While very different plots, both explore gender roles in a semi-futuristic society in which some event (male pregnancy vs. almost no males) has occurred. Both are offbeat dramas with a heartwarming vibe.
Both are mini dramas in which the leads are both transported from modern day into a fictional historical world where one of them is assigned to kill the other. Both MLs are geeky and soft forced into a villainous role, FLs are strong.
Both are Republican Era mini dramas in which the leads are seemingly on opposite sides with the same goal.
Both are Japanese BLs with a slice of life feel, centering around a couple, one of whom is a good cook and the other of whom goes to work all day, then comes home to relax with the other's cooking.
Both are BLs with main characters who work in film making. Both main couples have an opposites attract sort of vibe.
Both are Japanese BLs with a school setting and lots of yearning from one of the MLs who is secretly in love with his close friend, the other ML. Both couples are made up of a serious, quiet ML and an outgoing, louder ML
Both MLs are gods, FLs's true forms are phoenixes but that is unknown to them or others. Both have evil supporting female characters who are peacocks and try to kill the FL.
Both FLs are weaker beings connected to a tribulation or evil. Both dramas have misunderstandings between the leads, in which the ML goes to great lengths to save the FL but must act cold in front of her, leading the FL to believe he wants her harmed. Both FLs are sentenced to be executed. The secondary couple in both revolves around one half of which loves the other at first sight for years, and the other half of which is initially in love with someone else for a long time.
Both SMLs are morally gray and were in love with the FL since childhood but end up marrying her to the ML for personal reasons. Both FLs struggle with trusting the ML, and at one point stab him. Both dramas are historical and have a similar tone and pacing.
Both are sci-fi disaster movies in which a group of strangers are trapped in some form of transportation (train vs. vehicles on a bridge) while mutated beings try to kill them. Both center around an estranged father-daughter relationship.
Both are mini dramas in which the ML is undercover in a gang and the FL inadvertently becomes caught up with the gang, under the ML's protection. There is a SFL who is part of the gang and tries to seduce the ML.
Both MLs are undercover in a gang and the FLs are kidnapped by the gang. The ML protects them.
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