Both series have:
-male teens coming of age and falling in love.
-leads that are working hard at school
-main characters that hide and ignore their interest in their love interests.
-a character that is confident in his sexuality and supportive of another one who is struggling with his.
-realistic, emotional roller coaster that the characters go on as they try to accept themselves.
-complex characters that are likable but make mistakes.
-really good acting and a couple with chemistry on screen.
-male teens coming of age and falling in love.
-leads that are working hard at school
-main characters that hide and ignore their interest in their love interests.
-a character that is confident in his sexuality and supportive of another one who is struggling with his.
-realistic, emotional roller coaster that the characters go on as they try to accept themselves.
-complex characters that are likable but make mistakes.
-really good acting and a couple with chemistry on screen.
They are both coming-of-age narratives that focus on two young people who have known each other all their lives and have a fraught relationship (are we friends, brothers, or competitors?) told in similar tones and with a similar level of simmering eroticism. Both have excellent camerawork and make interesting stylistic choices, both have convincing performances that showcase the actors' chemistry together, both are bittersweet, and both are continued in later installments of their respective franchises.
In the series cut of ATOF, there's the added punch of emotion that comes from the epilogue scenes of each episode that additionally match well with the ITSAY-esque tone.
In the series cut of ATOF, there's the added punch of emotion that comes from the epilogue scenes of each episode that additionally match well with the ITSAY-esque tone.
It could be the blue shorts, but ITSAY gave me Love Sick vibes from the very beginning. Both have that raw, vulnerable, and uncertain feeling that accompanies young love and discovering one’s self. The filter used in ITSAY also imparted a retro feeling that took me back to the early days of Thai BL.
Both are stories of teens coming of age and falling in love, set in beautiful seaside towns. ITSAY is a bit more dramatic and has a lot more going on in the background, but it is also much longer. His is simple, short, sweet and very genuine. Both are very well written and have great conversations about what it is like to fall in love and grow up as a young adult.
