#bl recomendations

[absolutebl]

Hi there!! I would love to ask for some BL recs, if you’d feel up to that? Would you happen to have any BLs to rec without love triangles, huge misunderstandings, or a break up or long time skip before the happy end? (I’m okay with a time skip if it happens in the first couple of episodes, but anything mid to late series isn’t really my jam, typically.)

I really enjoy a silly friend group or university setting and something that’s just fluffy and silly, I am beyond weak for mutual pining or mutual smittenness, but I’m also easily enticed by a bit more plot and higher heat or an obsessive seme. I also don’t mind the stepbrothers trope at all. My absolute comfort rewatches are We Are (that one being my number one by a wide margin), Our Dating Sim, I cannot reach you (I absolutely love a good best friends to lovers pairing), Bad Buddy and AePete in s1 of Love By Chance, but I also come back a Lot to the delicious yearning and toxic codependency the side dish in Kiseki: Dear to me have going on (made a bit of an outlier by the eminent time skip), really liked The Heart Killers and About Youth, and despite not being big on Reincarnation tropes really enjoyed Khemjira recently, if that helps any!!

Thank you so much if you do get around to cooking up a rec list for me, and ofc no worries if you don’t have the time and/or energy!! <3

Your BL sommelier reporting for duty!

Very Specific BL Recs

DISLIKES

love triangles

huge misunderstandings

break ups

time jump separation at end (ugh, WITH YOU)

Negatives are harder to track than positives, so I might mess up on some these but I'm sure the comments will let me know.

LIKES

silly friend group

university setting

fluffy

moot pining/smitten

more plot (biggest challenge)

higher heat

obsessive seme

stepbrothers trope (difficult when combined with other requirements)

friends to lovers

Comfort Rewatches: We Are, Our Dating Sim, I Cannot Reach You, Bad Buddy, AePete arc in Love By Chance, Kiseki: Dear to Me (sides)

Also liked: The Heart Killers, About Youth, Khemjira

Top Recommendations (10/10 & 9/10 rated)

Oxygen - avoids all negatives, hits 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9 (was, for a long time, one of my main comfort watches)

Fourever You (part 1 = 2 arcs) - avoids all negatives, hits 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

HIStory 2: Crossing the Line - avoids all negatives, hits 1, 2, 3, 4, 7

Semantic Error - avoids all negatives, hits 1, 2, 3, 4, 7

Seven Days - avoids all negatives, hits 1, 3, 4, 5, 9

Make a Wish - avoids all negatives, hits 1, 3, 4, 5, 6

Love is Science? (BL cut) - avoids all negatives, hits 3, 4, 6, 7, 9

My Magic Prophecy - avoids all negatives (I think), hits 1, 4, 5, 6, 7

My School President - avoids all negatives, hits 1, 3, 4, 7

Cherry Blossoms After Winter - avoids all negatives, hits 1, 2, 7, 8

Minato's Laundromat (season 1 only) - avoids all negatives, hits 1, 3, 4, 7

Sugar Dog Life - avoids all negatives, hits 1, 2-ish, 3, 9 (this puts us into the territory of some more obscure shows that you might not know about, this one is worth tracking down)

I Dithered A Bit

Your Sky - avoids most negatives, hits 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 (I adore this show)

Ball Boy Tactics - avoids most negatives, hits 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9 (highly recommended, one of my 2025 sleeper favorites)

Old Fashion Cupcake - avoids most negatives, hits 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 (a glorious beautiful mature BL)

Wandee Goodday - avoids most negatives, hits 1, 3, 4, 6, 9

Be Loved In House: I Do - avoids most negatives, hits 1, 3, 4, 6, 7

Love Tractor - avoids most negatives, hits 3, 4, 6, 7, 9

See Your Love - avoids most negatives, hits 4, 5, 6, 9

Love For Love's Sake - avoids most negatives, hits 1, 5, 7, 9 (but would we call this comforting?)

Takara-kun and Amagi-kun - avoids most negatives, hits 1, 3, 4, 7

Cosmetic Playlover - avoids most negatives, hits 3, 4, 7 (big comfort watch for me)

(The "most" means it kinda depends on how you personally define the tropes. Like "break up" for example: Old Fashion Cupcake might kinda qualify depending on your definition of the term.)

Avoids All Your Negatives (10/10 - 8/10 rated)

but not great on the positives

To My Star (Season 1 only)

Cherry Magic (Thai remake)

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

My Damn Business

See You After Quarantine?

Please, Yes

Sweet Mischief (short)

Our Dining Table

Hits Many Positives but Contains a Negative (9/10 & 8/10 rated)

Lovely Writer - misunderstanding/big lie

Secret Lover - breakup

Unknown - time skip

Revenged Love - time skip

Jun and Jun - triangle-ish

My Personal Weatherman - misunderstanding

Manner of Death - big lie

Star in My Mind - misunderstanding

Maybe, I just haven't rewatched in a while (8/10 rated)

Roommates of Poongduck 304

HIStory 2: Right or Wrong

All the Liquors

Destiny Seeker

Hidden Agenda

Kidnap

Love Mate

Meet You At the Blossom

Top Form

Can I Buy Your Love From A Vending Machine AKA Sono Koi, Jihanki de Kaemasu ka?

Living With Him

Why R U? Korea

Love Class

Love is Like a Poison AKA Doku Koi: Doku mo Sugireba Koi to Naru

Perfect 10 Liners (specifically the FaifaWine arc 3)

Memoir of Rati

Mr. Unlucky Can Only Kiss

My Tooth Your Love

HIStory 4: Close to You

You Make Me Dance

Methodology: sorted the spreadsheet by my favorites, then main trope, then title. Pulled main list from only 10/10 and 9/10 rated shows. Did a scan of the 8/10 just to see if anything perfectly qualified.

I'm not gonna source tract this one, it's too specific. So leave a comment or repost with thoughts if you want it amended or to get my attention at all.

[absolutebl]

Hello darling,

I've been out of the BL game because I spent the last four months focused on school(and a brief but intense relationship that has now ended). But! The semester is over and I am single again and I need my BL. So please, tell me of the shows that have aired since January. I don't mind if they haven't ended yet. To refresh your memory: I like D/s(which I doubt you've forgotten), consent(though I am occasionally willing to watch dark shows that lack consent as long as that lack of consent isn't romanticized and characters talk about how fucked up the relationship is, i.e. Love Syndrome III), HEA, and I prefer it if the shows aren't set in high school or college, but if they're really good I'm open to that. Also Thailand is my country preference, but I'm totally open to other countries as well.

Hearts and love! 😘

Hi sweetheart! Welcome back!

2025 Mid Year BL Update for YOUUUU!

Likes: D/s, consent, HEA, non-school setting, Thai BL

Eternal Butler

Taiwan Gaga

The story of a boy brat and his bodyguard/butler/robot falling in love. The android is very queer and kinda kinky and mostly in charge. This dynamic feels a little healthier and less like indentured servitude than the previous installment, but it’s still somewhat troubling in base concept. Nevertheless, casting a pro bodybuilder as the Data Dom certainly help me to rise above my scruples. BL made me do it. I'm a terribly shallow human. Ultimately, I pronounce this show oddly charming - if you can overlook the implications of "just a robot who can't say no."

ThamePo

GMMTV YouTube

The boyband idol romance I've been waiting for from Korea, only Thailand did it instead. Quintessentially Thai and very GMMTV with good production values, great chemistry, and a solid support cast. It also was a hung romance mostly driven by external conflict and a found family reunion trope so I didn’t mind (too much) when that romance thread felt secondary. I loved it (except, of course, the singing).

There is no edge to this, though. It's pure soft sweet Thai BL. Very feel good.

The Heart Killers

GMMTV YouTube

Jojo directs this action romcom about assassin brothers (Khao & Joong) meets tattoo artist ex-booster (First) and very flirty mechanic (Dunk) conmen. I dithered over how to rate this. It felt like an 8 show wearing a 9’s britches. There were dropped threads, forgotten characters, and unfinished plot lines even with a particularly long run time. And, for me, it doesn’t have significant rewatch potential.

But it was fun (when one applies no expectations or logic) and I enjoyed the wildly unhinged relationships and, weirdly, music. I mean nobody claimed that we needed Taming of the Shrew only with gay Thai hitmen, but we really needed it. And no one asked for Petruchio to be the gayest brat ever to strut his perfect skin and croptop across our screen, and yet we loved him for it. Sure it didn’t make sense, was utterly absurd, but it was terribly earnest and sexy about it.

In the end this goes hand-in-hand with all these other absurd crime pieces we’ve been getting since KinnPorsche, and frankly I like this one the best from Thailand so far.

See Your Love

Taiwan Viki & Gaga

A darling little show. I genuinely couldn’t have enjoyed it more. About a deaf care worker and his spoiled broken little prince. Taiwanese BL at its softest and best. Highly recommended.

Secret Relationships

Korea iQIYI

An entirely unhinged story about a very troubled office worker and the three men who are passionately in love with him. Two of whom are very warped and nasty about it. This is an unadulterated melodrama, and extreme in always including domestic violence, kidnapping for love, and some light stabbing. As ya do. It’s a wild ride, but enjoyable if you can see it as a soap (a la early Chinese BL). The visuals are excellent, the acting is fun if chewy, and the chemistry is good all round. It does end happy abut it's like Korea sanitized roughness for us to get there. Odd. But different.

Secrets Happened on the Litchi Island

China YouTube

Basically this was an interesting, beautifully atmospheric but plotless BL about a boy who falls in love with his older brother‘s best friend in an idyllic countryside jungle setting. The boy is quite femme and open about his identity but his lover is… not. This dynamic ads an element of queer authenticity that's often missing from all BL, let alone something from China! I don’t know what it actually wanted to be, but it felt like a BL had a love child with one of those weird Chinese relaxation farm propaganda channels. The kisses are great, the chemistry is lovely, and the setting stunning. It’s odd but charming in a very weird, very queer, way. I have to say, I quite enjoyed it. I think it's worth watch for what it is, rather than as BL, but I'm not sure it falls into your particular wheel house.

School but still good

Our Youth AKA Miseinen: Mijukuna Oretachi wa Bukiyo ni Shinkochu

Japan Gaga

Adapted from a Korean Webtoon I can see why this went to Japan, it's way too harsh for KBL. Essentially a story about two lonely boys from opposite sides of the track who fall madly in love in high school, despite the fact that one is neglected and the other physically abused. This has a rough premise (all the trigger warnings) BUT is an oddly lovely little show. Darker than is my personal preference but sublimely stylish, turns out sometimes that combo works for me (see The 8th Sense). The word that springs to mind is “refined.” I enjoyed the restful distancing feel of the beuatiful filming style, Japan's signature utter thirst, and some ostentatiously poetic dialogue. So edgy pretty.

At the other end of the spectrum...

Your Sky

Thai iQIYI

As pulps go this is right up there with my favorite if all time, My Ride, but for different less complex reasons. This is a relatively simple yet endearingly old school story of a fake relationship between a sunshine sweetie and an older reserved rich kid who slowly fall in love. Its soft gentle low stakes leans on everything I love best about Thai BL. It’s a warm fuzzy robe of a show that will not hurt you with some of the greenest flags I have ever seen in the genre.

Currently airing?

Of the current crop, the only one I am really intrigued by is Knock Out but it JUST started. If you want to join the chatter that might be the water cooler offering you'll enjoy the most.

However... there's more dumpster fire discourse here about:

My Stubborn, our current very high heat pulp offering, but I don't know where it's going and consent has been very, erm, absent although there is a strong DS FWB thing happening around that lack.

and

Top Form. Which is our other, slightly less high heat than Stubborn, but the acting is extremely on point. It's on the stalker obsession end of the spectrum.

and, of course Pit Babe Season 2 which is doing what it says on the tin.

Otherwis,e my last "weekly" was a big round-up of the current airing, since it's 3 weeks in one.

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Hope something works for ya!

And welcome back!

[absolutebl]

Hi, ABL!

Could you give me some show recommendations? I'm going into surgery next week and will be bedridden for a couple of weeks after that. Basically, I'll have a lot of time on my hands. What better way than to fill that time with QLs?

I like the dark Japanese stuff (Pornographer, The Shortest Distance is Round, Dangerous Drugs of Sex, etc.), high heat (Bed Friend, KinnPorsche, etc.), suspense/mystery/thriller (Manner of Death, 4 Minutes, Not Me etc.), and all the angst (I loved the angst in Unknown).

I mostly watch shows from Thailand, Japan, and Taiwan because I like their vibes (unless it's dead fish kissing, lol), but I'm open to try other countries as well.

Your expert guidance would be much appreciated.

Have an amazing day!

Best of luck with the surgery. But also, how fun to have some time to watch things!

Dark BL

(Like the Novelest et al)

The Dark Side of BL

@weekendatennuis​ asked:  Your BL curriculum breakdown today was *chef’s kiss* and the 10 cutest BLs was delightful but sometimes this littl

High Heat BL

(Like KinnPorsche)

HIGH HEAT BL

Hello! Do you have any recs for shows/movies with high heat? I've already seen tharntype and why r u. Anything else? I'll gladly take any ti

11 BLs with the BEST Chemistry

Top BLs with great chemistry? What a great ask!!! Reminder I define good chemistry as having 3 things: emotional resonance (AKA emotional em

10 BLs to Watch if You Loved KinnPorsche

It’s really hard for me to understand exactly why you liked a thing, anything, let alone a phenomena of pop culture. Also there is nothing e

BL with Suspense & Mystery Elements

(Like Manner of Death)

BL similar to (but not the same as) Manner of Death?

Hi, do you have any recommendations for a bl series similar to Manner of Death? Thanks a lot🫀 Honestly there really aren't any exactly like

High Angst BL

(Like Unknown)

Best Angsty BLs with Family Drama & Bad Home Lives, or Past Trauma

That still end happily. Requested by the incomparable @winterswhumpblr (Warning these all have tiggers in them mostly suicide, rape, and/or

Right in your damn wheelhouse:

Love your blog! Do you have any recs for people (me!) who liked: Tale of 1000 Stars, Unknown, Moonlight Chicken, Secret Crush on You, My Bea

Just for S&G here's:

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

You may want to go hunting anyway! Seven Days Seven Days: Monday-Thursday Seven Days: Friday-Sunday Japan 2015 Never doubt my ability t

Just to be on the safe side, some I'm gonna rec right away?

The Sign (heat + all the sub genres you coudl want)

Laws of Attraction (mystery, drama, ridiculousness)

The On1y One (ANGST!)

[absolutebl]

hihi!!

first off, merry christmas! <3

since the year is almost over, i wanted to ask a lil question: what are your favorite bl's from 2024? :)

I promise I will do a full round up at the end of the year, for now you can take a look at this one.

I Cannot Reach You AKA Kimi ni wa Todokanai

Hi!!! I'm a big fan of BLs, I really love all types, but I stopped watching and keeping up with the news ones around the summer of 2023. Do

happy happy seasons whatnot and all!

[absolutebl]

haii, i've been following you for a while now and you always on point about recommendations. so can i ask if you have a list for short bl that could be binge watch in a sitting?

because now i have an internship on top of my regular work and uni, and in order to escape from those, today i watched Love for Love's Sake all afternoon, and it was too good. i regretted that i didn't watch it sooner.

so, i just wanted to ask if you have a list for that bitter sweet, heartfelt, fun to watch and preferably have a happy ending ones, which are completed. please, i cant endure cliffhanger.

thank youu if choose to reply this ask.

have a good day.

10 Soft BL's to Binge In A Day

Recommendation for something to watch and complete on a off day? I am also off today. Something soft and full of love preferably.... (Since

For your bitter preference try any of the shorter ones off this list (aka anything not Thailand):

BL + GRITTY HIGH ANGST BUT STILL HEA

I have a somewhat specific recommendation request. I'm looking for angst or action or something that isn't a romcom (I love them but I'm ful

I never rec BLs that don't have HEA's unless explicitly asked.

Hope soem of these work for ya!

[absolutebl]

Hi, do you have any recommendations for a bl series similar to Manner of Death? Thanks a lot🫀

BL similar to (but not the same as) Manner of Death?

Honestly there really aren't any exactly like it. MoD is pretty unique, being more gay romantic suspense than it is BL. And using high heat and an excellent established pair with great chemistry to add to the story (rather that distract from it). 

Also you didn’t say what you liked about MoD. The suspense plot? The mature characters? The mystery elements? The action sequences? The doctor/mafia pairing (good boy/bad boy)? The high domesticity? The high heat? 

So I know stuff that hits some of the above but not others. Here you go, in no particular order... 

Tale of a Thousand Stars - Thailand, YT 

Why similar? Mature characters, complex story structure, few tropes, no trigger issues, queer friendly, great production. Spoiled rich boy gets heart transplant that changes his life, heads into mountains to teach at rural school, falls in love with park ranger. 

Not similar? More just a gay romance. No suspense elements. Low heat. 

3 Will Be Free - Thailand, YT 

Why similar? Queer AF crime thriller about three 20 somethings on the run after accidentally killing an assassin: a grifter, a nerdy mafia kid, and a stripper. They're chased by more assassins out for revenge. They all end up sleeping with each other in various ways (gay, bi, het) and all kinda end up together in a V too. All the characters are treated with complete integrity, including the assassins, and everyone is very queer, including the assassins. 

Why not similar? Not a BL, only HFN, not strictly gay. 

He’s Coming to Me - Thailand, YT 

Why Similar? It’s a mystery? Ghost is trying to figure out how he died and then who killed him. Ends up cohabitating with a boy who can see him and will help him figure it out. They fall in love. 

Not similar? Well this one is a paranormal romance. I think it has a clean better story structure. Much less suspenseful. Low heat. 

Not Me (Airing Now) - Thailand, YT 

Why similar? Full of plot, crime and punishment style, motorcycle gang of malcontents trying to take down the corrupt politician. Has suspense elements. 

Why not? Less mature characters. Good chemistry from an established pair, but not high heat. No real mystery element. Identical twins trope. 

Until We Meet Again - Thailand, YT 

Why similar? Mystery of interweaving past lives. Violence and suspense. Complicated plot (better executed tho). 

Why not? Red thread soulmates trope, very much BL setting and courting rituals, low heat, younger characters. 

Mr Cinderella - Vietnam, YT 

Why similar? Adult grown up characters in a bad boy + good doctor pairing. Great domesticity and physical contact, good kisses. Medium heat. 

Why not? Not much of a mystery. It’s V-BL so pour production values (by comparison). Not much plot and no suspense. Action scenes are weak. Much shorter series. 

HIStory 3: Trapped - Taiwan, Viki 

Why similar? This is probubly the most like what you are looking for. Cop is chasing a mafia boss because of a cold case they were both involved with many years ago. They end up on the same side trying to figure out who done it. Fall in love. Very good high heat. Meanwhile there is another pairing of nerd//hacker cop and mafia assassin. It’s GREAT. Long series for Taiwan, too. 

Why not? Main characters end up together but have an amorphous ending. Very much BL trappings. It’s Taiwan so expect it to be Taiwanese about everything. 

Long Time No See - Korea, Gaga 

Why similar? Mature characters, high heat, very suspenseful. Assassins on either side of a terf war fall in love not knowing they are on opposite sides. Or do they? Good fight sequences. 

Why not? Short series, both of them are bad boys. It’s more “can they kill their way free” than it is a mystery. 

If that pitch doesn’t sell you I don’t know what will. 

You Make Me Dance - Korea, Viki 

Why similar? Bad boy mafia type meets goodie two shoes. Loan shark goes to put the squeeze on a lonely college dancer, falls in love with him, moves in. 

Why not? This is a more classic BL. Also it’s Korea, so very short. Medium heat. 

BROMANCES 

The Devil Judge - Korea, Viki 

Why similar? All the crime thriller suspense you could want in a Judge Dredd dystopia. Lots of gay domesticity (of course, they not *actually* gay). 

Why not? It’s not BL at all. It’s also not a gay romance. Characters end up apart. 

S.C.I. Mystery - Hong Kong, grey or ? 

Why similar? Adult characters cohabitating, rough and tumble cop + nerdy academic profiler. Lost of suspense and mystery action. 

Why not? They married but the show pretends they are “cousins.” 

Update from the future...

BLs that have airs since Manner of Death that also might entertain in a similar way:

Triage

Dear Doctor I'm Coming for Your Soul

Laws of Attraction

The Eclipse

Ghost Host, Ghost House

KinnPorsche

Oh! My Sunshine Night (at the end)

Kiseki: Dear to Me

Never Let Me Go

Make a Wish

The Sign

Pit Babe

Many of these are absolutely hot messes, but at least they aren't boring.

(source) 

[absolutebl]

Hi! You mentioned that patpran did not manage to convey that they want to bone onscreen. Can you give ships with great sexual chemistry? I do not think i have seen this in any bl i watched. But then, most of the bl i watched are thai, pinoy and japanese. Thank you!

Ah yes, Taiwan.

You want Taiwan.

10 BLs in Which it's Clear BOTH Characters Wanna Bone

Okay so I have a high heat post here. However I'm thinking you also want ones that are ALSO actually decent shows to watch (no murder, mutilation, sad endings, etc...). And you asked for great sexual chemistry not necessarily that the chemistry be depicted or realized on screen. There's a few lower heat ones that also qualify under those circumstances. 

HIStory 2: Right or Wrong (Taiwan 2018 VIki) - people always sleep on this BL but you can't knock the chemistry, especially at the end. These two really want to get together. 

HIStory 2: Crossing the Line (Taiwan 2018 VIki) - the mutual nature of the crush is slow burn but there are early dream sequences and yeah, the actors are good. 

HIStory Obsession (Taiwan 2017 VIki) - short but still they manage to convey mutual attraction, in fact it could be argued this is the primary driver for the obsession. 

Be Loved In House: I Do (Taiwan 2021 Viki) - a slow burn but when they finally do get into the bedroom it's hot and sweet

Why R U? (Thailand 2020 Viki) - so the main couple (ZeeSaint) I would probubly put forward as Thailand's best for this specific niche. The cool thing about this series is that Fighter’s crazy physical need for Tutor is a problem for him as part of the plot, so it has to get addressed and dealt with. He’s almost angry with Tutor about how gay the desire makes him. (Really he’s angry at himself and scared of his father, but...) Zee does a great job portraying this conflict, even with a bonkers plot. Also they’re verse. All this is very rare in BL. 

TharnType (Thailand 2019-2020 VIki) - I have my issues with how they get together but then?... yeah.

(Apparently Viki cornered this market while we weren’t looking.)  

The Mafia Trifecta of Ooooooo 

Apparently, bad boys make good lovers. 

HIStory 3: Trapped (Taiwan 2019 Viki) - cop chases mafia boss, cop falls for mafia boss, hijinks and great sex ensue, also manages to be endearingly domestic. Second couple is good too. Not unhappy but not satisfying ending.

Manner of Death (Thailand 2021 WeTv direct) - MaxTul always turn in great high heat but this is by far their best work. It's not strictly BL linguistically and considering age of protags etc, it’s gay romantic suspense, but it is a fun show especially if you also like crime thrillers. And it’s HEA. 

Long Time No See (Korea 2017 GaGa from Strongberry) - hitmen who are on opposing sides of a turf war and fall in love with each other. It's great.

The Exception

HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count (2019 Taiwan Viki) - both couples are high heat and both couples are great at it and portraying real physical desire, it takes the main couple longer to get there, tho. Warning, DO NOT WATCH THE FINAL EPISODE. Watch up until the leads move in together. Then STOP. You can thank me later.

There is a reason I call this show: HIStory 3: The BL That Shall Not Be Named 

I have a full assessment of the whole HIStory franchise here. 

Microfilms out of Taiwan & Korea can hit this out of the park:

I highly recommend Korean BLs Just Friends? and Some More (Strongberry) both on GaGa. 

There are a bunch of others out of Taiwan too like Innocent but these often contain triggers and/or sad endings. Also mostly on GaGa. 

I feel like there are some pretty good one-sided examples too. Like Sib in Lovely Writer absolutely wants to bone Gene. But this post is getting long.

2022 Additions

NueaToh in Secret Crush on You

All 3 pairs in Cutie Pie

Both couples in Love in the Air 

PluemKawin in Ghost Host, Ghost House. 

Look at the lust for those legs, Pluem wants them wrapped around him SO BAD. To be fair, Kawin does have lovely legs.

Dated middle of 2022. Not responsible for pairs that cum after... ba dum 

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[absolutebl]

What's good on iQiyi? Now that KP is done I'm ditching the subscription but also watched Blueming and Gen Y. It doesn't have to be BL, I'll even take a noona romance. Bad and crazy is also on my list

What’s good on iQIYI? 

So you names the heavy hitters: KinnPorsche and (more important to me) Blueming. 

I haven't watched a ton on this platform, but here's a few:

You don't name it so ABSOLUTELY watch Dear Doctor, I'm Coming for Your Soul. I like this BL A LOT and this is the only place to find it. Review here.

Until We Meet Again - if you don’t want to watch it elsewhere. This is my favorite Thai BL of all time. (It’s also on YouTube and Viki.) 

Love By Chance - if you don’t want to watch it elsewhere. I consider this mandatory BL viewing. Everyone should see it. (It’s also on YouTube and Viki.) 

En of Love - perhaps less mandatory but still decent, especially the YinWar Ep. The first big example of Thailand’s “sampler pack” style BL. 

7 Project, I don’t really like any of these all that much, but if you really like some of the pairs it might be worth watching. SantaEarths is okay, the GL one is cute but has a terrible ending, BounPrem’s is rough going, BoomPeak’s has no kissing (this is my shocked face) but was the best of the lot. I didn’t watch the het ones. 

Even Sun (airing) if you like BounPrem, but I'm not into it. 

Check Out (airing) if you like high heat, but I'm not into it. (That said if you like the main pair they also have their first BL Skinship on this platform. That’s a long form advert, like Ingredients, tho.) 

NOT BL

My Dear Guardian - yet another take on Decedents of the Sun (I love a soldier/healer pairing)

Sweet Teeth - honestly I have no idea why I liked this one, but I did.

She Would Never Know - Noona but not my favorite, also I think Netflix has it now. Only worth watching if you, like me, are a Rowoon completest.

Romantic Blue - If you want to see Ohm act without Fluke. 

Ones I have on My List, but haven't watched yet

Bad & Crazy - it's so hard to find and so many people talked about it when I aired I feel like I should watch it.

Ten Years Late 

See You Tomorrow

Romantic Blues

Love Scenery

I am decidedly not a connoisseur of cdramas (I rarely watch their historicals because HOLY 50 eps batman!) so maybe others can weigh in with the important ones to watch on this platform. That’s where iQIYI’s strength lies... if you can call it that. 

Also remember, I’m USA based, so we might not have access to the same content. 

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