Lovely Runner

Lovely Runner (2023) and 365: Repeat the Year are similar because both center around time travel used to change a tragic fate, creating a mix of suspense, emotion, and mystery. In Lovely Runner, the main character goes back in time to save the person she loves from a painful future, while in 365, the characters reset their lives to avoid past misfortunes but end up facing even more dangerous consequences. Both dramas explore how altering the past affects relationships, creates new timelines, and uncovers hidden truths. They share a strong emotional core, high-stakes tension, and the theme of desperately trying to fix what went wrong, making them appealing to fans of fate-changing storylines and tightly woven time-travel plots.

Both have FLs that had near death experience but MLs saves them. The FLs will have an opportunity to save the MLs too.

Both have green flag leads with great chemistry.

Both involve time travel, where the FL lead gets thrown back in time and tries to prevent her ML from dying.
In Dramatic Self-Help Strategy the FL has a trigger for her to time travel, while in Lovely Runner FL doesn’t have a trigger.
Both basically have the same plot concept, which was done quite well in both.

1. Both have MLs that play it cool but really have a major crush!
2. ML is a walking green flag
3. Fantasy element - FL travels in time and here ML can read minds
4. Cherry Magic story is sweeter and more adorable than BTS Jimin.

?Both are feel good dramas
?Both dramas have "eyecandy" heroes ?
?In lovely runner FL time travels to save ML life while in Present is Present ML time travels to save FL life

Both have supernatural elements, themes of true love across time, being chased by a psycho, and intense protectiveness of one another, both the FL and ML.

Both dramas have Kim Hye Yoon in!
The male lead is in both drama famous in a way - football player and idol

the time capsule, he having a secret crush since high school, him having an injure and not being able to swim again, meting each other after a long time, both losers, neighbours, both male leads missing swimming

Both dramas have female lead goes back in time and falls for the male lead.

Lovely Runner has more of the mystery element and she gets several chances to go back like in Shining for One Thing while in Parallel Love she goes back but tries to return to her time and accidently falls for the main lead. In both dramas the male lead finds out that she is from the future and her past and future selves may feel differently about him but they are willing to wait for years to meet her again in her time.

-Not related to time travel.
-Not idol × fans trope.

-He fell first and fell harder trope.
-Both ML shows 5 different types of love languages really care towards FL.
-Both ML & FL involve in sports specifically whereas Lovely Runner involve in entertainment.
If you are looking for a green-flagged or even green forest type of male lead. This show is one of them.

I Decided to Die and Lovely Runner are deeply intertwined through their shared use of the "save me" time-travel subgenre, where both narratives feature a protagonist trapped in a time loop desperately trying to alter the past to prevent the tragic death of the person they love. In a striking parallel of character backstories, both dramas center on high school athletes whose life trajectories are shattered by physical trauma; Lovely Runner follows a gifted swimmer sidelined by a shoulder injury, while I Decided to Die centers on a promising Taekwondo player whose national team dreams are crushed by a severe leg injury. Their romances are defined by asymmetrical memories, as only one lead carries the harrowing weight of past timelines while the other is left entirely in the dark, experiencing past lives only through fragmented, confusing dreams. Both stories also utilize a dual-timeline structure that effortlessly bridges the innocence of high school youth with the complex, darker realities of their adult lives a decade later. Finally, the stakes in both series are amplified by a volatile butterfly effect, where every attempt to rewrite history inadvertently triggers a dangerous domino effect, placing the couple directly in the crosshairs of ruthless, violent criminals.

You say simp and the ML from LR and FL from WIFTY will compete to take the call ??

Though they have different genre high school and green flag friendship is what is the most common factor about both of them ?

P.S: Rewatch value 10/10 for both

Watched too many edits of SWDBS ML being the oldest, LR ML being the middle and FL WIFTY being the youngest child. ?

Repeated timelines while trying to achieve better ending.
Queen In Hyun's Man is a romance heavy drama, with much less plot holes than lovely runner, and the acting is to the point.
Lovely Runner on the other hand while it is a little weak on the acting and pacing part, it's full of fluff from start to finish.
Both are rom com. Recommend both of them.

Completely different stories, but they had similar quality in storylines the series stayed strong through out delivery a decent story with a lot of lighthearted comedic moments peppered in between. And unlike most series there wasn’t a midseries slump where the storyline loses steam, your attention it engaged from the first to last episodes.

Both dramas are about high school love and goofy lives of teenagers but with a twist!

- Main stories of both dramas are set in near past (Reply - 1997; LR - 2008) and framed with current time. The near past element gives the story somewhat retro vibe
- Both dramas have mystery element (R - who is the husband?; LR - what lead to the tragedy that happened in current time?)
- Both female leads are energic, fun girls and also hopeless kpop stans
- Both male leads are good guys who fall first

Difference is in the stakes of the story. In Lovely Runner, the stakes are much higher as FL time travels back in time and tries to prevent several tragedies; in Reply the fantasy element is not there, these are just teenagers, living their lives