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- thai girls love
- mutiple couples/pairings
- toxic, complicated relationships
- sexual themes/content
Some watchers view Shades as a more developed or elevated version of Girl Rules.

- Gmmtv Boys love dramas
- multiple couples, among them SurfJava
-bickering couples/relationship
- rivals turned lovers
- romcom
- cohabitation

Love Class is a Boys Love Minidrama, Produce X 101 on the other hand a kpop survival show. Love Class, though, has a very similar setting and set up. It follows boys who participated in a survival show program like Producex101/idol trainees. The show realises romantic relationships that may have taken place off-set in real life.
Furthermore, three of the actors have particapted in kpop survival show programs themselves -two in produce x 101 in particular, hence the recommendation.

Both are BL dramas that feature the main characters starring in a Uni-play that is gay version of Romeo and Juliet. Main couple teetering the line between friends and lovers. Some toxicity and jealousy.

Both are Korean short movies.
The same scenario/plot is portrayed by three different pairings, M/f, f/f and m/m.

Queer youth romance stories about members of the same volleyball team falling in love.
Main character joining a new team and receiving teachings from an upper classman/woman, while quickly developing a crush on them. Older student shows reluctance at first but they soon come to reciprocate these feelings.

For one, both are japanese lgbtq+ themed movies/shows. Both feature a gay high school aged protagonist, who is the object of a hetero girls romantic affection. Unrequited, forbidden love is a common theme in these films too. The male characters engage in same sex acts (with mostly older married men), keep it a secret though, staying the closet. Neither of these films are really happy so dont expect a grandiose romance story - youll be served the opposite.

For one, both are japanese lgbtq+ themed movies. Both feature a gay high school aged protagonist, who is the object of a hetero girls romantic affection. Unrequited, forbidden love is a common theme in these films too. The male characters engage in same sex acts (with mostly older married men), keep it a secret though, staying rhe closet. Neither of these films are really happy so dont expect a grandiose romance story - youll be served the opposite.

Boys Planet is a reality show, while Love Class 3 is a minidrama, yet they share some similarities. The characters (and actors too) are (partly) ex-idol-survival show contestants, aiming to debut in kpop groups. A central element in both is the relationship between the characters themselves that is or at least teeters on romantic. Boys Planet attracted a lot of attention because of the close bond between two of its contestants (Hanbin, Hao) and, so far, alot of fans see Love Class 3 taking inspiration from that/or have drawn parallels.

Both are boys love dramas about young people dreaming/aiming to realise their idol dreams while also being entangled in romantic relations.

Boys Love Dramas about idols/trainees aiming to debut as idols. Characters are forced to keep their attraction and romance under cover. Both dramas feature actors with experience in the idol industry and who have recorded songs for the ost.

Both are short japanese dramas with lgbtq+ content/topic/themes and characters. Specifically, the main male lead in both as gay. Another prominent character is a fujoshi/a girl/woman who enjoys gay romance stories/BL. In addition to that, both are adapted from novels written by the same author - Asahara Naoto who was gay himself.