Lovely Runner (2024)

- Both have Byeon Woo Seok as the ML
- Same vibe as around 2000s high school romance
- Dealing with death
- Overall, these are just two excellent shows/movies that share the same vibe

-Not related to time travel.
-Not idol × fans trope.

-He fell first and fell harder trope.
-Both ML shows 5 different types of love languages really care towards FL.
-Both ML & FL involve in sports specifically whereas Lovely Runner involve in entertainment.
If you are looking for a green-flagged or even green forest type of male lead. This show is one of them.

You say simp and the ML from LR and FL from WIFTY will compete to take the call ??

Though they have different genre high school and green flag friendship is what is the most common factor about both of them ?

P.S: Rewatch value 10/10 for both

Watched too many edits of SWDBS ML being the oldest, LR ML being the middle and FL WIFTY being the youngest child. ?

Both are similar in a way that female leads tried to help their crush live. Both shows also have the same time travel troupe but different in medium.

Repeated timelines while trying to achieve better ending.
Queen In Hyun's Man is a romance heavy drama, with much less plot holes than lovely runner, and the acting is to the point.
Lovely Runner on the other hand while it is a little weak on the acting and pacing part, it's full of fluff from start to finish.
Both are rom com. Recommend both of them.

mix of music, comedy ,first love, darker themes but filled with chemistry, great acting and a good dose of healing.

Completely different stories, but they had similar quality in storylines the series stayed strong through out delivery a decent story with a lot of lighthearted comedic moments peppered in between. And unlike most series there wasn’t a midseries slump where the storyline loses steam, your attention it engaged from the first to last episodes.

Both dramas are about high school love and goofy lives of teenagers but with a twist!

- Main stories of both dramas are set in near past (Reply - 1997; LR - 2008) and framed with current time. The near past element gives the story somewhat retro vibe
- Both dramas have mystery element (R - who is the husband?; LR - what lead to the tragedy that happened in current time?)
- Both female leads are energic, fun girls and also hopeless kpop stans
- Both male leads are good guys who fall first

Difference is in the stakes of the story. In Lovely Runner, the stakes are much higher as FL time travels back in time and tries to prevent several tragedies; in Reply the fantasy element is not there, these are just teenagers, living their lives

The Similarity is that, Both the drama is about a second chance of life. Not only that both included being an idol having a second chance. Thank you

Both FLs time travel into the past and their school days in order to save the ML who appears to have committed suicide.

A male lead who can't confess to his first love. He travels back in time and returns to his high school years. This time he tries to help the girl he loves to confess to her past self..................................................

Both FLs time travel back to their school days.
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ML likes FL first (this one actively chases after her tho) but both really REALLY like her.
Suburban/Small town setting
Same quirky humor
Serial killer after the female lead
Both these shows add some aspects of a thriller in the drama which juxtaposes the bright romantic tone the show presents itself as.
(Both shows are able to still stay light throughout it tho)

Both dramas are about one of the leads suddenly dying and the other time traveling back to their school days in an effort to save their life.

Both dramas are about one of the leads suddenly dying and the other time traveling back to the past in an effort to save their life.