Slice of life drama about friendship, family, and cute romance.
Recommended by nova soraya
Youth drama, mostly taking place in high school, about friendship and family. It also has same actor (Marcus Li) in it, but he plays a support role.
Recommended by christy
Both dramas are about youth and romance. Both features teenage male and female lead. In addition, both have independent male leads.
Recommended by CC_
We only have two episodes of Twenty-Five Twenty-One but I think if you like this show then you'd really enjoy When We Were Young.

When We Were Young is a Chinese show about students in the year 1996, so there is a similar vibe going on between these two shows. Although When We Were Young doesn't have an age gap between the two leads, this show does well to really create the curiosity of "Will they get in the future?" from the viewers (like we get from 2521).

It's very wholesome and full of fun family and friendship relationships. Even though we don't know much about how the rest of 2521 will play out, I think When We Were Young is a good show to watch after/when watching 2521.
Recommended by booaugust
When We Were Young and Never Grow Old are very similar s they are set in the 90s if I recall correctly.
They focus on friendship and family bonds, more specifically the former.
The way it's filmed and edited is pretty similar.
Recommended by Hyukfied
although WWWY is more high school centred and PYHOMS is more college-ish centred both dramas have a smart male lead that does pretty well in school. In both the dramas the female lead has a childhood friend and in which the male lead also comes into the picture which causes a love triangle between the three of them. Both dramas also have friend group that goes out and hangs out together and both shows also portray the school/college life pretty well.
Recommended by Mika
They are not similar but its a
-youth love story
-ML is handsome
-cute female lead
It's a good drama
It's is worth seeing this drama
YOU WON'T REGREAT THE DRAMA.....!
Recommended by Chandana_abcd
Both have the same genres of romance, friendship, school life, set in the 90’s, teen, coming-of-age, slice of life
Recommended by UGHSEHUN
Both dramas are all about youth, romance, comedy. The characters are students and both are set in school setting. Both dramas have transferee main characters.
Recommended by CC_
Both dramas are about romance and youth. The setting is set on school and both of female and male leads were teenagers.
Recommended by CC_
Both dramas portray school life in china in the past
Both dramas are about students trying to live properly and succeed
Both dramas have good friendship between students on and off school
Recommended by Architectofnonsence
Similiar time frame and cinematography. similiar concepts of youth except Only the Wind Knows is more mature and deals with heavier subjects but the vibe is similiar.

Also both about poor lower-class students, and best friends slowly falling in love.

Recommended by BTSFT123
One thing for sure that a viewer will feel after watching this drama is Sepanx. I think i have to rewatched my favorite episodes throughout the week for me to to move on and accept that this drama has already ended.
Love all the cast and tgeir characters.
One thing i realized after watching this drama is that, i should have also skipped classes during my highschool life, hahahah, for sure it was also fun like them.
Recommended by Regine
EXTREMELY similar in the vibe, focus on family as well as friends/romance; wwwy does not extend to adulthood but amount of 'tragedy' and drama regarding loved ones and loss are very, very, very similar
Recommended by yzhjng
this drama is very much similar to the big boss as the story deals with overcoming the problem of every student in the school and leads to forming unity between classmates. here also in the very end, leads realize that they like each other but the same story is is still incomplete.
Recommended by mumi
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