My Stand-In ตัวนาย ตัวแทน is a 12-episode Thai BL series that premiered on April 26, 2024. It is adapted from the Chinese BL novel Professional Body Double 職業替身 by Shui Qian Cheng 水千丞, which is one of her very popular 188 BL novel series that has 11 novels currently.
A Balloon’s Landing 我在這裡等你 (Chinese title means I’ll Wait Here for You) is a Taiwanese film that will premiere on May 10, 2024 in Taiwan. With two male leads, and with ambiguous teasers, it’s difficult to tell if it will just be a movie about bromance, or soulmates, or BL? Whatever it is, it’s already a hotly anticipated film from all accounts…
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Absolute BL 2024 or its full title, A World Where Everything Definitely Becomes BL vs. the Man Who Definitely Doesn’t Want to be in a BL 2024 | 絶対BLになる世界VS絶対BLになりたくない男 2024 is the 3rd season of the Japanese BL drama series based on the manga series of the same name by Konkichi 紺吉. It’s a 6-episode series which will premiere on April 23, 2024.
At 25:00, in Akasaka | 25時、赤坂で is a 10-episode Japanese BL series which will premiere on the early hours of April 19, 2024 in Japan. It’s adapted from the manga series of the same name by Natsuno Hiroko 夏野寛子.
Gray Shelter 회색기류 is a 5-episode Korean BL series that premiered on April 11, 2024. However this is not the first Korean BL series released this year, as far as I know, there have been 5 series from South Korea (Happy Ending 해피엔딩, Love for Love’s Sake 연애 지상주의 구역, Jazz for Two 재즈처럼, Please Teach Me 가르쳐주세요, Love is Like A Cat 사랑은 고양이처럼) released earlier this year, or currently airing but I haven’t done any OST post for them, either because they don’t have an OST, or they haven’t released the official OST, or I wasn’t interested in the series themselves (for example, Please Teach Me has 50 episodes of about 1 minute each episode which is ridiculous).
Living with Him 彼のいる生活 is an 8-episode Japanese BL series that premiered on the early hours of April 12, 2024. It’s adapted from the manga of the same name by Miyata Toworu 宮田トヲル.
Only Boo! แค่ที่แกง is a 12-episode Thai BL series that premiered on March 31, 2024. It’s adapted from the novel of the same name by peachhplease.
Imperfect Us 不夠善良的我們 is an 8-episode Taiwanese series that will start airing tonight, April 6, 2024 in Taiwan. However the first 2 episodes actually premiered at the 2023 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 台北金馬影展 on November 16, 2023. Originally 3 showings were scheduled at the festival but all the tickets were sold out within 30 minutes and the organisers decided to schedule another extra showing on November 25, 2023. Singaporean singer-songwriter Tanya Chua 蔡健雅 was invited to compose the original scores for the series, apart from that she also composed 6 new songs for the series. At the moment, only the audio version of the closing theme song has been released.
(more…)The Taiwanese VBL series – Stay By My Side 免疫屏蔽, You Are Mine 絕對佔領, VIP Only 保留席位, and Anti Reset 恆久定律 – have filmed a 20-minute extra episode for each of the 4 series. These extra episodes were produced through crowdfunding since January 18, 2024 through to April 30, 2024 and from all reports, the goal of the crowdfunding was reached after just one day and the filming went ahead smoothly. They have now released the teasers for each of the 4 extra episodes but no date has been announced for when they will be shown. However the promotional theme song for the extra episodes have been released…
(more…)Who would have thought this time last year that we would be getting so many BL dramas adapted from popular Chinese BL novels, yes proper BL dramas, not the bromance drama adaptations we are used to in the last 5 or 6 years from China. All of these new “Chinese” BL dramas are now cleverly circumventing China and being produced and broadcast outside China!
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