Both of these japanese romance dramas center around a writer/artist female lead who has no experience in love. Due to her interactions with the male lead and love interest, her work gets better and she finds herself inspired.

Call it odd, but these two japanese BL dramas both display very unhealthy relationships bogged down intense insecurities. Over the course of the dramas and their sequels, we get to watch the slow character development of the leads and, as a result, their relationships with each other. In both, the leads live together and find it difficult to confess their relationship to others - which causes tension in their relationship.

Both of these independent GL miniseries are centered around a female lead taking a relationships course, in which a major project involved dating.

Both dramas center around a male lead who gets murdered and wakes up in the body of someone else who appears to be involved with the people behind his murder.

Both of these BLs are centered around lifelong friends who gradually find themselves falling into a couple-y dynamic and becoming lovers. The plot conflict for these couples is also very similar, as one of the male leads attempts to sacrifice his happiness for the other and his family (which has been like a family to him as well). These conflict-related scenes play out very similarly to each other.

Both of these mystery-thriller dramas center around a female lead, and those around her, who doesn't believe that her twin's deathly fall was a suicide.

In both dramas, the leads have a shared past with sinister implications and high-ranking involved parties. After growing up, they both pursue different paths of justice and information, with one lead entering law enforcement and the other delving into the underworld. Even the promise of a better life holds but a dim flame to the commitment of a decades-old mission.

Both of these Thai BL dramas center around a male lead who is rather effeminate, with an illusion of sweetness and patience he doesn't actually have, and a stubborn streak. Due to the teasing and deceptive nature of his relationship with his love interest, he decides to get over him but gets won over with the love interest finally decides to reveal all his cards and feelings.

Both of these dramas center around a male lead who falls for someone he knows he shouldn't, and his love interest who only has eyes for him and pursues him regardless. The plot also revolves around the male lead (and the audience to an extent) figuring out precisely the reason they can't be together.

Both of these Thai BLs center around a male lead who, in the wholehearted pursuit of a girl he has a crush on, falls for the man who helped him along the way.

Both of these Thai BL dramas are quite unserious, especially in the beginning, as they follow a main protagonist who is devoted/obsessed/idolizing to his longtime crush. His antics and daydreams are of the rather cringy variety, inspiring lots of secondhand embarrassment. But ultimately, he means well and gradually gets to learn who his crush is underneath the idolized ideals surrounding him.

Both of these dramas center around a suicidal main character in high school. Upon finding out about their suicide plans, a teacher at their school offers to be in a relationship with them in order to prevent it.