#BOKURA NO MICRO NA SHUUMATSU

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僕らのミクロな終末 THE END OF THE WORLD WITH YOU ↬ episode seven

[lurkingshan]

What are some JBLs you recommend that have good kisses AND a good romance plot

LOL I can hear the pain behind this question, anon. It’s true that a lot of JBLs with a good romance story fail to deliver on the physical intimacy side of things, though that is becoming less and less the norm. I do have some that I think do both reasonably well. I don’t know exactly what “good romance” means to you, but I’m going to assume we’re talking about well-executed romance plots, regardless of the show’s overall genre and focus, where the characters and relationship arc make sense and don’t randomly derail somewhere along the way. Here’s what I got:

I Cannot Reach You

This is a high school friends to lovers (the cream of the crop for that trope, IMO). This is a story about realizing feelings and building the courage to change your most important relationship, so you’ll have to wait a bit to get those kisses but once you do, I think you’ll be pleased.

His

The second chance romance for me. This is a bl film about two men who come back together after a bad breakup and figure out how to make it work. I love them and this story so much.

Old Fashion Cupcake

There’s only one kiss in this short and sweet show, but it’s a real doozy. A super tight workplace age gap romance that knows exactly what it’s doing.

At 25:00 in Akasaka

Two actors who went to college together meet again when they are cast opposite each other in a bl drama, and get tangled up in the blurred lines between their professional and personal relationships. Angst, baby!

The Pornographer

This series features some of the best kissing and sex scenes you will see anywhere in the bl genre, but warning that it’s a twisted and wild ride. There are five installments and you gotta watch them all to see the full picture of the character and romance arcs. It’s so rewarding if you do.

The End of the World With You

From the same mind of the previous entry and similarly hot and wild and weird. This show has more going on than the second chance romance at its core, but it themes come together beautifully.

Tokyo In April Is…

Another second chance romance, this one features a lot of sex but also deals with heavy subject matter, so mind the CWs. It’s one of my favorites of last year and the love story in this one has really stuck with me; it’s beautiful and so hard won.

Love is Better the Second Time Around

This one comes with a disclaimer that it goes off the rails in the final two episodes, but you asked for good kissing so it would feel wrong not to include it. Yet another second chance romance (are you picking up on a theme here?), this one gets two former high school lovers back together as adults to sort out their misunderstandings, lingering feelings, and buckets of sexual tension. It was so good—until it wasn’t.

[usertoxicyaoi]

"There's something wrong with you ..."

Arata Misu In TAKUMI KUN 4: PURE (2010). Kijima Rio In THE NOVELIST (2018). Yoden Ryoji In SEI NO GEKIYAKU (2020). Kusakabe Ritsu In BOKURA NO MICRO NA SHUUMATSU (2023). Segasaki Mizuki In TAIKAN YOHOU (2023). Yamase Kazuma In 25 JI, AKASAKA DE (2024).

[bengiyo]

Hello 👋

All of your favorite horniest sex scenes?

Hello! I've been busy, so this has taken forever to get to!

I don't always need the guys to bounce around on each other and gyrate enthusiastically for it to out as horny. Oftentimes, I find myself more drawn in by the building desire between the characters, and the explicit acknowledgement of release. I like when the sex feels like it's also revealing something to us about the characters. I've highlighted many of these before, but it's fun to revisit.

Ghost Host, Ghost House Episode 4 Couch Scene

I will never get over this scene, and especially the director's cut of it. These guys knew they liked each other almost instantly, and it was so rewarding to see them reach a place where they could express that. Bonus points for discussing the logistics of gay sex.

This show has been on Gaga and YouTube for a while, but it's also now available on Viki!

La Pluie Episode 6 Floor Scene and Episode 7 Bed Scene

I liked this scene so much that I wrote about it. Again, there's a lot of anticipation between these two, and you can tell how far it's built up because Patts has to dial it back down when Saengtai wants to stop. It's especially important to me because Saengtai does blow Patts in the next episode. If you're on iQIYI, there's an extended cut of that at the end of the video lists.

Mood Indigo: The Post-Funeral Scene

These two are so horrible for each other, but damn are their sex scenes compelling. Theirs are the kinds of scenes only possible between two people you know can never work long term. I was so glad that we got back to Haruhiko in Playback, and the first thing he did was blow Rio in a car. If you haven't seen the Novelist, and you're itching for hornier BL, it's right there.

The End of the World With You "You're Soaked"

From the same team as The Novelsit, we got to experience baby's first fuckboy in this incredible show. Again, I love when we get scenes with couples who aren't ready to work, because they're allowed to have raunchier sex. They get to amp the intensity of the physicality because they need to give a reason why someone was so caught up and missed the warning signs. I actually love the car scene later as a more romantic intimacy scene, but we're focusing on horny here.

Jack o' Frost Birthday Sex

A common theme here with the Japanese offerings is that people are allowed to have more interesting sex scenes right before they split. This is true even in Jack o' Frost. We get a really great oner from the leads that precedes their breakup and Ritsu's accident. I think this might be my favorite of this list because the actors have to build the entire scene together since there aren't any cuts.

Gameboys 2 Bed Scene

Cairo and Gav are one of my favorite pandemic couples we got on screen, and I was quite relieved for them when they finally got to have this moment. We also confirmed they switch, and I love that.

Wedding Plan: Namnuea Showing Off His Stamina

No list for me would be complete without including them. I really loved seeing two gay men go at it after clearing out all of their misunderstandings. They had already had sad goodbye sex. It was thrilling to see them having enthusiastic, athletic sex. This also leads directly to one of my favorite emotional payoffs for a closeted character of all time.

Kiseki: Dear to Me Reunion

The second couple stole this show, but damn if I didn't love the way these two played out sex across multiple years between their characters. These two really suffered, and I really love the way Taro Lin and Hsu Kai captured the changes between these two as Bai Zong Yi grew and matured. This really was a solid sex scene.

Love Class 2: Sungmin and Joo Hyuk

I just really wanna thank them for reassuring me that if Korea wanted to, they could deliver.

Sleep With Me Jeans Scene

I am not a lesbian, but I share their beliefs. This scene was so good. I loved that these two, who have different kinds of disabilities, were able to have a very fun sex scene. I really like when it's clear both characters want to be there.

Only Friends: Boston and Top in the Car

Despite my eventual disdain for this show, I was impressed with Neo and Force for giving this incredibly selfish sex scene between their characters. This entire scene is about injured egos, and it's a standout scene from this show. We won't discuss the rest of the show here.

Thanks for the ask!

[my-rose-tinted-glasses]

"In this world, days just before its destruction, I was reunited with the one man...

...I most certainly didn't wanna meet."

Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu | The End of the World, With You (2023)

[yaoi-reading]

Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu

[nabi-unveiled]

Pick Nine: Characters I Dream About

While doing the recent tag game, I mentioned that my "dream about" list would be very different from my favorite character list. @dramalove247 and myself decided we needed that list in our lives too. I noticed @thisautistic had went for it with their version of that list so why not. If you decide you want to do it, go for it! Tag me so I can see your list. Pretty please 🥺.

Note: We decided to NOT restrict ourselves to BL characters.

Since "type" is going to become abundantly clear on this list, I'm not really posting this as a guessing game. 😅

There are a few things I need to fess up to before diving into my list:

Confession #1: Many, many people in dramaland are objectively works of art with fantastic bodies. However, most do nothing for me. It's like looking at a beautiful stained glass window. I'm definitely, 100% NOT ace so make of that what you will.

Confession #2: I know I should be attracted to our cinnamon roll and puppy characters. People like Muenfah in Your Sky are the total package as people.

But....I'm not. With the exception of maybe Shao Peng (See Your Love), I find cinnamon roll characters to be adorable but not particularly attractive (in fiction). I KNOW the reason why. Feel free to guess that if you want. Lol.

Now that the confessions are out of the way, let's go over the rules I set myself. There was NO way I could narrow down this list without giving myself some guidelines.

Rule #1: I had to be attracted to/dream about the CHARACTER not just the actor. So no matter how delicious I'm finding Jae-min in Secret Relationships currently, he's out. I recognize that attraction is actually to the actor NOT the character. It's like my eternal crush on Park Seonghwa (Ateez) 🥵. This criteria removed about 80% of my candidates. Lol.

Rule #2: However, I do need to find the actor attractive. It's a "dream about" list after all. This is pretty much the flip of Rule #1. Remember my confession? There's a lot of beautiful people in the world that I'm just NOT attracted to for reasons unbeknownst to me. There are a lot of shows that I adore with characters I love that meet a lot of my sexual preferences with amazing NC scenes that I don't actually find attractive. Segasaki from My Personal Weatherman is probably the best example of this. That show is my comfort watch. As a character, I absolutely love everything about him. I will defend that man against ALL of the haters. I'm INVESTED in their romance. The NC scenes are 🥵. He's probably the closest to my husband's physique on this list. On paper, he 1000% SHOULD make this list, but...he doesn't.(@dramalove247 this is where my first emotional crisis occurred while making this list).

Rule #3: It had to be about more than the NC scenes or at least more than a single scene. Otherwise, that meant I was dreaming about "the scene" or swooning over a line of dialogue rather than the character.

So no matter how swoon worthy I find a good whisper or lines like Xiao Yuan's in Unknown...

or how much the NC scene(s) in Together With Me rocked my world...

The characters don't make the list. I WILL rewatch those scenes more times than I care to admit, but it's not about the character. (Note: Xiao Yun DID almost make this list. It's just the best example I have of hot "dialogue").

Rule #4: I had to think of the character on my own without any prompting. So no going through other lists or looking up things. I recognized that this would open up the door to recency bias, but I was ok with that. It is a current "dream about" list after all.

So what's left after those rules.....still WAY TOO MANY. 🫢 But choices were made. I reserve the right to change my mind at any time.

So here's the list...

Character #1: Sebastian Valmont (Cruel Intentions - 1999)

I've dreamt about Sebastian since I was 15. I watched this movie at a sleepover, tricked my grandmother into letting me buy the movie, watched it WAY too many times in the following weeks, and then threw the movie away when I became overcome with guilt and too scared about my parents finding it. "Colorblind" by Counting Crows will ALWAYS take me back to this movie. It'd be an entire essay requiring a lot of personal exposition to fully explain WHY this character is important to me, but he is THE singular most important character on this list.

Character #2: Cha Chi-soo (Flower Boy Ramen Shop- 2011)

I didn't find a great GIF for him so screenshots it is.

And most importantly...

This is the second most important character on this list. I don't even have to rewatch it to know this show has not stood up to the test of time (although now I want to). It was questionable when I first watched it in 2012. I was already married with a kid, but I learned A LOT about myself from this character. My life has never been the same. That's not an exaggeration. For those that watched this show - I'm a shallow pan. I boil fast and hot. I've spent most of my life keeping a lid on it.

From here on out, there's really no order of importance. I'm not really going to expound on each one. I'm figuring most people will notice a fairly obvious trend.

Character #3: Sian (Every You, Every Me)

The fact that Every You, Every Me has the same actors throughout makes it VERY easy for me to figure out that it's the character that I'm attracted to here. Honestly, this is probably the character that's closest to my ideal.

Because I appreciate his style as well. Unfortunately, most of my stylish characters didn't make the cut. I love them, and I'm attracted to them. But they don't play the games I need for them to enter dream territory. Sian does though. Honestly, I need more characters like him in dramaland. (This was mental crisis #2. Where are my Seonghwa's of dramaland?)

Character #4: Miw (Three Will Be Free)

I've never been with a woman. That doesn't mean much in my world though. My tally of men to women is 1 - 0. Truth is - I loved Three Will Be Free and it wasn't because of the men.

Character #5: Johan (Fourever You)

The hardest part of this decision was which GIF to use. I didn't find what I really wanted, but I gave myself a time limit. This was my second choice. Johan is the reason I watched this show. End stop.

Character #6: Win (Until We Meet Again/Between Us)

Another one where the hardest part of the decision was which GIF to use since I didn't find the GIF I wanted fast enough. I'm sure it exists. Anyways - I love a brat tamer. Win is my ultimate in that category.

Character #7: Mahasamut (Love Sea)

Mut won the MAME wars since I only allowed myself one MAME character on the list. I have a love/hate relationship with these shows, but that's an entirely different post. There is a LOT I dislike about Love Sea, but Mut was great (Meena is also an adorable wingman). I'll fully admit that there are several MAME characters that could have ended up on this list if I didn't restrict myself. Yes, I am fully aware of what that says about me.

Character #8: Ritsu (End of the World With You)

Ritsu is the definition of a red flag. He's not even one I can excuse his red flags. I can't even pretend he's good for Masumi. Outside of the premise of this show, everyone should run FAR from him. But as I've said before - if the world was ending, I'd have no qualms.

Character #9: Geralt (Witcher)

I had to think about this one for a minute to make sure he qualified. Was it just because I find Henry Cavill attractive? I've admired Henry Cavill since he was a young one in I Capture the Castle. We've grown older together. I appreciate MANY of his characters. But I decided it wasn't just Henry Cavill here. Because a lot of those earlier characters wouldn't make it on this list. Superman can take a hike. But Geralt? Well, I have a daughter named Triss for a reason (even if it was my husband's suggestion). Just saying. (Side note - our daughter was born before this show existed. Another sign that it's the character.)

Honorable Mentions (because we make the rules right?):

Shao Peng [my lift king]

Fadel (the early episodes particularly)

Jae-young (the king of eye contact)

Tang-yi (the finale never happened)

And SO many more.

In any case, the time I allotted myself to make this post is up. I must go pretend to be a responsible adult now.

[whumpderella]

End Of The World With You [Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu] (Episode 06)

[bl-bracket]

Horny on Main Round 1: Tharn (The Sign) vs Ritsu (The End of the World with You)

[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]

Tharn: "let’s not forget his whole horny dream about phaya choking him out and fucking him against his bathroom wall. the dream that he proceeded to think about in the midst of making breakfast the next morning"

Ritsu: "The man could not keep it in his pants. The world is ending and all he wants is to bang Masumi into the mattress!"

[blmpff]

SETO TOSHIKI and IIJIMA HIROKI 07.08.24

[negrowhat]

Favorite First Watches of 2023

Tagged by @alienwlw

The Eighth Sense

I Feel You Linger in the Air

Laws of Attraction

Moonlight Chicken

Utsukushii Kare: Eternal

Wedding Plan

Our Dating Sim

The End of the World With You

I chose ones that began and ended in 2023 and only ones that I didn't drop and come back to later.

[ql-of-all-time-bracket]

QL of All Time - Round 3: The End of the World with You (2023) vs At 25:00 in Akasaka (2024)

[usertoxicyaoi]

"We went at it like monkeys. Can you blame us? We were only twenty."

BOKURA NO MICRO NA SHUUMATSU (2023). EPISODE TWO.

[bengiyo]

Too 5 horniest sex scenes

There were actually a lot of really solid sex scenes this year. For you, I will cheat and add extras.

Masumi and Ritsu in College in The End of the World With You

I actually think these are better in retrospect because we got to see what these two look like ten years later.

Yang and Phumjai Knocking Down Their Own Store in Love in Translation

I just know this was a fantasy for Yang and he absolutely still has that footage somewhere. They both had beds upstairs!

Namnuea Showing Sailom the Real Him in Wedding Plan

We did not get enough focus on characters who have experience sharing that with each other.

Kim Sung Min and Yoo Joo Hyuk in Love Class 2

We don't often get solidly built boys together in BL, and once again we got two men who knew how to fuck going at it.

Boston and Top in that Car in Only Friends

Top was trying to send that boy into orbit the way he jackhammered him! You know Boston's ass was clean and ready for this moment that he orchestrated.

That First Night Between Nail and Him in For Him

Nothing like a rebound hookup. Bonus if he looks exactly like your ex, amirite??

Saengtai Blowing Patts in La Pluie Ep 7

There's an extended version of this in the special episode on iQIYI. You should check it out. My man Patts was about to lose his mind in this and got what he needed to keep going.

Kon Diao and Yi on the Couch in Naughty Babe Ep 6

Let us never again mention the thumb incident in episode 8. Instead, let's talk about Kon Diao taking charge in this scene and blowing Yi so good that he had to keep his socks on.

King and Uea Explore Kinks in Bed Friend

King was trembling in anticipation when he shared this with Uea.

Ask Me Top 5 BL 2023 Anything

[qlficrecfest]

Week 3 - Round-up Post

Prompt of the week: Less than 1,000 words

The fics that were recommended this week (you take an hour and read them all, they're all less than 1k word!):

lineage (KinnPorsche)

mvp (KinnPorsche)

Shark Bait (See Your Love)

I wish we could (Our Skyy 2 - Bad Buddy x ATOTS)

unresolved longing (The End of The World With You)

an argument worth losing (The Sign)

just one thing i need (This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans)

Thanks to everyone who recommended a fic. Check out the prompt for this week here!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

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Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu