JDrama newbe ask for recommendation :)

Some of my personal favorites:

• Kotaki Kyodai to Shikuhakku (about two brothers who work as "rental oyaji")
• Dakara Watashi wa Oshimashita (about a woman who becomes interested in the underground idol scene)
• Eerie: Mienai Kao (thriller)
• Juhan Shuttai! (workplace drama in a publishing house, focusing on manga publishing)
• Soratobu Kouhoushitsu (workplace drama about Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, and a journalist who covers them)
• Spark (a drama about manzai comedian, and even though its main characters are comedians, I assure you the drama itself is not the least funny; the ending is really weird and I'm still trying to figure it out even now)
• anone (a drama about a group of misfits who end up as a "family" of some sort)
• Quartet (four "failed" musicians band together to form a string quartet)
• Yami no Bansosha (investigation drama; unique in how it uses the perspective of a seasoned manga editor in solving the case)
• Kataomoi (mystery drama; I'm trying to avoid spoiler here, but it shows how some marginalized people try to make a life in a society that doesn't seem to accept them as they are)
• Tokyo Joshi Zukan (a woman and her life in Tokyo, seen step by step as she continually moved from one neighborhood to the other)
• Gou Gou, Neko de Aru (a manga artist, her cat, her assistants, and her day to day life; very low key)
• Koko wa Ima kara Rinri desu (real life problems faced by high-schoolers, considered through the lens of Ethics; I think the English subs is still ongoing)
• Ore no Hanashi wa Nagai (a jobless man is really good at talking)
• No Con Kid (video games and friendship)

Liar Game. (Japanese original, 2 seasons + 1 movie)

I rate it 10.

But I rated 5 the korean remake.

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I will share the 5 most recent that I have watched that generally are not within your exclusion criteria. 

If you enjoy them I can provide more.

I do not use instagram but thank you