Can anyone recommend anything where a young (teenager/young adult) character is abused/homeless/starving and their friends find out and help fix it? Like the sub plots in Sassy Go Go or Angry Mom? In a tough spot, really craving some dramas where friends support and love each other. 

There are not many youth dramas with this trope that come to my mind but i think in Master of Study has a character that struggled similarly. I didnt finish the drama so idk if it is worth of recommending.

Page Turner has a disabled female lead who is struggling and a friend helps her. But they dont start the story as friends.

For some youth dramas with supportive friends who love each other I rec Age of Youth. Its about 5 university students who live together. They go through different hardships and help each other. One of them is in a terrible relationship which escalates into kidnapping/abuse and others save her.

And finally I rec a movie Sunny. It is a really beautiful movie about friendship.

My favorite is :Hit the Top

  • School 2017 - ML has a very bad relationship with his father, FL has minor PTSD from a traumatic accident, SFL is hiding her family's poverty - friends help each other with all of these problems
  • Who Are You School 2015 - FL deals with bullying, SML has a bad relationship with his father
  • Hi! School - Love On - friends rally to protect the FL's supernatural secret, friends help support the ML's family business owned by his grandmother, especially after his grandmother passes away
  • Dream High - FL's father flees the country to escape debts and she must look after her sister on her own; the SML is an aspiring singer who develops tinnitus which causes temporary hearing loss

You can watch Save me. 

  • Middle school student A (Kor | middle school) - about bullying and the mentally pressures from parents do students for good graes and specs
  • Anthology (Kor | highschool) - about the seemingly perfect country boy and the angry transferee seoul girl
  • While you were sleeping (Kor | hjghschool) - subplot of a girl that is experiencing and seeing her moms abuse in the hands of her father and the boy who cared enough to help her
  • Kingyo club (Jpn | highschool) - about a bullied girl at school who is being neglected at home, and the boy who gave her a place to belong
  • Mars (Twn | college) - about 2 individuals who found each other and learned to help each other in their dark wounds and feers