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bl-bracket · 27 days

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Introducing the next BL Bracket: Horniest on Main

What BL characters are the horniest on main? Which characters are absolutely penis delirious? Who is out of their mind with lust in casual conversation? Now is their time to shine

(forgot the rules? they're listed both in the form and on my pinned post!)

Submit characters here

Submissions close: March 31th, 12am UTC

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wanderlust-in-my-soul · 1 year

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I choose you as you are a million times 'Cause I am not ashamed of you I won't walk away from you I will carry you Through your darkest night When you're terrified I will carry you When the waters rise When your hope runs dry I will carry you ~ I will carry you by Ellie Holcomb

My School President

The Untamed

Addicted Heroin

Ghost Host, Ghost House

Secret Crush On You

You Make Me Dance

Takara-kun to Amagi-kun

Roommates of Poongduck 304

Favorite piggyback rides (Part 1/?) as part of my favorite bl-trope collection (no particular order).

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chinesefaces · 2 years

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櫻井敦司

#asian #chinese #china #drama china #asia #kpop #art #aesthetic #the untamed #jpop #japan #Japanese #atsushi sakurai

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waitineedaname · 28 days

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I used to think my role in fandoms was fic writer or meta writer but tbh I think it might be Deranged Data Collector. Every fandom needs someone who has spreadsheets autism I think

#if i start a spreadsheet for anything related to the untamed i need someone to shoot me #luckily this fandom is massive enough that most people have already done the hard work for me #the temptation to make a similar to spreadsheet to the mp100 one i made is there #but i find chinese much more challenging than japanese so. i probably won't.

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layzeal · 2 years

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wait i’ve talked about the cql japanese ending a few times, but have you guys actually seen it?

#the untamed #THIS IS FROM MONTHS AGO BTW DSKLFJSJKDFH I JUST FORGOT TO SHARE IT #again. same scenes just different order #iirc this is how the ending is in the japanese blu-ray version #yes i re-edited it myself cause the original video was in like 460p #I JUST LOVE THE WATERFALL SCENE BEING THEIR FINAL SCENE 😭🥺#my gf: why have we had like 4 different endings? why am i crying at all fo them?#modao #cql #lace speaks

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absolutebl · 2 years

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Hi absolutebl, our most reliable source of all things BL ;). Such a big fan of your blog, and thank you so much for contributing to the fandom in such a healthy and positive way. Sorry for the long ask: but do you by chance have any thoughts on "bromance" as a genre? Like, do you watch it? Do you have recommendations? Are you a fan of it? I'm sorry if it's an inappropriate question (you are absolutebl after all, this might not be your cup of tea). It's just that sometimes I find myself drawn more to the chemistry of some current bromance series out there than the currently-airing BLs (but that's just my preference. Maybe I just prefer the low heat, old school types). I mean, I actually do like high heat BLs, but some bromance series really just blow me away with plot and chemistry that I don't mind the romance as subtext only (I just finished Japan's Kei x Yaku and Korea's Beyond Evil and both just BLEW ME AWAY. It was intense in the best way. And China's Untamed will always be a special favorite). Any thoughts? Thank you in advance!

BROMANCES

Hi and thank you, I'm flattered!

Ah I have watched some, but in general since we have so many more actual BL options now, I don't bother anymore. They mostly just piss me off either way.

I tend to intentionally ignore them - censoring the censors, so to speak.

I have a few posts tangential to this though:

Devil Judge & Korean Bromance Stuff

BL fandom picked up on Devil Judge, why?

devil judge, hallyu wave bromances, & non BL K-dramas

BL tropes deployed in The Devil Judge (2021)

Devil Judge... is it queerbaiting?

Word of Honor & Chinese Bromance Stuff

Word of Honor

Chinese mf censorship, fight me

Mainland China Censorship Be Like…

Some of the ones I guess I’d call bromances that I’ve watched:

Untamed (20 ep BL cut)

Word of Honor

S.C.I. Mysteries (actually one of my first BLs/bromances in general)

Find You In The Crowd

Love is Not Easy to Have

Swinging Blossom

The Fairy Fox

Beloved Enemy

His Cat

Till Death Tear Us Apart

Advance Bravely (this is more just censored BL)

Mr. CEO is Falling in Love with Him (same as above)

Legend of Long Yang

Customized Companion

Glass Heart

Past Youth

River Knows Fish Heart

Guardian

Mermaid's Jade

Broken Youth

Youth in the Breeze

Capture Lover

Precise Shot

Every Moment that I Think of You

My Esports Genius Brother

In Your Heart

There’s a bunch of early stuff out of China that is just barely censored, in that they don’t kiss (like the ghost boyfriend series), but it’s a lot more obviously gay than post 2016.)

I don’t keep track of the bromances from Korea (like At A Distance, Spring is Green) or Japan (with a few exceptions like Silhouette of Your Voice which is a yaoi adaptation) because they piss me off even more than China. It feels so cowardly. Or those wish side nods like Moment at Eighteen

It’s pretty simple...

if, if the characters were het and would have kissed in the drama under those circumstances, but they don’t because they are a same sex couple - I get really mad about it.

And I’m unable to get over that anger. Because the anger feels justified.

All that said, if you are someone who really doesn’t mind the great long con tease with no pay out these are the ones I liked despite myself:

Recommended Bromances (in order)

Word of Honor

The Devil Judge

The Guardian (super under appreciated but a TON of fun)

Untamed

S.C.I. Mysteries (if you like police procedurals)

Advance Bravely

Capture Lover

River Knows Fish Heart

Precise Shot

Beloved Enemy (IF you come out of yaoi and don’t mind some seriously triggering tropes)

Legend of Long Yang (this is kinda the precursor to Untamed & WOH)

I have not seen Japan's Kei x Yaku (I had spies reporting in on it and decided not to bother, since it was also difficult to get hold of). I have see Korea's Beyond Evil and I am afraid I didn’t get the bromance subtext as much as you, and others, have. I guess the actors didn’t work for me?

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purpleplusher · 9 months

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All my first bl dramas from different countries (listing them because they're all classics)

A tale of thousand stars (Thai)

The untamed (China)

Old fashion cupcake (Japan)

Semantic error (Korea)

History 3 trapped (Taiwan)

Like in the movies (Pinoy)

If you're a bl fan and haven't watched these, i definitely recommend all of them. They're all classics with great actors, good plots and amazing cinematography. 1000/10

#a tale of 1000 stars #atots #the untamed #semantic error #old fashion cupcake #like in the movies #gaya sa pelikula #history 3 trapped #japanese bl drama #thai bl drama #chinese bl #korean bl drama #pinoy bl #taiwan bl

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mixelation · 1 year

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If you haven't watched Anime thus season (beside Spy x Family) which was the Anime you watched last?

oh my god i don't even remember. it might have been my brother watching hunter x hunter and me standing behind the couch mocking the insane dialogue

#i do want to watch some newer anime but i just don't have the energy fdhjskj #usually when i watch stuff i'm multitasking and i do prefer the original japanese dialogue so it's like #no i can't fuck around and read subs at the same time #this is also why i have started and dropped the untamed/mdzs about three times #despite wei wuxian being aggressively My Type of Character

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coquelicoq · 2 years

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the mdzs/cql fandom is such a hoot. each of us is convinced that *we* know what canon is and all those dummies who disagree with us are just making shit up, while they're stewing away thinking the same thing about us. and half the time we aren't even talking about the same fucking canon!!! whenever i see someone say something bonkers about a character i'm just like "i assume they are talking about one of the *checks notes* six versions of this creative property that i have not watched/heard/read" and i go about my day. instead of being incensed that people are being wrong on the internet i can just gently pity them for having a canon that seems less cool than my canon.

#there must be people out there who have read the novel AND the manhua AND watched the drama AND the donghua #AND mdzsq AND listened to BOTH AUDIO DRAMAS #but i'm gonna guess that that does not describe the majority of us lol #like can we all just chill out about it #tired of going into the jc tag and seeing people say that people who disagree with them don't understand canon #even when they're saying things i agree with about his character! how about this. mdzs+ is large and it contains multitudes #for all i know jc fucking sucks in the japanese audio drama and i'm not interested in taking that away from anybody #go ahead and feel that way if you want to. in fact i am a little impressed with you for thinking that AND tagging it with his name #sure i blocked you but there's a part of me that admires your chutzpah #the untamed #let's not forget where the word 'canon' came from lol #people arguing about which books to put in the bible #surely everyone will be amicable about these disagreements 😬

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bl-bracket · 10 months

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Introducing the Next BL Bracket: Best Siblings in a BL!!!

Which siblings have the best relationship? Or which ones have the most interesting relationship? From wholesome siblings to complicated family dynamics, all siblings from BL are welcome here to compete!

Who counts as siblings for this?

At least one of the siblings needs to be a main OR supporting character in a BL drama

They must be considered siblings in canon. Both biological and adopted siblings count! For found family situations, they must consider themselves to be siblings (and not just generally family or close friends)

Submissions are available here!

Submissions close on July 7th @ 7 PM GST

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wanderlust-in-my-soul · 8 months

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Do you know any thai/korean/all BL dramas with sad ending?

Thai/Korean/All BL Dramas With Sad Endings

Okay, let me get started. BL in general is not really created for sad endings. It is a phantasy land where all kinds of dreams come true. And originally it adressed a specific audience. So, some of the dramas I am listing here are more queer media in general and not specifically BL. And some of those dramas have an open ending, that does not mean it is not a sad ending, and some might have a beautiful ending, which was kind of sad. There are so many ways of reading those endings.

Two of the shows I haven’t watched yet, but I know that those have sad endings… And please be aware, there will be spoilers after the read-more-dash.

Let’s get started!

Egoist – based on a true story, this Japanese movie is heartbreaking. It is a beautiful story about the love between two people and how they manage their life together until, yeah well, until fate f*ed everything up.

Eien No Kinou (Eternal Yesterday) – another Japanese title. From the start of this series, you just know that this won’t end well. It just can’t. And at the same time, it is so beautiful, you can’t stop watching it. So good!

History 3: Make Our Days Count – I guess people would come after me, if I don’t mention this Taiwanese bl. Yeah…I wasn’t that impacted by the ending, but most of the people who watched it were devastated. I understand why, so have fun 😊

Kissable lips – the first Korean one. This series wasn’t my cup of tea, but that wasn’t the question. For a sad ending, this is your series!

The Miracle of Teddy Bear – this is such a complex thai series as is the ending. Many didn’t watch it because of some weird elements of the series and the episodes are long, but BUT it is so worth a watch! The ending? I kind of liked it? But it was very bittersweet and considering the use of the Little Prince source it is really good...but sad... I am confused... still...

Dark Blue And Moonlight – a Taiwanese series…I wouldn’t recommend it. I can’t really remember the ending… I know it was bad sad.

180 Degree Longitude Passes Through Us – a thai masterpiece. I love this one so much and I analysed the sh*t out of it! It is so good and I was devastated in the end! Such a great storytelling and cinematography and story and the characters...perfection.

Dear Doctor, I’m Coming For Soul – this is a thai series, which got very little attention when it aired (I don’t know why, I really liked it) and the ending was just a sobbing fest for me. I mean I liked it and it was just logical, but I was very sad!

Don’t Say No – also a thai series and I don’t focus on the main couple… I couldn’t care less about them… but the side couple! Oh the heartbreak I felt and the betrayel!

He She It – To this day I still ask myself what I have watched here. All I know is, it is confusing and kind of sad…the whole story, not just the ending.

The Best Story – it is Thai and it is YinWar… so it is good. Nevertheless, it has a very bittersweet ending, and I didn’t feel good after finishing this miniseries. I was very sad!

Once Again – one of my favorite series of 2022. This Korean series deals with a lot of trauma. It has some supernatural element and is really really good! And I was sobbing for the whole f*cking last episode!

When The Waves Rise – in this Korean short film, it is all about the feeling you get from it. It left me devastated. I was really not doing well after finishing it. It touched a part of my soul and it left a sore spot there.

Your Name Engraved Herein – I haven’t seen this one, because I know it will break my heart and I am still not ready for that. It is a Taiwanese movie and I know that I will love it, but I also know that I will cry my little eyes out.

Grey Rainbow – haven‘t seen this one either. This is a Thai miniseries and it is said to have a very sad ending.

The Untamed – the king, the queen, the emperor of sadness. I love this 50 episodes long Chinese masterpiece of a series to death! It doesn’t have a bad ending imo and it is quite open, but the amount of tears I shed during watching this fantasy epos was not funny anymore. I was ugly crying for like 15 minutes straight at one point. And I felt empty after I finished it. I miss it so much! I wish I could watch it again with all the emotions I had during my first watch!

But yeah…this is my little list 😊

If anyone wants to add more dramas, please feel free to do so 💜

Anon, I hope I could help a little bit and this list is useful 🌼

#anon ask #josi answers #bl with sad endings #egoist #eien no kinou #history 3: modc #kissable lips #180 degree longitude passes through us #the miracle of teddy bear #once again #your name engraved herein #the untamed #thai bl #taiwanese bl #japanese bl #korean bl #bl drama #bl series #listing things

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chinesefaces · 2 years

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櫻井敦司

#asian #chinese #china #drama china #asia #kpop #art #aesthetic #the untamed #Japanese #japan #atsushi sakurai #jpop #singing #artists

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iguessitsjustme · 2 years

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Old Fashion Cupcake - Opening Song

I am ending my week of constant music analysis posts on a very short one, but a good one.

***Disclaimer! I am but a humble servant of our BL gods. I am not a musician. I have very minimal knowledge on music but I have a somewhat decent ear and a passion for well...I don’t know but something. Take everything I say with a grain of salt.

This is going to sound SO WEIRD, but the opening song for Old Fashion Cupcake reminds me of the opening song for Gilmore Girls, especially towards the end. So I was already primed to love this show based solely off of that. It made feel nostalgic for my college days, which is when I watched Gilmore Girls, not when it aired. But we don’t need to get into that.

Anyway, this opening might feel out of place especially at first because we went from such apathy to something so very upbeat and peppy. But it’s not the theme song’s goal to set the tone during the show, but rather for the show. This song carries us through five episodes of apathy and repetition and two characters learning to fall in love and learning to take risks and embrace the freedom they can give themselves. And this opening song sets the stage for the show to do just that. It’s a constant reminder at the beginning of each episode that there is hope for these two. It’s not a show about Nozue just giving up and embracing his mediocre life. It’s not a show about Togawa being stuck in an unrelenting, unrequited love and giving up on what could be. It’s a show about hope. It’s a show about seeing the positive in the ordinary things. It’s about embracing the happiness that you can allow yourself even if you think people might judge you for it. And every episode has a constant reminder of the show’s message at the very beginning.

We might be watching them struggle to find themselves, but we know they will learn and they will grow and that there is hope.

#old fashion cupcake #old fashion cupcake the series #old fashion cupcake bl #japanese bl #rae does music analysis #and that's it for my music analysis posts for now!#i hope you enjoyed this week of just random musical thoughts on my blog mixed in with everything else #if you did enjoy it and you just now are seeing these posts you are more than welcome to request an analysis #i just might not have the time to do it right away #my ask box and my dms are always open #even if you don't want to talk about music!#that's just what took over my brain #maybe one day whenever i rewatch the untamed i will do a musical analysis of that show #but that would be a huge undertaking #meant to post this yesterday but I was busy being on a plane and then being too tired to function #i do have one more analysis to do now based on a request and i will try my hardest to get to that this week but i make no promises

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minglana · 6 months

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what if i said fuck erasmus and went to china or taiwan instead🧍🏻

#with my nonexisting chinese language level #ok well not nonexisting. i know how to say laozhu and gongzi #(<-sounds just like otakus who think they know japanese from watching anime. well i know chinese from watching and reading the untamed)#ok this is a joke but fr. i just need to get the fuck out of hereeeeee i need a change #z xarre

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absolutebl · 2 years

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Hey! I have two questions to ask you if you don't mind! Sorry for pestering you with kinda stuff but you are real insightful and help me to sort out my own internal feelings on things!

Is it just me or do very, VERY few BL's ever manage to stick an engaging,solid ending?

Out of all the BL's I've watched, the only ones I can name that truly nailed the ending imo are:

- HIStory 3: Trapped (imo. I know the ambiguity isn't appealing to you.)

- Bad Buddy

- My Beautiful Man

- His (The Movie)

- Blueming (The series itself is rife with pacing issues to me, but I think it stuck the ending really good.)

- Gaya Sa Pelikula

Some can come close enough for me;

- Theory of Love (yeah, yeah, I hate Khai too but the ending was nice imo)

- ITSAY/IPYTM

- TMS1 (suffers a bit from the HDS's consistent struggle with pacing towards the latter end of all her work )

- Old Fashion Cupcake (so close!!!)

- Restart After Come Back Home

- Cherry Magic

Most BL's introduce nonsense conflicts towards the end of the series with the Epsiode 11 drama (shivers in 2gether). I can't stand it when the final conflict comes out of LITERALLY nowhere instead of having been a continued issue that is resolved towards the end (think Cherry Magic, Utsukushii Kare, Bad Buddy, etc.)

Going further, they never seem...satisfying for whatever reason and I can't pinpoint why that is. I'm not necessarily left wanting more but feel like what I was given was unsatisfactory. Think a more subtle version of the feeling of seeing Vee/Maek end up together in the En of Love version (or Khai/Third for you I guess).

I wonder looking at it now if my hatred for the seme/uke trope has spoilt so many couples for me that I find any ending where they get together as unsatisfactory (I love The Effect btw. Can you guess why lmao?). All the shows in my best list are either very low on Seme/uke dynamics or have a very soft seme archetype (Blueming) / very unique seme archetype (MBM).

God I should just get over this contempt of seme/uke fuckery. Its ruined so much for me (from WBL, to UWMA).

Know how? Also, is there any particular reason you see as for why BL's fail to stick the landing? Or am I making this up?

Second question is simple. Why do BL couples often become boring when they get together and are happy? Is it just that the chase is over? And if so, what can be done to keep such a story engaging if anything at all?

Now that I read this back, it definitely isn't two questions as much as a set of compound ones but eh, here goes nothing.

Is my unhinged ranting coherent at all?

Honestly you named a lot of ones that I dinged points specifically because I didn’t like their endings. Old Fashion Cupcake and Cherry Magic would probubly have been 10/10 for me if the characters had just kissed at the end. And I say this totally aware of Japanese cinematic traditions that dictated why they wouldn’t, I’m just grumpy.

To answer the second question first:

Why do BL couples often become boring when they get together and are happy? Is it just that the chase is over? And if so, what can be done to keep such a story engaging if anything at all?

Yes. This is the problem every romance series contends with. This is why most romances end with the couple getting together (sex, engagement, marriage), This is why I don’t like second seasons, they usually have to separate or break up the couple to give the story tension.

And now... your unhinged ranting!

It makes perfect sense, and I think you either

don't really like 3 act structure (did you watch a lot of anime growing up, per chance? maybe not so much (or really dislike) Disney stuff?) or,

more likely, you don't actually like romance.

Not the idea of romance, but the classic romance novel beats and pacing. The Taiwanese and Thai stuff in particular tends to stick to that consistently. (Hence the ep 11 crisis of doom, AKA the unnecessary break up.)

Korea has a western romance aesthetic but they often shoe-horn in 4 act structure, which is why we get that (to me) super weird disjointed thing in Kdramas where they break up the couple (or separate them with time/distance) in the last 1/3 of the final episode and the rush this odd reunion thing in the last 10 minutes. I find this maddening, but it does mean that their non-BL billed and early gay short stuff might appeal to you.

You don't mention it but Thousand Stars is probubly the most classically paced and executed romance novel in BL form that we have ever gotten. How’d you feel about that ending. I’d also be interested in your thoughts on Seven Days (of course) as that’s Japan’s version of the perfect love story.

I think you probubly like more experimental narratives and arthouse cinema styles. I’d encourage you to check out short form BL, especially those from Strongberry (Korea) on GaGa. Also Dark BL depending on your squick factor.

But honestly from what you said it seems like you’re a prime candidate for the following:

Moody Arthouse Smackdoodle

Your Name Engraved Herein (Taiwan 2020 Netflix) - this movie is fantastic but it is also seriously depressing, it’s a self acceptance journey, but if you wanna wallow in high quality acting and serious gay drama, this’ll do it. It’s nto a super sad ending, it’s not happy either.

Goodbye Mother AKA Thua Me Con D (Vietnam 2019 Netflix) - like YNEH this is a great movie but it deals openly with homophobia, bashing, family trauma and social acceptance.

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese AKA Kyuso wa Chizu no Yume wo Miru (Japan 2020) - obsession, cheating, breakup, reunion, then break up again, explicit, grey characters and grey concepts including morality.

Pornographer movie series - AKA The Novelist, Mood Indigo, Pornographer Playback (Japan 2018-2020) emotional manipulation, cheating, obsession, seduction, May/December (age gap AKA younger/older), kink, touch of necrophilia, explicit, complicated but ultimately... not sad.

Method (Korea 2017) - May/December, actor idol pairing, that should have been everything I wanted in life but it’s more about the actor cheating on his wife and their weird “artsy” relationship and frankly, I hated this. And I don’t say that lightly. The chemistry and acting can’t be faulted though and the story is... interesting.

His the series AKA I Didn’t Think I Would Fall In Love (Japan 2019) - boy goes to visit his absent father ends up kinda homeless on the beach gets adopted by local family falls in love with the boy working and living with them. Lots of long drawn out glances. Wistfully pretty.

Innocent (Taiwan 2021 GaGa) - mental health, childhood trauma, actually kinda sweet.

Does the Flower Bloom? (Japan 2018) - this is a May/December romance about an artist student and the house he inherits from his recently dead parents and all the people around him who are obsessed with him, including an older man.

Dark Blue and Moonlight (Taiwan 2017) - maybe? You like some of my least favorites, so this might be your thing. I sure as shit wasn’t mine but also it HAD ME HOOKED even though I didn’t want that. It’s the warped version of a CEO romance.

Also the “it’s a BL but I make no case for it” category:

Life: Love on the Line (Japan) - you would probubly NOT like the directer’s cut (which I prefer, of course) that ending is too saccharine, so go for the original.

Silhouette of Your Voce (Japan) You are one of the few people I think would really like this one.

Not Me (Thailand) - you don’t mention it but I assume you’ve seen it

Manner of Death (Thailand) - same

3 Will be Free (Thailand) - same, if not, watch this next

What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Japan) - there is not plot, so yeah, maybe that’ll work for ya?

Long Time No See (Korea) - SO GOOD, but edgy and twisted too

DNA Says Love You (Taiwan) - maybe. This one is... odd and oddly paced.

Joujou Pure Heart (Japan 2010)

Great Men Academy (Thailand)

Oh right and the bromance dirty half dozen:

Untamed

Word of Honor

The Guardian

Devil Judge

SCI Mysteries

All of these have ambiguous ends, and ambiguous (cough cough not gay) relationships.

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aliceisathome · 10 months

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Me, trying to convince my company that translating Priest's work into English (along with other Wuxia plus any other successful novels of BL dramas)...

#what's a BL? what's a wuxia?#asianlgbtqdramas #thai bl #korean bl #japanese bl #chinese bl #chinese bromance #Word of Honor #Danmei? never heard of it #Guardian #Legend of Fei #the untamed #gah!

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