Jimi ni Sugoi! Koetsu Garu Kono Etsuko (2016)

Both dramas are about optimistic girls who had dreams but ended up working in a publishing company doing a seemingly ordinary work. Juhan Shuttai focuses on the editors surrounding the manga artistes.

Similarities for both Jdramas:

-The main female leads (Mashiba Kurumi from Kikazaru Koi and Kono Etsuko from Jimi ni Sugoi) are strong, fashionable and straightforward. They are also hard-working at their jobs.

-All of the main leads are both considerate and supportive to their partner, friends, acquaintances, housemates and/or co-workers.

-Both Jdramas include a comical character that brings laughter to the viewers and brightens up the atmosphere (Fujino Shun from Kikazaru Koi and Kono Etsuko from Jimi ni Sugoi).

-Both Jdramas show bickering moments between certain characters (Kaizuka Hachiro aka "Tako" & Kono Etsuko from Jimi ni Sugoi, and Mashiba Kurumi & Fujino Shun from Kikazaru Koi).

-Great visual effects in each Jdrama.

-Displays positive group dynamics (e.g. the housemates from Kikazaru Koi, and the co-workers in the workplace of Jimi ni Sugoi).

-Shares valuable life lessons.

-Consists of skillful acting from all actresses and actors!

Few differences:
-While Kikazaru Koi shows viewers a balance between the main leads' work-life and personal life, Jimi ni Sugoi focuses more on the female lead's work-life than her personal life. There are fewer scenes that depict the romantic relationship development between Kono Etsuko and Orihara Yukito. However, the special final episode gives closure to their relationship.

Please support the fansubbers who dedicated their time to post english subtitles for each Jdrama. Links to the episodes are listed below:

Kikazaru Koi niwa Riyuu ga Atte:
https://furritsubs.livejournal.com/#entry-furritsubs-20202

Jimi ni Sugoi! Koetsu Garu Kono Etsuko:
Unfortunately, I couldn't find all of the episodes for Jimi ni Sugoi on the fansubber's official website anymore. But I want to give credit to the fansubber, mikilove13.
If you're interested in checking the other Jdramas that she subbed, links are below:
https://mikilove13fs.livejournal.com/
https://twitter.com/mikilove13fs

As an alternative, you can also access the 10 episodes on Dramacool website by searching the title, "Jimi ni Sugoi."

Here is the link to the special final episode of Jimi ni Sugoi:
https://kissasian.li/Drama/Jimi-ni-Sugoi-Koetsu-Garu-Kono-Etsuko-Special

Both drama focus on editors and what their job entails. The romance in both drama isn't the main story, it is a part of it.

Both are romantic comedies set in a workplace with a young heroine in her 20s trying to make it in the publishing business and struggling to find love.

proofreading, publishing, hard working female lead, workplace, fashion, modeling, comedy, friendship, drama

Both are about a career driven female lead who got transferred to the back office to do menial tasks but ends up revitalizing the team's functions and morale as they now view their job as critical and significant in supporting the "frontliners", since her arrival which eventually earns the respect of her colleagues. Both deals with bureaucratic and management issues. While Answer is about police organization, Proofreader is about the fashion industry.

Both dramas are about magazine publication, but give you a different take on the different sectors within a publishing firm.

Jimi ni Sugoi is about a woman who is dead set on becoming the editor of her favourite magazine. Instead, she is placed in the proofreading department of the publishing company. Although the tone of the drama is slightly different, it shows the underside of what goes on within publishing firms.

Both drama have:
Relationships that blossom from random meetings, fashion, the theme of stepping out of your bubble and comfort zone and finding fun in places you didnt expect.

It might sound weird to recommenced the special episode but usually special episodes don't really add much to the story so I tend to skip them, however this is a must watch such a great closure to the story highly recommended

If you're into high fashion lead lady, with adorable rom com in the throw, this would be for you. Kono Etsuko is aspired to get hired into the fashion magazine she loves since she was young and was instead, being hired and assigned to the review team of the same company. But that doesn't stop her from showing her passion for fashion and for her work. It's truly a lovely and motivating series that i still love to this day

Both are RomComs with an Office/Workplace setting with an older actress paired with a Young actor, both shows her work and her struggles.

- titles about proofreading and publishing
- both leads were not initially drawn to them, but eventually found their dedication
- both stories depict the mundanity of attention to details and excessive hours of work when mishaps happen