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The Rebound episodes 7-8

This drama is so ridiculous. In the entertaining way, but still. Talk about abruptly changing the course. 😊

Spoilers here.

Because it seems that the gangsters and gambling, and street baseball subplot is over for good after one shoot out and a few dead bodies. But, aww, the hot gangster boss Tos is dead. And Q probably won’t be in the last 4 episodes? Because how could he even be involved in Ryu’s life after murdering his former colleagues and his boss and lover?

And I guess we’re now entering “exciting” world of high school problems – like the threat of disbanding the team because of budget cuts, and trials and tribulations of high school romances. So basically the show I thought this drama would be before I started watching. 😊

I will watch the rest. It’s just four episodes more and I still love the couch and the director and their relationship (and hopefully romance?) crumbs the drama gives me. And I love Shogun and Jedi and their relationship and again hopefully their sweet, innocent romance, too? And there’s still a minuscule chance for a throuple. All of that gives me enough entertainment. Even if Zen and Ryu’s romance puts me to sleep.

We Are finale

The last episode was lovely. The whole show was a very cute, very relaxing watch. I mainly came out of it with undying love for Aou and Boom. They are gorgeous, good actors, have fantastic chemistry, and are very good at kissing. I hope we’ll get them in the drama where they are the main pairing the next year. And hopefully it will be a good drama. Because before We Are started airing I tried watching Vice Versa and Hidden Agenda where Aou and Boom were the secondary couple, and twice I gave up after the first episode. Both of these dramas were so boring to me.


Wandee Goodday finale

Another lovely finale for a lovely BL drama.

Spoilers here, too.

Kao has an adorable boyfriend, yay. And they will explore what they want from their relationship together.

And everybody is happy and in love. And that’s exactly how I like my dramas to end these days. 😊

I could do without Dr. Ter getting together with such a wonderful girl like Taem. Because he’s a giant asshole and the drama absolutely didn’t redeem him in my eyes, and I didn’t want him to be happy. But eh, that was just a tiny portion of that lovely episode. So ok, I can live with that.

And now I want a wedding in every Thai BL drama, do you hear me? I love weddings in BL dramas. I want tons of them. 😊

Meet You At The Blossom episode 4

This drama is so... I have no words for all the happy feelings it gives me. I fully expect it to stomp on my heart and make me sob in the next week or two, because it is a cdrama after all. But for now I enjoy being all heart-eyes and blissful smiles. 😍

So much squee with spoilers here.

Huaien is so broken, my poor, poor boy. They way he asks why Xiaobao was so sad only because his father was deathly ill... And then he told Xiaobao that sad, tragic tale about his family and his abusive father. And the way Xiaobao says so seriously, with tears in his eyes: “Don’t worry. If you father doesn’t care for you, I will. From now on, you are under my protection.”

And it really seems that for a moment there Huaien wanted to simply ask Xiaobao for Jin family’s account books he so desperately searches for under the orders of his father.

And then Huaien dreams about Xiaobao saving him.

And of course I loved Xiaobao asking, after Huaien helped him sneak out: “Is this an elopement?” LOL

And the way Huaien manhandled Xiaobao so Xiaobao would be lying facing him while they fall asleep. And they held hands, too. Aww... And then Xiaobao says: “I think I’ve figured it out now. You’re tough on the outside, but soft inside.” Aww, again...

And the way Xiaobao just asks Huaien openly: “Do you like me or not?” I love that sweet, beautiful boy so much.

And they way Huaien looks at him so softly when he says: "I really don't know what love is, but I can promise one thing. I won’t treat others as I did to you. If... there is truly someone I want to love, it would only be you!" So many awws...

And Xiaobao has a cunning plan (LOL) how he will tell his parents about his relationship with Huaien. My boy is already all in. 😊

And Huaien is so jealous every time Xiaobao just looks at another person. Heh... And his speech in the cave really reminded me of Segasaki Mizuki’s speech from My Personal Weatherman.

Huaien: “If you truly wish to stay with me forever, there can’t be any turning back afterwards. From now on there can’t be even be thoughts about others. From then on, whether it’s heaven or hell, you can only have me.”

And when Xiaobao asks: “Not even a glance?” Huaien answers: “Not at all!”

Mizuki: “Don’t act cute towards other people. Stay away from girls and other guys. Don’t look, talk, or smile at them. You can’t escape from me. For the rest of your life... you’ll be mine...”

Doesn't it sound similar? 😂

It’s still too hot here. Today again it’s 35°C. I started going to the movies again, after four years pandemic break, only so I can spend a few hours in an air-conditioned building.

But thankfully I have a new beloved drama that cheers me up so much. Seriously, I am so in love, even though only two episodes aired for now. It’s such a silly little drama, but somehow it hits my id dead on.



It's an uncensored wuxia BL filmed in China with Chinese actors, but it’s a coproduction between China, Taiwan and Thailand. There are two new episodes every week. And it airs everywhere – on VIKI, Gaga, iQiyi, WeTV and Youtube.


Jin Xiaobao is a spoiled oldest son of a rich family. He’s a dumbass, but he’s also kind and sweet and earnest. I don’t really understand why am I so in love with him. He’s not my kind of character, and yet I fell hard. He’s just so adorable.



I love his love interest, too, of course. No surprises here because Zheng Huaien is like tailor-made for me. He’s mysterious, beautiful, aloof, has excellent fighting skills, and hides a tragic past and a childhood trauma. 😊

There are a few other supporting characters who are cute and/or funny, specially Xiaobao’s two guards. And apparently there will be two secondary couples. I hope I’ll like them, too.

I already re-watched the first two episodes. I even started writing my first fic. I never started writing a fic so early during the airing of the drama. Yes, I guess you can say I’m a tiny bit obsessed. 😉

That was a hard week, health wise, but also because of a few other unexpected and unpleasant problems. Things are better now and I hope it will stay that way. I haven’t been here much these last few days, so I might have missed something.

And this is what I did while I was trying to distract myself from all of the above.


I read my first manga. I mean the first in the form of a physical book. I did read My Personal Weatherman and the 1st volume of At 25:00 In Akasaka online before.

It’s a BL manga called One Week Family (I bought it in Polish translation, which is good BTW). It's very cute, very PG-13, and it gave me a lot of warm and fuzzy feelings.

It’s about young, but already popular actor Fujimaru Ren, who has one flaw – he’s not good at acting with children. But his new movie requires him to act with child actor Yuu. So Ren’s manager proposes that he spend a week living with Yuu. And that also means spending a week with Yuu’s manager Haruo Kei, who basically cares for Yuu 24/7, because Yuu’s mother is a very busy businesswoman, who never has time for her son. Kei is also the former child actor that inspired Ren to start acting. As you can probably guess Ren and Kei very quickly fall in love. 😊


I watched the first four episodes of a new Thai BL drama The Rebound. And I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. From the description it sounded like a straightforward high school BL about former best friends who reconnect after a one year break, and bond over playing basketball in a school team. I was convinced that it would be cute, fluffy and relatively problem free. But no, it’s much darker than I expected, and there are a lot of serious problems. And well, that one is definitely not PG-13. And there is one possible background pairing that I love so much already, even though I don’t yet know if all this ship teasing will lead to a canon ship. But I so want the couch and his dear Director to fall in love and kiss. Please, please, please. 😊

It’s on Gaga and there are two new episodes a week on Wednesday and Thursday. I’m very glad that I like it because We Are ends soon, so I’ll have a new drama to watch on Wednesdays.


The other definitely not PG-13 drama I watched was Japanese BL The Novelist. But you know what? From what I’ve read about it I expected it to be much darker and pornier. Yes, it is about messy, complicated people in messy, complicated relationships, it is very high heat, but at the same time it’s surprisingly romantic, and not just horny and relentlessly dark, and nothing else. It’s about two lonely people who find each other, and who manage, with a lot of complications of course, find their happy ending together. I liked it a lot, and later watched all the sequel movies – Spring Life, Playback, and Continued Spring Life.


I also started a cdrama Live Surgery Room. Mainly because it’s short (28 episodes) and I read that it was very slashy. I watched four episodes for now, and I can confirm that yes, it is very slashy. I like the two leads and they have nice chemistry. It’s that ‘antagonists to friends and/or lovers’ dynamic I enjoy so much, so for now I’m sticking with it.

Only Boo

Remember how I said that Only Boo was the cutest and the sweetest high school BL? Well, I spoke too soon. Because it went downhill rather steeply in the last three episodes for me. It reminded me of Last Twilight in that regard, where I loved 10 episodes so much, and then was so very disappointed with the last two. Why do you always do that, Thai BL dramas, why? 😉

The finale especially felt rushed and oddly paced, and I even fast-forwarded through a few scenes, because I was getting bored.

Spoilers here.

So, yeah, the show did exactly what I didn’t want them to do. ‘I’m breaking up with you for your own good’, and then one year long separation with no contact at all. And then basically get them back together so easily, as if nothing that kept them apart before happened. So what was the point? Meaningless drama for drama’s sake, I guess.

Tae and Yos satisfied my craving for angst and repressed pining, and their complicated relationship was my favorite part of the drama. But then all this angst and pining got resolved very quickly in one short scene, too. And I wanted more.

The last episode was mostly super fluffy, but by then I didn’t really care that much. But of course I did squee at Force’s cameo - that was the highlight of the finale for me. 😊

My Dearest

It took me some time to watch part 2 of this drama. And finally yesterday I watched the last episode. And well, that was another disappointing finale. Let me quote the part of Dramabeans’ review of the last episode below behind the cut, because I agree 100%, especially with everything about Gil Chae. She’s still one of my favorite kdrama heroines ever, but yeah, the 2nd part did her dirty.

But, despite all that, I would still recommend this drama if you like angsty sageuks that will make you cry many times. Or if you love Nam Goong Min as much as I do, because he was, as always, absolutely fantastic here.

Read more.

Part 2 of this drama has had some soaring, beautiful moments... and also some clumsy ones. Making repetition a key narrative theme meant that you risked repeating the irritating things. They kept separating our leads for no reason — and in doing so, shifting the focus away from Gil-chae. Jang-hyun’s side of the story was so compelling — both the captives’ fight for freedom, and the deconstruction of his father’s murderous politics. However, this was at the expense of any meaningful screentime for our heroine. There were episodes where she more or less faded out of the picture until it was time to wave Jang-hyun sadly goodbye. Meanwhile, Jang-hyun had amnesia — but what’s the writer’s excuse for forgetting Ryang-eum?

As for fanfic writing I posted my second Jazz For Two fic.

Easy to love you (3379 words)
Fandom: 재즈처럼 | Jazz For Two (TV)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Seo Doyoon/Song Jooha
Characters: Song Jooha, Seo Doyoon
Additional Tags: Porn with Feelings, Unplanned Love Confession, First Time, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex
Summary: That time when Joo Ha was so afraid to touch Do Yoon seemed so long ago now. Now Joo Ha did do that a lot. A lot of touching, a lot of hugging, and much more than hugging, too. Like kissing. So much kissing, until their lips felt swollen and bruised, and Do Yoon’s heavy breathing as he was panting against Joo Ha’s mouth sent shockwaves of desire through Joo Ha’s body.

Despite the title of this post let’s start with a Thai drama, but the one that is connected to a Japanese drama.

My Love Mix-Up

Ok, I watched the first two episodes of a Thai version and I don’t plan to watch more. It’s not bad, just IMO very bland, and not very funny at that.

It only made me want to rewatch the Japanese version, which I started to do a few days ago. I’m on the 4th episode, and yep, I love it so much more. It’s as funny and adorable as I remembered from my first watch last year. I love Aoki to pieces. And Hashimoto, too. She’s so wonderful. And listen, Fourth is a very good actor and I like him a lot, but Atom in the Thai drama doesn’t have even the tenth of Aoki’s adorkable charm and sweetness IMO.


At 25:00 in Akasaka finale

That was lovely. Such a beautiful happy ending. Now I want to re-watch the whole drama, because I think that for me it’s one of those drama that are better as a binge watch, without a week between each episode.

Not everything worked perfectly for me here, but still I liked this drama a lot. And especially of course Komagine Kiita as Hayama Asami. He looked gorgeous and was very good at portraying all the emotions hidden under Asami’s cool and calm exterior.

More with spoilers here.

I have to say that unfortunately I wasn’t smitten with Niihara Taisuke as Shirasaki Yuki. He wasn’t bad, and I thought he was finally really good in the last episode, but in general I found him only ok, nowhere near on Kiita’s level. And the chemistry was only so, so IMO.

But I loved how they blurred the lines between what’s acting and what’s real life. For viewers, but also the way characters felt when they had troubles untangling their real feelings from the emotions of the characters they acted as.

I also liked how they tricked the viewer that “Hiru no Yume” (the show within the show Asami and Yuki are doing) had a bittersweet ending. But no, it’s made clear in the finale that it has an unequivocal happy ending. And then Hayama Asami and Shirasaki Yuki’s love story had an unequivocal happy ending, too. A meaningful and beautiful sex scene, emotional love confessions, and Asami giving Yuki key to his apartment – all of it made go aww aloud. 😊 And of course there is the last scene that gives hope for a possible second season. Especially since the drama covered only the 1st volume of the manga, and there are two more volumes.

But now I really, really want a crossover fic with My Personal Weatherman. Where Man-san and Yoh’s manga gets popular and maybe gets a longer, official version. And then it gets obtained for a drama adaptation with Asami and Yuki as the leads. And then Asami and Yuki meet Mizuki and Yoh. But I’m not skilled enough to write it myself, so someone has to write it for me. 😉

And I’m still on a quest to check all the dramas available to me with English subtitles with my three newest Japanese actor loves - Higuchi Kouhei, Mashiko Atsuki and Komagine Kiita.

And lately, apart from sentai dramas, I also found:

Yakusoku: 16-Nen-me no Shinjitsu (The Promise: The Truth from 16 Years Ago) – a crime drama, which just finished airing in Japan. It has Higuchi Kouhei in a supporting part. It has ten episode, I watched six for now. My verdict: it’s rather mediocre. Kouhei’s part is very small and he doesn’t have much to do (at least he didn’t in those six episodes I watched). But I’m mildly interested in finding out who the killer is, so I plan to watch it all.

Goukon ni Ittara Onna ga Inakatta Hanashi (The Story of How I Went to a Mixer and There Were No Women There) – a comedy drama from 2022 with Mashiko Atsuki in one of main parts. I watched two episodes and I definitely won’t watch more. It’s not my kind of humor at all. I cringed from second hand embarrassment so much.

These two dramas I found only with fansubs, there are no official versions with English subs available. And then by accident I found out that there is one drama on VIKI where Kiita had a supporting part. So I watched it, and I loved this one so much. More about that below.


On A Starry Night

It’s a lovely and heartwarming (and short, only 9 episodes) Japanese noona romance. And it has a strong potential for eventual M/M/F OT3.

Yukimiya Suzu is a 35-year-old gynecologist, who lives and works in a cozy and quiet seaside town, but lately feels a bit stifled in her job. Hirragi Issei is 25 years old, and he works in the small company, who deals with cleaning up and moving the stuff of the deceased. He’s outgoing, cheerful, and optimistic. And he’s deaf. They meet by chance on a camping site, there’s instant attraction and even a little bit of kissing, but nothing more comes out of it. And then they meet again when Issei’s company cleans up the stuff of Suzu’s deceased mother.

Their romance is sweet, adorable and beautiful. It reminds me of the relationship between Sangchuan and You’an in Nothing But You. Suzu and Issei also always support each other during hard times in their lives, and bring out the best in each other. Of course they argue sometimes, too, but they always talk when there is a problem.

The third main character (and the third part of a potential threesome) is 40-year-old Sasaki Shinya, Suzu’s fellow gynecologist at the clinic, a very handsome guy with quiet personality and a tragic past.

And there is a lot of great, well-rounded secondary characters played by very good actors, Kiita included, of course. 😊

Content warning here.

This drama made me teary-eyes a few times, and since two of the main characters are gynecologists you can easily guess what kind of trauma caused those tears. There are two important subplots connected to the deaths of two women in childbirth, one with her unborn child.

And this is definitely not the drama for someone with pregnancy squick.

A bit more with spoilers behind the cut.

One secondary character, who knows Suzu, Issei and Shinya very well, says this in the last episode:

“Suzu Sensei, Issei, and Shinya are like the sun, moon, and Earth. Love can’t even begin to describe a relationship like theirs. They’ll stand side by side, become the other’s shadow, wax and wane with the times, and orbit around one another.”

Doesn’t it sound romantic? 😊

I mean, the drama does a very good job at portraying Shinya’s love and respect for Suzu, and his growing feelings for Issei, as platonic, but I think you can easily read everything that happens in the last episode as a hint of possibility for something more in the future. Even though Shinya moves to another town at the end of that episode.

OnlyOneOf concert in Warsaw on the 12th of June

I’m very glad that I was able to go. They are all beautiful, sexy, talented and charming men, and it was a pleasure to watch and listen to them live. I didn’t manage to stay for the whole performance, though. The club was very hot and stuffy, you had to stand all the time, and with my health being what it is, after an hour and a half I felt dizzy, as if I was going to faint any minute. Luckily for me that was the moment when they sang Libido. And since that’s my favorite OnlyOneOf song I was all ‘ok, fine, I saw Libido on stage, I can go now.’ 😊 And then I did leave. But still, it was a great experience.


Sunset x Vibes episode 1

I love it so much already. Mos and Bank are great and both look gorgeous, all the secondary pairings are great, too (I really hope Fong and JJ will be a couple, too; we got crumbs in Big Dragon, and I want them as a proper couple here). And there is a fantasy element that I can’t wait to know more about.



I am so ready. Give me more now, now, now. 😊


This wonderful fanvid:

Fallout - about Katha & Dome from Midnight Museum


This pic of Mashiko Atsuki:



Because wow... How can someone be so beautiful? 😍

I haven’t been here much in the last two weeks. Mainly because I’m not feeling well. Nothing very serious, just a few unpleasant perimenopausal symptoms that somehow hit me much harder than usual now. I wish they would go away. *sigh*

Anyway, dramas... Let’s talk about BL dramas that bring me joy.


Only Boo

Only Boo continues to be the cutest and sweetest high school BL with surprisingly good writing, and a gang of lovely and adorable boys making googly eyes at each other. I enjoy it very much. It’s so soft and optimistic, and unapologetic, and funny. And there are only three episodes left. Pity, I would gladly watch 16 episodes, or even 20.

More with spoilers here.

I admit I thought it would be a really chaste drama, My School President style, and that we’d get maybe one sweet, light, and short kiss in the last episode. But no, episode 9 and wow, that was quite a long make out session between Moo and Kang on the bed. These two are pretty good at kissing. 😊

And I love how they go meta about idols having to hide their RL relationship, because there are fans who wouldn’t like if they dated.

Moo says to Kang: “People can separate my work from my personal life”. And, ahh, Moo, you sweet, optimistic boy, I love you, but that is simply not true.

I wonder where they will go with this. This is such a fluffy, sweet, relatively angst free drama, I can’t imagine them doing something angst heavy with that subplot. But please, I can take everything, just not ‘I’m breaking up with you for your own good’ and forced a few-years-long separation when they don’t even stay in contact with each other.

Wandee Goodday

Only Boo is my fluffy Sunday drama, and Wandee Goodday is my fluffy Saturday drama. Add My Love Mix-Up, which starts on June the 7th, and I will have fluffy Friday drama, too.

Minor spoilers for the 5th episode here.

They are so in love already, my goodness. It will take them some time to admit it, I know, it’s only episode 5, and Yak absolutely can’t recognize for now that he already fell for Dee.

And I want more Yei and Cher, pretty please. I love Thor, and they have good chemistry.

And there was a sort of meta moment here, too, with all this cute and amusing squabbling over YoryakWandee or WandeeYoryak. It really felt as if they were saying ‘what does it matter’ to all those fans out there who care too much about that ‘the name placement = position’ thing in BL fandoms.

Two Worlds

I finally finished it. And listen, I love Max and Nat and they delivered when it came to chemistry and kissing, but the screenplay IMO was very weak, and the story stopped making sense in the second half. I fast-forwarded a lot while I was watching the last two episodes, because I completely lost interest in everybody but Jao and Wayu and they had very few scenes there. But that one scene in episode 9 was certainly memorable. Wow, just wow... *fans self* I might have started writing Jao/Wayu fic already, oops. 😊


Sunset Vibes

And here are more good BL news - Mos and Bank's new drama starts airing on June 15th on IQIYi. The official trailer is here. And I love it. Mos and Bank are hot, their chemistry is scorching, there is a secondary GL paring played by Lookkaew and Andy (who were great in Love Senior), and it looks sexy and entertaining. And the last scene in the trailer made me go ‘wait, what???’, but in a good way. I can’t wait for the next week.


And this post was supposed to be only about BL, and then I saw spoilery pics for Freen and Becky’s new drama The Loyal Pin. And I just have to share one of them with all of you. 😊

Very hot and a bit NSFW pic behind the cut.

At 25:00 in Akasaka episode 4

Spoilers here.

Ok, it took only 4 episodes for Yuki to realize that he has feelings for Asami. I’m actually impressed. 😊 He of course still doesn’t realize that Asami is in love with him. Although Asami isn’t just flirting with Yuki, he’s seducing him. And not even that subtly.

And in the next episode – drama and jealousy. And Asami finally staking his claim? I can’t wait.

Wandee Goodday episode 2

It’s sweet and sexy, and funny. Right now I love it a lot. Hope it will stay good and this feeling will continue through the rest of the drama.

Spoilers here, too, but the minor ones.

Yak already caught some sort of feelings, and Dee is almost there, too. And I love, love, love that they communicate so well with each other. That they are so open and tell each other what they want and need from the other person. That they are not afraid of asking for what they want.

And heh, you can say their sexy roleplay with costumes already started in this episode. 😉

And Oyei and Cher are so fricking adorable. And super hot together. I love them to pieces.

I also watched:

Kdramas

The Midnight Studio

Only half of the 1st episode watched. It bored me, and I found both leads annoying. Won’t watch more.

Lovely Runner

Two episodes watched. I get why it’s so universally praised, and I adore Kim Hye Yoon, and she is indeed amazing. But Byeon Woo Seok does nothing for me, and I find the main romance rather boring. Don’t know if I’ll continue watching. Maybe I’ll wait and see if the ending is good, and then I will decide.


Cdramas

Running Like A Shooting Star

Three episodes watched. I like it. It’s a simple, cute, and very slashy drama about a group of students who become members of a running club. It seems to be mainly about friendship and passion for running, and overcoming one’s insecurities and fears. It’s short – it has 24 episodes and each episode is only 25 minutes long. And it’s very relaxing to watch.

My bookmarks start being too unwieldy again, which means that I’m making a post with recs, so I can delete at least a few of them.

But first disappointing BL news - A Man Who Defies the World of BL 3 is already out in Japan, but the distribution is exclusive to the Japanese streaming service called Lemino, and the drama is not currently available to international audiences. :( I saw people mentioning making funsubs, but I couldn’t find all the episodes funsubbed, so I can’t watch it for now. I hope Gaga or VIKI will pick it up soon.

And now let’s move on to recs and other happy things.


This is an adorable fanvid about Do Yoon from Jazz For Two - lil boo thang

And here is the playlist for Jazz For Two OST with a few lovely songs.

And I wrote and posted a little Do Yoon/Joo Ha fic:

Kisses in the rain (1226 words)
Fandom: 재즈처럼 | Jazz For Two (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Seo Doyoon/Song Jooha
Characters: Song Jooha, Seo Doyoon, Han Taeyi, Yoon Seheon
Additional Tags: Boys In Love, Feelings and Realizations, Kissing
Summary: Joo Ha is really bad at feelings, and at talking about them, too. But he tries, and it all works out well. :) And there is a lot of kissing in the rain.


I also watched two more episodes of The King Loves. And while I was watching them I realized that the actor playing my favorite beautiful killer looked somewhat familiar to me, so I probably saw him somewhere before. I checked and yes, I did see him – as the lead in the BL drama The Director Who Buys Me Dinner. I watched it last year and it was a cute and surprisingly, for a Korean BL, angsty fantasy romance with reincarnation and a boss-employee relationship. It was enjoyable, but ultimately forgettable, so I decided to re-watch it. And of course now, when I’m invested in one of the lead actors, I like it so much more. 😊

I also found a lovely and spoilery fanvid for The Director Who Buys Me Dinner - Lover.


And here are two kpop recs:

DKZ 2nd Mini Album ′REBOOT′ with five cute songs.

Love Me Or Leave Me - Dreamcatcher’s cover of DAY6 song. It’s wonderful and very femslashy. If I have a bias in Dreamcatcher it’s Dami, and she looks and sounds so great here.


Last but not least: Affair – a pilot trailer for another Thai GL drama about a romance with class difference between two girls who grew up together. But one of them comes from a very rich family, and the other is the maid’s daughter.

It took place today. 14 dramas were announced. It’s obvious that with that amount a lot of them won’t air this year.

I was watching live and writing down my first impressions. It got long, so to spare those not interested it goes behind the cut.

There are links to all presented pilot trailers and a few lines with my thoughts about each drama here.

Ossan's Love

Thai version of a Japanese drama with EarthMix – no, absolutely not. Too much cringy humor for me.

Leap Day

Not BL or GL, but looks interesting. It’s a supernatural thriller, I think. And Gun’s in it. He’s Pond’s little brother in this one, and probably autistic? Maybe I will be watching, I’m not sure yet.

The Heart Killers

FirsKhaotung and JoongDunk in one BL, directed by Jojo Tichakorn. Rom com + crime drama. Looks good. It will be entertaining, and funny and sexy for sure. I’m in.

Friendshit Forever

Not BL or GL. It has New as a bad guy? Sort of? He looks good, and I’m so curious to see him in a role other than his usual sweet, awkward, nerdy guy. Main actors are Mook, New, Pat and Boun, and it looks a bit like Dangerous Liaisons sort of plot. That’s a maybe for me. We’ll see. Funny thing is that it really looks like GL for a moment there in the beginning, and I would be much more interested if it was GL.

Perfect 10 Liners

ForceBook’s new drama, yay!!! With PerthChimon and JuniorMark, too. Junior and Mark were perfect in Cherry Magic, so I’m ecstatic to have them coupled in a new drama again. It’s another university BL, but I don’t care because Force and Book look good and are adorable and hot together. I’m very happy and can’t wait for this one.

But wait, MarcPoon and AuoBoom are in this one, too? They weren’t in the trailer, but they were announced later on stage. And so many other actors. I wondered how long it would have to be to give all of them something to do, but they later announced that it would be made into 3 dramas with 10 episodes each, connected to each other by characters from one drama guest starring in the other two.

Us

GL finally. And it looks good, mature and a bit angsty, but hopefully with a happy ending. I’m not familiar with both lead actresses Emi and Bonnie, never saw them in anything else before. But they look great together. I’m definitely in.

Hide & Sis

Not BL or GL. Angst, drama, dysfunctional family and a murder mystery, gives me OTT lakorn vibes, and it has a lot of familiar actors and actresses, but eh, I’m not interested.

Thame - Po Heart That Skips A Beat

BL about idols with a new CP EstWilliam, like a lot of people predicted. I loved Est in Naughty Babe where he had a supporting part, so it’s great to see him as a lead here. And they have great chemistry, so I’m in.

Break Up Service

Off in a het drama, ehh not interested.

Revamp The Undead Story

It was Wabi Sabi’s The Vampire Project before. Now Boum and Prem are with GMMTV and their drama, too. It’s vampire BL, so of course I will check it out.

Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist

A romantic comedy BL with a stupid title, and seems like a very silly, even if also a very sweet, show. But MarkOhm, yay!!!! I wouldn’t watch it if not for them. But I’m dying to see them as a couple, so I’m willing to watch even such a silly comedy as this one.

The Dark Dice

Not BL or GL, with Jumanji vibes, plus Squid Game vibes, too – a few students get transferred into a game when they have to fight to survive. Gemini is one of the leads. But eh, no, that one is not for me.

The Ex-Morning

KristSingto in a new BL drama about exes who reconnect a few years after a bad break-up. I was never into them as a couple, and the plot doesn’t look very tempting to me, so I probably won’t be watching that one.

Scarlet Heart Thailand

It’s a remake of kdrama Scarlet Heart Ryeo (or maybe of Chinese novel kdrama was based on, it wasn’t clear) about a girl who travels back in time and gets entangled with the royal family. From what I heard about Scarlet Heart Ryeo there will be angst and tears and death. But the actors, ahhh, so many actors I like – Nanon, Fourth, Phuwin, Force, Perth, Tay... I think that for them I will be watching this one, too.