Both are BLs that involve a famous/celebrity lead moving in with a common lead; romances follow an enemies-to-lovers storyline.

It could be the blue shorts, but ITSAY gave me Love Sick vibes from the very beginning. Both have that raw, vulnerable, and uncertain feeling that accompanies young love and discovering one’s self. The filter used in ITSAY also imparted a retro feeling that took me back to the early days of Thai BL.

Though TOL is a bit lighter in tone overall, both dramas discuss academic pressures placed on students by their parents and society.

In addition to being similar in terms of pacing and overall tone, both dramas revolve around a male protagonist tasked with helping lost souls make peace with their mortal life to travel into the afterlife.

Both dramas revolve around modern, working women and issues they are facing in their love/family lives, including infidelity.

The dynamic and relationship progression between the leads in each of these dramas have very similar vibes, so if you like the couple in one, you’ll probably like the couple in the other.

Both are Chinese BL/BL-based dramas set in the work place and involve a diligent employee being paired with the company’s lazy, goofball heir.

Both have gangster story lines and deal with themes like loyalty and revenge. Both have young leads who find themselves down on their luck and trying to start their lives over, this time in the underground. I also think that Park Sung Woong and Lee Bum Soo give off similar vibes in their portrayal of the bosses. Last feels like a more fleshed out version of For The Emperor (and I enjoyed it more).

Both contain zany, light-hearted, humorous storylines that poke fun at the BL/shipping genre. WRU balances this with a more serious and traditional plot line, whereas TBT pretty much focuses entirely on humor and comedy.

Both focus on adults/young adults and portray LGBT relationships in a more realistic, non-fetishized way, touching on real issues and portraying real lives (or as close to real as a drama can get).

Both are BLs that revolve around themes of reincarnation and finding one’s love/soul mate after being separated by time.

Both are set in college and although TWM has more mature romance scenes, both dramas are similar in that one best friend is pining for the other (who is unaware and seemingly straight, as well as taken). There’s also a student-professor relationship in both dramas, though these make up smaller side stories.