Best J-dramas of 2026 I January – March
Your favorite Japanese dramas of 2026 that began airing in the first quarter (January to March), late december 2025 is also fine. I tried to add every dramas airing during this quarter, but you can add a new drama if I forgot it.
Thank's for voting! (:
Momo 1 day ago
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![One Piece Season 2: Into the Grand Line]()
Luffy and the Straw Hats set sail for the extraordinary Grand Line — a legendary stretch of sea where danger and wonder await at every turn. As they journey through this unpredictable ...more -
![Countdown to Yes]()
Minato Yokoi and Wataru Nakano became best friends in high school after a shared love of photography, and even lived together during university. When Minato moved to Hokkaido for work, Wataru returned ...more -
![Contrast]()
Aoyama Kanata is a popular student who is always surrounded by people, yet there is a certain emotional distance about him. Senkawa Akira is an academically outstanding loner. They don’t know each ...more -
![Cosmetic Playlover Season 2]()
In Season 2, the two will face obstacles as they move up the career ladder and ponder their future. Furthermore, their long-distance relationship faces a crisis. (Source: Japanese = natalie.mu || Translation ...more -
![The Boy Next World: My Destiny]()
The ordinary daily life of Yotsuba Fu, a college student with zero romantic experience, is suddenly turned upside down one day. The senior admired by everyone on campus, Kogami Sara, abruptly tells ...more -
![Kateikyoshi no Kishi Knight desu.]()
The story is a heartwarming comedy about "sparkling prince" private tutor Kishi Naito and the hot-headed delinquent, Takasugi Toru. Toru's mother, worried about her son's constant fighting and terrible test scores, hires ...more -
![Mirai's Future Son]()
Shiokawa Mirai, a woman in her late twenties whose love life, career, and dreams have all remained stuck in a state of “half-done,” suddenly finds her world shaken when a young boy ...more -
![The Ghost Writer's Wife]()
Set in Meiji-era Matsue, Toki is a quirky girl from a once-proud samurai family now struggling with poverty after her father’s failed business. To make ends meet, she becomes a maid for ...more -
![The Ransom Is Kidnapping]()
A mystery about a couple who are forced to make a choice: "Can I kidnap someone else's child to save my daughter's life?" (Source: Japanese = natalie.mu || Translation = kisskh) -
![Professional: Insurance Investigator Ren Amane]()
10. Professional: Insurance Investigator Ren Amane
Japanese Drama - 2026, 11 episodes99 points by 1 votersAmano Ren, who works for the insurance investigation firm Miyama Research, is a fearless and highly skilled insurance investigator who ignores common sense and compliance entirely, using any means necessary to uncover ...more -
![We Are Worse at Love than Pandas]()
Shibata Ichiha, who entered a publishing company dreaming of becoming a fashion magazine editor, learns on her very first day that the magazine has been discontinued. With her dream crushed, she spends ...more -
![119 Emergency Call: 2026 Yokohama Blackout]()
12. 119 Emergency Call: 2026 Yokohama Blackout
Japanese Drama - 2026, 1 episode97 points by 1 votersOn the other end of the increasingly hectic phone lines at the Communications Command Center, accidents, illnesses, fires, and year-end–specific troubles occur one after another. In the midst of this, the introduction ...more -
![Themis no Futashikana Hotei]()
Ando Kiyoharu is a judge in his seventh year of service. Having been transferred from Tokyo to the Maebashi District Court’s First Branch, he appears, at first glance, to be a gentle ...more -
![The Faceless Patient]()
Tsuzuki Ryo, a surgeon, has his beloved wife suddenly kidnapped. In her place, an unidentified patient appears, someone whose face has been completely crushed. The kidnapper threatens Tsuzuki, saying, “If you do ...more -
![Matori and Kyoken]()
A drug-related murder occurs at a club in Roppongi. A customer stabs a waiter after overdosing on cocaine, and then dies himself. The person who sold the drugs to this customer was ...more -
![Mr. Kurosaki's Pure Love Never Stops]()
A high school student, Shirase Koharu, helps out at an onigiri shop that was opened by her mother, who passed away three years ago. While assisting her father in running the shop, ...more -
![Silent Truth]()
The story begins 23 years in the past. Junichi, then a sixth-grade elementary school student, buried a handgun used in a certain incident beneath a cherry blossom tree on the school grounds ...more -
![Sounds of Winter]()
Tsuchida Ayana, a 27-year-old novelist who has published two books to date and is currently writing her third. She usually works part-time at a second-hand clothing store and has a boyfriend, but ...more -
![Moto Kasoken no Onna]()
It depicts Yoshioka Shiori, a full-time housewife once known as the “ace of the Forensic Science Laboratory,” as she takes on cases through scientific reasoning while facing her daily routines of housework ...more -
![Kono Ai wa Machigai desu ka: Furin no Shokuzai]()
20. Kono Ai wa Machigai desu ka: Furin no Shokuzai
Japanese Drama - 2026, 12 episodes87 points by 1 votersMatsumoto Naho is a housewife who works part-time at a supermarket. She believed her marriage to her husband, Shogo, who works at a travel agency, was going smoothly as they entered their ...more -
![If Only You Weren't the One]()
Onuma Mihono works at a travel agency. After breaking up with her boyfriend of six years, someone she had been thinking about marriage with, she realizes she is already 30. Then, a ...more -
![One in a Million: Tax Squad]()
There's a newly established department within what is known as “Kome”: the “Complex National Tax Case Processing Office,” also known by the nickname “Zakkoku.” Yoneda Seiko establishes Zakkoku to handle “troublesome” cases ...more -
![Gimbap and Onigiri]()
Hase Taiga who has been working part-time at the small restaurant "Tanomi" for three years, was once a promising young man as the ace of the university's relay team, but his past ...more -
![Yukari-kun wa Gap ga Zurui]()
“That gap is unfair~!” Once a week, Mori Meiko begins working as an instructor at an announcing school. She manages to get through the unfamiliar classes thanks to her earnest student “Yukari-kun,” ...more -
![Erotic Novels in This Day and Age?]()
Oizumi Mashiro, who loves manga, especially shojo manga and BL comics, had followed her mother’s wishes and worked at a law firm while aiming to become a lawyer, but ultimately gave up. ...more -
![It Is My Husband]()
Asahi Seiko, an oden shop owner, lives a happy life with her husband Kazuki, two children, and mother-in-law. Her world shatters when Kazuki disappears. A month later, she identifies a decomposed body ...more -
![Salvation, Swallowed by the Nest]()
Minase Ama, a rookie idol, spends her days enduring harassment from the members of “LUNA NEST,” led by Saotome Anna. Amid this, Ama is guided by the popular actor Hosho Chiaki, whom ...more -
![Tabi to Boku to Neko]()
Nekogami Mamoru, a travel writer who journeys across the country with a camera in hand, has a certain secret. That secret is that he can “talk to cats.” Relying on this mysterious ...more
