I Don't Love You Yet (2019)

The Time We Were Not in Love is remake of Taiwanese drama In Time With You. I Don't Love You Yet is also remake of TWN In Time With You.

Both are based on the original story, "In Time With You", a Taiwanese drama.

Both are about bestfriends since high school falling in love.

TTWWNIL is just the Korean remake of ITWY.

They are both stories about how high school friends like each other but stay as friends for a long time because one of them is always with someone. Even when their with someone they are always there for the other person. The couple ends up dating after one of them has the courage to confess to the other because they don't want to lose their best friend if they break up.

While on vacation in Hokkaido, Natsuki happens to meet Soichirou, a photographer. Unbelievably, she runs into him two more times completely by coincidence, and out of this, a great friendship is formed. He turns out to be the younger brother of one of her best friends, and they all end up living under the same roof. Three women, all unmarried, and all nearing age 30, plus 25-year-old Soichirou. Can a man and a woman truly be friends without ever falling in love? How large is the line between friendship and love, or does it even exist at all?

If you like this drama, you might wanna try to watch this. It's the Japanese remake of In Time With You, so the plot is pretty the same as the original.

Saimori Miyo was the unfortunate child of a loveless, arranged marriage. After her mother died, her father brought in his lover and her own daughter, Kaya. From then on, Miyo's life was reduced to that of a mere servant. Even worse, while Kaya inherited the family's psychic abilities, Miyo had none—she was truly the daughter with no merit. After years of being treated like dirt, Miyo has learned to keep her head down, hide her pain, and obey every order. So, it comes as no surprise that she is arranged to be married to Kudo Kiyoka, a military captain rumored to be so cruel that he has driven away every one of his potential wives so far. From a painful upbringing to a painful marriage, that's the future that awaits Miyo—or so she thinks. Contrary to her expectations, her new husband is actually kind-hearted. What really awaits Miyo is a blissful, everlasting marriage full of happiness!

Slow developments.
Great friendships,
Interesting characters.
Drama isn’t over the top.
Some realistic moments.

Remove the time-travel aspect of Legally Romance, and it's almost the same touching drama as I Don't Love You Yet (or it's many other remakes from Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, etc)

-Pair of best-buds, with a heart-warming friendship & a wholesome bond
-Leads approaching their 30's (28 to be exact)
-First confessions gone wrong & lots of bad timing, missed chances, etc.
-ML's silent, secret, unrequited love for the FL...
-Spunky, outspoken, independent & competent FLs....
-Annoying, gaslight-y ex-boyfriends who don't deserve a second chance,
-Disappearing/ MIA ex's who don't value the FL's identity, career aspirations, etc (which is a direct contrast to how supportive the ML's are, in comparison!)
-High-school/ College flashbacks, and a group of classmates which meets up regularly for batch-reunions!
-Ren's song for Yo, and Lu Xun's wish-bottle for Qian Wei ('nuff said!) IYKYK! :P

Basically, Exhibits proving Lu Xun & Ishida Ren as dream boyfriends! ^^ IDLYY is a must-watch for those who loved (& teared up a little) watching the story! :')

Nagao Kanji works for an advertising agency in his hometown of Ehime Prefecture. He is assigned to the Tokyo sales department where his colleague Akana Rika takes care of his work. One day, Kanji is invited to drinks by Mikami Kenichi, a former classmate from his hometown who is now in Tokyo, and he is also reunited with Sekiguchi Satomi who has feelings for him. However, Rika ends up joining them when she delivers Kanji’s wallet which he had left in office. On the way back, Rika tells him, “Kanchi, shall we kiss?” and he is rattled. There have been rumours in office that Rika is in a relationship with their boss Waga Natsuki.

The overly used drama or movie trope but still manages to capture our hearts:

"Bestfriends turning into lovers"

Will get you frustrated sometimes on why they have to deny their feelings for so long, but then again, you will understand that, they do not want to ruin the special friendship that they have. But will finally realize that it is worth to cross the line and go on and follow their hearts. In the end, love wins for everyone.

Both are similar in the sense of: Bestfriends falling in Love

I feel that L&L is the fast version of IDLYY because both have a male best friend falling in love with the female bestfriend; female bestfriend falls in love with another guy, but female bestfriend finally realizes at the end that its the male bestfriend that her heart really belongs to, even if she is on the verge of marrying her boyfriend.

They are different in the sense that , L&L has a government mandated partner that is matched with you, so female bestfriend had that, and she fell in love with the guy for real, even if its just an arranged marriage. In IDLYY, the other guy is an ex boyfriend, who returned to be the current boyfriend, that the female lead falls in love with enough to decide to marry or atleast, get engaged with.

But on both stories, both female leads decide to go with the male bestfriend.

Both stories are about bestfriends staying as bestfriends because they are afraid to lose each other if they were to tell the truth that what they feel for each other is actually love.

I Don't Love You Yet is also a story of two bestfriends that watch and support each other grow through many years. Similar to Hanbun, Aoi, their families are fairly close. They met and were initially enemies when they were in high school but became close friends shortly afterwards. Unlike Hanbun, Aoi, it focuses more on the romantic relationships of the two but the female lead's dreams and aspirations are also highlighted throughout the series.

The female lead in Motokare Mania reminded me of the female lead of I Don't Love You Yet. Motokare Mania is still airing and I'm not yet entirely sure what the main lead's feelings are but at this moment I find that the female leads in both dramas are in a similar internal conflict. They also have that alter ego "Inside Out" type versions of the main characters that appear to advice both leads in Motokare Mania similar to what happens to Yo in IDLYY

Bestfriends since childhood (MFFL) or since teenage years (IDLYY) , turned into lovers!

This drama plot never gets old because it is really a good foundation for a relationship: Friendship