#BL? OR BROMANCE

[bl-bam-beyond]

AKI WA HARU TO GOHAN WO TABETAI (2023, JAPAN)

Now Available on Gagaoolala (JAPANESE BL MOVIE)

Post 2 of 2

Haru (TAKAHASHI KENSUKE) is offered or suggested by his professor to spend a year abroad in efforts to expand his love of photography or learn more in depth (not sure exactly) but Haru doesn't want to be away from Aki (AKAZAWA RYOTARO)

Haru tells Aki he will continue his studies in Japan and not go to England.

Aki assumes after they start working they will go their separate ways. Haru explains that is not the case.

After the credits rolled...

@pose4photoml @lutawolf @bengiyo @kingofthereblog-boysloveed @absolutebl

[aliceisathome]

I missed this article about the Chinese government, censorship and fandom (with a little insight into why some fans are so batshit crazy*) when it came out.

My very favourite quote:

'The CCP’s attempts to control fandom feel, to some degree, like Wile E. Coyote trying to outwit 100 million Road Runners — many of whom are also trying to outwit each other.'

Fabulous.

tagging some folks who might find this interesting if they haven't already seen it: @absolutebl @heretherebedork @respectthepetty @waitmyturtles

*SOME. I said SOME.

[veemark]

YinWar's reactions to people complaining about the series not showing how Jack and Joke feel about each other and lacking romance because they haven't had any "sweet moments" yet:

Bonus: Yin clapping back at people hating on him for Jack's choices last week.

[moonkhao]

Resigning from school is not enough. You need to give up on a more important thing.

HIGH SCHOOL FRENEMY | EP7

[absolutebl]

BL recs (from any country) that don't have any s*x scenes? I'm too ace to enjoy them at all. Happy ending preferred, angst v welcome:)

BLs Without Sex Scenes

Oof, this is a hard one. Is a dead fish kiss okay? I do have a heat sorting on the spreadsheet of doom, and there are some with no kissing at all, but a dead fish kiss is in most of the HEA ones.

BLs with No Kisses

21 Days Theory (Thailand, YouTube) - the only thing I didn't like about this pulp was the fact that they don't kiss, so... yeah, this is my first pick for you. Very YA first love angsty, fantastic queer rep and side characters. RECOMMENDED

My Esports Genius Brother (China, Gaga?) - it's hella odd censored bromance but enjoyable. No real angst tho.

HIStory My Hero (Taiwan, Viki) - basically a BL with no sex or kissing, but also body-swap so is it BL? I can't remember the end but I think it's happy?

Silhouette of Your Voice AKA Hidamari ga Kikoeru (Japan, ????) - this 2017 yaoi adaptation is a full on BL just no kissing at all. The source manga (I Hear the Sunspot) is a favorite of mine and the casting was decent. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED for you (but not in general). Grey only.

Love of Siam (Thailand, ????) ALL THE ANGST, I'm pretty sure the most they do is hug, I could be v wrong though because too sad for me to ever rewatch. Very formative to the Thai BL industry.

The Lover (BL cut) (Korea ????) sometimes you can find the BL cut on YT, it has slapstick comedic sexualized moments that are maybe a little homophobic (or something), no actual sex or kissing, but no angst at all. (Korea's working some shizz out with this early offering.)

Kabe Koji AKA Kabesaa Doujin Sakka no Neko Yashiki-kun wa Shounin Yokkyuu wo Kojirasete iru (Japan, Viki) - I watched this and I was excited about it before it aired, but I seem to have expunged it from my memory and kept no screen caps in annoyance, so that's all I got.

Love in Spring AKA Spring of Crush (Korea, ????) - a crossdressing historical that flew utterly under the radar. I decided it just wasn't really BL, but it has BL aspects and it's kinda a little queer... or something. Grey only.

Evening Cafe (Thai pulp, YouTube) - No heat and no kisses, but a decent lead pair, about a boy who works in a cafe and the new employee who has a crush on him. That’s it, that's the whole story.

A Shoulder to Cry On (Korea, Viki) - Has no kissing and many people found it really good as @isisanna-blog reminded me, thank you). It certainly has ALL THE ANGST. (I did not like it at all, but I'm a terrible judge of this kind of BL.)

What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Japan ???) - this is such a lovely show, very warm and comforting and slice of life. There is very little angst, they too old for that shit, but little to no sexual content either. It's very warm and loving. A safe extremely yet queer show - and oh boy do we not get many of those. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Censored Bromances

So No Kisses (TM) for the gays but the hets might do stuff I didn't pay attention to. All these from China. Some happy, most not.

The Untamed

Word of Honor

Guardian

SCI Mysteries

Stay With Me AKA Addicted 2.0 (I never watched this so there may be rough play)

Mr CEO Falling in Love With Me

The Fairy Fox

Youth in the Breeze

Precise Shot

Advance Bravely

His Cat AKA His Cat Boyfriend

The Male Queen: Han Zi Gao

The "Ghost Boyfriend" series

Past Youth

I Go To School Not By Bus (Hong Kong short)

Recommended Shorts with no kisses, but cute & fun

The 8.2 Second Rule (Japan YouTube)

One Last Order (Korea, Gaga)

Love Advisor (Thailand, YouTube)

BLs with Dead Fish Kisses (maybe? only one, if any)

His the series: I Didn't Think I Would Fall In Love (Japan ????) - (NOT His the movie) this one has all the angst you could want in your whole life. ALL OF IT. Japan wins at emo, it's their THING.

Cherry Magic AKA 30 Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard AKA 30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii AKA Cheri Maho (Japan ????) - there's sort of some bed tussling and implied sex but you could imagine them just being snuggles for the mains, the sides have dead fish kiss. In general there's some angst but not much. It's fluffy and great. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Bonus: overt ace representation for one of the side characters.

Meow Ears Up (Thailand Viki) - sides may kiss? I enjoyed this pulp especially at the start, the premise is fun. I think my biggest complaint was lack of kissing.

My Love Mix Up AKA Kieta Hatsukoi (Japan Viki), a case could be made for a demi seme in this BL. So much frenetic angst around bisexual identity crisis. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

My Ride (Thailand Gaga) - my favorite Thai BL pulp the sides have a good kiss and the mains do kiss but it's v dead fish, not at all sexual, and it comes at the very end. Otherwise extremely chaste, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this BL, queer and complex and engaging.

I Want to See Only You AKA Kimi no Koto Dake Mite Itai (Japan ????) - This is a beautiful piece of cinema well acted, about two boys who are opposite personalities and grew up together. The only kiss is the one pictured above, v dead fish. Full review here.

Nobleman Ryu's Wedding (Korea WeTV) - 12th Night goes BL in this cross dressing historical that ended up feeling like a Cinderfella fairy tale, lightly dramatic and utterly charming. Full review. There is one dead fishy kiss at the end but it's otherwise aggressively pure.

If you like this last style of KBL (with a kiss at the end being okay, I have quite a few more to recommend). Until 2022, most KBLs only had one dead fish kiss in them, so you are pretty safe with pre 2022 KBLs. They tend to be quite chaste and de-sexualized. Other good examples: Wish You, Light on Me.

That's all folx.

Some of the above I may be misremembering (since I don't rewatch this kind of BL and my memory is shit). And I may have forgotten some too, so I hope comments with jump in.

Others to consider:

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[cold-and-unsure]

[respectthepetty]

@dribs-and-drabbles, the Dudes shirt is showing up in Peaceful Property

Therefore, by my very scientific research, this show has to be a BL because blue is Peach's color and here Tay is wearing the 2022 slogan "More than Friends; Less than Lovers" shirt

And Red Rascal Home's little slogan will is "Do Nothing but Rich"

Which is the slogan also on Home's phone, which his chibi is also in that same red shirt on the case, so this is once again from filming, which means the blue shirt with the red-written jersey over it is in the show.

AND IT'S A COLOR EXCHANGE WITH PEACH because all the cast got ice cream that day but New just took off the jersey.

And Tay was wearing this shirt with red writing over the heart, and Mook is standing right next to him, so this from filming too. IS THIS ANOTHER COLOR EXCHANGE?!

Finally, Mook and Jan keep interviewing together, which wouldn't be sus since they have a show coming up together and Tay and New were busy with their concert, but . . .

It would make sense if this is a BL with a GL side couple!

Single-handedly manifesting this based solely on colors and shirts.

Amen.

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Waking up next to the one you love.

[miss0atae]

It's been 3 years that I haven't hurt anyone but today. I promise you. Every single one of you. I will beat you up. You all will have to suffer more than my friend is right now, you bastard. Do you all know why I was called "Tsunami" back in the day? Because no matter where I went, I would destroy everything. No matter how skilled they are, if I decide to go after them, I take them all down.

Saint - High School Frenemy (EP 4)

He gives the most anguished declaration of love and then processes to stare at him in the most platonic way. Heart-wrenching!

[save-the-data]

High School Return of a Gangster | S01E01

Korean Drama - 2024, 8 episodes

~~ Adapted from the web novel "I, a Gangster, Became a High Schooler" (조폭인 내가 고등학생이 되었습니다) by Ho Rol (호롤)

Episodes| Viki | YouTube | Netflix | WeTV | Tencent | Prime | Catalogue

Native Title:  #조폭인 내가 고등학생이 되었습니다

A: "I, a Gangster, Became a High Schooler" (조폭인 내가 고등학생이 되었습니다) by Ho Rol (호롤)

Genres: #Youth 

Tags:  #Reincarnation #Student Male Lead #Bromance #Censored Adaptation of Same-sex Original Work #Adapted from a Novel 

Cast:   #Yoon Chan Young #Bong Jae Hyun #Joo Yoon Chan

[aliceisathome]

Just finished my binge of The Untamed before it disappears from Netflix. My favourite character by far was Wen Ning who, when alive was a timid, stuttering person who'd had part of his soul stolen as a child and yet, he was brave and loyal. And as the Ghost General equally brave and loyal with an added side of hilarious.

[dragonsareawesome123]

Soul Mate is officially confirmed BL!

[iguessitsjustme]

I did a thing...I made this for me but feel free to join me while I track whether or not ql characters keep their glasses

[cold-and-unsure]

[the-golden-comet]

✨OC Questionnaire Tag 🧞‍♂️✨

Thank you for the tag, @lychhiker-writes ! 💛✨

Noah from YWIMC will answer here 💖✨

My Questions:

1. What's the most disgusting thing you can think of?

Two-faced people. You know….the kind who act all nice to your face, but as soon as you leave they’re spreading shit about you behind your back. Listen: if you have a problem with me, just fucking say it. Don’t be all fake and play these stupid games.

2. In your opinion, how likely are you to make it to the end of the story unscathed?

I haven’t even made it to the end, and I got beat up by one of those two-faced people I mentioned. Ali would not stop asking about it until I eventually told him who did it, though. The guy didn’t end up in the hospital like the one back at that party, but I think Ali’s playing mind games with him. Can’t be too sure though; I don’t really care what Ali does as long as he doesn’t seriously hurt or kill anyone.

3. Are you seeing anyone?

I, uh…I mean, maybe? (sigh) I like someone, but…I don’t really wanna say who it is. We have a really good thing going right now, and I don’t want to ruin it. I’m already awkward about it….

Your questions:

1. Would you sacrifice yourself for another?

2. How often do you daydream?

3. What is your favorite activity?

Tagging (no pressure): @fortunatetragedy , @gioiaalbanoart , @wyked-ao3 , @sunglasses-in-the-bentley , @drchenquill , @honeybewrites , @tildeathiwillwrite , @kaylinalexanderbooks , @paeliae-occasionally , @quillswriting , @rotting-moon-writes , +open tag! ✨