War of Y - Thailand

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This unique series is a co-production between Copy A Bangkok and AISPlay and will actually go out as an AISPlay Original. Both companies are being very secretive about the style and content of the show, and have been releasing (without any descriptive explanation) some quite contrasting clips and pics in places like tiktok, twitter and IG over the past few months. This has all helped to keep the mystique of the series intact.

However, from what I've gleaned, the structure of the show will revolve around four different but interconnected storylines all to do with the grubby underside of the Thai BL industry. One of the four stories will concern sexual abuse and will feature Billy Patchanon and Seng Wichai fresh from their success on 'Secret Crush on You'. This story looks like it will cover similar ground to 'Call It What You Want'. A managerial conflict, which seems directly inspired by the real life fracas between Perth and Saint's managers is another storyline. This one stars Korn Kornnarat and Gung Kunpong who were paired together in 'Y Destiny'. They play actors who are manipulated by their feuding managers into becoming rivals which destroys their friendship and off screen bromance. The third storyline has another Y Destiny couple; Takizawa Toru and First Piyangkul as BL actors hiding their secret relationship from First's wife, played by Paper Peerada, but she suspects what is going on and lays a trap for them. The final plot features real life rookie actor Milk Natchanon who actually plays a rookie actor in the series too. His struggle to handle the intense pressure and forced intimacy of being paired with an actor he doesn't really get along with seems to form the basis of the storyline. It's unclear, but I'm swayed into thinking this might be a story that covers the stress and anxiety of the young actor which is ignored by the company, leading to his 'nervous breakdown'.

All of the plots will apparently feature mature adult scenes and all will be heavy on both symbolism and abstract imagery. Actor/Writer Fluke Teerapat and Tanachot Prapasri ('YYY', 'My Ride') are the screenwriters and the series is under the direction of Cheewin Thanamin, who has many BL credits to his name including 'Make It Right', 'Why R U?', 'That's My Candy', 'Y Destiny' and 'Secret Crush On You'.





Synopsis: "War is a battle of many people. The story of struggle, love, relationship of four battlefields is about to begin. Real war is not weapons, but people. This is a representation of the feeling from a war raging with cunning, resentment and betrayal. Who will win and who will lose? The War is Coming!"

"New Ship Before the Ship": It wasn’t easy, but this new era is even harder.

"War of Managers": The story of a shipped couple who are privately a real couple. Managers and drama clash until the couple is forced to separate.

"Wife": When one half of a shipped couple has a wife, will their future in this industry be ruined?

"Y-Idol": A reality search for new actors —who can sing, dance and act— and the chaos of the Idol Camp.


Here's the MyDramaList page



Pre-Teaser:




1st Teaser:




This series is currently scheduled to be released in June, however since it's an AISPlay original, I think we can expect the usual runaround over whether we'll get an international release or not.

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Here's the first BTS video which concentrates on the making of the teaser:

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Another BTS video has been released 'War Of Y The First Secret' (no subs yet):

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Copy A Bangkok have confirmed the release date of this series will be Tuesday 2nd August.

They have also confirmed that they have negotiated with AISPlay for international availability, however there is no word as to whether this will be through AISPlay's usual method of a two hour window or a wider release. Having said that, AISPlay still haven't locked episode 11 of 'Triage' yet which has been up for five days now. Shhhh!

[mizuryuu]

It is such a self-harming method though. Cause everyone who miss the two hour window will just watch it elsewhere.

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Here's the first of a series of new trailers in the run up to the series start:

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It has now been revealed that this series, like 'Oh! My Sunshine Night', is going to be locked behind AISPlay's paywall and viewable only if you subscribe to the AISPlay YouTube Membership Premium Package.

As mentioned over on the 'Sunshine' thread, this is priced at 200 Baht per month and could be deemed as good value for money when you consider both shows will be included in the one membership fee.

On the other hand, when you try to join, it actually charges significantly more than 200 Baht when it converts the currency. Be prepared to pay £6.99 in the UK and around $8.00 in the US per month! 

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Here's the second of the new trailers in the run up to the series start:

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Here's the third of the new trailers in the run up to the series start:

[mizuryuu]

So this will have an idol group competition setting? Sounds different and interesting.

[dmagiclight]

T am really looking forward to this one

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Here's the fourth of the new trailers in the run up to the series start:

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Trailer for Episode 1:

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Actors Seng and Billy talk about their own experience of the BL industry and their roles in the series:

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Trailer for Episode 2:

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BTS for Episode 1:

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Promo for episode 3:

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Bts video for Episode 2:

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Actors Boss and Heng talk about their own experience of the BL industry and their roles in the series:

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Looks like this series will soon be heading to GagaOOLala due (it's been claimed) to its underperformance on the AISPlay Membership App.

Strangely enough - though welcome - was the inclusion in the announcement that "The text messages in the series are going to be translated as well". Has that been a problem? I haven't started this show yet so don't know if the reason they've made special mention of it is because the visuals are heavy on texts?

No date for when the series will start on Gaga has been announced yet.

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Also, this close-up of Milk and Poom from the main poster seems to have been causing some comment today with folk conjecturing on what exactly that is between their mouths! 🤔 

[mizuryuu]

I haven't started either, but according to some people, at least a quarter of the show is just social media. That make sense as the setting is about idols. However, they haven't been translating those messages even on AISPlay. So people were taking screencaps and using visual translators to try to figure out what is going on.

So now I am debating a membership for Gaga as they seem to be getting all the shows nowadays.

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Trailer for Episode 4:

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BTS for Episode 3:

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Trailer for Episode 5:

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BTS for Episode 4: