Gimbap and Onigiri

About Gimbap and Onigiri

A disillusioned former college track star working at a diner meets a tired Korean animation student struggling to find housing in Japan, and they instantly connect over an emotional moment involving a rice ball.

Gimbap and Onigiri is a drama series that ran on TV Tokyo and TV Aichi.

Its one season of 10 episodes aired between January 2026 and March 2026.

Eiji Akaso appears as Taiga Hase, Kang Hye-won as Park Rin, Moon Ji-hoo as Kang Jun-ho, and Mai Fukagawa as Masumi Miyauchi. Production companies include BABEL LABEL, Reinbach, and TV Tokyo.

In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads. It carries a TV-PG rating.