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Great story, great actors, sizzling chemistry all ruined by this awful format! When are they going to stop with this vertical 2min format? Come on teens, abandon TikTok, find another app so we can get a proper drama with these two. Imagine how great this would be in desktop format.....
Rating this 8 instead of 9.5 because of the format! Everything else was perfect! STOP WITH THE REEL FORMAT. NOW!!!!!!

I have just paid 6 euros to watch this on Oshiroen's Patreon (thank you for the subs) but finally, I did not like it. A BL about a virgin lawyer and a charming conman, both of course, very smart, that turns into a courtroom drama featuring sleazy characters with horrible haircuts and, as per usual in a j drama, a huge amount of voiceover. The clichés abound, and the boredom as well!

Fansubber's Patreon behind a paywall!
https://www.patreon.com/c/ojiro/home (marked Final Episode: it is the first post!)

Wasn't this called BoRa Debora officially when it aired? When did they change the name?

Thank you so much!🥰

Link please?

I hope you find something you like! I am curious to find out what you think of these shows!

You are more than welcome. But you won't be able to review any of these here, they are not in the MDL database. From Burma(or Myanmar), beside the two I gave you above, I just discovered that The Star, which was deleted from youtube, can be found on bilibili. Burmese BL are very rare....Enjoy!
PS On my profile page, the titles od bls are linked to my posts where you can find playlists to those dramas.

That last scene in Cherry Magic left me furious! I did not know about the actor's contract requirement. Now I am disappointed in him as well! It is just like some of Korean actors who refuse to acknowledge to being a part of a BL series which gave them a career boost...

Ahh, Game of Thrones! I never managed to get over the last episode of the first season! That was it for me!

I saw one season of KissxKissxKiss: Dekinai Cinderella which I found fully subbed. Not the others! I am actually interested in watching the whole drama not only the BL episodes...But it is nowhere to be found! It was probably never fully subbed...😭

The first thing to keep in mind when watching these, is that they are all low budget production with everything that it entails: bad acting, bad filming etc. but sometimes they surprise us with an original plot!

Unfortunately Burma's @Real gems have been deleted by authorities. There are a couple of short movies which are worth the watch: Tick Tick Again and The Bus Stop (very low budget!).

Khmer: The Memories and The Love of the Sea. The rest are badly produced and acted.

Vietnam has the most developed BL industry though still low budget but there are some @real gems here. Starting with a couple of music videos Tu Tam and Reborn which are outrageously flamboyant! Then there is the movie Goodbye Mother! And finally everything starring Ba Vinh, THE vietnamese BL star: not all of his dramas are good (especially the recent ones!) but you could try Want To See You and Mr Cinderella. And some others but I think that this should suffice for now! Right? Have fun watching!

Oh, yes, I understand the need for further research by rewatching scenes in LITA!😉

Don't misunderstand me! Cherry Magic was my first japanese BL and I found it charming, though I thought the ending problematic. Kieta Hatsukoi, however: I never could understand the appeal! And Thais managed the incredible feat: to make bad dramas worse! I actually finished thai Cherry Magic, hoping to see the Tay & New's magic everyone raved about. It was just an awful, awful watch....I got to meet some "nice" people in comments when I dared criticize the plot execution and the overall lack of logic!

EDIT: By the way, where did you watch KissxKissxKiss series and was it subbed? Or did they just sub BL episodes?

Don't start me on KBLs and their search of beauty and perfection and the lack of audacity. The last KBL I liked was a very low budget effort by the producers of My Damn Business but so much ...funnier!

I hope you find BLs that interest you among those I posted about! There are some real gems there....

Honglou Meng's reviews are having me in stitches every time! He's just posted a review for the japanese version of LITA....

Thanks for the great review and, as always, funny and accurate. And another original format! I love it! Your dedication is so sweet and touching. 🥰🥰🥰

True for every remake of any well-loved show! I remember being excited when I discovered that Koreans remade Luther (do you know it? Starring Idris Elba and Ruth Wilson? Probably the best crime thriller, ever...well, the seasons with those two in them!) thinking I'd find the same tension and chemistry! It was so awful, flat and unconvincing! That was the last time I watched an Asian remake of a UK show...

As for this one: I do not understand the point! The thai original sits close to the bottom of the barrel so why make a remake? Japan has so much original material in their own mangas: why go looking for foreign stuff and Mame to boot?!?!? Incomprehensible.... I dropped the thai original after 20min: as they say the chemistry was not chemistrying (I am picking up too much of bad english on this site!lol!) or, better yet, it was too cringeworthy for me there though the actors were definitely not shy!

Thais did a couple of disastrous remakes of Japanese BLs this year: Cherry Magic and My Love Mix Up.

The grass is always greener on the other side? No, it is not!

Another brilliant review.

Poor korean kids....the pressure they are under is inhuman!

One more related thing: did they really need to use a song by Céline Dion? Couldn't they have found a similarly sounding original japanese song?

You know that this is not a review but a love letter?

I'm glad to hear you liked Rak Diao. It is unlike any bl show out there and so much better for it. I often wonder why they never finished it. Apparently the last episode was never filmed. You don't need to write a review for my sake. There are plenty of bad shows around that can benefit from your wit. 😉
As for House of Stars...people here do not appreciate its true toxic brilliant hot mess. They do not watch it and therefore do not read the reviews. Simple as that!😅And your review is comedy gold and Mani&Pedi real stars!I want more of their live feed, please!😂

I am a stickler for logic. I had this on my PTW list for some time now. Thank you for making said list shorter.🥰
I enjoyed your ramble! 🤣🤣

All your reviews are highly original. I do not understand how you manage to find a new concept almost every time you write one review. You are gifted!
I love your bantery (I know the word does not exist according to my spellchecker!lol) reviews: conversations between friends or the trial one. And the JBL recipe was hilarious. And a 100% accurate! perfection!
How are you liking Kamisawa no Ekohiiki?

Never mind! I finally remembred it. Grâce Jones I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango).
Now I can focus on the plot(ep. 6).