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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.

His name might be Neo Trai but he wouldn’t have to try with me.

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.

In some parts of the world, including here in Australia, a slang term for an empty beer or wine bottle is “dead Marine”.

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.

I’m an Australian gay man and I bloody loved it too. Gave it a 10.

I’m also a gay guy who was about to post an almost-identical comment about this entertaining series until I read this one. I love Pak’s acting for the same reasons you do, he’s a real find. The reason Mame is so constantly employed as a writer is obvious - she attracts huge local and international audiences time after time, exactly what major sponsors like McDonalds are looking for. Wedding Plan is my current favorite series.

Joke - what a perfect name that would have been for my first boyfriend.

Throughout human history, older gay men have had successful relationships with younger partners. I know this because I’m happily half of one myself. Like Shin, it was my younger soulmate who initiated it and, now in our seventh year, it’s stronger than ever. Shin and Asuka are both super-cute, intelligent young guys. Why the screenwriters thought anyone would believe that they’d put up with the psychotic behavior being displayed by both Akira and Asuka’s wax dummy of a boyfriend is beyond me. This is by far the biggest letdown of any BL series in 2023 so far. 0/10.

I’m fudanshi, and can’t imagine that any gay man, getting fake-hetero married to a gay woman to please their parents, would feel like blurting that out to a wedding planner he barely knows, no matter how cute he was, unless he was certain the response would be a positive one. Lom only kissed Namnuea after he heard him say “do you want me to loosen your lips with mine”. The shocked response to the kiss from Namnouea, even after what he said, was really well-portrayed by Pak. So far at least, I totally love this series.

According to the magazine New Scientist, dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago. Regrettably, this series arrived too late to be included.

Boy likes girl but is too awkward and shy around her. Boy asks girl’s ex-boyfriend for tips to help him capture her heart. Boys fall in love with each other instead of her, the end. A slight storyline like this can’t be stretched to engagingly fill ten 45+ minute episodes. I’m fudanshi and love Joong and Dunk, but even I can’t wait around that long for an occasional glimpse of Dunk wearing shorts.

It’s interesting to see how writer Mame is so heavily involved with the production of this series, similar to Alice Oseman with Heartstopper. I really liked the first episode, the two lead guys are great, the pace of the dialog isn’t slowed down by ludicrous staring and I loved Lom’s waterskiing scene. Prediction: if this standard is kept up, Wedding Plan will be one of the hit BLs of the year.