For new fans of Lee Tae Ri from this drama, you need to check him out in Moon Embracing the Sun. He is such an underrated actor because he was acting next to today’s popular young actors Yeo Jin Goo, Kim Yoo Jung, and Kim So Hyun but somehow wasn’t noticed by the masses unlike the other three.
The two dramas are not very similar. But Extraordinary You has a historical part where the main love triangle of two guys and one girl is featured. If you enjoyed that, you might like the historical dram Moon Embracing the Sun also, where all the other plotlines is subservient to the love and romance story. Also, if you like seeing Lee Tae Ri in historical costumes in Extraordinary You, you can see him rock those in the first six episodes of Moon Embracing the Sun as the young version of the second male lead.
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The CDrama is a historical fantasy, while the KDama is a modern fantasy based in a high school. In the KDrama FML behaves like the main character, who is rich, and has a cold fiance/bf who doesn't like her. She has a heart condition so she faints a lot and can die any time. One day FML finds out that she is a book character, but not the main character, she's one of the support roles, who's used to connect the real ML and FML. Her fiance/bf isn't the ML in it either. Days go on, and she has to follow the set script until one day she notices someone who is not even a support but a background character who doesn't talk or interact with anyone. She takes an interest in him... And the real story starts.
From the trailer of the CDrama, they seem pretty similar in terms of concept. But what is unique is the setting and how will the characters be portrayed.
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Both have a cute spunky FL in high school and a gentle eyed ML.
Both MLs learn something from the FL and in turn falls for them
Both have a sort of parallel world aspect
Both FL are funny

While the stories can't really be compared, both have a similar feeling that I think if you liked one, you'd like the other. Plus Splash Splash Love is only 2 episodes so it's an easy watch.
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Female lead of both stories realize they are not as important as they think.

In Extraordinary You, the main lead finds out she's an extra character in web comic.

Heroine Disqualified is set in real world but main lead is self-centered and thinks the world revolves around her as if she's a main character in shoujo manga. She is not.
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Both dramas are set within the world of a manga with a heroine trying to change the story.
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Characters come from a story. Quirky and unique setting and plot structure where events change within the story.
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Both kdrama's feature Kim Suk Woo (??) / Rowoon as the male lead. Thought Extraordinary plot is much different from She would never know. Kim Suk Woo acting doesn't fail to impress.
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- Similar theme of going back and forth between modern scenes and historical scenes
- SML has negative shades
- Both leads are the reason for existence of each other.
- FL is fated to die...
- Side Characters have good storylines
- one or two characters prevent events from deviating certain "rules"

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Okay, so the plot obviously varies. But, in short, I find them similar because of the love triangle. And, how the two male leads have constant fights for the female lead. The second lead in Extraordinary you will often remind you of Choi Young Do (after like 6-7 episodes, till the plot unfolds layer by layer), so, the second lead syndrome is real, bro.
Gives off a similar vibe.
One thing you should know is that Extraordinary You is low-key a satire of typical Korean Romantic comedies, like, let's say Boys over flowers, or The Heirs itself. Yet, as the story proceeds, you start seeing SOME of the cliché Rom-com stuff (like a love triangle and etc) blossom among the main characters of the show (not the comic in the show), which is ironic.
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Both are about characters in a comic changing their fate. Rewriting Destiny is Chinese well extraordinary you is Korean. Both are love stories with a sick female lead.
Recommended by aliciademarieee
Dramas have different story line though they give you feeling of rooting for main FL
1) ML always saving FL in trouble
2) FL doesn’t accept her own feelings
3) adorable chemistry between FL and ML and how they are always drawn to each other (fate)
4) strong FL and ML always backing her up on decisions

If you love romantic story and the connection between leads filled with ups and downs with life threatening situations from DOTS extraordinary you will not disappoint you.
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I don't know why but they give me the same vibes for some reason. They're both obviously rom-coms and although Tale of Nokdu is a historical drama it takes a really unique twist to it which makes it feel more modern. I know this explanation sucks, but I promise you won't regret watching The Tale of Nokdu, the best explanation I can give for why I think you'll like this if you liked Extraordinary You is that I felt the same utter adoration and fuzzy feels for both dramas.
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Both are fantasy ,romance ,drama that take the parallel aspect well executed;while extraordinary you is school ,parallel love is about business and
the main couple is older .

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Pop Out Boy! and Extraordinary You involve comic characters and the "magical" way they become "real"
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These may not appear to be similar, but I was reminded of LOTBS when watching Extraordinary You. LOTBS is more serious while Extraordinary You is fluffier, but both dramas have:
-funny/spunky female leads
-cute romance but with sad/emotional scenes sprinkled in
-parallel timelines (joseon/modern) in which ML and FL were in love. In both dramas the ML is aware of the parallel timeline and tries to change their destiny
-amnesia
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