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New breakdowns are coming at the end of every month - feel free to add stuff! -> previous breakdowns
What came out this month? (green = seen/currently watching)
🌟 Sasaki to Miyano - October 1st (Japan)
🌟 If It's With You aka Even If I Fall In Love With You - October 5th (Japan)
🌟 What Did You Eat Yesterday? Season 2 - October 6th (Japan)
🌟 Boys Like Boys (dating reality show) - October 9th (Taiwan)
🌟 Lucky Love - October 15th (Thailand)
🌟 GMMTV2024 lineup event - October 17th (Thailand) ✅
🌟 One Room Angel (manga adaption) - October 19th (Japan)
🌟 Bump Up Business - October 20th (South Korea)
🌟 My Dear Gangster Oppa - October 26th (Thailand)
🌟 The Camp Fire (part of Y Universe) - October 29th (Thailand) ✅
🌟 Shadow - October 31st (Thailand)
Monthly likes/dislikes
👎🏻 my rant of the month goes to the delulu ON stans and their fucked up actions like how messed up do you have to be fr. no idea where these peoples' common sense went but I hope this doesn't affect Kidnap in the long run. I'm excited for the show and I hope they can overlook the bullshit. I'm sure Ohm is used to it by now anyway but leave Leng alone ffs. big sigh.
New series & movie announcements
🎥 Dear Kitakyushu - Coming 2024 (Thailand/Japan)
🎥 1000 Years Old - Date TBA (Thailand)
🎥 Perfect Propose - Date TBA (Japan)
🎥 That Year 162 Rainfalls (novel adaption, by the author of HIStory: Trapped & Kiseki: Dear to Me) - Date TBA (Taiwan)
🎥 High Demand - Coming 2024 (Thailand)
🎥 The Hidden Moon - Date TBA (Thailand)
🎥 Eu Is Love - Date TBA (South Korea)
🎥 OMG Vampire (from the director of Dear Doctor) - Date TBA (Thailand)
🎥 Dead Friend Forever (a BOC original) - Date TBA (Thailand)
Other news from the BL world
❗️ FortPeat (Love in the Air) were announced as the leads for MeMindY's upcoming BL Love Sea. The drama will air in 2024.
❗️ BossNoeul (Love in the Air) were announced as the leads for MeMindY's upcoming BL The Boy Next World. The drama is considered a TharnType-spinoff surrounding Phugun & Cirrus and will air in 2024.
❗️ Dear Kitakyushu was announced as the first Thai-Japanese crossover BL movie. Mark Siwat and Uemura Souta will star as the leads; shooting has already begun. The film will air in 2024.
❗️ After rumors spread about an upcoming Thai adaption of the Korean BL Semantic Error, the author of the original novel came forward and negated the rumor.
❗️ The author of the adapted BL novels Triage and Manner Of Death announced that her novel Euthanasia will be adapted soon. It tells the story of a doctor who advocates euthanasia and becomes a suspect when mysterious deaths occur. One of the victims is the mother of an inspector who was battling cancer.
❗️ The first part of the GMMTV2024 lineup event was held on October 17th. The following BLs were announced:
We Are (starring PondPhuwin, AouBoom, WinnySatang, MarcPawin)
The Trainee (starring OffGun)
Summer Night (starring Phuwin & Dunk, with BL side cp)
Only Boo (starring SeaKeen)
Ossan's Love Thailand (starring EarthMix)
My Golden Blood (starring JossGawin)
Wandee Goodday (starring GreatInn)
My Love Mixup (starring GemFourth)
-> After initial confusions, GMMTV confirmed Kidnap to be a BL as well. The show stars Ohm Pawat and newbie actor Leng Thanaphon. This announcement however caused fans associated with the OhmNanon ship to protest publicly in the form of multiple LED ads across Bangkok, as well as public letters of complaint, shitstorms on Twitter and collective harassments on social media towards Leng. Neither of the actors nor the company have released a statement about the incidents yet.
❗️ Korean model and actor Nam Yoon Su was announced as the lead actor in the upcoming KBL Love in the Big City. Further details are yet to be announced.
❗️The Korean BL Unintentional Love Story is getting a spinoff revolving around the characters HoTae and DongHee. Filming is set to begin soon.
❗️ At the streaming event for the final episode of Love in Translation, the mains Daou & Offroad announced they will star in a movie together in 2024.
❗️ After winning the Be On Cloud reality show The Hidden Character, actors Ta Nannakun and Copper Phuriwat were offered the lead roles in the original Be On Cloud series "Dead Friend Forever", which was written by Sammon. The genre is described as 90's teen slasher horror. Filming has already started and the show is set to air on December 23rd.
Upcoming series & movies for November
👉🏻 Twins - November 3rd (Thailand)
👉🏻 Last Twilight - November 10th (Thailand)
👉🏻 Middleman's Love - November 10th (Thailand)
👉🏻 Beyond the Star - November 11th (Thailand)
👉🏻 Playboyy - November 16th (Thailand)
👉🏻 Pit Babe - November 17th (Thailand)
👉🏻 Wheels and Axle - November 17th (Thailand)
👉🏻 Bake Me Please (starring Ohm Thitiwat) - November 19th (Thailand)
👉🏻 7 Days Before Valentine - November 22nd (Thailand)
👉🏻 VIP Only - November 24th (Taiwan)
👉🏻 The Sign - November 25th (Thailand)
👉🏻 For Him - November 30th (Thailand)
👉🏻 Sahara Sensei to Toki-kun - November 30th (Japan)
[Here’s a bit of an introduction to characters and plot. Covers the material directly lifted from the description box of the trailer. Contains mild spoilers.
The movie has been fan-subbed by furritsubs.]
Introduction
The beginning of Takumi and Gii’s sparkly days
Over 15 years since the first 2007 film adaptation of the Takumi kun Series, a popular “boys’ love” novel series with over 5 million copies in print, a new series has been launched with a new cast and story. The film is a combination of three titles from the Kanzen-ban 1 (omnibus edition) of the original novels—
Akatsuki wo Matsumade (tr. Until I Wait for the Dawn)
Soshite Harukaze ni Sasayaite (tr. And Then, I Whisper into the Spring Breeze)
Nagai Nagai Monogatari no Hajimari no Asa (tr. The Morning of the Beginning of a Long, Long Story).
[This is the order in which the stories appear in the omnibus edition. Third story is new addition to the novel series.]
It portrays Takumi’s encounter with Gii on the day of Shido Academy’s entrance exam and the beginning of their sparkly days.
Takumi Hayama, one of the main characters, is played by Shion Morishita, a new actor stepping into the spotlight in 2023
Giichi Saki (Gii), the other main character, is played by Daigo Kato, who is a musician as well as a cast member of musicals Touken Ranbu and HYPNOSIS MIC Division Rap Battle Rule the Stage.
Other fresh talent in the cast adds vibrance to Shido Academy:
Satsuki Nakayama of Kamen Rider Zero One as Izumi Takabayashi
Rio Takahashi, who models for magazine MEN’S NON-NO, as Shozo Akaike
Yusuke Noguchi of Hi☆Five as Toshihisa Katakura
Souta Uemura, an actor popular with teenagers, as Michio Yoshizawa
Ryunosuke Nagashima, who performed in HYPNOSIS MIC Division Rap Battle Rule the Stage, as Kei Aso
Kosei Tsubokura from a play called Promise of Wizard as Kenji Suzuki
Tsubasa Kizu, who acted in the stage adaptation of Tokyo Revengers, as Arata Misu
Screenwriter Hiroko Kanasugi and Director Kenji Yokoi, the same duo from the previous film who know the Takumi kun Series inside and out, are back together again. With a new screenplay and a new cast, they light the torch to the beginning of a beautiful, sparkly Takumi kun Series.
Story
On the day of Shido Academy’s entrance exam, Takumi witnesses Gii for the first time--
On the day of Shido Academy’s entrance exam, Gii (Giichi Saki), who stands out in a crowd with his striking presence, walks past Takumi Hayama in the hallway. Takumi is mesmerized by Gii’s exotic, attractive appearance.
[fan-subbed by furritsubs]
When school starts, Takumi is treated like a freak by his classmates because of his fear of touching and being touched by other people.
But Takumi manages to get by, thanks to Toshihisa Katakura, his only good friend and roommate in the dorm. However, the peaceful days don’t last very long.
In the library, third-year student Kei Aso asks Takumi to participate in the campus “shrine hunt” event with him.
Izumi Takabayashi, who’s head over heels in love with Gii, and students who idolize Takabayashi start picking on Takumi.
When Takabayashi realizes that his beloved Gii not only shrugs him off but is also interested in Takumi the freak, he gets consumed with jealousy and masterminds an attack on Takumi.
Spring comes, and Takumi and Gii are now second-year students. They’re assigned to the same room in the dorm, and their relationship gets much closer.
Then Takabayashi makes another move and drives Takumi into a corner. Gii realizes Takabayashi’s plot and tries to save Takumi, however...
And thus starts Takumi and Gii’s long, long sparkly story.
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Fan-subbed by furritsubs
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This post is planned as a part of a series:
1.Trailer plus (you are here)
2.Introduction to the school culture and male androphilia in Japan.
3.How does the movie compare with the source novel?
4.How does the movie compare with previous adaptations?
Trailer: Takumi-kun Series 6: The Morning of the Beginning of a Long, Long Story
Takumi-kun Series 6: Nagai Nagai Monogatari no Hajimari no Asa (2023)
On the day of Shido Academy’s entrance exam, Takumi witnesses Gii for the first time--
On the day of Shido Academy’s entrance exam, Gii (Giichi Saki), who stands out in a crowd with his striking presence, walks past Takumi Hayama in the hallway. Takumi is mesmerized by Gii’s exotic, attractive appearance. When school starts, Takumi is treated like a freak by his classmates because of his fear of touching and being touched by other people. But Takumi manages to get by, thanks to Toshihisa Katakura, his only good friend and roommate in the dorm. However, the peaceful days don’t last very long. In the library, third-year student Kei Aso asks Takumi to participate in the campus “shrine hunt” event with him. Izumi Takabayashi, who’s head over heels in love with Gii, and students who idolize Takabayashi start picking on Takumi. When Takabayashi realizes that his beloved Gii not only shrugs him off but is also interested in Takumi the freak, he gets consumed with jealousy and masterminds an attack on Takumi.
Spring comes, and Takumi and Gii are now second-year students. They’re assigned to the same room in the dorm, and their relationship gets much closer. Then Takabayashi makes another move and drives Takumi into a corner. Gii realizes Takabayashi’s plot and tries to save Takumi, however… And thus starts Takumi and Gii’s long, long sparkly story.
Introduction:
The beginning of Takumi and Gii’s sparkly days
Over 15 years since the first 2007 film adaptation of the Takumi kun Series, a popular “boys’ love” novel series with over 5 million copies in print, a new series has been launched with a new cast and story. The film is a combination of three titles from the Kanzen-ban 1 (omnibus edition) of the original novels—Akatsuki wo Matsumade (tr. Until I Wait for the Dawn), Soshite Harukaze ni Sasayaite (tr. And Then, I Whisper into the Spring Breeze), Nagai Nagai Monogatari no Hajimari no Asa (tr. The Morning of the Beginning of a Long, Long Story ). It portrays Takumi’s encounter with Gii on the day of Shido Academy’s entrance exam and the beginning of their sparkly days.
Takumi Hayama, one of the main characters, is played by Shion Morishita, a new actor stepping into the spotlight in 2023, and Giichi Saki (Gii), the other main character, is played by Daigo Kato, who is a musician as well as a cast member of musicals Touken Ranbu and HYPNOSIS MIC Division Rap Battle Rule the Stage. Other fresh talent in the cast adds vibrance to Shido Academy, namely Satsuki Nakayama of Kamen Rider Zero One as Izumi Takabayashi; Rio Takahashi, who models for magazine MEN’S NON-NO, as Shozo Akaike; Yusuke Noguchi of Hi☆Five as Toshihisa Katakura; Souta Uemura, an actor popular with teenagers, as Michio Yoshizawa; Ryunosuke Nagashima, who performed in HYPNOSIS MIC Division Rap Battle Rule the Stage, as Kei Aso; Kosei Tsubokura from a play called Promise of Wizard as Kenji Suzuki; and Tsubasa Kizu, who acted in the stage adaptation of Tokyo Revengers, as Arata Misu.
Screenwriter Hiroko Kanasugi and Director Kenji Yokoi, the same duo from the previous film who know the Takumi kun Series inside and out, are back together again. With a new screenplay and a new cast, they light the torch to the beginning of a beautiful, sparkly Takumi kun Series.
Starring: February Pisces Tanaka Koki and November Scorpio Tawada Hideya
And my personal favorite November Sagittarius Uemura Souta
Synopsis: A love story interwoven between Sakuraba Isumi, a short, baby-faced university student who is a great cook, and Amasawa Kyosuke, a tall, sincere police officer with a natural, easygoing charm. Twenty-year-old Isumi is mistaken for a minor and nearly gets taken into custody by Amasawa. Later, Isumi runs into Amasawa again at the convenience store where he works part-time. From then on, every time they meet, Amasawa asks for recommendations for late-night snacks. Concerned about Amasawa's eating habits, Isumi offers, "How about I come over and cook for you?" Visiting Amasawa's home, they grow closer through home-cooked meals.
Amasawa: That's actually why I always get dumped. At first, they say they like how kind I am and we start dating. But in the end they say: "you're kind to everyone, huh? I wanted you to focus only on me."
Rihito: People like that usually find someone else and then dump you right?
Isumi: Hey! don't go flaunting your anime and manga knowledge!
Takumi-kun Series 6: Nagai Nagai Monogatari no Hajimari no Asa | Official Trailer
Japanese Movie - 2023
~~ Adapted from the novel series "Takumi-kun Series" (タクミくんシリーズ) by Gotoh Shinobu (ごとうしのぶ )
Okay I feel like I should revisit all the previous five movies and GIF them now. This is a remake of the first one, which holds a special place in my heart. But very interested to see because of how far Japanese BL’s have evolved since way back in 2007.