#bokura no micro na shuumatsu

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top 5 NC scenes 😎

Hi Kali! Top 5 NC scenes of 2023!

Ritsu fucking Masumi's Brains out in The End of the World With You. Honestly all of their love scenes were insanely good. Ritsu really put the business on Masumi every single time and he knew he was hitting all of Masumi's sweet spots. He was dipping and flipping Masumi every chance he got. Ritsu had Masumi gasping and moaning through the entirety short lil relationship.

Babe getting fucked on the locker room floor in Pit Babe. Most recently in Pit Babe CharlieBabe shared a magical, adrenaline filled romp in the X-Hunter locker room and it was so damn good. Babe was thoroughly enjoying being railed by his best boy and I was in desperate need of that.

LomNuea's wild romp before Lom marries Yiwa in Wedding Plan. This scene really showed me that Namnuea was not shy about sex and he was in fact very vocal and taunting. He was so playful and he told Sailom exactly what he wanted. 10/10.

Nail RIDING him in For Him. NailHim's first time was INSANE. We got a lil blowjob action. Him railed Nail on a table and then Nail rode Him like an unlicensed cowboy and I enjoyed every bit of it.

Alex and Henry's night in Paris from Red White and Royal Blue. This is not a BL but it is queer so I think it should count a little bit. FirstPrince's night in Paris was bonkers. I loved how shy Alex was and how Henry volunteered to take the reigns. Loved how Henry's hands guided Alex inside of him and I was BLOWN away by his facial expressions. It was a treat.

ASK ME MY TOP 5 BL ANYTHING OF 2023

[bengiyo]

Too 5 horniest sex scenes

There were actually a lot of really solid sex scenes this year. For you, I will cheat and add extras.

Masumi and Ritsu in College in The End of the World With You

I actually think these are better in retrospect because we got to see what these two look like ten years later.

Yang and Phumjai Knocking Down Their Own Store in Love in Translation

I just know this was a fantasy for Yang and he absolutely still has that footage somewhere. They both had beds upstairs!

Namnuea Showing Sailom the Real Him in Wedding Plan

We did not get enough focus on characters who have experience sharing that with each other.

Kim Sung Min and Yoo Joo Hyuk in Love Class 2

We don't often get solidly built boys together in BL, and once again we got two men who knew how to fuck going at it.

Boston and Top in that Car in Only Friends

Top was trying to send that boy into orbit the way he jackhammered him! You know Boston's ass was clean and ready for this moment that he orchestrated.

That First Night Between Nail and Him in For Him

Nothing like a rebound hookup. Bonus if he looks exactly like your ex, amirite??

Saengtai Blowing Patts in La Pluie Ep 7

There's an extended version of this in the special episode on iQIYI. You should check it out. My man Patts was about to lose his mind in this and got what he needed to keep going.

Kon Diao and Yi on the Couch in Naughty Babe Ep 6

Let us never again mention the thumb incident in episode 8. Instead, let's talk about Kon Diao taking charge in this scene and blowing Yi so good that he had to keep his socks on.

King and Uea Explore Kinks in Bed Friend

King was trembling in anticipation when he shared this with Uea.

Ask Me Top 5 BL 2023 Anything

[taikanyohou]

“Could I have a sip?” THE END OF THE WORLD WITH YOU (2023) - Episode 2.

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Horny on Main Round 1: Tharn (The Sign) vs Ritsu (The End of the World with You)

[Submitted Reasons Under Cut]

Tharn: "let’s not forget his whole horny dream about phaya choking him out and fucking him against his bathroom wall. the dream that he proceeded to think about in the midst of making breakfast the next morning"

Ritsu: "The man could not keep it in his pants. The world is ending and all he wants is to bang Masumi into the mattress!"

[yaoi-reading]

Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu

[wen-kexing-apologist]

Hi, can I ask, who are your top 5 (or top 3) seme & uke from your favorite BL media (can be manga/manhwa/danmei/tv series/movies)? Why love them?

Hello! Thank you for the ask, I have been horrendously busy with very good things, so I did not ignore your ask, just have not had time or brain space to answer until now. I’ll be honest with you, I came in to this fandom from BL series with little to no background in yaoi before that, so I am not the most familiar with uke and seme as a concept. But, looking it up gave me the following definitions: 

Uke (受け): The term Uke, in Japanese, literally means "receiver" or "one who receives". In the Yaoi context, Uke is the more passive, submissive, and generally younger or physically smaller character in the relationship.

Seme (攻め): The term Seme, in Japanese, literally means "attacker" or "one who attacks". In the Yaoi context, the Seme is the more dominant, assertive, and usually older or physically larger character in the relationship.

So with those definitions in mind, my five favorite seme and ukes are: 

Masumi and Ritsu- The End of the World with You

Any one who has not watched this show should stop reading this post and go watch End of the World With You instead. Masumi and Ritsu had such an interesting dynamic and it was really fun to watch the changing in their relationship between college and the apocalypse. 

It felt to me like Masumi was rather stuck on his personality from college, a quiet and reserved person, who could not quite let go of the pain of being betrayed by Ritsu, even though he entered in to a relationship he was warned was not going to be romantic. It was cool to see how Ritsu mellowed out/matured more as an adult, and how that seme style personality was employed within the show in ways that allowed Masumi to forgo filial obligations and allow himself to stay with Ritsu and Yuma on their road trip. 

Vegas and Pete- KinnPorsche 

Okay, let’s get the more obvious ones out of the way first, before I get to talk about the really juicy ones. But, I fucking love VegasPete. I love them so much, I’d say that it’s just because of my First BL Drama goggles, but I’ve seen this show 15 times now, and just recently rewatched it, with over 120 BLs under my belt, and they still hold strong for me. I just- 

For me, they are so well written. Both the characters as individuals, Pete does tend to serve as a comic relief at the beginning, but even with relatively minimal screen time, they are really able to give him enough depth by the end that the character feels real, feels like he has a life and a history that exist outside of the confines of the story, and that his life history does impact how he operates in the world. I love the way that the narrative really is able to turn Vegas around in to a more wet and pathetic person by the end, so much so that I had a front row seat to watching my friends slowly learn to love him as they watched this show for the first time. 

I’d put Vegas as Pete’s kidnapper, torturer, and captor as the seme in their relationship and Pete as the kidnapped, prisoner, pet, and free therapist as the uke there. Something that I was interested in seeing with The Sign was a BL that was going to cover hypermasculinity, and while I don’t think KinnPorsche is something I would consider hypermasculine, I do think that Vegas and Pete have a very interesting relationship because they both are pretty masc, and therefore they can fight each other, and Pete can give Vegas a run for his fucking money in a fight, while still being able to maintain what I would consider a seme and uke dynamic. 

But ultimately my favorite thing about them is the emotional complexity to their relationship, not whether or not they fit the seme & uke definitions. That scene in Episode 13 when Pete and Vegas fight, and Pete knocks Vegas out and escapes remains one of my favorites in KinnPorsche and sits pretty firmly in my huge assortment of favorite scenes in BL because it was really fun watching those characters navigate the emotional minefield that was captivity, love, hatred, freedom, dehumanization, desperation, violence, and pain. Good shit, at least in my opinion. 

Hira and Kiyo- Utsukushii Kare 

A trend with some of my favorite seme/uke characters is that they tend to subvert expectations when looked at from just a historically “top” or “bottom” perspective as it relates to seme and uke terminology in yaoi. 

Hira and Kiyoi are one of my favorite seme and uke pairs because Hira and Kiyoi subvert the expectation about who the seme and uke are. My impression of Utsukushii Kare is that Kiyoi is the uke and Hira is the seme, despite the fact that Hira is physically smaller and submissive to Kiyoi. And while I am not well versed in seme/uke tropes in yaoi, @bengiyo is very knowledgeable in the positionality of semes and ukes in Japanese yaoi, and spoke about the positionality of Hira and Kiyoi in Utsukushii Kare in one of the The Conversation Pod episodes where he talked about Hira and Kiyoi constantly being in a battle about placing themselves lower in relation to one another, and who was on the left versus who was on the right. I really love how so much of their own internal relationship fights are really structured around the fact that Kiyoi wants Hira to be on the attack, (and we see that Hira is literally capable of being on the attack when it comes to defending Kiyoi) but in order for that to happen, Hira need to cut the hero worship bullshit and look at Kiyoi like a human being. 

Without a solid understanding of the seme/uke tropes, the positionality, the hair color, etc. I think it is relatively easy to miss that thread in their arguments, I definitely did. Which is fine, because Utsukushii Kare is strongly written and therefore their fights are layered with additional meaning on top so everyone has something to pull from their relationship struggles. But once My Beautiful Man: Eternal came out, we finally got an explicit statement from Kiyoi where he asked Hira if he ever fantasized about being manhandled. Which to me is the most obvious call-out to that aspect of their relationship that we had in the show.  

Also, from just a character perspective, Hira is a little freak and I love him and his ducks, and Kiyoi is just a sweetheart who deserves all of the love in the world. 

Ji Hyun and Jae Won- The Eighth Sense

That country mouse sure knows what he wants and is willing to die to get that dick so like, there is no way I can’t put Ji Hyun on the list. Massive respect to that little twink, dude joined the surf club when he didn’t know how to swim, drowned, and nearly died so he could bag Jae Won and he did. Similarly to Hira and Kiyoi, I don’t think going in to this show you would quite expect Ji Hyun to be the pursuer in the relationship, but he very quickly lets us all know what is up. And it works so well here because Jae Won as a character spend so much of his time unmoored. He’s passive, he’s quiet, he’s dissociative for, like, 90% of the show, and it is so wonderful to see the ways that Ji Hyun’s repeated advances, both his more subtle attempts and his more blatant are one of few things that are able to get a genuine and happy reaction out of Jae Won. 

I love the moments they shared together in Episode 6; as much as it hurts, I love the way Ji Hyun’s accident so strongly impact Jae Won just to show you how much of a positive impact Ji Hyun’s pursuit has had on his life, I love the places where Ji Hyun’s accident results in Jae Won starting to have a more active (and aggressive) control over his own life; and I love the way that Ji Hyun does not stop trying to give Jae Won as much love as he can send his way. The way Ji Hyun knows to expect Jae Won the second that he sees that Read message appear under the texts he’d sent Jae Won, the way the show is filled with light whenever they are together, the way that Jae Won is more relaxed, and smiles and laughs more easily as a result of receiving all of this love and care from Ji Hyun. 

Their relationship is excellent, Ji Hyun’s horny little ass is excellent, The Eighth Sense is excellent. I love them.  

Wang and Inthawut- 180 Degree Longitude Passes Through Us

 

Ok, I don’t know if this is a controversial choice or not, because I would not consider 180 Degree a BL at all. Nor would I ultimately consider Wang and Inthawut’s relationship to be romantic at least by the end of this show. But I do think that a) they fit the seme and uke definitions above super legibly and b) they once again subvert the expectation of which character falls under each role. There has never been a more passive motherfucker in all of the world as Inthawut. Wang is one of the most aggressive pursuers I have ever seen in media, he is assertive, he knows exactly what he wants, he will give it all to Inthawut if it means he gets some goddamn answers from the adults in his life that are too fucking scared to answer any of his questions if it means facing their pasts. 

Was this just an excuse to talk about 180 Degree Longitude Passes Through Us because it is one of my favorite shows of all time and put me through the emotional wringer? Maybe. But I do think the point still stands that Wang is there trying to give his all to Inthawut, and Inthawut is there desperately fighting with every fiber of his being not to receive anything from Wang. 

[khaoray]

2023 WATCHLIST

⤷ Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu (2023)

[perths]

"Would you please fall in love with me again?"

Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu (The End Of The World, With You) EPISODE 07

[gulongming]

Yuuma and Meguru... are both people I would've never met if I hadn't come along with you. After all, I never expanded my social circle after graduating.

僕らのミクロな終末 THE END OF THE WORLD WITH YOU ↬ episode seven

[piningintrovert]

We bring you breaking news. The president of the U.S.A. has announced that in ten days, a massive meteorite will collide with Earth [...] The probability of mankind's survival is zero.

Seto Toshiki as NISHINA MASUMI 僕らのミクロな終末 (2023), dir. Miki Koichiro

[negrowhat]

Top 5 scenes that made you scream? Any kind of screaming.

Top 5 Scenes that made me SCREAM.

Uea sending his Birth Giver's husband to prison on Bed Friend. Rarely do we EVER see BL victims get justice and not only did that bitch's putrid husband get arrested but we got to see him get dragged out of his house like a dog and her sobbing for that disgusting man. That hoe deserves the electric chair. WE ALSO GOT TO SEE HIS BOSS GET TAKEN DOWN. Uea won and so did we.

Tharn's wet dream about Phaya from The Sign. WHO WOULD'VE GUESSED THAT OUR SWEET THARN WOULD BE DREAMING ABOUT BEING FUCKED AGAINST THE WALL IN HIS SHOWER! I lost my shit.

Nail throwing Jay's shit over the staircase railing in For Him. Nail is a fucking bad bitch and Jay almost made him forget that shit. My boy had a full on Beyonce Irreplaceable moment and I screamed the whole time. I'm just personally glad that Him fucked the Jay right out of Nail's system so easily and so mind-blowingly.

Little Jun explaining to Big Jun the difference between squishy and pliable from Jun & Jun. Highkey that whole breakroom scene was so damn unhinged and Choi Jun had absolutely no chill ever. I screamed thru that whole series tbh.

Ritsu admitting to Masumi that he hadn't stopped thinking about him since they ended terribly 10 yrs prior from The End of the World With You. Normally Ritsu was so indifferent and even when he and Masumi broke up he didn't seem to care that much but with the world ending in a week and Masumi injured from a bad fall Ritsu finally admitted to that Masumi was basically the one that got away. He was in love with Masumi and never stopped.

ASK ME MY TOP 5 BL ANYTHING IN 2023

[bengiyo]

Hiii!! For the BL asks- what are your top 5 Japanese BLs this year!?

This is actually harder than you know because we actually had so many.

What Did You Eat Yesterday? 2

THE GOAT.

I Cannot Reach You

The best expression of Friends to Lovers we've had in BL. Period.

Our Dining Table

The specific way Minoru is gay for Yutaka and the way this little found family forms is one of the highlights of the year.

Jack o' Frost

This show actually made me like the way the amnesia trope was used. I would later regret these words in other shows.

The End of the World With You

I love second chance romance, and I really like the way this show approached existential doom.

Ask my Top 5 BL 2023 Anything

[xnoel]

there's finally explicitly bisexual representation, but the character is the biggest cheating asshole asdfgfdsdfghb

[taikanyohou]

“Ah, fond memories. Your neighbours would always complain about how noisy we were whilst going at it on this very bed. Your voice is on the loud side. Does that still hold true?” THE END OF THE WORLD WITH YOU (2023) - Episode 3.

[yaoi-reading]

Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu

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the end of the world, with you | s01e08

Japanese Drama - 2023, 8 episodes  

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