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Queer teenagers navigating life/coming of age,
dealing with crushes, romance but also violence and rejecting
mostly calm vibe

Similarity:
- scams
- cops find a dead body which is tied to a scammer, so they investigate them
- timeline is not fixed, it jumps around (Decoy: 3 timelines, TAoS: multiple ones)
- shows how the scammer decided to be one and built their business
- will keep you on your toes, because new evidence will make you doubt everything you knew and thought previously

Difference:
- Decoy: main scammer is a man, TAoS: a woman
- Decoy focuses more on the cop's side (present timeline), TAoS puts more focus on the scammer's becoming (victims recall past events)
- In Decoy most of the people are tied to the scam (as in took part in it and are guilty), whereas in TAoS most of them are victims and it all leads back to the FL.

What if Mrs Hong of AWC was the main character in the story? MRH seems to provide an answer to the question.

Same director, noona romances, dramas of disillusionment and reawakening, structurally very similar, elegant in their build up of tension and detail

Similarities:
- Supernatural
- Period dramas
- South Korean dramas
- Survival
- King is involved
- Protecting the royal lineage

Differences:
- Kingdom inolves zombies
- The East Palace involves spirits

Both are mini dramas with a Republican Era setting and bromance in which the MLs work together to solve crimes.

Both are about two damaged kids who make each other their only family. Both MLs feel they have no future but the FL does and sacrifice a lot for her. Both FLs fiercly love the ML. Both dramas have a gritty, serious, and realistic feel.

Theyre very similar storylines as they both involve a female lead who was abused amd neglected by her family as her brothers favored her sister. Reborn the sister wanted the glory that the FL gnawed and crawled her way through the mud for but without doing the work that got her siblings there. She chose to move in with her mother instead of staying with her father and brothes and was treasured.

Theyre very similar storylines as they both involve a female lead who was abused amd neglected by her family as her brothers favored her sister. Reborn the sister wanted the glory that the FL gnawed and crawled her way through the mud for but without doing the work that got her siblings there. She chose to move in with her mother instead of staying with her father and brothes and was treasured.

Theyre very similar storylines as they both involve a female lead who was abused amd neglected by her family as her brothers favored her sister. Reborn the sister wanted the glory that the FL gnawed and crawled her way through the mud for but without doing the work that got her siblings there. She chose to move in with her mother instead of staying with her father and brothes and was treasured.

The premise/theme is so similar, like the protagonist is or becomes a boxer, illegal boxing organization wants the protagonist to fight in their underground illegal fights, the protagonist teams up with other people to fight them, etc.
But both shines in their own way??

In both versions:
ML/FL get married but ML leaves to go abroad for years to prove he can be as successful as his older brother.
ML believes FL loves his older brother
FL believes ML loves the SFL and has been with her abroad
ML's mother constantly pressures FL to divorce ML because she also thinks ML loves the SFL
ML rescues FL from a would be rapist
ML's grandma is always supportive of FL

Similarities:
- Two best friends fall for the same person, who returns one of their feelings but refuses to pursue the relationship for fear of hurting the other. It's eventually exposed and ends in disaster...
- FL cross-dresses as a male for convenience.
- ML is rich but doesn't want to inherit his family business.

- Both have a very strong bromance
- A duo with opposite personalities and spooky case solving.
- There is no romance
- A rich spoiled noblemen and a detective duo

Kind-hearted and handsome office worker Nomura Hiro and his cheerful, energetic wife Nomura Sae, a former hostess, are enjoying newlywed life in a small apartment. However, Hiro has grown frustrated with Sae, who struggles with cooking and housework and tends to run back to her parents’ home whenever they argue.

In the middle of one such marital dispute, a new neighbor, Shiraishi Miko, moves into the apartment next door and comes by to introduce herself. Instantly smitten with the kind and handsome Hiro, Miko begins sharing homemade dishes with him, and before long, they grow closer. She helps with household chores, nurses him when he is sick, and visits his apartment almost every day.

Hiro comes to find comfort in Miko’s devoted care, which feels almost maternal. Although he is occasionally puzzled by her strange remarks and awkward conversations that never quite seem to connect, their friendship continues to deepen.

As Miko becomes increasingly attracted to Hiro, a shocking secret is revealed: despite seeing herself as a beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, Miko is actually a 61-year-old woman. Even knowing that Hiro is married, Miko adopts the philosophy of “If you love someone, take them,” and launches one romantic scheme after another against the Nomura couple. What begins as innocent affection gradually spirals into a dangerous obsession, unleashing a madness disguised as pure love.