The main couple are very similar to each others.
1. the popular guy is simping for the non popular guy.
2. The not so popular guy has very little self-confidence. And is always putting others before himself.
3. The popular guy fall for the other guy with just one conviction. But he doesn’t dare to become friends with him till the plot happens.
1. the popular guy is simping for the non popular guy.
2. The not so popular guy has very little self-confidence. And is always putting others before himself.
3. The popular guy fall for the other guy with just one conviction. But he doesn’t dare to become friends with him till the plot happens.
They share the same core setup… an ordinary, socially uncertain protagonist gets thrown together with a popular, good looking boy through a random school circumstance. In the seat-swap story, Haru finds a confession note from Kosei, the class's most popular boy, and gets swept into Kosei's persistent affection. In School Trip, Hioki is unexpectedly placed with the school's popular boy group the four heavenly kings where he becomes close to Watarai. Both use a chance reshuffling (seats vs. group placement) as the catalyst, feature a “why me” shy/ordinary boy opposite a charismatic love interest. School trip is more friend group dynamics, while after moving seats is more one-on-one.
- Both are cute Japanese BL drama's with a simple, fluffy story's and soft school and seaside atmospheres (more so seaside in narakoi, but still)!
- Both also have that sort of "one guy likes the other, but the other is kind of oblivious about it" thing going on.
- Both also have that sort of "one guy likes the other, but the other is kind of oblivious about it" thing going on.
Both dramas features popular guy and not popular one's relationship. Both are queer/bl dramas. They are funny, ejoyable dramas and both relationships well paced also
High-school setting + class/group dynamics
My Love Mix-Up! centres on high school students, class seating, crushes and misunderstandings in that school environment.
School Trip places the protagonist as a second-year high schooler who gets separated from his usual friends and must join a group on a school trip.
Both stories use the school-social environment (classmates, group formation, social status) as a backdrop for the romantic development.
“Ordinary / overlooked” protagonist meets someone popular / from a higher social tier
In My Love Mix-Up!, the lead Aoki is fairly ordinary, with a crush on a classmate, and then gets pulled into a situation where another classmate thinks he likes him, creating a new dynamic.
In School Trip, Hioki is “ordinary” / isolated in class, then invited into a group of four popular guys known as the “Four Heavenly Kings.”
This “underdog meets popular upper-tier student(s)” trope is shared between the two — giving the dynamic tension, attraction contrast, and potential for drama.
Romantic comedy / coming-of-age feel with misunderstandings or awkward emotional beginnings
My Love Mix-Up! is explicitly a romantic comedy with misunderstandings (the eraser name mistake) and high-school first love complications.
While School Trip’s synopsis doesn’t yet emphasize a huge comedic misunderstanding, it does highlight nervousness, social awkwardness, “distance” closing between the ordinary boy and the popular boy, jealousy, and first-love discoveries.
So both show the “boy meets boy (in this case BL context)” scenario where one is navigating new feelings, new social dynamics, and emotional growth.
Focus on relational development through proximity / shared experience
In My Love Mix-Up!, much of the plot advances as the characters spend time together, mis-interpretations lead to further contact, and they gradually learn more about themselves and each other.
In School Trip, the school trip setting forces proximity (group travel, shared rooms, outing), which makes the relationship escalate through shared experiences (e.g., group activities, staying in same room) rather than “just passing glances”.
My Love Mix-Up! centres on high school students, class seating, crushes and misunderstandings in that school environment.
School Trip places the protagonist as a second-year high schooler who gets separated from his usual friends and must join a group on a school trip.
Both stories use the school-social environment (classmates, group formation, social status) as a backdrop for the romantic development.
“Ordinary / overlooked” protagonist meets someone popular / from a higher social tier
In My Love Mix-Up!, the lead Aoki is fairly ordinary, with a crush on a classmate, and then gets pulled into a situation where another classmate thinks he likes him, creating a new dynamic.
In School Trip, Hioki is “ordinary” / isolated in class, then invited into a group of four popular guys known as the “Four Heavenly Kings.”
This “underdog meets popular upper-tier student(s)” trope is shared between the two — giving the dynamic tension, attraction contrast, and potential for drama.
Romantic comedy / coming-of-age feel with misunderstandings or awkward emotional beginnings
My Love Mix-Up! is explicitly a romantic comedy with misunderstandings (the eraser name mistake) and high-school first love complications.
While School Trip’s synopsis doesn’t yet emphasize a huge comedic misunderstanding, it does highlight nervousness, social awkwardness, “distance” closing between the ordinary boy and the popular boy, jealousy, and first-love discoveries.
So both show the “boy meets boy (in this case BL context)” scenario where one is navigating new feelings, new social dynamics, and emotional growth.
Focus on relational development through proximity / shared experience
In My Love Mix-Up!, much of the plot advances as the characters spend time together, mis-interpretations lead to further contact, and they gradually learn more about themselves and each other.
In School Trip, the school trip setting forces proximity (group travel, shared rooms, outing), which makes the relationship escalate through shared experiences (e.g., group activities, staying in same room) rather than “just passing glances”.
BL with school setting. The popular guy chases after the lonely guy. They are both very cute and innocent
Cute, easy-to-watch bls set in high school where a popular guy likes the shy, friendless boy from his class and loves being affectionate and showing attention to him.
Watarai invites Hioki to join him and his group on a school trip, they eventually become friends and grow closer even after the trip.
Serizawa finds Suzuki´s bl novel based off of him and begs him to let him read it while simultaniously swearing to become the best seme.
While I´m writing this, Popular Serizawa is still airing but i had to mention it because the vibe is very similiar and I love both of them so much.
(P.S. "After moving seats, the boy behind me has a crush on me" also has a similar vibe and setting and is also definitely worth checking out if you liked those two.)
Watarai invites Hioki to join him and his group on a school trip, they eventually become friends and grow closer even after the trip.
Serizawa finds Suzuki´s bl novel based off of him and begs him to let him read it while simultaniously swearing to become the best seme.
While I´m writing this, Popular Serizawa is still airing but i had to mention it because the vibe is very similiar and I love both of them so much.
(P.S. "After moving seats, the boy behind me has a crush on me" also has a similar vibe and setting and is also definitely worth checking out if you liked those two.)
It's similar, because they are both about enduring feelings of one having a crush on a friend or classmate. Even though School Trip is based in a school setting, while Countdown also started at school (because that's where everything begun) and later to common places known to everyone. They are both about pursuing your crush, until you win them over, through glances, gestures and persistence.
YET AGAIN ANOTHER HEARTWARMING HIGHSCOOL BL :3 MSP is adorable, though a lot more comedy based. Also if you don't enjoy musicals you MIGHT not like it because they sing a lot, but the songs are amazing anyway, just give it a try idk. It's a silly show about the nerd school president being secretly in love with the member of a school band and having to pretend he's trying his best to get their club cancelled if they don't raise their grades enough, because his mom the principal might shut it down for real since there's not enough budget. He offers to tutor them and does his best to convince his mom to give them a chance because he only cares about his crush's happiness and nothing else, just like watarai. Tsundere but make it cute, am I right? hehe the show is available on Youtube, entirely for free! subs in many languages as well. Their love is just as cute.
