Dramas like
Revenge of Others

School violence with a friendship at the centre and an ending it planned. Same subject of a student who cannot go to any adult and the classmate who becomes the only available protection, and the same brutal escalation. Difference: it is far more violent, it never blinks, and every consequence is paid on screen rather than assigned to the wrong character.

Hooks early Episode 1. Eight episodes, zero filler, and the first fight tells you exactly what kind of show this is.

Cruelty as a system instead of a twist. Same closed school where the hierarchy decides who can be hurt, and the same refusal to let any student be simply likeable. Difference: ten episodes at pace 5 built on an anonymous monthly vote, so the mechanism is the drama and it never needs a medical excuse.

Hooks early Episode 1. The monthly popularity vote and the class ranking it creates are laid out immediately.

What school bullying looks like twenty years later. Same conviction that this is a crime with a long tail and the same patient assembly of a case against people who have forgotten. Difference: adults, sixteen episodes, and the plan is designed rather than improvised, so the finale delivers instead of unravelling.

Hooks early Episode 2, once the board is set and you can see the shape of her plan.

Bullies met with force by people who do not care about process. Same anger at a system that produces rulings like the one that opens this show, and the same graphic staging of what is being avenged. Difference: the avengers are adults with state backing, so it is catharsis rather than a mystery.

Hooks early Episode 1. The format is set inside the first hour: a school, a crime, a very direct correction. It does not deepen after that, it repeats.

The courtroom these cases actually end in. Same world of minors, evidence and rulings that satisfy nobody, and the same cold refusal of comic relief. Difference: it is a ten-episode procedural with adults at the centre, no teenage heroes, and no revenge available to anyone.

Hooks early Episode 1, and it is the hardest case in the series. Nothing later is easier to sit through, and the show never lets up.

The adults who build the pressure these kids are killing each other over. Same elite school world of ranked futures and reputations that must be protected at any cost. Difference: twenty episodes of satire, no violence, and it is funny, which makes the horror arrive by a completely different route.

Hooks early Episode 2, once the coordinator arrives and the rules of the estate are clear.