Tag Game: 10 Scenes I will never forget (BL from China, Japan, Korea & Taiwan)
Rules: Share five (5) ten (10) scenes you can't forget. Not your favorites, the ones that got stuck in your brain for any reason.
I took that "not your favorite" line seriously.
1. Sleeves in Gay (Chinese Bromance)
Untamed was the first instance I remember but I have a screen shot from Word of Honor. Look we all get it, China. But the DISCOURSE we had over this whole thing around China, BL, and sleeves kinda cemented my relationship with BL on tumblr.
I guess you had to be here. But A TIME was had on this hellsite and we have all been Paying Attention to sleeves ever since.
2. Opening meet cute Seven Days
THE STAGING. My first incidenct of a BL outright DOING manga RIGHT just on our screens for us. The perspective, the framing, the body positions... everything was perfection.
3. Into the trash bag Kieta Hatsukoi
4. Blueming's how to film a gay sex scene in Korea... an education
I don't like that they felt they had to do it this way, but I like that the strictures and confines pulled out a kind of shadow puppet art and the coloring was remarkable. Speaking of...
5. Color Rush's musical montage date
I liked the sound track for this show (rare for me) and I loved the atmospheric underwater feeling of this sequence plus the musical score.
There are others from this show like the rain hung, the crystal rainbow, and the rainbow fan of color wheel, but I had to pick.
6 The double down "crash into to me" trope used to emphasize the love triangle in Light On Me
Korea is just so CLEVER with their trope deployment. Watching them juggle multiple back-and-forths damn near perfectly to emphasize the love triangle and manipulate our emotions was brilliant. I still don't love a love triangle, but I appreciate the art of this one so much I gave it a 10/10.
7 "Have you been well, without me?" Our Dating Sim
Possibly one of the greatest lines ever delivered in a reunion romance.
8 Air gun to the heart in We Best Love
I could pick so many from this show but many of them would qualify as favorites. But this moment and the way you can see the invisible shot hit, because, well, Sam is just that good. It's just perfect tsundere meets pining seme acting.
9 Kiss through the net (ICONIC) in HIStory 2 Crossing the Line
Just amazing, perfect, beautifully shot, sports romance at its finest.
10 These goobers in Love is Science
Others I seriously considered but eliminated because they ARE favorites
Takara falling into the wall
My Personal Weatherman drunk boyfriend lap cuddles
Just Friends kissing in public in uniform
The ending running confession sequence in My Beautiful Man (I will never forget it because this one broke me, in real time)
Love Class 2 the boxers sequence
Jun & Jun the little whimper before he gives up and the kiss, also squishy cheeks
Love for Love's Sake gay punching, also "who hit you," also the magic kiss, also....
Light on Me - the confession, the hand hold at school, Namgong in the cape with flowers
The blood covered kiss in Long Time No See
Our Dating Sim's stealth kiss giggle
Cats/dogs, dark meat/light meat chicken, bisexual awakening in Oh My Assistant.
"To soft" in History 3 Trapped
Peaking over the divider in Semantic Error, also seme subscription service, ending fairy, yaja time, the LETTUCE line, also...
The backpack drop in Why R U? Korea.
The nod to the bed in See Your Love
Dishonorable mention for the dirty minds in the corner
Minato's Laundromat - the sheet scene
My Personal Weatherman - the shirt scene (similarly My Day and the belt)
Old Fashion Cupcake - the finger bite
First Love Story - Pervert
The lap sit tie grab in Kiseki Dear to Me
Love is Science in the closet makeout scene
Should I do a whole second one for Thailand?
I don't tag but if you want to play you absolutely should!