Cinderella ni Naritai! (2006)

Both involve the lead, who is viewed as unattractive or lacking in confidence, changing through the help of an ordinary but magical object.

Both involve the lead, who is viewed as unattractive, changing through the help of an ordinary but magical object. They fall in love, but are unsure whether the other person can learn to love them as they truly are.

Both have a similar message, in which the lead changes due to magical potions or foods they eat, but must learn to have confidence in their true self.

Both involve the ML, who is viewed as unattractive or lacking in confidence, undergoing a magical transformation.

Both dramas have the "loser" male lead/successful female lead trope.

Fifteen-year-old Sei Saotome is the type of person who tends to fail at the most crucial times. After nearly becoming a high school drop-out, she enrolls into a school that is overambitious for her. There she meets the bold and popular Taiyou Udagawa; and the dreamy and stars obsessed, Mizuki Ootaka. After being asked by Mizuki to join the two guys in the Astronomy Club, it turns out high school life isn't as bad as she had expected.