If you are looking for blonde delinquent with a softie inner self, these dramas have both. Being adaptations from a manga, they have anime-like kind of acting which is eccentric to see IRL but the actors in both pulled it off. I already knew it since the MLs in From Today, It's My Turn!! have an established name in the industry but Kateikyoshi no Kishi Knight desu has relatively new faces but if you are doubting, you should give it a try. The story is simple but so promising.
This recommendation come up to my mind because MTM have also this concept of some pairs who might have quite an age gap. The foreshadowing in (episode 2 of MTM ) is subtle but the preview seems like it might hinder forming an endgame couple. Noona, You Are a Woman to Me as the title implies, has this main couple who have a big age gap (shipping them btw) but that's the whole predicament as it nears the end of the show so I actually cannot wait to know if they are still dating IRL or what.
I am reminded of this recommendation since families are involved in this dating show, except instead of siblings, the mothers are there for the dating journey of their child. It could be higher in stakes and a lot more serious in a way they are in the common age of getting married and so the questions about future is inevitable that it really immerses to the possibility of having relationship in the end.
If you like the Dad's reacting as panel members, you might also like mothers in this new dating show with their sons or daughters. They are not just there to comment but are actively involved in the dating selection process. This might be a advantage since knowing the family of your potential partner is a vital aspect in marriage (the participants are at common age of thinking of settling down). This seems to be a pro for women, since I hear many horror stories of marrying into a family in Korea and expected you to do stuff in holidays.
The highschool era dynamics between the main leads reminds me of each other but the present is not so similar but both have great actors that will make you want to watch more.
Both have pretend-to-be-a-parent trope and so they have to deal with a lot of happenings while hiding that secret. Both are equally precious slice-of-life dramas that talks about parenthood. For Chosen home we got a gay guy pretending to be a father for the homeroom teacher while in Fake Mommy, she was hired to be the mother in the school setting. No one was forced to do so, thus it's not toxic that way, but they have to deal with the consequence of the lie.
Love Wins All is basically season 2 of Live and Love. Almost the same structure and games. LWA is still airing so I'm not sure if the endgame couples will be satisfactory but it has good couples already. If you want something like this, it's Live and Love, good endgame couple but I am a little disappointed what happened IRL in one of the couples that I shipped.
Since Karma is a collection of stories, one of them reminds me of The Deal of a crime gone wrong, snowballing into a catastrophe of events.
Both depicts the life of LGBTQ individuals but in different generations and period of life. I genuinely like both and I can't pick which one is better but dang 2024 had good representation in Jdrama and Kdrama and I think these two are strong candidates.
Both are airing drama which have 2 MLs living together with a domestic vibe. I am not sure yet about ORT's child in the whole drama but in PTONUG, the children are 'their' own.
Both are homey dramas with adorable kids and fathers/father figure of the family solely tending to children.
If you like the aspect of cooking/preparing food with tan explanation of them of the meaning of dish, you'll like the other. The dynamic between the 2 leads of the two dramas are kinda similar too, harsh ML but getting softer as he spends time and eat food prepared by FL.
