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September 2022 BL Line Up
9/11 Fahlanruk (Thai)
GaGa Sundays, 10 eps, 45 min ea.
Fahlan (smart jock) meets Sherbet (edgy bad boy) sparks fly and they end up in bed together. Fahlan feels a lot more for Sherbet than is allowed, so he hides his feelings. Fahlan’s friends Ping and Tap, try to help their boy win his man, but are struggling with friends-to-lovers woes of their own. Looks to be a strong contender in the Thai BL pulp dumpster fire of joy arena. It’s using tropes we rarely see and it tonally seems like a combination of Nitiman + Y-Destiny’s players episode (2 of my 2021 favorites). I like sexually messy and identity confused college dramas but Love Mechanics might have tapped me out.
Y-novel adaptation featuring a pining seme and high heat, from director Koo who has a long back catalogue of shows, if not a great track record with BL (Club Friday and Tonhon Chonlatee are his).
9/14 Once Again (Korea)
Viki Thursdays, 8 eps, 25 min ea
Time-slip fantasy BL from Moving Picture studio & Idol Romance behind Wish You, Ryu's Wedding, Tasty Florida, Tinted With You, and Kissable Lips (also forthcoming Happy Ending Outside The Fence and The Circumstances of Pungdeok Villa Room 304). Stars actors (no idols) Moon Ji Young (also star in an upcoming BL The New Employee), Lee Hyuk Jun, and Kang Woo Jung.
JaeWoo lives with childhood trauma. He travels to the past where he meets JiHoon, a law student who JaeWoo admires most in the world. Will he be able to change both their fates?
9/16: More Than Words (Japan)
Amazon Prime Video JP (only?)
Adaptation of Etsuko’s two mangas In The Apartment and More Than Words, starring Ryōko Fujino (Fujoshi, Ukkari Gei ni Kokuru), Yuzu Aoki (Kakafukaka), Daisuke Nakagawa (Colorful Love), and Daiki Kanechika (EXIT).
Told from the perspective of the female best friend who is against (?) the workplace gay relationship of her bff. Also there is another gay plot line.
9/22: My Tempo (Thailand)
Unknown distribution.
BL movie about the Thai music industry. What joy is mine.
9/26 Ai Long Nhai (Thai)
No international distribution as yet, 10 eps 45 min ea.
About a man expelled from foreign university who returns to a Thai university in disgrace and meets A Boy.
From Thailand’s Mflow Entertainment for Ch3Thailand. Adapted from a Y-novel, directed by Nob (La Cuisine, Gen Y). Secondary couple Nan & Sippakorn are IRL husbands Arm & Porsch (Together with Me). Familiar faces include Gun (Love Area’s Valen) and Jom (Nitiman’s Jin).
This is actually the inception story of the characters of AiNi in Tonhon Chonlatee which I didn’t realize. Now I loved those characters, but I disliked that series from a story standpoint and this is the same author so I’m now nervous.
Comfort the Boy AKA A Shoulder to Cry On (Korea)
No international distribution as yet, 12 eps 20 min ea (?)
Looks to be a longer than usual KBL, got an R15+ rating for topic & vulgarity (we likey), stars idols Jaehan & Yechan BOTH from Kpop group OMEGA X (we scairedy). Interesting that an idol company is allowing two idols from the same group star in a BL together. *danger will robinson.”
Adaptation of Dongmul's manwha A Shoulder to Cry On, high school set, features a teasing confident gay, and a rich/poor pairing, about homophobia/gossip putting a scholarship in jeopardy.
SELF the series (Thai)
No international distribution as yet, no known length.
From Studio Common about a young artist who mysteriously loses his reflection and sees a strange boy in the mirror instead. Stars fresh faces, directed by Too (Triage) and NutSor (screenwriter of Dew).
Happy Ending Outside the Fence (Korea )
No international distribution as yet, probably usual KBL length.
JungWoo is a writer who disappeared after being treated unfairly in the publishing industry. TaeYoung, the head of a publishing company, admires and wants him to write again. JungHyun became a star by borrowing JungWoo's writings. The three characters interact and drama results. Stars idol Leo of VIXX.
Magic of Zero: Zero Supporter (Thai)
GMMTV feat advertisement specail (c 45 min) on their YT channel
Cupid's Last Wish spin off, features EarthMix in another bodyswap on this time with each other (KornWin). I disliked the origin show intensely, so I can’t see myself watching this.
MPD (missing presumed dead):
Ghost Host, Ghost House. Thai PNR pulp BL was billed as dropping in August.
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Information dated beginning of September 2022. If you have updates, leave a comment share the love.
Someday, Korn is going to learn that keeping secrets from Win just pisses him off. But apparently that day is not today. Or ever, probably.
But also, honestly, I absolutely understand Win's fears this time around. Like, it made sense. And Korn's relationship with Phat is close and his keeping secrets doesn't help and his disregard for Win's exhaustion...
Like, yes, he was doing it for a surprise for him. But maybe when someone starts to freak out about what you're doing you can stop trying to surprise him when he's obviously uncomfortable and unhappy instead of clinging to the secret.
Yeah, this is the problem with surprises sometimes. A surprise is only as good as the person getting it and if they're upset and mad and don't want anything to do with you before the surprise then the surprise is meaningless.
Yeah, but calling him fat was the worst way to tell him you wanted him to eat healthy, Korn. Seriously?
i really loved how well earthmix managed to pull off acting like each other's characters and how kornwin understood each other's problems after swapping bodies. i don't even need to talk about em's chemistry, it was overflowing through the screen ❤
Zero Supporter reminded me that Chef Phat needs his own spin-off.
Look at that face! It was made for love.
Gonna watch my two babies and my favorite couple later 🤭
I was so excited this morning when I saw that KornWin's Magic of Zero episode was out. I genuinely loooved Cupid's Last Wish and so I was so happy to see their special. Both KornWin and InkPa's special episodes were so nice in their own ways. ❤
Honestly, they're pretty good at acting like each other. The body language is quite good. But that doesn't make either of them more likeable, tbh. But like this conflict is so pointless. Really? They still haven't learned how to communicate on any level whatsoever? Literally no communication at all?! NONE.
But also it's interesting how all the issues Win has to solve are about things from outside their family while Korn's issues involve taking care of the house and himself aka Win.
Like... it's even more frustrating in a lot of ways because it shows that Korn's issues don't have to do with Win while Win's issues do have to do with Korn. Because it's about the home they share and the life they're leading.
