6 Romantic Japanese Dramas To Watch This Weekend
If you’ve spent countless hours binge watching Korean and Chinese dramas, you can’t miss out on romantic dramas from Japan!
Japanese dramas, or J-Dramas if you will, are underrated gems that rarely get their due when compared to animes and movies from the country. These TV shows cover a wide range of genres, from action and horror to romance and slice-of-life dramas. If you’re looking for something new to watch this weekend, give these romance dramas a go.
There’s something for any one who likes romantic storylines, from sweet and funny to slow burning, angst-filled dramas. Without further ado, here are some of our favourite Japanese romace dramas or TV shows that you need to watch now…
Japanese Romance Dramas To Watch On Netflix and Viki
First Love (2022)
First Love (2022)
This heartwarming drama is all about second chances. It follows two people who met each other as children in the 90s and grew up together, only to get separated because of circumstances. They reunite years later and try to rekindle their past love but things are not as easy as they seem in the present. The show has a great OST and stunning visuals.
Watch it here
The Many Faces of Ito (2017)
The Many Faces of Ito (2017)
This Netflix original series revolves around jaded screenwriter, Rio Yazaki, who is stuck writing romantic scripts. She decides to trick four lovesick women into thinking she has smart dating advice for them, so she could mine their love lives for content. The rom-com is based on the novel Ito-Kun A to E by Asako Yuzuki.
Watch it here
Cursed In Love (2022)
Cursed In Love (2022)
If you like heart-wrenching slow burns, then this one is for you. It follows a confectionery maker whose turbulent past makes it difficult for her to practice her art. However, meeting an old connection years later might bring the change she’s looking for. There’s mystery, time skips, romance and tonnes of angst in this one.
Watch it here
My Love Mix-Up! (2021)
My Love Mix-Up! (2021)
Like the name suggests, this high school romance follows a mix-up that causes our protaganist Aoki to assume his crush actually has feelings for another boy, Ida. Things get even more chaotic when Ida begins to believe that Aoki has a crush on him. It’s a silly and sweet drama that you can binge-watch in one sitting.
Watch it here
Coffee and Vanilla (2019)
Coffee and Vanilla (2019)
This drama is perfect for anyone who loves a healthy dose of melodrama in their romance. In the drama, a true blue romantic girl from a small town moves to Tokyo to attend university. She longs for the kind of romance that’s described in books and movies and, when she meets an older businessman, it looks like her dream for the perfect love story might come true. But things soon go south when her partner’s past comes knocking on their doorstep.
Watch ithere
Fight Song (2022)
Fight Song (2022)
This lighthearted romance is based on the proverb, ‘You should never meet your heroes’. Down-on-her-luck Kisara Hanae meets the songwriter, whose work she had idolised for years, only to discover that he’s actually an erratic, one-hit-wonder, who is nothing like what she thought he was. But it soon becomes evident that there’s more to his story that meets the eye. Throw in Hanae’s old friend who has a crush on her, and you’ve got a good old fashioned love triangle on your hands!
Watch ithere
