#mr unlucky

[youremysapphierstone]

My anger turns into tears because I don't know how to let it out, I get distant but it pains me even more because I am not made to love it's my fatal flaw. I lack the power to hold someone close for a long period and I shall die with it, it's my curse soo dark soo cold.

[joblessquinoa]

Me: I wonder what Shinomiya's side of the story is

Shinomiya: Omg he looks like my dog when he smiles, but he acts like a cranky old bastard. He's perfect 😍😍

[absolutebl]

My 10 Favorite Aggressive Flirts in BL

Sparked by this question from @yousaygoodbyeandisay and the ensuing discussion. So we are going with aggressive flirts, not necessarily good or super successful flirts. Ready? These are my personal favorites, there are A LOT to choose from. 

1. Wen Ke Xing - Word of Honor

Signature moves? Waving around a big deadly fuck-off fan, calling his husband soulmate and perfect, recognizing the innate beauty in swords and shoulder blades, adopting adult children, killing everyone and everything else.

You know I don’t ordinarily mention Chinese stuff, but in a post about flirting. I would be so remiss if I didn’t include this absolute king of all the censored flirts to ever pick up a deadly man in a pastel robe. 

2. Win - Until We Meet Again

His signature moves? The casual arm throw, stripping down to show his tattoos, cuddling, stealing a potato chip in the most iconic way humanly possible. 

3. Shin - Minato’s Laundromat

Signature moves? Cooking and feeding, looming, constant requests to be allowed further intimacy and care duties, open displays of attention and interest. 

4. YooHan - Color Rush

Signature moves? Causing his man to faint, learning about and talking about color, using said knowledge to seduce, lots of dates, breaking him out of conversion therapy mental hospital, running away with him. 

5. Nosue-san - Old Fashion Cupcake 

Signature moves? Pretending(?) he doesn’t know what a flirt he is, collecting women, using girly voice and cuteness, wistful need for pancakes, three piece suits. 

6. JaeYoung - Semantic Error 

Signature moves? Teasing, the ultimate gentle bully, appearing in all classes, being hyper good at art, all the pretty angles, running off the competition, seme subscription service. 

7. King - My Engineer 

Signature moves? Texting, seduction through nerdiness, calling himself cute, learning how to communicate with an extreme introvert, love = plants, drunk kisses. 

8. Jack - HIStory 3 Trapped

Signature moves? Cooking and feeding his man, deep conversation, matching horny for horny, giving up his whole life to go legit for his cop bf, knife play. 

9. Forth - 2 Moons 2 

Signature moves? One night stands, hazing freshmen into courting doctors, pouring a water bottle over his bare chest, glaring, really good kisses. 

10. SeoJoon - Too My Star

Signature moves? Human puppy, innate fragility, personal hygiene demands, enthusiasm, fluffy sweaters. 

OTHERS FROM KOREA 

DaWoon - Blueming Signature moves? Take his picture, bring him coffee, get his movie made, pet his hair, get him into bed ASAP. 

KiJin - Behind Cut

RoA - Love Class

Wild Dog - Long Time No See

SangHa - Mr Heart

Jung Woo - My Sweet Dear

Korea loves an aggressive flirt. 

OTHERS FROM THAILAND 

Yok - Not Me Signature moves? Taunting and verbal repartee, drawing his man nekid, artistic bad boy eccentricity.

Tan - Manner of Death Signature moves? Cuffs, lesbian u-haul action, adopting children (plants, youths, local malcontents), shooting bad guys.

Ming - 2 Moons franchise Signature moves? Brutal honesty, direct communication, openness about feelings, winning the hotness contests.  

Mark - Gen Y Signature moves? Showing off, grad romantic gestures, lots of gifts. 

Pat - Bad Buddy Signature moves? Sniffing shirts, taking off his shirt, teasing and taunting, more shirt stuff. 

Jimmy’s character in Vice Versa Signature moves? Hot/cold, questioning lines, direct requests for affection that cannot be trusted.

Sky & Intouch - Secret Crush On You 

Pukong - 2gether 

Neo - 3 Will Be Free (trained flirt) 

Kaow - Brothers 

Nuea - Cutie Pie 

Vee - Love Mechanics 

Pitch - Golden Blood  

Vegas - KinnPorsche 

Pure - My Gear and Your Gown 

Fame - Make it Right 

Bbomb - Nitiman (very gentle version) 

Solo & Kao - Oxygen 

Kong - SOTUS (maybe) 

Na - Tonhon Chonaltee 

Mayom - What Zabb Man

San - You’re My Sky 

Prin - With Love (you thought I forgot about this one, didn’t you? yeah I’m the only person who watched it) 

whatever the fuck is going on with My Secret Love, Our Days, Paint With Love, Loveless Society, That’s My Candy, Y-Destiny, Close Friend, War of Y. 

OTHERS 

Naoya - Mr Unlucky Signature moves? Consistent pursuit, kiss first ask questions after, devout sincerity, stripping down for “exercise.” 

BoXiang - H3MODC the BL that shall not be named 

LiCheng - History 4 

Yuki - Plus and Minus 

Mark - Love is Science? 

Art - Rainbow Prince 

Nat Nam - You Are Ma Boy 

Younger seme + old uke inevitably yields up extreme flirting because of the power imbalance. 

Reluctant/tsundere seme + needy uke, however, usually also results in flirting but this kind: 

Desperate & Crazy Flirts

Prime examples? LuLin in My Esports Genius Brother  or Nampu in Top Secret Together or Yi in Coffee Melody. Intouch in UWMA, Fiat - TharnType 2, Don’t Say No.

A lot of these are aggressive autonomous ukes forced to undertake seme role by the narrative. 

Bully Flirts 

These are usually tsundere semes or all powerful semes (CEO, spoiled rich kids, bosses, mafia, etc) face with extreme tsundere ukes. 

Prime examples? 

Gu Hai - Addicted Signature moves? Ultimate pigtail pulling, all the pranks. Moving himself in, climbing into bed with his man, kidnapping. 

Sib - Lovely Writer Signature moves? Cohabitation, acting like a couple in public, calling baby CUTE constantly, switching linguistic registers, slightly sinister.

Kiyoi - Utsukushii Kare Signature moves? Calling his bf disgusting or gross, ordering him around, demanding attention, demanding honest love, watch me lose my mind over this glorious BL here

There are quite a few other bullies particularly out of China and Taiwan, they should probubly get their own post, but they mostly fall into whipping boy. Also I might throw in: Fighter in Why R U?, Tharn and Type in TharnType, Rio from Pornographer series, Gui from Takumi-kun, HooTing from H3:MODC, Kamol in Unforgotten Night, Kinn in KinnPorsche, Athip in What Zabb Man.

CODICIL 

This is a long post. I probubly won’t keep it updated because there are so many already. If you have one you want added, mention in a comment. 

Otherwise, this is fixed as of Aug 2022. Not responsible for flirts who come after. 

Devil Judge not included.

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[heretherebedork]

Mr. Unlucky in which luck is a metaphor for being queer and the way different people handle being different and also how different people seek acceptance or don't and how everyone grows when they find the people they belong with and the way Kouta is the person who always covered up who he really was beneath a mask of normalcy while Naoya was always known to be different and was used for those difference for other people's gains and once they found each other neither one had the same issues, not the bad luck nor the good luck, not the mask nor the use, they found each other and their friends and their love and now they're both just themselves.

[florbexter]

I love that Kota's immediate response to anything that makes him emotional is running away. First, relatable and second, it reinforces the way he has socialised/conditioned himself because of his bad luck.

When people are mad at him because something happened, he runs away, because he can't really explain it to them, right? He needs to put himself out of that situation otherwise more and more unlucky things will happen.

What I find both funny and tragic is that he often has no goal, there is no destination he can hide at or reach where he could escape from his bad luck.

[onstoryladders]

im dying gsbdjdbdjdbeubdhsvev

[bellamer]

Dude, you really said "I hope you'll be with me forever !" In the most adorable cutesy voice and you expected him not to take that as you asking him out ?

[phant0m-l0rd]

Ok but they're adorable.

[avanture-time]

That’s what a call a weirdly working product placement. And if it’s not, it should be

[cubedmango]

GIRLFRIENDS? ON GOD??

[alcairsei]

the ending to mr unlucky was so cute im 😭😭😭😭 my boys 😭😭😭

[romanceismycallingcard]

I finally FINALLY watched the last two eps of Mr Unlucky and I LOVE IT SO MUCH THEY'RE SO FREAKING CUTE I CAN'T EVEN HANDLE IT. I want another 3 episodes of just pure fluff of them going on dates and being domestic and home and kota whining cutely about being unlucky to naoya 😍

[joblessquinoa]

Pov: you are in love with your best friend and you’re both in enrolled in a course where the professor won’t stop talking about dating

[absolutebl]

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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Heat & Angst in BL + Terms Explained 

Why Such A Limited Range of Sex Acts in BL? 

The opposite: HIGH HEAT BL and 11 BLs with the BEST Chemistry  

Recs are dated Aug 2022 no responsible for BLs airing after that date. But please do rec in comments. 

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[heretherebedork]

Hi Francis! Are you all caught up with Mr Unlucky? If no, then skip this ~~ so I am watching the 'previously on' bit of Ep 5 and I dislike the blushing maiden trope (not shy or insecure or overwhelmed but you know the characters who are clearly made to be dumb about getting kissed) but I have Respect for a character who punches his kisser in the face (poor boy, btw), knocks him out cold, focuses on his nips, literally screams and spends a night on a park bench. That level of chaos is amazing

I get disliking the blushing maiden types but I'd also argue that Fukuhara is not the blushing maiden but rather the one trying to remain in deep denial of his own feelings and thus rejecting the kiss because he wants it and not because of that true, shy reluctance we get from blushing maidens.

Fukuhara freaks out at the kiss because he cannot handle both his own feelings for Shinomaya and his feelings about manipulating him. He punches him because he's not ready to face that he's using someone he's coming to love and he doesn't know how to handle the want to kiss him.

So he punches him but his feels overwhelm him and he runs. It's like how he spends so much time trying to figure out a way to apologize to him and fleeing from it each time because other people are there. He knows he's using him.

Also, pure chaos. He's pure chaos and he's pure chaos at least partially because he's tried to bury his real self for so long that who he is only comes out in chaos and shock and surprise that breaks his carefully crafted persona he wears otherwise. Which is so enjoyable. He's just so controlled when he's dealing with his bad luck that he doesn't know how to deal with anything else or with anything that actually matters.

I love this show, no denials, and I keep very up to date because it makes my Friday mornings very nice!

[florbexter]

I absolutelty adore and appreciate the fact that in both Cherry Magic and Mr Unlucky they gave huge morality questions/problems to inherently kind people.

Adachi was ready to distance himself even further from people after he learned about his mind-reading abilities and Kota tries so hard to appear neat and stays away from people in fear they would be affected by his bad luck; that guy hasn't had decent noodles in ten years, who can fault him to gravitate towards Naoya?

And the characters around them? Cherry Magic and the office family were just *chefs kiss* and I have the same feeling about the psychology class.

10/10 in all categories.