K-Dramas like Anniversary Anyway
Finished Anniversary Anyway (2019) and want that feeling again? These 12 shows come closest.
12 shows with a similar feel
Hierarchy (2024)Also dramaThe top 0.01% of students control law and order at Jooshin High School, but a secretive transfer student chips a crack in their indomitable world.
★ 3.0 from 3 members11 tracking it here
The Manipulated (2025)Also dramaTaejoong's life is torn apart when he's framed for a heinous crime and imprisoned. Discovering it was all orchestrated by someone on the outside, he embarks on a rage-fueled quest for revenge.
7 tracking it here
Still Shining (2026)Also dramaA man and a woman whose lives are shaped by loss and time drift apart in youth and reunite a decade later, discovering that the bond they once shared remains a guiding light through love, grief, and growing up.
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Autumn in My Heart (2000)Also dramaTwo men and two women, their relationship begins in tragic fates, and it grows into love, agony, and parting.
My Naughty Classmates (2018)Also dramaThe resourceful protagonist Zhang Yi (Liang Dawei) sought medical expenses for the weak and sick sister Zhang Ying (Jinmeng Yangzi), and entered the college with the purpose of finding the legendary treasure of the heavens, and met the Mohist school here. The descendant of Duanmuzheng (Zhang Ruihan), the sultry and human librarian Nantang Prince Li Yuyu (Li Wenhan), the melancholy divination of the divination girl Cui Jialuo (Zhang Xixi) and the innocent and lively Korean Princess Wang Enzhu (Ai Xiaoqi).
Suddenly This Summer (2018)Also dramaHe Luo is a quiet and smart model student who excels in English and dreams of becoming a diplomat. Besides, she has a special hobby: She loves to fantasize and integrates the people and situations around her into manhua plots. This summer, when He Luo goes to a tennis competition and sees the team leader Zhang Yuan, she falls head over heels for this beautiful and proud guy. Fate is on HeLuo’s side as they happen to meet again in English evening classes and confront each other during the school’s debating competition. The two become friends, but in He Luo’s imagination, he’s the main lead in her manhua. When He Luo’s friends find their own love, He Luo and Zhang Yuan finally open up about their true feelings. They agree to apply for the same university, however, Zhang Yuan fails to get in. From being in two different classes in the same school, they end up going to different universities in two different cities, and later even different countries, each making their own experiences while growing up. What will become of these two in the end?
The Moon on a Rainy NightAlso dramaOne rainy night, Saki is rushing to a piano lesson when she crashes into a beautiful, long-haired girl, dropping her sheet music in the process. Saki stutters an apology, but the girl simply hands back her sheet music and leaves without a word. Saki begins her first day of high school the following morning, only to find the stranger from the night before sitting at the desk next to hers. She learns that the girl's name is Kanon and that she is not quite completely deaf, but very hard of hearing. Though Kanon needs to be close to people to read their lips, she tends to push people away with her icy demeanor. Through one kind gesture, Saki slowly begins breaking down the walls around Kanon, even as she feels something new blossoming within her.
Moving (2023)Also dramaChildren who live in hiding with superpowers, along with their parents who live with painful secrets of the past, face enormous dangers together.
★ 4.3 from 3 members13 tracking it here
H2O: Footprints in the Sand (2008)Also dramaTakuma Hirose, an emotionally wounded boy becomes blind after his mother died in his childhood. For medical treatment, he moves to his mother’s home village where he enters a new school.
Healer Girl (2022)Also dramaThe world can be healed through music, and these three girls want to make it happen. Meet Kana Fujii, Reimi Itsushiro, and Hibiki Morishima—three healers-in-training at the Karasuma Phoniatric Clinic learning the art of healing patients’ illnesses and injuries by singing. Join them on this musical adventure of kindhearted, powerful miracles sung to heal the world.
Everything and Nothing (2019)Also dramaMin-jae and Seo-yeon are no different from ordinary 17-year-old high school students. Min-jae is silent and sensitive, yet a good student. Seo-yeon who plays the piano wished to enter an arts high school but failed. As they grow into adults, their surroundings and the reality they face get harsher. These two somehow similar but different friends get closer as they overcome their growing pains together.
Boy's Abyss (2022)Also dramaKurose Reiji is a 17-year-old high school boy whose family members are full of problems. Due to this circumstance, Reiji has no particular dream and wants to get a job instead of going to college to make his mother's life easier. Just as Reiji was spending his days vaguely, he had a fateful encounter with an idol called Aoe Nagi, who proposed to Reiji that they commit suicide together. Will Reiji be able to find the light in his life after all the problems occurring one after another around him?
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