10 BEST Low Heat BLs - Soft & Sweet (Safe to Watch with Parents)
Not sure I am the right one to answer since I'm the opposite of a prude but I'll give it my best shot. Please keep in mind that these are romances, so there will be at least a kiss (in most of them), I'm thinking Disney level, so they might also be okay for kids, but as I always say with kids, you know your kid best, you have to judge what they are okay to watch.
1. Cherry Magic
AKA 30 Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard AKA 30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii AKA Cheri Maho
Japan 2020 - CrunchyRoll or Fan Subbed
The sweetest fluffiest magical realism BL, packaged as a pinning office romance, very low heat (practically chaste) but the cutest. It’s truly great. It’s not in my top 10 of all time list simply because the heat level is too low for me, personally.
No kisses for the leads, side couple kiss is v dead fish.
2. Light On Me
Korea 2021 - Viki
Korea does an elegant pastiche of traditional live action yaoi but all tropes are cleverly deployed to bolster one of the most riveting love triangles ever put on screen… and I don’t like love triangles. LonM strategically tailors classic BL tropes to 2 different semes resulting in pristine pacing, plot, and character development, explicitly serving narrative a-not just to tick boxes. LoM is a master class in this technique. (If you write fanfic or romance you should study this show.) Full review.
Very low heat, Korea in peak chaste form (pre their 2022 “oh, boys can kiss” epiphany). But there is dildo humor.
3. My Love Mix Up
AKA Vanishing My First Love AKA Kieta Hatsukoi
Japan 2021 - Viki
Completely adorable absolute chaos bi disaster muffin falls accidentally and completely in love with his classmate, hijinx and friendship result. What’s great about this BL is that it deals with things like homophobia, asexuality, and one sided affection in an extremely gentle and palatable way. Perhaps sometimes too subtle, but I believe this is a great show for younger audiences, particularly if you want to spark conversations about identity, sexuality, authority, truthfulness, and consent. Oh and it’s funny.
No kissing at all.
4. Seven Days: Monday-Thursday & Friday-Sunday
Japan 2015 - grey
Never doubt my ability to recommend this show. 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).
The leads have excellent chemistry although it’s low heat there’s still some really cute mutual kisses.
5. Wish You: Your Melody in My Heart (movie)
Korea 2020 - Viki
Set in the music industry featuring a talented singer and the pianist who falls in love with him (and his music), subtle and achingly adorable. High production, low heat, short run, very tame, and Korea, so more of a western style. It’s not the most logical story though. No coming out, exists in the “Korean BL bubble universe” where everything is just fine and dandy with the gays.
Kisses but they tame and no sexy.
6. He’s Coming To Me
Thailand 2019 - YouTube
Boy and ghost boy fall in love, must solve ghost’s murder. Peak pining but also pretty tame, features my favorite sweet but important coming out sequence. The third in my precious triumvirate of unbeatable Thai BLs, that are only nominally BL because the story, acting, and production values are so good. (Together with UWMA & 1k*).
One (maybe two) soft romantic kisses. Nothing else possible.
7. Restart After Come Back Home
AKA Risutato wa tadaima no ato de
Japan 2020 - grey
Atmospheric study in rural Japan meets complex family dynamics built on a romance framework of city boy meets country boy, grumpy/sunshine. It’s beautiful and icy sweet. Slow moving in places but ultimately worth the patience. Full review.
Low heat, low angst, very pretty.
8. My Ride
Thailand 2022 - GaGa
Thai BL grew up with this pulp - a truly lovely and special little show featuring the extremely rare pairing of sunshine/sunshine AKA a cinnamon roll couple. Mature explorations of relationships using one of the softest, sweetest and most innocent friends to lovers vehicles. Kindly, overworked doctor meets broken-hearted motorcycle taxi driver in an “other side of the tracks” slow burn romance. The support cast is excellent, making for great friendship groups and family dynamics. With honest queer rep that adds to, but doesn’t impede the story, and genuine conversation about the nature of class, wealth, and classism, not to mention communication, honesty, and respect for boundaries, you can’t go wrong with this show. In other news, I am a sucker for a single dimple. Full review.
One sweet kiss at the end.
9. Mr. Unlucky Can Only Kiss
AKA Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice but to Kiss! AKA Fukou-kun wa Kiss Suru Shikanai!
Japan 2022 - Viki & GaGa & indie subbed
Mr Chronically Unlucky (another adorable chaos muffin) and Mr Always Lucky end up dating after they meet at uni orientation. It’s JAPAN yet they kissed in the first episode. What freaky alt-reality did I enter into? That’s all they kiss tho, over which I was a touch disappointed. Still I spent far too much of my time with this show biting my knuckles and squealing “THEY’RE SO CUTE!” It is very slapstick Japanese style comedic (light) BL reminds me of Cherry Magic. So if you like that style of BL you’ll adore this show.
Amusing story: I paused mid the most tooth-achingly adorable first date in the entire universe and Viki was like “something missing?” and I was like “MY HEART YOU BASTARDS”
One kiss beginning and some shirtless lust.
10. What Did You Eat Yesterday
AKA Kinou Nani Tabeta?
Japan 2019 - grey
A not really BL about middle-aged gay couple who live together, one of whom loves to cook and the other who loves to eat. That’s it. That’s all that happens. There’s a bit of coming out drama, but hardly really drama. It’s all very repressed but also incredibly restful and calming. Like classical music.
No kisses, some casual domestic affection.
Other Options
A Tale of Thousand Stars (Disney style ultra romantic kissing, implied sex)
La Cuisine (couple soft kisses at end)
Silhouette of Your Voice AKA Hidamari ga Kikoeru AKA I Hear the Sunspot
Oh Boarding House (kisses are perhaps too good)
Great Men Academy (GREAT but not BL)
2 Moons original (boring)
His the series (boring)
First Love Again (multiple kisses)
Ingredients (emotional support grocery store commercial)
Love Class (that plot)
Tinted With You (historical)
Nobleman Ryu’s Wedding (historical)
Behind Cut (confusing)
Old Fashion Cupcake (but that ONE kiss is a DOOZIE, there’s a lot of thirst in this one)
Others That are (technically) Lower Heat but I’m not sure I’d rec for other reasons
HIStory My Hero (odd)
My Dear Loser: Edge of 17 (side couple)
The Untamed (censored bromance, violence)
Word of Honor (censored bromance, violence)
My Esports Genius Brother (China is so weird around censorship)
Friend Forever (sigh, it could have been good)
Absolute BL 1 & 2 (parody, not a story)
DNA Says Love You (very complex, slow start)
Bad Buddy (bully, forced outing)
Bite Me (boring af)
Love Sick (side character issues also v long)
Nitiman (poor ending)
Given (terrible singing)
SOTUS (bully)
2gether (I have issues with Green)
Mr Heart (stalker)
Color Rush (suicide)
Where Your Eyes Linger (whipping boy)
Puppy Honey (side couple)
There is A LOT of low heat stuff. It’s way more common than high heat.
More Like This:
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Recs are dated Aug 2022 no responsible for BLs airing after that date. But please do rec in comments.
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Ok so, you know how in A Miser Brothers Christmas (aka that one unofficial sequel special that aired on ABC Family once and never showed up again) they introduced a bunch of other nature siblings in that one scene?
Well, I thought to myself “hmm what if I “demake” their character designs to make it look like that they were designed by the Rankin/Bass crew.”
So, I did just that!
These were pretty fun to make, so let me introduce them to you all
Starting off with the ones you already know, Mother Nature, Snow Miser, and Heat Miser. 🌿❄️🔥
Then there are The Wind Siblings North Wind, East Wind, South Wind, and West Wind. 🌪️🍂☀️🌸
And then there’s the duo Lighting and Thunder. ⚡️🌧️
This hunky guy named Earthquake. 🌎
And finally there’s The Tide twins aka High Tide and Low Tide. 🌊
I’m pretty pleased with all of them! The irony is that I like these supposed “demake” designs over their looks in AMBC (especially North Wind like, holy shit.)
But yeah, hope y’all like them as much as I do.
Oh, and there’s a reference for all of their minions as well tehe
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