MDL's 2023 Watch Challenge

Taxonomy 

In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials according to type or genre. 

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 

Getting up Close and Personal 

In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with  relationships and the human experience. Most of these are tags, but in some cases we have enclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants, as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route. 

Significant details 

In the following habitats we ask you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).  

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. 

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. 

Name and Cover 

In the following habitats we ask you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24)  your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions. 

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. 

Starting date: January 3, 2023

Link to your Drama list: SavetheDate

Progress Habitat: 125 

Taxonomy 

In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre. 

1. Type		Progress:
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Web Series OR  TV SHOW* At least 5 episodes o f 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	Physical: 100	TV show  9 episodes	21/02/23
MOVIE OR DRAMA SPECIAL	The Secret (Love)	Drama Special	20/01/23
Co-Produced  OR  Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL	Love Syndrome III	Lee Long Shi is Singaporean	22/05/23
Anthology  OR  Omnibus	At the Moment	Anthology	15/11/2023
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or Adapted From a Novel / Book	Pachinko	Novel	27/01/23

2. Is it True?		Progress:
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Advertisement   OR  Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre)	18 Again	Educational	28/03/23
Independent Film  OR  Propaganda	Liway	Independant film	06/06/23
Documentary Genre OR  Mockumentary	LiSA Another Great Day	Documentary	05/01/23
Adapted from Folklore  OR  Inspired by Real Events / Real Person	Inhuman Kiss	Folklore	30/10/23
Historical Fiction  OR  Historical genre  + tag Based on True Story	Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River	Historical Fiction	30/01/23

3. All About the Gen(r)es		Progress:
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route.	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Historical  OR  Sci-Fi	Bossy Husband Who Loved Me	Historical	12/07/23
Comedy  OR Tragedy	My School President	Comedy	24/01/23
Thriller OR Romance	Missing: The Other Side	Thriller	18/01/23
Youth  OR Political	My Only 12%	Youth	02/01/23
Action  OR Life	Kill Bok Soon	Action	04/04/23

Time is Relative

In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that have something to do with time,  in the first habitat you are instructed to find essentials that started airing  between certain dates, in the second  and third one  you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time 

5. Duration of The Hike  Tutorial		Progress:
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Short Length Series  OR  Short Film	Dear Karl	Short Film	20/01/23
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes  Or DRAMA with  30 episodes or more.	Unchained Love	36 episodes	23/01/23
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer.	Mission 1: Possible	105 mn	31/1/23
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts  180 minutes or longer.	The Revenge	40 mn	02/01/23
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less.	Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist Season 1	75 mn	31/01/23

6. Time Can Be Confusing		Progress:
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Full second season of a DRAMA OR  Only 1 episode of a DRAMA	Love Class Season 2	Season 2	10/10/23
Different Timelines   OR  Time Loop	An Ancient Love Song	# timeloop	15/07/23
Time Skip  OR   Time Travel	My Perfect Stranger	Time Travel	30/12/23
Winter  OR  Summer	Jack o' Frost	Winter Setting	31/03/23
Fall   OR Spring	Our Season: Spring with Park Jae Chan	Spring	14/02/23

The Chronicles of MDL 

In the following  habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites and  those others have awarded or written about. 

7. Sharing is Caring Tutorials: 1  2  3		Progress:
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge	Postmen in the Mountains		26/11/23
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001)	I Hear Your Voice	#433 (on 23/02/23)	28/02/23
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list  OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list	Letter from the Sun	2 episodes	08/09/23
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds)	The Tuxedo	Recommendation by AthenaTheStorierX )==>here	29/01/23
with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist	East Palace, West Palace	1996	09/09/23

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	Moonlight Chicken	Ex-boyfriend comes back	06/03/23
Cohabitation  OR Long Distance Relationship	Utsukushii Kare Season 2	Cohabitation	01/03/23
Fluffy  OR Sexual Assault	The Glory Part 2	Sexual Assault	19/03/23
Contract Relationship  OR Secret Relationship	Flash Marriage	Contract relationship	18/02/23
Opposites Attract  OR Domestic Abuse	A Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower	Domestic abuse	27/03/23

11. Finding a Mate		Progress:
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	Never Let Me Go	First love	28/02/23
Age Gap [Drama Life]   OR  Classmates' Relationship	The Forbidden Flower	Older Man / Younger Woman	28/02/23
features a Heterosexual relationship   OR  Same-Sex relationship		mlm relationship	14/02/23
Enemies to Lovers  OR  Love at First Sight	The Eclipse	Enemies to Lovers	31/01/23
Nice Female Lead /  Male Lead  OR  Aggressive  Female Lead / Male  Lead	Hidden Love	Nice ML	06/07/23

13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff		Progress:
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
features a Religious Leader  OR Some type of God	The Director Who Buys Me Dinner	type of god	12/01/23
Misunderstanding  OR Character Development	My Lovely Liar	Character Development	19/09/23
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot  OR LGBTQ+	Let Me Hear It Barefoot	LGBTQ+	04/03/23
Suspense  OR  Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance	Isa Pa with Feelings	Slow Burn Story	01/03/23
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead  OR  Discrimination	Switch	The ML was a famous actor before living in an alternative world where he is poor and a theatre actor. He returns to his original life at the end.	19/11/23

Significant details 

In the following  habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).  

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. 

17. Camouflage?		Progress:
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Athlete  OR  Artist	Modern Art	ML is a painter	17/10/23
Glasses  OR Tattoos	Between Us	Tattoos	30/01/23
Identity Swap  OR Body Swap	Alchemy of Souls Season 2: Light and Shadow	(Identity swap, transmigration)	18/01/23
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR  Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead	Psychopath Diary		29/09/23
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR Antihero/Antiheroine	One Piece		19/09/23

18. What Are You?		Progress:
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead  OR  Weak Female Lead / Weak Male Lead	Kaitou Yamaneko	Strong FL / Strong ML	30/04/23
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead  OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead	My Uncanny Destiny	Smart FL	15/06/23
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead  OR Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead	Todome no Parallel	Cold FL	28/01/23
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead  OR  Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead	A League of Nobleman	Poor ML	24/02/23
Killer  OR Healer	No Tears for the Dead	Killer	31/05/23

Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash

-In the following  habitats your mission is to find essentials  that feature  the following things. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions. 

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. 

24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover		Progress:
Choice of Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
Domesticated Animal  OR Wild Animal	River Knows Fish Heart	Wild animal	21/09/23
Flower  OR  Building	Hitohira no Hatsukoi	Flower	15/07/23
Light Colors  OR Dark Colors	Love Tractor	light  color	28/06/23
Rainbow  OR Door	609 Bedtime Story	The glass door leading to the balcony can be seen in a corner.	26/02/23
Only Words  OR  Geometrical Shapes	Classroom 2022	Geometrical shapes	06/06/23

Origin

-In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries Or watch  7 titles from 7 different countries. 

Note:  You must  gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge.  You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge.

25.  Countries of MDL		Progress:
Route	Essentials	Notes	Completed
China	Papa		26/10/23
Hong Kong	I Miss You When I See You		22/09/23
Japan	Once Upon a Crime		23/10/23.
Philippines	I Love You, Beksman		21/09/23
South Korea	The Eighth Sense		26/04/23
Taiwan	The Silence of Om		20/01 /23
Thailand	Love Destiny The Movie		28/03/23

Treats

This is where you  gather  treats, to use whenever you wish to avoid the paths given in a habitat. You come up with the treats  on your own, they may not cover anything mentioned in this challenge (but you may use previous years' prompts for inspiration). Every time you start a new stage, you will be awarded a new number of treats according to the table below. 

My Treats!		Plains Used: 2/5	Forest Used:  /4	Mountain Used:  /3	Space Used:  /2	Black Hole Used: /1
Route	Essential		Substitute for		Notes	Completed
Censored Romance	Stay with Me		Pet dressed in Clothes  OR  Animal Abuse
Multiples perspectives	Liar		Human Turns into an Animal    OR Animal turns into a Human