Both BL dramas are about going to a rural area and have an artist as a character. In Impression of Youth, the artist Yu Xing has to go to the rural town to teach as an art teacher, while in Unintentional Love Story, Won Young goes to the rural town to seek out the pottery artist instead.
Both have plots about fated lovers that ended tragically in past lives and the couple also appears in the present lifetime too (for the side couple of Love Upon a Time).
Both are Korean high school BL dramas with a sort of friends/rivals to lovers trope. Both BL dramas are simple in plot.
Both are historical Thai BL dramas with a past and present timeline that features a love story between a human and a ghost that is trapped inside an old house.
Both Thai BL dramas have a bodyguard love story with a bit of a fish out of water plot. The Next Prince is about a boy that discovers that he is of royal blood and is taken to a fictional kingdom with his bodyguard while KinnPorsche is a mafia story that follows a bodyguard as he enters the mafia world to protect the mafia don's son.
Both Thai BL dramas feature DaouOffroad as the main leads. Century of Love is a supernatural fated-lovers lakhon (Thai soap opera) while The Wicked Game is an action bodyguard show.
Both shows have LGBTQ themes but the romance is not the main plot. Instead, both get increasingly dark and suspenseful as it progresses. Both have manipulative and immoral characters. Paradise of Thorns is more a thriller while Dead Friend Forever is a horror.
Both Thai BL dramas feature BillyBabe as the main leads and have strong Thai supernatural themes and folklore. The Sign is an action series with them acting as detectives while Interminable is a historical drama.
Both are Korean high school BL dramas with the MC being stuck in between with 2 guys. There are crushes and unrequited feelings in both.
In both Korean BL dramas, the main character has a string of romantic relationships with numerous other guys. In Secret Relationships, 3 guys chase 1 at the same time, while in Love in the Big City, the MC has bfs one at a time. Both dramas have characters that showcase messy and toxic traits that explore the reasons for falling in and out of love.
Similar dark and messy BL drama with changing relationships and toxic traits. In Secret Relationship, the main character has romantic entanglements with 3 different guys while in Only Friends, there are 3 main set couples with entanglements between them.
Both are action Thai BL dramas where the main relationship is between a rich guy and his bodyguard. There are lies, manipulation and mind games in both dramas.
