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Shows Like My Absolute Boyfriend

After experiencing My Absolute Boyfriend, should consider this hand-picked list which questions the purpose and weight of our choices while delivering targets the intellect with complex, multi-layered ideas. Carefully balances character depth with narrative flow makes this a compelling continuation of these themes.

Mood Breakdown
Runtime Cluster

Standard feature-length experiences.

Viewer Fit

Best for fans of who appreciate concise storytelling.

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I Am Not a Robot
8.3

I Am Not a Robot

2017

Kim Min Gyu has wealth and success, but lives an isolated life due to his allergy of people. He then meets and falls in love with a girl who is pretending to be a robot for her ex-boyfriend, a genius robots professor.

Sunny
6.8

Sunny

2024

The life of an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As consolation, she's given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband's electronics company.

My Dearest Nemesis
7.7

My Dearest Nemesis

2025

Baek Su-jeong leads a planning team at a renowned department store. She meets her new boss, Ban Ju-yeon, her first love from an online game 16 years ago, stirring up memories of when he confessed his feelings but she rejected him.

Backstreet Rookie
7.5

Backstreet Rookie

2020

It tells an unpredictable 24-hour love story of the four-dimensional innocent girl Jung Saet Byeol who was once a troublemaker and the adorkable caring male store manager, Choi Dae Hyun, in the context of a convenience store. They have met each other accidentally 4 years ago, back then Saet Byeol asked Dae Hyun to buy cigarettes for them. Until now, Saet Byeol comes to the convenience store Dae Hyun runs for a part-time job, their hilarious romantic story starts.

High Fidelity
7.6

High Fidelity

2020

Rob Brooks, a female record store owner in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love.

My Demon
8.5

My Demon

2023

A pitiless demon becomes powerless after getting entangled with an icy heiress, who may hold the key to his lost abilities — and his heart.

True Beauty
8.2

True Beauty

2020

Lim Ju-kyung is a high school student. Since she was little, she has had a complex about her appearance. To hide her bare face, Ju-kyung always wears make-up. Her excellent make-up skills make her pretty and she hides her bare face in front of others. She gets involved with 2 men; Lee Su-ho and Han Seo-jun.

My Love from the Star
8.3

My Love from the Star

2013

An alien who came to Earth 400 years ago is almost able to return to his own planet, but when he meets a famous actress, he doesn't want to go home.

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Start-Up
8.2

Start-Up

2020

Young entrepreneurs aspiring to launch virtual dreams into reality compete for success and love in the cutthroat world of Korea's high-tech industry.

Man Seeking Woman
7.0

Man Seeking Woman

2015

Josh Greenberg is a naive romantic on a desperate quest for love. When his longtime girlfriend dumps him, Josh enters the dating scene, a nightmarish hellscape of untold horror. Despite the agony, Josh continues his search in the hopes of finding someone who will make all the misery worth it.

Mischievous Kiss
7.8

Mischievous Kiss

2010

A clumsy high-school girl - Oh Ha-ni - is at the bottom of her class, and she has had a crush on a popular genius, Baek Seung-Jo, ever since she first laid eyes on him.

Love in Contract
7.6

Love in Contract

2022

Contract marriage master Choi Sang-eun's alternate day romance with a long-term mystery client on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and a new superstar client on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Catch The Ghost
7.6

Catch The Ghost

2019

A romantic investigative drama about rookie detective Yoo-Ryung who solves cases with her overflowing sense of justice and exceptional spatial perception but always gets herself into trouble because of her rash actions. She meets the Wangsimni station constabulary chief, a man who avoids cases and seeks stability who always ends up cleaning up after the problems caused by Yoo Ryung and holds the key to solving the cases.

The Girl Who Sees Smells
7.2

The Girl Who Sees Smells

2015

With help from a young woman with synesthesia, a cop who lost his sense of pain tracks down the serial killer who brought tragedy to both their lives.

Tastefully Yours
8.4

Tastefully Yours

2025

Driven to claim top culinary honors, an arrogant heir meets a low-profile but stubborn chef whose recipes astonish him — sparking an unlikely romance.

Spring of Youth
7.4

Spring of Youth

2025

A K-pop star, Sa-gye, reluctantly enters college, forms a 4-member mixed band, and navigates love and growth through music amid the chaos of campus life.

Colin from Accounts
7.4

Colin from Accounts

2022

Ashley and Gordon are two single(ish), complex humans who are brought together by a car accident and an injured dog. Flawed, funny people choosing each other and being brave enough to show their true self, scars and all, as they navigate life together.

Extraordinary You
8.0

Extraordinary You

2019

When a high-school girl finds that she is merely a character from a comic book whose destiny is decided by the writer, she decides to change the plot to suit her desires and find the love of her life.

Love to Hate You
8.2

Love to Hate You

2023

For an attorney who despises losing to men and an A-list actor who distrusts women, love means nothing — until they're forced to date each other.

Made for Love
6.7

Made for Love

2021

Thirty-something Hazel Green tries to escape a suffocating marriage — until she realizes her tech billionaire husband has implanted a revolutionary tracking device, the Made for Love, in her brain.

Why These Shows Are Similar

These recommendations share core qualities with My Absolute Boyfriend (2019): Comedy themes, similar pacing, and comparable production quality. NoBadPicks uses TMDB collaborative filtering, genre matching, and AI analysis to surface series most likely to resonate with fans of My Absolute Boyfriend.

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