Rivalry
4 resultsπ°π·Completed
Four Hands, Two Sonatas
BromanceTV Series
9.048
π°π·Completed
Friendly Rivalry
GLTV Series
34
π―π΅Completed
Fake Fact Lips (Manga)
BLManga
24
π―π΅Completed
Fake Fact Lips
BLTV Series
8.0177
About this archive
Competition between the leads is the engine: for a place, a title, a result, a position or simply the upper hand. The rivalry has to be sustained and mutual, and it usually predates the story.
It works in BL and GL because it produces the attention without the admission. Two people who track each other’s every move for years can call it competition indefinitely, which gives a story a great deal of runway before anyone has to be honest. The turn usually comes when winning stops feeling like the point.
Expect scoreboards of one kind or another, a forced collaboration, and a moment when one of them deliberately loses. School, sport and workplace settings recur here.
RIVALRY ACROSS THE SITE
There are 5 records under Rivalry. By format they are TV Series (4) and Manga.
They come from South Korea (2), Japan (2) and Thailand.
The earliest dates from 2020 and the most recent from 2026. The busiest year is 2026, with 3 of them.
Between them they are carried by 9 different services, most often GMM25, oneD and tvN.
A typical entry here runs 11 episodes of about 36 minutes.
Records tagged Rivalry are most often tagged Romance (4), Drama (4) and Slow Burn (4) as well.
The longest run recorded here is Friendly Rivalry at 16 episodes. The shortest is Match Point at 10 episodes.
The most recent entry on this list is Match Point, from 2026.
Every figure above is counted from this site’s own records and changes as records are added.
