The Time of Fever

-Plot is similar in both. Two boys grow up together, eventually develop feelings.
-The chemistry is amazing in both.
-Both, Korean BLs. Two of my all time favorite Korean BLs

-Plot is similar in both. Two boys grow up together, eventually develop feelings.
-The chemistry is amazing in both.
-Time of fever is a Korean BL. Unknown is a Taiwanese BL.
-Two of my absolute favorite BLs.

Gentle school-setting pining, silent feelings for one another that are not expressed from worry of an altered friendship, stares filled with immense care and adoration. Same vibes and feels :)

-Plot is similar in both. Two boys grow up together, eventually develop feelings.
-Both, Korean BLs
-The chemistry in Time of fever is amazing. Cherry Blossoms after Winter was more cute IMO.

The MLs in Time of Fever grew up together and develop feelings for each other in high school. They eventually separate when one of the ML goes off to college in Seoul. The continuation of their story picks up in the sequel, Unintentional Love Story.

Our Dating Sim starts very similarly. One of the MLs believes he has an unrequited love. They separate when high school ends and they meet again as adults, in the workplace.

Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo just started so I can't really tell if it's gonna be that similar but the two first episodes reminded me so much of The Time of Fever
-Daddy issues (father hits son)
-The son wants to run away fron the father violence
-Puppy like main character
- Tough main character that wants to protect puppy like main character.

-Time of Fever is a Korean BL. Shigatsu no Tokyo wa is a Japanese BL.
-Plot is similar in both. Two boys are childhood friends and develop feelings. They are separated for years and reunite as adults.

Both shows are very different in plot and genre, The Lie we lived in is a more of a crime thriller, the time of fever is a highschool drama, yet both are short korean boys love shows with a similar kind of romantic tension. The characters are attracted to eachother but are repressing these feelings, catching longing glances while holding in their desire until at one point they just cant anymore and everything releases in one moment.
both pairs have a similar visual aesthetic too, with one being more muscular and a little taller while the other one has lighter hair (and is a year older).
family related trauma, dead father too

So long see you tomorrow starts out at a similar point to time of fever. The MC is still a student coming to terms with his crush on a fellow student/friend/upper classman (who also recipocates his feelings. So Long see you tomorrow goes way beyond that though, yet, i still found both stories kind of similar. Lots of longing, beautiful scenes, emotion. Absent father/complicated relationships to family members. Being seperated but reuniting later in life.

Unintentional Love Story and The Time of Fever are actually set in the same universe, with TToF focusing on the side couple in ULS and how they met. Thus, chronologically, the events in TToF occurs before ULS.

Both of these dramas are BLs about students coming of age and falling in love. In both of these dramas one of the leads has an abusive father. And both feature a delicious serving of angst. There is even more similarities but those would be a big spoiler, so just watch for yourself ;-)

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.