what is your top 5 love confessions in bl?
imma do top 10 because all my lists are top 10 and TRADITION demands consistency
My Top 10 BL Love Confessions
* 0. Togawa’s can’t hold it in any longer in Old Fashion Cupcake has now scooped the top spot. Look, it’s just brilliant and you know me, I love a desperate emotional kiss. It just works so well. The want and thirst dripping off of Togawa this whole show culminates perfectly in this scene, and the way Nozue can’t help but respond, but is also so confused. GAH SO GOOD.
1. ShinWoo’s “thinking about you” confession in Light On Me. I’m on record that this is my favorite and it still sort of is. I just LOVE the quiet earnest high school cheese of it. Because it’s not about ShinWoo wanting anything for himself, it’s about what he could do and give to TaeKyung, acknowledged or not.
2. Yuzuru running the clock down on those Seven Days so he can ask Seiryo to be his boyfriend outside of the “game” because he’s too scared about the dishonesty that the game implies (since he is a character driven by brutal honesty). You knew this one was coming. This is me, after all. This is possibly my favorite BL of all time.
3. Speaking of favorite BLs...... “You’re the lucky one, you always have been,” to baby (is not asleep, he’s NEVER actually asleep) in We Best Love.
(And of course the desperate drunken kisses in WBL2, but I don’t think that strictly counts as a confession scene, more a reunion confession scene?)
4. Utsukushii Kare: Kiyoi’s "yell it at that idiot, and then storm off" version. Because it’s about being seen as a real living human with needs and not just a god on a pedestal. And then the way he has to articulate this later for Hira to finally realize his own worth and right to actually be Kiyoi’s boyfriend.
5. A First Love Story (where did the kimchi go?) in the street “I like you, hyung.”
6. Semantic Error’s seme subscription service. Technically the confession (or demand in JaeYeong’s case) comes just after the kiss in the scene prior: “We like each other, why can’t we just date?” But the whole sequence is great and such a classic example of a seme dealing with an extreme tsundere uke and trying to force a confession out of him. (Never gonna work, buddy.)
6. SeoJoon’s “I think I actually like you” in To My Star and JiWoo’s absolute terror at this and the prospect of happiness.
7. See You after Quarantine’s “I like you and I didn’t mean to hang up it was just a power outage and please don’t be mad” adorable awkwardness.
8. The locker room scene in Love By Chance. THE LOCKER ROOM SCENE... ICONIC! The car first kiss “I think I like you more than a friend” is probubly Ae’s first confession but I like the one where he’s like “no, actually, I really do want to date you and fuck you so just PLEASE just be my boyfriend.” The desperation in it is so telling.
9. " I love you so damn much” in Puppy Honey 2. Old guard here, but sometimes they just did it best, tsundere seme bringing the drama right up until the last gasp.
10. Until We Meet Again: “Do you understand?” “I understand that we love each other.”
Of course. And then THAT kiss. Gah.
Others I like
Pete in Kiss, “I broke up with her because I like you,” plus Kao’s response “Yeah, fat chance, I don’t trust your player ass.” Fair, dude. Fair.
Grabbing his face “It’s you Tine, I like you” from Wat in 2gether.
Forth to Beam, “shall we try being boyfriends?” in the hospital bed in 2 Moons 2. Similarly Ming’s “You’re my earth” very poetic confession to Kit kneeling in bed together.
Addicted’s kidnapping OBEY sweatshirt in leu of a confession, just trash terrible and dumb and great.
I was reminded of Type’s “I love you, asshole Tharn” in Tharntype. It is a good one.
Mark’s drive by “I like you” smooch and then later “meet my friends as my boyfriend” in Love is Science?
Okay that’s it! What are some of yours?
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