Recommendations

If you are loving Never Ending Summer, Exclusive fairytale might be your watch as well. Exclusive Fairytale* thrives on comfort. Ling Chao and Xiao Tu have that lovable childhood-friends dynamic where every bicker, tease, and sweet moment makes you smile. It's warm, fluffy, and full of the kind of romance that feels like home.
Never Ending Summer, on the other hand, feels more nostalgic and emotionally charged. After just four episodes, Zhou Wan and Lu Xixiao already have the kind of chemistry that lives in the quiet moments—the lingering looks, the unspoken feelings, and the sense that every memory they're making will matter later.
Exclusive Fairytale is the drama that gives you butterflies AND Never Ending Summer is the one that makes your heart ache a little. Both excel at showing first love and growing up, but one wraps you in a warm blanket while the other quietly prepares to break your heart.

And honestly? That's exactly why I'm hooked.

Both have a really slow, comforting and warm vibe. Both are kinda telling you "I know life sucks, but it's okay, I'll be with you, and we can be sad together." They also have relationships that are more about love than labels. The relationships exist because it makes sense to them and because they give them something they can't get otherwise, not because they are in love, if that makes sense?

Both have changes of perspective (tho Monster way more dramatically so) that divide the movie into parts. They have a similar vibe, only Monster feels more desperate. There are more things, but mentioning them would spoil the movies.

- Fantasy xianxia plots.
- FMLs are cute and smart.
- Both MMLs are destined to became demons.
- Master-disciple relationship. Both FMLs are masters of FMLs.
- Both dramas based on novels written by the author Kuan Shan Jia Kuan.

short boys love dramas released in the summer of 2026
darker vibes, serious story telling
dark past, trauma, involving death/murder of a parent. This has inspired the main characters to enter a specific line of work that involves investigating crime cases/committing crimes.
violence, crime, thriller
intimidating male lead

Main lead is a highschool student that is involved in an accident that (almost) kills them. Though, they return to real life due to some unresolved conflicts.
Romance, fantasy but first and foremost tragedy. Sad stories about grief, loss, sad endings to an extent.

sad and emotional japanese dramas in which the main lead dies but comes back as a ghost due to some unfinished business/unresolved conflicts.
Romance and fantasy elements but sad ending

- main character involved in an accident that comatosed them or (should have) killed them. Still, they come back to life due to some unresolved/unfinished business.
- Boys Love elements
- fantastical elements
- high school setting
- focus on family relationships
- very sad and tragic

- Both are idol surival show programmes with trainees fighting for a spot in an idol group
- most strinkingly, though, these shows are especially known for the strong, affectionate bond between its Top2 contestants.
- some of the trainees have since acted in BL dramas too (or acted in BL dramas prior to entering the contest)

They are somewhat different from eachother because Love Class is a fictional boys love drama and lazicon a reality idol surival show programme but there are some similarities too. Love Class, for example, focuses on characters who have participated in a surival show programme themselves and some of the actors also have idol/trainee experience. Additionally, Laz icon is kind of famous for the intense bond between two of its contestants (Daouoffroad) so watching their dynamic might satisfy some BL viewers.

A comedy-then-romance series about opposite-sex flatmates.

I'll add some more later since "Love has Fireworks" has just started. Nevertheless, "Hotaru no Hikari" is an excellent and focused adaptation (of the manga) and drama on its own.

Noted that characters and characterisation are different though. Just the similar setting of cohabitation, work/career, everyday struggles and the slice-of-life genre.

Both are korean boys love dramas with a somewhat longer overall run time. They feature two couples whose dynamics i dont think are too different. In both theres a couple with some unresolved, repressed feelings. They broke off a romantic connection that in particular one of them is still very hung up on and is persistently showing affection. The other do not have much prior history and one of them has more of a cute charm.

Both of these stories are focused on the shocking death of a female student and how the class try to unravel what happened to her, realising they all play different parts into her death.

Suicide Notes Laid on the Table is a film which focuses more on the students trying to figure out her story themselves, as they read through her suicide notes, piecing the puzzle together.

Whereas, Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom is a series which focuses more on the teacher trying to guide the students into figuring it out, through his rather chaotic methods.

Overall the only main difference is that Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom does highlight some of the other student's backgrounds and stories, whilst we mainly focus on the female student in Suicide Notes Laid on the Table, probably because it's a film and has less time to develop further.

Both are Korean dramas with authentic and unromanticized portrayals of life as a gay man in South Korea, including similar themes as reflections on sex, love (and heartbreak), and friendship. LitBC is a series while One Night is a short film.

-Same main actors
-Toxic relationship, but healthier than Burnout Syndrome.
-BL
-Main characters are in the creative field, in TOL, it's filmmaking, and in BS, it's painting and creating an AI.
-Emotional manipulation & Dependency