 9min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.3/5 (with 75 votes)

With the help of a gutsy female detective, a prosecutor who has lost the ability to feel empathy tackles a murder case amid political corruption.

Directed by An Gil-ho - With Cho Seung-woo, Bae Doona, Yoo Jae-myung, Lee Joon-hyuk, Shin Hae-sun

Suspicious Partner(2017)

35min per episode | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.9/5 (with 50 votes)

Noh Ji Wook is a prosecutor in the Central District Prosecutors’ Office who ends up switching professions to a private attorney. He harbors a trauma stemming from an event in his childhood involving his parents and his first love. Eun Bong Hee, a Taekwondo athlete in her youth, is a prosecutor trainee who has become a murder suspect. Eun Bong Hee and Noh Ji Wook both find themselves being the focus of a killer.

With Ji Chang-wook, Nam Ji-hyun, Choi Tae-joon, Kwon Na-ra, Lee Deok-hwa, Nam Gi-ae, ...

Ghost Hound(2007-2008)

TV-14
| 25min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.7/5 (with 7 votes)

In an isolated region of Kyushu lies the town of Suiten. Though seeming small and modest, Suiten is not a picturesque place for a vacation, unless it is from the “Unseen World”. Taro, Makoto and Masayuki, three boys with traumatic pasts, learn to let their souls cross between the two parallel worlds. However, the Unseen World is no mere copy of the real Apparent World. The Unseen World is the home of ghosts, but changes are now allowing the souls of the dead to pass over into the Apparent World, with unpredictable effects. Follow the journey of Taro, Makoto and Masayuki, as they cross between the two worlds, trying to unravel a great mystery.

My Secret, Terrius(2018)

30min per episode | Mystery, Comedy, Action & Adventure
4.1/5 (with 60 votes)

A woman named Go Ae-Rin loses her husband. Along with her neighbour Kim Bon, who is a NIS agent, they discover the truth behind her husband's involvement in a huge conspiracy.

Love and Redemption(2020)

45min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Legend has it that the god of battle saved heaven a 1000 years in the past in a deadly battle against the demon. Both fell from heaven and disappeared from the world. Chu Xuanji was born in the world without the six senses, making her quite clueless and inept. The Zanhua tournament is held within the Shaoyang sect, and leader Chu Lei has two daughters - his relied on eldest daughter Chu Linglong and youngest daughter Chu Xuanji, who is lazy and horrible in martial arts. When Yu Sifeng and Chu Xuanji happen to meet, they befriend each other. Yu Sifeng falls for Xuanji despite the harsh consequences he has to face, as students at Lize Palace are prohibited from falling in love. Four years later, Xuanji and Yu Sifeng meet again. Sifeng wears a mask because of a curse that can only be broken if he finds true love.

With Cheng Yi

Word of Honor(2021)

4.0/5 (with 15 votes)

Zhou Zi Shu gets embroiled in a conspiracy in the martial arts world after quitting his job as the leader of an organization tasked with protecting royalty. He meets Wen Ke Xing, a mysterious martial artist who escapes from the Ghost Valley to avenge his parents’ deaths. They become fast friends and embark on an adventure to find a legendary treasure that will give its owner ultimate power over jianghu.

With Zhang Zhehan, Gong Jun, Zhou Ye
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Signal(2016)

4.0/5 (with 59 votes)

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Go Ahead(2020)

45min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family, Comedy
4.2/5 (with 82 votes)

Growing up in dysfunctional households, three individuals who are unrelated by blood treat each other like family as they yearn for the love that they cannot find at home. Eldest brother Ling Xiao, second brother He Ziqiu, and youngest sister Li Jianjian grow up together, experiencing life’s joy and strife as they support each other’s chosen paths. As Ling Xiao and He Ziqiu graduate from high school, they return to their original families. Five years later, the three are reunited, but the heartaches from their complicated family past becomes a shadow that constantly lingers. Can they finally fix their personal issues to become better versions of themselves?

The Ice Cream Girls(2013)

47min per episode | Mystery, Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

In the summer of 1995, two vulnerable teenage girls are accused of murdering their schoolteacher. For seventeen years, the two girls go their separate ways, Poppy having been charged with the murder. Fast-forward to modern day. Happily married mother Serena is now back in the same seaside town for the first time as she cares for her dying mother Rachel. Poppy is living in quite different circumstances. Having served seventeen years for a crime she still insists she didn’t commit, she has only one thing on her mind… the truth. And if she didn’t kill Marcus, then who did?

Live Up To Your Name(2017)

TV-MA
| 1h per episode | Drama
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

Heo Im is an oriental doctor, acknowledged as the best in acupuncture and moxibustion in Joseon. His success is blocked due to his low status.

Directed by Hong Jong-chan - With Kim Nam-gil, Kim A-jung

Doctors(2016)

1h per episode | Drama, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 145 votes)

A recalcitrant, delinquent teen girl meets a compassionate teacher, who inspires her to alter her path and become a street-savvy neurosurgeon.

Being a Hero(2022)

45min per episode | Drama, Mystery, Crime
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Five years ago, Wu Gang was killed by a drug trafficking organization named "K", and his son Wu Zhen Feng was expelled from the police force. Utterly dissipated, Wu Zhen Feng boards the bus to the borders, while his best friend Chen Yu chases after him relentlessly. Along the journey, the two were almost kidnapped. While saving his best friend Chen Yu, Wu Zhen Feng was brought away by the drug traffickers, and there was no news of him ever since. When the two meet again, Chen Yu became a narcotics policeman while Wu Zhen Feng is now a famed murder suspect known by the nickname "Addict Lord". Ignoring public dissension, Chen Yu sets out to find the truth and clear Wu Zhenfeng's name, but he gradually discovers that Wu Zhen Feng's return has another purpose. The two best friends begin a game of cat and mouse.

Still 17(2018)

30min per episode | Drama, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 25 votes)

Gong Woo-Jin is a 30-year-old single man and he works as a set designer. Due to a trauma he experienced 13 years ago, he does not want to have a relationship with others. When Woo Seo-Ri was 17, she fell into a coma. 13 years later, she wakes up from her coma. Her mental age is still that of a 17-year-old, but she is now 30-years-old. Gong Woo-Jin and Woo Seo-Ri get involved with each other and fall in love.

Lawless Lawyer(2018)

NR
| 1h per episode | Crime, Action & Adventure, Drama
3.6/5 (with 23 votes)

Driven by the desire to avenge his mother, a former gangster turned lawyer uses both his fists and the loopholes in law to fight against those with absolute power.

Doctor John(2019)

35min per episode | Drama
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

Cha Yo-Han—an arrogant but genius doctor of anesthesiology—and Kang Shi-Young—a smart, warm resident of anesthesiology—work together to help people with mysterious cases of acute or chronic pain.

With Ji Seong, Lee Se-young, Lee Kyu-hyung

The Girl Who Sees Smells(2015)

3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

With help from a young woman with synesthesia, a cop who lost his sense of pain tracks down the serial killer who brought tragedy to both their lives.

With Park Yoo-chun, Shin Se-kyeong, Namkoong Min, Yoon Jin-seo, Jeong In-gi, Kim So-hyun, ...

My Huckleberry Friends(2017-2018)

TV-G
| 45min per episode | Drama
4.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Yu Zhou Zhou, a math prodigy, defies her teachers and family's expectations and elects to study liberal arts. Though the transition from math & science to liberal arts major is difficult, she found joy in the new challenges, as well as making new friends and reconnecting with old ones.

Awaken(2020-2021)

1h 5min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 12 votes)

While unraveling an enigmatic murder mystery, a special force leader realizes this case is related to the incident that took 28 years ago in a small town.

The Golden Eyes(2019)

4.6/5 (with 5 votes)

An ordinary man working at a pawnshop accidentally encounters an incident that affects his eyes and ignites changes in his life that start him on a tomb-raiding adventure.

With Lay

Master's Sun(2013)

TV-14
| 1h 3min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 77 votes)

Joo Joong-won is the arrogant, greedy CEO of Kingdom, a conglomerate that includes a supermall and a hotel. "Ghost whisperer” Tae Gong-shil, is a misunderstood outcast who can't keep a boyfriend or a job since a near death experience left her seeing needy ghosts. She feels compelled to help them resolve their earthly issues so they can move on to the afterlife... and he feels compelled to think she's crazy. Soon their lives merge into a complicated web of hijinx, misunderstandings, and... yes, love.

Directed by Jin Hyuk - With Gong Hyo-jin

Into the White Night(2006)

54min per episode | Drama, Crime
3.8/5 (with 7 votes)

What happens with two children commit two different muders in order to protect each other? Does salvation exist for them? In order to walk beneath the sun once more, Ryouji and Yukiho find themselves in a twisted web from which neither can escape without abandoning the other. Having no one but each other, this drama follows the events the follow that fateful day… 14 years ago.

Perfume(2019)

35min per episode | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Min Jae-Hee is a middle aged woman. She is a housewife who has devoted her life to her family, but her family gets destroyed. Min Jae-Hee is furious at the world. Through a mysterious perfume, Min Jae-Hee's appearance suddenly changes to a beautiful young woman. She becomes a model with her new youthful appearance. Min Jae-Hee meets Seo Yi-Do. He is a successful fashion designer, but a mean spirited person.

The Smile Has Left Your Eyes(2018)

1h 4min per episode | Mystery, Drama, Crime
3.9/5 (with 25 votes)

A detective thinks about quitting his job. He takes on a female university student murder case that was disguised as a suicide. The detective becomes obsessed with solving the case. He has a young sister and she meets a man. The man does not remember when he was little. He is not a good person, but she has sympathy for him. The detective tries to push the man away from his younger sister. The detective suspects that the man is somehow involved in the female university student murder case. The man and the detective's younger sister fall in love.

Avengers Social Club(2017)

1h 6min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Women gather power to revenge on targets, as well as uncover social injustice.

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