Both have themes with an older woman and a younger man, where the younger man helps the woman loosen up and experience true caring. Both are quite cute relationships with honesty and caring. Both the young men MLs are happy go lucky and slightly immature in some aspects, but emotionally mature. Both FLs are "uptight" in various ways, and in positions of slight power (CEO for Encounter, and a manager of a salon for Last Cinderella) at least compared to the ML