Calling all BL watchers and lovers! Hi!
What do you think were some of the best (or your favorite) Asian BLs that came out in 2023? 
Some of my favorites were Our Dating Sim, Star Struck, Jun & Jun, and The Eighth Sense (all are Korean, but not on purpose, lol!).
Curious to hear about your favorites!
For me: Kiseki dear to me, A shoulder to cry on, only friends, our dating sim
I really liked A Shoulder to Cry On too! 
Stay With Me is on top of my list, followed by Kiseki: Dear to Me. I also liked You Are Mine and Step By Step very much.
From these shows the behind the scenes and YT shorts are cute too.
Yes!! Iām glad someone mentioned Stay With Me! I loved it too! I almost forgot about Step By Step 
ā¦ I need to rewatch it because I remember really liking it too. The slow burn of the main couple was so good!
Hi! One of my favorites (though not was too popular) was āBe My favoriteā. It has a good story and great characters. The other oneās are āI Canāt Reach Youā, āDanger Romanceā, āMoonlight Chickenā (Heart and Liming was so cute), and āLast Twilightā but I donāt know if counts 'cause has not ended yet 
. The Eighth Sense also was one on my favorite (I loved it when the song āThe storyā of Conan Gray played).
I highly recommend āLast Twilightāā¦ itās new but one of those get you by the heart strings ones. There isnāt an episode that you donāt have a tear in your eye.
There is also āPit Babeā brand newā¦ has a bit of scifi to it.
Shocked that nobody mentioned āBad Buddyāā¦ that one was a tremendous fan favorite as well as āCutie Pieā.
Letās not forget āSemantic Errorāā¦ or the XXXX of āKinnPorcheāā¦ and TharnType (which I think set the standard for BLs)ā¦
Hey, Rae!!
For me definitely was:
ā¢ 1Ā° Last Twilight; (On Going)
ā¢ 2Ā° Only Friends;
ā¢ 3Ā° Kiseki: Dear To Me;
ā¢ 4Ā° Night Dream; (On Going)
ā¢ 5Ā° Cooking Crush; (On Going)
ā¢ 6Ā° Be My Favorite;
ā¢ 7Ā° Between Us;
ā¢ 8Ā° The Eighth Sense;
āAn with thisā¦ the 2023 season comes to an endā - LOL. I('m) really enjoyed(ing) watching all of it! I highly recommend this little list. Also, I do know that there are much more, but for me, this is the top 8 which I felt soooooo warm while watching.
Hey magaf!
Everyone keeps mentioning āKiseki: Dear To Meā so I need to watch that asap! I admit Iāve neglected watching BLs from Taiwan and have been really focused on Korean, Japanese, and Thai BLs.
Have you watched āAbout Youthā? Thatās technically a 2022 Taiwanese BL, but I loved it and rewatched it many times this year! Itās got that āHannah Montanaā Iām secretly a rockstar vibe, lol!
Iām currently watching āLast Twilightā as well! āPit Babeā is on my list!! 
I did love āSemantic Errorā etc., but I didnāt mention those because theyāre technically from 2022! Still amazing BLs though.
For me, the 2020-2022 era has some of my most comforting, rewatched BLs, like āCherry Magic!ā āKissable Lipsā āMr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kissā āLight On Meā and so many more!
Thanks for the reply! 
Oh, duh! I just saw ābest BLsā and didnāt finish reading the header. LOL! My bad!
Only Friends is super dark! It was hard to watch in some episodes. Didnāt know about Night Dream, pulling that one up. Cooking Crush is okay. Sadly, itās boring me to tears. I was hoping for the same vibes from Theory of Loveā¦ but nope, aināt happening. Eighth Sense, I watched a couple of episodes and was turned off. One of the MLs was so anorexic looking it was a total turn off. I tried to hold on, but it grossed me out.
Is a remake of the Chinese BL āHeroineā, the two characters names combined in Chinese made the name. Sadly, Viki used to have ALL the episodes before China threw the smackdown and removed or edited most parts of the drama. It was VERY graphic. And held true to the original novel. Iām happy to say I saw the whole thing before it happened. If you were to watch it now, I think Viki still has the edited version, itās not the same. China just chopped it up and threw it back at us.
Thailand has remade this!! You have to dig to get it. They started airing it on GMMTV and then they removed the first 2 episodes and pretty much told the international fans we werenāt so lucky.
I really liked the overall vibe, aesthetic, and indie feel of The Eighth Sense! I also appreciated the mental illness/health topic too. It overall felt very unique compared to other (BL) K-dramas, to me! The soundtrack was really cool too!
Only Friend - Fact! LOL. There were some episodes where I couldnāt take it, you know? To watch this you need to have a very strong mindā:laughing:. Every line of them has a content of sex - Iām not joking, Iām being serious, there was a part of an episode (approximately 20min on YT) where every single line of them was about sex! I was likeā¦ 
LOL. But I loved the way that GMMTV had to maintain the love stories intact. Likeā¦ the message I got was: āsex is part of relationship, sometimes it strengthens, but also are not necessary and can make people realize what kind of person youāll gonna be on a relationship.ā - And the way they built those relationship on a āstreet, violent, angry, lovelyā¦ wayā was very interestingā¦ anyway. On my mind this makes sense LOL.
Night Dream - @kakashiandme I think youāll gonna love this one. Iām in love, but sadly itās just 6-8 episodes, I guess. Itās Thai also and YOU *KU has it!
āKissable Lipsā by far . the plot is really intriguing, and Jiwoong acting is above the world (love my purple buttlerfly so much), by far my favorit bl show ive ever watched
Yes, thank you, someone else that loves Kissable Lips as much as me! I know many people made jokes and references to Twilight, but man, I love the combo of a cold blood-sucking vampire and a sweet innocent human boy. This is one of my comfort shows that I rewatch when Iām feeling down. 
In general, a lot of people loved Our Dating Sim, it wasnāt a favourite of mine but it definitely got me hooked when I watched it. But, Iāll have to 100% agree that The Eighth Sense was one of the best, not just out of 2023 but out of BLs as a whole - big statement ikrā¦ Thereās just something so beautiful and unique about it that deserves to be commended to a high degree. I can talk on and on about it but Iāll save it for later lol.
Other favourites of mine were Our Dining Table - a Japanese bl. No oneās mentioned it so Iām guessing itās still quite unknown. It has quite a simple plot but it was really really heartwarming~
And also Last Twilight, my god has PāAof (the director) done it again. Hasnāt ended yet but itās just soooo good!!
Our Dining Table has been on my list since it came out. Iāll try to watch it soon since most people speak highly of it!
If dramas that are still ongoing are also allowed, then itās definitely The Sign.
I donāt think Iāve ever seen a BL like this one.
I like The Sign, too. But I feel like there are many plot holes. Hope to see it on Viki tho, too.