#jun and jun

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Jun & Jun - Episode 8 (Final)

[absolutebl]

Of My 50+ Favorite BLs these are the 10 I rewatch the most

So you could call these my favorite comfort foods. Everything on this list got a rating of 10/10 or 9/10 from me.

10 Most Comforting BLs

(for me, in order of most recently rewatched at the top)

Our Dating Sim

Korea 2023 Viki (watch the series not the movie)

This is a perfect short form KBL, an office set reunion romance featuring geeks that really suits 8 eps with no fluff and no chaff. Just comforting and yummy. I adored every aspect from the casting to the pristinely simple premise to the quietly smooth execution. Sure it’s low stakes, but that makes it high domesticity and extremely warm and gentle. This is a fuzzy blanket of a story - a cozy BL. It lives in my rewatch pile and you know what’s best about it? Every single episode is in that pile. There’s no skipping with this one, it might be good natured and calmly sweet but it’s tight and the pacing is excellent.

Cosmetic Playlover

Japan 2024 Gaga

The most recent release on this list, it came out this year and I've already rewatched it 5x. I love this little show. It's a classic office BL about the older workaholic who loves his job and the younger upstart who unexpectedly loves his boss. It’s a hyung romance where everybody is extremely earnest and sweet and pretty about everything. Except our seme, who is slightly unhinged and a little obsessed in all the ways one likes best from Japan (if one is me). Plus the kisses are good! Utterly charming unexpected gem of a show. What fun!

Jun and Jun

Korea 2023 Viki

A delightful office romance about an ex-idol who joins cubical life only to find his new boss is his first love. Other boys are sniffing around too. Operative word being "sniffing" as much of this romance involves smell. With a snappy (sometimes even raunchy) script, enjoyable sides, a pretty as peaches cast, and decent chemistry this show made up for in style what it lacked in substance. I like fluff. I loved this. I smiled every moment I was watching. My only caution is this is for fans of the BL genre only, I don’t think it’ll work for anyone else.

My Personal Weatherman

AKA Taikan Yoho

Japan 2023 Gaga

This style of live action yaoi really only works from Japan. Basically: boys who fell in love in college end up living together but are so repressed they don't realize they're in love. It's higher heat than we usually get from Japan's HEA stuff, and that aspect is also very well done, but it leaned into the "why don't they just talk for fuck's sake?" trope which is only exacerbated into undiluted frustration by the fact that they're already fucking. It's great, but watching requires more patience than usual, even for Japan. That said it's also bruisingly romantic. Emphasis on bruise.

Unintentional Love Story

Korea 2023 iQIYI

OMG the plot! Uke forced into a totally understandable betrayal, falling in love despite himself, put into a corner he can't get out of, the AGONY, the PAIN in those gorgeous eyes. Gah. Okay, so: A boy loses his job due to trumped-up corruption charges accidentally discovers his ex-boss's favorite artist, now a recluse. Evil manager offers him his job back, if he can convince the artist to rejoin society. Instead, they fall in love. I found the artist a bit stiff and reserved but Gongchan (maknae of B1A4) is a fucking GIFT - he carried this show (which I do not expect from the idol element). He was luminous with extraordinarily expressive eyes, just drown in the emoting abyss. The external conflict, social tension and pressure is complex and beautifully executed, plus Korea gave us legit side dishes (NOT a love triangle, hally-fucking-luya). All that said, when I rewatch this it's usually just the second half, but WHAT a ride.

Semantic Error

Korea 2022 Viki

Sexy older boy discovers pouty younger boy has outed him as a slacker, starts out bullying him, accidentally falls madly in love instead. Korea hits it entirely out of the Parks by doing a university BL with everything we expect from BL just done exactly right. Korea's signature quality executed perfectly with added bonus good story, great pacing, stunning visuals, and fantastic chemistry. You cannot ask for more from a BL, let alone a KBL. Another one where the rewatch is mostly just the second half.

Old Fashion Cupcake

Japan 2022

This show had me from the moment they broke the egg yolk with the chopsticks in the opening credits. It’s about a younger man with a long cherished crush on his boss (ten years older and going through a mid life crisis) who decides to save and seduce said boss with pancakes. It’s wholesome, comforting, sexy, and a very necessary narrative about still having hope, interests, and openness to affection at any age. It’s a stunningly filmed late-in-life comg of age/queerness story packaged in a subtle critique of expectations around masculinity, love, and loneliness… and it’s beautiful.

Yes yes. But the bit you know you want to rewatch is that long shot with the bite kiss. YOU KNOW you wanna.

Seven Days

Japan 2015

Ha! I faked you out 'cause this wasn't at the top but of course it's on the list! One of the best live action yaois ever made, with perfectly structured angst, fantastic characters and acting, and no problematic tropes (rare in Japanese BL). Older boy dares the hot af younger one to date him for a week. Turns out they both like it... A lot. The leads have excellent chemistry although it’s low heat there’s still some really cute mutual kisses.

Takara & Amagi

Japan 2022

I gnawed on my knuckles and squealed a lot with this show, but a rewatch is way less tense. Reserved cool kid must learn to communicate to keep the tiny disaster nugget he’s madly in love with. It is beyond charming: soft and gentle, packed with cuteness and high school angst, thirst, & yearning.

We Best Love

Taiwan 2021 WeTV

WBL successfully managed to pick up and combine the best features of Korean, Thai, and Japanese BL as it exists right now. Couple that to the insane chemistry from the leads, and we have one of the greatest BLs of all time, cooking to a recipe I doubt anyone else will ever be able to replicate since only Taiwan is this flexible. It's basically every classic BL trope bombarded at us in two parts, rapid fire, one after another. Rewatching this show reminds me of everything I love about this genre. It is the genre in pure concentrated form.

The End!

I think it's no accident that none of these are Thai, part of a rewatch for me is the brevity of the show, longer stuff does get rewatched, but not as frequently.

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[gabrielokun]

[tachineko]

Jun & Jun - Episode 7

[blunaggregator]

BLA Top 10 Korean BL Series of 2023

THE EIGHTH SENSE

OUR DATING SIM

UNINTENTIONAL LOVE STORY

SING MY CRUSH

A BREEZE OF LOVE

A SHOULDER TO CRY ON

LOVE TRACTOR

JUN AND JUN

LOVE CLASS 2

BON APPETIT

[respectthepetty]

Nothing gives me more happiness than two gay men being frenemies because of some dude.

Orca and Neil know exactly how to get under each other's skin because they know each other's weak spots, and they don't mind going for the jugular.

But Sea knows this really ain't about him.

This beef is old.

And poor Reese is at the center of it.

This is about loving someone who is hellbent on helping their friend all the time when you are standing right next to them begging for attention.

Give me more gay frenemies beefing for years over a man who one is in love with and the other gets all his time because they are great friends.

Give me more messy male friendships.

[he-is-lightning-in-a-bottle]

My God I Love This Show

I think I've rewatched that final breakroom scene from Jun & Jun episode 2 at least a dozen times since it first aired yesterday, and I need to rave about it in its own post rather than just tags.

That scene is... perfection.

First, for non-Korean speakers, it's important to note they've already dropped into banmal with each other in private (the most intimate and casual linguistic form of address). This establishes them as societal equals, despite their wildly different social positions as boss and employee. It was an intentional choice by Choi Jun at the end of episode 1, when he took off his glasses, leaned over the seated Lee Jun in his office and greeted him properly with "오랜만이야" (Long time no see.) The fact that he dropped into banmal here was likely a bigger clue to Lee Jun that they know each other intimately than the actual words Choi Jun chose.

So in the breakroom scene. (!!!) Choi Jun is radiating confident dom energy and Lee Jun is INTO IT. He begins by making sure Lee Jun wasn't hurt by scalding hot coffee and telling Lee Jun to take off his shirt. But then he does the most batshit dom thing ever and starts removing HIS OWN CLOTHES. He explains its because he has a spare shirt for himself and plans to dress Lee Jun in the shirt he's been wearing all day. Why? Because he has a scent kink! And he just says it out loud. He wants Lee Jun to smell like he's HIS.

He checks Lee Jun out like a starving man and asks, "would my size fit you?" WHICH IS THE WILDEST BLATANT SEXUAL INNUENDO and Lee Jun KNOWS its innuendo because he clutches his pearls with his hand over his heart and replies "don't people say you worry too much?" causing Choi Jun to call him cute. Lee Jun can't help but smile shyly at the compliment, and Choi Jun pounces, immediately switching gears and ordering him to hurry up and take off his shirt. Lee Jun asks "right here?" as if that's the only weird or concerning thing about being told to disrobe, so Choi Jun takes off his own vest. This man is doing everything in his power to both rattle and comfort his cute former idol childhood bestie, and I AM HOLDING MY BREATH FROM THE SEXUAL TENSION.

And then we get the first truly jaw-dropping scene. Choi Jun calls Lee Jun high maintenance (the Korean phrase is better translated as "You're a handful."). Lee Jun bristles and apologizes. Choi Jun steps closer and tells him he doesn't need to apologize; it's a compliment. He LIKES it when he needs to put his hands on someone to care for them and it makes them smell like him; it makes them feel like THEY ARE HIS. The collar caress!! The neck tie grab and pull!!! The audacity of starting to unbutton Lee Jun's shirt for him since he's taking too long!!!! MY HEAD EXPLODING.

Lee Jun freaks out a little and puts distance between them again, so they have another fun little conversation filled with innuendo about repaying favors American style, which Choi Jun says involves less clothing!

And then we get the second jaw-dropping scene right on the heels of the first. Choi Jun says Lee Jun has grown fiestier (he likes them feisty? just a guess), but that he's still "squishy" on the inside. Lee Jun is already looking 10 times more secure in this conversation, unhesitatingly flirting back through the entire next few dialog exchanges. The eye contact! THE MOST PERFECTLY EXECUTED WAIST GRAB!!

The "you can teach me!!!" The way Lee Jun takes that as permission to manhandle Choi Jun right back, grabbing his hands and moving him around like a marionette!!!!

THE NECK GRAB!!!!!

And that final last line from Choi Jun that sent me SCREAMING INTO MY PILLOWS:

Looking at the rolled up napkin in his hand, "Malleable is something soft..." and then looking at Lee Jun's lips like the very thirsty man he is, he finally makes eye-contact again and finishes with, "squishy is... something sexy?" Lee Jun gulps. Cut scene.

MY HEART CANNOT HANDLE HOW PERFECT THIS WAS. From the dialog to the body language to the eye-work to the kink exposure to the RIDICULOUSLY HOT EXPOSED FOREARMS ON CHOI JUN. I am in awe and Korea is FEEDING ME.

@absolutebl this seems like your jam

[mikuni14]

15 Day BL Challenge - Day 10

Day 10: Most Emotionally Pleasing Love Scene

To be honest, love scenes usually follow love confessions, or happen after reconciliation, so they are usually pleasing with all the positive, loving and romantic emotions 💖 Good, professional actors can also add authentic desire to these scenes, so these they don't just look nice and "stylized". Relatively rarely do love scenes appear, in which emotions go beyond the standard, i.e. love and desire, so I chose those that either went beyond it, resulting from the context of the scene, or somehow resonated on some deeper level with me.

Without a doubt, that scene from KinnPorsche, an emotional journey

4 Minutes GreatTyme and their first time in the dream realm, for their tenderness and for the connection, it takes my breath away

YinWar in Love Mechanics and Jack & Joker, they simply know how to sell whatever is between their characters at a given moment. Besides, War's aggression always works on me :P

Jun & Jun, for making me smile, for being so hot, so fun, so chill and so real

RainPhayu in Oh! My Sunshine Night, for making my heart skip a beat every time I see them

Love in Translation and Twins for pure joy they bring me, bonus for making their scenes so yummy with a dash of cockiness hehe 😏

Kiss x Kiss x Kiss couples for being so arousing

And final scene from Dangerous Drugs of Sex - IYKYK lol

(of course this is not a complete list, but I don't want to create another long post, and I should have chosen 1 scene anyway😩 failed again)

[negrowhat]

9 BL characters I want to fuck/be fucked by!

Tagged by @thisautistic and @nihilisticcondensedmilk

I CAN GET BEHIND A CHALLENGE LIKE THIS!

Jeng from Step by Step

Miss Tiffy from Lovely Writer

Uncle Alan from Pit Babe

Jin Yu Zhen from Be Loved in House

Choi Jun from Jun & Jun

Boss Sam from Gap the Series

Ever 4 from Eternal Butler

Kim Jong Chan from The New Employee

Tinn from Laws of Attraction

Open tag! If you see it do it!

[befuddledcinnamonroll]

15 Day Bl Challenge - Part 4

Day 60 - Favorite lesser known BL

Hmm, I'm not sure if I am fully tapped into what counts as "lesser known", since this is pretty much the only fandom space I hang out in, and I know certain series get more chatter on Twitter/TikTok/etc than they might here, but here are a few series l loved that I feel get less talk around here than they deserve.

Ghost Host Ghost House

This show should have been so much bigger than it was. If you look at YouTube views, the sections with the smooching have over a million views (and yes it is very good smooching), but the other segments have significantly less, which means a lot of people are missing the really good character stuff that was happening in this series. Boy and Tod were so good together with such amazing chemistry, but there was also some really profound work around grief, loss, and moving on.

Ingredients

A slow burn fluff BL produced by a grocery chain, featuring some amazing food, and the equally delicious Jeff Satur. What's not to love? It clearly had a low budget but it just adds to the sweet charm of it.

Perfect Propose

There's been a lot of really engaging Japanese BL this year, so this may have been easy to miss. But it's been interesting to see likes on my posts around this show continue to trickle in slowly over time - more so than almost any other show that I have posted about this year. Which isn't necessarily proof of anything, but potentially seems to indicate that when people do watch it, they are immediately looking for blogs talking about how good it is.

I honestly can't remember the last time a show made me feel so seen. Not the romance part - lol, I wish - but the way working in a toxic environment breaks you down at such a deep level, and how numb it can make you feel. It was a very short watch, but it had a lot of insightful things to say about modern workplace culture and the small things that we hold onto to make life worth the struggle.

Cosmetic Playlover

Another fantastic entry from Japan, that I think got a little bit lost in the flood of new content coming out.

It's a fun watch, with more sweetness than you might expect at first glance. Honorable mention to Natsume's mother and sister, who win the award for "most adorably delighted to learn their beloved family member has a boyfriend".

Jun and Jun

A cute and light-hearted series that was also more sexy than you would typically expect from a Korean BL. Also Ki Hyun Woo does such fun things with his face. I just like looking at him.

DNA Says Love You

Amber is still one of my all time favorite little sweeties, just so precious and adorable. And I don't want to spoil anything, but will say we get a type of representation that is still incredibly rare in the BL world. It does start a tad slow, but it's worth it to keep going.

Lucky My Love

A GL for the list! It's really short, but such sweet fluff. If you need something really feel good and low stress, this is a great option.

And that's a wrap on BL Challenge 2024!

Can't believe I did 60 of these! Woot woot!

[jimmysea]

What's your ideal type, Lee Jun?

JUN & JUN (2023) Episode 3

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

Hey, Lee Jun. Shit.

[absolutebl]

Tag Game: 10 Scenes I will never forget (BL from China, Japan, Korea & Taiwan)

Tagged by @hughungrybear

Rules: Share five (5) ten (10) scenes you can't forget. Not your favorites, the ones that got stuck in your brain for any reason.

I took that "not your favorite" line seriously.

1. Sleeves in Gay (Chinese Bromance)

Untamed was the first instance I remember but I have a screen shot from Word of Honor. Look we all get it, China. But the DISCOURSE we had over this whole thing around China, BL, and sleeves kinda cemented my relationship with BL on tumblr.

I guess you had to be here. But A TIME was had on this hellsite and we have all been Paying Attention to sleeves ever since.

As we very well should.

2. Opening meet cute Seven Days

THE STAGING. My first incidenct of a BL outright DOING manga RIGHT just on our screens for us. The perspective, the framing, the body positions... everything was perfection.

3. Into the trash bag Kieta Hatsukoi

It broke us. Every one.

4. Blueming's how to film a gay sex scene in Korea... an education

I don't like that they felt they had to do it this way, but I like that the strictures and confines pulled out a kind of shadow puppet art and the coloring was remarkable. Speaking of...

5. Color Rush's musical montage date

I liked the sound track for this show (rare for me) and I loved the atmospheric underwater feeling of this sequence plus the musical score.

There are others from this show like the rain hung, the crystal rainbow, and the rainbow fan of color wheel, but I had to pick.

6 The double down "crash into to me" trope used to emphasize the love triangle in Light On Me

Korea is just so CLEVER with their trope deployment. Watching them juggle multiple back-and-forths damn near perfectly to emphasize the love triangle and manipulate our emotions was brilliant. I still don't love a love triangle, but I appreciate the art of this one so much I gave it a 10/10.

7 "Have you been well, without me?" Our Dating Sim

Possibly one of the greatest lines ever delivered in a reunion romance.

8 Air gun to the heart in We Best Love

I could pick so many from this show but many of them would qualify as favorites. But this moment and the way you can see the invisible shot hit, because, well, Sam is just that good. It's just perfect tsundere meets pining seme acting.

9 Kiss through the net (ICONIC) in HIStory 2 Crossing the Line

Just amazing, perfect, beautifully shot, sports romance at its finest.

10 These goobers in Love is Science

Tiny family for the win.

Others I seriously considered but eliminated because they ARE favorites

Takara falling into the wall

My Personal Weatherman drunk boyfriend lap cuddles

Just Friends kissing in public in uniform

The ending running confession sequence in My Beautiful Man (I will never forget it because this one broke me, in real time)

Love Class 2 the boxers sequence

Jun & Jun the little whimper before he gives up and the kiss, also squishy cheeks

Love for Love's Sake gay punching, also "who hit you," also the magic kiss, also....

Light on Me - the confession, the hand hold at school, Namgong in the cape with flowers

The blood covered kiss in Long Time No See

Our Dating Sim's stealth kiss giggle

Cats/dogs, dark meat/light meat chicken, bisexual awakening in Oh My Assistant.

"To soft" in History 3 Trapped

Peaking over the divider in Semantic Error, also seme subscription service, ending fairy, yaja time, the LETTUCE line, also...

The backpack drop in Why R U? Korea.

The nod to the bed in See Your Love

Ghat kisses!

Dishonorable mention for the dirty minds in the corner

Minato's Laundromat - the sheet scene

My Personal Weatherman - the shirt scene (similarly My Day and the belt)

Old Fashion Cupcake - the finger bite

First Love Story - Pervert

Jun & Jun - THAT lap sit

The lap site tie grab in Kiseki Dear to Me

Love is Science in the closet makeout scene

This line in Unknown:

Should I do a whole second one for Thailand?

I don't tag but if you want to play you absolutely should!

[rin-moved]

JUN & JUN (2023)

[heretherebedork]

Lee Jun and The Audacity of This Bitch