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Both are slow paced, poignant films about North Korean defectors. Both portray the MLs' relationships with their mothers.

One day, Akihiro Miyata, a mid-level editor at a business magazine, visits popular university associate professor Takashi Iwanaga to ask him to write an economics column. However, that person was his first love, whom he broke up with during his high school days! It has been more than ten years since he moved to Tokyo.

Miyata, who had completely sealed off the past where he had a big love affair to the point where he promised to elope, was able to find a girlfriend who was thinking of marrying him and was living a “normal” life. Even after they meet again by chance, Miyata treats him as a business partner and vows never to fall in love with Iwanaga again.

However, he is as beautiful and talented as ever… Iwanaga’s pace, which repeatedly speaks sweetly to him… His work and private life are at the mercy of him!? Ideals, reality, pride… An over-30 boy who can’t be as honest as he used to be meets his soulmate again. What will happen to this frustrating “second” love, full of tactics…!?

TEP had the folk fantasy elements that SToTD promised. Their similarities in this sense lie mostly within the first case of SToTD, including...
- Lots of martial arts
- Dark culty vibe
- Forsaken brides
- Demons of all kinds
- Two bickering men

Both dramas start with two classmates falling in love and one of them tragically dying and mysteriously back to life, making them experience what could have been and ultimately coming to terms with everything and being able to let go.

Differences:
Eien no Kinou is a BL.
In Boku Dake ga 17sai no Sekai de, there is a time skip of several years, before the decaesed comes back.

In both dramas a group of people find themselves at a strange place without any way to contact their home or families. They are trying to survive and find a way back while forming their own social dynamics within their group.

The FL has a passion for dubbing (not singing)
She is cute and hardworking

The ML is a bit arrogant CEO-type with a heart of gold
He has a secret identity

The FL struggle to enter the industry and the two fall for each other.
There is also some funny moments with the second leads. It is sweet, funny and charming.
I would argue that it is better than "My Special Girl".

Very similar premise but Live is a Korean production…. Very realistic, but I actually preferred the Live plot. It had a lot more depth… and I really ended up crying….

Both drama is romance about teacher & student with age gap. Forbidden love theme. Male student and female teacher.

Similarities:
Coming to Age
ML and FL together from school to college
Minimum conflicts
FL chases ML at the start
ML has issues in his family
ML FL are neighbours
Girl falls first, Boy falls harder trope

Both feature a love story between two adopted brothers. Cherry blossoms after winter is a lot more fluffy though, while Unknown is more of a heavier series.

Island Part 2(2022) contains evil fighting religious duo Van and Priest Johan who fight against evil spirits through exorcism and Christian interventions accompanied by Won Mi Ho.
It does have the same setting to that of Dark Nuns in the main characters fight against otherworldly forces and have integral roles rooted in their faith.

Island (2022) contains evil fighting religious duo Van and Priest Johan who fight against evil spirits through exorcism and Christian interventions accompanied by Won Mi Ho.
It does have the same setting to that of Dark Nuns in the main characters fight against otherworldly forces and have integral roles rooted in their faith.

Dark Nuns is supposed to be female centric spin off of The Priests.
The Priests involves a girl Young Sin getting possessed by malevolent spirit and Father Kim accompanied by Deacon Choi who stayed even after many of them ran away unable to cope with the intensity of the situation.
These to embark on a nerve racking journey to save the girl from the clutches of evil.
The premise of The Priests is supposed to very similar to Dark Nuns and its recommended to watch The Priests before Dark Nuns for a well rounded viewing experience.

Based on the komiks creation of Jim Fernandez and Ernie Santiago and the 1970s film by Joey Gosiengfiao, Kambal Sa Uma tells the story of Ella (Melissa Ricks) and Vira (Shaina Magdayao), twin sisters who have some of the physical features of a rodent. When she was still a baby, Vira was given away by her mother Milagros (Rio Locsin) and ended up in the care of a rich couple in the city. Meanwhile, Ella remained with her mother and lived in the mountains away from persecution of people. Through a dramatic course of events, Ella and Vira will cross paths and their differences will lead to a bitter clash.

Carissa lives miserably because she was born with a face that resembles a monkey's. Because of this, she agrees to undergo an untested surgical procedure in order to look like Alicia.