thai, japanese, and korean shows mentioned, but not indicated. also not in any specific order.

i hear the sunspot (2024)

• despite the first episode, kouhei is the one who fell first for hungry boy taichi.
• friends-to-lovers in my japanese bl? fork found in kitchen!
• kouhei has an auditory impairment, so taichi (tries) to help him with his studies.
• taichi ultimately fails, but wins kouhei's heart anyway.

i became the main role of a bl drama (2023)

• celebrity yuichiro and former child-actor hajime cohabitate for a bl series.
• freak x anxious boy

cosmetic playlover (2024)

• mamiya works hard (serious) but sahashi works harder (romantic).
• domestic fluff
• men in a women dominated workplace.
• is this considered an office romance?

my personal weatherman (2023)

• weatherman segasaki successfully pavloving his stay-at-home boyfriend yoh into getting horny when the sun comes out.
• yoh being too blind to see just how much segasaki is in love with him.
• the exploration of japanese couple dynamics and "amae"

my beautiful man (season 1) (2021)

• me (hira) and the bad bitch (kiyoi) i pulled by being autistic.
• whipping boy trope
• how not to start a relationship: see your partner as a god.
• finger sucking in my bl again

my beautiful man (season 2) (2023)

• "there is no way that my boyfriend who makes love to me every night actually loves me!" - hira about kiyoi
• they match each other's freak
• established relationship and domestic fluff

my beautiful man: eternal (2023)

• hira finds other (healthy) interests besides kiyoi
• celebrity x photographer
• life changing franchise with an actor who looks like beomgyu

the time of fever (unintentional love story spin-off) (2024)

• donghee's actor portrayed his role as someone who wishes that hotae isn't gay to protect him from what he went through.
• a coming-of-age story of self-discovery told through beautiful mis-en-scene.

my school president (2022)

• popular, smart, cool, and responsible school president tin is just a loser in love for band leader gun.
• the bl musical we all deserve
• nugu-director and nugu-cast so nobody saw what was coming (a storm)

moonlight chicken (2023)

• old man yaoi between jim (chicken restaurant owner) and wen (office worker with a hot messy ex-boyfriend)
• angry teenager li ming and rich sweet boy heart
• warm and heartfelt directed by p'aof

dangerous romance (2023)

• rich boy bully (kanghan) x pretty poor boy (sailom)
• original title in thai: heart in the wind

bad buddy (2021)

• a world where homosexuality is the norm but dating your neighbor is illegal.
• pat and pran (and pa) are stuck between their parents because adults can't fix their problems goddamnit.
• (fake) enemies-to-lovers

my love mix-up (jpn) (2021)

• the culture of writing your crush's name in an eraser does not (surprisingly) prevent your crush from seeing it.
• aoki's journey into bisexuality because ida is so nice.
• silly high school story of silly jealous funny boys.

my love-mix up (thai) (2024)

• a japanese culture incorporated in thailand made possible by making mudmee half japanese.
• just confused boys (atom and kongthap) falling in love.

the eighth sense (2023)

• strawberries and cigarettes if it was a kbl.
• jihyun struggles to adjust in seoul while jaewon struggles with his mental health - together they're worse and better.
• surfing gays

our dating sim (2023)

• leewan confesses to kitae to finally move on not knowing that it'll start something inside of kitae instead.
• kitae is ghosted for 7 years BOOM develops separation anxiety.
• bite-sized series for a bite-sized story with mega-sized emotions.

a shoulder to cry on (2023)

• dayeol shares many homoerotic moments with taehyun.
• angsty teenagers navigating through life and love.
• fun fact: the actors are in a kpop group together!

semantic error (2022)

• younger serious archetype main character (sangwoo) meets older annoying firery male lead (jaeyoung).
• bullying if done by someone hot is apparently attractive.
• they don't match each other's freak because they're freaks in their own freaky ways.

candy color paradox (2022)

• paparazzi duo fall in love while stalking a bunch of high profile people.
• horny on main senior (kaburagi) and flustered office worker (onoe)

roommates of poongdunk 304 (2022)

• boss (hojun) is employee's (jaeyoon) tenant.
• enemies-to-lovers

kissable lips (2022)

• bl twilight?!
• vampire blood sucking barely seen.

unintentional love story (2023)

• minimum wage worker (wonyoung) takes advantage of lonely and traumatized potter (taejoon) in the countryside.
• age-gap in my kbl? fork found in kitchen.
• soft and gentle contrary to the spin-off what wound me.

only friends (2023)

• "it's complicated" said the director and he's just talking about a slutty friend group like bae that's just people from my high school.
• has something for everyone - sex, love, situationships, drugs, alcoholic, therapy, band, friends-with-benefits, toxic exes, infidelity, self-discovery, happy endings, horrible endings, etc.

bed friend (2023)

• chat is it normal to hate someone's mom because he's my fuck buddy?
• mommy issues
• king is such a puppy and uea is not aware of that.

2gether (2020)

• a very homophobic show despite being a gay show in itself - the call is coming from inside the house!
• sarawat only has one facial expression.
• props to the impact it made but what the fuck is this show?

the eclipse (2022)

• "he's (akk) so cute!" ayan, that's a criminal.
• the soft and responsible looking one ends up being the horrible person while the mean looking one ends up being the soft and responsible.
• there's a cult in this.

love in the air (2022)

• porn with horrible audio work.
• treat for stereotypical top-bottom gay dynamic enjoyers.
• love is in the air (the plot is romance).
• biker boys mechanic men college babes

a tale of a thousand stars (2021)

• tian gets a heart transplant after phupha's ex-situationship dies.
• suggested elements of transmigration.
• growing relationships.
• phupha grows a beard at one point i died because it was horrible.

kinnporsche (2022)

• the title is literally the shipname of the main leads.
• rich man kinn hires poor boy porsche as his bodyguard.
• sexual content (it's porn).
• you have to let go of your morals for this one.

century of love (2024)

• grandpa san waits a hundred years for his wife to be reborn only to find out that her reincarnation is a boy (wee).
• grandpa learns what "gay" is and fell deeply in love with his husband.

i cannot reach you (2023)

• yamato is in love with his childhood friend kakeru.
• low stake problems presented as high stake problems.
• yearning and eager kisses in my bl? aaah childhood friends-to-lovers
• yamato has the prettiest eyes!

perfect propose (2024)

• burnt out office worker (hiro) stumbles upon a younger man (kai) who claims to be his fiancé.
• forced proximity if you squint.
• flirty aaah kai

takara's treasure (2024)

• grumpy takara x sunshine taishin x mountains
• "is it true that gay people exist?" - taishin probably
• asexual characters (source: me)
• japan presents its favorite "senior/junior" trope

love for love's sake (2024)

• isekai in my bl?! sign me up!
• myungha is given another chance to live in a game created by god himself.
• fictional character yeowoo suddenly finds himself a protective clingy senior.
• gay, mental illness, and actors who looks like soobin.

it's 25:00, in akasaka (2024)

• yuki wants to be a star, so he acts in a bl show with super star asami.
• oh, they also know each other from college.
• sensual melodrama with fake-dating trope.

sing my crush (2023)

• everyone knows that baram and hantae are married except them.
• best friends to soulmates to housemates to lovers (finally)
• hantae realizes that he's gay after acting upon it.
• singing in my bl as usual.

love is like a poison (2024)

• lawyer ryoma thinks he's in a legal drama when he's actually in a bl.
• sexy lawyer x sexy scammer = fluffy downbad boyfriends
• haruto is ryo's husband, but is also my wife (crime of the century)
• well-written characters for a well-written story.

happy of the end (2024)

• "fuck it. guess we both ain't shit." - haoren and chihiro
• they were, in fact, not happy at all.
• unethical use of sex toys
• read warnings before watching.

minato's laundromat (season 1) (2022)

• age-gap nobody asked for
• high school boy (shintaro) falls insanely in love with laundromat owner (akira)
• this is textbook bl live-adaptation.

love sea (2024)

• rich novelist tongrak buys flirty island boy mahasamut and brings him to bangkok.
• good sound design in my me mind drama? a treat!
• would not recommend to everybody, but if you're into a sexy romance show, then this one is for you.
• it has enemies-to-lovers, pet play, master-servant dynamic, rich boy x poor boy fantasy, falling in love, age-gap, and fortpeat.

a man who defies the world of bl (2021)

• straight man (mobu) gets isekaied to a bl world.
• the title is the story.
• a world where homosexuality is the norm, and heterosexuality is unconventional.

god's favor (2022)

• yashiro dies after confessing to his childhood friend kenta, but transmigrated as kagura by choice.
• iconic line: "why would you come back to me as a woman?"
• kagura and rin yuri.
• everyone is bisexual.

takara-kun to amagi-kun (2022)

• sweet boys takara and amagi navigate their relationship in high school.
• grumpy x sunshine trope and popular x nobody trope
• they want each other so baaaad!

my stand-in (2024)

• joe gets transmigrated to the body of another joe and fatefully bumped into his crazy ex-boyfriend ming.
• a bl with the plot of a telenovela.
• let go of your morals for this.
• joji's glimpse of us plays in the background.

your sky (2024)

• cute boy teerak fake dates his sister's scary friend (muenfah).
• spoiler: they fall in love!
• grumpy x sunshine trope like you've never seen before /s
• finally a cute character with desires.

your sky of us (2025)

• more of teerak and muenfah being boyfriends
• featuring sustainable development goals
• tooth-rotting fluff

pit babe (season 1) (2023)

• bisexual alpha race babe grows fond of "stalker" fan charlie.
• pioneered omegaverse to the big screen!
• magical-realism in my drama bl
• sex sells

pit babe (season 2) (2025)

• boyfriend charlie becomes a lab rat much to babe's dismay
• break-up and making (out) up
• i watched for this for kim and kenta

perfect 10 liners (2025)

• engineering boys finding a family within college groups and falling in love with other engineering boys.
• the thai culture of mentor/mentee mentioned frequently.
• overgrown puppy x black cat
• too many couples to mention

cherry magic (thai) (2023)

• achi begins to hear people's thoughts and discovers karan's hidden feelings for him.
• office workers in love
• magical-realism (mind reading)
• fixed the problematic age-gap with jinta and min

business as usual (2025)

• minjun's life turned upside down when his ex-boyfriend jinhwan joined his company.
• our dating sim but if they were dating
• minjun thought he got away but jinhwan is a menace.

meet you at the blossom (2024)

• xiaobao thinks he found his wife until he touched her boobs and.. they're gone?
• diabolical lines from gender fluid yandere huaien
• wuxia bl x aphrodisiac
• xiaobao likes being tossed around by his "wife"

secret relationship (2025)

• corporate worker daon has to deal with annoying co-worker seonghyeon while he's healing from an unrequited love with his senior (jaemin) and he's dealing with a complicated ex-situationship (soohyeon).
• #freedaon
• this is my psychological horror
• a polyamorous relationship between daon, jaemin, and soohyeon would have avoided all of this.

revenge love (2025)

• poor boy souwei gets cheated on by his snake girlfriend (yueyue) so he does what every normal man would do as revenge - steal her snake-loving boyfriend chi cheng.
• first time bottoming (lmao)
• yummy toxic yaoi
• one of my favorite writing in chinese bl

khemjira (2025)

• cursed khemjira seeks the help of a handsome shaman pharan
• sexy age-gap and soulmatism in their past lives
• khemjira thinks he's in a romance telenovela but he's trapped in a horror show
• a plot that celebrates thai culture

abo desire (2025)

• chinese omegaverse that gives the actual omega a total of 5 minutes on screen
• alpha? omega? or the hidden, more evil third - the engima
• mpreg in my bl
• i dnf because there's not enough gaotu

school trip: joined a group i'm not close to (2025)

• awkward high school boy hioki reluctantly joins a popular group for a school trip and he ends up getting not only new friends but also a boyfriend!
• meteor garden but without the love triangle and if shancai was a boy.
• watarai is a pining mess

our youth (2024)

• studious goody two shoes minase forms an unexplainable relationship with trouble maker hirukawa.
• a literary masterpiece in film.
• the ocean is a character itself.
• coming-of-age story with a hopeful message that life gets better.