Lovely Runner (2024)

top 2 dramas of 2024 with love, laughs, tears, time travel, great acting, fated lovers, handsome male leads and happy endings

Both are fantasy, romance, and comedy high school dramas.
Both were adopted from web novels.
Kim Hye Yoon is the female lead in both dramas.
Both have some similarities in the script.

It also has time travelling and preventing accident & changing fate as its theme, also includs music & band life.

Both have MLs that play it cool but really have a major crush on the FLs

Both have 'bad boy' SML

High school setting

the simpiest male leads you will ever find. so sweet they'll give you cavities.
also deals with the supernatural and a mysterious villain chasing the fl

- Female lead travels back in time because of male leads death
- set in school
- Male lead falls in love with the female lead in a record store
- Female lead starts changing the future

- FL time travel
- ML die in the present day
- ML like FL first
- FL trying to save ML from death
- FL liked SML then SML like FL

- The plot is quite similar
- Only difference is in Blue Birthday FL goes back through old photos and in this drama with a clock to save the ML

- The plot is quite similar
- FL goes back in time to save ML
- Time Travel to save their loved one

The female leads travel back to the past to their school days and realize that the male leads have always been by their side and they relive events that happen and try their best to change the future that they will live.

both have time travel romance with angst. both the female lead tries to change her past several times

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

- The plot is quite similar
- Only difference is in Somehow 18 ML goes back and in this drama FL goes back to save ML

The story seems different because in this one ML is a Webtoon Character.
But both leads tried to change the fate of their future.
Both have exciting storylines.

- both dramas has idol male lead that are experiencing depression
- both dramas has female lead that got inspired by their "idol" to continue and live their lives
- both dramas circles around how the 'fan' will help back their 'idol'