I just wonder. After ten episodes, does BTLIOF still look like a rehash of NigeHaji? I’ve never watched NigeHaji. i tried, but sources are so scarce that maybe the episodes are found in deep web. Lol.

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    I don’t think so, and it kind of confuses me to see people still saying it.

    The setup is similar as in it’s a contract marriage, but the way that they tackle their themes and explore character relationships are different. NigeHaji is lovely and also hits on many important social issues, but I think that BTLIOF is able to delve deeper into its themes and flesh out its characters more. And of course that makes sense, both the episode count and episode length are longer!

    A highlight of both of them remains the conversations between characters, though. But I think NigeHaji does more telling and less showing about social issues, while BTLIOF is the opposite. They also do some telling, but there is more showing via character actions.

    I never find myself thinking of NigeHaji while watching BTLIOF. They are their own separate, if somewhat similar, pieces.

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      Oh! The shows are also similar in that the female lead falls first and tries to get the male lead to open up. I think that Se-hee is a tougher person to crack, though, likely due to whatever happened 12 years ago.

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        Yeah. In NigeHaji, the guy was just socially awkward and inept but not closed off. He closed off himself from relationships because he had low self-esteem and thought no one’s gonna like him and he’ll be a bachelor forever but that’s fine with him. I think Se-hee has more layers and the longer runtime definitely helped make flesh out these characters more. But I think even with a shorter runtime this writer could have achieved that too BECAUSE SHE IS AWESOME.

        When promos for BTLIOF came out, it really looked like NigeHaji. But even after the first week, it’s completely obvious that it’s different. 🙂

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