Influence (2021)

If you want more dark mystery dramas with deep female friendships born in time of desperation as its emotional axis.

Strong female friendship found in unlikely time/place that lead them to do crime for each other. Twisty with similar social messages.

the storytelling, characters and the music is intriguing and suspensful in both and in both dramas you have to watch until the end to find out what actually happened

The vibes of the two shows are quite similar. Both shows feature female leads, who have a love/hate relationship. There's a constant push and pull. You don't know whether they will help (or kill) each other next.

the storytelling, the characters and the music are intriguing in both, you have to watch until the very end to find out the truth

both dramas have a similar vibe when it comes to music, characters and the storytelling, both very intriguing and suspensful and you only find out the truth at the end

Both are based from a novel by Fumie Kondo. Judging from the first few episodes of both dramas, they are similar with some details. Aside from the mystery thriller vibe from both, a high school backstory is a common ground. In addition, the female protagonists are both writers. In Influence, Oikawa Tomomi is a novelist while Makabe Suzune is a scriptwriter.

Secrets, murder, and friendships. It all happened in the past and characters in the present are discovering the stories of women, are they true or are some parts fake?

Both dramas are suspenseful and feature strong friendships between women, at times twisted and bloody.

In Influence, the second female lead took the blame of the first male lead for murdering a man for self defense to save her friend. So the second female lead went to juvenile. in the Innocent man, the male lead took the blame of the female lead - his girlfriend for murdering a man by self defense. So the male lead went to jail.

A similar twisted tale of how people are caught in the situation and have to continue to commit crimes to survive. No matter how far they run, they always get caught up by the law. Dark, twisted and unpredictable.

Light on series: the bad kids and influence have same genre about suspense,

Extracurricular and influence genre is suspense. The conflict involve teenager.