Shows like Usagi Drop
By force of circumstances, a 30-year-old single man with a full-time job suddenly starts raising a 6-year-old girl. While running each other ragged, the two of them gradually grow into a "family".
10 to watch next
-
Golden Time
Series · 2013 · also animation and dramaBanri Tada is a freshman at a Tokyo law school. After an accident, he suffers severe memory loss. Despite the incident, he befriends fellow freshman, Mitsuo Yanagisawa, w...
Shows like Golden Time → -
Life Unexpected
Series · 2010 · also drama16-year-old Lux was given up for adoption at birth but never adopted. When she is put back into the custody of her estranged-since-high-school birth parents, Cate and Baz...
Shows like Life Unexpected → -
Agents of the Four Seasons Dance of Spring
Series · 2026 · also animation and dramaWhen the Agent of Spring, Hinagiku Kayo, is abducted, spring itself vanishes—plunging the world into unending winter. Refusing to give up, her devoted guard, Sakura Himed...
Shows like Agents of the Four Seasons Dance of Spring → -
Bokura ga ita
Series · 2006 · also animation and dramaNanami Takahashi is a high school student entering her first year. Immediately on her first day however, she becomes the victim of a practical joke by the school's most p...
Shows like Bokura ga ita → -
Parenthood
Series · 2010 · also dramaThe trials and tribulations of the very large, colorful and imperfect Braverman family.
Shows like Parenthood → -
The Fosters
Series · 2013 · also dramaStef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a pre...
Shows like The Fosters → -
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
Series · 2004 · also animation and dramaKoyuki Tanaka's boring life is changed after meeting Ryusuke Minami, a local musician with a bad attitude, who introduces him to foreign music.
Shows like Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad → -
The Villager of Level 999
Series · 2026 · also animationIn Earthclear, everyone is born into a fixed role, and villagers are the weakest of all. Most never rise above Level 5—except Koji Kagami, who is Level...999?! On a monst...
Shows like The Villager of Level 999 → -
NANA
Series · 2006 · also animation and dramaNana Osaki and Nana Komatsu meet while traveling to Tokyo in pursuit of their respective dreams, and decide to be roommates. Although drastically different people, the tw...
Shows like NANA → -
Wandering Son
Series · 2011 · also animation and dramaShuichi Nitori transfers to a new elementary school, and there, meets Yoshino Takatsuki. The two children discover they share a similar secret.
Shows like Wandering Son →