K-Dramas like Mackerel Run
Finished Mackerel Run (2007) and want that feeling again? These 12 shows come closest.
12 shows with a similar feel
Tastefully Yours (2025)Also comedy · dramaDriven to claim top culinary honors, an arrogant heir meets a low-profile but stubborn chef whose recipes astonish him — sparking an unlikely romance.
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Love Next Door (2024)Also drama · comedyA woman attempting to reboot her life returns to Korea and becomes entangled with her childhood friend — with whom she shares a complicated history.
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Undercover Miss Hong (2026)Also comedy · dramaA retro office comedy depicting the chaotic events that unfold in the late 1990s when Sammo Hung, a 30-year-old elite securities supervisor who only cares about work, goes undercover as a 20-year-old high school graduate employee at a securities firm where suspicious money flows are detected.
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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?
Girl's High (2006)Also comedyEriko and her friends Yuma and Ayano are excited about entering high school. Their excitement leads to their breaking of the rules when they toured the school before the opening ceremony. They find out their preconceptions about the all female school may not be as true as they had first thought. Despite that, Eriko and her friends are joined by new friends. They aim to get through high school life together.
Vampire Dormitory (2024)Also dramaAfter Mito loses her parents and is fired from her job, she must fend for herself on the streets disguised as a boy. She comes across a stranger named Ruka and learns his dark secret—he's a vampire! Ruka invites Mito, still in disguise, to live in an all-boys dorm. Mito exchanges her blood for a place to stay, but a budding romance and her true identity threaten all that hangs in the balance.
Reply 1994 (2013)Also comedyIn 1994, college students were crazy about college basketball, and Korea's hip-hop artists; with students from various countryside areas attending college in Seoul, they mingle together for true friendship, love and lots of fun at a boarding house.
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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.
Can I Make Your Ears Happy in 180 Seconds? (2021)Also comedyASMR or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response is the nerve-tingling or relaxing response and sensation one gets to stimuli such as certain sounds or sights. As the title indicates, the anime will let viewers experience ASMR in 180 seconds. In the story, the heroine challenges her classmates to share in her hobby of recording ASMR works.

Finding Soul (2016)Also dramaHigh school students Xia Changan (Wang Junkai), Sui Yu (Wang Yuan), and Chen Haoxuan (Yi Yang Qianxi) all have a different motive to try to find an A.I. placed on campus that surpassed the Turing test.
The Dangers in My Heart (2023)Also comedyKyotaro Ichikawa, a boy barely clinging to the bottom rung of his school's social ladder, secretly believes he’s the tortured lead in some psychological thriller. He spends his days dreaming up ways to disrupt his classmates' peaceful lives and pining after Anna Yamada, the class idol. But Kyotaro's not nearly the troubled teen he pretends to be…and it turns out Anna's a bit odd herself!
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