RiqueXinw:2023 IN BL QUESTIONNAIRESunshineMar:
Since I’m overwhelmed with Sunshine’s questions ("Gah, I can't decide!"), I shall evade with some of my own creative categories (limited to BLs I’ve actually watched with MDL release date in 2023):
All-around favourite Thai BL: “Moonlight Chicken” (unless one counts “My School President” as 2023)
All-around favourite Korean BL: tie between “Eighth Sense” (drama) and “Our Dating Sim” (fluffy)
All-around favourite Japanese BL: tough choice because there were a number of really excellent BLs, but I’ll go with “My Beautiful Man: Eternal” (but largely based on the trilogy as a whole, so that’s not really fair – otherwise it would probably be “Kimi to Nara Koi wo Shite Mite mo”)
All-around favourite Taiwanese BL: “Stay By My Side” (I haven’t yet watched “Kiseki: Dear To Me”, so I can’t compare)
Best BL which is arguably a bromance: “Stay With Me” (Who would have expected a BL this good from Mainland China?)
Best BL with no official international release: “Kimi ni wa Todokanai” (Thank you, Bilibili!)
Most trashy and lurid BL of 2023 which I’m ashamed to admit that I liked: “Playboyy”
Most raw and graphic yet dramatically purposeful and non-trashy sex scene in a BL: “Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu”
Best and funniest BL still airing as of 31/12: “Cooking Crush” (My first Off/Gun BL … gosh these guys are good!)
Best non-BL with a meaningful gay side theme: “Beni Sasu Life” (No spoilers!)
Cutest little kid in a BL: Tane in “Bokura no Shokutaku” / "Bokura no Kyujitsu" (Astonishingly good 7yo actor)
Best Korean BL which I loved but many others hated: “Love Mate”
Best BL which made me embarrassingly teary: “Moonlight Chicken” (Li Ming + Heart storyline) (Warning in case you ever take me on a date to a movie theatre: I get teary easily. Yes, I'm really a guy.)
Best food-themed BL: “Zenra Meshi” (even though not so great as a BL love story, very interesting food porn + my beloved Yutaro)
Most disappointing BL which had a good story concept and could have been really good but was just terribly executed: “Luminous Solution”
Worst BL which was so bad I didn’t watch it, so technically I can’t list it here: “Crazy Handsome Rich"
Almost worst BL except that Bigboom is such a cutie, so I have to be kind: "Future"
Almost worst BL which was awful in the first episodes but then got much better, especially in the last two episodes which were actually pretty good: “Middleman’s Love”
Worst acting performance in a BL: I hate to sound catty … but it has to be Gun Napat in “Luminous Solution” (OK, his character in “Love By Chance” was cute, but this guy really can’t act)
Cutest and sweetest totally new CP: Newyear + Jur from “Firstly Like You” (= excerpts from “Hit Bite Love”)
Best fluffy and insubstantial TikTok micro-series starring my beloved Tutor and Yim: “Our Winter”
Best BL short with virtually no spoken lines: “Childhood”
Honourable mention for best BL not on MDL: “My Goofy Deskmate” (Vietnam – fluffy vignette-type mini-episodes, but with such good, funny, engaging characters)
JimmySea_FanGirl_4Life:
I would love to join <3
Just by posting in this thread, you're a member.
There are also lively Discord groups if you're interested, the MDL BL Drama Lovers server is here: https://discord.gg/uRSVuwEqga there is also the BL Wonderland Discord Server: https://discord.gg/blwonderland Both servers offer watch parties and lively conversation about individual BL and GL dramas and films.
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Best BL with no official international release: “Kimi ni wa Todokanai” (Thank you, Bilibili!)p43425:
Isn't it being on Netflix means it has an official international release?
Most trashy and lurid BL of 2023 which I’m ashamed to admit that I liked: “Playboyy”
haha feel the same, I actually like this series even though it's so trashy indeed
Most raw and graphic yet dramatically purposeful and non-trashy sex scene in a BL: “Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu”
Agree! I was actually surprised by it (mostly after seeing Seto Toshiki in Senpai, Danjite Koidewa! which was quite bad imo).
Isn't it being on Netflix means it has an official international release?Mitzi Miao:
Oh, thanks - I totally missed that. It's even now on Netflix in my country. Wow, I'm so happy! (I herewith amend my award category to "Best BL with no official international release at the time I watched it".)
Name a show/s that seemingly everyone loved that you just couldn’t get into? Kiseki: Dear to Me. It's never been clearer that I'll always be an outsider here.Elisheva:
We all have different tastes and opinions - that's totally normal and fine! One of the things I especially like about this group is that we're all generally respectful of this.
Oh, thanks - I totally missed that. It's even now on Netflix in my country. Wow, I'm so happy!
When I found out it'll be on Netflix I just waited to watch it there. I wish there will be more BLs on Netflix.
One of the things I especially like about this group is that we're all generally respectful of this.
Right, that's most important. I see people being really rude and mean in series' pages. Either they come to mock those who enjoy a series they think is bad or look down at people who dislike a series they do. I don't understand why anyone has to bring others into their critique or opinion about a series.
We all have different tastes and opinions - that's totally normal and fine! One of the things I especially like about this group is that we're all generally respectful of this.
Yeah, that is one of the things I love most about this club. I can say some of the most unpopular things and not get attacked for it. I like that persons are more interested in the reasoning behind my opinion. Now that is a healthy club.
