This is a one to one comparison of each episode, each article will contain spoilers, especially when we get to the later episodes. Let’s begin with an introduction to each series. Click here for episode six.
Synopsis (from MyDramaList): Kang Ji Won’s marriage to Park Min Hwan is strained due to his selfishness, unemployment, and a domineering mother. Ji Won is the family’s sole breadwinner and does all the household chores. When she is diagnosed with terminal cancer, her world shatters further as she discovers her husband’s affair with her close friend, Jung Soo Min. A confrontation leads to her tragic death at Min Hwan’s hands. However, Ji Won wakes up 10 years in the past, before she married Min Hwan. Determined to change her fate, she plots to make Soo Min marry him instead. Meanwhile, Yoo Ji Hyeok, her colleague, secretly harbors feelings for Ji Won and conceals a hidden truth.
Release Year: 2024
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime
Characters:
Kang Ji Won – Main Protaganist
Park Min Hwan – Ji Won’s Husband/Boyfriend
Jung Soo Min – Ji Won’s Best Friend
Yoo Ji Hyuk – Ji Won’s Boss
Yoo Hui Yeon – Ji Won’s coworker and friend
Baek Eun Ho – Ji Won’s highscool classmate/ first crush
Yang Ju Ran – Ji Won’s senior co worker
Kim Gyeong Uk – Ji Won’s supervisor
Number of episodes: 16
Synopsis (from MyDramaList): The protagonist Kanbe Misa, who has always lived a life of a “supporting character” because she is too kind and always puts others first, believes in her best friend and husband and continues to do her best, but she loses her life due to their betrayal. However, she suddenly realizes that she has traveled back in time to 10 years ago. Misa plans revenge to ruin her former best friend and husband, but her encounter with Suzuki Wataru, a department manager with whom she had no connection in her first life, brings about a new change in Misa’s heart as she seeks revenge…
Release Year: 2025
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime
Characters:
Kanbe Misa – Main Protagonist
Hirano Tomoya – Misa’s Husband/Boyfriend
Esaka Reina – Misa’s Best Friend
Suzuki Wataru – Misa’s Boss
Sizuki Miku – Misa’s coworker and friend
Sumiyoshi Yuriko – Misa’s senior coworker
Tanbe Yuto – Misa’s highschool classmate/first crush
Section Chief Tomita: Misa’s direct supervisor
Number of Episodes: 10
Marry My Husband – Korea Episode Seven
On the rooftop, Ji Hyuk and Ji Won discuss how Su Min needs to take Ji Won’s place in order to prevent her death. Ji Hyuk hadn’t realized how things worked. Ji Won imagines what her funeral must have been like. Ji Hyuk suggest they talk elsewhere.
He takes her to his apartment. His cat immediately loves her. They talk how there must be a substitute, a marriage for a marriage, a death for a death.
In 2023, after watching Ji Won’s urn be sealed in a mausoleum, his car won’t start. Frustrated, he stand in the rain when a cab suddenly appears. In the cab, Ji Hyuk expresses regret over all the missed chances. The cab driver asks what he would do if he had another chance. Hi Hyuk replies that he would take the chance and protect her.
In the present, Ji Won asks how he came back. He lies and says he fell asleep and when he woke up it was 2013.
The next morning, Miss Yang enters the office building when her husband calls. He says he can’t pick up their kid later. She hears their daughter in the background. He was supposed to take her to daycare but instead he’s playing video games. After she hangs up she wonders why her life is like this.
Mr Lee, who works closely with the Chairman, arrives and walks past her. Flashback to him telling her he hates people like her. Ji Hyuk wakes up to a call from his sister and suddenly rushes to work. Mr Lee stars unpacking his stuff. Hi Kyuk arrives and they to a conference room. Ji Hyuk is informed his relationship with Ji Won is under investigation and Miss Yang will be taking over the meal kit project, though Ji Won can join the team.
In a meeting, they’re all informed of the decision.
Outside, Min Hwan gives Su Min strawberry milk and encourages her to use this opportunity to get ahead of Ji Won.
Ji Hyuk goes to the restaurant where Eun Ho works. He asks him if he knows Dynamite and Spring Day, testing if Eun Ho also came back. Hui Yeon arrives to pick up Ji Hyuk who is passed out on the table.
At home, Ji Won tries calling Ji Hyuk but doesn’t get an answer.
During a conversation with his grandfather, Ji Hyuk is advised to get along with Mr. Lee. The grandfather then says he wants to meet Ji Won, but Ji Hyuk says that probably won’t happen because he wants her to be happy.
Ji Hyuk decides he will protect Ji Won this time, though he doesn’t think they can be together because he will die 2023.
At work, people are talking Royental stocks going up. Min Hwan says those are the stocks he sold for Ji Won. Min Hwan calls Ji Won outside. Su Min see the stocks she was looking at on her computer and buys some.
Min Hwan wants to Ji Won out somewhere nice and asks about the money he gave her when he sold the stocks. She says she invested it in insurance. He loses his temper and starts calling her names. She offers to lend him money, though she knows the stocks he still has are going to fail. She suggests they go out that weekend with Su Min.
The three of them go on a picnic in a park. Ji Won has memories of good times she had with Min Hwan. Miss Yang calls Ji Won, who leaves, though it was actually Eun Ho calling. She just wanted an excuse to leave. She meets up with him and gives her flowers.
In the office, Ji Hyuk explains why he couldn’t make her the leader of the project.
Ji Hyuk goes to Eun Ho’s restaurant again, tells him he wants to get to know him better and make sure he’s not a player.
Hui Yeon is asked to organize the upcoming workshop.
There a treasure hunt will decide sleeping accommodation. Min Hwan says the women should hang back, that he will get the number one flag for them.
Ji Won remembers that originally, she got the number 4 flag, Min Hwan got number 5 and Su Min ended up with the number 1 because Mr. Kim helped her. This time, they overhear where the number one flag is. Su Min wants to use Min Hwan to get it.
Ji Hyuk and Ji Won cross paths in the forest. She tells him she want to do things herself and doesn’t want him to do things he normally wouldn’t because of her. He shows her the heart on h is chest and tells her to use him however she wants. She insists that she wants to do things on her own, that she wants him to be happy as well as herself.
Su Min comes across Min Hwan, hurts herself on purpose then asks him to help her get the number one flag.
Ji Won sets out to get the flag. Ji hyuk over hears that the water is dangerous and goes and pull hers her out of the lake. He demands to know why she won’t let him help her. She doesn’t want to be like Su Min. She wants to do what’s right because that’s who she is.
Marry My Husband – Japan Episode Seven
Misa goes out with her friends, who are worried about her after Reina’s announcement, but she’s never felt so relieved or free.
Reina has dinner with Tomoya’s parents. His mother becomes overbearing, demanding that they get married as soon as possible. She’s already booked a venue for christmas eve. She says she will take care of everything. Tomoya flees when Reina looks to him for help.
Misa stumbles home drunk and crosses off the wedding in her day timer. Wataru calls and asks her out for the next day.
The next day, Wataru asks Misa if Tomoya or Reina have tried to contact her. She thinks Reina is lying about the pregnancy. He then asks her what she wants to do with her life and she tells him she has a list.
At the cafe, Misa looks at the christmas decorations while Tanbe and Wataru talk. Tanbe expresses regret for never telling Misa how he felt about her. When Tanbe asks him about his feelings for Misa, Wataru says he has things he needs to do.
Tomoya sees Wataru and Misa outside the cafe and freaks out, running between people to get there but when he arrives they’ve already left.
Wataru and Misa go to their oil school. When Misa asks how long it’s been since they’ve been there, Wataru initially says 20 years, then corrects himself to 10. They sit by the pond and she tells him about when the pond dried up and found the note on the tree. He doesn’t tell her it was him that saved her turtle. It starts to rain and they run together, laughing.
Reina goes shopping with Tomoya’s mother, has a flashback of chasing her own mother as a child.
The next day, Misa has lunch with Miku and Sumiyoshi. They ask about her “date” with Wataru, but Misa insists it wasn’t a date. They overhead coworkers talking about Reina’s upcoming wedding. Miku shows Misa the invitation and Misa says “it’s the same.”
Reina and Tomoya fight about wedding preparations and he suggests they call it off.
When Misa returns home, Reina is waiting in the lobby of her apartment building, and Misa lets her in. Reina vents about wanting to call off the wedding since no one is going to show up. Misa promises to help get people there. Tomoya calls while Reina is there but Misa doesn’t answer. Outside, Reina smiles and says to herself “look like she’s still worth using.”
Sumiyoshi walks with her daughter. When they get to her husband’s restaurant, she opens the door to see her husband kissing one of his employees. Misa makes phone calls to convince people to go to the wedding. Tomoya texts her, asking to meet. At the restaurant where he proposed to her, he tells her he wants to call off the wedding because he loves her. She tells him off. As she goes to leave her asks about her relationship with Wataru, which she informs him is none of his business. She encourages him to take responsibility for his actions and that they are never getting back together.
Wataru meets with a client about creating a food delivery service within his company, knowing it will be in demand in the future.
At the wedding, Misa thanks everyone for coming. Her highschool classmates show up wearing flashy clothing and they apologize to her for how they treated her in High School. Wataru arrives just before the ceremony. Offering his arm, they walk in together.
As the wedding takes place, the scene transitions between the present and Misa’s wedding to Tomoya. Misa looks emotional and Wataru takes her hand. Misa gives a speech that sounds nice on the surface but has very insulting undertones. She turns the microphone off then says something else we don’t hear. She leaves the venue, walking alone on the street. Wataru arrives and puts a coat on her. They to try to find a place to go but all the restaurants are fully booked (it’s christmas eve) so he invites her to his place.
At his apartment, she sees the turtle and realizes it’s Kamekichi and that Wataru is the one who saved him. She starts crying and he shows her christmas decorations to cheer her up. It starts snowing. She asks him if she’s going to kiss and, after a brief hesitation, he does.
Reina moves into Tomoya’s apartment. Reina tries to call Misa, but discovers she’s been blocked, so Reina goes to Misa’s apartment and finds it empty. Using Instagram, she find Miku and Tanbe food shopping and follows them back to Wataru’s apartment building. Reina watches them from outside.
Flashback to Misa telling Reina Wataru was a womanizer, all the times Misa pushed Reina towards Tomoya and Misa at the end of her speech saying “Thank you for picking up the trash I threw away.” and Reina realizes what Misa did. She throws her wedding ring in anger.
Inside, Miku asks Misa to get tea leaves. When she opens a jar to look she finds and origami candy wrapper like the ones her father used to make for her.
Episode Comparison
As the two timelines are now completely different, I’m going to stop trying to compare them one to one. Instead, I will post the detailed outlines of the episodes, then do a final comparison to the two series over all.
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