Módào Zǔshī 魔道祖師 is a historical fantasy BL novel written by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù 墨香銅臭, first serialised online from October 31, 2015 to March 1, 2016, and completed on January 1, 2018 with 7 extra bonus chapters 番外篇. You may not have heard of this novel, but if you watched a lot of BL or BL adapted TV series, and I say to you the 2019 TV series, The Untamed 陳情令, then you already know about the novel because the TV series was adapted from this novel!
(more…)August 19, 2021
August 16, 2021
Mr. Dior 迪奧先生 (Audio Drama Song)
Mr. Dior 迪奧先生 written by Lv Ye Qian He 綠野千鶴 is an extremely funny BL novel that I’m reading at the moment. It is set in the near future when mobile phone is obsolete and people are now implanted with a data chip in their brain that replaces the phone and can be controlled through a device they wear like a wristwatch. The only problem is that now everyone must be careful not to get their head bumped or hit as that could cause severe problem with the data chip and their brain wiring function.
(more…)August 14, 2021
Random Ramblings on BL Novels – Top 50 Chinese BL Novels
Jinjiang Literature City 晉江文學城 is a Chinese website for self-publishing and serialising novels online targeting female writers and readers. It was established in 2003 and is now the largest Chinese ebook site with about 80% market share of all online Chinese novels. In the last few years, many of the bromance TV series in China were adapted from the BL novels published at Jinjiang.
(more…)August 11, 2021
August 5, 2021
Light (Taiwanese Short Film OST) 網絡短片《小光》主題曲
Light 小光 is a new LGBTQ short film from director Adiamond Lee 鑽石 who has directed other notable BL series such as Dark Blue and Moonlight 深藍與月光, HIStory: Obsessed 著魔, and Jump the Boy! 撲倒吧！男孩. It is also the fifth of the 10-film GagaOOLala LGBTQ series that will premiere on August 13, 2021. The 44-minute short film revolves around the story of an undercover cop and a male prostitute. The theme song is a duet sung by Afalian Lufic 盧學叡 and Derek Lin 林重鹹…
Afalian is from the Amis group 阿美族, an indigenous Austronesian ethnic community in Taiwan. He became prominent in 2007 after he took fourth place in the first season of the singing competition, One Million Star 超級星光大道. In 2019, he also released a LGBT song, Who Am I 我是誰. The other singer, Derek, is a Taiwanese YouTuber.
August 3, 2021
Check Out คืนนั้นกับนายดาวเหนือ (Thai Series OST)
Another new BL drama from Thailand. Check Out คืนนั้นกับนายดาวเหนือ is a spin-off from Skinship. Interestinly the Thai title translated as That Night with Mr. North Star which I think is a much better title than Check Out, which can be quite confusing for a drama title, LOL. Not sure if the story is a continuation from Skinship or new storylines as I only watched a couple of episodes from season 1 of Skinship and did not watch season 2 at all. According to the announcement video just released, Check Out will premiere on August 22, 2021 with Episode 0, which seems like it will be a prologue or prequel episode and not the proper series episode?
(more…)August 2, 2021
Best Sisters Forever (Taiwanese Short Film OST) 網絡短片《親親壞姊妹》主題曲
Best Sisters Forever 親親壞姊妹 is the third of the 10-film GagaOOLala series that first aired on July 2, 2021. It is a short film of about 38 minutes duration only. One of the stars is a well-known music composer from Taiwan, Kuo Heng-Chi 郭蘅祈 (known by his stage name of 郭子 prior to 2014) and the theme song sung by him is a cover of the song he composed way back in 1999 for Taiwanese singer, A-Mei 張惠妹, included in her millions-selling album 《我可以抱你嗎？愛人》 (Can I Hug You, My Love?).
(more…)July 28, 2021
[Notice] GMMTV Youtube Channel Hacked
For those of you immersing yourself in all things Olympics the past few days, you may not have realized that GMMTV Official YouTube channel in Thailand was hacked this morning, resulting in all their videos on the channel disappearing, including all the full episodes of their dramas on their channel. Therefore if you want to watch some of their previous BL shows now, they are no longer available at the moment, which means all the episodes of the GMMTV’s BL shows I have linked here in my blog are all invalid now. Hopefully they can fix this huge problem and restore all their videos soon. However luckily all their music videos are on another channel, so they escaped the slaughter.
(more…)July 26, 2021
July 24, 2021
Given ギヴン 被贈與的未來 (Japanese TV OST)
Another BL drama from Japan which premiered on July 17, 2021 with a total of 6 episodes. It is astonishing how many BL dramas are released in Asia this year and so hard to keep on top of! Given ギヴン is a live-action drama based on the manga series of the same name. The manga series has already been adapted into an audio drama and anime TV series and film previously, and this live-action TV drama is the latest incarnation. Although this is another campus drama, its central story is an amateur rock band, so it is something new in the world of BL.
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Corner Café 