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500 series (top 500 shown)

Outrageous Fortune

★ 8.4
3K 107 2005–2010
Comedy · Crime · Drama

Liar Game

★ 8.0
3K 21 2007–2010
Drama · Thriller

Nobuta Wo Produce

★ 7.6
3K 10 2005–2005
Comedy · Drama

Point Pleasant

★ 6.9
3K 13 2005–2005
Crime · Drama · Horror

Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne

★ 7.0
3K 6 2008–2008
Action · Animation · Drama

Longitude

★ 7.8
3K 2 2000–2000
Drama · History

Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue

★ 6.5
3K 40 2000–2000
Action · Adventure · Drama

I Shouldn't Be Alive

★ 8.1
3K 63 2005–2012
Biography · Documentary · Drama

Love Hina

★ 6.9
3K 25 2000–2001
Animation · Comedy · Drama

Tsunami: The Aftermath

★ 6.8
3K 2 2006–2006
Drama

The Last Detective

★ 7.8
3K 17 2003–2007
Comedy · Crime · Drama

Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

★ 7.9
3K 2 2001–2001
Biography · Drama · Music

Ultimate Force

★ 7.5
3K 21 2002–2006
Action · Drama · Thriller

The State Within

★ 7.7
3K 6 2006–2006
Crime · Drama · Thriller

Keen Eddie

★ 8.3
3K 13 2003–2004
Comedy · Crime · Drama

The Twelve Kingdoms

★ 7.8
2K 45 2002–2003
Adventure · Animation · Drama

Dante's Cove

★ 5.8
2K 13 2004–2007
Drama · Horror · Mystery

Mental

★ 7.0
2K 13 2009–2009
Drama

Cambridge Spies

★ 7.4
2K 4 2003–2003
Drama · History

The Forgotten

★ 6.6
2K 17 2009–2010
Crime · Drama · Thriller

Asmali Konak

★ 6.0
2K 54 2002–2003
Drama

Boomtown

★ 8.1
2K 24 2002–2003
Crime · Drama · Mystery

Locked Up Abroad

★ 8.2
2K 132 2007–present
Documentary · Drama

Fortysomething

★ 7.5
2K 6 2003–2003
Comedy · Drama
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