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- CreatorHiroko NatsunoStarsKiita KomagineTaisuke NiiharaTakuma UsaRookie actor Yuki Shirasaki lands a role in a BL drama starring popular actor Asami Hayama. Anxious about his first major performance, Yuki agrees to Asami's suggestion to pretend they're in a romantic relationship until filming ends.AKA At 25:00 In Akasaka
1 Season - Ongoing - StarsYoshida MunehiroAtsuhiro InukaiYûtaroOne day, the protagonist realizes that he lives inside a "world of BL." As he likes girls, he fights back against any hot guys that might draw near, but this is a "world of BL".AKA Zettai BL ni Naru Sekai VS Zettai BL ni Naritakunai Otoko
3 Seasons (season 3 ongoing) - StarsHideyoshi KanJun NishiyamaA charmingly handsome owner of a small restaurant, who can make anyone's stomach and heart happy, meets a divorced office worker who got relocated to Osaka and - falls in love with him at first sight?.AKA Although I Love You, and You?
1 Season - Complete - CreatorKeiko KinoshitaStarsMakoto HasegawaRobin FuruyaAroha TakamatsuMagazine editor Miyata has long forgotten his high school crush Iwanaga, focusing instead on his busy job. However, when his latest publication requires an interview with Iwanaga himself, can he really leave the past behind?AKA Koi wo Suru nara Nidome ga Joto
1 Season - Complete - StarsRyusei FukadaRei YabanaRirika TanabeHigh school sophomores Ryo, Hikaru, and Chika are living a seemingly peaceful high school life while harboring hidden emotions. One day, Hikaru and Chika find 8mm film in an old warehouse inside the school. A stunning girl in the film captures Hikaru's attention, while Ryo worries about Hikaru, and Chika keeps an eye on the beautiful girl, whose gaze seems to pass by.1 Season - Complete
- StarsKento HayashiKei TanakaKôtarô YoshidaHaruta and Maki are finally living together as newlyweds after ending their long-distance relationship. However, their new housekeeper is none other than Kurosawa Musashi, their retired boss. Is this bizarre love triangle inevitable?Spin-off of 2018 series 'Ossan's Love'
1 Episode - Complete - StarsShunya KanekoKôta NomuraAyane KinoshitaHiro, severely overworked, can barely function outside his toxic workplace. When he encounters Kai, a childhood friend he had once promised to marry, he finds he is steadily regaining a sense of purpose - yet Kai's motives remain unclear.1 Season - Complete
- StarsTakumi KizuRintarô HachimuraShunta SonoToki Kanade is a delinquent who gets into a lot of fights. But despite his appearance, he is a pure-hearted boy. He wins the favor of handsome physical education teacher Sahara Ichiro, with whom he subsequently falls in love. As a result, he starts going to school every day just to see Sahara. Thus begins a one-sided and sincere love affair between a refreshingly handsome teacher and a delinquent student.1 Season
- StarsAlan AbeNichika AkutsuWhen former child star Aoyagi must reside with popular actor Akafuji for an upcoming BL manga adaptation, he suspects Akafuji despises him. Unbeknownst to Aoyagi, Akafuji is his biggest admirer, leading to humorous misunderstandings.AKA 'I Became the Main Role of a BL Drama'/ 'BL Drama no Shuen ni Narimashita: Crank Up Hen'
1 Season - CreatorMikaStarsKentaro MaedaHaru KashiwagiReo MatsumotoChildhood best friends, Yamato and Kakeru, are vastly different, yet are two halves of a whole. Despite always being by the other's side, complicated feelings prevent them from being together in the way they truly want to be.AKA I Cannot Reach You / Kimi ni wa Todokanai
1 Season - CreatorHaradaStarsShûhei UesugiTakuya NishimuraOideyasu OdaNo hobbies, no friends, no lover. There are a lot of things that Kouki doesn't have. The story begins when Kouki, an apathetic convenience store worker who struggles to find meaning in his daily life, is stabbed by a random thug. In his dying moments, he sees a beautiful angel with pure white wings. Thinking he was being taken to the afterlife, he is surprised to wake up and find himself fully recovered. When he returns home, he discovers the same angel from before is already there. After learning that the angel has no memories and cannot fly, he takes pity on him and decides to let him stay with him for a while.AKA Wan Ruumu Enjeru
1 Season - CreatorMaru KubotaStarsWataru HyugaTakato ÔkuraRuwa MinamiOn the first day of his new life in Enoshima, Amane meets Ryuuji, who happens to be his ideal type. However, love-jaded Amane begins questioning his feelings after his initial attraction develops into something unexpected.AKA: Even If I Try to Fall in Love With You / If it's You
1 Season - StarsKohei HiguchiAtsuki MashikoSayuri MatsumuraSegasaki, a handsome and popular weatherman, is actually a dictator at home. Yoh, a struggling ero-manga artist, knows this all too well. This is because the two live together. In exchange for food, he must obey whatever Segasaki says.AKA Taikan Yoho
1 Season
Watched - CreatorSawa KanzumeYuzu TsubakiStarsTakuya KusakawaShô NishigakiTomoya OkuAkira quits his job after he inherits his grandfather's laundromat, feeling enthused to run it. One day, high-school student Shintaro enters the shop and they quickly become friends. Will things change when Shintaro finds out Akira is gay?AKA Minato's Laundromat
2 Seasons - StarsYûki SakuraiAroha TakamatsuReika MatsubaraKazuma returns to Japan, reuniting with former best friend Ren and working in the same company. Becoming close yet again, memories of their abrupt farewell 10 years ago surface, with Kazuma seeking answers from Ren, who remains distant.AKA Tokyo in April Is...
1 Season
Watched - StarsShôri KondôYûtaroYuki KatayamaIchijo Futa spends his days as an impeccable high-spec man. However, he finds a way of life after falling in love unexpectedly. Ichijo likes to eat naked -- his way to relieve stress after working overtime until morning -- and he falls asleep at his grandmother's house. One day, Miki Mahiro, his grandmother's friend who runs a fruit and vegetable store, comes into the house and happens to witness Ichijo eating naked, which is Ichijo's secret that he has been keeping from anyone until nowAKA Naked Dining - Love, Life and Liberation
1 Season - StarsAtsuhiro InukaiHiroki IijimaKûga MaeyamaEating around other people is a struggle for salary-man Yutaka, despite his talent for cooking. All that changes when he meets Minoru and Tane - two brothers years apart in age, who ask him to teach them how to make his delicious food.AKA Bokura no Shokutaku
1 Season - DirectorMai SakaiStarsRiku HagiwaraYûsei YagiAkira TakanoThe quiet, friendless "loner" at the bottom of the class falls in love at first sight with the overwhelmingly beautiful, ruthless and popular "King" Kiyoi.AKA Utsukushii Kare
Movie (from 2021 series My Beautiful Man) - StarsKyoya HondaKôsuke SuzukiMori ShootAfter a fight leads Ritsu to storm out of the house and get involved in an accident, he loses all memories of Fumiya, his boyfriend. Wanting to start their rocky relationship anew, Fumiya hides the fact they were dating.1 Season
Watched - StarsToshiki SetoKeisuke NakataSôshô TomimotoIn ten days, the world will be destroyed by a meteor. To spend his remaining time as comfortably as possible, the main character Masumi decides to visit the library of his university and read as much as possible.AKA Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu
1 Season - StarsAkane HottaKyoya HondaYûki FurukawaI want to be loved, as a person, and as a woman. - Misaki Nakamichi (35) is a teacher who has been married for 5 years to her attractive husband. She appears to have a life that many would be envious of. However, the truth is that she has been concerned about her marriage due to the lack of intimacy - Her husband only sleeps with her once a year, on the day of their wedding anniversary. As she continues to question her husband's sexual desire for her, their next anniversary arrives... and she receives a shocking confession from him.AKA Watashi to Otto to Otto no Kareshi
1 Season - DirectorKôji TanakaStarsShôno HayamaHiroki IijimaMunenori NaganoThe wedding day of Seto Ryosuke, an elementary school teacher, and Aikawa Mizuki, a lemon farmer.AKA Boku mo Aitsu mo Shinrodesu
1 Season - StarsShûzô ÔhiraGaku OshidaUtano AoiAbout Amai Koichi who is good at baking and making sweets trying to help ikemens ( good looking, handsome guys). If two people look into each other eyes for 8.2 seconds they will fall in love. Amai is attracted to men as he looks at them and falls for them. Each love interest per episode has a problem so Amai makes sweets/deserts for them in hopes to help them.AKA The 8.2 Second Rule
1 Season - StarsYuzu AokiRyôko FujinoDaisuke NakagawaGo on a beautiful and real feeling coming of age journey with these friends as they move into adulthood and then hit the rocky shores of life. Set in modern Japan.AKA In the Apartment
1 Season - CreatorYoshie KaoruharaStarsNobuyuki SuzukiAtsuhiro InukaiChiaki KuriyamaYears ago, the disappearance of a senior investigator goes unsolved and the file closed. Renewed interest in the case leads to rookie investigator Kinoshita Ichiro to suspect gang-leader Hanabusa Shiro, beginning their odd relationship.AKA Kei×Yaku: Abunai Aibou
1 Season - StarsKonishi EitoRui KiharaMatsuoka KoudaiMamoru Nekoyashiki, an insecure doujinshi artist inadvertently reunites with his childhood friend Kazama Issei, who is now a popular up-and-coming idol. Will sparks fly? Or will their opposite lifestyles come between them?AKA Kabe Sa Doujin Sakka no Neko Yashiki-kun wa Shouninyokkyuu wo Kojiraseteiru
1 Season - StarsMiona HoriTakeshi MasuKenta SugaSoichiro Hibiki is a bartender at a bar in Shonan. He is usually cool and mysterious, but he has a secret he doesn't want people to know: he is a "secret fudanshi otaku," and he is always trying to make the customers who come to the bar for drinks into his favorite coupling, secretly fantasizing about them and worshiping their precious relationships.AKA Fudanshi Bartender no Tashinami / Fudanshi Bartender
1 Season - StarsYûdai ChibaJun HashimotoArata HoriiAfter witnessing his captivating performance in a play, Takara quits his job to pursue acting under the watchful eye of Yujin. However, as the genius protege eclipses the teacher, how will their codependent relationship survive?AKA Daburu
1 Season - StarsYuki KuraRintaro MizusawaIn the final summer of high school, childhood best friends Sakura and Yuma must start thinking about college and their futures. That is, until Sakura confesses to Yuma with a kiss.AKA 'I Only Want to Keep Looking at You'
1 Season - CreatorGamoko TsuyuStarsRyôsuke SotaYusuke SatoSatsuki NakayamaFukuhara is a student who has bad luck that causes problems everywhere he goes. One day, he runs into Shinomiya, a fellow with good luck who decides to help him out. Now, in order to divide luck, they need to be with each other all time.AKA Fukou-kun wa Kiss Suru Shikanai!
1 Season - CreatorShinta HarekawaStarsShuichiro NaitoToshiki SetoTaisuke NiiharaYanase has worked as a CGI designer worldwide. Now back in Japan, Yanase is training a newbie named of Kaneda Yuki. There's only one issue: Kaneda is very unfriendly towards Yanase..AKA Senpai, Danjite Koidewa!
1 Season - DirectorDaishi MatsunagaStarsRyohei SuzukiHio MiyazawaYûko NakamuraWhen Kôsuke was 14 years old, his mother died. He spent his adolescence in a rural village and suppressed his feelings as a gay male. Now, Kôsuke (Ryohei Suzuki) has grown up and works as a fashion magazine editor in Tokyo. He meets Ryûta (Hio Miyazawa), who works as a personal trainer. Ryûta's mother raised him alone and he is close to his mom. Kôsuke and Ryûta become attracted to each other and they sometimes spend time with Ryûta's mother. Kôsuke is happy to share time with Ryûta and his mother, which makes him remember his late mother. Kôsuke and Ryûta make an appointment to go for a drive together, but, on that day, Ryûta does not show up.Movie
- StarsKeito KimuraJyutaro YamanakaYû KoyanagiOnoe is a reporter for a weekly gossip magazine who has been paired with rival photographer Kaburagi. The two clash as they are forced to work together for the ultimate scoop - with unexpected feelings further complicating matters.AKA Ameiro Paradox
1 Season
Watched - StarsSato ArataNao OriyamaRio KomiyaTakara Shun, a high school student who belongs to a popular group in the class, and Taichi Amagi, a pure boy who is not a conspicuous type but is liked by people, realize their love for each other.AKA Takara and Amagi
1 Season - StarsRio KomiyaSora InoueTaisuke NiiharaTwo high school boys form a special bond despite their opposite personalities, growing a mutual attraction. However, one ordinary morning transforms into a devastating tragedy, forever changing their lives.AKA Eternal Yesterday
1 Season
Watched - CreatorSagan SaganStarsKôhei TakedaTatsunari KimuraAtom Mizuishi39-year old Nozue is facing a mid-life existential crisis. Can Togawa, his reliable, younger subordinate, come up with a plan to help him out? With the aid of lunch, dessert and a little love, there may yet be hope.1 Season
Watched - DirectorHiroki KazamaStarsEiji AkasoKeita MachidaKôdai AsakaThis heartwarming romantic film depicts a gay couple and one has a magical power that enables him to read the minds of those he touches. Adachi is a dull office worker who turned 30 as a virgin and has obtained the "magic". Kurosawa is Adachi's lover at work and is popular and successful. They are secretly lovers. One day, Adachi is offered a job transfer. Adachi is happy to have the chance to do the work he wants, but his new job place is in Nagasaki, 1,200 km away. Through difficulties and challenges, their long-distance relationship leads them to rethink about their relationship and their future. Where will the magic lead them?Movie
*Happy ending
Watched - StarsShunsuke MichiedaRen MeguroRiko FukumotoAoki thinks the girl he's in love with likes another boy, who thinks Aoki has feelings for him. Why does first love always have to be so complicated?AKA Kieta Hatsukoi
1 Season - StarsJin SuzukiSanariKai InowakiThe life of a rock band, and the romances its members have with each other.1 Season
- DirectorKôichirô MikiStarsKenta IzukaTerunosuke TakezaiYoshida MunehiroKijima and Kuzumi, showing the problems they face as they try to move forward in their lives, and how they drift apart while still yearning to be together. A story of love and life, and fantasies and failures of a novelist and his lover.AKA Pornographer
Last installment in the Pornographer franchise (3rd one is Spring Life not listed on IMDB - 1 Episode)
1 Episode - StarsRiku HagiwaraYûsei YagiAkira TakanoSeventeen-year-old Hira tries to remain invisible at school, never wanting to expose his stuttering speech to his classmates. He views the world through his camera lens, detached, until one day Kiyoi Sou walks through the classroom door.AKA Utsukushii Kare
2 Seasons + Special Edit Version + My Beautiful Man - Eternal the movie - DirectorKazuhito NakaeStarsHidetoshi NishijimaSeiyô UchinoKôji YamamotoShiro Kakei lives with his boyfriend Kenji Yabuki. Shiro works as an attorney and cooks well. He is meticulous and also thrifty. Kenji is a hairdresser with a good personality.Movie
- DirectorRyûta InoueStarsYûki FurukawaYukijirô HotaruMasahiro KômotoMitsuomi Kozuka quits his job in Tokyo to return to his rural hometown for the first time in a decade. There, he meets Yamato Kumai, who convinces him to help out on his farm, where their relationship grows and changes them both.Movie
- StarsJin ShirasuFujiko KojimaShiori DoiTwo boys meet by chance when both attempt to walk along the white line on the sidewalk. As they become drawn together and choose to walk side by side, how will their unchanging feelings co-exist within a world of changing realities?AKA Senjou No Bokura
1 Season
Watched - 202012 epsTV-MA8.2 (2.7K)TV Mini SeriesStarsEiji AkasoKeita MachidaRyô SatôWhile still a virgin at the age of 30, Kiyoshi Adachi gains a magical power that allows him to read other people's mind by touching them. Things change when he accidentally touches Yuichi Kurosawa and reads his mind.1 Season + Movie
Watched - DirectorRikiya ImaizumiStarsHio MiyazawaKisetsu FujiwaraWakana MatsumotoShun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during high school. However, despite strong feelings, they go their separate ways. Years later, Shun is now living alone in a rural area when Nagisa arrives with his six-year-old daughter, Sora.Movie
* Happy Ending
Watched - DirectorHiroki InoueStarsDaigo NaitoMahiro SugiyamaShin'ichi WagôTwo male actors are drawn to each other. Can they work things out?Movie
- StarsNaoya KusakawaSara ShidaAino KuribayashiNagisa is 17 years old and attends 2nd grade in high school. Shun is the same age as Nagisa and visits Fujisawa for spring break. They meet and develop a relationship more than friendship.1 Season
Followed by movie 'His' from 2020 - StarsMeiko KajiHidetoshi NishijimaYurika NakamuraKakei Shiro is a 45 year old lawyer who works at a small law firm. His partner, Yabuki Kenji, is an affable hairdresser in his 40s. They have been together for three years yet Shiro has never told anyone that Kenji is his partner.AKA Kinou Nani Tabeta?
1 Season - StarsTerunosuke TakezaiYoshida MunehiroGorô ÔishiShiro Kido, an editor for risque novels, meets former classmate and washed-up writer Kijima Rio, introducing him to a world of lust and desire.AKA Pornographer
Second installment in the Pornographer franchise
1 Season - DirectorKaori TanimotoStarsTsurugi WatanabeKôsei AmanoYumi KawaseKazuaki Sakurai is a 37-year-old man working at an advertising agency. For a CM shooting, he goes to a beautiful house. At the house, he meets Yoichi Mizukawa while he is painting a picture. Yoichi is a 19-year-old art student. He lives with his cousins in the big old house. Kazuaki becomes attracted to Yoichi.Movie
- StarsTerunosuke TakezaiKenta IzukaYoshida MunehiroKuzumi Haruhiko, a university student, crashes his bicycle into Kijima Rio, a novelist, breaking his arm. To avoid paying Kijima for his injury, Kuzumi agrees to transcribe Kijima's latest novel, beginning their precarious relationship.AKA Pornographer
First installment in the Pornographer franchise
1 Season
Watched - StarsKei TanakaKôtarô YoshidaKento HayashiThe expanded version of the 2016 TV special. Soichi Haruta is unpopular among women due to his poor social skills. However, he accidentally finds out both, his middle-aged boss, and his colleague have a crush on him. But they are men.2 Seasons (2nd season 'Ossan's Love Returns'
from 2024) - DirectorKenji YokoiStarsTomoki HiroseYûki HiyoriRin IshikawaThe second part, the first part is Seven days Monday - Thursday. The continuation of Seryou and Shinos date week, two high school students.Movie
Part 2 of 'Seven Days: Monday - Thursday' - DirectorKenji YokoiStarsTomoki HiroseYûki HiyoriRin IshikawaToji is a popular high school boy who is easy to get, but difficult to keep. He will date anyone who asks him on a Monday, but is done with the person by the end of the week. Fellow student Yuzuru has broken many girls' hearts and been dumped often. Then Yuzuru becomes interested in Toji and spontaneously asks him out.Movie
Continues on 'Seven Days: Friday - Sunday' - DirectorChihiro AmanoStarsShôichi MatsudaYuya MitoMasashi TaniguchiToshiaki is a young gay man. On the first day of work, he meets Yosuke in the elevator. Yosuke is Toshiaki's new boss. Toshiaki is attracted to Yosuke. Toshiaki can't be honest with his feelings about it due to a traumatic incident from his past.Movie
*Happy ending
Watched - DirectorSatoshi KanedaStarsRakuto TochiharaYûta TakahashiMitsuyoshi ShinodaThrough a coincidence Tozaki runs into Kurata, his first crush from high school. They begin a relationship, but Kurata's jealousy starts causing problems.Movie
*Happy Ending
Watched
Reviewed - DirectorKôtarô TerauchiStarsYoshikazu KotaniTakumi SaitôHiroya MatsumotoBoys Love, the first film released in 2006, tells the story of Taishin Mamiya, a magazine editor who meets and interviews a young model, Noeru Kisaragi, and becomes attracted to him. Their love, however, is forbidden. The tagline of the movie is "All we did was love each other, but...our love is forbidden.Movie
*Sad ending
Watched - DirectorTakashi MiikeStarsRyûhei MatsudaMasanobu AndôShunsuke KubozukaA visually stylish tale of two male prisoners bonded by emotion, love and murder.Movie
AKA 46 Billion Years of Love
*Overall sad movie
Watched - DirectorNagisa ÔshimaStarsTakeshi KitanoRyûhei MatsudaShinji TakedaThe new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.Movie