MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up SheetStarting date: January 1st, 2023 Link to your Drama list: MADDU Progress Habitat: 126/127 |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 5/5 | ||
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 | Web Series | ✓ | |
OR | Drama Special | ✓ | |
OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL - Crystal Liu is a american actress | ✓ feb 25th | |
OR | Anthology | ✓ may 2th | |
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | Adapted from a webtoon | ✓ mar 20th |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | Advertisement | ✓ jan 29th | |
OR | Propaganda | ✓ jan 10th | |
OR | Documentary Genre | ✓ | |
OR | Inspired by Real Events / Real Person | ✓ apr 16th | |
OR | Historical Fiction | ✓ jan 28th |
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | 2023 | ✓ feb 22th | |
OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | 2021 | ✓ mar 31th | |
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | the month (not necessarily the year) you were born - I born in 19th october | ✓ feb 16th | |
year generated by this website OR | 7 october 2020 | ✓ may 3th | |
OR | 2020 | ✓ feb 16th |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Short Length Series | ✓ sep 3th | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | DRAMA with 30 episodes or more. | ✓ feb 13th | |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes | ✓ apr 8th | |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes | ✓ feb 7th | |
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes | ✓ feb 11th |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | Full second season of a DRAMA | ✓ feb 17th | |
OR | Time Loop | ✓ feb 21th | |
OR | Time Travel | ✓ jan 31th | |
OR | Winter | ✓ may 9th | |
OR | Spring | ✓ apr 23th |
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: 5/5 | ||
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 | that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember | ✓ may 12th | |
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) - Ranked: #217 | ✓ mar 5th | |
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list - 4 episodes | ✓ feb 20th | |
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | ✓ may 12th | |
with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist | with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist | ✓ may 15th |
8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
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) | appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) | ✓ apr 1th | |
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). | found on a Voting List in the list index (add a link to the list). | ✓ apr 3th | |
from your most viewed tags Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | ✓ apr 4th | |
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) | found mentioned in an Article on MDL (add a link to the article) | ✓ nov 5th | |
with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | with over 10 Reviews | ✓ apr 17th |
9. Your Fanciers and WestminstersFor this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page.*List with awards | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites | by the same writer as one of your favorites - Lee Woo Jung | ✓ may 21th | |
from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses | that has one of your favorite actresses - Jin Ki Joo | ✓ jun 20th | |
from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors | that has one of your favorite actors - Lee Jong Suk | ✓ nov 21th | |
from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles | from an award-winning actor - won the (58th) BaekSang Arts Awards for Best Actor with The Red Sleeve - Lee Joon-Ho | ✓ aug 17th | |
from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before - | ✓ nov 29th |
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back | ✓ may 9th | |
OR | Long Distance Relationship | ✓ apr 23th | |
OR | Sexual Assault | ✓ apr 18th | |
OR | Contract Relationship | ✓ mar 9th | |
OR | Opposites Attract | ✓ may 23th |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5/5 | ||
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 | First Love | ✓ may 5th | |
OR | Age Gap [Drama Life] | ✓ mar 19th | |
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | Heterosexual relationship | ✓ nov 14th | |
OR | Enemies to Lovers | ✓ may 31th | |
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead /Male Lead | Nice Male Lead | ✓ jul 24th |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Slight Comedy | ✓ jun 17th | |
OR features some type of Doomsday | Happy Ending | ✓ aug 28th | |
OR | Tragic Past | ✓ jul 18th | |
features a Celebration OR | Mourning | ✓ may 8th | |
OR | Suicide | ✓ aug 13th |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | Some type of God - matchmaker god | ✓ sep 27th | |
OR | Misunderstanding | ✓ may 17th | |
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | LGBTQ+ | ✓ apr 8th | |
OR | Suspense | ✓ jul 2th | |
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | Popular Male Lead | ✓ jan 20th |
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 | Completed |
OR | On a Cliff | ✓ nov 1th | |
OR | In the Woods | ✓ nov 12th | |
OR | On a Rooftop | ✓ aug 14th | |
OR | On an Island | ✓ sep 2th | |
OR | In a Small Town | ✓ may 26th |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | An Umbrella | ✓ dec 3th | |
OR | A Truck | ✓ sep 20th | |
OR | A Smartphone |
✓ jul 9th | |
OR | A Suit /Dress | ✓ may 29th | |
OR | A Book | ✓ oct 21th |
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Veteran Actor/Actress - Ye Soo Jung | ✓ jun 26th | |
OR | Former Child Actor/Actress - Kim So Hyun | ✓ sep 19th | |
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) | Trans gender identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth) | ✓ jul 9th | |
OR | Living with a disability | ✓ may 13th | |
OR | Hidden Identity | ✓ sep 3th |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Artist | ✓ jun 12th | |
OR | Tattoos | ✓ jun 14th | |
OR | Identity Swap | ✓ apr 29th | |
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead | ✓ jun 11th | |
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | Antiheroine Female Lead | ✓ mar 20th |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | Strong Male Lead | ✓ may 20th | |
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR | Smart Female Lead | ✓ aug | |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | Cold Male Lead | ✓ apr 16th | |
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead | ✓ jul 8th | |
OR | Killer | ✓ oct 1th |
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.
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Animal turns into a Human - in a dream of the female protagonist | ✓ aug 1th | |
OR | Adorable animals | ✓ jul 15th | |
OR | Animal in a City | ✓ aug 3th | |
OR | Animal Abuse | ✓ jul 6th | |
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | Second Lead Caring For Animals | ✓ sep 24th |
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.
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: 6/7 | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
✓ nov 6th | |||
✓ dec 15th | |||
✓ oct 29th | |||
✓ nov 15th | |||
✓ dec 7th | |||
✓ dec 24th |
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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Note: watched in 2023.
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up SheetStarting Date: 2023. 02. 06. My Drama List: intimewithyou Progress Habitat: 18. 93. |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats, your mission is to find essentials according to the type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Web Series or Television Show. | Web series |
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Movie or Drama Special. | Drama Special | ✔︎ | |
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 adapted From a Novel/Book. | Webtoon | ✔︎ |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Advertisement or Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre). | Advertisement | ✔︎ | |
Independent Film | ✔︎ | ||
Documentary Genre or Mockumentary. | Mockumentary | ✔︎ | |
Adapted from Folklore or Inspired by Real Events/Real Person. | Adapted from Folklore | ✔︎ | |
Historical Fiction or Historical genre + tag Based on True Story. | Historical Fiction | ✔︎ |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres. Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Historical or Sci-Fi. | Sci-Fi | ✔︎ | |
Comedy | ✔︎ | ||
Thriller | ✔︎ | ||
Youth | ✔︎ | ||
Life | ✔︎ |
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 | Completed |
2023 | ✔︎ | ||
1990-1999 or the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form). | 1998 | ✔︎ | |
2000-2010 or the month (not necessarily the year) you were born. | 2010 | ✔︎ | |
Year Generated: 2017 | ✔︎ | ||
2018 | ✔︎ |
5. Duration of The Hike | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Short Length Series | ✔︎ | ||
Drama with 20-30 minute episodes or Drama with 30 episodes or more. | 20-30 min | ✔︎ | |
Drama with 30-40 minute episodes or Movie that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | When The Camellia Blooms | 30-40 min | ✔︎ |
Drama with 40-50 minute episodes or Movie that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | 40-50 min | ✔︎ | |
Drama with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes or Drama with 8 episodes or less. | 8 Episode or Less | ✔︎ |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Second Season | ✔︎ | ||
Time Loop | ✔︎ | ||
Time Skip or Time Travel. | Time Travel | ✔︎ | |
Winter | ✔︎ | ||
Fall | ✔︎ |
The Chronicles of MDL
In the following habitats, your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites, and those that others have awarded or written about.
7. Sharing is Caring | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
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. | PTW for 7y | ✔︎ | |
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. | Smallest Number: |
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Mentioned in the MDL Forums or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds). | MDL Forum |
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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. | Newest RD | ✔︎ |
8. Examined | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
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). | Recommendations Page | ✔︎ | |
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. | Tag: Friendship | ✔︎ | |
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. | Over 10 Reviews | ✔︎ |
9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
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. | Favorite Actress: Kitagawa Keiko | ✔︎ | |
From an award-winning screenwriter or that has one of your favorite actors. | Favorite Actor: Lee Jong Suk | ✔︎ | |
From an award-winning actor or by the same director as one of your favorite titles. | ✔︎ | ||
From an award-winning actressor 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 enclosed a list or used the word’s 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: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back/Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back or Exorcism. | Exorcism | ✔︎ | |
Long Distance Relationship | ✔︎ | ||
Fluffy or Sexual Assault. | Sexual Assault | ✔︎ | |
Secret Relationship | ✔︎ | ||
Opposites Attract | ✔︎ |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
First Love or Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content|Brief Nudity|Prolonged Nudity| Partial Nudity|Mild Sexual Content|Sexual Content|Extreme Sexual Content. | Nudity: Mild Sexual Content | ✔︎ | |
Classmates' Relationship | ✔︎ | ||
Features a Heterosexual relationship or Same-Sex relationship. | Same-Sex Relatonship | ✔︎ | |
Enemies to Lovers | ✔︎ | ||
Nice Female Lead/Male Lead or Aggressive Female Lead/Male Lead. | Nice Female Lead | ✔︎ |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Slight Comedy or Black Comedy. | Black Comedy | ✔︎ | |
Happy Ending or Features some type of Doomsday. | Doomsday | ✔︎ | |
Tragic Past | ✔︎ | ||
Features a Celebration or Mourning. | Mourning | ✔︎ | |
Suicide | ✔︎ |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Features a Religious Leader or Some type of God. | Some type of God | ✔︎ | |
Character Development | ✔︎ | ||
LGBTQ+ | ✔︎ | ||
Slow Burn Romance | ✔︎ | ||
Discrimination | ✔︎ |
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 | Completed |
On a Field or On a Cliff. | On a Cliff | ✔︎ | |
In The Woods | ✔︎ | ||
On a Rooftop | ✔︎ | ||
On a Mountain | ✔︎ | ||
In a City or In a Small Town. | In a Small Town | ✔︎ |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Backpack | ✔︎ | ||
A Truck or A Sports Car. | Truck | ✔︎ | |
Phone Booth | ✔︎ | ||
A Suit/Dress or A Hoodie. | Hoodie | ✔︎ | |
A Book or A Crossbow. | Crossbow | ✔︎ |
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 link to a list with more detailed instructions.
16. Who Are We? | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Child Actor/ Actress | ✔︎ | ||
Idol Actor/ Actress | ✔︎ | ||
Transgender Identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth) or Cisgender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth). | Transgender Identity | ✔︎ | |
Able Bodied | ✔︎ | ||
Hidden Identity | ✔︎ |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Athlete | ✔︎ | ||
Tattoos | ✔︎ | ||
Identity Swap | ✔︎ | ||
Cop Female Lead/Cop Male Lead or Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead. | Male Cop Lead | ✔︎ | |
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead or Antihero/Antiheroine. | Superhero Male Lead | ✔︎ |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 5/5 ✔︎ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead/Strong Male Lead or Weak Female Lead/Weak Male Lead. | Strong Male Lead | ✔︎ | |
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead or Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead. | Smart Female Lead | ✔︎ | |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead or Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead. | Cold Male Lead | ✔︎ | |
Rich Female Lead/Rich Male Lead or Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead. | Rich Male Lead | ✔︎ | |
Killer | ✔︎ |
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 |
Pest | |||
Talking Pet | |||
Farm Animal | |||
Veterinarian | |||
Romantic Ride on a Horse |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Second Lead Caring For Animals or Antagonist Caring For Animals. |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Corruption or Teamwork. | |||
Friendship or Bullying. | Friendship | ✔︎ |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Colleagues or Inmates. | |||
Parent-Child or Sibling. | |||
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 |
Color or Emotion. | |||
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal or Wild Animal. | |||
Origin
In the following habitat, your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose to 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: 2/7 | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Japan | ✔︎ | ||
Thailand | ✔︎ |
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 | ||
To the Top
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up SheetStarting date: January 10th Link to your Drama list: L1s1's List Progress Habitat: Baepsae - Plains (Level 1 - 2 Habitats) |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
3. All About the Gen(r)esWatch a title from one of the following genres | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Cross Fire | YES | ||
The Love You Give Me | YES | ||
Romance | Arthdal Chronicles: The Sword of Aramun | YES | |
Fall In Love | YES | ||
Reply 1988 | YES |
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.
9. Your Fanciers and WestminstersFor this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page. *List with awards | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning | While You Were Sleeping | Seoul International Drama Awards 2018 (Top Excellence Award) | YES |
That has one of your favorite actresses | Dr. Romantic 3 | Lee Sung Kyung | YES |
That has one of your favorite actors | Curtain Call | Kang Ha Neul | YES |
By the same director as one of your favorite titles | A Business Proposal | Park Seon Ho (Wok of Love) | YES |
By a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | Home School | Fon Kanittha Kwunyoo (Director) | YES |
-ˏˋ ✧. MDL WATCH CHALLENGE 2023 SIGN-UP SHEET ˊˎ⋆ | ||
start date -- feb 22, 2023 | introspecs's drama list | finish date -- ? |
progress habitat -- 0/25 | essentials -- 23/127 |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 2/5 | ||
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 | 1-8 (all episodes) | ✓(23/02/27) | |
OR | ✓(23/02/24) | ||
OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | |||
OR | |||
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | real person | ✓(23/02/28) | |
OR |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | ✓(23/02/25) |
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: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✓(23/06/01) | ||
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 | |||
OR | ✓(23/03/22) |
5. Duration of The Hike | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
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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. | ✓(23/03/01) | ||
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: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | ✓(23/06/05) | ||
OR | ✓(23/03/02) | ||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | ✓(23/02/28) |
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: 1/5 | ||
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) | ✓(23/03/26) | ||
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… | Progress: 3/5 | ||
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). | custom list | ✓(23/06/12) | |
from your most viewed tags Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | friendship | ✓(23/06/15) | |
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 | ✓(23/04/10) |
9. Your Fanciers and WestminstersFor this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page.*List with awards | Progress: 0/5 | ||
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: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
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 | |||
OR | |||
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | |||
OR | |||
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead /Male Lead |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR features some type of Doomsday | |||
OR | |||
features a Celebration OR | |||
OR |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | |||
OR | |||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | ✓(23/03/30) | ||
OR | |||
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).
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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OR | |||
OR |
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: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
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) | |||
OR | |||
OR | ✓(23/03/25) |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | |||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | strong male lead | ✓(23/02/26) | |
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR | smart female lead | ✓(23/02/22) | |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | |||
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | rich male lead | ✓(23/02/23) | |
OR | ✓(23/04/06) |
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 |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21. Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | ✓(23/06/05) | ||
OR | ♧ | ||
OR | ✓(23/04/04) |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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: 0/7 | ||
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
Starting date: 27 february
Link to your Drama list: Chiha's watchlist
Progress Habitat:
33 done
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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OR |
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Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL |
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OR |
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Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or |
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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 | ||
OR | J indie film | ||
Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | documentary | ✓ | |
OR | based on true story tag | ||
OR | Historical based on a true story |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | sci-fi | ||
OR | comedy | ||
OR | thriller | ||
OR | youth | ||
OR | action |
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 | |||
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 | |||
OR |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
| short length series (5 episodes) | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | 25 mins | ||
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | 30 mins | ||
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | 50 mins | ||
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | 7 eps (dramas with less than 8 episodes) |
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 | |||
OR | different timelines | ||
OR | time skip and time travel | ||
OR | winter | ||
OR | fall | ✓ |
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 |
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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 |
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from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses |
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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 |
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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 | exorcism | ✓ | |
OR | cohabitation | ✓ | |
OR | sexual assault | ||
OR | secret relationship of gay couple in high school | ✓ | |
OR | domestic violence against children |
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 | |||
OR | age gap | ✓ | |
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | |||
OR | enemies to lovers | ✓ | |
Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR | aggressive male lead tag | ✓ |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | black comedy | ||
OR features some type of Doomsday | movie is about the doomsday weapon Godzilla and the politics behind it | ||
OR | tragic past | ||
features a Celebration OR | mourning loss | ||
OR | suicide |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | religious leaders | ||
OR | |||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | LGBT (bisexual mc) | ||
OR | |||
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 |
OR | there's a postbox in a field. it's significant | ||
OR | sea | ✓ | |
OR | death by falling off a rooftop (no this isn't a spoiler) | ✓ | |
OR | Survival game on an island | ||
In a City OR In a Small Town | small town |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | umbrella scenes! | ✓ | |
OR | white truck of doom | ||
OR | a phone booth which is a pretty important (or rather convenient) plot device | ✓ | |
OR | hot men in suits in a lot of scenes | ✓ | |
OR | book | ✓ |
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 | child actir | ||
OR | Home school or cooking crush (for gun former child actor) | ||
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) | trans (mtf) main character | ||
OR | Deafness | ||
OR | public figure (ml is an actor) |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | artist- male lead is illustrator for games | ✓ | |
OR | male lead wears glasses. he's also a stalker so it works well for this category | ✓ | |
OR | |||
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 | strong fl | ||
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead | smart fl | ||
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | cold female lead. tsundere lesbian hottie. | ✓ | |
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | very, very rich male lead. | ✓ | |
OR | serial killer |
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 | pet dog | ||
OR | God’s puppy can talk | ✓ | |
OR | farm animals (they live on a ranch with sheep) | ||
OR | male lead is a vet | ||
OR | romantic ride on a horse in final episode | ✓ |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | animal in human form | ||
OR | bear attack | ||
OR | animals in a city | ||
OR | animal abuse tag | ||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | the antagonist (Vegas) has a pet he cares for a lot | ✓ |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | funeral director | ||
OR | fl is a ghost | ✓ | |
OR | political corruption tag | ||
OR | death gane | ||
OR | school bullying |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | colleagues | ✓ | |
OR | Sismance tag | ||
OR | father daughter | ✓ | |
OR | students vs teachers is the theme lmao | ✓ | |
OR | doctor patient relationship |
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 | organ "pancreas" in title | ||
Color OR | emotion "love" in title | ||
OR | object "doll" in title | ||
OR | number "7" in title | ||
OR | season "summer" in title |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | domestic animal (cat) | ||
OR | purple flowers on the poster | ✓ | |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | ✓ |
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 |
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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 |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
25. Countries of MDL | Progress: | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
- | |||
✓ | |||
✓ | |||
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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* | |||
OR | |||
Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | |||
OR | |||
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) | |||
OR | |||
Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | |||
OR | |||
OR |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Love of Replica | ||
OR | Destined With You | ||
OR | Sweet Games | ||
OR | Exclusive Fairy Tale | ||
OR | Chains of Heart |
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: 3/5 | ||
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) |
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OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born |
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year generated by this website OR |
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OR |
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5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Maid's Revenge | ||
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | Warm On A Cold Night | ||
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | Dinosaur Love | ||
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | Destiny Seeker | ||
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | Future |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | My Beautiful Man Season 2 | ||
OR | Lighter and Princess | ||
OR | Be My Favorite | ||
OR | Jack O’Frost | ||
OR | Sing My Crush |
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | Island | ||
OR | Ai Long Nhai | ||
OR | A Boss and a Babe | ||
OR | Step By Step | ||
OR | The Eighth Sense |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5/5 | ||
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 | My School President | ||
OR | Falling Into You | ||
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | I Will Knock You | ||
OR | The Eclipse | ||
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead / Male Lead | The New Employee |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | My Lethal Man | ||
OR features some type of Doomsday | The End Of The World, With You | ||
OR | Here We Meet Again | ||
features a Celebration OR | The Forbidden Marriage | ||
OR | Road Home |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | Till The End Of The Moon | ||
OR | Six Flying Dragons | ||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | You Are Mine | ||
OR | Our Blooming Youth | ||
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | My Personal Weatherman |
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
In a City OR In a Small Town |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Legend of the Blue Sea | ||
OR | |||
OR |
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OR | Wedding Plan | ||
OR | Lost You Forever |
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: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | Love Class 2 | ||
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) | |||
OR | |||
OR | Love to Hate You |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Nothing But You | ||
OR | Between Us | ||
OR | Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow | ||
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | Memory Lost | ||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | The Glory |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | Forever Love (2023) | ||
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead | Hidden Love | ||
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | Unchained Love | ||
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | Perfect Marriage Revenge | ||
OR | My Journey To You |
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21. Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Bed Friend | ||
OR | When I Fly Towards You | ||
OR | Go Ahead | ||
OR | Lesson in Love | ||
OR | Hi Venus |
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Bloody Heart | ||
Color OR | Ameiro Paradox | ||
OR | Fanletter, Please | ||
OR | 609 Bedtime Story | ||
OR | Tokyo in April Is… |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | ||
Starting Date: 01/01/2023 Habitat Count: /?? Mini-sections: /?? Extras: /?? | ♡♡♡ Drama 7Movie 8 TV Show 0 Drama Special 0 |
Taxonomy1. Type (2)
2. Is it True? (1)
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Time is Relative 4. Year of Origin (0)
6. Time Can Be Confusing (0) |
The Chronicles of MDL 7. Sharing is Caring (0)
8. Examined (1)
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Significant details 14. Where Are We? (0)
15. Humans Have So Many Things (0) |
The Main Attraction 16. Who Are We? (0)
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Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash 19. The Petting Zoo (0) 20. Where the Humans Are… (0 + 1)
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Name and Cover 23. It's Only Words in the Name (1) 24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover (0) |
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Taxonomy
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Time is Relative
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The Chronicles of MDL
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Getting up Close and Personal
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Significant details
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The Main Attraction
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Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
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Name and Cover
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OriginIn 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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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: 1/5 | Forest Used: /4 | Mountain Used: /3 | Space Used: /2 | Black Hole Used: /1 | |
Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | Completed | ||
| drama with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list | Habitat: #7 | Dec 31 |
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up SheetStarting date: 1/01/2023 Link to your Drama list: suteru Progress Habitat: |
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 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 | |||
OR | |||
OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | |||
OR | |||
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) | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
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 ; Wednesday, 3 May 1995 OR | |||
OR |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
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DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | |||
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR
| April 3rd | ||
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
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 | |||
OR | |||
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | |||
OR | |||
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead /Male Lead |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR features some type of Doomsday | |||
OR | |||
features a Celebration OR | |||
OR |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | |||
OR | |||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | Femela-centered | March 26 | |
OR | |||
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 |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
OR | |||
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) | |||
OR | |||
OR |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
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 | |||
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | |||
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | January 13 | ||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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.
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 | ||
Starting date: March 26th 2023 | Link to your Drama list: HTTPs://mydramalist.com/dramalist/primvictorian | Goal: 3 Habitats |
Finished Habitats: 0 | TV Shows: 4 Dramas: 2 Movies: 3 Treats: 0 |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats, your mission is to find essentials according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR TV SHOW* | Happy Camp (1997-2021) | Episode Numbers: Ep 20190810 Ep 20201121 Ep 20210918 Ep 20210925 Ep 20190727 |
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OR | Love between Devil and Fairy Special (2022) | Very similar to the end of the original story but had additional shots and narration. | Yes |
Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Curse of the Vampires (1966) | Co-produced by the USA and the Philippines. I found to hard to finish. | Yes |
OR | |||
Adapted from a manga /webtoon /manhua /manhwa / Comic Or | Koi to Dangan (2022) | Yes |
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) | The Ingenuity of the Househusband (2021) | Main Character Tatsu narrates various methods to clean and care for the home. | Yes |
OR | |||
Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | |||
OR | |||
OR | Ruyi's RoyalLove in the Palace (2018) | Takes place during the Qianlong Emperor's Reign in the Qing Dynasty. Excellent but depressing Historial Drama! | Yes |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | The Legend of Xiao Chuo (2020) | Takes place during the Liao Dynasty. A bit bit depressing to watch at times but the acting is great. | Yes |
OR | |||
OR | My Fake Wife (2020) | Very Short Web series. Each episode was only 2 minutes! | Yes |
OR | The Prince of Tennis (2019) | Yes | |
OR | Rurouni Kenshin (2012) | Yes |
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 ones you get to dig deeper into the concept of time
4. Year of OriginTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
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 | |||
OR |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
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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 lasts 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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
The Chronicles of MDL
In the following habitats, your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favorites, 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) | |||
DRAMAwith the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMAwith 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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
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 | |||
OR | |||
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | |||
OR | |||
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead / Male Lead |
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 | |||
OR | |||
features a Celebration OR | |||
OR |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | |||
OR | |||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | |||
OR | |||
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, and in the other the objects involved (15).
14. Where Are We? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
In a City OR In a Small Town |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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OR | |||
OR |
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.
16. Who Are We? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
Transgender identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth) OR Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth) | |||
OR | |||
OR |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
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 | |||
OR |
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21. Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 with 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 | |||
Color OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
Origin
-In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either to 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 | ||
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: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR TV SHOW* |
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OR | ✔ | ||
Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Co-produced between Japan and Taiwan | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | ✔ |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | Ad for the BLUED App | ✔ | |
OR | |||
Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 |
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
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 | Born in May | ||
year generated by this website OR | 2007 | ✔ | |
OR | 2022 | ✔ |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | 25 min. | ✔ | |
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. |
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6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | Season 2 | ✔ | |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | Spring | ✔ |
The Chronicles of MDL
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favorites and those others have awarded or written about.
7. Sharing is CaringTutorials: 1 2 3 | Progress: 1/5 | ||
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: 1/5 | ||
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: 1/5 | ||
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: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | Opposites = Gloomy Manga artist | ✔ |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 1/5 | ||
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 | |||
OR | |||
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | |||
OR | |||
Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR | Mafia leader | ✔ |
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 | |||
OR | |||
features a Celebration OR | |||
OR |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | SPOILER ⬇ | ✔ | |
OR | |||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | |||
OR |
| ||
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 |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
In a City OR In a Small Town |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress:0/ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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: 1/ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | Minho | ✔ | |
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) | |||
OR | |||
OR |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 0 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | |||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR |
|
18. What Are You? | Progress: 1/5 | ||
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 | Genius girl | ✔ | |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | |||
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | |||
OR |
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: 1/ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | Assassin turned Veterinarian | ✔ | |
OR |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 1/ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | Death Game | ✔ | |
OR |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 1/ | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Collegues | ✔ | |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
Color OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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: 0/ | ||
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 | ||
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet Starting date: March 27, 2023 Link to your Drama list: Lia's MDL Progress Habitat: |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
March 6, 2023 | |||
March 1, 2023 | |||
Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Starring Samuel as the male lead | re-watched on 12th march 2023 | |
OR | |||
March 19, 2023 |
2. Is it True? | Progress:2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Talks about the importance of self love | March 17, 2023 | ||
OR | |||
Documentary Genre | Jan 24, 2023 | ||
OR | |||
OR |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress:4/5 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
Feb 24, 2023 | |||
Feb 22, 2023 | |||
March 22, 2023 | |||
March 14, 2023 |
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: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
March 26, 2023 | |||
OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | |||
April | Feb 19, 2023 | ||
year generated by this website OR | |||
Feb 10, 2023 |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress:5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
March 10, 2023 | |||
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes | 30 mins per ep | March 20, 2023 | |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes | 30 mins per ep | March 20, 2023 | |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes | 50 mins per ep | Feb 19, 2023 | |
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes | 70 mins per ep | Feb 25, 2023 |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA | March 16, 2023 | ||
March 28, 2023 | |||
Jan 9, 2023 | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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:2/5 | ||
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 | |||
ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | Feb 12, 2023 | ||
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 | March 28, 2023 | ||
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page) | March 15, 2023 | ||
found on a Custom List (add a link to the list). | March 10, 2023 | ||
from your most viewed tags : | Friendship | Jan 13, 2023 | |
found mentioned in an Article on MDL (add a link to the article) | March 6, 2023 | ||
with over 10 Reviews | March 20, 2023 |
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: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Jan 14, 2023 | |||
Jan 28, 2023 | |||
Jan 7, 2023 | |||
Feb 15, 2023 | |||
OR |
|
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
March 19, 2023 | |||
OR | |||
features a Heterosexual relationship | March 29, 2023 | ||
OR | |||
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 | |||
OR | |||
features a Celebration OR | |||
OR |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | |||
OR | |||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | |||
OR | |||
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 |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
In a City OR In a Small Town |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
| ||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
OR | |||
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) | |||
OR | |||
OR |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
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 | |||
OR |
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
Color OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | ||
2023 MDL Watch ChallengeStarting date: 2nd April 2023 |
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* | |||
OR | |||
Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | |||
OR | |||
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or |
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 |
14.1936%;" valign="top" width="112"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td class="fr-highlighted" valign="top" width="243"><p><a href="https://mydramalist.com/search?adv=titles&th=442&so=relevance" rel="nofollow">Contract Relationship</a> </p><p>OR</p><p><a href="https://mydramalist.com/search?adv=titles&th=1171&so=relevance" rel="nofollow">Secret Relationship</a></p></td><td class="fr-highlighted" valign="top" width="135"><p><br></p></td><td class="fr-highlighted" style="width: 23.1263%;" valign="top" width="113"><p><br></p></td><td class="fr-highlighted" style="width: 14.1936%;" valign="top" width="112"><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td class="fr-highlighted" valign="top" width="243"><p><a href="https://mydramalist.com/search?adv=titles&th=1329&so=popular" rel="nofollow">Opposites Attract</a> </p><p>OR</p><p><a href="https://mydramalist.com/search?adv=titles&th=2502&so=relevance" rel="nofollow">Domestic Abuse</a></p></td><td class="fr-highlighted" valign="top" width="135"><p> </p></td><td class="fr-highlighted" style="width: 23.1263%;" valign="top" width="113"><p><br></p></td><td class="fr-highlighted" style="width: 14.1936%;" valign="top" width="112"><p><br></p></td></tr></tbody></table><h2><br></h2><table style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="fr-highlighted" colspan="2" style="width: 65.8327%;background-color: rgb(72, 94, 77);" valign="top" width="378"><h3><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">11. Finding a Mate</span></h3></td><td class="fr-highlighted" colspan="2" style="width: 34.0232%;background-color: rgb(72, 94, 77);" valign="top" width="225"><h3><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Progress:</span></h3></td></tr><tr><td class="fr-highlighted" valign="top" width="243"><p><strong>Choice of Route </strong></p></td><td class="fr-highlighted" style="width: 25.631%;" valign="top" width="135"><p><strong>Essentials </strong></p></td><td class="fr-highlighted" style="width: 20.0462%;" valign="top" width="113"><p><strong>Notes</strong></p></td><td class="fr-highlighted" style="width: 13.9055%;" valign="top" width="112"><p><strong>Completed </strong></p></td></tr><tr><td class="fr-highlighted" valign="top" width="243"><p> <a href="https://mydramalist.com/search?adv=titles&th=165&so=popular" rel="nofollow">First Love</a> </p><p>OR </p><p>Nudity: one of the following <a href="https://mydramalist.com/search?adv=titles&th=696&so=relevanc" rel="nofollow">Nudity</a><a
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* | |||
OR | |||
Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | |||
OR | |||
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) | |||
OR | |||
Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | |||
OR | |||
OR |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
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 | |||
OR |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
| ||
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
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 | |||
OR | |||
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | |||
OR | |||
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead / Male Lead |
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 | |||
OR | |||
features a Celebration OR | |||
OR |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | |||
OR | |||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | |||
OR | |||
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 |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
In a City OR In a Small Town |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
OR | |||
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) | |||
OR | |||
OR |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
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 | |||
OR |
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 | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 | |||
Color OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
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 |
29/03/23 | |||
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: /5 | Forest Used: /4 | Mountain Used: /3 | Space Used: /2 | Black Hole Used: /1 | |
Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | Completed | ||
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