Grand Inquisitor

Both feature a crime-solving duo made up of an arrogant detective and a reserved psychology professor. They both have a similar love/hate dynamic.

Both have a similar plot where the antagonist is targeting the psychology professor using psychological tactics, resulting in the detective becoming very protective of the professor. Both have very strong bromances.

Similarities:
- Both have a trio consisting of two male leads and one female lead
- Both have strong bromances
- Both involve plots around mind/body control through advanced technology

Both feature a cop going undercover within a notorious criminal group, only to end up getting too involved in a friendship/brotherhood with one of the criminals

Both feature a cop going undercover within a notorious criminal group, only to end up getting too involved in a friendship/brotherhood with one of the criminals

Both feature a cop going undercover within a notorious criminal group, only to end up getting too involved in a friendship/brotherhood with one of the criminals

Both feature two men spending time in nature, with the relaxing, gorgeous, and secluded environment facilitating their romance

Both have a romance with an age gap, with the younger man falling first

Both are darker romances between two men with traumatic pasts

Both feature sudden cohabitation, where one refuses to leave the other's home, leading to them living together and getting closer

Both have a main character who is very depressed at the beginning but slowly regains the will to live after meeting the love interest

SImilarities:

- Both are workplace romances between two men

- Both feature lots of one-sided pining and yearning while the other person remains utterly clueless

Similarities:

- Both are workplace romances between two male managers working in the same company who are extremely competitive with each other

- Both have a rivals-to-lovers dynamic

- Both are lighthearted and goofy

Both focus on teenage best friends in high school, where one is stronger and determined to fight to protect the other from adults and gang violence.

Both feature a conflict between the best friends as a major plot point.

Both have strong bromances.

Although they differ greatly in genre and plot, they both have similarities:

- Both feature the developing friendship between two high school boys, and how they go from strangers to inseparable

- In both, one of the boys is stoic, strong and lazy in their studies while the other is very studious, intelligent and physically weaker. The dynamics of their friendship are similar, where they take time to warm up to each other, with circumstance pushing them closer.

- Both feature bouts of hand-to-hand combat, though WHC is a lot more violent and has way more fights than ONHCT, which is more of a supernatural genre.

- Both have emotional plots!!

- Both end in a similar way :(

Both are sequel series that feature a plot-driven continuation of the original work, which is more character-driven.

both feature a teen/young adult who was previously timid and bullied, trying to live their lives normally after committing a life-altering act of violence that has hardened them into numb, unfeeling people with soft spots for those they care about

both lead characters are extremely weak at first, yet refuse to back down, either using their perseverance or intelligence to battle against stronger opponents despite their physical disadvantages

both feature the main characters getting caught up with a larger organisation, and personally attacked by the leaders of said organisation, whom they must battle with using hand-to-hand combat

both are tales of the underdog who only fight to protect the people and friends they love