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Both explore the idea of time loops and how they can or cannot change someone's fate, although Extraordinary You approaches the idea from a more deeply rooted philosophical point of view (Martin Heidegger's theories of being and time and being-in-the-world).
Also, both have high school settings and filmed scenes at the campus of Seoul's Yonsei University, featuring the distinctive Underwood Hall as the entrance to the high school.
Also, both have high school settings and filmed scenes at the campus of Seoul's Yonsei University, featuring the distinctive Underwood Hall as the entrance to the high school.
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- The main theme in both dramas is attempting to change the future through shifts in behavior/actions for expected events
- Everyone’s fate seems to be at the whim of a greater power (SoOD - time travel, EY - the writer)
- Both couples have an epic, “star-crossed lovers” feel
- The main characters for both dramas are high schoolers
- Everyone’s fate seems to be at the whim of a greater power (SoOD - time travel, EY - the writer)
- Both couples have an epic, “star-crossed lovers” feel
- The main characters for both dramas are high schoolers
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Both deal with animation.
Both romances.
Both have love triangles.
Both fun and lighthearted.
Extraordinary You has more storylines and characters. It's more fantasy based and magic based, while Yumi Cells (2) is about inner feelings and thoughts. But they both have the same Webtoon feel (probably because they were both Webtoons/ have Webtoons in their plots).
Both romances.
Both have love triangles.
Both fun and lighthearted.
Extraordinary You has more storylines and characters. It's more fantasy based and magic based, while Yumi Cells (2) is about inner feelings and thoughts. But they both have the same Webtoon feel (probably because they were both Webtoons/ have Webtoons in their plots).
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Both FLs are self-aware and supporting characters determined to change their fate within the world of a novel or manga. The ML also becomes self-aware and work together to change the story. In both dramas the characters are controlled by the author against their will during a scene, but off-scene are free to act as they wish.
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In both dramas the leads (and more characters) are connected by a past life. In Extraordinary You it's a "story" but it still counts as a past life since for the characters it was their life. In both cases it's revelead in later episodes that this other life exists and what happened in there and how it connects the leads and the other characters.
Also *spoiler* in both cases the FL forgets about the ML towards the end but the ML remains by her side anyway, trying to make her remember they were in love.
Also *spoiler* in both cases the FL forgets about the ML towards the end but the ML remains by her side anyway, trying to make her remember they were in love.
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