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Drama with best friends?

Bubblegum20

Hey I am searching for dramas where a girl and a boy are best friends, but NEVER end up and have NO romantic feelings for each other!

So a good friendship between a guy and a girl.

There are dramas like this, but these friends are just not together because they are already in a relationship with someone else (As in The Heirs) I bet you guys that if the one guy in The Heirs wasn't already with the other girl, he would be in love with the Female lead. 

I'm looking for dramas where the two characters are good friends but are not yet in a relationship with ANYBODY. So they are single but still not fall in love with each other.

I don´t care if it´s the Main Leads or side characters but they should be important. If they are side characters, I don´t care if the Main leads have a relationship. 

Other important things:

  • They both are not THAT close from the beginning but they are getting really close through the drama and at the end they are inseparable 
  • They can have a relationship with different people but not from the beginning
  • If they have a relationship with someone, they should be still inseparable. So if their partner says something like "You are to close to him/her! Choose" then they would not hesistate and would go to the friend because they think their friendship is more important
  • They should be REALLY REALLY close so that they can do "couple things" like hugging, sleeping in the same bed, eat the food from the other etc but without the romantic feelings. (They just should be really close and not like "Yeah, we can hang out together sometimes and drink together or something but then I don´t see you in 2 weeks" 

Bonus if the drama is not too long. 

Any language is welcome!

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Bubblegum20
 Czakhareina:
  • Gloria - jinjin and dongAh
  • The Heirs - eunsang and chanyoung

The Heis is exactly how I don´t want it. He has a girlfriend from the beginning (A very annoying one btw) 

But thanks for the other one.

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AH
  • My guess is that this isn't the vibe you're looking for, but the friendship that develops between Ko Moon Young and Moon Sang Tae in It's Okay to Not Be Okay ticks pretty much all of the boxes you mentioned. 
  • Also The Beauty Inside doesn't match your criteria exactly because they are close friends from the beginning  of the drama and not completely inseparable, but the FL has a close male friend and if I remember correctly (admittedly it's been a long time since I watched this drama) their relationship remains close but strictly platonic throughout. 
  • In Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo Hae Soo and Baek Ah are never quite as close as you described, but they do start off as not close in the beginning but become pretty close confidants (especially for a man and woman in a historical drama) fairly quickly and never have romantic feelings for each other.
  • Again, probably not what you're looking for, but I also wanted to mention The Untamed. It's a long censored BL drama and the friendship in question (between  Wei Wu Xian and Wen Qing) doesn't match your criteria because they're not close in the sense of inseparable best friends who would choose each other over anyone else. BUT they start out not close (and not in relationships) and get to a point where they both make huge sacrifices for one another and owe each other a lot. They also sort of live together for a while (with Wen Qing's brother and a bunch of other people) and are close enough at that point to bicker and tease each other like close friends, and they never have romantic feelings for one another.   
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Chicken-nim

Lol that's so hard xD

I think that in Secret Garden, Gil Ra Im (FL) and Oska (2nd ML) grow to be friends throughout the drama, because she's a fan of him since he's an idol and he also respects her as a stunt woman. They admire each others and they also have some great friendship moments, they never feel anything love related for each others since they have other love interests ^^

In "A love so beautiful" too. Xiaoxi (FL) and Lu Yang are just adorable and very funny xD they are the ones of the group of classmates who are the worst at studying and they become friends exchanging books and suggestions in their love lives! They never feel anything else for each other.

In "Sassy go go" the FL is best friend with a 2nd ML (Ha Dong Jae) but they're childhood friends so I don't know if you're ok about it. Anyways they have an adorable friendship!

^same goes for Meow the Secret boy (FL and a 2nd ML)

Anyways all of these friends are not as close as you wished, I think it's kinda odd for 2 friends of the opposite sex to sleep together and not feeling anything for each other, unless one of them is gay. But I hope you'll find what you're looking for.

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Bubblegum20
 AH :
My guess is that this isn't the vibe you're looking for, but the friendship that develops between Ko Moon Young and Moon Sang Tae in It's Okay to Not Be Okay ticks pretty much all of the boxes you mentioned. 

Thank you for all the recommendations! :)

I don´t like It´s okay to not be okay, but still thank you for the other dramas^^

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Bubblegum20
 Chicken-nim:
Anyways all of these friends are not as close as you wished, I think it's kinda odd for 2 friends of the opposite sex to sleep together and not feeling anything for each other, unless one of them is gay. But I hope you'll find what you're looking for.

Thank you for all the recommendations although I watched some of them and it´s not quite what I am looking for^^

For me it would be a normal thing to just do all of these and not feel anything but that´s might be because I am aromantic. 

But actually I think it´s like they are brother and sister. And I mean... would you fall for your sibling
? xD

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