GL Drama Lovers Club

RealNevermore

Mar 21, 2025 05:32 am

So, she is a famous fashion designer now :D

https://www.gardenofabi.com/journal/actress-founder-of-archi-sae-isshiki

So, this is what happened

https://mubi.com/en/cast/sae-isshiki

Alex

Mar 21, 2025 07:43 am

AthenaTheStorierX:
Films "Let You Go", "Dream Garden"

I submitted these some days back :)

AthenaTheStorierX

Mar 21, 2025 05:07 pm

Alex:
I submitted these some days back :)

Fabulous ^-^

RealNevermore

Mar 22, 2025 07:51 pm

~Yuri Anime News~
'There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless..'
Coming this July :D

Author, Illustrator and Artist: Teren Mikami, Eku Takeshima and Musshu

Summary: A high school yuri comedy about fake dating, real dating, competitive dating–and one very overwhelmed girl who’s accidentally doing all three at once?!

Awkward, introverted Amaori Renako is leaving her lonely middle school life behind, determined to become an outgoing and popular high schooler. Glamorous, confident Oduka Mai is Renako’s total opposite: wealthy, carefree, and a literal fashion model. Against the odds, the two girls form an immediate connection. Renako thinks she may have found the best friend of her dreams…until Mai’s love confession sends her feelings into a tailspin. Renako wants to prove to Mai that being BFFs is better than being girlfriends, but Mai is dead set on convincing Renako that they’re destined to be lovers!

AthenaTheStorierX

Mar 22, 2025 11:23 pm

A quick break in the larger recaps to bring you the hot off the presses news!

The Water has confirmed EngLot and released a trailer:

Run Away has announced its first cast member:

Piano Nichapat will play Kwan, a spirit who maintains her 25-year-old appearance. Although she may appear sweet, she can be manipulative and vengeful.

SooNotSue's Yubin spinoff has been completed and is titled "An Office Thing." It is set to premier in April. She will also be splitting up her content between 2 youtube channels. GL content on the Soo Not Sue Studio channel we are familiar with, and vlog content on her personal channel. No confirmation yet on if she is going to do the paid membership set-up or not. Also no word on if survey-takers are still getting early access to this series.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkbF5QX9LQGQf7T26ZxEspA/community?lb=UgkxaMfxiLGHGassam3e0_S1N8zmkIhSlBl7

AthenaTheStorierX

Mar 23, 2025 03:14 am

News Recap: Chinese GL!

- When We Met/Fireworks of Yesteryear premiered on January 19th. It's streaming, free, online!
Bilibili: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1TFwbeWEic/?buvid=XX1DF8E162B34E8B5DFFADF5A4DF0C6D34AF5
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dhP50krPzU&ab_channel=Xen
Director's Cut (an extra 10 minutes!): https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1tjX1Y5EcQ/

- The makers of My Hot Butch Roommate produced another microdrama, comprised of the same actors. No news on subs yet though. (Stay Tuned!)
Ep 1: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13BPeeSEnZ/
Ep 2: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1QkPLePEzj/

- In a post from a collaboration between author Qi Xiao Huang Shu (When We Met/Fireworks of Yesteryear) and YeSanck, she mentioned that an AU extra from her showbiz romance novel Shrine/神龛 is in the early stages of being adapted into a mini drama. As this is early stages, a lot of things can happen (just like with previous discussions of adapting other works), but this is certainly something to potentially look forward to.

Alex

Mar 23, 2025 03:34 pm

New H'our Channel GL Catch Cat Crush! First episode on March 27th.

~~Do you think it's just a translation error or are we getting a they/them lesbian? 👀~~

Ryn_333

Mar 23, 2025 04:32 pm

Alex:
Do you think it's just a translation error or are we getting a they/them lesbian? 👀

Woah consistently 'their' for one character three times, but none for the other character. Doesn't look like a mistake. But maybe it is. Idk would be pretty cool :)

AthenaTheStorierX

Mar 23, 2025 05:28 pm

Alex:
New H'our Channel GL Catch Cat Crush! First episode on March 27th.
~~Do you think it's just a translation error or are we getting a they/them lesbian? 👀~~

Im intrigued

MarkWasHere VIP

Mar 23, 2025 09:54 pm

Alex:
New H'our Channel GL Catch Cat Crush! First episode on March 27th.
~~Do you think it's just a translation error or are we getting a they/them lesbian? 👀~~

My guess is the character is NOT a trans person, but this is just a translation issue. H'our dramas use machine translations for their dramas, so I suspect this text was also machine translated. The Thai language doesn't have gender specific pronouns, and so when a machine is translating Thai into English, it has to guess the correct pronoun to use (sometimes incorrectly with humorous results), or to use a non-gender specific English pronoun such as "their". But again, this is just my guess.

Ryn_333

Mar 23, 2025 10:08 pm

MarkWasHere:
My guess is the character is NOT a trans person, but this is just a translation issue. H'our dramas use machine translations for their dramas, so I suspect this text was also machine translated. The Thai language doesn't have gender specific pronouns, and so when a machine is translating Thai into English, it has to guess the correct pronoun to use (sometimes incorrectly with humorous results), or to use a non-gender specific English pronoun such as "their". But again, this is just my guess.

I don't necessarily think you're wrong on that specific character, but Thai does technically have some gendered pronouns. It's just that most of the gender happens in first person 'I', not in third person 'he/she'. We'll see if this character uses 'krub' or 'ka', 'chan' or 'phom'. I'm excited to find out :)

AthenaTheStorierX

Mar 23, 2025 11:09 pm

Ryn_333:
I don't necessarily think you're wrong on that specific character, but Thai does technically have some gendered pronouns. It's just that most of the gender happens in first person 'I', not in third person 'he/she'. We'll see if this character uses 'krub' or 'ka', 'chan' or 'phom'. I'm excited to find out :)

^ This. We’ll have to see what pronouns are used when the character refers to themself.

An excellent use of 3rd gender pronoun is used by Daisy in Secret Crush On You (BL main and 2nd couple, transfemme/nonbinary (doesnt use either traditional male or female pronouns) x man 3rd couple, and GL minor couple (FreenBecky’s first project together).

https://www.tumblr.com/absolutebl/681009397863956481/touch-daisy-in-secret-crush-on-you-im-sorry-to

we also do see Silvy play a nonbinary sapphic in Warp Effect, but i dont have the fluency to be able to dissect their pronoun usage nor have i came across any posts that do so.

RealNevermore

Mar 24, 2025 05:30 am

~Queer Movie~

Girls on the Wire is currently going on in theaters in China and the director has ambiguously embedded queerness in the movie. The leads are cousins by the way. No kiss scene obviously otherwise it wouldn't be on theater. But those who have watched it, saying it is very good and somehow a step forward.