Gay side-characters and Trans Stories
LGBTQ+, but mainly gay side characters stories.
(this list was made before any GL-BL-trans- main characters was really a thing YET in Japanese and Korean -dramas.)
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1. Romance is a Bonus Book
Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
+side character; the main male lead's ex girlfriend's current partner is another woman.
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2. Your House Helper
Korean Drama - 2018, 32 episodes
+side character; a guy in the drama is gay.
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3. Ho Goo's Love
Korean Drama - 2015, 16 episodes
The second male lead is in love with the main male lead. A onesidet love.
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4. Ie Uru Onna no Gyakushu
Japanese Drama - 2019, 10 episodes
Satoshi Adachi falls in love with Kenji Rusudo
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5. Bungaku Shojo
Japanese Drama - 2018, 8 episodes
+side character; a guy in the same workplace with the second male lead, is gay and has a crush on the second lead.
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6. Hello, Mom
Korean Drama - 2020, 16 episodes
+side character; a famous baseball player comes out to his family as gay.
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7. Clean With Passion For Now
Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
+side character; one of the guys from the cleaning group falls in love with the guy who saves him from dying??
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8. Reply 1994
Korean Drama - 2013, 21 episodes
A random kiss in ep 7 of Sseureki and Binggeure(who has a one sided-crush on him), also getting "teased" by Sseureki.
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9. Reply 1997
Korean Drama - 2012, 16 episodes
+side/main characters; Joon hee and yoon jae
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10. Coffee & Vanilla
Japanese Drama - 2019, 10 episodes
+side character; the secretary of the ceo, main male lead.
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11. The Master's Sun
Korean Drama - 2013, 17 episodes
+side character; features a trans woman.
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12. Joshi-teki Seikatsu
Japanese Drama - 2018, 4 episodes
A very well made drama. The life of a trans-woman and how it is in Japan, with all those very heavy expectations.
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13. Kuragehime
Japanese Drama - 2018, 10 episodes
A beautiful story about a lover of jellyfish and her friendships who ends up making the most beautiful jellyfish together and only makes them stronger as inviduel and as a team.
There is also a beautiful crossdresser, who came into their life and made it possible for them to grow in person!
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14. Close-Knit
Japanese Movie - 2017
Beautiful story about a trans woman and her family
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15. Man on High Heels
Korean Movie - 2014
Trans cop/assassin , who never gets to transition...
sad but a good movie.
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16. Oshi no Ojisama
Japanese Drama - 2021, 11 episodes
It left me with one question in the end “Was it also a one-sided gay love story on Micchi still to the very end? Or did they indeed end up dating each other??”
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17. Be Melodramatic
Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
The one guy that lives together with the girls in the same apartment is gay.
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18. Late Night Snack Man and Woman
Korean Drama - 2020, 12 episodes
A one sided love story between the main male lead who pretends to be gay and the designer who is actual gay.
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19. Shitsuren Meshi
Japanese Drama - 2022, 10 episodes
At some point she gets to hear of her school friend's heartbreak story, which was actually her having a crush on her- her girl friend.
She also takes this very well, it is comforting to see a bit more of this in Japanese dramas. Thank you.
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20. You Raise Me Up
Korean Drama - 2021, 8 episodes
a trans woman called Jennifer