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Gangster Patisserie. The adaptation will involve a female Japanese college student who runs away to Taiwan and gets involved with a reformed young hoodlum who just got out of jail after five years. Turns out his old gangster boss lost his wife to an illness and has decided to turn over a new leaf and become a legit businessman by starting a bakery that employs all his former gang members. His beloved deceased wife's daughter from her previous marriage is the Japanese girl and she arrives in Taiwan looking for her mom, and ends up living with her step father, who dreams of being a master baker but sucks big time at baking. The entire gang of misfits all live and work together, and heartwarming hilarity ensues.

Gangster Patisserie. The adaptation will involve a female Japanese college student who runs away to Taiwan and gets involved with a reformed young hoodlum who just got out of jail after five years. Turns out his old gangster boss lost his wife to an illness and has decided to turn over a new leaf and become a legit businessman by starting a bakery that employs all his former gang members. His beloved deceased wife's daughter from her previous marriage is the Japanese girl and she arrives in Taiwan looking for her mom, and ends up living with her step father, who dreams of being a master baker but sucks big time at baking. The entire gang of misfits all live and work together, and heartwarming hilarity ensues.

Gangster Patisserie. The adaptation will involve a female Japanese college student who runs away to Taiwan and gets involved with a reformed young hoodlum who just got out of jail after five years. Turns out his old gangster boss lost his wife to an illness and has decided to turn over a new leaf and become a legit businessman by starting a bakery that employs all his former gang members. His beloved deceased wife's daughter from her previous marriage is the Japanese girl and she arrives in Taiwan looking for her mom, and ends up living with her step father, who dreams of being a master baker but sucks big time at baking. The entire gang of misfits all live and work together, and heartwarming hilarity ensues.

Both uses age gap plot where younger ML is the dominant (seme) and greenest flag of all character.
Older ML doesn't move the story forward as much as the younger ML.
Older ML have a tendency to behave like an airhead that causes intimacy scenes/misunderstandings
Younger ML is smart and very straightforward.
2nd coupling in both stories are very cute. And noisy hahahha
Difference is that Minato SCL is more draggy as the older ML is more wishy washy, and is pretty much Slice of life paced. Kiseki is much quicker paced and action packed due to the premise of mafia background/involvement.
Kiseki is a Taiwanese show, Minato is Japanese show.
Warning:
Both Younger MLs started as highschoolers in their final year. I know some people will squirm at this, so I am putting it out here first. Skip these 2, if you can't handle physical age discrepancy.

But, we do all know that maturity isn't linear with age right? Both younger MLs here have greater maturity than most of the characters in the show, and have already been living an unsheltered life, independent from their parents for a while before meeting the older ML who at no point in the show intentionally manipulated the younger MLs (in terms of romance).

Both FLs are powerful and skilled in magic, and end up transferring their souls into the body of a weaker, powerless girl. The original body is burned, and then end up aiding the ML as well as being under his protection.

Both are palace fight. Concubine, ugly politics, Eunice's, power fight. Suppression, Beautiful costume accessary,

Both dramas are similar because of the female leads first love and by the some situations their first love is not workout anymore and their relationship where over.

Both dramas was similar by the female leads emotions and their current situation they wanted to be upgrade their lifes in a great way.

Both Heavens x Candy and The Shortest Distance Is Round: Fallen Flowers star Actor Mukai Riku as the main character. Both are intended for adult viewing ONLY aka Pink Films. Both are from Director Yamanouchi Daisuke.

Both Heavens x Candy and The Shortest Distance Is Round: Rain and Soda star Actor Mukai Riku as the main character. Both are intended for adult viewing ONLY aka Pink Films. Both are from Director Yamanouchi Daisuke.

Both Heavens x Candy and The Shortest Distance Is around star Actor Mukai Riku as the main character. Both are intended for adult viewing ONLY aka Pink Films. Both are from Director Yamanouchi Daisuke.

Soft, mellow LGBTQ+ dramas that revolve around food, cooking, and coming to terms with one's identity and feelings

Though they are a bit different, both of them are "Old Man Yaoi" that includes the holy trinity : Gay people, food, and age gap

There similarities between these dramas are so many! To keep it spoiler free, I'll just stick to the basics. While Mitsuya Sensei revolves around cooking, The Novelist revolves around writing. Both explore the relationships between older men that are creative individuals (a culinary expert and a writer) and the younger men who pursue them, who gets to know them through their respective creative arts (cooking and writing). The only difference is that Mitsuya Sensei is more on the Slice of Life, soft, mellow, easy-going side of things while The Novelist is more on the emotionally heavy side with a tinge of melodrama. But the similarities really similaritied with these two!!

- Both have friendship to lover story
- Both Leads love each other, in WTSR they were lover from the start but in YAMLF they are friends first
- The story of WTSR is a little deep but YAMLF is very touching and simple.
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