Lovely Runner (2024)

The Similarity is that, Both the drama is about a second chance of life. Not only that both included being an idol having a second chance. Thank you

- Male leads are simps.
- Cute male and female leads.
- Both male leads are losers trapped in hot bodies.
- Male leads become obessed with the female leads.
- Willing to give up their (dream) job for the female lead.
- Both have a best friend that are super loyal towards the male lead.

Both FLs time travel into the past and their school days in order to save the ML who appears to have committed suicide.

A male lead who can't confess to his first love. He travels back in time and returns to his high school years. This time he tries to help the girl he loves to confess to her past self..................................................

Both FLs time travel back to their school days.
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ML likes FL first (this one actively chases after her tho) but both really REALLY like her.
Suburban/Small town setting
Same quirky humor
Serial killer after the female lead
Both these shows add some aspects of a thriller in the drama which juxtaposes the bright romantic tone the show presents itself as.
(Both shows are able to still stay light throughout it tho)

Both dramas are about one of the leads suddenly dying and the other time traveling back to their school days in an effort to save their life.

Both dramas are about one of the leads suddenly dying and the other time traveling back to the past in an effort to save their life.

- FL thought she fell first, but it’s the ML who liked her first!
- Good chemistry between the leads

Both FLs time travel to their school days in an effort to save someone.
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Both dramas are about one of the leads suddenly dying and the other attempting through time travel to save their life.

Both FLs time travel into the past to save the ML who has died in the present. It's then revealed that the ML was secretly in love with her a long time before she believes they first met.

In both series, he saves the life of one of the characters by time travel.
They have crime, romance and humor.
The character has to go back in time several times.
It takes place in modern times.
A handsome man and a cheerful, lovely girl.

Shining for one thing: The movie is a movie while Lovely Runner is a show.
FL travels back in time to save ML.
ML had feelings for the FL from the beginning.
A tragic accident took ML's life.
Everything begins in the school.
Friends turned lovers.

Although they have a different plotline, Kimi ga Kokoro wo Kuretakara reminds me of Lovely Runner in many ways. The same umbrella (although different colors) reference, meeting up when they are older, FL doing the "work" to save ML's life. Those kind of stuff. Anyway, the overall mood of KGKWK is much more melodramatic (despite having many crying scenes in LR too) and there is much more trauma esp in FL end.