C-Dramas Like Ode to Joy
Loved Ode to Joy (2016), CCTV-8, and want more with the same feel? It is known for apartment building, female friendship and class difference. Here are 10 Chinese dramas that come closest, ranked from the best match down.
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Meteor Garden
流星花园
Shan Cai is an 18-year-old girl from a modest family who earns a place at the country’s most elite school.
Same feel: Class Difference, Drama, Romance
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With You
A group of college students living in the same dorm navigate music ambitions, first relationships and the general uncertainty of figuring out adult life together.
Same feel: Ensemble Cast, Drama, Romance
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Twenty Your Life On
二十不惑
Four college roommates on the verge of graduation face the sudden pressure of job hunting, relationships and figuring out who they actually are once school stops giving them a…
Same feel: Ensemble Cast, Drama
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Thunder Chaser
雷霆令
Narcotics squad captain Bai Hua takes a group of young officers, including Zhuang Yan and Li Xiao, into an escalating fight against a spreading drug trafficking operation.
Same feel: Ensemble Cast, Drama
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Nothing But Thirty
三十而已
Three women approaching thirty in Shanghai each face a different kind of reckoning: one with a crumbling marriage, one with a stalled career, one with the gap between the life she…
Same feel: Drama, Romance
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Oh My General
将军在上
Ye Zhao is a celebrated female general who's spent her career disguised as a man to be taken seriously on the battlefield, until an arranged marriage to a scheming young lord…
Same feel: Drama, Romance
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When We Were Young
人不彪悍枉少年
In 1996 a high school runner is hurt in a lab accident while chasing a bike thief and loses her chance to compete.
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The Princess Wei Young
锦绣未央
When the Northern Liang dynasty is destroyed in a single night, a kind princess survives as an orphan and stumbles into enemy territory.
Same feel: Drama, Romance
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Noble Aspirations
青云志
When his entire village is massacred, eleven-year-old Xiao Fan survives alongside a childhood friend and one villager, and the pair are taken in by a righteous martial sect.
Same feel: Drama, Romance
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About Ode to Joy
Five women from very different class backgrounds end up living on the same floor of a Shanghai apartment building, and the show follows how their friendship forms and gets tested… See the full page, cast and where to watch →
Questions about dramas like Ode to Joy
What are the best dramas like Ode to Joy?
Our top picks are Meteor Garden, With You, Twenty Your Life On, followed by Thunder Chaser. Each one shares parts of its feel, such as apartment building, female friendship and class difference, and links to a page with the story, cast and where to watch.
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