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Both dramas revolve around innocent children who were locked away and subjected to horrific, secret institutional experiments.

Years later, the traumatised survivors must navigate the fallout of that childhood abuse while dealing with a massive cover-up.

The ML of both dramas have graduated from college with expectations of working in their chosen profession but they end up working with clients who are ghosts. The fathers of the ML(s) are implemented in crimes that result in their current work place environment. Both FL experience betrayal by those closes to them and loss of love ones. The primary plot of both dramas is that the ML and FL assist clients who have unjust or unresolved problems so that the ghosts can rest in peace. The ML and FL in the dramas share an increasing appreciation and affection for each other as they work together.

- Both are Taiwanese BL series
- Both have a lively and excitable MC x a more stoic and serious ML
- Both have comedy elements

Both shows focus on a team of skilled criminals working together to solve a problem. Both shows have a similar vibe.

Similar relatable introverted FL with decent cinematography, however, TFF is more melancholic and has more mature themes.

Same vibe. Same era, very similar setting and plot. Not quite the same story but both had school setting and were based in the era of the Japanese occupation of China and young people fighting for freedom and country.

Not similar in terms of plot but the atmosphere is very similar. Both have poetic moments and gentle vibes.

- tight-knit small town
- hard-working group
- humour focused (packed with comedic moments)
- heavier stuff is focused on the back end of the show

The main themes seem the same. Autistic/autistic-appearing female character with a career she's passionate about and has talent for.

A mysterious organization hides behind a legitimate front while operating on a supernatural level, condemning ordinary people. Spyder Human Resource Center runs the exact same playbook perfectly normal office on the outside, pure hell on the inside.

Hyeok Jun takes the job because he's drowning in debt and sees no way out same driving force behind Liar Game's protagonist, who gets pulled into a dangerous game out of financial desperation. Both characters realize way too late that the system they walked into is far bigger and far more dangerous than it ever let on.

A protagonist steps into what looks like a completely normal environment, only to slowly uncover that something sinister and organized is running underneath it all and everyone around him already knows.

The parallel is straightforward: Hyeok Jun is drowning in debt and takes the job out of pure financial desperation same exact logic as Squid Game, where broke people say yes to an offer that's too good to be true, only to walk into a deadly trap. Both shows hit hard on South Korea's wealth gap and class inequality.

- Wuxia dramas set in a sect
- Sect power struggles
- Badass and powerful FLs that actually are super competent and skilled fighters
- Aloof and uncompromising FL
- ML pretending to be someone else
- Multiple men vying for FL's hand
- Gender Role Reversal themes in both
- Flirty FL x Easily flustered ML
- Similar dark gothic aesthetics
- The leads being dressed in opposite colors on the cover ?

Hidden double lives drive the tension in both stories, where seemingly normal students or individuals are involved in secret actions that slowly spiral out of control.while Extracurricular leans more into crime, survival, and real-world consequences, Notes from the Last Row focuses on psychological manipulation and intellectual tension within an academic setting