I am Married… But! 童話故事下集 is a 12-episode Taiwanese series which premiered on February 14, 2025. The Chinese title actually translated as Fairy Tales Part Two, and if you are wondering where is Part One, well there isn’t one in terms of the drama series! Part One is basically all the fairy tales with happy endings that we are familiar with, so this drama is just fictionally depicting what happened after the fairy tales…
Heart Stain 하트 스테인 is an 8-episode Korean BL series that premiered on February 6, 2025. It is adapted from the popular manhwa of the same name by AG.
Exclusive Love 獨佔接班人 is a 12-episode Taiwanese BL series which premiered as a special screening in theatre with its first two episodes on January 17, 2025 in Taiwan and it will start streaming on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2025.
FC Soldout is an 8-episode Korean BL series which premiered on January 17, 2025.
These are the Top 100 most streamed Mandopop and Taiwanese songs of 2024 in Taiwan according to Taiwanese KKBox streaming platform. These are songs released onto the KKBox platform for streaming from December 2023 to December 2024, but the number of streams are calculated from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. Keep in mind that since the calculation is based on accumulation of plays, songs released earlier in the year were streamed for more months than songs released at the end of the year. The year and month date shown below the title of each song is the month the particular song was released onto KKBox.
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Silent Sparks 愛作歹 is a Taiwanese LGBTQ+ telemovie first aired in Taiwan on December 29, 2024, but premiered months earlier at the 2024 Taipei Film Festival 台北電影節 on June 24, 2024. The film has also been selected for the Panorama Series to screen at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival which runs from February 13 to 23, 2025.
Yay… They are back~ Our precious MaoMao and her handsome bug Jinshi are back to solve more mysteries in the palace and there will be more new supporting characters being introduced. Yes, season 2 of The Apothecary Diaries premiered on January 10, 2025 with another 24 episodes released weekly starting with episode 25 (not the usual numbering of episode 1, season 2). The first season was the most streamed anime in Japan last year according to Japan’s streaming platform, U-Next. Since season 1 covered the stories in Volumes 1 and 2 of the light novel by Hyūga Natsu 日向夏, season 2 will cover Volumes 3 and 4 if I assume correctly… The light novel is now up to Volume 15 with the latest volume published in 2024, so hopefully we can look forwards to many more seasons to come…
Impression of Youth 印象青春 is a 9-episode Taiwanese BL series which premiered on January 15, 2025.
Emerald Hill 小娘惹之翡翠山 is an upcoming 30-episode Singaporean period drama series which will premiere on streaming platforms from March 10, 2025 in Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries, and will be available on free-to-air TV in Singapore on March 19, 2025. It is the much anticipated spin-off to the 2008’s very popular and acclaimed series The Little Nyonya 小娘惹. Although we still have to wait for the series to premiere in about two months’ time, the theme song has already been released and is now sitting at the number 2 spot this week on the Mandarin music chart in Singapore, looking to claim the top spot next week.
I’ll Turn Back This Time 這次換我先回頭 is a 6-episode Chinese BL series (outside China only) which premiered on January 11, 2025, interestingly first in South Korea on KMH in the early morning, then in the evening across international platforms such as Heavenly, YouTube, Facebook, & GagaOOLala. It is made by the same team behind last year’s series Meet You at the Blossom 花開有時頹靡無聲, so it is no surprise the two side leads in that series are now the two main leads in this new series.
