Both dramas have as their story a group of people who conduct human experiments. In both dramas people escaped their facility and developed superpowers. In Luca and in Awake those children, which were experimented on, hold the key to the success for this experiment and are therefore wanted and hunted.
Truly it feels like the exact same story just different characters.
This drama is basically about biotechnology and superhuman abilities. Bottom line - human experimentation.
Circle involves human experiments, cloning and alien methodology. It also, depicts human life to be controlled by certain group turning them into powerful being at the behest of secret government funding.
The ML is the result of human experimentation. Some dark themes and tragic, sacrificial ending of one of the characters. Very similar tone and settings.
Strayer's Chronicle involves human experiments on babies turning them into mutants and giving them special abilities funded by secret government organizations. Just like LUCA it involves, gene manipulation, cloning, and mutant humans using as a weapon on request of government.
ML is the result of human experimentation and not treated as a human by those around him. Tragic and very sad ending.
Apocalyptic future, a secret organization that tries to get a person that has special and unique abilities. A female detective that gets pulled into this organization by chance. Mysteries annnnd a very similar ending.
Although both dramas are still airing at the time of writing, certain aspects do bear strong resemblance between them.
1. Action, mystery, thriller and elements of science fiction in the overarching plot.
2. Focus on the leads as a dynamic duo in their journey of uncovering answers to the questions that they each seek
3. Featuring the more proactive and action packed female lead taking charge, both in terms of the decision making and the fighting
4. Both male leads have their own "superpowers" or unique abilities that normal folks do not possess
5. Our dynamic duos are the underdogs being constantly hunted down by ruthless adversaries backed by mysterious entities with nefarious objectives and seemingly unlimited resources
While very different plots, both have a similar aesthetic - dark, rain-drenched, cyberpunk-like sci-fi. Both FLs have deceased fathers who created or worked on some project that the FL has now discovered in the present. Both MLs are somewhat dangerous and the FL is suspicious or antagonistic to them at first.
Same atory/ plot father and child lives while being supernatural and mother is dead. The father doesn't know that the child is alive and has supernatural powers. Less gore.
Both stories about guys with powers. Both guys get the powers through experiments by big organizations. Both of them are short dramas the will likely have a part 2 that will dive more into how the protagonists deal with a larger scale of things, such as protecting their own kind. LUCA is easier on the eyes and there is not much body horror or anything, unlike in connect. Don't watch connect if you are of faint heart, but LUCA is fine, it barely has any horrifying scenes.
I recommend this both drama because , Male lead and Female lead
try to solve problem
In one drama explosion and another student murder/suicide
The same atmosphere
Dark
Characters with monstrous strength
Violence and gore but it's more extreme in Bulgasal than L.U.C.A
Human experimentation
Shades of grey characters
Dark look into human nature
Who really are the monsters?
Both give an unpredictable ride. Both delve into human experiments and super powers. Both have kick ass action scenes.
