Big

Series Similar to Big

If you enjoyed Big, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Secret Garden

   2010 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   Kim Joo-won is the arrogant, eccentric heir to a large company who is poised to inherit a large department store. He constantly rejects the girls his matchmaking mother sends his way. When he meets Gil Ra-im, a beautiful, driven stunt-woman, she changes his life as he becomes fascinated by her strength and vulnerability.One day, a magical incident occurs and they find that they have switched bodies.

2. Let's Fight Ghost

   2016 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   Hyun Ji is a wandering ghost who died when she was a 19-year-old. One day she meets an exorcist named Bong Pal. They team up to listen and solve the problems of various ghosts so that they can rest peacefully.

3. The Almighty Johnsons

   2011 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   The Almighty Johnsons is a South Pacific Pictures comedy-drama series about four brothers, raised in heartland New Zealand, who also happen to be the living incarnations of Norse Gods. They even have their own super-god-powers. Sort of - it's just that their powers aren't actually all that powerful. Well, not yet - but that could all change soon.

4. Being Erica

   2009 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   Being Erica is a one-hour series that explores the life of Erica Strange, a woman who has been given a wonderful gift. Every episode, Erica goes back to relive a regret from her past, in order to come back and make a positive change in her present.

5. Twinkling Watermelon

   2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Twinkling Watermelon follows a story about CODA, (a deaf child born under deaf parents) a boy born of natural talent for music, and Eun Gyul, crash-landing into an unfamiliar space through a suspicious musical instrument store. Eun Gyul forms the band Watermelon Sugar with the youth he met there and communicates with them through music.

6. Wonderfalls

   2004 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   From the producer of Angel and Firefly comes Wonderfalls. Although a recent graduate of Brown University, Jaye Tyler decides to ignore her degree, live in a trailer and work at a tourist gift shop in Niagara Falls called Wonderfalls—-much to the despair of her well-to-do family. But Jaye's aimless life takes a startling turn after a lion figurine begins talking to her. Her family calls it an "episode," but Jaye knows better.Fearing for her sanity, Jaye nevertheless starts doing exactly what an increasing number of inanimate objects tell her to do and is amazed when her outrageous actions begin changing people's lives in unexpected ways.

7. Splash Splash Love

   2015 · Fantasy, Romance, History · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

   Senior High school student Dan Bi has to take the College Scholastic Ability test. While failing a different study due to stress, she falls into a time lapse on the day of her exam and arrives in the Joseon Era. Lee Do is a king who can't be stopped and is trying to put effort in everything as he received the throne at his young age.

8. Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

   2017 · Comedy, Action, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Strong Woman Do Bong Soon tells the story about Do Bong Soon who is a woman born with Herculean strength, anything she touches with too much force crumbles in her hands. Ahn Min Hyuk is her love interest and he is an extraordinary second-generation chaebol with crazy tendencies. Meanwhile, Gook Doo is the guy who's harbored a one-sided crush on the heroine.

9. Kevin (Probably) Saves the World

   2017 · Drama, Comedy, Fantasy · ended

   Recommended for similar Fantasy profile.

   Kevin (Probably) Saves the World follows Kevin Finn, a cluelessly self-serving person who is on a dangerous path to despair. In a downward spiral, Kevin returns home to stay with his widowed twin sister and niece. On his first night there, an unlikely celestial being named Yvette appears to him and presents him with a mission – to save the world.

10. My Girlfriend is a Gumiho

    2010 · Comedy, Fantasy, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Fantasy profile, hidden gem.

    Cha Dae Woong is a spoiled brat with plans to become a successful action star. One day, on the run from his rich grandfather's latest fit of rage towards him, he accidentally frees a nine-tailed fox, Gu Mi Ho, who has been imprisoned in a painting for 500 years. Frightened at first, he runs away to the woods and ends up getting seriously injured. Feeling indebted to him, Gu Mi Ho gives him her " fox orb " a powerful part of her life force, to heal him. When he wakes up, the two form an awkward partnership, as Dae Woong begins to rely on the power of the orb to shoot his action sequences, while also giving in to Mi Ho's request to teach her how to act human. Though Dae Woong is initially acting out of fear, things start to change as he gradually begins to fall for her. However, Mi Ho will be faced with a terrible choice as her time in human form runs out in this heart-wrenching comedy.