The Summer Temple Fair 神之鄉 is a new 10-episode Taiwanese TV series that began airing on July 10, 2021. The television series is based on the Taiwanese manhua/manga of the same name by Zuo Hsuan 左萱. It tells the story of a university student, Hsia Chih-Hsun 夏志薰, who has to return to his hometown of Daxi, after 7 years, to do a summer research project on the religious practices among the indigenous community in Daxi District 大溪區, a district in eastern Taoyuan City 桃園市, Taiwan. There are 7 songs written especially for the TV series, and they are all available now online to listen to. Below are a selection of 3 MVs from the OST plus links to the other songs.
(more…)July 11, 2021
July 10, 2021
【OST】10 Songs from Thai BL Dramas by Boy Sompob
Came across this yesterday. It is an audio playlist of 10 OST songs from Thai BL dramas sung by Boy Sompob. They include songs from one of my favourite BL dramas, Until We Meet Again, and other popular dramas like Love by Chance, Lovesick, Water Boyy and another series I have not heard of, The Effect. I only started to listen to Thai songs just last year because of Thai BL dramas, and these are some of my favourites, so here they are, enjoy…
(more…)July 9, 2021
Light on Me 새빛남고 학생회 (Korean Webdrama OST)
Light on Me is a new 16-episode South Korean BL series that premiered on June 29, 2021. The drama is based on a BL visual novel developed by Day7 for mobile called Saebit Boys Student Association, where players role-play as the protagonist and they can pick and develop a romantic relationship with various attractive boys in school whom they love the most. That’s hilarious! Does that mean only boys can play this game since it is BL? Will the web police check who’s playing the game? OK, be serious… Hmmm, now where was I? Oh, the OST, the first song from the drama has just been released…
(more…)July 8, 2021
The Yearbook หนังสือรุ่น (Thai Series OST)
The Yearbook is another new Thai BL series that will premiere on July 15, 2021 with a total of 10 episodes. There are so many BL series this year it is hard to keep up with, LOL… And I have to pick and choose interesting ones to watch… This one does look interesting as it is set in the early 2000 (watch out for Bananas in Pyjamas references), and it is based on a short film school project by Mean Phiravich, an actor who is well known to BL series watchers. He played the role of Tin in both series of the Love by Chance franchise, and also the role of Alex in Until We Meet Again. Mean also directed this new series. The first song has already been uploaded to YouTube, so here it is…
(more…)July 2, 2021
Ossan’s Love HK (Hong Kong Series OST) 港版《大叔的愛》電視劇主題曲
Dai Suk’s Love is the first BL series from Hong Kong, a remake of the Japanese one-off episode from 2016, and also a 7-episode series from 2018, Ossan’s Love 大叔的愛. The series premiered on June 28, 2021 with 15 episodes in total. According to reports, the first episode broke the record as the most watched episode ever on ViuTV streaming platform. I have yet to watch this remake series but reviewers have been quite positve as it is quite faithful to the original Japanese version, which I did enjoy watching. Below is the main theme song from Dai Suk’s Love.
(more…)June 29, 2021
Call It What You Want 2 จะรักก็รักเหอะ2 (Thai Series OST)
OK, I must admit I gave up on watching season 1 of Call It What You Want 戀愛無名氏 after 3 episodes due to the plot being told so slowly it sent me to sleep, LOL… I know they have good intention of showing us what happens behind the scenes of the BL industry, but like many BL shows, the plots are usually simple yet they told it in such a way that it drags along without anything much happening for most of the time, just a lot of fan-service scenes. So you might be asking, why am I bothering with the upcoming Season 2 now? Well, it is because of the OST!
(more…)June 27, 2021
House of the Dark Shadows / Always เรือนร่มงิ้ว 孽宅 (Thai Series OST)
Hmm, this is a conundrum, not sure how to translate the name of this Thai drama… Anyway, the drama is เรือนร่มงิ้ว and basically everyone online just called it Reuan Rom Ngiw in English, which doesn’t make any sense for us international viewers. In Chinese the title has been translated as either 孽宅, meaning Evil House, or 同舟共基, meaning Gay Together in the Same Boat, LOL… Who thought up this translation! After some searches, I think the drama is based on a novel written by ภาคินัย, and the novel has an English name, Always, so I am using this as the English title of this drama here. If I got it totally wrong, please let me know!
Update July 3, 2021: Came across this news article in English which gave the English title for Reuan Rom Ngiw as House of the Dark Shadows, so I will add this name to the title.
(more…)June 26, 2021
Plat du Tour 2 (2021)
Season 2 of Plat du Tour starts tonight, June 26, 2021 on SBS.
(more…)June 25, 2021
Golden Blood รักมันมหาศาล (Thai Series OST)
Golden Blood is a new BL series from Thailand that premiered on June 23, 2021. This is a bodyguard/gangsters story which thankfully is moving away from the omnipresent Thai BL series set inside universities. The proper OST is not available yet, but they have released 2 songs sung by the two lead actors.
June 24, 2021
Hometown’s Embrace อ้อมกอดบ้านเกิด (Thai Series OST)
Stumbled onto this new 8-episode BL series from Thailand called Hometown’s Embrace. I have not heard of this series until it popped up as a YouTube recommendation. It looks like it is a web series, as I have not seen or heard any promotion for it? Episode 1 is now available to watch on YouTube, and it looks interesting with the story set in the countryside of Isan, northeast Thailand. Thus the setting has that same feeling of the rural areas of Thailand in 1000 Stars which is refreshing from all the university BL settings. I also like the theme song, so here it is…
Corner Café 