BL Scale: for curious innocent children

Nope July 19, 2021 2:11 am

In case you are unaware of how Chinese adaptations usually look like in the BL world, here is a scale for you:

#1: Novels
If your story has a novel adaptation, then you’re in luck. Novels are usually very straightforward in their BL-ness. If you’re even more lucky and that is your style, your story might even be a yaoi and have some hot scenes (sometimes however you can find some authors talking about how they have to abide by the censorship rules).

#2: Manhua
If your story has a manhua adaptation, then you’re closer to a hit or miss, but the romance is still explicit. In average, your stories’ kiss and softcore scenes will be reduced and censored. Also forget the smut like it never existed. The fluff is still tasty and the couple is still a couple (usually).

#3: Donghua (animation)
If your story has a donghua animation, first of all, congratulation, you’ll finally see the cuties move! Sad news is that your romance has a high risk of becoming a bromance. The romance is thinned out until it becomes a relationship that can be interpreted with our without deeper meaning. Forget kisses except sometimes if it’s part of a gag or an important scene for the story.

#4: Drama
If you’re story is still your story, count yourself lucky. Just kidding, or maybe not. You can usually forget that this story ever had a couple too. If it’s very obviously BL, then you can start sweating buckets because this will most definitely be a bad ending and you’ll need to get the tissues out. China only tolerates ruined homosexual couples, not happy ones.

#5: Audio CD
That’s actually not it’s right position. I just don’t ever listen to audio CDs so I have no clue what they are like— hopefully someone can enlighten you on this in the replies!

NOTE: to know how much chance you have for your story to be more “explicitly” BL, you can check where it’s been published. The closer it is to mainland China, the harsher the censorship. I believe also the censorship response is also dependent on the public’s response to the work. So you can say “how much money” it makes is also another variable.

I personally really enjoy my novels. I know I’m usually getting what I’m asking for (and usual novels are the first adaptation so it’s never comparable and disappointing).

Hope this helped!

Responses
    。゚❁ Mango 。゚❁ July 19, 2021 5:54 am

    Thank you for clarifying that Luv

    artemis July 19, 2021 6:15 am

    The audio drama of MDZS follow the novel closely, its romance is explicit and also has the kissing scenes and at least some parts of the "hot" scenes. Worth the listen! you can find it on suibian subs discord server.

    Nope July 19, 2021 12:57 pm
    Thank you for clarifying that Luv 。゚❁ Mango 。゚❁

    Np~ It usually takes a bit of experience with Chinese media and frustration to understand this stuff which can be clarified with just a few words

    Giuliana77 July 19, 2021 4:50 pm
    The audio drama of MDZS follow the novel closely, its romance is explicit and also has the kissing scenes and at least some parts of the "hot" scenes. Worth the listen! you can find it on suibian subs discord s... artemis

    where can i find it?

    kurapika July 19, 2021 8:20 pm
    where can i find it? Giuliana77

    If you join the Suibian Subs discord server, you can download it from there.

    Giuliana77 July 20, 2021 4:05 am

    okay. thank you