Nevertheless (2021)

Aizawa Naoya is happily married to his colleague Kana but faces temptation to cheat on his wife when a new employee Tachibana Noa joins his branch and seduces him repeatedly with all sorts of antics. ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Anata wa Watashi ni Otosaretai" written by Miyaguchi Jun and illustrated by Umesuzu.

At a crossroads, a dentist moves to a seaside village where she meets a handyman intent on helping his neighbours.

The story of a romance between a man who is annoyed with relationships but likes to flirt and a woman who wants to date but does not believe in love.

Flawed characters trying to navigate the tricky road of life and love.

Love Scene Number is a shorter 8 episode drama comprised of four different unrelated stories that are 2 eps long and Nevertheless is a standard length drama centered around one story with multiple couples throughout.

ML leads are simillar. They are handsome and know how to flirt. They are cold and manipulative and intentionally saduce women without deeper emotions.
Vibes of the dramas are simillar. They are dark yet realistic. I have impression that the acting and camera shots are also simillar, with many close ups of the faces.

Both have:
- feelings of intimacy
- focus on how relationship develops and works
- emotional maturity
- playfulness
- met in school

Explores the love lives of 20 somethings. Lots of sexual tension and love triangle angst in both. Happy endings but at what cost?

Got same vibes in my opinion ~




And the same male lead

I dont want to talk more cause I don't like spoiling but it keeps saying write at least 100 character j-j that's why I'm taking nonsense lol
Anyway ~~

The story will focus on a love triangle between the three leads. Eikura plays the role of Morimoto Naoko, a girl from the countryside whose first love is her uncle, Ikezawa Masato. She follows after him to Tokyo by getting admitted into an elite medical university, but there she runs into Masato's girlfriend and colleague Aya, a beautiful and intelligent researcher who is the daughter of the university hospital's director. However, things get complicated after Naoko and Masato meet again.

-Whoever is watching Nevertheless for Han So-Hee, must check out WWDS. The FL (Hamabe Minami) is quite literally her twin from Japan. They are also pretty-much styled with the same haircut. The characterizations of the two young-women land similar too.
-Those who are a fan of the 'cinematic' camera language of Nevertheless, must check out WWDS. Very eerie shots, creepy & uncomfortable close-ups of faces. Both actresses have plenty of close-up angles of their eyes (as they engage in mental-gymnastics). Those scenes are pretty inter-changeable imo.
-There is an air of 'nostalgia' to the cinematography. Very deliberate color-grading.
-There is a lot 'name' significance and history around the name of the leading ladies. Nabi= butterflies. Sakura= cherry blossom flowers.
-Infact, the first point of attraction for the boys towards their leading-ladies, IS the significance of their respective names. Jae-Eon loves his butterflies, and Tsubaki loves his sakuras.
-While Jae-Eon and Na-bi are art-school majors, Tsubaki & Sakura are traditional sweet-makers. You'll see beautiful hands, make beautiful works of art. <3
-Really messed-up dynamics between the leading-couple. The attraction and forbidden sexual-tension is the driving-force between the two couples.
-They look stunning together, but are SO wrong for each other. Unless the 4 of them can heal from their respective emotional traumas.
-The leads are the same age (young 20-somethings) making really questionable choices in life.
-Both the stories are told from the PoV of our protagonist-ladies. While intentions of both their male-counterparts are kept ambiguous. You will question the MLs till the very end, right along with our lovely heroines.
-Intriguing MONOLOGUES.
-'Psychological' angle of both the stories are milked HARD.
-Low-key workplace/ industry sexism & double-standards by the truckload.
-Both girls seem to suffer from some emotional-trauma/ blockage that prevents them from being the best artists that they actually have the potential to be.
-Both stories are based on illustrated originals: Nevertheless from a webtoon & WWDS from a manga.

A housewife becomes enraged with jealousy over her husband's affair. Meanwhile, their son sits in the periphery, observing their violent confrontations. One evening, the housewife takes a kitchen knife into their bedroom to exact revenge on the father. The father though is able to repel her attack and throws her out of the bedroom. The mother then goes into the son's room and from there it hovers the family into tragedy.

Nevertheless and Nabi, My stepdarling has different stories but both drama mention butterfly (Nabi) and the female leads name are both Nabi.

20-year old Deok Yi’s quiet small-town life gets exciting when a former University Professor, Hak Kyu, moves in, running from the scandal of a sexual harassment allegation. He works as a literature instructor at a culture center and she works at an old amusement park. Mutual attraction leads the pair into a lusty affair, but when the fall semester begins, Hak Kyu is reinstated at the university and returns to his family in Seoul, leaving Deok Yi behind. She refuses to let the relationship die, and a confrontation between them turns tragic when Hak Kyu’s wife commits suicide. 8 years later, Hak Kyu is a popular writer, but he is barely able to see, losing his eyesight to a disease, and he's estranged from his daughter Cheong, who blames him for her mother's death. At this time, he befriends Se-Jung, a new neighbor who moves in next door. He gladly accepts her help and Cheong becomes romantically attached to her, neither realizing she is in fact Deok Yi, the woman Hak Kyu betrayed 8 years ago, now on a quest to destroy them. Her plan sets off a vengeance-fuelled chain of events that ultimately sets the three bitter, angry and desperate schemers on a twisting collision course with each other.

The fl is weak but goal oriented n nice. The male lead is broken, Mysterious, playboy n handsome.mature plot n scenes n short drama n cliche ending.

In the end, they got the girl they loved from the beginning but they had to fight for it, they are a lot of struggles both of them had to face and they got through it also it funny how the guys get jealous and they lived happily in the end.

For anyone watching this for Sol and Jiwan and is into GLs, Yes or No is a GL and has a few sequels too. It's an old story though but it is quite nice and fresh. A good, light GL story. Give it a try.