Recommendations

healing slice-of-life stories set in the countryside with cinematic cooking and eating scene. personally, the cinematography of the makanai closer to korean adaptation of little forest rather than the japanese adaptation.

healing slice-of-life stories set in the countryside with cinematic cooking and eating scene. hashimoto ai and matsuoka mayu stars in both projects.

healing slice-of-life stories set in the countryside with cinematic cooking and eating scene. hashimoto ai and matsuoka mayu stars in both projects.

Both FL leave her mom to find her father
Both ML'S are Farm Owner
Both stories have city and farm settings

There is a crazy psychopathic male lead in both and they suffer from similar fates at the end of the series/movie.

Both deal with similar themes of identical faces appearing. The plot remains shrouded in mystery and suspense. Duel is more of a detective story, trying to find out the truth behind the unusual events.

Birth secrets,
sword fights, some sorcery
rising to power,
FL and ML joining forces,
good writing, excitement
historical fictions

FL were workaholics before they experience something disappointing/heartbreaking that causes them to quit their jobs and take a break from life. They begin their journey of reflecting on life with the help of new people they meet.

Both are BL mini dramas with an office setting and a similar dynamic between the MLs.
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Both are BL mini dramas with an office setting.
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Both dramas revolve around the IT industry and developing new technology/applications. They both focus on self-driving car technology. There is no sci-fi element in Start Up but overall vibe is similar.

- Stock manipulation
- Case manipulation
- Money & power hungry
- Political
- Prosecutors are easily swayed by their greediness for power

It is a similar concert from the same year. Both concerts feature many of the same artists, both are large scale end of the year concerts.

The two dramas are an inversion of each other - one is a real world person entering the world of a historical game, the other is a person from a historical game entering the real world.