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save-the-data · 23 days

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Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto | S01E04

Japanese Drama - 2024, 6 episodes

#Drama: Love is Better the Second Time Around #JDrama #Romance #Childhood Friends to Lovers #Age-Gap #Adapted from a Manga #恋をするなら二度目が上等 #Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto #Japan BL #BL GIFS #Japanese Drama - 2024 #Drama: 2024 #Hasegawa Makoto #Furuya Robin #Takamatsu Aloha #Shiraishi Shunya #Mochizuki Haruki #Kiss Episode

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heretherebedork · 2 months

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I love Ryo already, my gaybie with the giant crush on his best friend. Ugh, just look at him trying so hard not to enjoy the hug because that's his crush asking him to help with finding a girl filmed on some very old film... poor boy.

#my strawberry film #gagaoolala #マイストロベリーフィルム #japanese bl #asian lgbtq dramas #bl series #asianlgbtqdramas #bl drama #japanese bl drama #japanese bl series #jbl #this looks like it's gonna be interesting #but the romance might not be the focus #poor ryo though

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lemonfreshlysqueezed · 5 months

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One of my favorite tropes is when they draw eachother.

It says so much about how they view the other but also some of them are just do damn bad at it, that its funny!

Dangerous romance - Kang x Sailom

They had to draw eachother for a school assignment in art class. But Sailom might be better of pairing with somebody else.

My love mix-up - Ida x Aoki

Another school assignment where they had to draw eachother. I could not find a gif with Aoki’s drawing of Ida but if i remember correctly it’s even worse than Kangs attempt.

Gif by @gabrielokun

My personal weatherman - Yoh x Segasaki

Yoh even made it his job to draw Segasaki

Gifs by @save-the-data

Jack O’ Frost - Ritsu x Fumiya

Gifs by @tinnchan

Not me - Dan x Yok

Yok drew Dan multiple times during the development of their relationship.

Gif by @gifetc Gif by @gabrielokun

While Dan painted him once while he barely knew Yok but he had made such an impact by saving him, Yok got a place in one of Dans murals.

Gif by @sunsetandthemoon

#bl tropes #i’m already starting on part 2 because there are so much more #thai bl #thaibl #thai bl drama #first kanaphan #bl drama #dangerous romance the series #my love mix up #kieta hatsukoi #not me the series #danyok #jack o’frost the series #japanese bl #my personal weatherman #not me series #multi bl

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lostinmac · 6 months

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Haru (1996)

Dir. Yoshimitsu Morita

#haru #1996 #film #Japan #Japanese film #drama #romance #internet #forums #cinema #nostalgia #eri fukatsu #seiyo uchino #yoshimitsu morita #90s

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asteriass · 18 days

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The progression of the “Villainess” trope

Y'know, thinking about it, it's very ironic how a trope made to subvert one's expectations & give more depth to 1 dimensional villains in cliche novels by "humanizing" them more & providing their side of the story, eventually became oversaturated with cartoony villains & flat MCs. Thus, completely failing in its goal to "subvert expectations" as it too turned into mind numbing cliche, becoming the exact opposite of what the troupe initially aimed to achieved.

I am talking about "Villainess" series.

I remember seeing a twitter post a while back saying how a lot of the villainess stuff the authors & studios are putting out nowadays lack any sort of nuance when it comes to its characters. And how a lot authors simply switch the roles of the cast (Like: OG MC -> villain | OG villain -> MC) & call it a day. And I 100% agree with that.

This troupe kinda ended up becoming the dictionary definition of the saying, "You either die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain” lmao

What could've been an opportunity to write nuanced villains & morally ambiguous main characters, turned EXACTLY into the cliche it was pocking fun at.

In an attempt to reveal how the MCs of your typical cliche novels can also be in the wrong at times, flaws that the story & its (in-canon) fandom may purposefully ignore, the villainess stories ended up doing EXACT SAME thing EXECPT this time it's the "villains" doing it rather than the OG FL or OG ML of the “OG novel”. In an attempt to stop cliche villains from remaining cliche, while we did ended up getting slightly more nuance for the “OG villain” characters, in the process, the OG MCs turned exactly into those flat cliche villains.

Alot of villainess series poke fun at the troupes they themself use, but not in a satirical way.

So many villainess series poke fun at the OG novels for being problematic or stupid & the fandom of said novels basically ignoring its flaws & problems, only gushing over the OG FL. Which yea, is nice & all, but y'know... that's exactly what those villainess series do too. SO MANYY of them borderline have the FLs participating in literal slavery. & More often than not have a borderline colonizer ML. Not to mention the numerous which carry weird undertones of colorism, and many such other things. All the while, the fandom of these villainess series continue to ignore their glaring problems & flaws & instead just gush over the FL and ML.

And I'm not even saying this in a hating sort of way (well, aside from the series with issues of colorism, orientalism, etc). Moreover, this is all not to say that one can not enjoy such stories, because admittedly, there is indeed fun in just reading a simple and familiar story line. But this is all more me being intrigued by this trope’s almost ironic progression as companies rush their staff to produce something which they think will be able to ride the waves of the current trends, only for the vast majority to simply drown in a sea of mediocrity (with many even being canceled due to this)

[Though I mean, something as simple as villainess tropes won’t be the only one to go through this. Like a lot of Shakespearean works, a subversion of the classics & typical troupes back then, got turned into ones of those classics and by many are now considered cliche. And that's just scrapping the bottom of the barrel!]

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ppeonppeonhan · 1 month

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Soooo...if my favorite BLs have been Bad Buddy, Young Royals (S1), Dangerous Romance, KinnPorsche, Eighth Sense, Pit Babe, and Kiseki Dear to Me, then:

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mostlyfate · 1 year

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Tadashi Koi no Hajimekata 正しい恋の始めかた 2023, dir. Horie Takahiro

#jdramaedit #jdrama #tadashi koi no hajimekata #how to start a right love #romance 101 #otomo karen #toyoda yudai #subtitle credit: @DonSubbers #japanese drama #.gif #classic!#i need them in an actual full length drama T_T

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absolutebl · 2 years

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Old Fashion Cupcake - Courting Your Person with Pancakes

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Old Fashion Cupcake

Japan June 2022 Viki

9/10

Foundational Romance Tropes? office romance, age gap, employee/boss, food is the love language, coming of age late in life

This show had me from the moment they broke the egg yolk with the chopsticks in the opening credits for episode one. It’s about a younger man with a long cherished crush on his boss (ten years older and going through a mid life crisis) who decides to save and seduce said man with pancakes. It’s wholesome, comforting, sexy, and a very necessary narrative about still having hope, interests, and openness to affection at any age. It’s coming of age/queerness packaged in a subtle critique of expectations around masculinity and love and loneliness... and it’s beautiful.

It utilizes hand-held and super close camerawork, long shots, dirty framing, and marvelous acting (stagecraft) from everyone. The directing style it subtle but very precise and tailored dirty framing (AKA lots of objects and other people’s bodies interrupting shots.)

Notice the frame is only direct and uncluttered when they are eating or being extremely intimate with each other?

This show manages to make things that shouldn't be sexy so very sexy (like Togawa’s hamster cheeks - boy just wants to gorge himself, and not on food). It's truly art.

But there is so much more going on here.

Japan has a long tradition of using food, both the preparation and consumption, as an allegory for intimacy... ALL KINDS of intimacy (give Tampopo a shot, it’s a remarkable movie). And in this show the discovery of desserts, and the enjoyment of the experience of indulging, is explicitly both sexual seduction and emotional tethering. This is not just an exploration of youth for Nozue it is an exploration of desire and identity.

On the other hand, the want drips off of Togawa at all times, like true starvation. It’s epic levels of pining we are looking at and not just love but pure lust. It’s actually quite remarkable to see this done with Japan’s signature reserve, because the through line of the filming style and food allegory dictates they will simply have to show physical intimacy at soem point. But not of the explicit kind we get in the darker BLs from Japan (although they could easily go there), but of a truly sexualized romantic passionate kind that we don’t normally get from Japan in their softer BLs.

You see, there comes a point, when the food allegory has gone as far as it can, and Nozue recognizes that in episode 3, even as he doesn’t recognize Togawa’s desire. Because for him the desire has been made manifest though the medium of desserts... and now that sensation has been satisfied, he feels like that’s good enough.

But when Nozue shuts down the eating intimacy, Togawa was always destined to break open into into sexual need, just the way the egg yolk is broken open in the credits.

What is truly genius about this show is that when this finally happens at the end of episode 4, the camera switches to one long hand held shot. This kind of stage-craft reliant shooting is the ultimate form of filming intimacy - it is the camera’s form of trust:

The directer is trusting the cameraperson not to waiver,

the camera is trusting the actors to pull through for the entirety of the shot (no forgetting your lines on a long take, no missing your marks, no slipping out of character),

the actors are trusting the crew to capture it in that one moment when they give it their all.

This is the kind of theatrically-based close work is as near to sexual intimacy as actors and crew can get.

Thus the shooting style is, itself, a reflection of Togawa’s needs, of Nozue’s shock and realization and crumbling, of the levels of trust between them that are fracturing and reforming. It’s absolutely brilliant.

All that said I did find the final episode bit of a let down. Narratively it reverted back to pretty standard light Japanese live action yaoi, of the style I talk about here. I did expect a little bit more intimacy from this specific narrative even with Japan at the helm, at least showing the two of them cuddling in bed together or something very domestic if not kissing. I’m not surprised or upset that they returned to status quo, and this is still an amazing comforting unexpected gem of a show, but it’s not the 10/10 I thought it was going to be at the end of 4.

Still, solid and watchable and

DEFINITELY RECOMMENDED

I wrote some more on this show with regards to age gap romance comparing it to Minato’s Laundromat here.

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queersouthasian · 6 months

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Le hyun going "The face that I had missed for a long time, was right there in front of me, in the flesh. His eyes which were reading a book were sharper than I remembered, I kept thinking of the old days. In a space where I couldn't speak or hear him talk, I thought of the past. Can people change? Why did I think he wouldn't change when I myself have changed? But I still want to believe, it's the time that has changed and not the person. In Kim An's time, I lost two years and a few months. Kim An wears the face of lost time." is genuinely one of the most well crafted speeches/dialogues I have come across in a BL.

This makes me curious, what are y'all favourite BL dialogues/speeches/confessions?

#lgbtq #bl drama #bad buddy #vice versa the series #love mechanics #kinnporche the series #the eclipse #my only 12%#only friends the series #dangerous romance #love class 2 #kiseki: dear to me #be mine superstar #naughty babe the series #thai bl #taiwanese bl #korean bl #japanese bl #love in the air the series

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save-the-data · 1 month

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Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto | S01E03

Japanese Drama - 2024, 6 episodes

#Drama: Love is Better the Second Time Around #JDrama #Romance #Childhood Friends to Lovers #Age-Gap #Adapted from a Manga #恋をするなら二度目が上等 #Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto #Japan BL #BL GIFS #Japanese Drama - 2024 #Drama: 2024 #Hasegawa Makoto #Furuya Robin #Takamatsu Aloha #Shiraishi Shunya #Mochizuki Haruki #Kiss Episode

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a-few-of-my-favorite-mangas · 7 months

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Kimi ni Todoke (From Me to You)

by Shiina Karuho

Volume 01 - 30 [COMPLETE]

Shoujo, Romance, Coming of Age, Drama

Story ★★★★☆ || ★★★☆☆ Art

Summary

Sawako Kuronuma is the perfect heroine…for a horror movie. With striking similarities to a haunting movie character–jet-black hair, sinister smile and silent demeanor–she’s mistakenly called Sadako by those around her. But behind her scary façade is a very misunderstood teenager. Too shy to fit in, all she wants to do is make some friends. But when the most popular boy in class befriends her, she’s sure to make more than just that–she’s about to make some enemies too!

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#kimi ni todoke #Kimi ni Todoke (From Me to You)#japanese manga #shoujo #romance #coming of age #high school setting #drama #first love

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heretherebedork · 7 months

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Between My Personal Weatherman and Dangerous Romance Frigays are very much D/s themed right now and I love it.

#taikan yoho #my personal weatherman #dangerous romance #bl drama #bl series #asianlgbtqdramas #asian lgbtq dramas #thai bl #thai drama #japanese bl #japanese drama #j drama #thai series #japanese series #thai bl series #thai bl drama #thaibl #jbl #thbl

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myromancedramas · 9 months

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SILENT (2022)

#silent #silent 2022 #サイレント #silent jdrama #jdrama #romance jdrama #japanese drama #ren meguro #haruna kawaguchi #sou sakura #so sakura #tsumugi aoba #romance drama #deaf drama #aoba x sou #aoba x minato #sou sakura x tsumugi aoba #minato togawa #tsumugi aoba x minato togawa

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alexandrarosa · 10 months

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Me: romantic love is a social construct, romantic relationships interfere with one’s career, having a bf is useless

Also me on billionth kdrama/jdrama watching the two characters I ship: KISS KISS KISS KISS KISS

#jdrama #kdrama #Korean #Japanese #Korean drama #japanese drama #romance #crash course in romance #something in the rain #when the weather is fine #first love hatsukoi #your eyes tell

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splinteredsoul · 12 days

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My Blood & Bones in a Flowing Galaxy (2021)

dir. Sabu

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mostlyfate · 1 year

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had we met before? instant chemistry. why so glad you came? had we met before? laughing instantly. but it didn't feel.

it didn't feel like thunder or lightning. but something struck me. when i was looking into your eyes. wasn't love at first sight. no fire burning bright. but now i know what it was. it was like coming home. it felt like coming home. — coming home // gamma skies

Tadashi Koi no Hajimekata 正しい恋の始めかた 2023, dir. Horie Takahiro

#jdramaedit #jdrama #tadashi koi no hajimekata #romance 101 #asiandramasource #dailyasiandramas #how to start a right love #japanese drama #otomo karen #toyoda yudai #.gif #💕#[this song played at the end of ~date version~ and ive been obsessed w it]#[and how it fits them so well]

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