BL Drama Lovers Club

1. What was your favorite BL/s?  I Feel You Linger in the Air and The sign

2.  What was your least favorite BL/s?  Naughty Babe

3. What was your favorite main couple/s of the year?  Khun Yai and Jom from IFYLITA, Phaya and Tharn from The sign, Fan Zu Rui and Bai Zong Yi from Kiseki: Dear to Me, Uea and King from Bed Friend and if we consider My School President as 2023, so Tinn and Gun. 

4. What was your least favorite main couple/s of the year? Khondiao and Yi from Naughty Babe (I can't get over the fact Nat looks like a kid, so all their NC scenes feel so wrong), Babe and Charlie from Pit Babe, and Kanghan and Sailom from Dangerous Romance. 

 5. What was your favorite side couple/s?  Chen Yi and Ai Di from Kiseki: Dear to Me,  Ueangphueng  and Mei from IFYLITA

6. What was your least favorite side couple/s? Guy and Nawa from  Dangerous Romance (really couldn't care less about those 2)

7. What was your favorite character/s? Khun Yai from IFYLITA, Phaya from The Sign, Fan Zu Rui from Kiseki, King from Bed Friend, Mhok from Last Twilight, Tinn from MSP, Jeng from Step by Step

8. What was your least favorite character/s? Charlie from Pit Babe, Pat from Step by Step, Shin from Bake Me Please, Sunshine from 7 Days Before Valentine, Minato from Minato Shouji Coin Laundry Season 2, Wal from My Dear Gangster Oppa, Top, Mew and Boston from Only Friends

9. What was your favorite kiss or kisses this year? I guess the kisses from: Bed Friend, Kiseki, The Sign, Step by Step,  Taikan Yoho, Pit Babe, and of course IFYLITA with my fav kiss of the year: alongside the kisses from Idol Kiss Practice (Kiss x Kiss x Kiss: Love ii Shower):

10. What was your favorite love scene/s this year?  I'll just name some series: Bed Friend, Taikan Yoho, Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu, Only Friends, the not real (so far) NC parts in The Sign (tbh I don't remember if some BLs actually had NC scenes or not, so maybe I missed something).

11. Which had your favorite story/screenwriting? IFYLITA and The Sign (very original I know). 

12. Which had the best cinematography for you? same answer as 11 haha 

 13. Which had the best music? this year I've not listened to a lot of OSTs tbh (though I want to catch up), so I'll go with the music from IFYLITA. 

14. Which made you cry the most? emm nothing? haha 

15. Which made you laugh the most? I guess Playboyy becuase it's so bizarre and Laws of Attraction because it was like a soap opera. 

16. Name a memorable scene from this year? the thermometer scene from Playboyy, but I don't think it's a good memory XD and more seriously : idk, maybe that kiss in the rain from IFYLITA. 

17. Name a “WTF” moment that stood out to you? most of Playboyy so far XD 

18. Name a show/s that seemingly everyone loved that you just couldn’t get into? I feel like other people love Cooking Crush way more than I do and maybe also Dangerous Romance? as I can't explain its rating here.

 19. Name a show/s that you thought would be bad but it ended up surprisingly being good and vice versa? on the good side: Cherry Magic so far is nicer than I thought, on the bad side: Chains of Heart was a big let down, Absolute Zero, I thought Playboyy will be better from its trailer, also tbh so far I'm a bit disappointed with Pit Babe (though I like it). 

20. Name a hidden gem or underrated show/s that you loved? not sure I've seen anything that is really 'hidden', maybe Kimi to Nara Koi wo Shite Mite mo? 

That was fun! thanks for the questions ^^ I assume I totally forgot stuff in my answers, yet it's so long anyways haha 

 p43425:

Hmm, good questions. If only I had good answers.

If only I had a good memory. 

1. What was your favorite BL/s? Taikan Yoho

2. What was your least favorite BL/s? Playboyy - I couldn't even get past the first episode

3. What was your favorite main couple/s of the year? YohxSegasaki from Taikan Yoho, CharliexBabe in Pitbabe, YamatoxKakeru from Kimi ni wa Todokanai.

4. What was your least favorite main couple/s of the year?  ThiuxGuy from MyDear Gangster Oppa - I can't with the extreme feminine energy of Guy... I'll pass, thanks.

5. What was your favorite side couple/s? ChenxAidi from Kiseki: Dear to me - I mean, that's so obvious...

6. What was your least favorite side couple/s? I don't have one?

7. What was your favorite character/s? Mhok from Last Twilight, Alan and Kim from Pitbabe, Yoh and Manju from Taikan Yoho, Fan Ze Rui and Ai di from Kiseki: Dear to me, Kakeru from Kimi ni wa Todokanai.  

8. What was your least favorite character/s? Day from Last Twilight, Minato from Minato Shouji Coin Laundry Season 2, Kenji from My Dear Gangster Oppa ( HE should definitely be admitted into a psych ward, ughhh ), Everyone from Only Friends...

9. What was your favorite kiss or kisses this year? Kisses from Taikan Yoho I guess...

10. What was your favorite love scene/s this year? Taikan Yoho again  ?  
11. Which was your favorite story/screenwriting? Pit babe... It's interesting... not too cliche... I like it...

12. Which had the best cinematography for you? I don't know... I am not too technically knowledgeable in this field...

13. Which had the best music? couldn't care less...I don't really listen to the music in a scene, sorry :(

14. Which made you cry the most? Nothing ever does. My tear glands are facing a period of drought.

15. Which made you laugh the most? A couple of scenes from Last Twilight were funny.

16. Name a memorable scene from this year. the scene where Yoh realizes that Segasaki loves him back... it is always Taikan Yoho with me  ?  

17. Name a “WTF” moment that stood out to you. Every. Single. Scene. from playboyy

18. Name a show/s that seemingly everyone loved that you just couldn’t get into.  IFYLITA

19. Name a show/s that you thought would be bad but it ended up surprisingly being good and vice versa.  In 2023? Nothing.

20. Name a hidden gem or underrated show/s that you loved. Maybe Stay by My Side? I wouldn't call it a gem but it ain't average either. 

Thanks for the questionnaire! It was funnn!! :*

I would love to join <3

 p43425:

Best BL with no official international release: “Kimi ni wa Todokanai” (Thank you, Bilibili!)

Isn't it being on Netflix means it has an official international release? 

 p43425:

Most trashy and lurid BL of 2023 which I’m ashamed to admit that I liked: “Playboyy”

haha feel the same, I actually like this series even though it's so trashy indeed 

 p43425:

Most raw and graphic yet dramatically purposeful and non-trashy sex scene in a BL: “Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu”

Agree! I was actually surprised by it (mostly after seeing Seto Toshiki in Senpai, Danjite Koidewa! which was quite bad imo). 

I don't do well with keeping track of a plot week by week (let alone multiple ones) and watching things everyone else was talking about was more of a failure than a success so there's a lot of 2023 I haven't seen. From what I did:

1. What was your favorite BL/s? Bokura no Shokutaku, Moonlight Chicken

2. What was your least favorite BL/s? Jun & Jun, Kiseki: Dear to Me

3. What was your favorite main couple/s of the year? Minoru & Yutaka, Jim & Wen. Friends helping each other work through grief and difficulties so their relationship starts off on a good foundation.
Minoru & Yutaka co-parenting Tane was such a good dynamic too.

4. What was your least favorite main couple/s of the year? Jun & Jun, Top & Mew (their plot was ALL over the place and poorly written IMO)

5. What was your favorite side couple/s? Li Ming & Heart

6. What was your least favorite side couple/s? Ai Di and that guy who dicked him around but we were all supposed to forgive after he forcibly dragged Ai Di back into the mafia

7. What was your favorite character/s? Tane, Minoru, Wen

8. What was your least favorite character/s? Jun, Jun and the dick we were supposed to forgive in Kiseki

9. What was your favorite kiss or kisses this year? Ray sneaking a post-sex kiss onto Sand's cheek after he crashed the camping trip. Simple and it said so much.

10. What was your favorite love scene/s this year? GL - My Fairy Ghost; BL the way Bokura no Shokutaku turned secret hand touches into all the feels. Who needs obviously fake sex scenes, set it up right and they can just hold hands ;)

11. Which had your favorite story/screenwriting? Moonlight Chicken for story (some of the screenwriting could have been tighter); Bokura no Shokutaku

12. Which had the best cinematography for you? Moonlight Chicken, especially the Chinatown scenes. IFYLiTA

13. Which had the best music? Our Skyy: The Eclipse was a bin fire character-wise (how did the director and screenwriter FORGET Akk & Ay that quickly?) but the OST is good (Khaotung-First Your World, My World).
Moonlight Chicken's use of music really works for me.

14. Which made you cry the most? Moonlight Chicken & He's Coming For Me

15. Which made you laugh the most? He's Coming to Me

16. Name a memorable scene from this year? The midnight walk through Chinatown in Pattaya City in the 1st episode of Moonlight Chicken.
But also the genius of P'Aof in introducing MarkPakin/Fourth/Khaotung in a rapid fire crescendo, and then when First finally appears it's like 10 seconds of him looking pained at the VERY end of an episode. boom Boom BOOM ----- minor nuclear explosion :)
But also the big argument scenes from Alan; Li Ming & Heart waking up in the morning and choosing cuteness; ok I'll stop now :)

17. Name a “WTF” moment that stood out to you? A lot of Kiseki: Dear to Me - it's a long list: older mafia underling gives some token resistance re starting something with the barely legal kid he calls Kiddo, showing he understands how dodgy that is and then dives right in; not even bothering to think about the risks his criminal family will bring to said Kiddo; (fake) amnesia, (not fake) short term memory loss, time jump for prison cause the kid was coerced by the mafia to take the blame for a murder he didn't commit, another young man who gets free from the mafia but is carried back in literally kicking and screaming but it's all fantastic because the man who dicked him around for years finally decided to kiss him. Like seriously? This is a love story?

18. Name a show/s that seemingly everyone loved that you just couldn’t get into? Kiseki: Dear to Me. It's never been clearer that I'll always be an outsider here.

19. Name a show/s that you thought would be bad but it ended up surprisingly being good and vice versa? Went in with low expectations of Only Friends despite the quality of the cast and liked more of it than I expected. Those plots though, veering from trashy to wholesome to downright sappy. Five couples plus everyone else and much of the 2nd half felt like they were just making shit up to get to 12 episodes. How was that even possible?

20. Name a hidden gem or underrated show/s that you loved? There are some short (less than an hour) GLs that are excellent. BL - Bokura no Shokutaku

 p43425:

Oh, thanks - I totally missed that. It's even now on Netflix in my country. Wow, I'm so happy!

When I found out it'll be on Netflix I just waited to watch it there. I wish there will be more BLs on Netflix. 

 p43425:

One of the things I especially like about this group is that we're all generally respectful of this.

Right, that's most important. I see people being really rude and mean in series' pages. Either they come to mock those who enjoy a series they think is bad or look down at people who dislike a series they do. I don't understand why anyone has to bring others into their critique or opinion about a series.