On his wedding day to Mizuki, Ryosuke said to him, “I haven’t told my parents yet I’m marrying a man.”
Boku mo Aitsu mo Shinro desu 僕もアイツも新郎です。 (translated as He and I are Both Grooms) is a new 1-hour special Japanese BL comedy that will premiere at midnight of March 13, 2022, or more specifically the early hour of March 14, 2022 in Japan.
The Iron Four 我和我的鋼四壁 is a new 40-episode Taiwanese series that will premiere tonight, February 28, 2022, in Taiwan. This is a proper bromance drama series about the lives of 4 friends who open a interior design studio together, not to be confused with the type of “bromance” series from China. Although this is not a BL series, you will recognise 2 familiar faces from the HIStory BL series, Wayne Song 宋偉恩 and Charles Tu 涂善存.
Three songs from the OST have just been released earlier today…
With so many BL series going on at the moment, I’ve not been able to keep up with the pace and have neglected some series that went on air late last year and beginning of this year. It is also difficult to keep up with their soundtracks, so here are the OSTs from 5 Thai BL series that are currently on air which I must admit I have not watched any of them yet. However of the five series, it seems Not Me and Cutie Pie are the two series that are getting good reviews.
(more…)Not only are there plenty of new Thai BL series appearing in the first few weeks of 2022, there are also a plethora of new Korean BL series premiering in the past couple of weeks or before the end of February. I can’t keep up and have given up trying to watch them for the moment as I have other better shows to watch currently. So I thought I would just keep a record of these new shows with their OSTs here so if I ran out of shows to watch in the future, I don’t have to try to remember the names of these shows or search for them. One series that premiered on February 11, 2022 is First Love Again 첫사랑만세번째 but I can’t seem to find any songs from that series for the moment, so I will add the OST here when and if it is available. Next week Oh! Boarding House 하숙집 오!번지 and Cherry Blossoms After Winter 겨울 지나 벚꽃 are set to premiere on February 22, 2022 and February 24, 2022 respectively and I will do the same here when their OSTs are released.
(more…)Pâtissier et Mademoiselle パティシエさんとお嬢さん (Pâtissier-san to Ojou-san or translated into English as The Pastry Chef and the Young Lady) is a new 4-episode Japanese series which premiered on January 18, 2022 and it will be followed by a film version in May, 2022. It is based on the manga of the same name by 銀泥 or Gindoro ぎんどろ. I have watched the first two episodes and it is a very simple and cute story, but to me the biggest attraction is all the mouth-watering cakes and sweets shown in the series, LOL… A nice and relaxing series to watch for the Lunar New Year…
In Your Heart 在你心之所向的地方 is a new 8-episode Chinese BL series that will première on February 11, 2022. If you have heard or watched the low-budget Chinese BL series from 2020, Capture Lover 冰糖陷阱, you would not be surprised that this new series is from the same production company. Therefore China does make proper BL series, but only for international audience by streaming them through Taiwanese and international streaming platforms, GagaOOLala and ViKi. Hence their social media posts are sometimes written in Traditional Chinese font which is the official font used in Taiwan… However looking at the various streaming platforms this time around for this new series, WeTV is no longer one of the streaming platforms as it is the international branch of the big Chinese streaming platform Tencent, instead Taiwanese streaming platform, KKTV, is now one of the streaming platforms. So make of it what you will knowing the sad state of anything BL-related stuff in China currently.
My Ride รักนาย (Thai title is Love You) is a new Thai BL series that premiered last night, January 27, 2022. There are so many Thai BL series coming out in the early part of this year I really can’t keep track of… However this is one series that looks interesting in storyline but I’ll have to wait a bit before starting to watch it. At the moment, my watching list is already so full with Korean series Snowdrop (So GOOD, a spy thriller with a romantic plot that will keep you on the edge of your seat), Japanese series Kei × Yaku (interesting development in episode 2 with the revelation that Shiro is bisexual) & the long titled Ikemen series (comedy with depth), and finally the one Thai series that I’m actually enjoying, Paint with Love. Then also on my to-watch list is the upcoming Taiwanese series 49 Days with a Merman which is coming in early February. So most new Thai series will have to take a back seat in the next few weeks since many Thai series have proven to be quite disappointing recently…
What If There Were a High School for Ikemen Only もしも、イケメンだけの高校があったら (Moshimo, Ikemen Dake no Koukou ga Attara) is a new 10-episode Japanese series that premiered on January 15, 2022. Handsomeness contest for high school boys? Sounds ridiculous? I watched out of curiosity, thinking it might be a silly comedy, but to my surprise it has substantial plotline! Another series added to my watch list…
Currently following Shui Qian Cheng 水千丞’s latest 188 novel, Alpha Predator 頂級掠食者, and Yan Mingxiu 晏明修 from Professional Body Double 職業替身 has already made a guest appearance in the early chapters and immediately declared he is a married man… I remember reading somewhere someone mentioned that these 188 bastards always appeared as the perfect husbands when they are in someone else’s novels, nobody would have guessed the awful things they did in their own novel. So true, LOL… Anyway I suddenly realised I haven’t checked if there was an audio drama for Professional Body Double and theme songs from it. Well of course there was and two seasons of it…
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My Best Friend’s Breakfast 我吃了那男孩一整年的早餐 is an upcoming Taiwanese romantic movie premiering on January 28, 2022 for the Lunar New Year slot. It is based on a true story mentioned on Taiwanese social networking platform, Dcard 狄卡, in 2015 and then written into a novel in 2016 by novelist Ikumisa (尾巴Misa) which became very popular. This movie will be Taiwanese singer Eric Chou 周興哲’s first starring role in a film. Without any surprise, he will be in charge of the music for the movie.
Corner Café 