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absolutebl · 1 year

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Enemies to Lovers & Cohabitation BLs

I got this request over on MDL and I though I’d just repost the list here, since if I was asked there I might be asked here. There are plenty more in each category I just haven’t rated them as high. Gotta limit the spreadsheet of doom somehow.

Enemies to lovers (as a main trope) that I've rated 8/10 or higher:

Semantic Error

We Best Love (1 & 2)

Blueming

Bad Buddy

Not Me

HIStory 3: Trapped

Candy Color Paradox

My Sweet Dear

My Day

SOTUS

Kiss Me Again - PeteKao Cut

Why R U?

Star in My Mind

The Eclipse

What Zabb Man!

Nitiman

Big Dragon

Cohabitation (as a main trope) that I've rated 8/10 or higher:

To My Star

Be Loved In House: I Do

He's Coming to Me

Lovely Writer

Choco Milk Shake

Oh! Boarding House

Roommates of Poongduck 304

Like In The Movies

HIStory 2: Right or Wrong

TharnType

Theory of Love

Still 2gether

Cutie Pie

His the movie

Ingredients the series

Manner of Death

Ghost Host Ghost House

Coincidentally the same amount in each. Huh.

Includes only BLs that completed runs before 2023.

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captnswilson · 1 year

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#ameiro paradox #candy color paradox #onoe and kaburagi #bldramaedit #mine #it's literally their best hug why has no one giffed it before why do I have to do it #anyway you're welcome

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bengiyo · 3 months

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We are headed into our final Drama Shower show of the season. How do you rank the shows we got this season and how are you feeling about the direction of the project?

What is Drama Shower and Why Does It Matter?

Before we get into rating these shows, I want to do a breakdown of what this is. To give you a sense of how big a deal Drama Shower is, fans are regularly updating a Wikipedia page for it with relevant links to follow the project. Also, there is a dedicated MDL page for it.

Drama Shower is a dedicated half-hour programming block on MBS, a Japanese broadcaster that is over 70 years old, in conjunction with Kadokawa, a Japanese publisher and holding group, that plays BL content at 1:30 am on Fridays. The project's main producer is Kaoru Azuma, who is a self-described long-time BL fan. He wants to show that BL can do a variety of stories in genre, and has recently stated that he wants to produce original content through the project as well.

We originally had six shows air through year one: Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss!, Senpai, This Can't Be Love!, Takara-kun to Amagi-kun, Eternal Yesterday, Candy Color Paradox, and Jack o' Frost.

I originally reviewed these shows as overall a mixed bag, but showing great promise. I liked that they got more comfortable with depictions of m/m intimacy over time. I thought Mr. Unlucky was legitimately funny (9), Senpai never found its footing (6), Takara and Amagi mildly squandered their premise (8), Eternal Yesterday was extremely poignant (10), Candy Color Paradox had ambitions that exceeded its talent pool (7), and Jack o' Frost was a really strong finish (9.5).

MBS seemed to enjoy the performance of this project enough to continue it for another year.

For me, I think it's very significant to give BL itself a time slot to see how audiences are responding to BL as a concept compared to the pitch of individual shows. I'm really encouraged by MBS doing this. Even if you don't care about the name MBS, you have interacted with their content, because they are also behind Full Metal Alchemist and Haikyuu! anime adaptations.

Rating Year 2

I actually liked the way year 2 started, even if I'm a bit mixed on the end. I really loved opening with Tokyo in April is... I liked that they had BL trying to be topical. I think the show unfortunately conflates some things it shouldn't, but I loved TIAI and I loved Ren and Ryunosuke's experience being gay men. I liked the changes they made to the source material. This show was dark in a way that it owned, and I really like that. I gave it a 9.

We then moved to My Personal Weatherman, and that went over well for the people who like to see really hot people go at it with each other. I actually enjoyed how much Yoh and Segasaki actively misunderstood each other even as they were speaking to each other. I don't know that they exactly completed their story, and I suspect that there may be a future outing for this show. Despite enjoying it, I think it didn't get all of its pieces together fully and gave it an 8.5.

We then crossed over into uncertain territory with One Room Angel. Despite enjoying a lot of what was going on in this show, I don't actually think it's a romance. It's my understanding that the angel character is a lot younger in the source material, and so they may have been a little shy about how much they did with these characters on screen. I also don't think the storytelling was balanced between the leads. However, because I am susceptible to complex stories about grief, I gave this show an 8.

Now, we have Sahara-sensei to Toki-kun. I hated this show so much. I think it makes the unfortunate mistake of asking me to care about how homophobia and public perceptions impacts people through its flashback drama, but then does nothing with that in the front. It sucked so hard, and I'm really disappointed because I thought this show had some of the most potential, and I thought Toki was one of the most watchable characters Drama Shower had produced. I ended up giving it a 4.

Our next and final show (I think) for this outing is called My Strawberry Film. This one will also be in a high school, but I know little about it, other than we may have a GL plot in it.

So, overall I'd give Drama Shower an 8. I think fans of BL, and especially Japanese BL, should continue to show up and support it. The fact that we have a dedicated programming block is important. The fact that none of these shows has felt like a retread so far is super important. Drama Shower is varied. There is something in here for almost everyone. Drama Shower is the biggest commitment to BL we've had from a distributor other than GMMTV's ongoing BL slate. Taiwan has Vidol doing is four projects, but Drama Shower is the first time I know of that a Japanese distributor has focused on BL in a meaningful, ongoing way. We should stick with it.

#answered #Ben writes #japanese bl #bl series #drama shower #tunku shower #mr. unlucky has no choice but to kiss!#senpai this can't be love #takara kun to amagi kun #candy color paradox #eternal yesterday #jack o' frost #tokyo in april is...#my personal weatherman #one room angel #sahara sensei to toki kun #my strawberry film

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zhaozi · 9 days

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candy color paradox (2022) | episode 8

#candy color paradox #kimura keito #yamanaka jyutaro #asianlgtbqdramas #japanese bl #japanese drama #m:gifs

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kexing · 1 year

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In which Onoe Satoshi is extremely normal about Kaburagi Motoharu.

#ameiro paradox #candy color paradox #kimura keito #yamanaka jyutaro #japanese bl #mjblr #half of the subtitles are fake. not telling you which ones

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agapintheskin · 1 year

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飴色パラドックス / Candy Color Paradox ep.03

#ameiro paradox #candy color paradox #leoのcontent #nobody gifs this show but i want it on my blog so i have to do it myself? scandalous.

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myahyeahey · 1 year

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sunday: between us

monday: the warp effect

tuesday: never let me go

wednesday: the new employee

thursday: the director who buys me dinner

friday: my school president, 609 bedtime story, candy color paradox

saturday: gap the series

#kpop #txt #between us #between us the series #the warp effect #never let me go #the new employee #the director who buys me dinner #my school president #609 bedtime story #candy color paradox #gap the series #bl drama #bl series #thai drama #lakorn #asian lgbtq dramas

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save-the-data · 1 year

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ameiro paradox | s01e08

Japanese Drama - 2022, 8 episodes

EP:- 1 : 2 : 3 : 4 : 5 : 6 : 7 : 8

~ Episode List ~

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gillianthecat · 11 months

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Office Romance QL

Of the shows listed in my post on Workplaces in QL shows, these are the dozen I would consider to be "office romance," in that the romance centers around or starts because of the office setting. (Again, there are many shows I haven't seen yet, so this isn't a complete list.)

Marketing/Advertising Office

🇹🇭 GAP

🇹🇭 Step By Step

🇰🇷 The New Employee

🇰🇷 Roommates of Poongduck 304

Graphic Design Office

🇹🇭 Bed Friend (or is it marketing?)

🇹🇭 Middleman's Love

🇯🇵 Senpai, This Can't Be Love!

Game Design Office

🇹🇭 A Boss and a Babe

🇰🇷 Our Dating Sim

Other/Business Empire/Generic Office setting (or I never figured out what they did)

🇯🇵 Old Fashion Cupcake (i never figured it out)

🇯🇵 Cherry Magic (stationary company, iirc)

Journalism

🇯🇵 Candy Color Paradox

Publishing Industry/Writers Manga Artists/Illustrators

🇰🇷 Oh! My Assistant (an office of two, but I think it still applies)

(even though The Novelist/The Pornographer (🇯🇵) is theoretically the same set-up, I don't feel like it fits the category)

update 1/4/24

Real Estate Company

🇯🇵 Ossan's Love

#office bl #office romance #ql lists #adults in bl #bl lists #gap the series #step by step #the new employee #roommates of poongduck 304 #bed friend #senpai this can't be love #a boss and a babe #our dating sim #old fashion cupcake #cherry magic #candy color paradox #oh my assistant

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conscbgb · 8 months

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When 2 costars of a BL series meet at the other one work place that happens to be a concert

YUSEI & RIKU

TAKUYA & SHO

KEITO & JYUTARO

And then they go to dinner together 🥓🥩🍚

#my beautiful man eternal #yagi yusei #riku hagiwara #minato shouji coin laundry #kusakawa takuya #sho nishigaki #candy color paradox #kimura keito #yamanaka jyutaro

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absolutebl · 1 year

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#midweek state of the BL #currently watching #thai bl #japanese bl #Taiwanese bl #bokura no micro na shuumatsu #Hit Bite Love #Moonlight Chicken #Utsukushii Kare #my beautiful man 2 #Ameiro Paradox #Candy Color Paradox #history 5 love in the future #My School President #Never Let Me Go #kare ga boku ni koishita wake

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bengiyo · 4 months

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5 moments from 2023 BL that felt new or different?

I feel so much pressure to do a good job with this one. You're an OG. You've been in this game longer than me. I'm pretty sure you've actually seen more than me.

La Pluie Episode 6

Sure, we've had a lot of sex in BL in recent years. What's special about La Pluie is its willingness to release the sexual tension and explore the emotional space on the other side of that. Tai and Phat actually started making out on the goddamned floor, we got a sneak peak of Saengtai's bulge, and we mentioned that he was still aroused while they were sitting on the couch later. They also talked about what was going on between them and some of Tai's hangups. Usually these shows love to interrupt these moments because they don't know what to do with the characters once they bone. Not this show!

Jong Chan Adapting to Seung Hyun in The New Employee

This wasn't my favorite show of the year, but my man Jon Chan is one of my favorites of the year! I like that he was solidly in his 30s and looking for a partner. I like that he didn't exactly understand all of Seung Hyun's hang-ups about the ex, but decided to let that go and focus on building their future. His exasperation about this felt distinctly gay.

Jim and Li Ming's Relationship in Moonlight Chicken

I like calling Moonlight Chicken a gay family drama more than a BL because I don't think romance is the central driving factor of the show, but it feels like splitting hairs. What is my favorite part of this show is that the only "I love you" said in the show is between Jim and Li Ming. I love that the relationship between a gay man and his gay nephew feels like the heart of the show.

Seo Lee Joon being a Terrible Gay in Love Mate

I know a lot of y'all got your knickers in a knot over the way Ha Ram determinedly pursued Lee Joon, but I feel like we ignored how fucking rude Lee Joon was in this show. This man goes on the apps to flirt with people without making it clear he's only going to date them once before abruptly cutting them off and blocking them. This is mean! We are fucking gay! We have a hookup culture with its own language! This thing where he wants the flavor of first dates and sets up his dates for extreme disappointment is so mean. He was going to make a whole dating app about how bitter he was about his own breakup. This man needed to face his own issues, and I'm glad a stern dicking turned him around.

The Sex Scene in Candy Color Paradox

This is a show that tried and failed to punch above its weight. The leads were too inexperienced to carry a kinda dense script, and they got blown out of the water by the talented Izuka Kenta for about three episodes. It's really unfortunate because I think Kimura Keito and Yamanaka Jyutaro put in real work in this show. Their bed scene was probably the most stylish of the entire year. It is worth watching just that scene because it really stands out. Also, they discuss m/m acts the morning after in a way that felt refreshing.

Ask me Top 5 BL 2023 Anything

#answered #best of bl 2023 #ameiro paradox #candy color paradox #love mate #la pluie #moonlight chicken #the new employee

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heretherebedork · 1 year

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