~ Monthly BL Breakdown: February 2024 ~
🌱 Happy March!!! 🌷
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New breakdowns are coming at the end of every month - feel free to add stuff! -> previous breakdowns
What came out this month? (green = seen/currently watching)
🌟 Anti Reset - February 2nd (Taiwan)
🌟 Love Syndrome: The Beginning - February 8th (Thailand)
🌟 Baka Pwede pa? - February 9th (Philippines)
🌟 War of Y: The Reunion (special episode) - February 10th (Thailand)
🌟 1000 Years Old - February 14th (Thailand)
🌟 My Strawberry Film - February 16th (Japan)
🌟 A Secret Love - February 17th (Thailand)
🌟 To Be Continued - February 19th (Thailand)
🌟 Unknown - February 24th (Taiwan)
🌟 Wedding Impossible - February 26th (South Korea)
🌟 Kiseki Chapter 1 & Chapter 2 - February TBA (Thailand)
🌟 Ambiguous - February TBA (South Korea)
Monthly likes/dislikes
❣️ I'm gonna have to list Cherry Magic and Cooking Crush again just because they filled me with so much serotonin lol. Truly beautiful productions, so carefully written, so well executed and with so much wholesomeness and so many green flags lol. I had the best time watching them and the fact that 2 OG pairs had comeback shows back to back gave me so much nostalgia lol, especially since the genre is reminiscent of their old shows. It's been a blissful and therapeutic few months and I'm extremely sad that it's over 😩🥺🫶🏻 A+ content from everyone involved. 12/10 for both.
👎🏻 It has been a year lmao a lot of things happened this month, the Pawin situation makes me sad, we don't know what actually happened but the whole thing is messed up either way. James dropping out of LUAT came as a surprise as well, I'm not a NetJames fan but if they really had a falling out like the rumors say then that's sad. Singto coming back to gmm has been a nice surprise amongst the scandals lol but other than that I hope things go uphill after this 🥺
New series & movie announcements
🎥 My Bias is Showing (manwha adaption) - Date TBA (South Korea)
🎥 All About Lust - Date TBA (South Korea)
🎥 A Balloon's Landing - Date TBA (Taiwan)
🎥 Roommates - Date TBA (South Korea)
🎥 Good Night to Get Drunk - Date TBA (South Korea)
🎥 First Note of Love - Date TBA (Taiwan)
🎥 Living With Him - Coming April 11th (Japan)
🎥 The Young Gangster - Coming 2025 (Taiwan)
Other news from the BL world
❗️ Actor Singto Prachaya has returned to GMMTV as an artist. He previously left the company in 2021 to work as a freelance actor & producer after being under contract for nearly 5 years. It is unknown whether he will be part of any projects of the 2024 lineup.
❗️ The Thai BL Playboyy is getting a second season.
❗️ The upcoming Korean series High School Return of a Gangster announced the removal of the original BL plot. The show will air as a censored version, focusing on the friendship between the male leads.
❗️ Actors Charles Tu (HIStory 4) and Michael Chang (My Tooth Your Love) were confirmed to star in the upcoming BL First Note of Love. The series tells the story of a musician who is struggling with stage fright and one of his fans. An air date has not been announced.
❗️ Actor Non Ratchanon will no longer partake in the upcoming BL Live in Love. In an official statement, the production company stated that the decision was made due to disagreements between his agency and the one representing his co-star Hearth Chindanai. A recast for his role has yet to be announced.
❗️ GMMTV actor Win Pawin was accused of physically assaulting his ex-girlfriend, who made public allegations with photo evidence of her wounds. As a result GMMTV released a statement announcing the suspension of Pawin from all further work activities until legal investigations are complete. This lead to him making a public statement saying he is withdrawing from the upcoming BL We Are. He was cast as one of the 8 protagonists and was paired with his former partner Marc Pahun. GMMTV released a followup statement today, announcing Pawin's character would be recast to newbie Poon Mitpakdee.
❗️ Actor James Supamongkon announced his withdrawal from the upcoming Domundi BL Love Upon a Time. He released a statement on Twitter, saying he wants to expand his career and focus on other projects as an artist apart from acting. The company stated that Net and the others will stay part of the cast and that a new partner for Net will be cast shortly. This caused a big uproar amongst the fans who have been waiting for the series since it was announced over a year ago. Whether James' dropping out has anything to do with a dispute between him and Net is not confirmed.
Upcoming series & movies for March
👉🏻 Love is Better the Second Time Around - March 5th (Japan)
👉🏻 Deep Night - March 7th (Thailand)
👉🏻 Two Worlds - March 21st (Thailand)
👉🏻 High Demand - March 23rd (Thailand)
👉🏻 Wuju Bakery - March TBA (Thailand)
👉🏻 The Star - Date TBA (Thailand)
👉🏻 Blossom Campus - March TBA (South Korea)
👉🏻 Jazz for Two - March TBA (South Korea)
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Spotlight Series:
Spotlight On Something Old, But New To Me...
Title: Irresistible Love.
Also Called: Uncontrolled Love
Novel Title: Force Majeure
Directed By: Sun Cheng Zhi & Meng Rui
Written By: Lan Lin
Starring: Meng Rui as Xie Yan
Wang Bowen as Shu Nian
Release Dates: June 28, 2016 (First Movie)
August 20, 2016 (Sequel or Part 2)
Country: China
Language: Chinese
Shu Nian is a orphan and meets wealthy boy Xie Yan who "adopts" him. The two are inseparable friends with Shu Nian calling Xie Yan "Young Master"
Shu Nian is gay and in love with Xie Yan. Xie Yan is a self entitled asshole in many occasions but he can't deal with his feelings for Shu Nian often using force and dubious consent to touch Shu Nian.
As adults Xie Yan has a manipulator girlfriend who is jealous of the obvious closeness between the two.
Final Thoughts: I had a love hate thing with this movie. Honestly I never heard of it. I did like the actors. I felt so bad for Shu Nian. He reminds of MODC'S YU XI GU in that he had no parents and always seemed to get the short end of the stick. And I like Xie Yan almost as much I hated him. He was so entitled but when he was sweet he was a sweetheart. I'm not sorry I watched these two films. According to my research 2 Endings were made. One where you Shu Nian dies from injuries due to a car accident and Xie Yan learns of this and is devastated and isolated him self. (I didn't see this ending)
The ending I saw was Xie Yan went to a location hoping to see Shu Nian after a long time. Supposedly Shu Nian doesn't show. As Xie Yan prepares to leave he notices a man watering grass or plants wearing a mask and baseball hat. He immediately notices its Shu Nian. When the mask falls it is indeed Shu Nian who is limping and is slightly disfigured from the accident. Xie Yan professes his love. The two kiss...the end.
Asking some BL Fam if they've heard of this one. Of course @absolutebl having an impressive numbers of BL's watched. And @pose4photoml & @lutawolf
Or @wanderlust-in-my-soul have you heard or seen this?
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A LOOK BACK AT GU HAI & BAI LUO YIN (YIN ZI)
ADDICTED or ADDICTED HEROIN (2016, CHINA)
A lot of BL's recently ended.
My School President
The New Employee
Hit Bite Love
My Beautiful Man Season 2 (UTSUKUSHII KARE)
Never Let Me Go
The Warp Effect (Not Exactly BL but...)
Moonlight Chicken (Ends Tomorrow Though I'm Waiting To Binge so haven't seen any episodes yet.)
So here I'm going back to where my BL journey began with the story (unfinished in my opinion but it never will be) of step brothers Gu Hai & Bai Luo Yin (JOHNNY HUANG & TIMMY XU)
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