Recently I tested Covid Positive and was quarantined for a week. Nothing in the current batch of dramas interested me. By chance I discovered a BL drama on Netflix called kieta hatsukoi Or my love mixUp. It was short, sweet and amazing. It opened up a whole new avenue of dramas for me. I’ve heard of BL dramas but never bothered to check out any. Right now, I’m searching for good LGBTQ dramas. Till the new batch of dramas drop by. Here’s to discovering a new genre of dramas. Guess one good thing came out of being quarantined. Don’t know if this counts or not but anyway
Great! Unfortunately, the only other BL I’ve watched is “A man who defies the world of BL” which is also cute. Hopefully other Beanies will recommend some.
I liked No Touching at All and Given manga, but I haven’t seen their adaptions so not sure if the adaptions did them justice. I listed other drama’s I liked:
Korean BL
Where Your Eyes Linger
I want to recommend Love with Flaws but only for the BL side romance. I really liked Cha In Ha’s (RIP) last performance.
To My Star
Korean GL
Am I the Only One with Butterflies? S1+S2
Thai BL
A Tale of Thousand Stars
Lovely Writer
Bad Buddy
Not Me
I’m fine. Thank you ☺.
The thai ones I’m planning to check out. They have good ratings. I watched one ep of tale of thousand stars.
I didn’t know that there were GL dramas as well! Maybe they’re not as popular. But I’ll check that one out.
I dropped love with flaws. You mean one of the heroine’s brothers right? Anyway I don’t think I’ll go back to it. As for the other 2, I’ll check them out as well.
Thanks for the recs 💕
I wasn’t a huge Love with Flaws fan too, aside from the her brothers’ romances. Maybe there is just a YouTube cut…. but that’d still be a bit awkward so I totally get passing on it.
GL doesn’t seem to be as popular and a most of the titles I’ve seen seem to keep angling towards a more “realistic” and downer angle, especially with the endings which I’m not to fond of.
But I totally forgot about More than or Equal to 75 Celsius which I think was produced by the same team as Am I the Only One with Butterflies. That was also pretty cute.
Downer would be a non-happy, tragic, and/or a depressing ending (for the viewer or the show itself).
“Realistic” can be an assortment of things, one being the idea that being in a non-heterosexual relationship is unsustainable or even some internal homophobia makes them think its a phase. Another is how there is a large social pressure that keeps them from the relationship while contrasting to traditional family stereotypes. Can also include parents who refuse to accept their sexuality and/or being non-heterosexual causes them to loose friends or their job.
This isn’t to say that BL’s don’t tackle issues around homophobia, coming out to their parents, living as gay, etc.
Also, I may have just not had good success in picking out GL.
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superwhopotterlock
February 3, 2022 at 5:58 AM
Recently I tested Covid Positive and was quarantined for a week. Nothing in the current batch of dramas interested me. By chance I discovered a BL drama on Netflix called kieta hatsukoi Or my love mixUp. It was short, sweet and amazing. It opened up a whole new avenue of dramas for me. I’ve heard of BL dramas but never bothered to check out any. Right now, I’m searching for good LGBTQ dramas. Till the new batch of dramas drop by. Here’s to discovering a new genre of dramas. Guess one good thing came out of being quarantined. Don’t know if this counts or not but anyway
Love, february.
neener ~ Inside the Magic Shop ~
February 3, 2022 at 6:05 AM
I’m planning to watch that after I finished Cherry Magic, which you should check out as well 😉
superwhopotterlock
February 3, 2022 at 6:57 AM
I watched cherry magic already! I liked that as well. Any other recommendations?
neener ~ Inside the Magic Shop ~
February 3, 2022 at 9:16 AM
Great! Unfortunately, the only other BL I’ve watched is “A man who defies the world of BL” which is also cute. Hopefully other Beanies will recommend some.
tiredys
February 3, 2022 at 3:11 PM
Hopefully your feeling better!
I liked No Touching at All and Given manga, but I haven’t seen their adaptions so not sure if the adaptions did them justice. I listed other drama’s I liked:
Korean BL
Where Your Eyes Linger
I want to recommend Love with Flaws but only for the BL side romance. I really liked Cha In Ha’s (RIP) last performance.
To My Star
Korean GL
Am I the Only One with Butterflies? S1+S2
Thai BL
A Tale of Thousand Stars
Lovely Writer
Bad Buddy
Not Me
superwhopotterlock
February 3, 2022 at 5:49 PM
I’m fine. Thank you ☺.
The thai ones I’m planning to check out. They have good ratings. I watched one ep of tale of thousand stars.
I didn’t know that there were GL dramas as well! Maybe they’re not as popular. But I’ll check that one out.
I dropped love with flaws. You mean one of the heroine’s brothers right? Anyway I don’t think I’ll go back to it. As for the other 2, I’ll check them out as well.
Thanks for the recs 💕
Ally
February 3, 2022 at 9:24 PM
Here to second where your eyes linger and to my star. And the latter will have a sequel which was just announced!
superwhopotterlock
February 3, 2022 at 11:30 PM
That’s great! I’ll go through this shows 👍
tiredys
February 4, 2022 at 4:54 AM
I wasn’t a huge Love with Flaws fan too, aside from the her brothers’ romances. Maybe there is just a YouTube cut…. but that’d still be a bit awkward so I totally get passing on it.
GL doesn’t seem to be as popular and a most of the titles I’ve seen seem to keep angling towards a more “realistic” and downer angle, especially with the endings which I’m not to fond of.
But I totally forgot about More than or Equal to 75 Celsius which I think was produced by the same team as Am I the Only One with Butterflies. That was also pretty cute.
superwhopotterlock
February 4, 2022 at 5:04 AM
What do you mean by realistic and downer? Not happy endings I presume.
Anyway I’ll check out the 2GL dramas you mentioned. Thanks for the recs!!!
tiredys
February 4, 2022 at 10:13 AM
Downer would be a non-happy, tragic, and/or a depressing ending (for the viewer or the show itself).
“Realistic” can be an assortment of things, one being the idea that being in a non-heterosexual relationship is unsustainable or even some internal homophobia makes them think its a phase. Another is how there is a large social pressure that keeps them from the relationship while contrasting to traditional family stereotypes. Can also include parents who refuse to accept their sexuality and/or being non-heterosexual causes them to loose friends or their job.
This isn’t to say that BL’s don’t tackle issues around homophobia, coming out to their parents, living as gay, etc.
Also, I may have just not had good success in picking out GL.