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4.From Now On, Showtime! In past life FL was princess and ML a shaman without the same noble pedigree. He did not think he was good enough

5.If You Wish Upon Me- ML felt he had too much baggage to weigh down a good person like the FL. He saw himself as too broken to get out of his circumstances.

6. My Ambulance - he's an intern, but she's a doctor gf. Although she claimed to loved him so much, but he always think abt his senior feelings.

7. Catch Up My Prince (ml is a prince but he is the blackship of the royal family. FL might be a servant but she is good and kind and the crown prince and consort like her. She is also well respected with her medical skills.)

8. Itaewon Class - I iirc, FL just became of age and ML was 10 years her senior and has been in prison

9.The Golden Spoon- This one is kind of complicated but ML felt too poor to date FL among other things

10. Pinochio - FL had a family, ML had a secret and didn't dare dream of a relationship with her.

10 dramas where was a bit challenging for you to pick who the 1st main lead was. Eg:

1. Hit the Top - I thought Kim Min Jae's character was the ML but he is billed as second to Yoon Shi Yoon's. At times it also felt KMJ got more story time than YSY and I just felt more for KMJ than YSY.

2. Start Up (1st ep was all about Han Ji Pyung, the male lead Nam Do San only appeared the last few sec. in the 1st episode)

3. Never Let Me Go - the story is clearly moving because of Neung but you don't really get a good sense of what the writer is going for until Palm shows up

4. Cinderella and the four knights

5. Navillera - both MLs and their stories were important, so I cannot say who was main

6. Please come back, mister - again both MLs and their stories were important

7. Page Turner - there were three mains

8. Love Alarm 1 & 2

9. Cheese in the Trap (the 2nd lead guy seemed like the main lead 2/3 of the show. There were even some episodes that the 1st lead had barely any screen time. - from what I read, the actor had some issues with the director bts.)

 Ahn Sarang:

5. Navillera - both MLs and their stories were important, so I cannot say who was main

6. Please come back, mister - again both MLs and their stories were important

7. Page Turner - there were three mains

I am thinkin the point was missed and apologies if I wasn't clear. It is okay if there are multiple mains and that their stories are important. It is that in the typical story, there are usually two main leads and two second main leads (and sometimes two third mains). What I am asking for is that you thought one of the seconds was a first until you got further into the story, looked at the MDL cast list or you just never really worked it out.

So with Navillera they are both first mains and it was written to be that way, Please Come Back, Mister, can you say with certainty which was first and which was second and as for Page Turner, was it written that way or did you get confused (if the second I can accept it).

As another example:

6. Beethoven Virus - The story opens and continues predominantly in the perspective of Jang Geun Suk's character so the introduction of Kim Myung Min's character and his billing as the first main lead, totally threw me off and I never really got behind him as the first main.

7. Reply 1988. I thought Ryu jung hwan was the ML, the one who will get the FL, but I was completely shocked when Park Bo Gum was the one that got the FL.

newbiefanmaybe I got you wrong

You used Hit the Top as example, so I tried to find similar. Our perceptions can be different, because for me YSY felt as main lead not KMJ. Plus, they both listed as mains on MDL

If you talked about stories like, there are ML, FL, SFL and SML and you try to understand, for example, who get the girl, that's different question. 

Maybe I just don't get when it's assemble cast (duo in our case) and when there should be ML and SML. 

I'm not sure about Please Come Back, Mister. But I think that Page Turner can be what you are talking about. (You can watch it and say if it was correct haha, it's just 3 episodes and really good one!) 


Btw, if you don't count my dramas, you get confused with order numbers. Another drama was suggested while you were writing a comment, I think