Unmet: Aru Nogekai no Nikki (2024)

- Unmet : romance in disguise in medical
- Saiai : romance in disguise in mystery
- The chemistry is chemistrying

The leading ladies of both dramas face forgotten love and abandoned dreams due to their memory loss. Unmet A Neurosurgeon's Diary is a mystery medical drama with female point of view, and it shows FL's journey to recovery more realistically. But the sentiments and angst of the ML are depicted as beautifully. The storytelling has a different approach, but the visual quality is on par with movies.

Hospital setting.
Male leads are trying to treat female leads' medical conditions (both suffer from brain issues that only complicated/risky surgeries may fix).
Past romantic relationship between the leads in both.

So similar!!

Both include female lead who has memory loss and have to remind themselves that everyday about their past.

Male lead of Devilish Joy has the exact same condition as female lead of Unmet. They both have their memory limited to one day, and leave notes to help themselves when they awake the next day with no memory. They also cannot remember knowing their romantic lead prior to the accident that caused the daily memory loss issue.

Hospital setting.
Female leads are medical staff that face discrimination in the workplace due to their own health issues.
Both also feature a healing romance arc with a coworker.

Hospital setting.
Doctor male leads who are cold/reserved in personality. They are both desperate to save the female leads from their medical issues.

I've not seen the Korean Good Doctor but I know it's plot from the American remake.
Lead characters are judged and the conversation of whether or not they should be allowed to perform surgery with their conditions is a prominent theme.

Kawauchi Miyabi, a former neurosurgeon, suffers from memory loss, unable to recall the past two years or retain daily memories. Now working as an assistant nurse, her life changes when eccentric neurosurgeon Sanpei Tomoharu appears, guiding her in unexpected ways. As she grows as both a doctor and a patient, the mystery behind her missing memories slowly unfolds, revealing a hidden secret.

There's not much plot similarity, but the two dramas are closer in terms of their "vibes" (especially with how they combine food and healing, and with the warmth in their "patient stories"). In Unmet, both the episodic stories and the major plotline have been given a more delicate, realistic (and yet, more optimistic) treatment with beautiful storytelling. In my opinion, Unmet is not so much a mystery as it is a human drama/ romance (and a VERY GOOD one at that). I hope this helps anyone interested in watching Unmet with what to expect from it.

A slightly similar premise with a top doctor who has turned into a nurse aide because of trauma.
Both have a mystery, hospital politics and a bit of romance, but Unmet is much more serious.

Both are medical dramas. Both the dramas deals with Neuro related issues.
Both have slight romance, slice of life.
In one series , its by Neuro degenerative disorder and in another it is caused by unfortunate accident. One has memory loss element

In one series: The female lead is neurosurgeon as well as patient and also one has little mystery element.

Both are slow, slice of life series.