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 3, 2021
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.
(more…)July 22, 2021
Siew Sum Noi เสี่ยวซำน้อย (Thai TV OST)
I just finished with House of the Dark Shadows, a Thai series which is known only by its Thai name, Reuan Rom Ngiw, earlier this week which was very entertaining to watch. Now I’ve discovered another Thai series without an official English title. It is just known by its Thai name Siew Sum Noi, and obviously the title confuses everyone that it has no English translated title but it has 3 translated Chinese titles of either 青春摯友 (Intimate Friends of Youth), 苦甜之戀 (Bitter Sweet Love), or 好膽你就愛 (Be Brave to Love). I read somewhere that Siew Sum Noi is a phrase in Isan dialet meaning My Little Friend.
It is a 12-episode BL series that premiered on May 12, 2021 in Thailand and now near the end of its first run, with 2 more episodes to go I think. I binged 5 epsiodes the last couple of days and really enjoyed the series. I’ve dropped a lot of Thai or Korean BL series this year after just a couple of episodes, either due to slow-as-snail story-telling, wooden acting, or silly sugary sweet plots. However surprisingly most of the acting by the young actors in Siew Sum Noi are quite natural and the plots move along nicely without too much filler scenes. It is also another series set in the northeast of Thailand (same as Hometown’s Embrace), apart from the Bangkok campus setting in the early episodes. Nice to see that Thai BL dramas have started to move away from full campus stories and out of the Bangkok setting.
July 12, 2021
【Wrap 殺青】Chasing the Light (Saye) 左肩有你《撒野》
The long awaited bromance TV series, Chasing the Light 左肩有你, adapted from the BL novel, Saye 撒野, has wrapped up shooting yesterday according to sources online! So now it is into post production stage and hopefully it will air in the last quarter of the year as predicted! I can’t wait…
(more…)July 10, 2021
【OST】10 Songs from Thai BL Dramas by Boy Sompob
Came across this yesterday. It is an audio playlist of 10 OST songs from Thai BL dramas sung by Boy Sompob. They include songs from one of my favourite BL dramas, Until We Meet Again, and other popular dramas like Love by Chance, Lovesick, Water Boyy and another series I have not heard of, The Effect. I only started to listen to Thai songs just last year because of Thai BL dramas, and these are some of my favourites, so here they are, enjoy…
(more…)July 9, 2021
Light on Me 새빛남고 학생회 (Korean Webdrama OST)
Light on Me is a new 16-episode South Korean BL series that premiered on June 29, 2021. The drama is based on a BL visual novel developed by Day7 for mobile called Saebit Boys Student Association, where players role-play as the protagonist and they can pick and develop a romantic relationship with various attractive boys in school whom they love the most. That’s hilarious! Does that mean only boys can play this game since it is BL? Will the web police check who’s playing the game? OK, be serious… Hmmm, now where was I? Oh, the OST, the first song from the drama has just been released…
(more…)July 8, 2021
The Yearbook หนังสือรุ่น (Thai Series OST)
The Yearbook is another new Thai BL series that will premiere on July 15, 2021 with a total of 10 episodes. There are so many BL series this year it is hard to keep up with, LOL… And I have to pick and choose interesting ones to watch… This one does look interesting as it is set in the early 2000 (watch out for Bananas in Pyjamas references), and it is based on a short film school project by Mean Phiravich, an actor who is well known to BL series watchers. He played the role of Tin in both series of the Love by Chance franchise, and also the role of Alex in Until We Meet Again. Mean also directed this new series. The first song has already been uploaded to YouTube, so here it is…
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Corner Café 