Both of these Japanese BL dramas center around the sweet and innocent budding romance between two guys who start off as strangers to each other. But they bond over food and the realization that the other's presence inspires them and makes them lose their longstanding sense of lonelieness.

Both of these Japanese high school BLs center around a budding couple between a cheerful and charismatic ML who just wants a girlfriend, and their more serious and reserved classmate (childhood friend in the case of Kimi ni wa Todokanai). They also both exhibit a budding romance where the love confession of the other is carefully considered instead of outright accepted or rejected, and have similar freak outs from the cheerful lead. The plot tension largely comes into play in reference to their need to communicate.

Both of these BL romances center around childhood friends, where one has held an unrequited crush on the other since basically the beginning. It takes a while for the other to figure and find out, and for them to get over the fear of damaging their friendship, but the resultant slow development from friends to lovers is similarly sweet in both dramas.

Both of these high school japanese BLs center around a pair of friends. One that is more cheerful and charismatic, the other more serious. One of which has given up on having his gay love requited, and the other asking for time to process his confession instead of rejecting him. Theyre both very sweet and innocent romances, with a straighforward plot just focused on developing and reciprocating feelings.

Both of these BL minidramas take place at a rural resort where one of the MLs goes for a much needed break from his life in the city, and unexpectedly finds love with one of the employees there.

In both of the minidramas, one of the male leads takes a vacation to a rural resort where he meets the other ML, an employee of the resort who helps mend his heart.

Both of these Japanese BLs possess a similar style of Japanese storytelling, and tell of a couple with a really unhealthy (but fascinating to watch) relationships with a lack of communication and confidence in their standing with the other.

Both reincarnation dramas involve a past-life romance of ill-fated love, curses, and a betrayal that leads to death at the hands of the other. In the present, they find each other again, but are plagued by the remnant of their past magical actions.

Both of these sapphic mirco-productions focus in on a female lead driven to madness in a quest for revenge.

Both of these sapphic productions tell of a couple of women, and how their dynamic of fondness shifted with pain, betrayal, and madness.

Both of these Thai productions feature a couple who almost immediately feels attracted to each other, but finds their relationship complicated by their work being competitors of each other. As a result, similar hijinking comedy is used throughout both, interrupted by some really touching romantic moments where they forget that theyre rivals.

In both dramas, one of the leads is an adult story creator in need of a muse - which the other lead (and subsequent love interest) serves as.