Japan’s recent BL release, The End of the World with You, adapted from the manga Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu by Marukido Maki has ended. And with it, it has left viewers full of mixed feelings, thoughts, and impressions.
Continue reading “The End of the World with You” Series Review (Ep.3 to 8)
The most impressionable, beautiful romances are often unintentional and wholly unexpected.
Continue reading “Unintentional Love Story” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
The long-awaited Korean BL A Shoulder to Cry On is here, and it’s giving viewers a lot to work with, offering thirty-minute episodes adapted from the manhwa Sonyeoneul Wilohaejwo by Dong Mul.
Continue reading “A Shoulder to Cry On” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
With a sudden rise of thought-provoking dramas, 2022 was indeed a phenomenal year for the BL world. While we spend the last three weeks listing our favorite Thai BL dramas, this week onward we will be diving into the Japanese shores. Despite lingual limitations that often cause delays in international premiere, Japanese BLs are always at the top of the game. In today’s feature, our authors will be talking about the shows that stole their hearts!
It takes a lot of chemistry and magic to make a straightforward storyline work, but it also makes for much better storytelling when compressed into a short story format.
Continue reading “Our Dating Sim” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
Liquor has a variable reputation, favorable and unfavorable. But one thing that’s generally consistent is it’s almost always a conversation starter.
Continue reading “All the Liquors” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
In 2021, the Japanese live-action BL, My Beautiful Man, adapted from the novel Utsukushii Kare by Yu Nagira, dropped onto the scene, stirring hearts and igniting a bevy of discussions about insecurity and toxic relationships.
Continue reading “My Beautiful Man 2” Series Review (Ep.1 to 4)
One of my favorite things about Japanese dramas is their hidden depth. While not all Jdramas are symbolic representations of life, most have a way of delving into two sides of the same story.
Continue reading “Jack O’ Frost” First Impressions (Ep.1 & 2)
The world is complex, divided by generations and full of diverse dreams, ideas, relationships and socioeconomic situations. Although there are barriers between us–language, time zones, territorial boundaries–there is something much bigger than all of this that brings us together: humanity. We are all human. We are all emotional. We are all struggling to survive on the same planet.
The Korean drama Beyond Evil is a fascinating study of human character, identity, trust, and loss. From how Jin-muk strips his victims of their identities by removing their fingerprints (then ironically returning them to where they ‘belong’) to the loss of self each of the characters goes through to discover what they’re capable of, Beyond Evil questions ‘self’ and the ‘reflections of ourselves.’ It takes a town and everyone in it, turns it upside down, and then forces them to look at and question themselves and each other. It takes morality and immorality and squares them off.
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