1000 Years Old (2024)

 1000 Years Old was not what I was expecting. It's true, when I think to vampire, I think to sexy (I think Anne Rice is at fault here), and "Shane" Nutchapol Cheevapanyaroj seemed right in the role for sexy (the small rounded glasses, John Lennon style, were helping him fitting the role). But this drama is very family like, a lot of talking about eternal love, but just one small kiss, and even in the final episode, when everything is closed in the right way, there is just an embrace with no kiss at all. So yes, no sexy at all, but actually it's more satyrical, sort of playing all the old thrope about vampires. The mood is set since the very beginning, and it continues for all the 12 episode. I'm not saying it wasn't good, if you know what to expect it was actually nice, but yeah, I would hardly consider this a BoysLove drama. HEA. You can see it on GagaOOLala and WeTV. Heat Level: 2/6.



Heat Level:
1/6: glances, caress, hugs, no kisses
2/6: kisses, closed mouth or camera angles
3/6: full kisses, clothes on
4/6: full kisses, some clothes off, hands above the waist, pants stay on
5/6: most clothes off, they have sex, but it’s masked, no sexy sounds
6/6: full nudity mostly hidden by camera angles, they have sex, sexy sounds

Restart by Shoko Hidaka

 

Getting along in age and finding that the younger batch of models are becoming exceedingly taller than him, Tadashi is finding it more and more difficult to land gigs. What he does land is Aki, also a male model and an up-and-coming youngster who views Tadashi with an almost hero-like worship. But Tadashi begins to grow insecure as Aki's star begins to rise. Clearly, it’s not all glitz and glamour in the tumultuous world of modeling.

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/4b1HKxN)

Anti-Romance by Shoko Hidaka

 

An engrossing tale of friends to lovers unfolds in this Boys’ Love manga by the creator of Blue Morning!

Suou and Ryou have been friends since childhood. The hairstylist and writer have lived together for six years now and, though they definitely aren’t dating, their close relationship is hard to define. Will they ever move beyond the nebulous territory of “more than friends” or will they keep living in a stalemate forever?
Seven Seas’ print version of Volume 1 will be a Special Edition with an extra art gallery of color pages, originally released as a separate booklet in Japan!

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/3xtbw0u)

Clear Skies! by Akira Sugano and Etsumi Ninomiya

 

Obinata Taiga, editor of a science fiction magazine, one day discovers there's a new addition to the family! Out of the blue, his older sister's married, and his new brother-in-law is Shu Asuo, one of the authors he edits and a high school classmate!

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/3xsqyDL)