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Meowbrown

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Language learning notebook for polyglots.

hi! I’d love some BL show recs if you’re willing to share.

sure thing! As I’m new to BL (started in July??), so far everything I’ve seen are recommendable since I haven’t watched that many. Also using this as an opportunity to write down how I started watching BL, thanks!

My first BL anime was 異世界の沙汰は社畜次第, I was interested since the title had 社畜 (しゃちく) which is kinda a popular word for jokingly say that you spend too much time working for a company.

And then ユーリ!!! on ICE started their 10th year anniversary event so it is free to watch on YouTube for 30 days. Some people think this is just another sports anime, but I’d categorize it as BL too.

This became the turning point from consuming content to learning, as YouTube started recommending me ボイスコミック, simply put as voice actors reading the manga. This is when I realized I actually don’t need native language subtitles and can still understand the story by listening and reading the manga. Here are the three channels that specifically publish BL ボイスコミック:

From then on, most of what I watch just comes from YouTube recommendations.

Anime:

  • 佐々木と宮野 – kinda funny to see them talking about BL, good for BL education too
  • 黄昏アウトフォーカス – started with the characters trying to make a BL movie
  • 30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい (Magic Cherry) – also adapted to real-person show
  • パーフェクトアディクション (Perfect Addiction) – this is like 3 minutes per episode, good material for learning in a sense

Manga:

  • たまらないのは恋なのか – it has a special anime episode, that’s how I knew about it
  • 黄昏アウトフォーカス – there are many titles around it which I don’t remember at the moment
  • パーフェクトアディクション – just wanted to know what would go on further in the story, but this one feels a bit too much for me
  • スモークブルーの雨のち晴れ – this one also has a real-person show

There is another one that I’ve seen a lot of people talking about it, and it’s in my list: Given

Also if anyone has anything to recommend, please let me know too ❤️

A Love Too Captivating

たまらないのは恋なのか

As I’m prepping for N2, I’ve started watching anime without subtitles to improve my listening, so these words probably don’t have too much of a connection, but just capturing what I heard from the anime.

堪らない たまらない meaning Irresistible

  • 俺のことを庇った
    庇う(かばう)- protect, defend, stand up for someone
  • 馴れ馴れ(なれなれ)しくすんな
    stop acting like we’re buddies, 少跟我裝熟
    馴れ馴れしい – overly friendly, cheeky
    すんな – rude way to say するな
    ヤンキー likes to talk like this
  • 普通、引くだろう?
    一般人通常都會退縮吧?(你這傢伙是怎麼回事?)
    Normal people would back off by now (what’s wrong with this dude)…
    引く(ひく)put off by someone’s bad behavior, grossed out, 感到反感
  • 親しくもねぇだろう
    親しい(したしい)- close, intimate
  • よくねぇつってんだろう
    つって as a very colloquial contraction of って言って
    つってんだろう == って言っているんだろ
  • 首を突っ込む(くびをつっこむ)
    插手、多管閒事
    poke your nose in
  • なんで切り離さないんだよ
    切り離す – 斷絕關係、拒絕往來, cut me loose
  • 突き放す つきはなす
    push away
  • キリがねぇ
    沒完沒了, there’s no end to this (annoyed)
  • 目障り めざわり
    眼中釘 eyesore
  • 近寄りたい ちかよりたい
    近寄る get close

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