What is both drama main focus? Yess, friends to lovers
What they both have in common is that they tell the story of a female lead who is a hardworking woman that faces difficulties in her love life (but in LND the female lead quit her job at the beginning of the story), and a male lead who secretly likes her and is always there to accompany her.
Also, both female leads have more cheerful and passionate personalities while the male leads are more calm and stable.
The differences are, LND is more comedic ones and IDLYY is more melodramatic, although there is comedy tags in genre categories.
What they both have in common is that they tell the story of a female lead who is a hardworking woman that faces difficulties in her love life (but in LND the female lead quit her job at the beginning of the story), and a male lead who secretly likes her and is always there to accompany her.
Also, both female leads have more cheerful and passionate personalities while the male leads are more calm and stable.
The differences are, LND is more comedic ones and IDLYY is more melodramatic, although there is comedy tags in genre categories.
Mitarai Yo is a career woman who works for a shoemaker. She finds her work rewarding and has successfully advanced in her career. But she keeps having her heart broken and her romantic life has not gone well lateIy. Ishida Ren works for a developer and is Yo’s best friend. As a former high school and university classmate, Ren is the only person she pours her heart out to, and he understands her best. On Yo’s 29th birthday, the friends place a wager with each other to see which of them can be married within the following year. If either fails to wed prior to her 30th birthday, the loser must pay the winner a congratulatory sum of 300,000 yen.
Declaring it impossible for them to fall in love with one another, their wager, plus the advances of a junior of Ren’s at his company and Yo’s reunion with her ex-boyfriend, Mizusawa Ryusei, all lead to gradual changes in the relationship of these best friends.
Declaring it impossible for them to fall in love with one another, their wager, plus the advances of a junior of Ren’s at his company and Yo’s reunion with her ex-boyfriend, Mizusawa Ryusei, all lead to gradual changes in the relationship of these best friends.
What do you get when decade-long best-friends find themselves as their only confidantes, know each other to the point of familiarity of being a de-facto family, yet nurse an electric sexual-tension when they aren't being deliberately oblivious to their feelings? Throw in:
1. A headstrong girl with an extremely passive & super considerate guy, both more stubborn than the other...along with
2. Missed timings, early confessions gone wrong, denial & serial-dating as defense mechanism,
3. Annoyingly clingy girlfriends, younger star-eyed almost-boyfriends, a d-bag of an ex (or two),
4. A contrast between one employed at a white-collar job & the other working in an artsy field..,
5. Career apprehensions,
6. Post-work fun beer-ritual,
7. Guys who love cooking up for their best friends,
8. Some sensual eyeshadow-applying/ make-up removing,
9. Pieces of art/ music as ultimate confessions
10. A year long break to 'figure out feelings'... &
11. Super cute & good-looking leads who like to chill in sweats & specs at home,
12. & heart-wrenching moments of unrequited & unspoken love, especially from the MLs...
And you basically get You Drive Me Crazy (short format- 4eps)/ I Don't Love You Yet (long format- 16eps)!
1. A headstrong girl with an extremely passive & super considerate guy, both more stubborn than the other...along with
2. Missed timings, early confessions gone wrong, denial & serial-dating as defense mechanism,
3. Annoyingly clingy girlfriends, younger star-eyed almost-boyfriends, a d-bag of an ex (or two),
4. A contrast between one employed at a white-collar job & the other working in an artsy field..,
5. Career apprehensions,
6. Post-work fun beer-ritual,
7. Guys who love cooking up for their best friends,
8. Some sensual eyeshadow-applying/ make-up removing,
9. Pieces of art/ music as ultimate confessions
10. A year long break to 'figure out feelings'... &
11. Super cute & good-looking leads who like to chill in sweats & specs at home,
12. & heart-wrenching moments of unrequited & unspoken love, especially from the MLs...
And you basically get You Drive Me Crazy (short format- 4eps)/ I Don't Love You Yet (long format- 16eps)!



