My Top 60 BLs - The Elite 10% of 600 Watched

It's happened again, another year, another 100 BLs watched. We have just tipped the BL tracking spreadsheet over into 600 BLs watched. (by moi).

SO after watching 600 BLs, here are my top 60:

Seven Days - Japan 2015 (oldest BL on this list, also holds #1 spot, cute)

We Best Love: No. 1 For You & Fighting Mr. 2nd - Taiwan 2021

Semantic Error - Korea 2022

Light On Me - Korea 2021

Until We Meet Again - Thai 2019

Our Dating Sim - Korea 2023

To My Star - Korea 2021

Color Rush 1 - Korea 2021

Old Fashion Cupcake - Japan 2022

Takara-kun and Amagi-kun - Japan 2022

Minato’s Laundromat - Japan 2022

My Beautiful Man - Japan 2021

Cherry Blossoms After Winter - Korea 2022

HIStory 2: Crossing the Line - Taiwan 2018

Cherry Magic - Japan 2020

The Eighth Sense - Korea 2023

Bad Buddy - Thai 2022

A Tale of Thousand Stars - Thai 2021

My School President - Thai 2023

Love Tractor - Korea 2023

The New Employee - Korea 2023

Oxygen - Thai 2020

Be Loved In House: I Do - Taiwan 2021

Lovely Writer - Thai 2021

He’s Coming to Me - Thai 2019

Blueming - Korea 2022

Unintentional Love Story - Korea 2023

Step By Step - Thai 2023

My Ride - Thai 2022

La Pluie - Thai 2023

Wish You - Korea 2020

Our Dining Table AKA Bokura no Shokutaku - Japan 2023

Not Me - Thai 2022

Nobleman Ryu’s Wedding - Korea 2021

Love By Chance - Thai 2018

See You After Quarantine? - Taiwan 2021

Addicted - China 2016

Long Time No See - Korea 2017

My Tooth Your Love - Taiwan 2022

Why R U? - Thai 2020

The Tasty Florida - Korea 2021

About Youth - Taiwan 2022

SOTUS - Thai 2016

DNA Says Love You - Taiwan 2022

My Love Mix Up - Japan 2021

Roommates of Poongduck 304 - Korea 2022

The Eclipse - Thai 2022

Dark Blue Kiss - Thai 2019

Oh! Boarding House - Korea 2022

My Day - Pinoy 2020

Ocean Likes Me - Korea 2022

Bed Friend - Thai 2023

Cutie Pie - Thai 2022

Life: Love on the Line - Japan 2020

Love Class - Korea 2022

Restart After Come Back Home - Japan 2020

Tinted With You - Korea 2022

2gether - Thai 2020

Choco Milk Shake - Korea 2022

Destiny Seeker - Thai 2023

600 BLs - My Top 60 Notes

Bold = 10/10 (#1 … #8)

Italics = 9/10 (#9 … #33)

everything else is 8/10 (there are more 8/10s)

These are my personal preferences. If you don't see one of your favorites there it may still have scored an 8 just not made it onto the list.

Or... I didn't like is as much as you think I should.

Relative ranking isn't fixed. I basically just asked myself which ones would I want to rewatch right... now.

Absolute BL not included because it’s parody

Love is Science? & Puppy Honey not included because BL is a B-plot

Word of Honor has been censored off the list. Fuck that noise.

The following are my top 3 shorts:

A First Love Story - Korea 2021

Just Friends? - Korea 2009 (would have been the oldest on the list)

Some More - Korea 2018

This is as of the Aug 2023.

Not responsible for any additional awesome BLs that have aired since then.

Next up... 700 BLs. Expect me to do this again - next year. Unless I'm dead of course.

(Here's the last time I did this.)

The Prince of Wales to the Duke of York

Brighton, 25 Sept. 1791

Three days ago I received on the same day the two last letters you was so good as to write containing the account of yr. being to be married on Michaelmass day (of wh. I give you most sincerely joy,) as well as of the prospect of yr. return to this country the 15th of November, wh. delights me more than I can possibly express. As there is so little time to make preparations for yr. arrival, I in consequence set off for London the next morning to enter upon a negotiation respecting yr. house. Accordingly I went to Melbourne, & open’d the business to him & Lady Melbourne, who both express’d their readiness to do any thing yt. either you or I cd. wish, but said at ye. same time, yt. they were sure neither of us wd. desire that in accomodating us, they shd. themselves be any how loosers, tho’ they were not desirous of being gainers further than the satisfaction they shd. feel in doing what was pleasant or agreable to us, besides wh., tho’ the house was by no means intail’d still, they did not wish to part with it, without they had Pen Lambe’s entire consent. After having previously consulted with Holland & finding yt. you wd. loose much more than cd. be imagin’d by selling yr. house outright, sooner than by making a swap with either the Melbournes or anyone else, I propos’d to the Melbournes to go with me the next morning & walk all over York House, offices & ev’ry other part, in order yt. they might be perfectly acquainted with it & then judge for themselves. In short we visited every part of it & they then desired Holland & me to come & walk over Melbourne House, wh. we did, & wh. is more spacious, more convenient & better than I even thought, who have known it all my life, or rather thought yt. I knew it, but I confess yt. even I was surpriz’d, & Holland de plus fort, to say everything in a word he was delighted. We then convers’d  about terms, when Melbourne said that he was much pleas’d with York House & thought it quite big enough for him, but that there were some inconveniencies belonging to it wh., when remov’d, upon any fair valuation he shd. be ready to exchange. The principal objection is this, yt. the title of Melbourne House is a freehold to perpetuity, York House is upon a lease from the Crown for fifty years, wh. is the term yt. all leases from the Crown are granted upon, & yt. considering in the first place yt. a fine must always be paid at the expiration of yt. term by some of his family if the lease was to be renew’d, & yt. then one was in all probability very much if not entirely at the mercy of the then Minister or the then King, he cd. not for the sake of his family think of entering upon terms of exchange so disadvantageous to his family on the present instance, nor cd. he so advantageously to you as he wd. wish to do if you cd. make out a better title to yr. house. The next thing to consider was whether you cd. in any shape do yt, & there is a way wh. immediately occur’d to us, & I beleive the only way, wh. wd. effectuate the business at once, & that is by getting a grant from the Crown, (to wh. I assure you I shall give my hearty consent, wh. wd. absolutely be necessary, as the lawyers tell me,) of yr. house & the ground belonging to it to you & yr. heirs for ever. You then cd. exchange upon even terms in point of title, & I know yt. then they wd. be satisfied with very little money to boot; the negociation is going on in case anything else may be struck out wh. may do as well, but if there is nothing further to be done, but by way of grant from the Crown it must stop till you arrive & make a personal application to the King, or if you wish me to do it, I will speak myself to the King about it. However, be this as it may, you loose nothing by the delay, as neither Melbourne House, or your own, by any means whatever cd. be patch’d up for yours & the Duchess’s reception in November, as neither cd. be ready till very late in the spring or the middle of summer at the soonest, granting yt. all the hurry possible was made. As to Melbourne House, they if they keep it, must positively clean it up this year, as it is so dirty & nasty, & the furniture so worn yt. it wd. be ridiculous of you to pretend to buy it, as they think it totally unfit to produce it any longer, & as to yr. own house I fancy you forget yt. there is not even a ceiling or a floor in the principal floor, nor any part of the stucko ready or even begun, that before that cd. therefore be dry, it must be many months; this Holland has desir’d me litterally as I state it, to inform you of; what was then to be done, as you have been so good as to trust it entirely to me, Warwick Lake, Holland, & myself laid our heads together, & we have therefore determined to hire for a year, either Ld. Thanet’s or Lord Craven’s house for you, in order yt. you may, tho’ you will then be much confin’d for room, still have a hole to put yr. heads in, when you arrive, & then you will gain time & see what there is to be done & what arrangements are to be taken more to yr. own satisfaction, either respecting Melbourne House, or yr. own house or any other you may think of. Cd. impossibilities have been done I think I shd. have been able to have contriv’d this for you to yr. satisfaction, but all I can assure you of is yt. it has not been owing to want of assiduity or pains yt. I have miscarried in this undertaking. When I say miscarried I dont mean that the business cannot, or will not be done, tho’ I am sure it can only be perfected in the manner I have told you, & then it certainly can be done.

With regard to a hair dresser & Groom of the Chambers to the Duchess, I had found before I receiv’d yr. letter I beleive the completest fellow for the purpose yt. can be, a perfectly well behaved man with good connections & acquaintances, an incomparable woman’s hair dresser, having dress’d the Dss. of Devonshire & several other women of fashion for many years, a very good, creditable looking little man, who talks English & French perfectly, & I believe German. He married a few years back & his wife keeps a pension for young ladies at Chaillot. I sent for him from Paris where he was gone, in order to talk over with him how he shd. like the Dss.’s service. I have made no terms with him, now knowing what you might like to give him. He said he shd. be very happy to attend upon the Dss. & to take such wages as you might think him worthy of. His name I believe is Jean François; I know his sirname is François, as I have been acquainted with him for many years & known him not only from myself but from numberless other quarters to be an exceeding steady well-behaved man, besides possessing his art in perfection. If you shd. disapprove of him, wh. I think & hope you will not, for I am certain you will not get such another anywhere, you have nothing to do but to pay his journey back again either to France or England, & make him some little trifling present besides, but I hope the Dss. & you will not think of sending him back without first trying him. As La Coste is going by my orders to take care of yr. carriages, I send François with him as the least extravagant way of travelling. As to yr. horses I have given the best orders I possibly can respecting them, & I hope everything else yt. you have entrusted to my care, you will find on yr. arrival arrang’d to yr. satisfaction. I will now, my dearest brother, conclude, as in the first place I am certain you must long ago before you arrive at this part of my letter, have been tired with reading this shocking scrawl, wh. I can only apologize for on the score of hurry, & in the next place as I myself am tired of writing, therefore Adieu, dearest Frederick, with every compliment & expression of regard to ma chére belle soeur, beleive me [etc.].

P.S. I will write in a post or two & let you know what house I have taken. Pray remember all my commissions—best comts. to Jack.