Over the last three years, Netflix has steadily expanded its Young Adult (YA) slate across the Asia-Pacific region, including the recent premiere of its first YA series in Japan, Chastity High.
The streamer’s YA slate includes school dramas like India’s Class and Kota Factory, Korea’s Hierarchy, Australia’s Heartbreak High and Japan’s youth-focused romance drama Drawing Closer. Themes revolve around high school life, academic pressures, relationships and self-discovery.
The streamer announced in May that Heartbreak High will be renewed for a third and final season. The first season debuted at number six on Netflix’s global top 10 English series list in September 2022, remaining in the list for three weeks. The second season also ranked in the same list in April 2024.
Netflix’s first YA series in Japan, Chastity High, ranked in the streamer’s global top 10 list for non-English series in the first week
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