Both dramas have "fish out of water" leads with water-related abilities/worlds who come on land to find their true love. The human they attach themselves to reject them at first but are forced to live with them and teach them about the world, only to fall in love.
Recommended by emeraldarrows
8.5 W (2016)
The crime part of the story in W reminded me of The Legend Of The Blue Sea
Both are Love story with cute and sad parts as well
(and with their own kind of humour)
Recommended by Nagy Hanna
Also about a mermaid falling in love with a human. Also a cute cast, beautiful, funny (and a bit sad) story + it's short but enough to fill you with good emotions.

*There are some similarities in the 1st episodes (the mall, the food...), perhaps there will be some more till the end of Legend of the blue sea.
Recommended by Izida
Mermaid character meets human, romance follows. They cry pearls which the human uses as money. Comedic moments mixed with serious ones.
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// required header file
#include
#include
#include

using namespace std;


// height and width of the boundary

const int width = 80;

const int height = 20;


// Snake head coordinates of snake (x-axis, y-axis)

int x, y;
// Food coordinates

int fruitCordX, fruitCordY;
// variable to store the score of he player

int playerScore;
// Array to store the coordinates of snake tail (x-axis,
// y-axis)

int snakeTailX[100], snakeTailY[100];
// variable to store the length of the sanke's tail

int snakeTailLen;
// for storing snake's moving snakesDirection

enum snakesDirection { STOP = 0, LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN };
// snakesDirection variable
snakesDirection sDir;
// boolean variable for checking game is over or not

bool isGameOver;


// Function to initialize game variables

void GameInit()
{

isGameOver = false;

sDir = STOP;

x = width / 2;

y = height / 2;

fruitCordX = rand() % width;

fruitCordY = rand() % height;

playerScore = 0;
}


// Function for creating the game board & rendering

void GameRender(string playerName)
{

system("cls"); // Clear the console



// Creating top walls with '-'

for (int i = 0; i < width + 2; i++)

cout << "-";

cout << endl;



for (int i = 0; i < height; i++) {

for (int j = 0; j <= width; j++) {

// Creating side walls with '|'
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Both dramas feature reincarnated lovers meeting again in modern day. In their past life in a historical era, both fell in love with each other but ended up with tragedy. Both couples are given chances to meet and fall in love again in the modern day current life.
Recommended by Yuisa_m
The two of them about two lifetimes one in the past and one in the present and they are trying to change the history maybe in a different way but for me i think they are really similar and the both of them are good
Recommended by Banada6
These may not appear to be similar, but I was reminded of LOTBS when watching Extraordinary You. LOTBS is more serious while Extraordinary You is fluffier, but both dramas have:
-funny/spunky female leads
-cute romance but with sad/emotional scenes sprinkled in
-parallel timelines (joseon/modern) in which ML and FL were in love. In both dramas the ML is aware of the parallel timeline and tries to change their destiny
-amnesia
Recommended by samgyeopsal
Both are centered around mermaids, the male leads have sketchy occupations, and there are interspecies romances.
Recommended by muddaro
Both are love stories between a mermaid or merman and a human. The mermaid/merman's life is attached to the human.
Recommended by emeraldarrows
These two both one supernatural lead and a regular human lead for the other.
They both have reincarnation plots as well as villains who were present in their past lives.
In both of these dramas, the main lead is very confident in his abilities.
Recommended by thatkdramagirl
Supernatural, spunky female lead (ghost in Arang, mermaid in Legend) with a male lead that starts off indifferent but changes because of the female. Both males have to protect the females throughout the drama. Both males are also looking for their mothers. Both have fantasy, mystery, comedy, drama and romance, and both are based off Korean folktales.
Recommended by Hanah
Water always is the mystery entity.... for SSL it's time travel and for LotBS is memories. In a sense, they're both time travel and show how love has no time but overall they have the same comedic feeling and "foreigner" trying to get accustomed to life in a new world.
Recommended by Kelly
They have the same kind of fluffy feeling in the beginnings and the way Joon Jae has to teach nearly everything about the world to Sim Chim Chung is similar as Louis hardships to get know the world. So in SKL the girl teaches the boy about how to live a normal life and in LOTBS the boy teaches the girl.
One more thing: in Legend of The Blue Sea Joon Jae forgat Shim Chung because she erased his memories. On Shopping King Louis he also forgat everything because he had amnesia.
Recommended by Nagy Hanna
Maybe am still stuck with Moon Lovers, but you can see how both revolves around history and present with reincarnation of the main characters. If you love destined romance which repeats itself despite the passing time, then you definitely will love this.
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