BL Tasting Menu
Your Favorite Thai BL Couples = What to Watch Next?
So I’ve chosen some popular acting pairs/brands that, due to their promo behaviors and roles, represent certain BL styles. Then I tried to understand the appeal of that style and recommend shows based on it.
WinTops PeteKao
If you like: Jeff & Gameplay (If, Ingredients, KinnPorsche) or Tay & New (Kiss Me Again, Dark Blue Kiss)
You’re probably looking for soft bois with high domesticity and a weak seme/uke dynamic.
You should try: KOREAN BL
Specifically: Wish You, To My Star, Just Friends?, You Make Me Dance, Step for You, Faded, Tasty Florida, A First Love Story (also Pinoy BLs Like in the Movies & Gameboys, Taiwanese BL See You After Quarantine? and Vietnamese BL Nation’s Brother)
KornKnock TanBun TharnType
If you like: Max & Tul (Together with Me, Manner of Death) or Mew & Gulf (TharnType)
You’re probably looking for muscle men with higher heat levels and matched physical intensity.
You should try: TAIWANESE BL
Specifically: HIStory: Obsessed, HIStory 2, HIStory 3: Trapped, HIStory 4, Be Loved In House: I Do (also Pinoy BL My Day, Korean BL Long Time No See, Chinese BL Addicted Heroin)
DeanPharm ChiefTian
If you like: Ohm & Fluke (Until We Meet Again, Close Friend), Earth & Mix (1000 Stars)
You’re probably looking for a strong seme/uke dynamic but with a caring protective seme where the heat levels serve the emotional dynamics.
You should try: JAPANESE YAOI ADAPTED BL
Specifically: Takumi-kun, Seven Days, Cherry Magic, Candy & Kiss, Love Stage!, Given (also Korean BLs Color Rush & Mr Heart and Taiwanese BL We Best Love)
KongArthit WatTine PickRome
If you like: Bright & Win (2gether), Singto & Krist (SOTUS), Off & Gun (Puppy Honey, Theory of Love)
You’re probably looking for a cat-and-mouse take on seme/uke with low heat and high comedic value.
You should try: more university-set THAI BL
Specifically: 2 Moons 2, My Engineer, The En of Love, Gen Y the series, Nitiman, Fish Upon the Sky, Tonhon Chonlatee, Golden Blood (also Vietnamese BL You Are Ma Boy)
TehOh SibGene
If you like: Billkin & PP (I Told Sunset About You) or Kao & Up (Lovely Writer)
You’re probably looking for high acting chops, complex and nuanced emotion, beautiful cinematography, social commentary, and something a bit more honestly gay than most BL.
You should try: JAPANESE CINEMATIC BL
Specifically: Restart After Come Back Home, His the movie, Life: Love on the Line, Silhouette of Your Voice, Does the Flower Bloom?, Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese (also Taiwanese movie Your Name Engraved Herein)
PhunNoh TeeFuse TeeMork
If You Like: White & Captain (Love Sick) or Boom & Peak (Make It Right, You Never Eat Alone) or Frank & Dake (My Tee, 2gether)
You’re probably looking for low heat high angst coming of age BL with a middle weight seme/uke that partly involves questioning and determining that dynamic plus a self-discovery coming-out arc
You should try: THAI BL PULPS
Specifically: Second Chance, Friend Forever, Brothers, My Gear and Your Gown, So Much In Love, Top Secret Together, The Yearbook (also Korean BL Light on Me and Vietnamese BLs Stupid Boys Stupid Love and You Are My Sunshine)
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