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Get into the Christmas Spirit with these recommendations – BL / YAOI edition

Christmas is around the corner and the perfect thing to do is to find some time for yourselves to relax. So, I recommend you to grab some popcorn, make your favourite hot drink, get cozy, relax under your blankets and leave the rest to me. I tried gathering some of my favourite “magical” BL series, to keep you the best company!

 


30-sai made dotei da to mahotsukai ni narerurashii (Cherry Magic! Thirty years of virginity can make you a wizard?!) (2020)
Country: Japan
Episodes: 12, 2 special episodes & a movie
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Life, Supernatural

Rumor has it that if you turn 30 years old and you’re still a virgin, you obtain magical powers. Well, that maybe true, because it just happened to our protagonist, Adachi, at his 30th birthday. That day, out of the blue, he started reading the minds of the people he touched. That was definitely very confusing for him and as he was trying to adapt to this new reality, he discovered a secret. One of his colleagues, Kurosawa, was secretly in love with him. These news came as a surprise, so it will be very interesting to see how Adachi will handle this situation.

Key points:
⦁ Cute couple.
⦁ Wholesome relationship
⦁ Interesting storyline.
⦁ Very expressive actors.
⦁ Slow burn romance.
⦁ Office romance


Vice Versa (2022)
Country: Thailand
Episodes: 12 & 2 special episodes
Genre: Romance, Youth, Drama, Fantasy

Imagine, you live a normal life being yourself, but one day you wake up in someone else’s body, in another universe. WHAAT? How is this even possible? What will you do at a place when you don’t know anyone, not even yourself? Eventually, turns out you’re not the only one and the good news are, there is a way out of this. You just have to find your “portkey”, a person whom you have to find a way to help each other return back to where you both belong. The plot follows the story of our protagonists, Talay and Puen and how they build a strong relationship, trying to find each other’s portkeys.

Key points:
⦁ Unique storyline
⦁ Slow burn romance
⦁ Character development
⦁ Friends to lovers
⦁ Well written story with many cliffhangers
⦁ Interesting cameo’s (if you’re a fan of Thai series)

Triage (2022)
Country: Thailand
Episodes: 13
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Medical, Fantasy

Tin is a 3rd year emergency medicine resident. One day, he tries so hard to save a university student who rushed to the emergency room in serious condition, but eventually, he fails and that student, named Tol, dies. After that moment, every time he falls asleep, Tin falls into a time loop that he can’t escape until he can save Tol.

Key points:
⦁ Interesting romance
⦁ Character development
⦁ Mystery investigation
⦁ Suspense
⦁ For fans of medical series
⦁ Plot twists

He’s coming to me (2019)
Country: Thailand
Episodes: 8
Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Romance, Supernatural

Thun, is a university student that has a special ability. From a young age, whenever he visited the graveyard at Ching Ming Festival with his family, he could see and talk with a ghost, name Med. Med was a heir of a rich family, who died under mysterious circumstances. His ghost can’t leave the graveyard and he is waiting many years for someone to visit him, so he can reincarnate. Now that he’s grown up, Thun decides to help him investigate his death and together, they build up a very strong relationship that turns into a romantic one, even though they know that this relationship seems so impossible and has an expiration date.

Key points:
⦁ Touching plot
⦁ Interspecies relationship
⦁ Mystery investigation
⦁ Expressive actors
⦁ Heartwarming couple
⦁ Well writen

I hope you find any of the above worth watching and I would love to read your opinions or your recommendations.

Thanks for reading this,

Utaku

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