My Liberation Notes

It follows the intense training and actual missions of the SR (Special Rescue) squad of the Yokohama Fire Bureau. It features a younger Nakamaru Yuichi and Masuda Takahisa. It’s very much about the physical and mental toll of being a firefighter. If you enjoyed the mentor-student dynamic between Kaneshita and Yuki, you’ll find plenty of that here.

There is a massive seven-year time jump here. The original four are now the "seniors" and mentors to a new group of messy, inexperienced fellows. It’s a great "full circle" season that shows how much the original cast has matured.

This season is often considered the most emotional. The fellows are nearing the end of their training and have to face the reality of their own limitations. It dives much deeper into their backstories, especially Aizawa’s (Tomohisa Yamashita) family secrets.

Four young "fellows" (interns) compete to be the best while training to become flight doctors on the "Doctor Heli" system. It’s gritty and focuses on their personal ambitions and the shock of seeing real trauma for the first time.

11-episode drama where it all started. It introduces Kota Kitami (played by Suzuki Ryohei), a fearless doctor who believes "waiting won't save lives." He leads a team in a massive, specially designed ambulance that is essentially a mobile operating room. The tension usually comes from Kitami wanting to rush into danger while the politicians (and his rival, Dr. Otowa, played by Kaku Kento) try to shut the project down.

Season 1 to this follow-on. Its a human procedural drama that doesn't focus on the firefighters running into buildings or the doctors in the ER; instead, it focuses on the Command Center—the invisible first responders who take the calls.

Lost and Call It Love share significant thematic and tonal similarities, placing them in the category of mature, character-driven melodramas. Both focus on Loneliness, Sadness, and Healing: Both dramas delve deeply into the loneliness, pain, and inner turmoil of their main characters.

Both feature a team of celebrities with a mutual passion for baseball who come together to train and compete against other amateur teams. Similarities between the two shows include:
Focus on sports: Both are sports-themed reality shows centered on baseball. While many Korean variety shows focus on games or travel, these are specifically about forming a baseball team.

A Clean Sweep and Burn to Win are similar Korean variety shows with nearly identical concepts. Both shows feature a baseball team composed of retired and legendary professional players who compete against amateur teams to achieve a certain win percentage and keep the show going

Lee Seo-yeon, a free-spirited woman, is having a secret affair with Park Ji-hyung, an architect who has a fiancée. Upon hearing that Ji-hyung's parents set the date for his wedding, Seo-yeon splits up with him. But she has no time to lament over her painful breakup, as she gets diagnosed with early on-set Alzheimer's, a very unlikely disease for a 30-year-old woman. Ji-hyung happens to learn the shocking fact, and he breaks off his engagement only two days before the wedding to return to his ex-girlfriend. Despite vehement opposition from his parents and even from Seo-yeon herself, he never gives up on her and marries her without delay. The doting husband is devoted to taking care of his ailing wife, who is losing her ability to remember. Despite her distressing condition, the couple tries to hang on to love and experience it to the end. They have a baby girl and find happiness in their married life from time to time, even though both are well aware that a tragic end awaits them.

The story of a middle-aged man and woman who have given up any dreams of a passionate romance, but are both afraid of living and dying alone.

As a single, unmarried woman in her mid-thirties, Lee Yeon-jae (Kim Sun-a) is meek and timid, considered a spinster by society. After spending ten years working for the same travel company owned by Kang Chul-man, she is falsely accused of stealing from a client. In addition to enduring the accusations of her superiors, she is diagnosed with gallbladder cancer with approximately six months left to live. Mustering up her courage, Yeon-jae resigns and embraces her remaining six months of life.

Embarking on her first vacation alone, she splurges on clothes and flies first-class to Okinawa Island, Japan, where she runs into the man of her dreams, Kang Ji-wook (Lee Dong-wook), who happens to be the son of her former boss. Ji-wook is a rich young man, cynical and lifeless, until he falls in love with Yeon-jae. Together they live out a series of misadventures, both comical and bittersweet, as Yeon-jae completes each dream in her Bucket List.