#soft bl

"From Office Drone to Office Bear: My Life as the Boss’s Favorite Plush"

“I just wanted a raise, not a ribbon around my neck…”

All Hiro wanted was a raise—not to become his grumpy boss’s favorite plush toy.

After an office accident and a little unexpected magic, Hiro finds himself transformed into a teddy bear… and cradled in the arms of his grouchy, chain-smoking supervisor. But instead of panicking, the boss just shrugs and takes him home like it’s normal.

Now sharing lazy weekends, office desks, and quiet moments together, Hiro starts to wonder if being someone’s comfort object is really so bad… especially when the boss begins to change too.

Soft BLs Centered Around a Friendship Group

example: We Are

This is Thailand's bailiwick, so the ones that satisfy all your criteria are gonna be Thai.

These are in order of my personal preferences. Best at the top.

My School President

Cherry Magic (Thai remake)

Love By Chance (AePete cut)

Destiny Seeker

2 Moons 2

2 Moons Ambassador

2gether series

En of Love series

My Engineer

Nitiman

La Cuisine

Make it Right series

Gen Y series

Secret Crush on You

Tonhon Chonlatee

I will say that The Kiss series+ has my favorite friendship group but I can't in good conscious call Dark Blue Kiss soft. So it's not on this list. But I wanna give it a nod.

Much smaller friendships groups but they kinda there?

Oh! Boarding House

Love Class 2 (Korea) it's not hard but also it's not really about the friendships until the end. But it's the closest Korea has come to this kind of BL.

The New Employee

All the Liquors

My Day

DNA Says Love You

Tie The Not

Papa and Daddy

Second Chance

My Lascivious Boss

Stupid Genius (+most of the "stupid" series from Vietnam)

My Gear and Your Gown

21 Days Theory

Ai Long Nhai

My Secret Love

Good Friendships Groups but Harsher BLs

Bad Buddy

Until We Meet Again

The Sign

SOTUS

Theory of Love

Deep Night

Love Sick series

Oh! My Sunshine Night

Pit Babe

Usually I stop my pulls at 7/10 but in this instance I included some 6/10s. Just FYI. Some of the ones lower down in each category really aren't that good.

Hope there are some here you haven't seen. My personal suggestion might actually be La Cuisine. I think it's giving the requisite full on softness. And it's rare to find others who have watched this.

(*I feel like About Youth and DNA would sit at the same lunch table if that makes any sense)

I haven't yet, thanks for the recommendation! It's on my giant "to watch" list, but it wasn't very high up because I was vaguely scared off by the "DNA" in the title, and was loosely imagining some sort of weird science fiction full of irritating pseudoscience. That was all in my head obviously, I just looked up the summary and it has nothing to do with that.

Soft and delicate and full of heart sounds lovely.

DNA Says Love You poster stolen from mydramalist

Bongchon Bride / 봉촌각시