The Paradise of Thorns วิมานหนาม, a film inspired by inequality, is a Thai movie which premiered in Thailand on August 22, 2024. The film will have its international premiere at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival 2024 (TIFF) on September 6, 2024.
Q18 Quantum Dice: Allegory of the Quantum Q18量子預言 is an 8-episode Taiwanese futuristic drama series with LGBTQ+ theme which premiered on August 16, 2024. Recently it seems Taiwan is fashionable in making AI dramas, this new drama continues the AI trend following another AI themed BL series Anti Reset 恆久定律 earlier this year and its upcoming spin-off Eternal Butler 全面管控 in the VBL series.
Addicted Heroin รักร้าย นายเสพติด 上癮 is a 10-episode Thai BL series which premiered on August 13, 2024. It is adapted from the Chinese BL novel Are You Addicted? 你丫上癮了 by Chai Jidan 柴雞蛋. This is the third drama adaptation following two previous Chinese adaptations where the first adaptation in 2016 was banned before it finished airing the first season while the second Chinese adaptation in 2023 was made for international audiences only, again just the first season with no news of a second season so far. Therefore both the Chinese drama adaptations only ended with cliff hangers without reaching the end of the novel. Hopefully this new Thai adaptation will be able to give us the full version from the novel!
First Note of Love 彈一場完美戀愛 โน้ตแรกแห่งรัก is a 12-episode Taiwanese, Thai & Japanese co-produced music BL series which premiered on August 12, 2024. This is another GagaOOLala original music BL series following 2021’s series of 10 original music BL/GL dramas under the banner Queer Up the Volume 同志音樂愛情故事.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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