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absolutebl · 20 days

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Top 10 Great BLs That Are REALLY hard to find (but worth tracking down)

But you may want to go hunting anyway!

Seven Days

Seven Days: Monday-Thursday

Seven Days: Friday-Sunday

Japan 2015

Never doubt my ability to recommend this show. One of the best live action yaois ever made, with perfectly structured angst, fantastic characters and acting, and no problematic tropes (rare in Japanese BL). The leads have excellent chemistry although it’s low heat there’s still some really cute mutual kisses.

Cherry Magic AKA 30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii

Japan 2020

The sweetest fluffiest magical realism BL, packaged as a pinning office romance, very low heat (practically chaste) but the cutest. It’s truly great.

Cherry Magic Thailand

Thai 2024

A soft charming warm hug of a show about crushes and mind reading and self worth, with no-fuss execution from a consummate team and an OG lead pair proving why they remain eternal and deserve to grow up. Look, here’s the thing, Cherry Magic is a great Thai BL in its own right not comparing it to any other iteration. But even when I do compare (and I've seen all the Cherries and read the manga) it still stands. I personally like it slightly better than the Japanese live action, but I think that’s because I just really like Thai BL and I LOVE TayNew. Also all the kissing was both present and better than any other iteration. As it should be from Thailand.

I Feel You Linger in the Air

Thai 2023

IFYLITA is an exquisite BL, from filming techniques to narrative framework (much like Until We Meet Again). Steeped in history and family drama it edges into lakorn (but no as much as To Sir With Love and with way less scenery chewing). This is an elegant and classy BL... from Thailand which normally doesn't even try for classy. The main couple (both as a pair and individuals) were excellent, particularly Bright (Yai) whose eye-work acting style is a personal favorite of mine. Pity about the ending. Oh it wasn’t that sad but it wasn’t good either. This show could easily have earned a 10/10 from me except that it fumbled the… erm… balls in the final quarter. Argh. Whatever.

All about the ecstasy and the agony here.

Restart After Come Back Home AKA Risutato wa tadaima no ato de

Japan 2020

Atmospheric study in rural Japan meets complex family dynamics built on a romance framework of city boy meets country boy, grumpy/sunshine. It’s beautiful and icy sweet. Slow moving in places but ultimately worth the patience, low heat, low angst, and stunning.

Given

Japan 2021

Boy joins band, falls in love with other boy. The singing is terrible, fast forward through that but with the possible exception of the hair styles, this BL could have been made in 2015 and no one would be surprised. As such, it wasn’t ground breaking, but it didn’t disappoint either.

Make a Wish

Thai 2023

A doctor who can see the dead strikes a bargain with a wish-granting irreverent tree angel - naturally they fall in love (from Sammon: Manner of Death & Triage). Stars Fluke Natouch opposite not Ohm, but who cares because Fluke has chemistry with everybody. Once again the Thai afterlife is incredibly bureaucratic but I enjoyed the premise and the unfolding of the story (it’s not predictable but still satisfying and with nice little twist). I like that the doctor is just gay AF - fag hag bestie and all the swagger. The cast is excellent but the comedic stylings are a bit overblown and tonally off. It had sad parts and did make me cry but is ultimately happy with a great sex scene, good smiley kisses, and all the agency.

2 Moons The Ambassador AKA 2 Moons 3

Thai 2022

A Thai pulp that felt like it came out 5 yrs ago with many of the flaws inherent to that time and studio system, including manufactured angst and convoluted plot, but an ultimately sweet main couple that (as a pairing) feels a bit more modern and satisfying to watch than they started out. This will probably go down in history as one of the few BLs where I genuinely didn’t care about any of the side couples. All that said I find this show oddly appealing and rewatchable and I have no excuses for that.

I Want to See Only You AKA Kimi no Koto Dake Mite Itai

Japan 2022

This is a beautiful, well acted piece of cinema, about two boys who are opposite personalities and grew up together. Gifted and serious Sakura pines after outgoing eccentric manic pixie dream boy, Yuma. It is very pretty and this is the kind of atmospheric elegantly performed BL that only really comes from Japan (complete with dead fish kisses - what you though Korea invented them? oh no).

Triage

Thai 2022

BL does Groundhog Day featuring a doctor stuck in a time loop who must save a poor little rich boy from death by seducing the stuffing out of him, then PLOT TWIST, poor little rich boy must do the same for doctor! Unfortunately... stuffing keeps leaking. I thought the plot was engaging if a little redundant and occasionally exhausting. The pairs were all well done, low heat but with decent chemistry and the support characters were likeable (or unlikeable, as required). If anything, the romance arc detracted and distracted from the main plot, but that doesn't stop this from being a genuinely good show.

HONORABLE MENTION

Great Men Academy

Thai 2019

Bodyswap involving unicorns making a teenage girl into a boy makes this questionable as a BL (because, ya know, gender). But the fact remains that James is killer in the lead, and I (who do not like bodyswap) loved this damn show. Look, there is actual plot, hotties at boarding school, "bully the one you love" trope, some weird VR shit, very bad CGI, and yes, the boys end up together... whether they boys or not, so to speak.

Some of these shows may appear on a smaller streaming service, like WeTV, or they may be on a legal platform in your territory. I hope it goes without saying you should check there first.

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This list updated Spring 2024, not responsible for cool stuff that went missing (or was added to a platform) after that date.

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save-the-data · 7 months

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Taikan Yoho | S01E07

Japanese Drama - 2023, 8 episodes

#My Personal Weatherman #LGBTQ+#JDrama #Co-Habitation #Adapted from a Manga #体感予報 #Taikan Yoho #Higuchi Kouhei #Mashiko Atsuki #Mizuishi Atomu #Romance #Japanese BL #BL GIFS #Kiss Episode

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ezralva · 5 months

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I was one of those audiences who at first just thought that Mikoto's brother complex was just something brought out randomly for comic relief because they are almost the same age. But then I re-watched ep 2 and it all became crystal clear how he came to be this way.

You know what I really like about the anime more than the manga is the fact how beautifully they portray these additional frames through this sort of animated-chalk-drawings which are supposed to represent their thoughts and emotions so most of the times they are of absurd images.

This here explains it. How growing up Mikoto had always been told by his mother to be the big brother for Minato yet he couldn't do it. Until that point when he finally accepted his role thanks to Hayato's talk and ever since has always tried his best to be the best onii-chan for Minato, using Hayato as his reference who is much older than him. And Minato being a tsundere (and because he sees him as the same age) just makes him strive harder to get that acknowledgement out of Minato that makes him come off as his having a brother complex.

#yuzuki san chi no yon kyoudai #the yuzuki family's four sons #yuzuki mikoto #yuzuki minato #brother complex #brocon #anime #adapted from a manga

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heretherebedork · 2 years

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The dinner scene.

The way they both stared at each other.

The way they listened to the women.

The way they kept never quite making eye contact but seeking comfort in seeing the other.

But also the way that comfort was broken by the norms they expected.

The way Nozue was trying, desperately, not to be jealous.

The way Togawa was seething in his own jealousy.

The way they were both so relieved to be alone together afterwards, drunken Togawa and softly amused Nozue.

This is the queer adult softness and pain we deserve everywhere.

Where they're both doing their best and they're both trying to be the better person but they're both trapped in what society expects of them and they're both only happy alone together, only happy when the world isn't watching, only happy when they're just themselves.

#オールドファッションカップケーキ #old fashion cupcake #jdrama #togawa x nozue #japanese drama #japanese bl #live action yaoi #adapted from a manga #japanese boy's love #jbl #j-bl #queer stories #i love this show so much #watch this BL

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ichihachiblog · 1 year

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The Way of The Househusband: The Movie (2022)

#japanese drama #jdrama #japanese film #jmovie #jdramaedit #japanese movie #the way of the house husband #gokushufudō #Fujimi no tatsu #gokushufudo: the way of the house husband #adapted from a manga

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thedramagarden · 7 months

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The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House • Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san { 舞妓さんちのまかないさん } | Japanese Drama

• Adapted from the manga series "Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san" (舞妓さんちのまかないさん) by Koyama Aiko (小山愛子) Source: Netflix, 2023

#Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san #舞妓さんちのまかないさん #japanese drama #j drama #j-drama #netflix #2023 #adapted from a manga #Makanai #The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House #Youtube

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mochi-ron · 2 years

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*eyebrow twitches* *glances at the calendar*

12 more days until "Senpai, Danjite Koidewa!" (Senpai this can't be Love!)

and I'm so freaking excited😩

to those who've watched them in kamen rider ex-aid, (or in kr saber) I'm equally excited as all of you ^ ^

#Senpai this can't be love!#Senpai Danjite Koidewa!#japanese bl #mbs back at it again #Seto Toshiki #Naito Shuichiro #先輩断じて恋は！#boy's love #adapted from a manga #japanese drama #J-Drama #the cast??? ohmighod #it's not a coincidence isn't it #nah they probably had reasons as to why they casted them HAHAHAHA

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blfanfest · 2 years

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Fukou-kun wa Kiss Suru Shikanai!

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Title: 不幸くんはキスするしかない!

Also known as: Unlucky-kun Has No Choice but to Kiss!, Mr. Unlucky Can Only Kiss, Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss!, Fukoukun wa Kiss surushikanai!, Fukou-kun ha Kiss Suru Shikanai!

# of episodes: 8

Air dates: Apr. 21 - Jun. 9, 2022

Director: Yoshino Mamoru

Adapted from: the manga with the same title by Tsuyu Gamoko

Genres: Comedy, Romance, School

Country: Japan

Watch via: GagaOOLala | Viki

Summary

Fukuhara Kota (Sota Ryosuke) is a bumbling college student who is plagued by terrible luck. Although he never gets down about it, you can bet if something could possibly go wrong when he’s around, it almost certainly will! One day, he is about to walk in front of a car and end up in a traffic accident when he is saved by a fellow college student named Naoya Shinomiya (Yusuke Sato). The latter is Kota’s polar opposite: His “problem” is that he is “cursed” with endless good fortune.

Kota is grateful for Naoya’s assistance, and tries to ask his new acquaintance to be his friend – but phrases his request badly and accidentally leads Naoya to believe he is asking for them to become lovers. The “lucky” Naoya surprisingly agrees and the duo embarks on an unorthodox relationship. Will Kota’s chaos bring a taste for the unknown into Naoya’s life? And will romance bring spell the end for Kota’s bad luck?

Cast

Sota Ryosuke as Fukuhara Kouta

Sato Yusuke as Shinomiya Naoya

Nakayama Satsuki as Sasaki Mugi

Oshida Gaku as Tsujimura Saku

Hata Mei as Miki

Hanamura Asuka as Anna

Matsuda Yoji as Kawahara

Takahashi Kensuke as Yashiro

Tsubone Yuto as Minato

Bhandari Asaya as Itsuki

Click on the link below for episode updates:

#Japanese BL series #2022 BL Series #Japanese BL #adapted from a manga #episode links #mr. unlucky has no choice but to kiss!#jdrama

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mofartumb · 5 months

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Sinopsis Yu Yu Hakusho (2023)

Yu Yu Hakusho (2023) adalah serial Jepang yang dibintangi oleh Takumi Kitamura, Jun Shison, Kanata Hongo, dan Shuhei Uesugi. Serial ini ditayangkan Netflix 14 Desember 2023. Serial ini diadaptasi dari serial manga berjudul “Yu Yu Hakusho” karya Yoshihiro Togashi. Manga ini dipublikasikan 3 Desember 1990 – 25 Juli 1994 di majalah mingguan Shonen Jump. Berikut sinopsis drama Jepang Yu Yu Hakusho…

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#Adapted From A Manga #Drama #Supernatural Power #Web Series

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amygdalae · 1 month

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#the fucking frog suits. i stg #one of the funniest bits in the manga to me i couldnt wait to see it adapted #Laios just quietly resigning himself to Marcille's wrath.#chilchuck looking like Scout's ham costume from to kill a mockingbird.#Senshi.#dungeon meshi

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absolutebl · 5 months

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I Cannot Reach You - Kimi ni wa Todokanai REVIEWED

This image perfectly captures how I feel about this show. You ready? I wasn't.

I Cannot Reach You

AKA I Can't Reach You AKA Kimi ni wa Todokanai

Japan 2023 - 8 eps 20 ea approx 2.5 hours

Themes, main tropes & archetypes: friends to lovers, tsundere/sunshine, self acceptance, self worth, high school BL, live action yaoi, soft romance, kindness

Rating? 10/10

Yeah, it happened again in 2023.

Adapted from a manga.

The moment I finished binging this show I was thinking about writing about it and re-watching it. This is a sure sign that I adored a piece of media.

This is a wonderful BL.

Truly well executed, with smooth filming and lovely acting, both of a simplistic style that felt slightly more Korean than it did Japanese. It reminded me a little bit of Seven Days and a little bit of Takara and Amagi, and since these are my two favorite high school JBLs obviously I was bound to adore ICRY.

But what it reminded me of more than anything was Cherry Blossoms After Winter.

Odd for JBL and KBL to be so closely linked.

Like CBAW show, ICRY is classic live action yaoi.

Like the MOST classic of CLASSIC.

All the JBL tropes. I mean look at that image above? It's rooftop assignation, kabedon, and a handhold ALL AT ONCE.

There was also multiple runnings of the gays, surprise kisses (one on a bridge), and shoulder leans.

There is even a “seme looses control to desire” scene which leads to dub con. There is an abject apology after but still - you’ve been warned.

The premise is: smart sporty hot (and hella gay) Yamato has a long standing crush on his silly sunshine sweetheart bestie, Kakeru. Yamato is also stiff, self isolated, shy, and has only ever really managed to get along with Kakeru. I love this kind of pining seme so damn much, it probably biased me.

Unlike most uke, Kakeru starts to slowly figure out that his best friend is in love with him by ep 2 (let the chaos bisexual identity crisis commence).

So do some of the friends around them.

The story thus revolves around Yamato trying to unsuccessfully suppress his desire, and Kakeru trying to figure out if he can return Yamato‘s affection.

This biggest barrier is actually Kakeru's feelings of inadequacy and unworthiness (when compared to Yamato). But this is tempered by his genuine kindness which forces him into act with integrity around his dear friend's love and strive to fix everything (even himself) to prove worthy of it - whether he can ultimately return it or not.

Kakeru's struggles are pitted against Yamato‘s repressed need that keeps bubbling over and figuratively (sometimes literally) attacking Kakeru with romantic, emotional, and physical intensity.

Quick pitch:

This classic friends-to-lovers BL is everything Japan does best. Angsty. Emo. Aching. Driven by real thirst. Yamato is deeply in love with his childhood bestie, Kakeru, and has been for ages, unable to hide his ungainly damaging high school need. He wants Kakeru in every way possible and it oozes off of the screen. Kakeru is silly and a little simple, but not frenetic or overly camp about it. He is earnest, and genuinely wants to keep Yamato in his life which means giving a romance (and gayness) a fair chance. We watch him realize his affection and what form it can take in a truly authentic way. This show was impossibly kind to both of its lead characters and I felt almost honored that I got to watch something so lovely and rare play out on my screen.

I’m not gonna lie, I dithered over whether to give this a 10/10 and nearly didn’t. But there is nothing wrong with it AS A BL.

And it's so GOOD to ALL of its characters and they are so good to each other. It's quiet and because of its goodness it will get overlooked, but I LOVED IT.

It's not one of those that BL outsiders will get and you must like Japan's style to enjoy it. But I'm in it. It's for me.

What am I hung up over? Even the kisses are good.

10/10

I CAN'T RECOMMEND IT HIGHLY ENOUGH

Welcome to a very elite club. I gotta change all my best of lists now.

I am sorry to tell you how difficult this show is to get hold of. It deserves a much wider distribution. As of Nov 2023 I do not know where to legally find it internationally with eng subs. Please check the comments for updates.

It's on Netflix in some countries!

Try to find it, you won't regret it.

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#my favorite JBL of 2023 #best of the year?#Japanese BL #I Cannot Reach You #Kimi ni wa Todokanai #JBL #Japanese bl #live action yaoi #adapted from a manga #this is what i want from japan #it's just so good and so good to it's characters and they are so good to each other

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save-the-data · 6 months

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Taikan Yoho | S01E08

Japanese Drama - 2023, 8 episodes

#My Personal Weatherman #LGBTQ+#JDrama #Co-Habitation #Adapted from a Manga #体感予報 #Taikan Yoho #Higuchi Kouhei #Mashiko Atsuki #Mizuishi Atomu #Kiss Episode #Final Episode #Romance #Drama: My Personal Weatherman

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ezralva · 2 years

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I just really appreciate how faithful of an adaptation Old-fashioned Cupcake drama is to its original story. Apart from another added little plot of Nozue willingly being promoted and leading a new office (and thus emphasizing the growth of his character as well as serving a complete and nice resolve for the ending), everything else...a panel of manga to a frame in the drama, 1 chapter for 1 episode, is kept the same.

At first I thought the live action would be just a 1-hour movie because the original story is fundamentally simple, there are many wordless panels there that work beautifully in a manga yet probably each of them can only fill milliseconds of screentime if being filmed so I'm surprised they managed a series of 5 episodes, where they filmed 1 episode for 1 chapter, staying faithful without many drama-only made-up plots or fillers, and still managed to pace it right from the beginning to the end and made me enjoy watching every second of it. Not even once I felt like the pace was rushed because "hey the 23-25 minutes slot of run time is almost over but we still have to squeeze some of these scenes to get our points across" nor did I feel they ever dragged on a certain scene or added pointless fillers to make up for the screentime or for the sake of fanservice-only. They are being efficient in execution while still staying very faithful to the original source. It's something I cannot easily find in a BL adaptation so far.

I even thought at first... Okay here we go again with the mandatory BL scene of running on the bridge to get your man back after finally coming to terms with your feelings...but it turned out I like it, the whole monologue of Nozue is what won me over: I want this...I want that...I want HIM, he finally voices and admits what he wants, that he finally has ambitions to pursue and act on it.

It's such a good, fun, and enjoyable short ride! Glad to finally able to add another show to my meagre and very short list of comfort watch.

#old fashion cupcake #オールドファッションカップケーキ #rambles #jdrama #bl drama #adapted from a manga #the side characters are quite bland tho and totally just for plot convenience #but since the story has always been focusing and about these two so it doesn't matter to me #btw I haven't seen any gif for the running scenes both Nozue alone or with Togawa #and that scene where they only show their silhouttes are chefs kiss #that hugging scene when Togawa cried and the camera closed-up to his shoulders and faces then rotates againts a bright orange backlight #...really did remind me of Happy Together scene

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heretherebedork · 2 years

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Imagine having the man you love tell you that you're the reason he's happy he's alive after sharing desserts with him and sharing time with him and spending all the time with him and bonding with him and trying to show him how much you love him and then he tries to run away, fumbles excuses and all you can hear in your ears is that you're the one who makes him happy to live and then you kiss him and you tell him how much you love him and you know he's going to reject you, you know he won't accept you and you don't see how he reaches out to caress your face as you beg him to hit you and you breakdown and he's frozen and he's breaking and you're weeping and he can't look away but you don't know.

#old fashioned cupcake #bl drama #bl series #old fashion cupcake #japanese bl #japanese drama #jdrama #jbl #live action yaoi #adapted from a manga #togawa x nozue #オールドファッションカップケーキ #nozue x togawa

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ichihachiblog · 1 year

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Akai Ringo (2023)

#アカイリンゴ #akai ringo #japanese drama #jdrama #asian drama #jdramaedit #komiya rio #kawazu asuka #shinjo yume #adapted from a manga

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pleucas · 8 months

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#pleuart #pleucas #bsd #bungo stray dogs #dazai osamu #dazai #colors taken ofc from the anime adaptation of the scene #bones had some reeeaally good coloring in the first two seasons... ive been rewatching (to cope with the manga) and there's some cool stuff #mafia dazai makes me upset #like tfym he was 14... tfymmmmm

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