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Both are japanese dramas that center on a complicated situationship mostly and initially motivated by sexual desire/loneliness. The characters' meeting is a coincidence but the characters realise they have much more in common them they thought. Both are also romantically entangled with/romantically interested in other people.
Lgbtq+ characters and content too

both have multiple couples
boys in love is based on school and fourever you is based on university
both are cuteeee
different stories of everyone in the friend group

not action but romance
if you're into bodyguard ml and celebrity FML
ml hides identity being ex brother and wants to take revenge from FML but ends up falling for her
sorry sad bad ending and melodrma

but I really like the plot ?I want more bodyguard ml drama if anyone knows recommend please

In Melancholia, Baek Seung-yoo (Lee Do-hyun) is a former math prodigy who entered MIT at age 10 but became traumatized and voluntarily dropped out, completely withdrawing from the mathematical world.

Melancholia, math teacher Ji Yoon-soo (Im Soo-jung) notices Seung-yoo's hidden genius and helps him overcome his severe trauma to look at math with joy again.

Melancholia centers its entire tragic midsection on a false, malicious scandal involving a teacher-student relationship cooked up by corrupt school board members to ruin Yoon-soo and Seung-yoo.

Absolute Value of Romance (2026) is a lively, fast-paced romantic comedy and tvN’s Melancholia (2021) is a poetic, intense melodrama,If you look past the differences in tone, the two dramas are deeply intertwined by a highly specific subject matter: the world of mathematics

Both dramas are fundamentally propelled by a main character who must navigate a normal high school environment while desperately hiding a mind-blowing, impossible secret from everyone around them

The Clumsy, Fast-Paced Humor of Youth
Because both female leads are essentially dealing with things completely outside of normal high school life (fictional romance writing vs. literally learning how to be a human), they are incredibly clumsy and naive. This setup fuels a specific brand of lighthearted, fast-paced high school comedy—filled with dramatic misunderstandings, dramatic near-exposures in the hallways, and the endearing awkwardness of first love.

both dramas belong to the classic coming-of-age tradition.

School 2015, revolves around a massive identity swap—a bullied twin sister (Lee Eun-bi) steps into her missing sister’s (Go Eun-byul) life who had totally different persanility from her, constantly living on the edge of exposure.

School 2015 gave viewers one of the most intense second-lead syndromes in K-drama history,

same actress plays the central female protagonist in both series.

Moment at Eighteen, she stars as Yoo Soo-bin, a high school student living under the intense, suffocating academic expectations of her mother, who longs to find her own independence.

While Absolute Value of Romance starts off with a much more eccentric, comedic premise (a girl writing viral web novels about her handsome teachers), both dramas ultimately conclude as healthy, harmless, and heartwarming records of youth.

The Temperature of Language) is an insecure student living in her sister's shadow who secretly creates a pseudonymous social media "textagram" account to vent her feelings. Her raw, emotional writing becomes a runaway viral hit at her school.

In both shows, the viral success of the leads' anonymous writing creates an intense environment of suspense within the school gates.

Absolute value OR leans into romantic comedy while the other leans into the slice-of-life pressures of high school—they share an identical core concept of light hearted drama.

Same actress is main character Ho Goo-hee, a sweet, quiet girl. But she have good hair cut here.

Both shows perfectly capture the lighthearted, Fun, comedic and main protagonist is naturally cute.

Bith series she have secret. Here secretly the user of a mysterious mobile app that allows her to grant wish to take revange on school bullies just by typing their names.

surrounds her with the school's most popular boy (played by Lomon), her protective brother, and a famous idol (played by Astro's Cha Eun-woo).

Both leads are childhood bestfriends who stayed apart for years because one left the other. Finally developed and defined their relationship when they meet again.

Both are contemporary fantasy dramas where the ML is a merman and the FL is an assertive businesswoman. The dramas are pretty different otherwise. (Genuinely thought it was the same drama at first cuz of the title xD)

- Merman ML
- Assertive, bold FL that takes ML in as a partner (husband in HCftDS, concubine in MMB)
- ML is sassy and catty (ML in MMB is more sub)
- Both MLs have unusual mating rituals (MMB he goes into heat, in HCftDS ML gets pregnant) and both mate with one partner for life.
- Role Reversal themes (more present in MMB)

Both dramas have an recently-divorced couple go back to ancient times, navigate through politics, and clear their misunderstandings while rebuilding their relationship.
One is a short standard drama tho, and the other a mini vertical drama.

•both revenge makjang drama
•both of the main leads are being betrayed by the person they loved
•hatred, resentment, anger is the axis of the story