2024
16 eps
tvN
Romance Fantasy Drama
Sol is a lifelong fan of K-pop idol Ryu Sun-jae — his music has been the thing she returned to every time she needed to feel okay through years of chronic illne…
Like The Atypical Family, Lovely Runner is built around slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off. At its core, it's about the slow, non-linear work of healing — done with real tenderness. Same warm and romantic energy throughout.
2021
50 eps
MBC
Romance Drama Family
A widower with three children hires a nanny. The nanny is a bright, cheerful young woman who wins over the children before she wins over their guarded father. A…
Like The Atypical Family, Young Lady and Gentleman is built around ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world. At its core, it's about grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. Same warm and romantic energy throughout.
2019
63 eps
TMS Entertainment / Crunchyroll
Romance Drama Comedy
Tohru Honda is relentlessly optimistic despite having lost her mother and living in a tent in the woods. She accidentally moves in with the Sohma family and dis…
Like The Atypical Family, Fruits Basket is built around ragtag group of people who slowly become each other's whole world. At its core, it's about grief handled honestly enough to make you feel it. Same warm and emotional energy throughout.
2022
16 eps
MBC
Romance Comedy Drama
Noh Go-jin is Korea's most arrogant math genius — the CEO of a private education company who treats everyone around him as furniture. Lee Shin-a is his assistan…
If you loved The Atypical Family's slow build where every stolen glance and almost-moment pays off, Crazy Love delivers exactly that. At its core, it's about the slow, non-linear work of healing — done with real tenderness. The pacing is romantically charged — the tension is everywhere, even when nothing's happening.
2025
12 eps
tvN
Fantasy Romance Drama
The last deity in charge of spring — responsible for renewal, growth, and the particular grief of things ending so other things can begin — has been demoted to …
Like The Atypical Family, it leans hard into supernatural romance. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same warm and romantic energy throughout.