BL Recs (sort of) Like My Personal Weatherman
This one got flagged up with the images, so I'm stripping them out, editeding down, and hoping asker sees this version.
I’m the one who asked about more recs like “My Personal Weatherman” and you asked what I specifically liked about it. The most important is how much they obviously loved and took care of each other. I get annoyed when people say that Mizuki was a walking red flag when he was going to stop and run a warm bath when Yoh sneezed. I also loved that Yoh actually had a lot more power in their relationship than he realized; he hurt Mizuki several times and didn’t even realize. I hope these two things give you enough to go on.
Oh interesting, so the performative nature of the sexual relationship contrasted to the undercurrent of real genuine affection?
Okay I think that gives me enough to go on...
Office frienamies transition a flaming hot one night stand into a f-buddy relationship that is built on a puppy/cat dynamic (and kinks into it at one point). Our puppy is loyal, smitten, and protective with endlessly longing eyes, while our cat is snarky, prickly, and deeply damaged (ALL THE TRIGGERS).
This is a decent execution of true enemies to lovers, these two spy on and bully each other, exploring darker themes and self worth issues. The way the leads transition between anger, resentment, titillation, and flirting (and the way, with kinksters, this can all be the same thing) is really well done. A pairing that proved itself to be a lot more sophisticated than I expected with nods at kink in a more respectful way than Mame could ever dream, plus excellent chemistry, but something went askew around plot, directing, and ending. Still if you're in it for the sexy, go to, they did.
There is a lot to like about this BL, it has a cops and robbers romance thread running through it with intelligence officers trying to catch a gang of criminals. The valentine's operation does have the secret identity drawback of one character constantly lying to his mark. While this dynamic is intrinsically distasteful IMHO, the Liar is so sunshine and charming and earnest (about everythign ELSE) it's somewhat mitigated. The whole thing was colored positively by Taiwan's sexy charm and signature chaotic domesticity, but that jarred with the gangster premise. It’s classic Taiwan: a bit messy dramatic, sweetly sincere at heart, overly sappy. But fun.
Catfishing assassins on either side of a turf war fall in love not knowing they are on opposite sides. Or do they? Suspenseful plot, good fight sequences, mature characters, hot sexitimes and even hotter beating the shit out of each other and kissing while covered in blood (this came from KOREA?), plus an HEA. One of the greatest hidden gems of the BL genre.
A delightful power dynamic fluff (and blow) piece about a bad-mouthed grumpy “best friends older brother” type and the young intern he is bent on seducing. And by bent I mean over every possible piece of office furniture. They start out as f-buddies, one of them catches feelings, everything goes chaotic from there. This is a fun pulpy BL and I had a blast watching it. We all did. Never before has a fandom rooted so hard for the downfall of a main character. No one took this show seriously, least of all itself. Thank goodness.
The story of a scrappy street urchin who, in order to get revenge on his ex-girlfriend, decides to seduce her current boyfriend. The boys fall in love but that's just the beginning. There’s also a side couple made of their respective best friends, one of whom is a doctor. The friendships are as important as the romance, one of which is a blatantly queer quasi frenamies and the other of which is the "how to be gay" trope.
The entire shows' love language is manipulation, and everybody is both good-looking and adorable. There’s a lot of "who falls first, who falls harder?" But they all fall very hard in the end.
This show had an excellent premise about two fated mates, Cir & Phu, destined to be lovers in multiple parallel worlds. It is the curse of A Cir Who Knows Better to ensure that they manage to always end up together. This effectively explained all Cir’s weird creepy stalker behavior (pièce de résistance of a MAME seme) with the bonafide excuse of that tugging red thread.
Turns out I forgive a lot for a strong premise, especially when combined with truly stellar chemistry. But there was also some bad chewing of the scenery and really terrible singing at key moments that screwed the landing (yes that too, but). The sex scenes were some of the best we’ve ever had, unfortunately, even they weren’t good enough to mitigate that damn singing.
Jojo directs this action romcom about assassin brothers (Khao & Joong) meets conmen: tattoo artist ex-booster (First) and very flirty mechanic (Dunk).
I dithered over how to rate this. It felt like an 8 show wearing a 9’s britches. There were dropped threads, forgotten characters, and unfinished plot lines even with a particularly long run time. And, for me, it doesn’t have significant rewatch potential.
But it was such fun (when one applies no expectations or logic) and I enjoyed the wildly unhinged relationships and, weirdly, music. I mean nobody claimed that we needed Taming of the Shrew only with gay Thai hitmen, but we really needed it. And no one asked for Petruchio to be the gayest brat ever to strut his perfect skin and croptop across our screen, and yet we loved him for it. Sure it didn’t make sense, was utterly absurd, but it was terribly earnest and sexy about it. In the end this goes hand-in-hand with all these other absurd crime pieces we’ve been getting since KP, and frankly I like this one the best from Thailand so far.
Two actors who are in competition with each other professionally fall in love and it gets complicated. This show was well acted with good chemistry (that honey scene is one for the history books) but it was a bit off for me. The ego conflicts of the filmmaking industry came to the fore but awkwardly (like this sentence). Frankly? I didn't enjoy the premise or the story and I can’t get away from that. Based on Japanese IP, I think this might have been better left to them. This is a solid Thai BL and if you like its brand of messy gay and actor narcism full frontal, then you'd likely give this a 9/10. I don’t, so it gets an 8/10 from me. But I recognized that this is my specific taste and no reflection on its quality as a BL.
This is a FUN show. A charming quintessentially modern Thai BL about a doctor and a boxer who start as a one night stand and then fall in love. Great rep for everything from Muay Thai, to safe sex, to FUN sex, to ace, to bisexuality, to smiley kisses, to the first legal gay wedding in a Thai BL.
No one knows what’s going on, not even the characters, but absolutely no one cares 'cause it's so thirsty. The plot seems to be "great chemistry and make sure Zee's shirts are NEVER BUTTONED PROPERLY." We, the collective, have a pro Hawaiian shirt anti-button stance, so rah rah rah! Still the most confusing thing about this show is: why they didn't just title it YRU?
It’s pretty clear Fighter is hella gay for Tutor and just can’t work his shit out, and that Saifah has a crush on Zon, but it takes them all a while to flirt their way into lovers, so they could sort of be thought of as enemies first? The story on this one is messy, but you can’t fault the chemistry.
Others I mildly considered as having a touch to this dynamic, more performative combative romantic relationship contrasted to genuine affection... well hidden. (So fewer sexual components.)
When it Rains it Pours AKA Futtara Doshaburi
Love is Like a Poison AKA Doku Koi: Doku mo Sugireba Koi to Naru
Roommates of Poongduck 304
This Love Doesn't Have Long Beans
At 25:00, in Alaska AKA 25 Ji, Akasaka de
Hoping this gives you something to try!
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