MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up SheetStarting date: 1/1/2023 Link to your Drama list: PhantomPawPrints' Drama List Progress: 7/87 Habitat: 0/17
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Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR At least 5 episodes of a title listed as a TV Show. The episodes do not need to be in consecutive order. Please list episode air dates OR episode numbers | Paik's Spirit | January 3 | ✔ |
OR | 20th Century Boys 1: Beginning of the End | January 7 | ✔ |
OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | The Great Wall | July 20; Co-Produced with China & US; Also starring Pedro Pascal (Chile/US) | ✔ |
OR | ThirTEEN Terrors | Anthology | |
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | Save Me | Webtoon | |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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OR | Ice Fantasy | Romance; February 4 - February 23 | ✔ |
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Time is Relative
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that have something to do with time, in the first habitat you are instructed to find essentials that started airing between certain dates, in the second and third one you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time
4. Year of OriginTutorial | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | |||
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | |||
year generated by this website OR | |||
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Getting up Close and Personal
In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with relationships and the human experience. Most of these are tags, but in some cases we have enclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants, as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route.
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | |||
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11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content | Brief Nudity | Prolonged Nudity | Partial Nudity | Mild Sexual Content | Sexual Content | Extreme Sexual Content | |||
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features a Heterosexual relationship OR | |||
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Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead /Male Lead | |||
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal | July 28 - July 29 | ✔ |
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Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | |||
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Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | |||
Significant details
In the following habitats we ask you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
14. Where Are We? | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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The Main Attraction
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials where one of the main characters (listed as a main) either is ..., gets a... has a... Each route will either include a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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OR | Switched | Body Swap; July 29 - July 30 | ✔ |
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | |||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | |||
18. What Are You? | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | |||
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR | |||
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | |||
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | |||
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Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that feature the following things. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
19. The Petting Zoo | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | |||
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Name and Cover
In the following habitats we ask you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24) your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Origin
In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries Or watch 7 titles from 7 different countries.
Note: You must gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge. You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge.
25. Countries of MDL | Progress: 1/7 | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Run for the Money | January 2 - January 5 | ✔ | |
Treats
This is where you gather treats to use whenever you wish to avoid the paths given in a habitat. You come up with the treats on your own, they may not cover anything mentioned in this challenge (but you may use previous years' prompts for inspiration). Every time you start a new stage, you will be awarded a new number of treats according to the table below.
My Treats! | Plains Used: /5 | Forest Used: /4 | Mountain Used: /3 | Space Used: /2 | Black Hole Used: /1 | |
Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | Completed | ||
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 | MDL Watch Challenge 2023Sign-up SheetStarting date: January 4, 2023Completion date: December 25, 2023 Link to your Drama list: u_oui Habitat & Level: Plains - Japanese Marten |
Completed Essentials: 53 / 52 Completed Habitats: 10 / 10
Title Types:
Dramas ( 36 ) Movies ( 9 ) Specials ( 5 ) TV Show ( 3 )
Country:
SK ( 29 ) Ch ( 14 ) Jp ( 6 )
Tw ( 1 ) HK ( 1 ) Th ( 1 ) Ph ( 1 )
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
| 1. Type | Progress: 0 / 5 |
| 2. Is it True? | Progress: 0 / 5 |
| 3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 0 / 5 |
Time is Relative
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that have something to do with time, in the first habitat you are instructed to find essentials that started airing between certain dates, in the second and third one you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time.
4. Year of Origin | Progress: 5 / 5 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Status |
✅ in 2023 OR |
| Year: 2023 (Drama) (China) | ✅ Nov 8 10 ⭐ |
OR ✅ the year a member on this page joined MDL (link account/challenge form) |
| MDL Member: emisfritish Year: 2019 (Special) (SK) | ✅ Jan 22 8.0 ⭐ |
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| Year: 2010 (Movie) (Japan) | ✅ Feb 5 8.0 ⭐ | |
✅ year generated by this website OR |
| Generated year: 2003 (Movie) (SK) | ✅ Nov 3 7.5 ⭐ |
OR | Year: 2018 (Movie) (China) | ✅ May 28 7.0 ⭐ | |
| 5. Duration of The Hike | Progress: 0 / 5 |
| 6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 0 / 5 |
The Chronicles of MDL
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites and those others have awarded or written about.
| 7. Sharing is Caring | Progress: 0 / 5 |
8. Examined | Progress: 5 / 5 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Status |
✅ appearing in the first 5 pages of Trailers section (add link to trailer) | Bride's Revenge | Trailer was on page 4 as of March 3 (Drama) (China) | ✅ Mar 8 4.5 ⭐ |
✅ found on a Custom List (add a link to the list) OR
| Drama Special S13: Do You Know Ashtanga? | Custom List: KBS drama specials (Special) (SK) | |
OR ✅ from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | Military Prosecutor Doberman | Least viewed genre: Military (Drama) (SK) | |
✅ with someone or something mentioned in a Game on MDL (add link) OR | The Glory  | MDL Game - (Drama) (SK) | |
✅ with over 10 Reviews OR
|  | Over 10 reviews (Drama) (China) | ✅ Oct 15 7.0 ⭐ |
| 9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters *List with awards Add link to award/person's page. | Progress: 5 / 5 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Status |
| ✅ Award-winning OR | Award Winning 2021 Daesang (Drama) (SK) | ✅ Feb 11 8.5 ⭐ | |
OR ✅ that has one of your favorite actresses |
| Favorite actress: (Drama) (SK) | ✅Oct 28 8.5 ⭐ |
OR ✅ that has one of your favorite actors | Favorite actor: (Drama) (SK) | ✅ Mar 30 9.0 ⭐ | |
OR ✅ by the same director as one of your favorite titles | Same director of a fave: You Are My Glory (Drama) (China) | ✅ Apr 21 7.5 ⭐ | |
OR ✅ by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before |
| Director I've never seen anything from before: Lee Han Joon (Drama) (SK) | ✅ Jun 9 7.0 ⭐ |
Getting up Close and Personal
In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with relationships and the human experience, most of these are tags, but in some cases we have inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route.
| 10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: 0 / 5 |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5 / 5 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Status |
OR | (Drama) (SK) | ✅ Feb 15 6.0 ⭐ | |
OR |
| Age Gap (Drama) (Japan) | ✅ Nov 26 8.0 ⭐ |
OR | Same-Sex relationship (Drama) (SK) | ||
OR | Enemies To Lovers (Drama) (China) | ✅ Jan 8 8.5 ⭐ | |
✅ Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR
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| Nice Male Lead (Drama) (China) | ✅ Jul 14 8.0 ⭐ |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5 / 5 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Status |
| ✅ Slight Comedy OR | Slight Comedy (Drama) (China) | ✅ Feb 18 8.0 ⭐ | |
✅ Happy Ending OR
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| Happy Ending (Drama) (SK) | ✅ Jan 14 7.0 ⭐ |
OR | Tragic Past (Drama) (SK) | ||
OR | Mourning (Drama) (China) | ✅ Feb 4 9.0 ⭐ | |
OR |
| Suicide (Special) (SK) | ✅ Dec 2 8.5 ⭐ |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5 / 5 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Status |
| ✅ features a Religious Leader OR |
| Religious Leader - Shaman (Drama) (SK) | ✅ Mar 18 8.5 ⭐ |
OR |
| Misunderstanding (Drama) (Japan) | ✅ Mar 14 8.5 ⭐ |
LGTBQ+ (Drama) (SK) | ✅ Jul 7 7.5 ⭐ | ||
OR ✅ Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance | Slow burn romance (Drama) (SK) | ✅ May 12 9.5 ⭐ | |
| Popular Male Lead (Drama) (Japan) | ✅ May 27 7.0 ⭐ | |
Significant details
In the following habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
14. Where are We? | Progress: 5 / 5 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Status |
OR |
| Cliff (Ep 16) (Drama) (China) | ✅ Mar 3 7.5 ⭐ |
OR ✅ By the Sea |
| Sea (Drama) (Japan) | ✅ Nov 2 9.5 ⭐ |
OR | Rooftop (Movie) (SK) | ✅ Apr 4 9.0 ⭐ | |
OR |
| Island (Reality TV) (SK) | ✅ Jun 21 9.0 ⭐ |
OR | In a City (Seoul) (Movie) (SK) | ✅ Feb 25 8.0 ⭐ | |
| 15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 0 / 5 |
The Main Attraction
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials where one of the main characters (listed as a main) either is ..., gets a... has a... Each route will either include a a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
| 16. Who Are We? | Progress: 0 / 5 |
17. Camouflage | Progress: 6 / 5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Status |
OR ✅ Artist |
| Artist: Painter (Drama) (SK) Artist: Pianist (Special) (SK) | ✅ Dec 4 8.0 ⭐ ✅ May 29 8.0 ⭐ |
✅ Glasses OR |
| Glasses - Participant: Zhang Gen Yuan (Reality TV) (China) | ✅ Jan 19 9.0 ⭐ |
| Body Swap (Drama) (China) | ✅ Mar 25 8.5 ⭐ | |
| Criminal Lead (Movie) (SK) | ✅ Jan 15 6.5 ⭐ | |
Antihero (Drama) (SK) | ✅ Jan 10 9.0 ⭐ | ||
| 18. What Are You? | Progress: 0 / 5 |
Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that feature the following things.
| 19. The Petting Zoo | Progress: 0 / 5 |
| 20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: 0 / 5 |
| 21. Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 0 / 5 |
| 22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 0 / 5 |
Name and Cover
In the following habitats we ask of you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) name. For the second one (24) cover.
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: 5 / 5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Status |
OR | Sun (Drama) (SK) | ✅ Jan 27 7.5 ⭐ | |
OR | Blueming | Color (Drama) (SK) | ✅ Apr 14 8.0 ⭐ |
| Verb (Drama) (China) | ✅ Nov 18 8.0 ⭐ | |
Number (Reality show) (SK) | ✅ Feb 25 9.0 ⭐ | ||
OR |
| Season (Special) (SK) | ✅ Mar 5 7.5 ⭐ |
| 24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 0 / 5 |
Origin
In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries Or watch 7 titles from 7 different countries.
Note: You must gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge. You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge.
25. Countries of MDL | Progress: 7 / 7 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Status |
(Drama) (China) | ✅ Jan 30 8.5 ⭐ | ||
(Movie) (HK) | ✅ Apr 20 5.5 ⭐ | ||
| (Drama) (Japan) | ✅ Apr 7 8.0 ⭐ | |
 | (Movie) (Ph) | ✅ Dec 3 5.0 ⭐ | |
| (Movie) (SK) | ✅ May 28 5.5 ⭐ | |
(Drama) (Taiwan) | ✅ Dec 25 7.5 ⭐ | ||
✅ Thailand | (Drama) (Thailand) | ✅ Feb 23 9.5 ⭐ | |
Starting date: January 3, 2023
Link to your Drama list: SavetheDate
Progress Habitat: 125
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR TV SHOW* |
9 episodes |
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| 20/01/23 | |
| Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL |
| 22/05/23 | |
OR | At the Moment  |
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Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or |
| 27/01/23 | |
2. Is it True? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | Educational | 28/03/23 | |
OR | Independant film | 06/06/23 | |
| Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | Documentary | 05/01/23 | |
OR | Inhuman Kiss  | Folklore | 30/10/23 |
OR | Historical Fiction | 30/01/23 | |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Bossy Husband Who Loved Me  | Historical | 12/07/23 |
OR | Comedy | 24/01/23 | |
OR | Thriller | 18/01/23 | |
OR | Youth | 02/01/23 | |
OR | Kill Bok Soon | Action | 04/04/23 |
Time is Relative
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that have something to do with time, in the first habitat you are instructed to find essentials that started airing between certain dates, in the second and third one you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time
4. Year of OriginTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
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OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) |
| 01/04/23 | |
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born |
| 15/12/23 | |
year generated by this website OR |
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OR | 2017 |
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5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Short Film | 20/01/23 | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | 36 episodes | 23/01/23 | |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | Mission 1: Possible  | 105 mn | 31/1/23 |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | 40 mn | 02/01/23 | |
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | 75 mn | 31/01/23 | |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | Love Class Season 2  | Season 2 | 10/10/23 |
OR | An Ancient Love Song  | # timeloop | 15/07/23 |
OR | My Perfect Stranger  | Time Travel | 30/12/23 |
OR | Jack o' Frost  | Winter Setting | 31/03/23 |
OR | Spring | 14/02/23 | |
The Chronicles of MDL
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites and those others have awarded or written about.
7. Sharing is CaringTutorials: 1 2 3 | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge | Postmen in the Mountains  |
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with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) |
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DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | 2 episodes |
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mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) |
| Recommendation by AthenaTheStorierX )==>here |
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| with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist | East Palace, West Palace  | 1996 | 09/09/23 |
8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page) Or appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) |
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found on a Custom List (add a link to the list). OR found on a Voting List in the list index (add a link to the list). |
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from your most viewed tags Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats |
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with someone or something mentioned in a Game on MDL (add a link to the game) Or found mentioned in an Article on MDL (add a link to the article) |
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with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | over 10 reviews |
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9. Your Fanciers and WestminstersFor this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page.*List with awards | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites |
| 25/12/23 | |
from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses | Best direction fiction on Asian Television Awards 2022 for F4 Thailand |
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from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors |
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from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles |
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| from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | Lin Kuan Hui Director I haven't seen anything |
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Getting up Close and Personal
In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with relationships and the human experience most of these are tags, but in some cases we have inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route.
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | Moonlight Chicken  | Ex-boyfriend comes back | 06/03/23 |
OR | Cohabitation | 01/03/23 | |
OR | Sexual Assault | 19/03/23 | |
OR | Contract relationship | 18/02/23 | |
OR | Domestic abuse | 27/03/23 | |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content | Brief Nudity | Prolonged Nudity | Partial Nudity | Mild Sexual Content | Sexual Content | Extreme Sexual Content | Never Let Me Go  | First love | 28/02/23 |
OR | Older Man / Younger Woman |
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features a Heterosexual relationship OR |
| mlm relationship | 14/02/23 |
OR |
| Enemies to Lovers | 31/01/23 |
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead / Male Lead | Nice ML | 06/07/23 | |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | Slight Comedy | 09/05/23 | |
OR features some type of Doomsday | Doomsday | 09/04/23 | |
OR | Tragic past | 16/02 /23 | |
features a Celebration OR | Mourning his wife | 17/10/23 | |
OR | Healing | 20/01/23 | |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | The Director Who Buys Me Dinner  | type of god | 12/01/23 |
OR | Character Development | 19/09/23 | |
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | LGBTQ+ | 04/03/23 | |
OR | Slow Burn Story | 01/03/23 | |
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | The ML was a famous actor before living in an alternative world where he is poor and a theatre actor. He returns to his original life at the end. | 19/11/23 | |
Significant details
In the following habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
14. Where Are We? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | On a field | 3/12/23 | |
OR | Sea | 07/03/23 | |
OR | Rooftop | 30/03/23 | |
OR | Island setting | 09/05/23 | |
| In a City OR In a Small Town | City | 05/02/23 | |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | 01/12/23 | ||
OR | White Truck of Doom | 23/07/23 | |
OR | One of the story is related to the possibility of talking with a person in a parallel universe through a phone booth | 04/04 /23 | |
OR | Hoodie | 14/02/23 | |
OR | The FL is shoot by a crossbow in Ep. 37 | 25/02/23 | |
The Main Attraction
-In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials where one of the main characters (listed as a main) either is ..., gets a... has a... Each route will either include a a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
16. Who Are We? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | 27/03/23 | ||
OR | 06/08/23 | ||
Trans gender identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth) OR Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth) |
| Transgender | 06/03/23 |
OR | ML is on wheelchair | 04/03/23 | |
OR | Hidden Identity | 06/02/23 | |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Modern Art  | ML is a painter | 17/10/23 |
OR | Tattoos | 30/01/23 | |
OR | (Identity swap, transmigration) | 18/01/23 | |
| Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | 29/09/23 | ||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | 19/09/23 | ||
18. What Are You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | Strong FL / Strong ML | 30/04/23 | |
| Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead | Smart FL | 15/06/23 | |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | Cold FL | 28/01/23 | |
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | A League of Nobleman  | Poor ML | 24/02/23 |
OR | Killer | 31/05/23 | |
Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
-In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that feature the following things. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
19. The Petting Zoo | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | The main couple have a dog | 30/01/23 | |
OR | The dog speaks | 08/08/23 | |
OR | Farm Animal | 23/04/23 | |
OR | ML is a veterinarian | 17/07/23 | |
OR | Lee Rang and his mermaid girlfriend ride a horse | 12/06/23 | |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Multiples perspectives | 9/11/23 | ||
OR | Animal Attack | 25/11/23 | |
OR | In the wild | 12/06/23 | |
OR Censored Romance |
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Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | second lead | 21/09/23 | |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Gynecologist FL | 15/03/23 | |
OR | Ghost | 13/08/23 | |
OR | Political corruption | 28/01/23 | |
OR | Moon Dong Eun and Ha Do Young played G o in episode 4 | 15/03/23 | |
OR | 14/11/23 | ||
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Inmates | 30/01/23 | |
OR | Bromance | 09/06/23 | |
OR | Parent - child | 19/03/23 | |
OR | Student Teacher romance | 21/01/23 | |
OR | Doc-Patient | 22/04/23 | |
Name and Cover
In the following habitats we ask of you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24) your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Celestial body | 14/12/23 | |
| Color OR | Color | 13/02/23 | |
OR | Verb | 19/10/23 | |
OR | Number | 02/03/23 | |
OR | April | 04/08/23 | |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | River Knows Fish Heart | Wild animal | 21/09/23 |
OR | Flower | 15/07/23 | |
OR | light color | 28/06/23 | |
OR | The glass door leading to the balcony can be seen in a corner. | 26/02/23 | |
OR | Geometrical shapes | 06/06/23 | |
Origin
-In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries Or watch 7 titles from 7 different countries.
Note: You must gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge. You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge.
25. Countries of MDL | Progress: | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Papa  | 26/10/23 | ||
22/09/23 | |||
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20/01 /23 | |||
28/03/23 | |||
Treats
This is where you gather treats, to use whenever you wish to avoid the paths given in a habitat. You come up with the treats on your own, they may not cover anything mentioned in this challenge (but you may use previous years' prompts for inspiration). Every time you start a new stage, you will be awarded a new number of treats according to the table below.
My Treats! | Plains Used: 2/5 | Forest Used: /4 | Mountain Used: /3 | Space Used: /2 | Black Hole Used: /1 | |
| Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | Completed | ||
Censored Romance | Stay with Me  | OR | ||||
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Starting date: January 3, 2023
Link to your Drama list: PANDA
Progress Habitat: 25/25
Essentials: 241/241
Countries : 07/07 Achieved: November 19, 2023 |
CONCLUÍDO!!!
December 30st, 2023
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- TAXONOMY
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
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Time is Relative
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that have something to do with time, in the first habitat you are instructed to find essentials that started airing between certain dates, in the second and third one you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time
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The Chronicles of MDL
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites and those others have awarded or written about.
7. Sharing is CaringTutorials: 1 2 3 | |
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Getting up Close and Personal
In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with relationships and the human experience most of these are tags, but in some cases we have inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route.
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12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying |
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Significant details
In the following habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
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The Main Attraction
- In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials where one of the main characters (listed as a main) either is ..., gets a... has a... Each route will either include a a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
16. Who Are We? | |
| Child Actor: "Zhang Yan Bo" |  |
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" Gun Atthaphan Phunsawat" |  |  |
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- In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that feature the following things. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
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Name and Cover
In the following habitats we ask of you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24) your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
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Origin
-In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries Or watch 7 titles from 7 different countries.
Note: You must gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge. You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge.
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...To the Top
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet
Starting date: 3rd January, 2023 Link to your Drama list: KCDramaLOVER Progress Habitat: Plane(Dwarf Flying Squirrel) |  |
1. Type | Progress:5/5 |
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| TV SHOW | Keep Running: Yellow River Season 2 | DONE! |  |
| MOVIE | Emergency Declaration | DONE! | |
| Co-Produced | One Piece | DONE! | |
| Omnibus | Wild Grass | DONE! | |
| webtoon | Taxi Driver Season 2 | DONE! | |
2. Is it True? | Progress:5/5 |
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Educational | When You Love Yourself | DONE! | |
| Independent Film | Juvenile Offender | DONE! | |
| Documentary Genre | EN-CORE Dimension: Dilemma | DONE! | |
| Inspired by Real Events | The Silent Forest | DONE! | |
| Historical Fiction | Alchemy of Souls Season 2: Light and Shadow | DONE! | |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| The Witch: Part 2. The Other One | DONE! |
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DONE! |
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DONE! |
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DONE! |
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4. Sharing is Caring | Progress:1/4 |
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember | The Negotiation | DONE! | |
| with less than 10,000 viewers | Reincarnation Love | DONE! | |
| DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list | Afraid Of | DONE! | |
| mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | As Long as We Both Shall Live | https://mydra malist.com/pr ofile/Misunde rst0_od/feed s/E1gOZH3 | |
| with the newest release date in your PTW list | DONE! | |
5. Examined… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) |
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found on a Voting List in the list index (add a link to the list). | |||
from your most viewed tags |
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with someone or something mentioned in a Game on MDL |
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with over 10 Reviews | DONE! |
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6. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress:5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
DONE! |
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DONE! |
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DONE! |
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DONE! |
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MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR TV SHOW* | |||
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| Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | |||
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Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | |||
2. Is it True? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | |||
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| Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | |||
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3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Time is Relative
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that have something to do with time, in the first habitat you are instructed to find essentials that started airing between certain dates, in the second and third one you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time
4. Year of OriginTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | |||
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | |||
year generated by this website OR | |||
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5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | |||
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | |||
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | |||
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | |||
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | |||
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The Chronicles of MDL
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites and those others have awarded or written about.
7. Sharing is CaringTutorials: 1 2 3 | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge | |||
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | |||
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | |||
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | |||
| with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist | |||
8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page) Or appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) | |||
found on a Custom List (add a link to the list). OR found on a Voting List in the list index (add a link to the list). | |||
from your most viewed tags Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | |||
with someone or something mentioned in a Game on MDL (add a link to the game) Or found mentioned in an Article on MDL (add a link to the article) | |||
with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | |||
9. Your Fanciers and WestminstersFor this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page.*List with awards | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites | |||
from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses | |||
from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors | |||
from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles | |||
| from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | |||
Getting up Close and Personal
In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with relationships and the human experience most of these are tags, but in some cases we have inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route.
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | |||
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11. Finding a Mate | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content | Brief Nudity | Prolonged Nudity | Partial Nudity | Mild Sexual Content | Sexual Content | Extreme Sexual Content | |||
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features a Heterosexual relationship OR | |||
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Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR | |||
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | |||
OR features some type of Doomsday | |||
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features a Celebration OR | |||
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13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | |||
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Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | |||
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Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | |||
Significant details
In the following habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
14. Where Are We? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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| In a City OR In a Small Town | |||
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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The Main Attraction
-In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials where one of the main characters (listed as a main) either is ..., gets a... has a... Each route will either include a a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
16. Who Are We? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Trans gender identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth) OR Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth) | |||
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17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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| Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | |||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | |||
18. What Are You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | |||
| Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead | |||
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | |||
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | |||
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Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
-In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that feature the following things. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
19. The Petting Zoo | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | |||
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Name and Cover
In the following habitats we ask of you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24) your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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| Color OR | |||
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24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
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Origin
-In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries Or watch 7 titles from 7 different countries.
Note: You must gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge. You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge.
25. Countries of MDL | Progress: | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Treats
This is where you gather treats, to use whenever you wish to avoid the paths given in a habitat. You come up with the treats on your own, they may not cover anything mentioned in this challenge (but you may use previous years' prompts for inspiration). Every time you start a new stage, you will be awarded a new number of treats according to the table below.
My Treats! | Plains Used: /5 | Forest Used: /4 | Mountain Used: /3 | Space Used: /2 | Black Hole Used: /1 | |
| Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | Completed | ||
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MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet | ||||
Link to your Drama list:
| Starting Date: 1 January 2023 | Completed Date: 20 November 2023 | ||
| Animal Goals | ||||
| Plains Elephant - 25 Habitats Tiger - 7 Countries Total Essentials: 127 | ||||
Stretch Goal | ||||
Forest Japanese Marten Habitats: 35 Essentials: 177 | ||||
Habitat Progress: 50 / Essentials: 254 | ||||
| Animal Achievements | ||||
 PLAINS: Level 10 Elephant Completed: ✓✓ Sep 13 |  TigerCompleted: ✓✓ May 14 | |||
 FOREST: Level 10 Elephant Completed: ✓✓ Nov 20 | ||||
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
| 1. Type | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 A Love Journal | ✓✓ Jan 8 | ||
 My Sassy Girl | ✓✓ Jan 3 | ||
 You With Me | Korea / Philippines | ✓✓ Jan 14 | |
✓✓ Mar 16 | |||
| Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic |  Hiyama Kentaro no Ninshin | Manga | ✓✓ Feb 14 |
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Web Series |  The Westwind Is Strong | ✓✓ Sep 16 | |
 And Yet, You Are So Sweet | ✓✓ Nov 4 | ||
| Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL |  Star With A Secret | Hoang Yen Chibi (Vietnam) | ✓✓ Jan 21 |
 The Reason I Hate You | ✓✓ Oct 15 | ||
| Adapted From a Novel / Book |  The Journey | ✓✓ Aug 19 | |
Triple - Do You Want?| 2. Is it True? | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
≥75℃ | ✓✓ Mar 11 | ||
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 BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky | ✓✓ Jan 14 | ||
 Unspeakable Love | ✓✓ Jan 3 | ||
 Warning Ahead | ✓✓ Aug 7 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Advertisement |  Your Ship Is Real | ✓✓ Sep 7 | |
| Independent Film |  Summer & Yuki | ✓✓ Sep 13 | |
| Documentary Genre |  Take 1 | ✓✓ Feb 10 | |
 Love Stories from Fukuoka 13 | ✓✓ Oct 22 | ||
| Historical Fiction |  As Long as We Both Shall Live | ✓✓ Oct 21 | |
| 3. All About the Gen(r)es | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 Romance of a Twin Flower | ✓✓ Apr 25 | ||
 Magic Grocery Store | ✓✓ Jan 28 | ||
 My Sunshine | ✓✓ Jun 25 | ||
 Meeting You | ✓✓ Jun 3 | ||
 Summer Strike | ✓✓ Jul 1 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Historical |  My Decoy Bride | ✓✓ Aug 5 | |
| Comedy |  Murai No Koi | ✓✓ Oct 22 | |
 King The Land | ✓✓ Oct 29 | ||
 Exclusive Fairytale | ✓✓ Sep 23 | ||
 Mysterious Love | ✓✓ Aug 20 | ||
Time is Relative
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that have something to do with time, in the first habitat you are instructed to find essentials that started airing between certain dates, in the second and third one you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time
| 4. Year of Origin Tutorial | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 The Shoufu Can Read Mind | 2023 | ✓✓ Mar 11 | |
| the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | Liffy (2020) | ✓✓ Apr 2 | |
 My Best Friend's Girlfriend | 2008
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2015, | ✓✓ Jul 2 | ||
 Legend of Yunze | 2021 | ✓✓ Sep 8 | |
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| in 2023 |  Dong Lan Xue | ✓✓ Sep 23 | |
| 1990-1999 |  Maging Sino Ka Man | 1991 | ✓✓ Sep 26 |
 Because I Don't Want to Go Home | June | ✓✓ Sep 5 | |
| year generated by this website |  The Ark of Mr. Chow | ✓✓ Sep 27 | |
| 2017-2022 |  Legend of Yunze Season 2 | 2022 | ✓✓ Sep 16 |
| 5. Duration of The Hike Tutorial | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 Love For Two Lives | 8 mins / episode | ✓✓ Jan 26 | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes | Kakegurui  | 24 mins | ✓✓ Jan 15 |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes |  Time and Him Are Just Right | 40 mins | ✓✓ Feb 11 |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes | 46 mins | ✓✓ Feb 20 | |
DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. |  Kakegurui Season 2 | 5 episodes | ✓✓ Feb 5 |
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 Revival | 10 mins / episode | ✓✓ Nov 11 | |
 Zui Ai | 30 episodes | ✓✓ Aug 6 | |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes |  Meet You | 30 mins | ✓✓ Aug 13 |
| DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes |  My Lethal Man | 45 mins | ✓✓ Oct 15 |
DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. |  Sleep With Me | 6 episodes | ✓✓ Oct 31 |
| 6. Time Can Be Confusing | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
Full second season of a DRAMA |  My Girlfriend Is An Alien Season 2 | ✓✓ Mar 12 | |
A Puppetry  | ✓✓ Feb 18 | ||
 My Best Summer | ✓✓ Feb 24 | ||
 4 Reasons Why I Hate Christmas | ✓✓ Jan 22 | ||
 One Spring Night | ✓✓ Mar 20 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Full second season of a DRAMA |  The Queen of Attack Season 2 | ✓✓ Sep 10 | |
| Different Timelines |  Legend of Yun Qian | ✓✓ Nov 5 | |
| Shuang Sheng Jie | ✓✓ Sep 14 | ||
| Winter |  Us and Them | ✓✓ Jun 17 | |
 It Was Spring | ✓✓ Oct 20 | ||
The Chronicles of MDL
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites and those others have awarded or written about.
| 7. Sharing is Caring Tutorials: 1 2 3 | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge | All These Years | Miguk_saram / Challenge Entry Form | ✓✓ Aug 26 |
| with less than 10,000 viewers |  Love From Divorce | ✓✓ Aug 24 | |
| TREAT: Watch a title with a score of 7.0 or below | My Little Chef | ✓✓ Jun 27 | |
| mentioned in the MDL Forums |  My Fairy Doctor | Time travel drama recommendation | ✓✓ Feb 7 |
with the newest release date in your PTW list |  Hidden Love | June 20, 2023 (latest release as of viewing) | ✓✓ Jul 15 |
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge |  Are We In Love? | Aims / Challenge Entry Form | ✓✓ Nov 16 |
| with less than 10,000 viewers |  Broken Dimension Love | ✓✓ Nov 13 | |
| DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list |  The Dragon King's Bride | 3 episodes | ✓✓ Nov 7 |
| mentioned in the MDL Forums |  Zhang Gong Zhu Zai Shang | FL who's not trying to be a role-model | ✓✓ Sep 7 |
| with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist |  Story of Three Loves | Oct 10, 1982 (Bagets 1 - Feb 2, 1984) | ✓✓ May 8 |
| 8. Examined… Tutorial | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) | Trailer | ✓✓ Aug 27 | |
| found on a Voting List in the list index (add a link to the list). |  Yes, Her Majesty | C-Curious | ✓✓ Apr 19 |
from your most viewed tags |  You Are My Exclusive Surprise | Web series | ✓✓ Apr 5 |
| found mentioned in an Article on MDL (add a link to the article) |  Channel wa Sonomama! | The Kawaii Factor in J-Dramas: Female Leads | ✓✓ Feb 10 |
| with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | Till I Met You  | 0 reviews as of Jan 13 | ✓✓ Jan 13 |
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page) |  The Deliberations of Love | Recommendations | ✓✓ Nov 18 |
| found on a Voting List in the list index (add a link to the list). |  Forever Love | Best On-screen Chemistry | ✓✓ Sep 17 |
 Romantic | Web Series | ✓✓ Nov 13 | |
| with someone or something mentioned in a Game on MDL (add a link to the game) |  Healing Island | Who Is Your Favorite Actor? (2023) - Yang Yang | ✓✓ Oct 7 |
| with 0 Reviews when you started watching it |  Mermaid | 0 review as of Oct 29 | ✓✓ Oct 29 |
| 9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters For this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page. *List with awards | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
by the same writer as one of your favorites | Meet Yourself | ✓✓ Feb 8 | |
| that has one of your favorite actresses |  Call Me Chihiro | Arimura Kasumi | ✓✓ Mar 25 |
that has one of your favorite actors | Road Home | Jing Bo Ran | ✓✓ Apr 11 |
by the same director as one of your favorite titles | Provoke  | Zeng Qing Jie (A Familiar Stranger) | ✓✓ May 6 |
| by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | Sigrid Andrea Bernardo (Screenwriter) | ✓✓ Feb 14 | |
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
by the same writer as one of your favorites |  Alchemy of Souls | Hong Jung Eun Hong Mi Ran | ✓✓ Nov 20 |
| that has one of your favorite actresses |  Back to Seventeen | Zhang Miao Yi | ✓✓ Sep 21 |
| that has one of your favorite actors |  Reincarnation Love | Lee Do Hyun | ✓✓ Nov26 |
by the same director as one of your favorite titles |  Twin Souls of Destiny | Zhi Zhu (Dong Lan Xue) | ✓✓ Nov 7 |
by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before |  Tsumari Suki tte iitai n Dakedo | Tanazawa Takayoshi (Director) | ✓✓ Nov 11 |
Getting up Close and Personal
In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with relationships and the human experience most of these are tags, but in some cases we have inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route.
| 10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
Ending Again  | ✓✓ Feb 21 | ||
Binary Love | ✓✓ Apr 5 | ||
 More and More Loves You | ✓✓ May 31 | ||
 Perfect and Casual | ✓✓ Jun 4 | ||
 Dali and the Cocky Prince | ✓✓ Jul 22 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back |  How Old Are You | ✓✓ Sep 1 | |
First Kisses | ✓✓ Aug 13 | ||
| Sexual Assault |  Tale of the Ancient Snake | ✓✓ Oct 3 | |
| Contract Relationship | My Lovely Wife | ✓✓ Oct 15 | |
| Opposites Attract |  Crash Course In Romance | ✓✓ Oct 8 | |
| 11. Finding a Mate | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| ✓✓ Apr 5 | |||
| ✓✓ Mar 4 | |||
features a Same-Sex relationship | Love Tech  | ✓✓ Mar 10 | |
 My Uncanny Destiny | ✓✓ Feb 25 | ||
 Love To Hate You | ✓✓ Mar 18 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content | Brief Nudity | Prolonged Nudity | Partial Nudity | Mild Sexual Content | Sexual Content | Extreme Sexual Content |  Unlock Your Heart | ✓✓ Oct 22 | |
| Classmates' Relationship | From Me To You | ✓✓ Jul 15 | |
features a Same-Sex relationship |  Transit Girls | ✓✓ Oct 12 | |
 Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo | ✓✓ Nov 1 | ||
 The Princess's New Clothers | ✓✓ Nov 6 | ||
| 12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| ✓✓ Jan 17 | |||
| ✓✓ Jul 2 | |||
Eternal Love  | ✓✓ Mar 10 | ||
features Mourning |  You Complete Me | ✓✓ Apr 1 | |
 Remembrance of Things Past | ✓✓ Jan 7 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Black Comedy |  Violence Action | ✓✓ Aug 7 | |
| Happy Ending |  Go! My Hero! | ✓✓ Oct 14 | |
| Tragic Past |  Extremely Perilous Love | ✓✓ Sep 9 | |
features a Celebration |  Emperor or Boss | Birthday | ✓✓ Jun 16 |
 Nv Er Hong | ✓✓ Oct 15 | ||
| 13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 The Origin of Eternity | ✓✓ Mar 19 | ||
Never Too Late  | ✓✓ Feb 17 | ||
| ✓✓ Mar 11 | |||
 He Dun's Happiness | ✓✓ Apr 24 | ||
Love Scenery  | ✓✓ Mar 3 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| features a Religious Leader |  My Chinese Chic Boutique | High Priest antagonist | ✓✓ Aug 19 |
 Honey Lemon Soda | ✓✓ Nov 1 | ||
| LGBTQ+ |  Led Astray By Love | ✓✓ Nov 15 | |
 Extraordinary Attorney Woo | ✓✓ Aug 12 | ||
 Revenge | ✓✓ Aug 25 | ||
Significant details
In the following habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
| 14. Where Are We? | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
Betrayed Love | ✓✓ Feb 11 | ||
| ✓✓ Jan 8 | |||
| Confrontation between Ichigo and Uryu on school rooftop | ✓✓ Jan 15 | ||
 When I Met U | Stranded on an island after plane crash | ✓✓ Jan 3 | |
 After-School Starlight | ✓✓ Jun 25 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 Marry Me, My Queen | Ep10: FL pretended to fall down the cliff | ✓✓ May 7 | |
 Yes, I Am A Spy | ✓✓ Sep 2 | ||
 The Day I Met You | Suicide attempt on hospital rooftop | ✓✓ Sep 9 | |
| On an Island |  The Truth of Immortality | ✓✓ Jun 18 | |
| In a City |  Hong Kong: Flow | ✓✓ Sep 16 | |
| 15. Humans Have So Many Things | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Ep1: ML used umbrella as a weapon | ✓✓ Feb 17 | ||
 Pangako... Ikaw Lang | ML's car was hit by a truck | ✓✓ Jan 28 | |
| 20th Century Girl | ✓✓ Apr 2 | ||
Large Queen  | Ep14: Runway dress reveal | ✓✓ Mar 8 | |
| A Book |  Miss Ye in Wonderland | ✓✓ May 14 | |
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| A Backpack |  Triple Fling | Students with backpacks | ✓✓ Oct 20 |
 The Promise of Forever | ✓✓ Oct 6 | ||
 Out of Breath | Dating App | ✓✓ Oct 9 | |
| A Hoodie |  Xia Ye Zhi Dao Feng De Tian | ✓✓ Sep 15 | |
| A Crossbow | My Bossy Girl | ✓✓ May 27 | |
The Main Attraction
-In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials where one of the main characters (listed as a main) either is ..., gets a... has a... Each route will either include a a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
| 16. Who Are We? | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 Because Of Meeting You | Wang Ting Wen | ✓✓ Jan 21 | |
 Upcoming Summer | Leo Wu Zhang Zi Feng | ✓✓ Feb 13 | |
Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth) |  Love Starts from Marriage Season 2 | ✓✓ Jun 24 | |
 Romance With Blind Master | ✓✓ Feb 16 | ||
| ✓✓ Apr 19 | |||
| Forest | ❤️5/5 | ||
| Child Actor/Actress |  Fanletter, Please | Shin Yeon Woo | ✓✓ Sep 29 |
 Confess Your Love | Nene | ✓✓ Aug 14 | |
| Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth) |  Yue Rou Fu | ✓✓ Oct 14 | |
| Living with a disability |  We're Not Trash | ✓✓ Sep 6 | |
| Hidden Identity |  Soul Plate | ✓✓ Nov 20 | |
17. Camouflage? | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| ✓✓ Apr 22 | |||
| Glasses | My Lady Boss | ✓✓ Jan 14 | |
| ️ Identity Swap |  Double Identity Crown Princess | ✓✓ Mar 29 | |
Somebody | ✓✓ Jul 8 | ||
 Zhao Ge Fu | ✓✓ Sep 13 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 Rookie | ✓✓ Oct 27 | ||
 Love at First Sight by Yi Zong | ✓✓ Aug 23 | ||
 Exploration Method of Love | ✓✓ Oct 7 | ||
| TREAT: Watch a title that features a Chef |  Let's Date, Professor Xie | ✓✓ Jul 30 | |
 Ye Mu | ✓✓ Oct 5 | ||
| 18. What Are You? | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead | ✓✓ May 6 | ||
 Search: WWW | ✓✓ Feb 4 | ||
Coffee & Vanilla | ✓✓ May 20 | ||
 Promise In The Summer | ✓✓ May 13 | ||
| ✓✓ Apr 30 | |||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead |  Heart Medicine | ✓✓ Nov 6 | |
| Smart Female Lead / Smart Male Lead |  Miss Mystery | ✓✓ Oct 28 | |
 This Young Hero Is a Little Cold | ✓✓ Sep 24 | ||
| Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead |  Legally, Dad | ✓✓ Jun 8 | |
| Killer |  Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning | ✓✓ Aug 7 | |
Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
-In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that feature the following things. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
| 19. The Petting Zoo | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 Royal Rumours | ✓✓ Apr 16 | ||
Only You | ✓✓ Mar 9 | ||
 Ngayon At Kailanman | ML and FL live on a ranch/farm | ✓✓ Feb 15 | |
 Noble, My Love | ✓✓ Mar 5 | ||
The Palace  | OTP rode off into the sunset | ✓✓ Jan 2 | |
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 Love Starts After Divorce | Pet dog | ✓✓ Sep 23 | |
| Talking Pet |  The Sound of Magic | Bella the Parrot | ✓✓ May 15 |
| Zoo animal | Daytime Shooting Star | Aquarium | ✓✓ Mar 12 |
 Once Upon A Small Town | ✓✓ Oct 20 | ||
 My Lady General | ✓✓ Sep 9 | ||
| 20. Where the Humans Are… | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| ✓✓ Jan 21 | |||
 This Is Not What I Expected | ✓✓ Jan 2 | ||
 tvN O'PENing: What Are You Doing in the Office? | Franscesa the dog | ✓✓ May 4 | |
 You To Me Are Everything | Piglet in tutus | ✓✓ Jan 9 | |
The Glory  | ✓✓ Mar 19 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Animal turns into a Human |  Cat in the Eastern Palace | Cat Spirit | ✓✓ Sep 10 |
| Adorable animals |  A Search Through Nine Lifetimes | Fluffy White Cat | ✓✓ Sep 12 |
| Animal in a City |  The Name in My Heart | ML almost runs over a dog | ✓✓ Aug 28 |
| Pet dressed in Clothes |  Never Said Goodbye | French bulldog in sweaters | ✓✓ Sep 27 |
| Antagonist Caring For Animals |  The Glory Part 2 | ✓✓ Mar 25 | |
| 21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| ✓✓ May 17 | |||
The Queen System  | ✓✓ Mar 31 | ||
 One The Woman | ✓✓ Aug 5 | ||
 Mr Durian | Ep 15: Spin the Bottle / Truth or Dare | ✓✓ Apr 23 | |
 The Mermaid Prince: The Beginning | ✓✓ Jan 14 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
TREAT: Watch a title tagged Death |  Secretary Hit Me | ✓✓ Aug 15 | |
 Supervisor Husband | ✓✓ Sep 28 | ||
 Yuube wa Otanoshimi Deshita ne | Online gaming | ✓✓ Sep 25 | |
| Friendly Game |  Qiu Qiu Ni Bie Xin Dong | ML and SML played Go | ✓✓ Nov 13 |
 My ID is Gangnam Beauty | ✓✓ Nov 19 | ||
| 22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| ✓✓ Apr 27 | |||
| Bromance | ✓✓ Feb 13 | ||
 Bakit Ngayon Ka Lang? | Father-Son | ✓✓ Jan 14 | |
 Don't Lie, Rahee | ✓✓ Aug 23 | ||
 Shake, Rattle & Roll 10 | 1st story - hospital setting | ✓✓ Jan 2 | |
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
 Am I The Only One With Butterflies? Season 1 | Workplace setting | ✓✓ Sep 8 | |
| Bromance |  My Love Story!! | ✓✓ Oct 23 | |
| Parent-Child |  Love Everlasting | Mother-Son | ✓✓ Sep 28 |
 Youtuber Class Season 2 | ✓✓ Nov 13 | ||
 What's Wrong With My Princess | ✓✓ Oct 5 | ||
Name and Cover
In the following habitats we ask of you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24) your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
| 23. It's Only Words in the Name | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Body Part |  She Makes My Heart Flutter | ✓✓ Mar 16 | |
 Happy To Have You Here | ✓✓ Mar 12 | ||
 Follow My Dear General | ✓✓ Apr 2 | ||
2PM Campus  | ✓✓ Apr 13 | ||
 Love Me In Three Days | ✓✓ Jan 8 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Body Part |  The Witch's Eye | ✓✓ Aug 31 | |
| Color |  Blue Temperature | ✓✓ Sep 6 | |
 Cheating Men Must Die | ✓✓ Aug 16 | ||
| Number |  A Flower for Three Lifetimes | ✓✓ Nov 1 | |
 Three Hundred Years Later | ✓✓ Sep 12 | ||
| 24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | ✅ Progress: 10/10 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 5/5 | ||
| Domesticated Animal |  The Rational Life: The Proposal Battle | ✓✓ Aug 26 | |
| Building |  Please Don't Spoil Me Season 5 | ✓✓ Mar 5 | |
| Light Colors | Love and Fortune  | ✓✓ Jan 29 | |
| Door | ✓✓ Feb 20 | ||
| Only Words | I Like You, Unnie  | ✓✓ Mar 10 | |
| Forest | ❤️ Progress: 5/5 | ||
| Domesticated Animal |  Bring Happiness Home | ✓✓ Sep 27 | |
| Building |  Hong Xiu An Wei | ✓✓ Nov 3 | |
| Light Colors |  The Immortal Promise | ✓✓ Aug 12 | |
 Chart Running Scholar | ✓✓ Sep 2 | ||
 A Practical Guide to Being a Superstar's Assistant | ✓✓ Sep 10 | ||
Origin
-In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries Or watch 7 titles from 7 different countries.
Note: You must gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge. You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge.
| 25. Countries of MDL | ✅ Progress: 14/14 | ||
| Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Plains | ❤️ 7/7 | ||
Men Zhu  | ✓✓ May 20 | ||
 Look For a Star | ✓✓ Apr 25 | ||
 Kono Koi Atatamemasu ka | ✓✓ Jan 1 | ||
| ✓✓ Jan 7 | |||
| ✓✓ Jan 14 | |||
 Take Me To The Moon | ✓✓ May 14 | ||
 The Trapped 13: How We Survived the Thai Cave | ✓✓ Jan 27 | ||
| Forest | ❤️ 7/7 | ||
| China |  Don't Forget Your Original Heart | ✓✓ Sep 5 | |
| Hong Kong |  God Knows | ✓✓ Sep 16 | |
| Japan |  Commuting to School Series: Commuter Tram | ✓✓ Jul 29 | |
| Philippines |  One True Pair | ✓✓ Aug 21 | |
| South Korea |  Really Lily? | ✓✓ Sep 10 | |
| Taiwan |  The Taste of Raw Onion | ✓✓ Sep 13 | |
| Thailand |  Yes Or No | ✓✓ Oct 28 | |
Treats
This is where you gather treats, to use whenever you wish to avoid the paths given in a habitat. You come up with the treats on your own, they may not cover anything mentioned in this challenge (but you may use previous years' prompts for inspiration). Every time you start a new stage, you will be awarded a new number of treats according to the table below.
My Treats! | Plains | Forest | Mountain | Space | Black Hole |
Route | Essentials | Substitute for | Notes | Completed | |
| Watch a title with a score of 7.0 or below | My Little Chef | 7. Sharing is Caring: DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | 6.1 | ✓✓ Jun 27 | |
| Watch a title that features a Chef | Let's Date, Professor Xie | 17. Camouflage? Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead | ✓✓ Jul 30 | ||
| Watch a title tagged Death | Secretary Hit Me | 21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die OR | ✓✓ Aug 15 | ||
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