My Love Mix-Up! 消えた初恋 (Kieta Hatsukoi 消失的初戀), or also translated as Vanishing My First Love, is a new 10-episode Japanese BL series that will debut on October 9, 2021. It is based on the serialised manga first published starting from June 2019 written by Wataru Hinekure ひねくれ渡 and illustrated by Aruko アルコ. There are two songs from the series, and one of the songs has been released in full, I’ll add the second full song when it is available.
(more…)October 9, 2021
October 7, 2021
Peach of Time 시간의 복숭아 (South Korean Series OST)
Peach of Time is a 10-episode South Korean BL series that premiered on August 30, 2021 and just ended its first run on September 27, 2021. The series features both Korean and Thai actors and the 2 Thai actors also starred in the 2020’s Thai BL series, Why R U? The OST was only released after the series has ended, so finally we are able to listen the the songs from the series… However only audio versions are available.
(more…)October 5, 2021
Traveller 行旅 – Layla Sania 蕾拉
A new song from Malaysian singer, Layla Sania. It is her second Mandarin single and it is another very lovely song… At the moment only the lyric video is available.
(more…)October 4, 2021
We’re All Soft-Hearted 我們都心軟 – KU 古曜威
This is a Taiwanese BL music video from last year that I meant to watch after seeing the preview but then totally forgot about it until a couple of days ago when it popped up again as a YouTube recommendation. The MV came out on August 25, 2020, and then followed by a 20-minute mini-movie to complement the MV that premiered on September 29, 2020. This will make you cry so stay away if you only want sweet and happy BL!
(more…)October 2, 2021
Dear Diary (TV Series OST) 網路劇《我的巴比倫戀人》主題曲片尾曲
Dear Diary 我的巴比倫戀人 is a new 24-episode webdrama that premiered on September 27, 2021. The Chinese title actually means My Babylonian Lover. At the moment it is getting a 7.7/10 ratings (5,481 votes) at Douban, so it is one of the better Chinese dramas among the many below average dramas on offer recently. It is also getting quite good reviews online as a wacky, funny comedy and the plot is a breath of fresh air in among all the cliché romantic dramas from recent years. The first episode with the Babylonia setting and Babylonian language (not sure if they are really speaking the language or just gibberish, LOL) already got me interested… Talking about wacky, I think I’m in a silly mood recently as I’m also watching the Japanese drama, Gosh!! – Police Dog Oliver and His Handler’s Bizarre Case Files オリバーな犬、(Gosh!!)このヤロウ (love the 2 real dogs in the series, LOL, maybe I’m just watching for them), at the moment which basically is a quirky version of the Austrian-Italian TV series, Inspector Rex, which was one of my favourite TV series from many years ago.
(more…)September 29, 2021
Unbridled (Audio Drama “Xiao Zhang” OST) 廣播劇《囂張》主題曲
Xiao Zhang 囂張 is another BL novel written in 2019 by Wuzhe 巫哲, of Saye 撒野 fame. Xiao Zhang 囂張 means arrogant, but the English translated novel is titled Unbridled. This is another heart warming BL novel that I also loved. I first read the novel at the end of last year after I had read Saye, but at the time there was no audio drama yet, only a fanfic song for the novel that was released in early 2020 called Running Towards 奔向. The first season of the audio drama was first podcast starting in early May this year, and so we’ve now got the theme song for the novel, this may prompts me to read the novel again, hehe… Also if you haven’t read the novel and are wondering about the drone as featured in the MV, it is a major part of the story.
(more…)September 27, 2021
Believer 信服 – Guy Sebastian 蓋賽巴斯汀
New single from Guy Sebastian that everyone should listen to! A beautiful power ballad from a powerful vocal that even Sony Music in Taiwan has released a Chinese subtitled MV… I have also included Guy’s live performance of the song on The Voice Australia a couple of weeks ago.
(more…)September 22, 2021
Innocent (Taiwanese Series OST) 網絡劇《無邪》主題曲
Innocent 無邪 is a new 4-episode BL series from Taiwan that will premiere on September 24, 2021. It has been more than a year since the production house, Soul’Chill 夏花藝術, released the 10-minute teaser around August/September, 2020, to launch the fundraising to make this web series. From there GagaOOLala came on board and it is now part of its 10-film LGBTQ series for 2021.
September 21, 2021
Singing with Legends 3 (2021)《我們的歌》第三季
Season 3 of Our Song 我們的歌, or Singing with Legends, premiered on Spetember 19, 2021 and designated as the season of Young Forever 唱出青春樣. This year the legends or established singers include George Lam 林子祥, Chyi Chin 齊秦, Miriam Yeung 楊千嬅, Joker Xue 薛之謙, and Penny Tai 戴佩妮 (also lead singer of Buddha Jump 佛跳牆), and the new generation of singers include Calvin Hu Xia 胡夏, Eric Chou 周興哲, Sunnee 楊芸晴, Silence Wang 汪蘇瀧, Shan Yichun 單依純 and OST specialist Liu Yuning 劉宇寧. The rest are mainland Chinese singers I’ve never heard of, LOL…
Here are links to Episodes with English subtitles, however sometimes they are quite difficult to read, the links I’ve given below for each week have better English subtitles with black background (need to turn on the subtitles) which are easier to read.
(more…)September 11, 2021
49 Days with a Merman (Taiwanese Series OST) 電視劇《我家浴缸的二三事》主題曲
Everyone kept either cats or dogs as pets… Uh… I’ve a merman in my bathtub
49 Days with a Merman 我家浴缸的二三事 is an upcoming Taiwanese live-action adaptation of the Japanese manga series, Merman in My Tub オレん家のフロ事情 (Orenchi no Furo Jijō), by Itokichi いときち. Although the series is strictly a comedy, it does have innuendo of BL… In 2014, the serialized manga already has an anime TV adapation in Japan consisting of 13 short episodes.
On January 22 earlier this year, they announced the start of the filming for the new live-action series and a few days ago, they released the official poster, so that means the series will go to air very soon although the premiere date has not been set yet.
Corner Café 