Best Asian music series
A curated collection of popular music series from Asia.
OSHINOKO (2024)
OSHINOKO (2024)
Two pop idol Ai fans are reincarnated as her "secret" baby twins, Aqua and Ruby, and grow up supporting her until the tragic day she is stabbed by a stalker. Flash forward a few years later and Aqua and Ruby are high school students determined to make it on their own in the cutthroat world of entertainment for personal reasons.
Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song- (2021)
Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song- (2021)
In the near future, Vivy, a diva-type A.I., went up on stage each day with hopes of putting her heart into her song. One day, the A.I. Matsumoto, who claims to have arrived from 100 years in the future, appears before Vivy with an important request...
Brave Beats (2015)
Brave Beats (2015)
Hibiki Kazaguruma, a sixth grader, meets an amusing little robot named Breakin while coming home from school one day. Breakin, a dancer from an alternate-dimension dance world, challenged the Dance King for the throne and lost. He has been deprived of Dance Stones (crystals containing the powers of different forms of dance) and sent to the human world. To restore his power, Breakin must collect all the Dance Stones scattered around Earth.
Suite Precure (2011)
Suite Precure (2011)
Hibiki and Kanade are two friends who grew up together in Kanon Town. Very different in their personalities, they share one thing in common: A connection to music. No matter how different they are or how much their differences cause them to quarrel, they both continue to share loving hearts. One day they meet Hummy, who is sent to the Human World from Major Land to collect the scattered notes of the Melody of Happiness. They have to instantly transform into Pretty Cures to resist the threats and evil music from Mephisto. Can they stop the Melody of Sorrow from disrupting their peaceful town, and can their warped friendship measure up to the bonds of Pretty Cure?
You and Idol Precure ♪ (2025)
You and Idol Precure ♪ (2025)
Middle school student Uta Sakura loves to sing any chance she gets. But music becomes more than a hobby when she meets Purirun, a fairy whose hometown has plunged into darkness. The Chokkiri Gang took over her land and began stealing her people's sparkle. Determined to help, Uta is transformed into the legendary protector Cure Idol and vows to return their sparkle through song.
Kids on the Slope (2012)
Kids on the Slope (2012)
Two different students - a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent - form a friendship through their love for music.
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (2004)
Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (2004)
Koyuki Tanaka's boring life is changed after meeting Ryusuke Minami, a local musician with a bad attitude, who introduces him to foreign music.
Boys Planet (2023)
Boys Planet (2023)
BOYS PLANET presents the potential of the boys from all around the world. Korean and global K-Pop fans, who discover the charm and potential of the boys from all around the globe and give them cheer and support to let them shine.
HyeMiLeeYeChaePa (2023)
HyeMiLeeYeChaePa (2023)
Six energetic sisters struggle to complete the quest and get cash in a remote mountain village for survival.Welcome to HyeMiLeeYeChaePa House. Six sisters, Hye-ri, Mi-yeon, Lee-jung, Ye-na, Chae-won, and Patricia, get cash through quests. They play games, dance, eat, sleep, and decorate their homes in a remote mountain village. The six members with different charms become friends faster than anyone else. They create tension, showing off their visuals, talents, and charms as they over indulge in games. Look forward to the bustling livelihood of the six girls who have been reborn as true sisters to settle comfortably in their dream house of nothing!
CAMP ZEROBASEONE (2023)
CAMP ZEROBASEONE (2023)
With great anticipation, ZEROBASEONE, the rising stars of the popular audition program 'Boys Planet,' set off on a camping adventure, beginning from 'zero.' During their journey, they encounter exhilarating trials and missions. What will be the outcome of this intriguing camping excursion?
Twinkling Watermelon (2023)
Twinkling Watermelon (2023)
A CODA (child of deaf adult) student born with a gift for music crash lands at an unfamiliar place after time traveling through a suspicious music shop. There, he forms the band Watermelon Sugar with other mysterious youths.
Carole & Tuesday (2019)
Carole & Tuesday (2019)
Part-timer Carole meets rich girl Tuesday, and each realizes they've found the musical partner they need. Together, they just might make it.
Sound! Euphonium (2015)
Sound! Euphonium (2015)
After swearing off music due to an incident at the middle school regional brass band competition, euphonist Kumiko Oumae enters high school hoping for a fresh start. As fate would have it, she ends up being surrounded by people with an interest in the high school brass band. Kumiko finds the motivation she needs to make music once more with the help of her bandmates, some of whom are new like novice tubist Hazuki Katou; veteran contrabassist Sapphire Kawashima; and band vice president and fellow euphonist Asuka Tanaka. Others are old friends, like Kumiko's childhood friend and hornist-turned-trombonist Shuuichi Tsukamoto, and trumpeter and bandmate from middle school, Reina Kousaka.However, in the band itself, chaos reigns supreme. Despite their intention to qualify for the national band competition, as they currently are, just competing in the local festival will be a challenge—unless the new band advisor Noboru Taki does something about it.
takt op.Destiny (2021)
takt op.Destiny (2021)
Music is the light that illuminates people's hearts-- and that "light" was suddenly taken from the world. The world changed the night the black "Kuroya Meteorite" fell. Grotesque monsters known as D2 emerged from the meteorite and began to overrun the land and people. As the D2 were drawn to melodies people played, eventually "music" itself became taboo. However, those who opposed the monsters appeared. They the "Musicart," girls who draw power from music. They possess the great operas and musical scores of humanity history and use them to defeat the D2.
Ya Boy Kongming! (2022)
Ya Boy Kongming! (2022)
General of the Three Kingdoms, Kongming had struggled his whole life, facing countless battles that made him into the accomplished strategist he was. So on his deathbed, he wished only to be reborn into a peaceful world... and was sent straight to modern-day party-central, Tokyo! Can even a brilliant strategist like Kongming adapt to the wild beats and even wilder party people?!
Nodame Cantabile (2007)
Nodame Cantabile (2007)
Shinichi Chiaki is a first class musician whose dream is to play among the elites in Europe. Coming from a distinguished family, he is an infamous perfectionist; not only is he highly critical of himself, but of others as well. The only thing stopping Chiaki from leaving for Europe is his fear of flying. As a result, he's grounded in Japan.During his 4th year at Japan's top music university, Chiaki happens to meet Noda Megumi—or as she refers to herself, Nodame. On the surface, she seems to be an unkempt girl with no direction in life. However, when Chiaki hears Nodame play the piano for the first time, he is in awe at the kind of music she plays. To Chiaki's dismay, Nodame moves into the apartment next to his and finds out that she is head-over-heels in love with him.
EXO Next Door (2015)
EXO Next Door (2015)
Ji Yeon-hee is an extremely shy, introverted 23-year-old girl with zero dating experience and a tendency to blush when talking to someone she likes. One day, four young men move into the house right next door to Yeon-hee's home, and to her surprise, they turn out to be Chanyeol, D.O, Baekhyun, and Sehun from her favorite boy band EXO, who are looking to lay low for a while. They hire her to clean their house part-time during the winter vacation and that's when Yeon-hee found out that Chanyeol was her long lost childhood friend and crush "Chan" and is the grandson of the house owner. As the story goes on, Yeon-hee soon becomes involved in a love triangle with Chanyeol and D.O.
Back Street Girls -GOKUDOLS- (2018)
Back Street Girls -GOKUDOLS- (2018)
A group of 3 yakuza failed their boss for the last time. After messing up an important job, the boss gave them 2 choices: honorably commit suicide, or go to Thailand to get a sex reassignment surgery in order to become "female" idols. After a gruesome year training to become idols, they successfully debut, with overwhelming popularity, much to their dismay. This is where their tragedy truly begins.
Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (2019)
Kono Oto Tomare!: Sounds of Life (2019)
Since the graduation of the senior members of the club, Takezou ends up being the sole member of the "Koto" (traditional Japanese string instrument) club. Now that the new school year has begun, Takezou will have to seek out new members into the club, or the club will become terminated. Out of nowhere, a new member barges into the near-abandoned club room, demanding to join the club. How will Takezou be able to keep his club alive and deal with this rascal of a new member?
My School President (2022)
My School President (2022)
Student body president Tinn has a secret crush on Gun, the head of the music club and lead singer of the middling band Chinzhilla. As the the son of the principal, Tinn is instructed to axe any clubs that don't boost their school's reputation. The music club tops that list and Tinn is therefore Gun's number one enemy. Desperate to save his club, Gun will do anything, even pledge servitude to Tinn. When Tinn learns Chinzhilla has a rule that band members aren't permitted to date until they win the Hot Wave Music Contest, he vows to do whatever it takes to help them do just that.
The Piano Forest (2018)
The Piano Forest (2018)
A tranquil tale about two boys from very different upbringings. On one hand you have Kai, born as the son of a prostitute, who's been playing the abandoned piano in the forest near his home ever since he was young. And on the other you have Syuhei, practically breast-fed by the piano as the son of a family of prestigious pianists. Yet it is their common bond with the piano that eventually intertwines their paths in life.
Fuuka (2017)
Fuuka (2017)
Yuu Haruna, a loner and an avid Twitter user, has just transferred to a new school in Tokyo. He ends up befriending a unique high school girl named Fuuka Akitsuki, despite some initial conflict, and the two wind up forming a band together with their classmates. Their relationship becomes strained however when Koyuki Hinashi, Yuu's childhood friend who has become a popular idol, contacts Yuu on Twitter and attempts to rekindle long lost feelings.
The Liar and His Lover (2017)
The Liar and His Lover (2017)
Kang Han-Kyeol is a great yet sullen composer who becomes inspired by the voices of others and keeps his identity secret from people. He meets Yoon So-Rim, a high school student who possesses beautiful singing, whilst under his secret identity, and she falls in love with him. Adaptation of the manga by Kotomi Aoki under the same name, which has been running since 2009.
Girls Band Cry (2024)
Girls Band Cry (2024)
Nina Iseri drops out of high school and moves to Tokyo by herself. In front of the station in the suburbs of Tokyo, Nina sees Momo Kawaragi singing alone and is touched by the power of music. Nina decides to form a band with Momo, Subaru Awasu, a girl who hides her true feelings, Tomo Ebutsuka, who was abandoned by her parents, and Rupa, a lonely girl without any family...
Tari Tari (2012)
Tari Tari (2012)
Wakana Sakai was involved in music, but gave it up one day. Konatsu Miyamoto loves singing and can't be torn from it. Sawa Okita would do anything for her closest friends. They laugh, they fight, they worry, they love... Through their very ordinary lives, little by little the girls learn to move forward. Sometimes they feel as if they can't go on alone, but as long as they have their friends, they believe they'll make it someday. Wakana, Konatsu, Sawa, and the music they make in their ensemble weave a tiny but dazzling story of the power of music.
About Youth (2022)
About Youth (2022)
The coolest, most self-centered kid in high school meets a quiet kid who is an instant rock star on-stage. Despite their differences in background and beliefs, they are set on the same goal––becoming a head student. Together, they are to sing a song about youth as they engage in a fierce campaign battle. Guang is the most popular kid in school and an idol to his peers. Chang is the successor to his family noodle stand and a guitarist/singer with endless potential. During the campaign, Guang finds himself drawn to Chang’s secret identity, and the two lonely souls soon begin to develop a mutually healing relationship dependent on each other.
Those Snow White Notes (2021)
Those Snow White Notes (2021)
Sawamura Matsugorou is a shamisen player of legendary talent. Upon his death, his grandson, Sawamura Yuki, lost his ability to play. Having lost his beloved sound, Yuki finds himself in Tokyo in search of a new sound to love. Tachimura Yuna, who works at a club, hooks him up with a gig to play there as a warm up act. Yuki imbues the sound of his shamisen with his many thoughts and feelings he has of others, still searching for his own sound and his own feelings.
Jazz For Two (2024)
Jazz For Two (2024)
Han Tae Yi lost his will to live after the death of his older brother, who was a genius jazz pianist. To Tae Yi, transfer student Yoon Se Heon is truly an uninvited guest. Se Heon has been playing jazz that reminds Tae Yi of his brother since the first day he transferred to school and gets on Tae Yi’s nerves. Se Heon also suspects that Tae Yi has a suspicious relationship with his friend Seo Do Yoon. Se Heon, who longs to play jazz freely and escape the eyes of his strict classical music professor father and Tae Yi, who wants to give up everything, was assigned to the same group for joint performance evaluation. As they practice together, they find themselves developing complex emotions for one another. However, just as their relationship begins to deepen, Song Joo Ha, a senior student who was suspended from school, returns to school, and his presence begins to stir up things between Tae Yi and Se Heon.
