I recently watched Love Lasts Forever/Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Dokomademo and found it super cute & engaging with just the right amount of everything in there. I’m not a really advanced viewer of Japanese dramas, a lot I start end up losing my attention somewhere in the middle. I also liked Overprotected Kahoko! Are there any that are similar in the vein that they are entertaining & satisfying in multiple ways (whether it be love & family like Kahoko or love &friendship & profession like Love Lasts Forever)?

They don’t necessarily have to be romantic recommendations (totally open to romantic shows with a cute couple & satisfying trajectory though). Basically just any Japanese drama you love and would sincerely recommend as a good watch! 

Maybe these Romantic Jdramas:

  • we married as a job
  • From 5 to 9
  • Buzzer Beat
  • Pride
  • Good morning call


Highly recommended jdramas but not romance centered:

  • 1 liter of tears - melodrama
  • Code Blue - medical
  • Kounodori - medical
  • Mr. Hiragii's classroom - social injustice
  • Hero - legal
  • Hanzawa Naoki - business
  • Stepmother and daughter blues - family
  • Unnatural - crime
  • Hundred milliona stars falling from the sky - crime

Sorry for the long list, the following are all romance ones:

  • From 5 to 9
  • Boku unmei no hito desu
  • Hana yori dango
  • Sekai ichi muzukashii koi
  • Pride
  • Buzzer Beat
  • Good morning call
  • Itazura na kiss love in tokyo
  • Hotrau no Hikari
  • We married as job
  • It's not that I can't marry but I don't want to
  • Survival wedding
  • Zenkai Girl
  • Proposal Daisakusen
  • 1 litre of tear (romance but also lots of tears as the title suggests)

IF you're interested in other genres like suspense/mystery/psychological

  • Maou
  • Ryusei no kizuna
  • Kazoku game
  • Liar game
  • Todome no kiss (this one has romance as well)
  • The quiz show 2
  • N no tame ni
  • Unnatural

These ones are abiut friendship

  • Tumbling
  • Rookies
  • Aoegaba Toutoshi
  • Suikyuu Yankees

All these gave me immense satisfaction 

Buzzer beat 

Hana yori dongo 

Siren 

Watashitachi wadouka shiteru 

Coffee & vanilla 

Irrespective of their genre all these have romance in them

Honestly it depends on your taste
https://mydramalist.com/profile/OldAnimeLady/lists'

I keeps lists to share and most of the dramas mentioned here are on them.  They are separated by Genre and updated when I watch some thing I like