Both A Little Thing Called First Love and Always Home are similar because they’re coming-of-age stories that focus on friendship, self-growth, and the emotional journey of first love. Both follow characters from their school years into adulthood, showing how friendships shape them, how quiet crushes slowly develop, and how personal challenges help them discover who they really are. While First Love centers more on one girl’s transformation because of her crush, and Always Home uses a larger friend group with deeper family themes, both dramas share the same warm, realistic, nostalgic vibe about growing up, changing, and finding love along the way.