Just finished watching episode 6 and am still completely blown away. The acting from this entire cast plus expert direction and a riveting storyline have all combined to produce one of the truly realistic, great BL series of this or any other year.
He suggested I go and have sexual intercourse with myself, but not that politely.. He also told me that there’s a local nail salon, catering mainly to women, but who will also cut men’s toenails for $50, or five bucks per toe. If that’s what they charge, I guess I’ll just keep on doing it myself.
After we watched episode 2, I suggested to my same-sex partner that he might get turned on by cutting my toenails for me. I don’t think I should print his answer here, as it might cause offense to more sensitive readers. Somehow I don’t think this pastime will start trending any time soon.
GagaOOLala is listing this series at #1 with its audience here in Australia in three top-ten lists: Gay, BL/Yaoi and Free. I agree with everyone who says its running-time is way too short. Only 24 minutes in and Mizuki has the last line of dialog in episode 4, when he asks Yoh a totally unnecessary question: “hey, want to do it?” and bam, that’s the end, no NC, no nothin’. What is this - a BL series or the Theater of Cruelty?
I’ve just upgraded my rating to a full 10, and am personally awarding the same score to both Kouhei and Atsuki. So far this series is effing BRILLIANT!
Does anyone else think this is the hottest damn BL on current release, including Only Friends? Judging from the comments, I wasn’t the only one waiting for Mizuki and Yoh to hurry up and leave Yokohama and get back to the apartment. By the time episode four arrives those new bedsheets will probably look like the old ones.
It interests me to see how many of the comments on this particular series are being posted by guys like me. I’m also guessing that a lot more gay male viewers secretly watch BL’s than show up in official viewing figures, especially in countries where same-sex relationships are still fighting for wider social acceptance and so many of our sisters and brothers still feel unable to come out of the closet.
Wedding Plan is, for me anyway, the best series so far in 2023. Guys like me from the LGBTQ+ community often have to resist oppressively heavy pressure from their families to get married to members of the opposite sex. I have several friends who eventually gave in and went into one of these sorry hookups where their partners had no idea that they were same-sex attracted, all of them ending in separation or divorce. At least this is not the case in WP. It will be an immediate rewatch for me, I enjoyed every second of it and Sunny and Pak are my favorite new BL pairing of the year to date, just ahead of Gem and Fourth.
The inappropriate scenes aren't in the cut version. That's pretty much it as far as I know. The subs are better…
The “inappropriate” scene in Episode 4 was worth the monthly subscription to iQYI on its own! Also, episodes are shown in full, not divided into 4 parts.
Although it’s still only August, if I was a judge on a panel deciding who should get the award for best newcomer in a BL series for 2023, my vote would go without hesitation to Pak for his awesome acting in Wedding Plan. I also have no problem whatsoever with McDonald’s as a sponsor. Thai BL’s in particular often have heaps of blatant product placement and Macca’s (the company’s nickname here in Australia) are obviously aware that BL’s are attracting large global audiences and are perfect places for an international company to advertise.
There’s a significant difference between the NC scenes in a BL like Only Friends and full-on porn. In OF, many of us watching know who the actors are because we’ve seen and liked them before in other series and also often know at least a little about their lives away from the studio. The spicy buzz we get watching our biases having intimate contact with somebody different to their regular on-screen partners is like accidentally catching two of our hot neighbors having extra-marital sex and forgetting to close the drapes. Porn is mostly strangers having soulless, mechanical couplings for money, with about as much emotional chemistry as two flies mating on a mouldy sandwich.
I’ll be surprised if the high audience figures for this first episode don’t include a larger than usual number of fudanshi viewers like me, due to its realistic depiction of a lot of gay nightlife worldwide. Neo is killing it for me. Judging from the wicked gleam in his eyes, he looks like he’s enjoying every minute of being out of school uniform and finally playing what I hope will turn out to be the major role his fanbase have been waiting for.
OMG! I’m still reeling after watching the NC scene with Nuea and Lom at the climax(!) of ep 4…..so OK, I’ve watched it three times already. I agree that it’s time Lom told Nuea the truth, but after that scorching NC I don’t think he’s going to be exactly stunned with surprise.
Sunny and Pak are two of the most convincing actors I’ve ever seen in any BL. Like Net Siraphop, they know how to convey their character’s emotions with their eyes and general body language, such a change from the stone faced, blank expressions of so many others, especially in Thai series.
Episode 5 has just lurched its way off my iPad into the oblivion it so richly deserves. Akira is now behaving like a complete psycho. His loopy behavior is obviously too much for the locals. There’s never anyone in the laundromat apart from him, talking to himself in front of the driers. We’ll probably find out in episode 6 that he’s been secretly snorting the washing powder.
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Sunny and Pak are two of the most convincing actors I’ve ever seen in any BL. Like Net Siraphop, they know how to convey their character’s emotions with their eyes and general body language, such a change from the stone faced, blank expressions of so many others, especially in Thai series.