Dramas that make you feel vicariously in love
There’s a particular set of dramas (and some movies) where the lead couple loves so beautifully that they make me feel like I’m falling in love vicariously through them. I get butterflies and a similar rush as if I’m discovering that I’m crushing on someone in real life. This high follows me throughout the day, and I feel like I’m really in love myself.
The drama (or movie) itself isn’t always of top notch quality; this is only about how the lead couple (or the ML loving the FL) makes me feel in love .
Most romance dramas/movies actually doesn't manage to convey this feeling, so here I list those where I really got all giddy. Hoping to see recommendations for many more.
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1. Shanai Marijjihani
Japanese Drama - 2020, 7 episodes
If I don’t have what they have I don’t want it.
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2. Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha
Korean Drama - 2021, 16 episodes
Are you even alive if you didn’t screech like a banshee when they talked on the phone and Hong Banjang was like “… ani”??
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3. Hatsukoi
Japanese Drama - 2022, 9 episodes
It’s the entire way their whole lives were a constant act of being in love. Not one moment went by where they were NOT.
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4. Dating in the Kitchen
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
Uneven drama but the way he loved her was intense of the best kind.
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5. Kekkon Yoteibi
Japanese Drama - 2023, 8 episodes
Especially in the first few eps where the ML was crushing so hard but just kept his composure.
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6. From Me to You
Japanese Movie - 2010
Miura Haruma just loving her so earnestly... You’ll feel it.
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7. Kanojo wa Kirei datta
Japanese Drama - 2021, 10 episodes
They were so good for each other and Sosuke’s brand of loving was so butterflies-inducing that Ai literally went weak in the knees and pooled on the floor at one point \{*____*}/
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8. I Hear Your Voice
Korean Drama - 2013, 18 episodes
The way Soo Ha loves…
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9. Jitenshaya-san no Takahashi-kun
Japanese Drama - 2022, 8 episodes
One-track-minded people crushing is the best
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10. Damo
Korean Drama - 2003, 14 episodes
The romance was epic at the time I watched.
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11. Koi Nante, Honki de Yattedo Usu ru no?
Japanese Drama - 2022, 10 episodes
I’m a sucker for playboy MLs falling hard
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12. Liar x Liar
Japanese Movie - 2021
Playboy MLs falling hard, yada yada
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13. Majo no Jouken
Japanese Drama - 1999, 11 episodes
Icky subject but the way they loved *__*
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14. MARS
Taiwanese Drama - 2004, 13 episodes
Playboy MLs crushing and burning mmmmmmmmmm
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15. My Husband Got a Family
Korean Drama - 2012, 58 episodes
The way Chun Jae Yong (a side character) loves one of the sisters was the cutest.
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16. Promise Cinderella
Japanese Drama - 2021, 10 episodes
One-track-minded dudes crushing makes me giddy
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17. Rich Man, Poor Woman
Japanese Drama - 2012, 11 episodes
These babies so so precious
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18. My ID is Gangnam Beauty
Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
The ultra-popular ML falling is another one of those awesome tropes I love.
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19. Sh**ting Star
Korean Drama - 2022, 16 episodes
Ultra-mega-popular guys falling is even better! (The way his hands are shaking when he has his real life kiss scene, I- I just.. *screaming cryig rolling on the fflooor*!!!)
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20. Shut Up: Flower Boy Band
Korean Drama - 2012, 16 episodes
Romance wasn’t even the main focus but the butterflies prevailed
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21. I Don't Want To Do Anything
Korean Drama - 2022, 12 episodes
They were so honest and straightforward in their love.
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22. Tamra, The Island
Korean Drama - 2009, 16 episodes
Watching Park Kyu fall in love was so beautiful. But the way they made him wrong in the drama is only rivalled by how the whole industry made Im Joo Hwan, the actor who played him, wrong.
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23. Splash Splash LOVE
Korean Special - 2015, 2 episodes
I hardly remember anything but know that Doojon did this good.
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24. Duelist
Korean Movie - 2005
It was like Damo on speed. Romantic, haunting, beautifully shot speed. Oh, those wistful sad eyes..
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25. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
Ughh Park Hyung Shik just sauntering around and leaning at things and intensely loving this insanely strong woman.. yeah, that!
