A new season always heralds new J-dramas! April arrives with dozens of new Japanese dramas that will certainly make your spring a tad more colourful. So, is everybody ready? Your spring J-drama list is finally out! Here are 40+ new Japanese dramas coming out in April 2026. I’ll do my best to update this article…
Spring is Finally Here: 11 New K-dramas Out in April 2026!
With so many high-profile K-dramas coming out in the next few months, The Korea Herald describes this period as โa competitive spring window for K-content.โ It’s easy to see why: March saw the release of ENA’s Climax and tvN’s Mad Concrete Dreams, while April will witness the return of Netflix’s Bloodhounds and TVING’s Yumi’s Cells…
Undercover Miss Hong: Nothing Less Than a Magnificent Triumph
When deciding whether to set a story in the present or a few decades ago, there’s much that a screenwriter should take into consideration beyond mere nostalgia. Surely, if they decide to set their tale in the past, the most important factor is what the decade in question can convey or illustrate that is still…
Boyfriend on Demand: What’s So Wrong With the Unexpected?
With the rise of “hybrid romances” in South Korean television, it’s been hard to find a good ol’ rom-com. That sort of light and fun story that isn’t scared of placing romance at its narrative core and letting its characters change and grow through their romantic entanglements. Recently, these kinds of straightforward series have been…
The Art of Sarah: All That Glitters Is Not Gold
South Korea, 2006. The year of SBS’s Alone in Love, MBC’s Princess Hours, and KBS2’s The Snow Queen. Outside the small screen, the country was fascinated by Vincent & Co., a legendary Swiss watch company whose exclusive, luxurious timepieces had been beloved by European royals for over a century. Behind fancy launch parties, celebrity endorsements,…
The Passengers on the Hankyu Line: The Magic of Serendipitous Encounters
Very few of us would say that commuting is fun, special, or cathartic in any way. Most of us would probably declare without hesitation that we’re so exhaustedly used to commuting that we don’t even take that moment of the day into account anymore. Commuting is just a moment in which we exist as we’re…
9 Brand New K-dramas Coming Out in March 2026!
These new 9 K-dramas coming out in March 2026 herald an incredibly entertaining spring. From thrillers to romances (and sometimes even a mix of both!), March promises to be a month full of exciting adventures. Which of these new Korean dramas are you planning to watch next month? We’ll be updating this post with trailers,…
Just a Bit Espers: A Deceptively Simple Sci-fi Satire
I’m a huge admirer of Nogi Akiko, a screenwriter who has one of the most impressive filmographies in the history of Japanese television โ in my humble opinion, of course. She’s written anything and everything from classic J-dramas (NTV’s The Memorandum of Kyoko Okitegami and TBS’s Public Affairs Office in the Sky) to more modern…
Pro Bono: A Masterfully Crafted Manifesto for a Fairer World
As we live in such a dark and unfair world, we sometimes forget how powerful a good story can be. A good story can not only offer us solace and hope, but also serve as a protest, a frustrated scream against a system that protects the powerful and stifles the powerless. That’s the kind of…
Chosen Home: A Gentle Tale about Being Human
I cried throughout the entire finale of Nippon TV’s Chosen Home. Chosen Home isn’t exactly the sort of series that makes you cry. No one dies, nothing extremely tragic happens. But I felt tears running down my face for all its 44 minutes. There was something about saying goodbye to its characters, witnessing the end…
