Love for Love's Sake

Korean BL, high school setting, student romance. More of a Black Mirror feel but a similar setting and probably similar vibe.

- Both are set in a school setting.
- Both are Korean bls
- Both feature one of the main lead's development from being a loner to making friends and getting along with others as well as gaining a love interest
- Both feature a cute storyline and progression between the two main leads

Both dramas are about an augmented-reality game; while the ML in Love for Love’s Sake gets transported straight into the game and has to live by its rules, the game on the other hand bleeds into the reality of the ML in Memories of the Alhambra and things that occur in the game start to get real consequences. Both has romance.

- both are Korean BL dramas
- set in a school setting
- lonely male lead who plays a sport gets to know a popular student
- include dark theme(s)

Unfortunately this recommendation is a spoiler.

Same messages about learning to love life and find those who care about you through a game administered by death its self.

Both have similarly dark time travel/alternate universe plots. What starts off as an interesting back-to-high school hook soon develops into something far more grave. Also, the acting and production of both is very high quality. If you can stomach seeing people who are mentally in their 20s-30s falling in love with high schoolers, then go for it and watch them both.

Share themes, from reluctance to love, discovering your orientation...................................................................................................................................................

If you're into BLs that revolve around time travel and fighting destiny with the threat of death hanging overhead at all times, then look no further. Also good for fans of *actually* interesting soulmate plots.

I saw many people saying how the lead characters in Love For Love's Sake are similar/remind them of the ones in Weak Hero Class 1, just in a different universe.

There's a bit of a school-type background in both series. The MCs have very good chemistry together, and one of them is crushing hard on the other (in each drama). BCYD isn't over yet, so no comparison in endings, but I hope it has a similar kind of ending to LFLS.

Both have amazing acting from a pretty young cast - sadly both are short dramas. Here's hoping more will come.

Both are BL dramas that has time travel, with the main character as a depressed/jaded working adult returning back to high school in order to fix things/fix his past. Rearrange is a Thai BL while Love for Love's Sake is a Korean BL.

Chu Sang Woo es un estudiante de informática que valora la razón, las reglas y un sentido rígido de lo que es correcto por encima de todo. Como parte de su trabajo universitario, se le pide que trabaje en un proyecto grupal de artes liberales, por lo que el grupo debe hacer una presentación final para aprobar el módulo. Pero como el resto del grupo -de quien no sabe nada- ha decidido dejarlo hacer todo el trabajo por su cuenta, decide eliminar sus nombres y hacer la presentación en su nombre. Pero no sabía que cuando hiciera esto, le daría un duro golpe a las perspectivas académicas de un estudiante de último año llamado Jang Jae Young. Este último, estudiante de diseño, es el polo opuesto de Chu Sang Woo

They have completely different plots and vibes, but in both of them the protagonist travels to a different world and learns how to love himself and changes little by little. Love begins in the world of if is about a man who travels to an ideal for him parallel world, because of a wish. On the other hand love for love's sake is about a 30 years old man that goes into the world of a novel that is feels more like a video game and becomes a teenager student again. They both try to adapt to the new world, while both of them keep their identity of the real world. And as time progresses they slowly discover themselves and their own needs, they learn to love, to be loved, to depend on others and to accept help from others

The character's actions in the game/book are quite similar to the tasks, and the fact that there are rewards and punishments at the end is also similar.

Both dramas are about a protagonist who is/was not happy in life and is thrown into a new situation (game/past). While fixed on a mission in the new scenario (make Yeowoon happy/protect his father) they discover the main reason why they are there: To be happy themselves and enjoy their youth. Both dramas have an amazing Ost and great acting, not to forget are filled with love for the project by the cast and the staff working on it.