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So I want to watch a drama where the romance develops really slowly. I don´t necessarily mean slow burn romances because in some of them 1 Lead is already in love with the other one and I don´t search for those!

I search for dramas where both of the leads are strangers but get involved with each other so they work together or they are just in touch with each other. But they don´t like each other at first! And slowly they become friends and then after they become friends they SLOWLY fall in love with each other.

Something like Graceful Family  or Queen of Mystery would be great!

Other importent things:

  • Male lead falls in love first/Realizes his feelings first (It would be ok if both of them fall in love at the same time)
  • No weak/dumb/stupid female lead
  • Come together at the end or near the end
  • No love at first sign (Obvious)

Bonuses:

  • Oblivious Female Lead when it comes to love
  • Confused Male Lead
  • Young characters/Young cast
  • No big Age Gap especially Older Woman/Younger Man  
  • Bickering Couple
  • Not too many episodes
  • No medical drama
  • No second lead/Second Lead gets a different girl

Other good examples:

How it shouldn´t be:

I hope some people can help me! 

Any country is welcome!

Just Between Lovers

Dinner Mate

Vagabond

Itaewon Class

Across the Ocean to See You

  • Male lead falls in love first/Realizes his feelings first 
  • FL is not weak/dumb/stupid
    • Don't judge her based on the first episode. 
    • The FL is the ML's boss.
  • Come together near the end
  • Not love at first sight
  • Somewhat oblivious FL when it comes to love
  • I suppose you could call the ML confused some of the time
  • Young characters/Young cast
  • No big Age Gap
  • Bickering Couple
  • Not too many episodes
    • Not sure what your limit is.
    • It has 44 episodes, ~40 minutes each.
  • Not a medical drama
  • No second lead
    • There are other male characters who show interest in the FL (including her jerk ex-husband for a little bit) but there isn't one major stand out SML
  • Mr. Right 
  • Bean Chaff of my Life 
  • Good Luck!!
  • Top star yoobaek 

Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku   ticks most of those boxes.


I'm curious though - The Love Equations also meets basically all your listed requirements, why do say it's "how it shouldn't be"?

 burhaaadmi:

Okitegami Kyouko no Bibouroku   ticks most of those boxes.


I'm curious though - The Love Equations also meets basically all your listed requirements, why do say it's "how it shouldn't be"?

Because the Male Lead is interested in the female lead from the very first episode. 

 AH :

Across the Ocean to See You

  • Male lead falls in love first/Realizes his feelings first 
  • FL is not weak/dumb/stupid
    • Don't judge her based on the first episode. 
    • The FL is the ML's boss.
  • Come together near the end
  • Not love at first sight
  • Somewhat oblivious FL when it comes to love
  • I suppose you could call the ML confused some of the time
  • Young characters/Young cast
  • No big Age Gap
  • Bickering Couple
  • Not too many episodes
    • Not sure what your limit is.
    • It has 44 episodes, ~40 minutes each.
  • Not a medical drama
  • No second lead
    • There are other male characters who show interest in the FL (including her jerk ex-husband for a little bit) but there isn't one major stand out SML

Thank you so much! 

Thank you but both dramas are not like how I want it. 

I'll go to you when the weather is nice is absolutely not how I asked. She falls in love first and I find the dramas really boring so I dropped it. 

The romance of tiger and rose is a good drama but also not how I want it. It´s more like strangers to lovers and the ML is already in love with her in episode 3 or something. It was really too fast for me and they didn´t ended up near the end or is my definition from "at the end" or "near the end" different from yours?

 Bubblegum20:
I'll go to you when the weather is nice is absolutely not how I asked. She falls in love first and I find the dramas really boring so I dropped it. 

The ML liked the FL since they were kids, but it is a pretty slow paced / boring drama so you're not missing out if you dropped it after not liking the first few episodes. I was expecting more from the scenes when they showed the beginning of the ML's feelings for the FL, but unfortunately it basically boiled down to "she was pretty" when he first saw her.

 Bubblegum20:
Thank you so much! 

You're welcome. I hope it matches the feeling you're looking for!

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 AH :

The ML liked the FL since they were kids, but it is a pretty slow paced / boring drama so you're not missing out if you dropped it after not liking the first few episodes. I was expecting more from the scenes when they showed the beginning of the ML's feelings for the FL, but unfortunately it basically boiled down to "she was pretty" when he first saw her.

You're welcome. I hope it matches the feeling you're looking for!

I´m definitely gonna watch it but at the moment it has too many episodes for my taste. But it sounds interesting!