Tale of the Nine Tailed

Series Similar to Tale of the Nine Tailed

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

1. Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo

   2016 · Fantasy, Romance, History · ended96% match

   Quality match from the curated show pool.

   When a total eclipse of the sun takes place, a 21st century woman, Go Ha Jin, is transported back in time to the Goryeo Dynasty of Korea. She wakes up in the body of 16-year-old Hae Soo, an aristocrat living with Lady Hae, her cousin who happens to be married to one of the sons of King Taejo. She soon befriends several of the princes, who find her carefree and exuberant attitude refreshing. Although she knows she should not get involved in palace intrigues over the succession to the throne, she inadvertently becomes a pawn in the struggle, as several of the Princes fall in love with her.

2. The Master's Sun

   2013 · Fantasy, Romance, Mystery · ended96% match

   Recommended for hidden gem.

   The story revolves around a woman who can see ghosts and a man who tries to protect her, and is described as a drama with horror and romantic elements infused together. So Ji Sub plays the miserly, greedy, and conceited CEO Joo Joong Won, who measures all human relationships through money. Gong Hyo Jin will play the melancholy and tearful assistant Tae Gong Shil, who is able to see ghosts after an accident and thus suffers from insomnia. She lives a very reclusive and closed-off life due to her ability. The story is being touted as "soul healing" drama that brings together very different types of people: one who can see and hear things that no one else in the world can and another who only hears and see things he wants too. As Joo Joong Won starts to believe in Tae Gong Shil's claim of being able to see ghosts, these two people will grow together in faith and in character.

3. Destined with You

   2023 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).

   The irresistible romance between a civil servant who obtains a forbidden book that was thoroughly sealed 300 years ago and a popular lawyer who becomes a victim of the forbidden book.

4. Twinkling Watermelon

   2023 · Fantasy, Music, Romance · ended95% match

   Recommended for highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on tvN.

   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.

5. Alchemy of Souls

   2022 · Action, Fantasy, Romance · ended95% match

   Recommended for highly rated (8.1), also on tvN.

   Set in a fictional country called Daeho that does not exist in history or on maps, it is about the love and growth of young mages as they overcome their twisted fates due to a magic spell known as the "alchemy of souls", which allows souls to switch bodies. It follows the story of an elite assassin named Naksu, whose soul is accidentally trapped inside the weak body of Moo Duk—Jang Wook's servant from a powerful and noble family in the country. The young master of the Jang Family, Jang Wook, holds a dark secret about his scandalous birth. He wants the formidable assassin to help change his destiny. 

6. W

   2016 · Drama, Romance, Thriller · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

   After being pulled into the webtoon world created by her father, a surgical resident gets entangled in a murder mystery involving the story's hero.

7. Mother

   2018 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.5), also on tvN.

   This is the story of a woman becoming a mother. Soo Jin is a teacher at an elementary school. She plans to go abroad to study and teaching is just a temporary job. However, she notices that one of her student, Hye Na, is being abused by her mother and uncle at home. Soo Jin or the police cannot do anything because Hye Na doesn't know that she is being abused and says it's all good to people. As Soo Jin meets Ja Young and Seol Ak, the mother and uncle, she decides to save her from those horrible people. She makes an impulsive but sincere decision to become Hye Na's mother. Their story begins unexpectedly, but as Soo Jin and Hye Na start to believe and depend on each other, they become a real mother and daughter.

8. Guardian: The Lonely and Great God

   2016 · Drama, Fantasy, Romance · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.1), also on tvN.

   Guardians are always whom we fear. Surely not this time. A guardian living in Seoul in 2016 is the sexiest chick magnet. More than a hundred years old in reality, he hangs out with the young. But not many people know that he is hollow inside. He has been searching for the ‘goblin bride' for decades, but she is no where to be found. Then one day, he keeps getting summoned by Eun-tak. There, he sees the Reaper, not knowing that they are to become roommates. That's where the story begins. A Goblin, trying to protect a girl who should have been dead a long time ago. A Reaper, desperately wanting to take the girl to complete his task.

9. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8), also on tvN.

   Lee Young's family runs a large firm in which Lee Young Joon works as vice-president. He is known to be rich, smart and handsome, but is known to be very arrogant. His secretary Kim Mi So, who works for them for many years, makes a decision which shocks him...

10. Little Women

    2022 · Drama, Family · ended95% match

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on tvN.

    Little Women is a work that depicts the story of three sisters who have good friendship.