Cosmetic Playlover コスメティック・プレイラバー is an 8-episode Japanese BL series which premiered on August 6, 2024. It is adapted from the manga series of the same name by Narashima Sachi 楢島さち.
August 13, 2024
August 12, 2024
Blue Canvas of Youthful Days 路過我年少時光的藍色 (Chinese Series OST)
Here we go again! Another Chinese BL series bites the dust within hours of dropping the first four episodes online. Blue Canvas of Youthful Days 路過我年少時光的藍色 is a 12-episode Chinese BL series which premiered on August 5, 2024, but was pulled very soon after just 4 episodes went to air. I am just amazed they kept repeating the same mistakes of trying to air BL series through the international branch of Chinese owned media company knowing darn well China does not tolerate BL series! At least more and more other smarter producers are circumventing China this year by producing/making “Chinese” BL series outside China for international audiences only.
August 11, 2024
Sugar Dog Life シュガードッグライフ (Japanese Series OST)
Sugar Dog Life シュガードッグライフ is a 10-episode Japanese BL series that premiered on August 4, 2024. It is adapted from the manga series of the same name by Yoriko 依子.
August 8, 2024
I Am the Secret in Your Heart 夏日的檸檬草 (Taiwanese Movie OST)
I Am the Secret in Your Heart 夏日的檸檬草 (Chinese title translated directly as Lemongrass of Summer) is a Taiwanese movie which premiered in Taiwan on August 2, 2024. It is adapted from the popular Taiwanese webnovel of the same name by Maqiduo 瑪琪朵 which was first serialized in March 2012 and completed in November of that year. It was then published in book format in 2013. Seven more extra epilogue chapters were released online in December 2017.
August 4, 2024
Battle of the Writers รัก…ใต้บรรทัด (Thai Series OST)
Battle of the Writers รัก…ใต้บรรทัด is a 12-episode Thai BL series that premiered on July 29, 2024. It is adapted from the Chinese BL novel The Great Battle of Games 遊戲大作戰 written by Pingguo Shushushu (or Apple Treetreetree) 蘋果樹樹樹. Although most of the drama was filmed in Thailand, the period part of this drama was filmed at the Hengdian World Studios 橫店影視城 in China. I haven’t read the novel yet so don’t know if the drama is following the novel faithfully or not, however it is very odd to hear some Chinese dialogues in episode 1, LOL… So far no official OST has been released but the Chinese theme song from the Chinese audio drama from 2021 has been covered by the two leads recently at the launch on July 16, 2024… This Chinese version is used as the closing theme song…
August 1, 2024
4Minutes สี่นาที (Thai Series OST)
4Minutes สี่นาที is an 8-episode Thai BL series which premiered on July 26, 2024. What is it with Thai BL nowadays? The trend is to release two versions of the drama, one cut and one uncut, which basically is a soft porn version to attract eyeballs! It is like announcing we don’t have enough good plotlines for the drama, let’s put in saucy scenes to make up for it, LOL… Here we now have a cut version airing on TV on One31 for 4Minutes and a sultrier version streaming only on Viu in Thailand.
July 28, 2024
Singing with Legends 6 我們的歌 第六季 (2024)
The sixth season of Singing with Legends 我們的歌 started airing on July 21, 2024. However looking at the participants this year, it has lost the plot with quite a number of returning artists who had appeared in previous seasons and with only two artists appearing for the first time that can really be considered legends! And one of these two is a 3-member band from Denmark, Michael Learns to Rock. The other is Taiwanese singer Stella Chang 張清芳.
(more…)July 26, 2024
Mr. Mitsuya’s Planned Feeding 三ツ矢先生の計画的な餌付け。 (Japanese Series OST)
Mr. Mitsuya’s Planned Feeding 三ツ矢先生の計画的な餌付け。 is a 10-episode Japanese BL series that premiered on the early hours of July 26, 2024 in Japan. It is adapted from the manga series of the same name by Matsumoto Ayaka 松本あやか. It is good to see that Japan made diverse BL series like What Did You Eat Yesterday? a few years ago and now this new series with older actors and not always just university or young office workers BL stories.
July 25, 2024
Century of Love ปาฏิหาริย์รักร้อยปี (Thai Series OST)
Century of Love ปาฏิหาริย์รักร้อยปี is a 10-episode Thai lakorn series which premiered on July 10, 2024. This is another lakorn series with LGBTQ+ theme (well, BL if you insists, haha…) from Thailand’s Channel One31 following the very successful To Sir, With Love from 2022 and last year’s series Laws of Attraction. I have watched the first episode at normal speed and it didn’t disappoint, at least I didn’t have the urge to watch it at 2× speed like I do for many Thai BL series in the last couple of years and then drop it after just one or two episodes, LOL… Another thing I judged Thai BL series nowadays is whether the theme song is sung by a recording artist or not, if it is I usually have more confidence about the drama having interesting plotlines. On the other hand, if it is sung by the two male leads, then most of the time the drama is trying to attract audiences who just want to ship the two leading actors and not too worry about the plotlines!
July 20, 2024
Random Ramblings on BL Dramas – My Secret Agent Husband
My Secret Agent Husband is an American minute-episode BL series streaming on DramaBox that was released on June 27, 2024. It has 57 episodes of about 1 minute per episode.
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Corner Café 