bromance dramas please ^^

Prison Playbook 

Entourage

PUNCH - nearly zero romance, all bromance.

 Czakhareina:

In addition:

• Shut up flower boy band 
• The Disguiser 
• Day and Night
• Laughter at Waikiki
• Tong: memories
• Ouruburos
• Kyou Kare Ore wa
• My mister
• Rookies
• Gokusen
• Reply 1988
• Bad Guys
• Chicago typewriter
• Nobuta Wo produce
• Cruel city

thank you so much for the long list! ^^

It's a movie but it's called 'Midnight Runner' 

Featuring; Park Seo Joon & Kang Ha Neul <3

I would not classify PUNCH and CRUEL CITY as bromances. 

To me, for a bromance to be a bromance there has to be a deep sense of friendship, brotherly love, loyalty and comraderie between the male protagonist and 1 or more male counterpart. Hence the term 'bromance' & the reason why it is different from other types of male interactions, i.e BL.

Neither PUNCH nor CRUEL CITY had any of these elements.

The ML in both these dramas had male colleagues with whom he worked, but there was no real, genuine and heartfelt friendship that ran throughout the drama. They may have worked on the same team toward the same goal, but they were not friends and they didn't have that brotherly love for each other for it be classified as a bromance.  

 burhaaadmi:

That defines the relationship between the two male leads in Punch. The whole SD card scene is a classic for that reason, showing the depth of the younger man's loyalty and friendship. He was LITERALLY willing to put his life on the line for his frenemy. They were WAY more than friends, even if their relationship was a complex one that included rivalry and antagonism as well

I disagree. If they're classified as 'frenemies' (which they were) then that cancels out any opportunity for a bromance. A bromance is a positive relationship between two males who are loyal and have brotherly love for each other. The ML in Punch may have felt that way about the other guy ... but the other guy sure as hell didn't feel the same way about him. His 'brotherly love' (if you can call it that) for the ML was very much conditional and dependent on the ML's expediency to his political career. The 2nd guy who the ML *thought* he had a bromance with betrayed him in the worst possible way. I agree that a bromance can include rivalry & antagonism, but at the end of the day the relationship is ultimately defined by the loyalty and love the two have for each other. No way a true 'bro' in a real bromance would betray and backstab their good friend (causing him grievous harm) like these two bastards did to the ML.

And I will stand by the notion that Punch is not a bromance. Moreover, even if Punch could be classified as a bromance, based on the examples the OP gave, it certainly does not match the type of bromance he/she is looking for.