Japanese dramas for beginners

I have never watched a Japanese drama before and want to try it for the first time - preferably a rom-com series. Anyway, I have no idea about them so I am open to dramas with any genre which is worth watching.  

 kardasx:

Japanese shows are somehow more crazy (or at least those I watched) :)

• Ashi Girl - FL time travels to sengoku era (fantasy/scifi/historical/romcom)
• Attention Please - Wacky FL wants to become cabin attendant (it is comedy with light romance)
• Good Luck!! - this is my favourite. ML is co-pilot and wants to become captain, FL is airplane mechanic. It is nice slice-of-life romcom.
• GTO - older (1998), but very good. ML is former gang leader and becomes teacher of the most problematic class. (good action comedy, light romance)
• Limit - school drama about survival (psychological)
• Lupin no Musume - Romcom, where FL is from a family of thieves and ML's family are police officers. It is a mix of Romeo & Juliet, Mission Impossible and other action shows. :)
• Boku Dake ga Inai Machi - thriller, time travel, suspense, mystery

Some other romcoms that should be good, but I have not seen or not finished them yet:

• Uchi no Musume wa, Kareshi ga Dekinai!! 
• 5-ji Kara 9-ji Made 
• Neechan no Koibito
• Shanai Marriage Honey

Thanks! I'll try "Lupin no Musume" first...seems interesting.

The classics:

HanaKimi

Kurosagi

Some I would highly recommend: 

• +1 Long Vacation 
• +1 Boku Dake ga Inai Machi 
• Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu  (rom-com)
• Todome no Kiss  (rom-com + mystery)
• Pride  (romance + hockey)
• My Boss, My Hero  (this is pretty much just comedy)
• BORDER  (crime mystery thriller + supernatural)

30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii

Daisy Luck

Dame na Watashi ni Koishite Kudasai 

Edo Moiselle: Reiwa de Koi, Itashinsu

Hajimete Koi wo Shita Hi ni Yomu Hanashi

Horimiya

Kimi Wa Petto (2017): You may also check out the 2003 version of Kimi Wa Petto. A lot of people prefer that one but I personally prefer the 2017 version.

Semi Otoko

Starman - This Star's Love 

ROMANCE

• Hana yori dango – it’s a must see it’s the classical Cinderella story but one of the bests ever done (2 seasons and 1 movie) 
• Buzzer Beat – good romance drama about 2 people that meet and fall in love but first they have to find the perfect timing for them to be together 
• Love Shuffle – it’s a story involving 4 couples and how they learn what love is
• Pride – a classic romance drama with a mature couple who grow and learn from each other and also heal each others wounds
• Tatta Hitotsu no koi – a very good romance and it’s a Cinderella story but inverse (rich girl, poor boy)
• Hotaru no Hikari – this has 2 seasons and a movie, and it’s a bout a couple that has to live together due to some circumstances and gradually fall in love
• We married as a job - As mentioned before this one is compared to Because this is my first life. I liked both of them but I'll have to say I liked better how they managed the "contract relationship" at the final episodes here. 
• Koi wa tsuzuku yo doko made mo
• Soratobu Kouhoushitsu - I like this one, because is also about 2 persons who had their dreams broken about their ideal jobs but with the help of each other discover a new passion in life. 
• Kahogo no Kahoko - This one is pretty sweet and lighthearted, the OTP is very cute and it centers alot on family.
• Boku unmei no hito desu - This one is also pretty lighthearted, the male lead is very sweet and kind and it's totally focused on romance.

DRAMA

• Byakuyako – this is a very intense drama about 2 people that met since childhood and develop a strange relationship in which both of them are united by a serious of crimes
  Koizora
• Taiyou no kisetsu – a romance drama but with melo in it
• Soredemo, ikite yuku – this drama is also very heavy and it’s about a man whose sister is killed and the the killer’s sister who meets and falls in love with that man
• Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo sakebu – kind of like Koizora and 1 liter of tears

COMEDY

• Atashinchi no Danshi - 
• Hanazakari no Kimitachi e – reverse harem a girl crossdressing and living in a boys shcool
• Ouran High school host club – reverse harem a girl crossdressing so she can be part of the school’s host club
• Mei-chan no shitsuji
• My Boss, my hero – this drama is hilarious and it’s about a yakuza that has to go back to highschool in order to get his high school diploma, but he has to keep his yakuza status a secret

SLICE OF LIFE

• Nodame Cantabile – very good drama with romance an music it has 1 season, 2 specials and 2 movies
• My girl – it’s a drama of a man that suddenly finds out he has a daughter and has to live wit her.
• GTO – If you liked Dragon Zakura you’ll like this one and the following one (Gokusen) It’s about teachers and troublesome students 
• Gokusen
• Dragon Zakura
• Aogeba Toutoshi
• Ore no hanashi wa nagai
• Uchi no musume wa kareshi ga dekinai
  
  

SUSPENSE ( japanese suspense dramas are very good, do try them, this dramas are 10, 9 and 9.5 for me)

• Maou – the best suspense drama ever!
  The quiz show 2 – it’s about a Quiz show were they ask the contestants very personal questions in order to reveal their deepest secrets
• N no tame ni – it’s about a group of friends that are united due to a double assassination and they hide who the killer is  
• Ryusei no Kizuna – a revenge drama about 3 siblings who look for the killer of their parents before the statute of limitations ends
• Liar Game – it’s about a game that involves lying a deception in order to win
• Kazoku game – it’s a psychological drama about a teacher and a family and his strange ways of teaching
• Kurosagi – it’s about a swindler who targets swindlers due to his personal vendetta
• Todome no kiss - it also has romance
  
  

SPORTS

• H2 – baseball and romance united in a story about highschool life
• Tumbling – a group of boys who bond through tumbling and find a dream to follow
• Yowakutemo Katemasu – a different kind of underdog drama about a baseball team who challenges winning a baseball game with new strategies involving their weakness
• Rookies