BL and GL Studios and Production Companies
Behind every series is a company that financed it, cast it and made it. In Thailand a single group can manage the actors, produce the show, release the soundtrack and own the channel it airs on. In Taiwan two small houses usually split the cost of one series. In Vietnam a studio often uploads its own shows straight to YouTube. This guide explains how the companies behind BL and GL actually work, with 48 production companies and 112 series credits recorded so far.
How the Thai companies fit together
Thai BL is easier to follow once the group structure is clear. The One Enterprise is a listed media group that runs the One 31 and GMM25 channels and counts GMMTV and Change2561 among its companies. GMMTV makes the series and manages the performers. The channels broadcast them, and the group’s own app, oneD, streams the channels live and holds the episodes on demand. Studios outside the group, such as Studio Wabi Sabi, Domundi TV and Mandee Work, make series of their own and place them with broadcasters and streamers. The production credit on a series page tells you which of these made it, and the platform list tells you where to watch it.
The studios behind the most series

GMMTV
GMMTV Company Limited is a Bangkok production house and artist management company that began operating on 3 August 1995 under the name Grammy Television Company Limited. It worked inside GMM Grammy for its first twenty five years and has been a subsidiary of The One Enterprise since December 2020. Its offices sit at GMM Grammy Place on Sukhumvit Road.
The company describes its own business as three things at once: managing artists, producing television and making films. In practice that means one organisation casts a series from a roster it also trains and represents, produces the episodes, releases the soundtrack and books the same performers for the variety programming that surrounds the show. That roster runs to more than two hundred actors, presenters and singers, and in January 2023 the company added a music label, Riser Music, to release their recordings.
Much of what it puts on screen begins as a Thai novel or a webtoon, so a GMMTV record on this site very often has a book behind it. Finished episodes reach viewers through the GMM 25 and One 31 channels, the company's own YouTube channel and licensed streaming services, and each year's slate is introduced at a single annual line up presentation.

Studio Wabi Sabi
Studio Wabi Sabi Company Limited is a Thai production house registered in Bangkok under the business activity of television programme production, and listed in Thailand's national content industry directory as a film production company with offices in the RCA area of Huai Khwang.
It was founded by the director and producer Siwaj Sawatmaneekul, known professionally as New, who still heads it. He has said the studio was set up around the making of its first official project, the series Dai Daeng, released in English as The Red Thread, and that it started with three employees. As the company grew he moved from directing everything himself to producing while other directors take the floor, which is why the director credit on the records below is not always the same name.
He has also described the studio as working something like a school for performers, bringing people in early and developing them across several productions rather than casting each series from nothing. On this site that shows up as the same faces returning through the studio's records in different parts, sometimes as a lead, sometimes further down the call sheet. The company works in series rather than feature film, and each record below carries its own platform and episode detail.
Mandee Work
Mandeework Co., Ltd., which signs its work Mandee, is a Thai production company registered in the Lat Phrao district of Bangkok and listed in Thailand's national content industry directory as a film production company. It works across series and film, with a slate that includes boys' love titles made for domestic broadcast and for streaming.
Its public output runs through a YouTube channel called Mandee Channel, published under the handle MandeeWork, which carries episodes, trailers and music video content rather than acting as a shop window for a separate site. Published reference entries on Domundi TV name Mandee Channel as that company's parent, and the channel itself lists Domundi and DMD among its own keywords, so records credited to one of these names frequently share personnel with the other.
For a viewer using this site the practical consequence is that a Mandee credit and a Domundi credit are worth reading together. Cast members, directors and crew move between the two, and a series that carries one name in its opening titles may carry the other in its distribution. Each record below lists its own credits, platform and episode count as recorded here.

The One Enterprise
The One Enterprise Public Company Limited trades on the Stock Exchange of Thailand under the ticker ONEE, where it has been listed since 5 November 2021. Its roots go back further than the current name. It grew out of two production companies founded by Takonkiet Viravan, Exact in 1991 and Scenario in 2004, which were brought together under the present structure in 2013.
It is a group rather than a single studio, and that is what makes its name appear on a production credit. It operates the Channel One 31 and GMM 25 television channels and the radio stations EFM, Green Wave and Chill Online, and its group companies include one31, GMMTV, Change2561, GMM Media, GMM Studios, Exact Scenario, ACTS Studio and ATIME. Several of those names appear elsewhere on this site in their own right.
The company describes itself as covering the whole chain from production through to distribution, across drama, sitcom, series, variety and news programming. A record credited here is usually one where the parent company itself is named on the production, rather than one of the group studios listed separately on this site.
Domundi TV
Domundi TV Co., Ltd. was founded on 3 August 2016 by Kittipat Jampa, who works as a director and manager and is known as Aoftion. Published reference entries name Mandee Channel as its parent company. It is based in Bangkok and describes its business as three things together: artist management, television production and music production, with boys' love series as the centre of what it makes.
The company has no separate corporate website. Its YouTube channel serves that purpose, and is also where much of its output is published. The artists it manages, more than forty of them, are organised into numbered intakes labelled DMD GEN 1 through GEN 5, so a performer's generation is part of how the company itself describes them.
Two habits make its records recognisable. Since 2023 it has run DMD Friendship the Reality, a reality format in which pairings are formed on screen and lead roles in the company's own dramas are awarded as the prize, which means some casting decisions are public before the drama exists. And it works as a music company as well, announcing the six member group DEXX in June 2025 and debuting them the same month.

Change2561
Change2561 Co., Ltd. took its name from the year it was founded. The company began on 20 April 2018, and 2561 is that year in the Thai Buddhist calendar. It is led by Saithip Montrikul Na Ayutthaya as chief executive, works from GMM Grammy Place on Sukhumvit 21 in Bangkok, and has Worarit Waijaeranai among its named key people.
It started life as a fifty fifty joint venture between GMM Grammy, through GMM Holding, and Adelfos. Both original shareholders later sold their stakes to The One Enterprise, which lists Change2561 today as one of its group companies alongside the One 31 channel and GMMTV.
The business is deliberately broad. Alongside drama series it covers television programming, entertainment industry coverage, live events and digital content, and it manages artists and stages music events of its own. Its chief executive has stated publicly that the company sets out to build content from true stories in order to inspire and encourage people, which is a clearer statement of editorial intent than most production houses put on record, and a useful thing to have in mind when reading the records collected here.
Avex Pictures
Avex Pictures Inc. is the video arm of Japan's Avex group, established on 1 April 2014 when the video package operations of two earlier group companies, Avex Entertainment and Avex Marketing, were brought together into a single business. Three existing labels, avex mode, avex pictures and DIVE II entertainment, moved across with them. The company is capitalised at one hundred million yen and works from Minato in Tokyo.
It describes its own business as the planning, production and sale of video content, and it also manages voice actors and artists, which is unusual for a production company and means the same organisation can cast, record and release an animated title. Its group includes the subsidiaries Anime Times and Flagshipline, the second of these set up in 2018 as a joint venture with the animation studio Graphinica.
On 1 August 2023 the company reorganised. Two wholly owned subsidiaries were created, Avex Animation Labels for animated content and Avex Film Labels for live action, with Avex Pictures itself moving to an overseeing role above them. Records here credited to Avex Pictures may therefore sit on either side of that change.
Tokyo MX
Two titles carry this name on the production side, and they do not carry it in the same way. On Your Sky: Hare Nochi Koi, the 2026 Japanese remake of a Thai series, the station is credited as a production partner alongside Mandee Work and The Works, which is a real share in making the programme. On Unexpectedly Naughty Fukami it is the broadcaster, and the production credit belongs elsewhere. Reading the two records together is the only way to see that difference.
The station itself is an independent free-to-air broadcaster serving Tokyo and the neighbouring prefectures, and it has a separate archive on this site in its role as a network, where its broadcast credits are gathered. Keeping the two pages apart is deliberate: one records what a company helped make, the other records where something was shown. With two entries there is no trend to describe, only a distinction worth holding on to.
Other companies, and what each one tells you
Smaller credits still show how the industry is built: Japanese production committees, Taiwanese pairs of small houses, streamers that finance series themselves, and independent channels that publish straight to YouTube.
iQIYI Pictures
iQIYI Pictures is the production arm of the streaming service iQIYI, and it is worth telling apart from the platform credit that appears elsewhere on this site: one names who made a title, the other names where it plays.
See 1 seriesSTUDIO X+U
STUDIO X+U is the original-content production arm of LG U+'s U+ Mobile TV platform in South Korea. It co-produced the 2025 mystery-thriller Friendly Rivalry.
See 1 seriesYLAB
YLAB is a South Korean content studio best known for producing Netflix's Kingdom. It co-produced the 2025 mystery-thriller Friendly Rivalry, adapted from its own webtoon of the same name.
See 1 seriesPDID Film
PDID Film is an independent Vietnamese channel that describes itself as a multi-genre short film outfit, and it reaches its audience directly on YouTube rather than through a broadcaster or a subscription service.
See 1 seriesGrX Studio
Taiwanese boys' love is rarely made by one company. The single record filed here carries two production credits, this one and Force Films, and that shared arrangement is typical rather than unusual for the island's output.
See 1 seriesWERS Entertainment
Co-production is what this credit documents. The company appears once on this site, on Your Dear Daddy, the 2026 Thai age-gap romance made with Make Some Noise and Studio Wabi Sabi, which ran weekly on Thai television before reaching international viewers through iQIYI. Three companies on one eight-episode series is unremarkable in Thailand, where financing and production are routinely shared, but it does mean a single credit reveals very little about any one partner.
See 1 seriesForce Films
One credit sits under this name, on a 2026 Taiwanese series shared with a second production house. The pairing is the point: this site holds no Taiwanese boys' love record made by a single company, and that is a structural fact about the industry rather than a gap in the research.
See 1 seriesTongmeng International
Hong Kong is the smallest of the established production centres covered by this site, and the record filed under this company shows why its output is worth watching anyway. It is a 2026 Cantonese-language series, and Cantonese is the significant word: almost nothing in the Chinese-language part of this site is in it, because Mandarin is the language of the mainland market and of the co-productions aimed at it.
See 1 seriesDMM TV
A note about filing is needed before anything else. This is a Japanese subscription streaming service, and the one record attached to it, the 2026 live-action Unexpectedly Naughty Fukami, lists it among the platforms that carried the drama in Japan after its late-night broadcast. The term sits on this site's production company taxonomy, but the credit it holds on that title is a distribution one, and no claim is made here that the service produced the series.
See 1 seriesh8 Studio
The record here is credited to this house alongside GMMTV, and that combination is more interesting than either name alone. GMMTV is the largest producer in Thai boys' love by a wide margin: it manages its own performers, produces its own series, broadcasts them on channels within its group and releases the soundtracks. It rarely needs a partner.
See 1 seriesAlso credited
Questions about the companies
What is GMMTV?
GMMTV is a Bangkok production house and artist management company that began in 1995 and has been part of The One Enterprise since December 2020. It manages a large roster of actors, produces television and film, and releases music, which is why the same performers return across its series.
Is GMMTV the same as GMM25?
No. GMMTV is the production company. GMM25 is a Thai digital television channel that broadcasts much of its output. They are connected through The One Enterprise, but one makes the shows and the other airs them.
Why do the same actors keep appearing together?
Thai companies cast from a roster they train and manage, and some studios deliberately develop performers across several productions. A pairing that works on screen is often brought back for another project.
How do the Japanese, Taiwanese and Vietnamese industries differ?
Japanese series are commonly financed through production committees and aired in late-night slots. Taiwanese series are usually made by two small houses that share the cost and license the result to many platforms. Vietnamese BL is typically made and published by the same studio on YouTube.
What is the difference between a production company and a network here?
A production company made the series. A network or platform is where it was shown or streamed. They can be the same group, as with Thai broadcasters, but they are recorded separately, and the Where to Watch guide covers the platforms.
Company names are used to credit the people who made each series. Logos are trademarks of their owners and appear here only to identify the company. Some logo files come from Wikimedia Commons (the Studio Wabi Sabi and Change2561 files are CC BY-SA 4.0). BL & GL Flix is not affiliated with any of these companies. See also the BL and GL FAQ and the glossary.



































