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MDL's 2023 Watch Challenge

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MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet

 

Starting date: 1/1/23 (Just too nervous to post anything until June 18th)

Link to your Drama list: https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/dobbie03

Progress Habitat: 50

Taxonomy 

1. Type

Progress: ✅✅

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

 Web Series

OR

 TV SHOW*

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



✅






✅

MOVIE

OR

DRAMA SPECIAL



✅





✅

Co-Produced 


OR

Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL



✅




✅

Anthology 

OR 

Omnibus




✅




✅

Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic

Or

Adapted From a Novel / Book



✅




✅

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)


✅





✅

Independent Film 

OR

Propaganda








*Rewatch

✅





✅

Documentary Genre


OR


Mockumentary


✅





✅

Adapted from Folklore 

OR 

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person

*Rewatched first 5 eps







✅





✅

Historical Fiction 

OR 

Historical genre  + tag Based on 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 

Historical 

OR 

Sci-Fi 


✅





✅

Comedy 

OR

Tragedy


✅





✅

Thriller

OR

Romance


✅





✅

Youth 

OR

Political 






*Rewatch

✅





✅

Action 

OR

Life

*Rewatched first 6 eps







✅





✅

Time is Relative

4. Year of Origin   

Tutorial

Progress:  ✅✅

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

in 2023

OR

1940-1959




✅




✅

1990-1999

OR

the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)





Meltskee joined 2021


✅




✅


2000-2010

OR

the month (not necessarily the year) you were born

*Rewatch


Born in November 

✅





✅


year generated by this website

OR

1950-1969


Tuesday, 12 January 2016



Tuesday, 19 August 2008


✅





✅

2017-2022

OR

1970-1989



✅





✅

5. Duration of The Hike

 Tutorial

Progress: ✅✅

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

 Short Length Series

 OR

 Short Film 


✅




✅

DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes 

Or

DRAMA with  30 episodes or more. 


✅




✅

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


✅





✅

Different Timelines  

OR 

Time Loop






*Rewatch

✅





✅

Time Skip 

OR

Time Travel


✅







✅

Winter 

OR

Summer


✅





✅

Fall  

OR

Spring


✅





✅

The Chronicles of MDL 

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

Both sat on my PTW since June 2022✅







✅

with less than 10,000 viewers

OR

ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001)

Viewers: 4,564






Viewers: 645		✅







✅

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)

Forum

✅





✅

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)

Link to Trailer






Link to 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).

Link to List






Link to List

✅







✅

from your most viewed tags 

Or

from your least viewed genres under your profile stats

LBGTQ+






Martial Arts		✅







✅

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)

Link to Game





Link to Article

✅






✅

with over 10 Reviews

OR

with 0 Reviews when you started watching it

38 Reviews






✅







✅

9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters

For 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

Pratchaya✅






✅

from an award-winning director

OR

that has one of your favorite actresses

Tu Tontawan





Mild Lapassalan Jiravechsoontornkul

✅





✅

from an award-winning screenwriter

OR

that has one of your favorite actors

Khaotung






Fourth

✅






✅

from an award-winning actor

OR

by the same director as one of your favorite titles

Krist Perawat Sangpotirat




Aof		✅







✅

from an award-winning actress


OR

by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before


Au Kornprom
(yes I've rewatched it)





Ma-Deaw

✅





✅

Getting up Close and Personal 

10.  Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism…

Progress: ✅✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back

OR

Exorcism


✅







✅

Cohabitation 

OR

Long Distance Relationship


✅






✅

Fluffy 

OR

Sexual Assault


✅





✅

Contract Relationship 

OR

Secret Relationship


✅




✅

Opposites Attract 

OR

Domestic Abuse


✅







✅

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


✅





✅

Age Gap [Drama Life]  

OR

Classmates' Relationship 


✅





✅

features a Heterosexual relationship  

OR 

Same-Sex relationship



✅





✅

Enemies to Lovers 

OR 

Love at First Sight


✅





✅

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


✅





✅

Happy Ending 

OR 

features some type of Doomsday


✅







✅

Tragic Past 

OR 

Sketch Comedy


✅







✅

features a Celebration 

OR

Mourning


✅







✅

 Healing 

OR

Suicide


✅








✅

13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff

Progress: ✅ ✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

features a Religious Leader 

OR

Some type of God









*Rewatch		✅






✅

Misunderstanding 

OR

Character Development


✅







✅

 Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot 

OR

LGBTQ+


✅







✅

Suspense 

OR 

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance


✅





✅

 Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead 

OR 

Discrimination


✅






✅

Significant details 

14. Where Are We?     

Progress: ✅✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

On a Field  

OR 

On a Cliff

*Rewatch







✅







✅

In the Woods 

OR

By the Sea


✅







✅

In a Jungle 

OR 

On a Rooftop


✅







✅

On a Mountain 

OR 

On an Island


✅







✅

In a City 


OR


In a Small Town


✅







✅

15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress: ✅ ✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

An Umbrella 

OR

A Backpack

*Rewatch






✅






✅

A Truck  

OR

A Sports Car


✅





✅

A Smartphone 

OR

A Phone Booth


 ✅




✅

A Suit /Dress 

OR

A Hoodie


✅





✅

A Book 

OR

A Crossbow


✅





✅

The Main Attraction 

 16. Who Are We?

Progress: ✅ ✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Child Actor/Actress 

OR 

Veteran Actor/Actress 


✅






✅

Idol actor/ Idol actress

OR

Former Child Actor/Actress 


✅







✅

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)






*Rewatch		✅







✅


Able Bodied 

OR

Living with a disability 


✅





✅

Public Figure  

OR

Hidden Identity


✅







✅


17. Camouflage?

Progress: ✅ ✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Athlete 

OR 

Artist


✅







✅

Glasses 

OR

Tattoos







*Rewatch first few eps		✅






✅

Identity Swap 

OR

Body Swap


✅





✅

Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead


OR 

Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead


✅






✅

Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead

OR

Antihero/Antiheroine


✅







✅

Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash

19. The Petting Zoo

Progress: ✅ ✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Pet  

OR 

Pest


✅







✅

Talking Pet  

OR

Animal Death


✅






✅

Zoo animal  

OR

Farm Animal


✅







✅

Veterinarian  

OR

Animal Control


✅





✅

Romantic Ride on a Horse  

OR

Horse Ridden to Out to War


✅






✅

20. Where the Humans Are…

Progress: ✅ ✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Human Turns into an Animal   

OR

Animal turns into a Human

*Rewatch✅





✅

Adorable animals 

OR 

Animal Attack


✅




✅

Animal in the Wild 

OR

Animal in a City


✅




✅

Pet dressed in Clothes 

OR

Animal Abuse


✅





✅

Second Lead Caring For Animals 

OR 

Antagonist Caring For Animals


✅





✅

21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress: ✅ ✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Funeral Director 

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care)

*Rewatched first half✅






✅

Virtual Reality  

OR 

Ghosts


✅







✅

Corruption 

OR

Teamwork

*Rewatched first 2 eps






✅






✅

Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game


✅







✅

Friendship 

OR

Bullying


✅




✅

22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress: ✅ ✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Colleagues 

OR

Inmates


✅







✅

Bromance 

OR

Sismance


✅







✅

Parent-Child 

OR

Sibling 


✅







✅

Assailant-Victim 

OR

Student-Teacher


✅






✅

Doctor-Patient 

OR

Soldier


✅





✅

Name and Cover 

23. It's Only Words in the Name 

Progress: ✅✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Celestial Body 

OR  

Body Part 


✅





✅

Color 


OR


Emotion 


✅





✅

Object 

OR

Verb 


✅








✅

Animal

OR

Number 


✅





✅

Season 

OR

Calendar-related word 


✅







✅

24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover   

Progress: ✅✅

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Domesticated Animal 


OR


Wild Animal 


✅





✅

Flower 

OR 

Building 


✅





✅

Light Colors 

OR

Dark Colors 


✅






✅

Rainbow 

OR

Door 







Look closely, there is a door		✅








✅

Only Words 

OR

Geometrical Shapes 


✅







✅

Origin

25.  Countries of MDL

Progress: ✅ ✅

Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

China


✅







✅

Hong Kong


✅







✅

Japan


✅







✅

Philippines


✅







✅

South Korea


✅







✅

Taiwan


✅







✅

Thailand


✅








✅
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MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet

 

Starting date:  June 22nd 2023

Link to your Drama list:    Watchlist  - MDL WATCH CHALLENGE - TRACKING LIST

Progress Habitat:



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 

Historical 

OR 

Sci-Fi 




Comedy 

OR

Tragedy




Thriller

OR

Romance




Youth 

OR

Political 




Action 

OR

Life


16/16


4. Year of Origin   

Tutorial

Progress:  

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

in 2023

OR

1940-1959







1990-1999

OR

the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)







2000-2010

OR

the month (not necessarily the year) you were born







year generated by this website

OR

1950-1969







2017-2022

OR

1970-1989








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


12/12

Different Timelines  

OR 

Time Loop




Time Skip 

OR  

Time Travel


16/16

Winter 

OR 

Summer




Fall  

OR

Spring





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 Westminsters

For 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








10.  Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism…

Progress: 1/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back 

OR

Exorcism


16/16

Cohabitation 

OR

Long Distance Relationship




Fluffy 

OR

Sexual Assault




Contract Relationship 

OR

Secret Relationship




Opposites Attract 

OR

Domestic Abuse

 





12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying

Progress: 1/5

Choice of Route  

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Slight Comedy 


OR


Black Comedy




Happy Ending 

OR 

features some type of Doomsday




Tragic Past 

OR 

Sketch Comedy




features a Celebration 

OR

Mourning




 Healing 

OR

Suicide


12/12


13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

features a Religious Leader 

OR

Some type of God




Misunderstanding 

OR

Character Development




 Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot 

OR

LGBTQ+




Suspense 

OR 

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance




 Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead 

OR 

Discrimination







21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress: 1/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Funeral Director 

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care)




Virtual Reality  

OR 

Ghosts




Corruption 

OR

Teamwork




Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game


Completed

Friendship 

OR

Bullying





22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Colleagues 

OR

Inmates




Bromance 

OR 

Sismance




Parent-Child 

OR

Sibling 




Assailant-Victim 

OR

Student-Teacher




Doctor-Patient 

OR

Soldier




edited Quote
Rechin

MDL Watch Challange 2023 Sign -up Sheet

Starting Date:
Link to your Drama list:
Progress Habitat: 


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

 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

Weak Hero Class 1 (2022)




✔️

MOVIE

OR

DRAMA SPECIAL

20th Century Girl (2022) 



✔️

Co-Produced 

OR 

Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL

Man of Tai Chi (2013)




✔️

Anthology 

OR 

Omnibus

Girl From Nowhere (2018)




✔️

Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic

Or

Adapted From a Novel / Book

Love Is Sweet (2020)




✔️


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)

Reincarnation Love (2022)



Independent Film 

OR 

Propaganda

Hellbound (2021)


✔️

Documentary Genre

OR

Mockumentary		Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror (2022)


✔️

Adapted from Folklore 

OR 

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person

A Taxi Driver (2017)



Historical Fiction 

OR 

Historical genre  + tag Based on True Story

Under the Queen's Umbrella (2022)


✔️


3. All About the Gen(r)es  

Progress:

Watch a title from one of the following genres

Choice of Route. 

Essentials NotesCompleted 

Historical

OR 

Sci-Fi 

Black Knight (2023)


✔️

Comedy 

OR

Tragedy

Crash Course in Romance (2023)


✔️

Thriller

OR

Romance

Bo Ra! Deborah (2023)


✔️

Youth

OR

Political 

Queenmaker (2023)



✔️

Action 

OR

Life

Revenge of Others (2022)



✔️


Time is Relative

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

4. Year of Origin   

Tutorial

Progress:  

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted

in 2023

OR

1940-1959

The Good Bad Mother (2023)




✔️

1990-1999

OR

the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)

Nevertheless, (2021)


Just Jill 72 joined MDL in 2021



2000-2010

OR

the month (not necessarily the year) you were born


All of Us Are Dead (2022)


B'day month: January



year generated by this website

OR

1950-1969

The Ghost Bride (2020)Generated years were 1994, 1995, 2003, 2010 & 2020



2017-2022

OR

1970-1989

Navillera (2021)

2021




5. Duration of The Hike

 Tutorial

Progress:

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted

Short Length Series

 OR

 Short Film 

 Undefeated (2021)



DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes 

Or

DRAMA with  30 episodes or more. 

Legally Romance (2022)

Episodes: 33


DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer.

The Village (2023)
 

Duration: 2 hr. 0 min.

✔️

DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts  180 minutes or longer. 

More than Blue: The Series (2021)

Duration: 45 min


DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes

OR

DRAMA with 8 episodes or less.  

Bloodhounds (2023)

Episodes: 8

✔️


6. Time Can Be Confusing 

Progress: 

Choice of Route Essentials NotesCompleted 

Full second season of a DRAMA

OR 

Only 1 episode of a DRAMA

Taxi Driver Season 2 (2023)



Different Timelines

OR 

Time Loop

One More Time (2016)



Time Skip 

OR  

Time Travel

Somehow 18 (2017)



Winter

OR 

Summer

Summer Love (2015)



Fall

OR

Spring

Canola (2016)




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 RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
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)

MIU 404 (2020)

the rank was 442 on 26-11-2023



DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list 

OR

DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list

Love Playlist Pilot (2017)

2 Ep


mentioned in the MDL Forums

Or

mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds)

Moving (2023)



with the newest release date in your PTW list

OR

with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist

As Long as We Both Shall Live (2023)


2023



8. Examined…

Tutorial

Progress: 

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted

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)

Doona! (2023)

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).

Love Is Panacea (2023)

Voting List


from your most viewed tags 

Or

from your least viewed genres under your profile stats

The Fabulous (2022)

Most viewed 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)

The Point Men (2023)


13 Best Korean Movies of 2023 (So Far)



with over 10 Reviews

OR

with 0 Reviews when you started watching it

Silent (2022)






9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters

For this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page.

*List with awards

Progress: 

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted

Award-winning

OR

by the same writer as one of your favorites

My Dearest (2023)


Grimae Awards - Grand Prize


from an award-winning director

OR

that has one of your favorite actresses


Trillion Game (2023) 


Imada Mio

✔️

from an award-winning screenwriter

OR

that has one of your favorite actors

Dr. Romantic Season 3 (2023)


Han Seok Kyu


✔️

from an award-winning actor

OR

by the same director as one of your favorite titles

King the Land (2023)

Lee Jun Ho - 58th Baeksang Arts Awards


✔️

from an award-winning actress

OR

by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before

Ballerina (2023)

Jeon Jong Seo - 57th Baeksang Arts Awards

✔️


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 NotesCompleted 

Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back

OR

Exorcism

The School Nurse Files (2020)



Cohabitation

OR

Long Distance Relationship

Love to Hate You (2023)



Fluffy 

OR

Sexual Assault

Hi Venus (2022)



Contract Relationship 

OR

Secret Relationship

An Inconvenient Love (2022)



Opposites Attract 

OR

Domestic Abuse

 Kieta Hatsukoi (2021)




11. Finding a Mate

Progress:

Choice of Route Essentials NotesCompleted 

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

Man in Love (2021)


Sexual Content

✔️

Age Gap [Drama Life]  

OR 

Classmates' Relationship 

Enigma (2023)



features a Heterosexual relationship  

OR 

Same-Sex relationship

See You in My 19th Life (2023)


✔️

Enemies to Lovers 

OR 

Love at First Sight

Love to Hate You (2023)



Nice Female Lead /  Male Lead 

OR 

Aggressive  Female Lead / Male  Lead

Rinko-san wa Shite Mitai (2021)

Nice Male Lead



12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying

Progress:

Choice of Route  Essentials NotesCompleted 
Slight Comedy 

OR

Black Comedy		Missing: The Other Side Season 2 (2022)



Happy Ending

OR 

features some type of Doomsday

Happiness (2021)


✔️

Tragic Past 

OR 

Sketch Comedy

Better Days (2019)



features a Celebration

OR

Mourning

Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area - Part 2 (2022)


✔️

Healing

OR

Suicide

Imawa no Kuni no Alice Season 2 (2022)




13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff

Progress:

Choice of Route Essentials NotesCompleted 

features a Religious Leader 

OR

Some type of God

Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938 (2023)



Misunderstanding

OR

Character Development

My Annoying Brother (2016)



Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot

OR

LGBTQ+

Little Women (2022)



Suspense

OR 

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance

The Interest of Love (2022)


✔️

Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead 

OR 

Discrimination

Pachinko (2022)





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 NotesCompleted 

On a Field 

OR 

On a Cliff

The Forbidden Marriage (2022)



In the Woods 

OR

By the Sea

Summer Strike (2022)


✔️

In a Jungle

OR 

On a Rooftop

Doctor Cha (2023)


✔️

On a Mountain

OR 

On an Island

Island Part 2 (2023)


✔️

In a City 

OR

In a Small Town		The First Responders (2022)


✔️


15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress:

Choice of Route Essentials NotesCompleted 

An Umbrella

OR

A Backpack

Gaus Electronics (2022)



A Truck

OR

A Sports Car

Payback: Money and Power (2023)



A Smartphone 

OR

A Phone Booth

Unlocked (2023)


 

A Suit /Dress

OR

A Hoodie

Extracurricular (2020)



A Book 

OR

A Crossbow

Adamas (2022)




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 NotesCompleted 

Child Actor/Actress 

OR 

Veteran Actor/Actress 

The Fabulous (2022)Veteran Actresses: Ye Soo Jung


Idol actor/ Idol actress 

OR

Former Child Actor/Actress 

The Law Cafe (2022)Former Child Actress: Lee Se Young

✔️

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)

Destined with You (2023)



Able Bodied

OR

Living with a disability 

Silent (2022)



Public Figure  

OR

Hidden Identity

Designated Survivor: 60 Days (2019)


✔️


17. Camouflage?

Progress:

Choice of Route Essentials NotesCompleted 

Athlete 

OR 

Artist

Short (2018)



Glasses 

OR

Tattoos

Somebody (2022)



Identity Swap 

OR

Body Swap

Train (2020)



Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead

OR 

Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead

Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (2023)



Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead

OR

Antihero/Antiheroine

The Glory Part 2 (2023)


✔️


18. What Are You?  

Progress:

Choice of Route Essentials NotesCompleted 

Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead 

OR 

Weak Female Lead / Weak Male Lead

The Good Bad Mother (2023)


✔️

Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead

OR

Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead		Dr. Romantic Season 3 (2023)


✔️

Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead

OR

Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead

U-Prince: The Lovely Geologist (2016)



Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead

OR 

Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead

Celebrity (2023)



Killer 

OR

Healer

Song of the Bandits (2023)


✔️


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 

Pet  

OR 

Pest

GAP (2022)



Talking Pet  

OR

Animal Death

The Man's Voice (2021)



Zoo animal  

OR

Farm Animal

First Love (2022)



Veterinarian  

OR

Animal Control

U-Prince: The Gentle Vet (2016)



Romantic Ride on a Horse  

OR

Horse Ridden to Out to War

My Dearest (2023)




20. Where the Humans Are…

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed

Human Turns into an Animal   

OR

Animal turns into a Human

My Woofy Poofy Love (2018) 



Adorable animals

OR 

Animal Attack

Mask Girl (2023)


✔️

Animal in the Wild 

OR

Animal in a City

The Pirates (2014)



Pet dressed in Clothes

OR 

Animal Abuse

Copycat Killer (2023)


✔️

Second Lead Caring For Animals 

OR 

Antagonist Caring For Animals

Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938



 

21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress:

Choice of Route Essentials NotesCompleted 

Funeral Director 

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care)

May I Help You (2022)


✔️

Virtual Reality 

OR 

Ghosts

The Ghost Bride (2020)



Corruption 

OR

Teamwork

Dirty Laundry (2023)



Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game

From Me to You (2023)



Friendship 

OR

Bullying

Twinkling Watermelon (2023)




22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Colleagues 

OR

Inmates

XX (2020)



Bromance 

OR 

Sismance

D.P. Season 2 (2023)



Parent-Child 

OR

Sibling 

Bo Ra! Deborah


✔️

Assailant-Victim 

OR

Student-Teacher

Unlocked (2023)



Doctor-Patient 

OR

Soldier

Fireworks of My Heart (2023)



✔️


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

Celestial Body 

OR  

Body Part

Daily Dose of Sunshine (2023)


✔️

Color

OR

Emotion 

Love All Play (2022)



Object 

OR

Verb

Lighter & Princess (2022)


✔️

Animal

OR

Number

Team Bulldog: Off-duty Investigation (2020)



Season 

OR

Calendar-related word

Kokdu: Season of Deity (2023)




24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover   

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Domesticated Animal

OR

Wild Animal 		Mr. Go (2013)



Flower 

OR 

Building 

The First Responders (2022) 



Light Colors

OR

Dark Colors

Big Mouth (2022)



Rainbow

OR

Door 

Microhabitat (2018)



Only Words 

OR 

Geometrical Shapes

I Like You, Unnie (2022)




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: 

RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted

China

A Date With the Future (2023)



Hong Kong

Shaolin Soccer (2001)



Japan

Invisible (2022)



Philippines

The House Arrest of Us (2020)



South Korea

Nevertheless, (2021)



Taiwan

Shards of Her (2022)



Thailand

Girl From Nowhere Season 2 (2021)




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
RouteEssentialSubstitute forNotesCompleted


 


















edited Quote
Leaf

Leaf's 2023 MDL 

Watch Challenge

Start Date: July 11th

[Link to list]

Progress Habitats: 6/??


Taxonomy


1. Type

Progress: 5/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Web Series OR TV ShowWhole showJuly 14
Movie OR Drama Special
February 14
Co-produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDLEitherJuly 12
Anthology OR Omnibus
December 07
Adapted from manga / webtoon / manhua / comic OR Adapted from novel / bookManga adaptationDecember 07


2. Is It True?

Progress: 1/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Advertisement OR EducationalAdvertisement for the Sims 4July 14
Independent Film OR Propaganda


Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary


Adapted from Folklore OR Inspired by real events / real person


Historical fiction OR Historical genre + tag based on true story



3. All About The Gen(r)es

Progress: 5/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Historical OR Sci-fi
June 18
Comedy OR Tragedy
May 18
Thriller OR Romance
February 05
Youth OR Political
December 31
Action OR Life
February 23


Time is Relative


4. Year of Origin

Progress: 0/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
In 2023 OR 1940-1959


1990 -1999 OR Year that a member on this page joined MDL


2000-2010 OR Month you were born


Year generated OR 1950-1969


2017-2022 OR 19970-1989



5. Duration of The Hike

Progress: 5/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Short length series OR Short film
February 08
Drama with 20-30 minute episodes OR Drama with 30 episodes or more
March 06
Drama with 30-40 minute episodes OR Movie that lasts 90 minutes or longer
December 01
Drama with 40-50 minute episodes OR Movie that lasts 180 minutes or longer
August 25
Drama with at least one episode that lasts over 60 minute OR Drama with 8 episodes or less

April 04


6. Time Can Be Confusing

Progress: 4/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Full second season of a drama OR Only 1 episode of a dramaWatched this on New Years I'll have to go back and actually finish it next year hahaJanuary 01
Different timelines OR Time loop
January 23
Time skip OR Time travel
July 04
Winter OR Summer(Rewatch) Most of the story revolves around a case that happens on Christmas EveDecember 25
Fall OR Spring



The Chronicles of MDL


7. Sharing is Caring

Progress: 3/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Has been on 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 1-1000411 viewers at time of watchingJuly 14
Drama with the smallest amount of episodes in your PTW OR Drama with the highest amount of episodes in your PTW
70 episodesFebruary 13
Mentioned in MDL forums OR Mentioned in MDL feeds


With the newest release date in PTW OR With release date older than the oldest title in your watchlist1988 (Previous oldest was 1999)July 11


8. Examined...

Progress: 0/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
On recommendations page OR Appearing in the first five pages of trailers


Found on a custom list OR Found on a voting list


From your most viewed tags OR your least viewed tags


With someone or something mentioned in a game OR Mentioned in an article


With over 10 reviews OR 0 reviews



9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters

Progress: 0/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Award-winning OR Favorite writer


Award-winning director OR Favorite actress


Award-winning screenwriter OR Favorite actor


Award-winning actor OR Same director as favorite title


Award-winning actress OR Director/writer haven't seen before



Getting up Close and Personal


10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Excorcism...

Progress: 1/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Ex comes back OR Exorcism
July 14
Cohabitation OR Long distance relationship


Fluffy OR Sexual assault


Contract relationship OR Secret relationship


Opposites attract OR Domestic abuse



11. Finding a Mate

Progress: 1/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
First love OR Sexual content


Age gap OR Classmates' relationship


Heterosexual OR Same-sex relationship
July 14
Enemies to lovers Or Love at first sight


Nice lead OR Aggressive lead



12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying

Progress: 0/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Slight comedy OR Black comedy


Happy ending OR Doomsday


Tragic past OR Sketch comedy


Celebration OR Mourning


Healing OR Suicide



13. Seeing is Believing... and some other stuff

Progress: 2/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Religious Leader OR Some type of god
May 10
Misunderstanding OR Character developmentSame poster as title used for first essential but this is for the drama specialDecember 07
Female/male-centric plot OR LGBTQ+


Suspense OR Slow burn


Popular lead OR Discrimination



Significant details


14. Where are we?

Progress: 1/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
On a field OR On a cliff


In the woods OR By the seaEp 40 - Li Tianran and Fan Sisi put up a love locket overseeing the oceanMarch 12
In a jungle OR On a rooftop


On a mountain OR On an island


In a city OR In a small town



15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress: 0/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
An umbrella OR a backpack


A truck OR a sports car


A smartphone OR a phone booth


A suit/dress OR a hoodie


A book OR a crossbow



The Main Attraction


16. Who Are We?

Progress: 1/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Child actor/actress OR Veteran actor/actress


Idol actor/actress OR Former child actor/actress


Transgender OR Cisgender
January 25
Able bodied OR Living with a disability


Public figure OR Hidden identity



17. Camoflauge? 

Progress: 0/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Athlete OR Artist


Glasses OR Tattoos


Identity swap OR Body swap


Cop lead OR Criminal lead


Superhero OR Antihero



18. What Are You?

Progress: 1/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Strong lead OR Weak lead


Smart lead OR Naive leadFL works as an aircraft engineerMarch 24
Cold lead OR Clingy lead


Rich lead OR Poor lead


Killer OR Healer



Pay Attention, it can be gone in a flash

 

19. The Petting Zoo

Progress: 0/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Pet or Pest


Talking pet OR Animal death


Zoo animal OR Farm animal


Veterinarian OR Animal Control


Romantic ride on a horse OR Horse ridden out to war



20. Where the Humans Are...

Progress: 1/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Human turns into animal OR Animal turns into humanLead can shapeshift into a catFebruary 09
Adorable animals OR Animal attack


Animal in the wild OR Animal in city


Pet dressed in clothes OR Animal abuse


Second lead caring for animals OR Antagonist caring for animals



21. Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress: 1/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Funeral director OR Birth care


Virtual reality OR Ghosts


Corruption OR Teamwork


Friendly game OR Death game
January 19
Friendship OR Bullying



22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress: 0/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Colleagues OR Inmates


Bromance OR Sismance


Parent-child OR Sibling


Assailiant-Victim OR Student-teacher


Doctor-Patient OR Soldier



Name and Cover


23. It's Only Words in the Name

Progress: 5/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Celestial Body OR Body partTo My StarJuly 11
Color OR EmotionRed Devil and Heroine SuNovember 22
Object OR VerbGeneral, Can I Sleep With You?July 14
Animal OR NumberOne Last OrderJanuary 05
Season OR Calendar-related wordAutumn Fairy TailJuly 10


24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover

Progress: 5/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
Domesticated animal OR Wild animal? At no point in the movie does a horse actually appear IDK it sure is on the poster though. There is also a dog.February 04
Flower OR Building
April 04
Light colors OR Dark colors
December 20
Rainbow OR Door
December 07
Only words OR Geometrical shapes
January 27


Origin


25. Countries of MDL

Progress: 7/7

RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted
China*crying* cfd my belovedJuly 14
Hong Kong
November 25
Japan
December 26
Philippines
December 22
South Korea
December 26
Taiwan
December 26
Thailand
January 15
edited Quote
Zoe

MDL Watch Challenge 2023

 

Starting date: Jan 1

My Drama List: https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/zsoip

Progress Habitat: 0/5

 

Key

Watching

Plan to watch

Completed


Taxonomy 

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

1. Type

Progress: 1/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

NotesCompleted



 Web Series










8/14/23



MOVIE









8/11/23












Anthology 







Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic


Webtoon








2. Is it True?

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Rating

Completed

Advertisement  

OR 

Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) ✓





Independent Film 

OR 

Propaganda




Documentary Genre

OR

 Mockumentary




Adapted from Folklore 

OR 

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person




Historical Fiction 

OR 

Historical genre  + tag Based on True Story





3. All About the Gen(r)es  

Progress:

Choice of Route. 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Historical 

OR 

Sci-Fi 




Comedy 

OR

Tragedy




Thriller

OR

Romance




Youth 

OR

Political 




Action 

OR

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   

Tutorial

Progress:  

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

in 2023

OR

1940-1959







1990-1999

OR

the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)







2000-2010

OR

the month (not necessarily the year) you were born







year generated by this website

OR

1950-1969







2017-2022

OR

1970-1989








5. Duration of The Hike

 Tutorial

Progress:

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

 Short Length Series

 OR

 Short Film 

 




DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes 

Or

DRAMA with  30 episodes or more. 




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




Different Timelines  

OR 

Time Loop




Time Skip 

OR  

Time Travel




Winter 

OR 

Summer




Fall  

OR

Spring





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







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 Westminsters

For 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

Exorcism




Cohabitation 

OR

Long Distance Relationship




Fluffy 

OR

Sexual Assault




Contract Relationship 

OR

Secret Relationship




Opposites Attract 

OR

Domestic Abuse

 




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




Age Gap [Drama Life]  

OR 

Classmates' Relationship 




features a Heterosexual relationship  

OR 

Same-Sex relationship




 Enemies to Lovers 

OR 

Love at First Sight




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




Happy Ending 

OR 

features some type of Doomsday




Tragic Past 

OR 

Sketch Comedy




features a Celebration 

OR

Mourning




 Healing 

OR

Suicide





13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

features a Religious Leader 

OR

Some type of God




Misunderstanding 

OR

Character Development




 Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot 

OR

LGBTQ+




Suspense 

OR 

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance




 Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead 

OR 

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:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

On a Field  

OR 

On a Cliff




In the Woods 

OR

By the Sea




In a Jungle 

OR 

On a Rooftop




On a Mountain 

OR 

On an Island




In a City 

OR

In a Small Town





15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

An Umbrella 

OR

A Backpack




A Truck  

OR

A Sports Car




A Smartphone 

OR

A Phone Booth



 

A Suit /Dress 

OR

A Hoodie




A Book 

OR

A 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 a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions. 

 16. Who Are We?

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Child Actor/Actress 

OR 

Veteran Actor/Actress 




Idol actor/ Idol actress 

OR

Former Child Actor/Actress 




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)




Able Bodied 

OR

Living with a disability 




Public Figure  

OR

Hidden Identity





17. Camouflage?

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Athlete 

OR 

Artist




Glasses 

OR

Tattoos




Identity Swap 

OR

Body Swap




Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead

OR 

Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead




Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead

OR

Antihero/Antiheroine





18. What Are You?  

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead 

OR 

Weak Female Lead / Weak Male Lead




Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead 

OR

Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead




Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead 

OR

Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead




Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead 

OR 

Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead 




Killer 

OR

Healer  





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 

Pet  

OR 

Pest




Talking Pet  

OR

Animal Death




Zoo animal  

OR

Farm Animal




Veterinarian  

OR

Animal Control




Romantic Ride on a Horse  

OR

Horse Ridden to Out to War





20. Where the Humans Are…

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Human Turns into an Animal   

OR

Animal turns into a Human




Adorable animals 

OR 

Animal Attack




Animal in the Wild 

OR

Animal in a City




Pet dressed in Clothes 

OR 

Animal Abuse




Second Lead Caring For Animals 

OR 

Antagonist Caring For Animals




 

21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Funeral Director 

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care)




Virtual Reality  

OR 

Ghosts




Corruption 

OR

Teamwork




Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game




Friendship 

OR

Bullying





22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Colleagues 

OR

Inmates




Bromance 

OR 

Sismance




Parent-Child 

OR

Sibling 




Assailant-Victim 

OR

Student-Teacher




Doctor-Patient 

OR

Soldier





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 

Celestial Body 

OR  

Body Part 




Color 

OR

Emotion 




Object 

OR

Verb 




Animal

OR

Number 




Season 

OR

Calendar-related word 





24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover   

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Domesticated Animal 

OR

Wild Animal 




Flower 

OR 

Building 




Light Colors 

OR

Dark Colors 




Rainbow 

OR

Door 




Only Words 

OR 

Geometrical Shapes 





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




Hong Kong




Japan




Philippines




South Korea




Taiwan




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
RouteEssentialSubstitute forNotesCompleted


 



















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MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet
 
Starting date: 27 July  2023

Link to your Drama list: My List

Progress Habitat:11/25

1. TypeProgress: 5/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
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		Please Feel at Ease Mr LingWeb Series✅
MOVIE

OR

DRAMA SPECIAL		Meet in a Strange SeasonDrama Special✅
Co-Produced

OR

Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL		Ultimate OppaCo produced ✅
Anthology

OR

Omnibus		Replay ListAnthology 3 episodes ✅
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic

Or

Adapted From a Novel / Book		Love Like the Galaxy - Part 2Based on a Novel
✅


2. Is it TrueProgress: 5/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Advertisement  

OR

Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre)		Reincarnation LoveAdvertisement✅
Independent Film

OR

Propaganda		Curtain CallPropaganda✅
Documentary Genre

OR

 Mockumentary		The Raincoat KillerDocumentary✅
Adapted from Folklore

OR

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person		Daily Dose of SunshineInspired✅
Historical Fiction

OR

Historical genre  + tag Based on True Story		Love Like the Galaxy - Part 1Historical
✅


3. All About the Gen(r)esProgress 5/5
Choice of routeEssentialsNotesProgress
Historical

OR

Sci-Fi		Please Don’t Spoil MeHistorical✅
Comedy

OR

Tragedy		A Business ProposalComedy
✅
Thriller

OR

Romance		MaskThriller
✅
Youth

OR

Political		Hidden LoveYouth✅
Action

OR

Life		Meet YourselfLife✅


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 OriginProgress 5/5
Choice of routeEssentialsNotesProgress
in 2023

OR

1940-1959		See You In My 19th Life2023✅
1990-1999

OR

the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)		Forbidden Marriage Joined Jan 2022 drama released in 2022✅
2000-2010

OR

the month (not necessarily the year) you were born		You’re Beautiful2009
✅
year generated by this website

OR

1950-1969		Diary of a ProsecutorSunday, 9 April 1995
Wednesday, 22 November 1995
Wednesday, 19 October 2005
Sunday, 9 December 2012
Friday, 3 May 2019
✅
2017-2022

OR

1970-1989		Witch’s CourtReleased 2017✅


5. Duration of the HikeProgress 5/5
Choice of routeEssentials NotesProgress
Short Length Series

 OR

 Short Film		Please don’t spoil me 2Short length series
✅
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes

Or

DRAMA with  30 episodes or more.		Her Bucket List20-30 minute episodes✅
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer.		Exclusive Fairytale 30-40  minute eps✅
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer.		My Dear Donovan 40-50 minutes ✅
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes

OR

DRAMA with 8 episodes or less.		My Lovely LiarOver 60 minutes
✅


6. Time can be confusing Progress 5/5
Choice of routeessentials NotesProgress
Full second season of a DRAMA

OR

Only 1 episode of a DRAMA		Secret PlaylistCould not find good translations so stopped after ep 1
✅
Different Timelines  

OR

Time Loop		Back to SeventeenDifferent Timelines✅
Time Skip

OR  

Time Travel		Alicethey jump from kids to adults✅
Winter

OR

Summer		JirisanIts winter on a mountain!✅
Fall  

OR

Spring		We're Not Trash
short drama set in fall/autumn
✅


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
Choice of Route Essentials NotesProgress
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. ExaminedProgress 0/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
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



9. Your Fanciers and WestminstersProgress 5/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Award-winning

OR

by the same writer as one of your favorites		She Was Pretty
written by Jo Sung Hee who wrote Thirty but Seventeen
✅

from an award-winning director

OR

that has one of your favorite actresses		Today's Webtoon
Kim Se Jong is one of my favorite's 
✅

from an award-winning screenwriter

OR

that has one of your favorite actors		Perfect Marriage RevengeSung Hoon is one of my favorites
✅
from an award-winning actor

OR

by the same director as one of your favorite titles		Love to Hate You Yoo Teo has one a Blue Dragon 
✅

from an award-winning actress

OR

by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before		Remarriage DesiresKim Hee Sun has one multiple awards in her career 
✅


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 RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back

OR

Exorcism		Another Miss OhEx boyfriend and ex girlfriend come back
✅
Cohabitation

OR

Long Distance Relationship		Lost Romance Forced cohabitation ✅
Fluffy

OR

Sexual Assault		Legally, DadWeb drama 
✅
When I fly toward you

OR

Secret Relationship		The Real Has ComeContract Relationship
✅

Opposites Attract

OR

Domestic Abuse		The One and Only
side couple police man and nun 
✅


11. Finding a MateProgress 5/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
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		When I Fly Toward YouFirst Love
✅

Age Gap [Drama Life]  

OR

Classmates' Relationship		Girl Next Room: Midnight FantasyCollege Classmates
✅

features a Heterosexual relationship 

OR

Same-Sex relationship		Only for LoveHeterosexual Relationships
✅

Enemies to Lovers

OR

Love at First Sight		F4 ThailandEnemies to Lovers
✅

Nice Female Lead /  Male Lead

OR

Aggressive  Female Lead / Male  Lead		Do you Like BrahmsNice leads
✅ 


12. Laugh it Off or Die TryingProgress5/5
 Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Slight Comedy

OR

Black Comedy		Love me Love my Voice
has some light comedy moments
✅

Happy Ending

OR

features some type of Doomsday		Legally RomanceHappy ending 
✅
Tragic Past

OR

Sketch Comedy		chicago typewriterTragic Past
✅

features a Celebration

OR

Mourning		I May Love You Features a Celebration 
✅

Healing

OR

Suicide		Castaway Diva
✅


13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuffProgress 0/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
features a Religious Leader

OR

Some type of God


Misunderstanding

OR

Character Development


Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot

OR

LGBTQ+


Suspense

OR

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance


Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead

OR

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 2/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
On a Field  

OR

On a Cliff		Moon in the DayFL is pushed off a cliff
✅
In the Woods

OR

By the Sea


In a Jungle

OR

On a Rooftop


On a Mountain

OR

On an Island		Singles Inferno Season 1
Reality tv set on an island
✅

In a City

OR

In a Small Town



15. Humans Have So Many ThingsProgress  0/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
An Umbrella

OR

A Backpack


A Truck  

OR

A Sports Car


A Smartphone

OR

A Phone Booth


A Suit /Dress

OR

A Hoodie


A Book

OR

A 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 a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions.


 16. Who Are We?Progress 0/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Child Actor/Actress

OR

Veteran Actor/Actress


Idol actor/ Idol actress

OR

Former Child Actor/Actress


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)


Able Bodied

OR

Living with a disability


Public Figure  

OR

Hidden Identity



17. Camouflage?Progress
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Athlete

OR

Artist


Glasses

OR

Tattoos


Identity Swap

OR

Body Swap


Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead

OR

Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead


Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead

OR

Antihero/Antiheroine



18. What Are You?Progress 0/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead

OR

Weak Female Lead / Weak Male Lead


Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead

OR

Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead


Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead

OR

Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead


Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead

OR

Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead


Killer

OR

Healer



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 ZooProgress 0/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Pet  

OR

Pest


Talking Pet  

OR

Animal Death


Zoo animal  

OR

Farm Animal


Veterinarian  

OR

Animal Control


Romantic Ride on a Horse  

OR

Horse Ridden to Out to War



20. Where the Humans Are…Progress 0/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Human Turns into an Animal  

OR

Animal turns into a Human


Adorable animals

OR

Animal Attack


Animal in the Wild

OR

Animal in a City


Pet dressed in Clothes

OR

Animal Abuse


Second Lead Caring For Animals

OR

Antagonist Caring For Animals



21.Friendly Ways to Live or DieProgress 5/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Funeral Director

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care)		May I Help You?Main character is a funeral director
✅
Virtual Reality  

OR

Ghosts		Romance on the Farm

✅

Corruption

OR

Teamwork		Secret Royal Inspector & JoyTeamwork
✅

Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game		My Calorie Boy
They play truth or dare in episode 12 
✅

Friendship

OR

Bullying		Doom at Your Service Friendship
✅



22. Who Am I When I Am With You?Progress 0/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Colleagues

OR

Inmates


Bromance

OR

Sismance


Parent-Child

OR

Sibling


Assailant-Victim

OR

Student-Teacher


Doctor-Patient

OR

Soldier



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 NameProgress 0/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Celestial Body

OR  

Body Part


Color

OR

Emotion


Object

OR

Verb


Animal

OR

Number


Season

OR

Calendar-related word



24. Pretty Pictures on the CoverProgress 0/5
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
Domesticated Animal

OR

Wild Animal


Flower

OR

Building


Light Colors

OR

Dark Colors


Rainbow

OR

Door


Only Words

OR

Geometrical Shapes



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 MDLProgress 7/7
Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesProgress
ChinaMy Lovely WifeChina
✅
Hong KongBusiness Proposal 
Hong Kong
✅
JapanBurn the House Down
Japan✅
PhilippinesSeasons
Philippines 
✅
South KoreaWednesday 3:30 PMSouth Korea
✅
TaiwanLost RomanceTaiwan✅
ThailandFaceless LoveThailand✅


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
RouteEssentialsSubstitute forNotesProgress




















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skaah

MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet

Start Date:
January 1, 2023		Link to your Drama List:
skaah's Dramalist		Completion Date: 
October 15, 2023
Goal:
Level 10: Plains Elephant (25 habitats) + Tiger

Essentials:
127/127

Treats: 1 used		Current Animals


Habitat Progress

Stage
Current Level
Habitats Completed
Plains✓✓ 10/10   ✓✓ 25/25    


Taxonomy 

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

1. Type

Progress: 5/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted

 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

You Are My Exclusive Surprise 


✓ 

MOVIE 

OR

DRAMA SPECIAL 		Upcoming Summer 

-

✓ 

Co-Produced 

OR 

Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL 

The Trapped 13: How We Survived the Thai Cave 



✓ 

Anthology 

OR 

Omnibus 

Triple - Do You Want? 



✓ 

Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic

Or

Adapted From a Novel / Book 

Call Me Chihiro 



✓ 


2. Is it True?

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route Essentials NotesCompleted 

Advertisement  

OR 

Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre)		A Tale of Yearning 


✓ 

Independent Film 

OR 

Propaganda

I Like You, Unnie 


✓ 

Documentary Genre

OR

 Mockumentary

Take 1 


✓ 

Adapted from Folklore 

OR 

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person

Dream Guy 


✓

Historical Fiction 

OR 

Historical genre  + tag Based on True Story		Zhang Gong Zhu Zai Shang 


✓


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 

Romance of a Twin Flower 


✓ 

Comedy 

OR

Tragedy

Miss Ye in Wonderland 


✓ 

Thriller

OR

Romance		Dali and the Cocky Prince 


✓ 

Youth 

OR

Political 		Back to Seventeen 


✓ 

Action 

OR

Life		Meet Yourself 


✓ 


Time is Relative

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

4. Year of Origin   

Tutorial

Progress: 5/5 

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted

in 2023

OR

1940-1959

First Kisses 



✓ 

1990-1999

OR

the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)

Bossy Husband Who Loved Me 

2022
Leaf --> Challenge Form


✓

2000-2010

OR

the month (not necessarily the year) you were born

Exploration Method of Love

June

 ✓ 

year generated by this website

OR

1950-1969

EXO Next Door 

1994, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020

✓

2017-2022

OR

1970-1989

The Immortal Promise 

2022

✓


5. Duration of The Hike

 Tutorial

Progress: 5/55

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted

Short Length Series

 OR

 Short Film 

Mr. Durian 


10mins / episode

✓ 

DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes 

Or

DRAMA with  30 episodes or more. 		What's Wrong with My Princess

32 episodes

✓ 

DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer.		Meet You

30mins per episode

✓ 

DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts  180 minutes or longer. 

My Calorie Boy 

46mins per episode

✓ 

DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes

OR

DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. 		The Witch's Eye 

5 episodes

✓ 


6. Time Can Be Confusing 

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route Essentials NotesCompleted 

Full second season of a DRAMA

OR 

Only 1 episode of a DRAMA		Love Starts from Marriage Season 2 


✓ 

Different Timelines  

OR 

Time Loop

Love for Two Lives 


✓ 

Time Skip 

OR  

Time Travel		Love at First Sight by Yi Zong 


 ✓ 

Winter 

OR 

Summer

Us and Them 


✓

Fall  

OR

Spring

We're Not Trash 


✓


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: 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

When I Fly Towards You 

Michelles_Musings 

✓ 

with less than 10,000 viewers

OR

ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001)

Revenge 


✓ 

DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list 

OR

DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list

OR

TREAT: A title tagged as Xianxia 

Legend of Yunze 



✓

mentioned in the MDL Forums

Or

mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds)

Royal Rumours 

Dramas recommendations where FL is not Irritating or dumb. ✓
with the newest release date in your PTW list

OR

with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist

Story of Three Loves 

Oct 10, 1982

(Bagets 1 - Feb 2, 1984)

✓


8. Examined…

Tutorial

Progress: 4/5

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)

Confess Your Love 

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).

This Young Hero Is a Little Cold 

♡ Chinese drama OF SHORT LENGTH (Links provided) ♡ 

✓ 

from your most viewed tags 

Or

from your least viewed genres under your profile stats

Hidden Love 

Happy Ending

✓ 

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)		Extraordinary Attorney Woo 

Pick Your Favourite Drama Out Of My Top



✓ 

with over 10 Reviews

OR

with 0 Reviews when you started watching it

Kanojo no Kuchidzuke Kansensuru Libido 

No review as of Oct 14

✓ 


9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters

For this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page.

*List with awards

Progress: 5/5

Choice of RouteEssentialsNotesCompleted

Award-winning

OR

by the same writer as one of your favorites

Provoke 

Zhao Lin 

✓ 

from an award-winning director

OR

that has one of your favorite actresses

The Ark of Mr. Chow 

Zhou Dong Yu 

✓

from an award-winning screenwriter

OR

that has one of your favorite actors		Rurouni Kenshin: The BeginningSatoh Takeru

✓

from an award-winning actor

OR

by the same director as one of your favorite titles

Dong Lan Xue 

Zhi Zhu 
( Your Ship Is Real )


✓

from an award-winning actress

OR

by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before

Large Queen 

Dai Jin Yuan 

✓


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

Exorcism

tvN O'PENing: What Are You Doing in the Office? 


✓

Cohabitation 

OR

Long Distance Relationship

Road Home 


✓

Fluffy 

OR

Sexual Assault

Time and Him Are Just Right 


✓

Contract Relationship 

OR

Secret Relationship

Romance with Blind Master 


✓

Opposites Attract 

OR

Domestic Abuse		The Beauty of the Law 


✓


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		 From Me to You 


✓

Age Gap [Drama Life]  

OR 

Classmates' Relationship 

The Forbidden Flower 


✓

features a Heterosexual relationship  

OR 

Same-Sex relationship

She Makes My Heart Flutter 


✓

 Enemies to Lovers 

OR 

Love at First Sight

The Origin of Eternity 


✓

Nice Female Lead /  Male Lead 

OR 

Aggressive  Female Lead / Male  Lead		Extremely Perilous Love 


✓


12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route  

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Slight Comedy 

OR

Black Comedy

Violence Action 


✓

Happy Ending 

OR 

features some type of Doomsday

Love Me in Three Days 


✓

Tragic Past 

OR 

Sketch Comedy

Zhao Ge Fu   


✓

features a Celebration 

OR

Mourning

You Complete Me 


✓

 Healing 

OR

Suicide		He Dun's Happiness 


✓


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

My Chinese Chic Boutique 


✓

Misunderstanding 

OR

Character Development

Binary Love 


✓

Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot 

OR

LGBTQ+		Xiaoshimei's Strategy Guide for Winning Her Shijie's Heart 


✓

Suspense 

OR 

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance		My Best Summer 


✓

Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead 

OR 

Discrimination

Love to Hate You 


✓



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

Betrayed Love 


✓

In the Woods 

OR

By the Sea

The Journey 


✓

In a Jungle

OR 

On a Rooftop		Promise in the Summer 


✓

On a Mountain 

OR 

On an Island

The Truth of Immortality 


✓

In a City 

OR

In a Small Town

One True Pair 


✓


15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

An Umbrella 

OR

A Backpack

Don't Lie, Rahee 


✓

A Truck  

OR

A Sports Car

More and More Loves You 


✓

A Smartphone 

OR

A Phone Booth

20th Century Girl 


 ✓

A Suit /Dress 

OR

A Hoodie

Secretary Hit Me 


✓

A Book 

OR

A Crossbow

Summer Strike 


✓


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 

Child Actor/Actress 

OR 

Veteran Actor/Actress 

Fanletter, Please 

Shin Yeon Woo

✓ 

Idol actor/ Idol actress 

OR

Former Child Actor/Actress 		Exclusive Fairytale 

Jun 


✓

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)		Goodbye Mr. Shao 


✓

Able Bodied 

OR

Living with a disability 

My Bossy Girl 


✓

Public Figure  

OR

Hidden Identity

My Decoy Bride 


✓


17. Camouflage?

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Athlete 

OR 

Artist

My Lethal Man 


✓

Glasses 

OR

Tattoos

Let's Date, Professor Xie 


✓

Identity Swap 

OR

Body Swap

Empress Won't Go To Court 


✓

Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead

OR 

Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead

Somebody 


✓

Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead

OR

Antihero/Antiheroine		Ye Mu


✓


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

One the Woman 


✓

Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead 

OR

Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead

Love from Divorce 


✓

Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead 

OR

Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead

My Sunshine 


✓

Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead 

OR 

Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead 

Cheating Men Must Die 


✓

Killer 

OR

Healer  

Little Mad Doctor 


✓


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: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Pet  

OR 

Pest		Yes, I Am a Spy 

Huang the pet chicken

✓

Talking Pet  

OR

Animal Death

The Sound of Magic 


✓

Zoo animal  

OR

Farm Animal

All These Years 

Aquarium

✓

Veterinarian  

OR

Animal Control

Crash Course in Romance 

Ep 11 

✓

Romantic Ride on a Horse  

OR

Horse Ridden to Out to War

My Lady General 


✓


20. Where the Humans Are…

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Human Turns into an Animal   

OR

Animal turns into a Human		The Female Doctor and Rabbit Spirit 


✓

Adorable animals 

OR 

Animal Attack		Never Said Goodbye 

French bulldog

✓

Animal in the Wild 

OR

Animal in a City

The Name in My Heart 

ML almost runs over a dog in the street

✓

Pet dressed in Clothes 

OR 

Animal Abuse

My Uncanny Destiny 

SFL and the bunny

✓ 

Second Lead Caring For Animals 

OR 

Antagonist Caring For Animals		The Glory 


✓ 

 

21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Funeral Director 

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care) 		Birthcare Center 


✓ 

Virtual Reality  

OR 

Ghosts

Double Identity Crown Princess 


✓

Corruption 

OR

Teamwork

Kono Koi Atatamemasu ka 


✓

Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game

Marry Me, My Queen 

FL ad SML played Go

✓

Friendship

OR

Bullying 		Because I Don't Want to Go Home 


✓


22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route Essentials NotesCompleted 

Colleagues 

OR

Inmates

Buff in Love 


✓

Bromance 

OR 

Sismance 

After-School Starlight 


✓

Parent-Child 

OR

Sibling

Chart Running Scholar 


✓

Assailant-Victim

OR

Student-Teacher		Upcoming Summer


✓

Doctor-Patient 

OR

Soldier

Never Too Late 


✓


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 

Celestial Body 

OR  

Body Part 

Don't Forget Your Original Heart 


✓

Color 

OR

Emotion 		Red Devil and Heroine Su 


✓

Object 

OR

Verb 

Crash 


✓

Animal

OR

Number		Three Hundred Years Later 


✓

Season 

OR

Calendar-related word 

Summer in Love 


✓


24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover   

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Domesticated Animal 

OR

Wild Animal		The Rational Life: The Proposal Battle 


✓

Flower 

OR 

Building 		Yes, Her Majesty 


✓

Light Colors 

OR

Dark Colors 		Hiyama Kentaro no Ninshin 


✓

Rainbow 

OR

Door 		The Shoufu Can Read Mind 


✓

Only Words 

OR 

Geometrical Shapes 		My Merman Brother


✓


Origin

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

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

25.  Countries of MDL

Progress: 7/7

Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

ChinaSupervisor Husband
✓
Hong KongGod Knows 
✓

Japan

Commuting to School Series: Commuter Tram


✓

Philippines

Maging Sino Ka Man


✓

South KoreaBye By Bi


✓

TaiwanSummer & Yuki 
✓

Thailand

42 Kg Nak Kae Nai Gor Rak 


✓

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

RouteEssentialSubstitute forNotesCompleted
A title tagged as Xianxia 

 

Legend of Yunze 

DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list 

OR

DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list


✓

edited Quote
Just Jill 72 VIP

MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet
 

Starting date:                    August 30, 2023

Link to your Drama list:  https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/JillHartman

Progress Habitat:                TBD

Progress Essentials:             TBD

 


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

 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


https://mydramalist.com/746287-19-20


Nineteen to Twenty (2023)


TV SHOW


x

MOVIE

OR

DRAMA SPECIAL


https://mydramalist.com/15364-my-annoying-brother

My Annoying Brother (2016)


MOVIE

x

Co-Produced 

OR 

Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL


https://mydramalist.com/50603-traveler-season-2

Traveler Season 2 (2020)

TV SHOW


x

Anthology 

OR 

Omnibus

https://mydramalist.com/705651-watashi-ga-kemono-ni-natta-yoru

The Night I Became a Beast (2021)

DRAMA
-Anthology


x

Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic

Or

Adapted From a Novel / Book

https://mydramalist.com/749663-tsuiraku-jk-to-haijin-kyoshi

Falling High School Girl & Irresponsible Teacher (2023)

DRAMA

x


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)

https://mydramalist.com/736293-their-report-card

Hit the Spot (2022)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x

Independent Film 

OR 

Propaganda

https://mydramalist.com/39309-404-not-found

404 Not Found (2018)

MOVIE

x

Documentary Genre

OR

 Mockumentary

https://mydramalist.com/740047-stargazer-astroscope

Stargazer: Astroscope (2022)

MOVIE

-Documentary on Boy Band Astro

x

Adapted from Folklore 

OR 

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person

https://mydramalist.com/17009-a-taxi-driver

A Taxi Driver (2017)

MOVIE

 "Gwangju Massacre" or the "May 18 Democratic Uprising".   Korea 1980

x

Historical Fiction 

OR 

Historical genre  + tag Based on True Story

https://mydramalist.com/716549-golden-spirit-joseon-marriage-prohibition

The Forbidden Marriage (2022)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x


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 

https://mydramalist.com/705077-courier

Black Knight (2023)

DRAMA

x

Comedy 

OR

Tragedy

https://mydramalist.com/9893-pee-mak

Pee Mak (2013)

MOVIE

x

Thriller

OR

Romance

https://mydramalist.com/721489-mysterious-love-2

Love of Replica (2023)

DRAMA

x

Youth 

OR

Political 

https://mydramalist.com/39411-don-t-leave-after-school

Don't Leave After School (2021)


DRAMA

x

Action 

OR

Life

https://mydramalist.com/705589-taxi-driver-2

Taxi Driver Season 2 (2023)

DRAMA

x


Time is Relative

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

4. Year of Origin   

Tutorial

Progress:  5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

in 2023

OR

1940-1959


https://mydramalist.com/715503-mask-girl

Mask Girl (2023)


DRAMA



x

1990-1999

OR

the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)


https://mydramalist.com/1384-an-affair

An Affair (1998)

MOVIE


x

2000-2010

OR

the month (not necessarily the year) you were born

https://mydramalist.com/118-iljimae-2008

Iljimae (2008)		DRAMA

-Aired 5/21/08
          to 7/24/08

x

year generated by this website

OR

1950-1969

https://mydramalist.com/2753-the-housemaid

The Housemaid (1960)

MOVIE




x

2017-2022

OR

1970-1989

https://mydramalist.com/79393-heaven-and-hell

Heaven and Hell: Soul Exchange (2021)		DRAMA

-Aired 1/17/21
           to 3/21/21

x


5. Duration of The Hike

 Tutorial

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

 Short Length Series

 OR

 Short Film 

 https://mydramalist.com/738645-my-x-like-20

My 20th Twenty (2023)

WEBSERIES

x

DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes 

Or

DRAMA with  30 episodes or more. 

https://mydramalist.com/701701-phantom-school

Phantom School (2022)

DRAMA

-30 min / episode

x

DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer.

 https://mydramalist.com/53591-yu-long

Miss the Dragon (2021)

DRAMA

-35 min / episode

x

DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. 

https://mydramalist.com/32804-my-girlfriend-is-an-alien

My Girlfriend is an Alien (2019)

DRAMA

-45 min / episode

x

DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes

OR

DRAMA with 8 episodes or less.  

https://mydramalist.com/733261-alchemy-of-souls-part-2

Alchemy of Souls Season 2: (2022)

DRAMA

-81 min per episode

x


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

https://mydramalist.com/684221-the-uncanny-counter-2

The Uncanny Counter Season 2: Counter Punch


DRAMA

x

Different Timelines  

OR 

Time Loop

https://mydramalist.com/712521-tale-of-the-nine-tailed-season-2

Tale of the Nine Tailed -1938 (2023)

DRAMA

x

Time Skip 

OR  

Time Travel

https://mydramalist.com/10816-time-renegades

Time Renegades (2016)

MOVIE

x

Winter 

OR 

Summer

https://mydramalist.com/200-will-it-snow-for-christmas

Will It Snow for Christmas? (2009)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag: Winter Setting

x

Fall  

OR

Spring

Orange (2015) - MyDramaList 

Orange (2015)

MOVIE

x


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 Caring

Tutorials: 1  2  3

Progress:  4/5

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

https://mydramalist.com/39667-anna

Anna (2022)


https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/BC993/plan_to_watch

BC993's PTW Drama List


x

with less than 10,000 viewers

OR

ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001)


https://mydramalist.com/712679-better-a-lie-than-a-truth

Better A Lie Than the Truth (2022)


DRAMA

-4,664 watchers


x

DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list 

OR

DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list

https://mydramalist.com/713549-d-p-season-2

D.P. Season 2 (2023)

DRAMA

6 Episodes


x

mentioned in the MDL Forums

Or

mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds)

F4 Thailand: Who Would You Choose? - Boys Over Flowers - MyDramaList 

F4 Thailand (2021)

DRAMA

1st half - Ren

2nd half Thyme

https://mydramalist.com/50007-boys-over-flowers


x

with the newest release date in your PTW list

OR

with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist

Love Reset (2023) - MyDramaList 


Love Reset		Movie

x


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)

https://mydramalist.com/profile/JillHartman/rec

If you liked 

Ditto (2000) you might like 

Signal (2016)


-------


x

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).

MDLer - maethereal 

Custom List: Mature Dramas

https://mydramalist.com/list/73Dga00L

MOVIE

https://mydramalist.com/10974-a-man-and-a-woman

A Man and a Woman (2016)


x

from your most viewed tags 

Or

from your least viewed genres under your profile stats

Friendship = 736

https://mydramalist.com/profile/JillHartman/stats


MOVIE

https://mydramalist.com/30499-the-youthful-you-who-was-so-beautiful

Better Days (2019)


x

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)

https://mydramalist.com/games/85w1Tb

Favorite Non-Romance

https://mydramalist.com/702267-weak-hero

Weak Hero Class 1 (2022)


x

with over 10 Reviews

OR

with 0 Reviews when you started watching it

https://mydramalist.com/30911-when-camellia-blooms

When the Camellia Blooms (2019)

DRAMA

-Reviews = 89


x


9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters

For 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

https://mydramalist.com/3532-a-muse

A Muse (2012)

MOVIE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eungyo

Best Film Award @ 2012 Buil Film Awards


x

from an award-winning director

OR

that has one of your favorite actresses

https://mydramalist.com/440-classic

The Classic (2003)

MOVIE

*Son Ye Jin*

https://mydramalist.com/people/293-son-ye-jin


x

from an award-winning screenwriter

OR

that has one of your favorite actors

https://mydramalist.com/36719-without-a-sound

Voice of Silence (2020)

MOVIE

*Yoo Ah In*

https://mydramalist.com/people/432-yoo-ah-in


x

from an award-winning actor

OR

by the same director as one of your favorite titles

https://mydramalist.com/728279-the-season-of-kokdoo

Kokdu: Season of Deity (2023)

DRAMA

*Kim Jung Hyun*

-Best New Actor Award @ 2017 MBC Drama Awards

https://mydramalist.com/people/11840-kim-jung-hyun


x

from an award-winning actress

OR

by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before

https://mydramalist.com/16182-kurosaki-kun-no-iinari-ni-nante-naranai


I'm Not Just Going to Do What Kurosaki-kun Says (2015)

SPECIAL

*Komatsu Nana*

-8th Japan Academy Prize: Newcomers Of The Year award

https://mydramalist.com/people/7591-komatsu-nana


x


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

Exorcism

https://mydramalist.com/707571-kiss-six-sense

Kiss Sixth Sense (2022)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x

Cohabitation 

OR

Long Distance Relationship

https://mydramalist.com/22602-suspicious-partner

Suspicious Partner (2017)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x

Fluffy 

OR

Sexual Assault

https://mydramalist.com/6079-an-actor-is-an-actor

Rough Play (2013)

MOVIE

-ML assaults a fangirl

x

Contract Relationship 

OR

Secret Relationship

https://mydramalist.com/694395-sleep-memo

Our Blooming Youth (2023)

DRAMA

-FL with ML the Crown Prince

x

Opposites Attract 

OR

Domestic Abuse

 https://mydramalist.com/723711-one-shot-scandal

Crash Course in Romance (2023)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x


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

https://mydramalist.com/26025-call-boy

Call Boy (2018)

MOVIE

-OMG!

x

Age Gap [Drama Life]  

OR 

Classmates' Relationship 

https://mydramalist.com/718817-xia-hua

The Forbidden Flower (2023)

DRAMA

-Older ML / Younger FL

x

features a Heterosexual relationship  

OR 

Same-Sex relationship

https://mydramalist.com/744227-yugure-ni-te-wo-tsunagu

Hold My Hand at Twilight (2023)


DRAMA

x

 Enemies to Lovers 

OR 

Love at First Sight

https://mydramalist.com/713771-love-battle

Love to Hate You (2023)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x

Nice Female Lead /  Male Lead 

OR 

Aggressive  Female Lead / Male  Lead

https://mydramalist.com/68809-marry-me

Marry Me! (2020)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x


12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying

Progress:  5/5

Choice of Route  

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Slight Comedy 

OR

Black Comedy

https://mydramalist.com/699015-fan-zhuan-ren-sheng

When You Be Me (2022)

DRAMA

x

Happy Ending 

OR 

features some type of Doomsday

https://mydramalist.com/731175-flower-scholars-love-story

The Secret Romantic Guesthouse (2023)

DRAMA

x

Tragic Past

OR 

Sketch Comedy

https://mydramalist.com/35039-the-king-the-eternal-monarch

The King: Eternal Monarch (2020)

DRAMA

x

features a Celebration 

OR

Mourning

https://mydramalist.com/737549-kimi-ni-todoke

From Me to You (2023)

DRAMA

x

 Healing 

OR

Suicide

https://mydramalist.com/695431-blue-birthday

Blue Birthday (2021)

DRAMA

x


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

https://mydramalist.com/729161-the-high-priest-rembrary

The Heavenly Idol (2023)

DRAMA

-Preist

x

Misunderstanding 

OR

Character Development

https://mydramalist.com/51207-my-girl

My Girl (2020)

DRAMA

ML misunderstands FL's condition

x

 Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot 

OR

LGBTQ+

https://mydramalist.com/1366-sunny-2011

Sunny (2011)		MOVIE

x

Suspense 

OR 

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance

https://mydramalist.com/57047-number-of-cases-to-go-from-friends-to-lovers

More Than Friends (2020)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x

 Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead 

OR 

Discrimination

https://mydramalist.com/708775-celebrity

Celebrity (2023)

DRAMA

x



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

https://mydramalist.com/60739-ireland-season-2

Island Part 2 (2023)

DRAMA

-House built into cliff looking over chasm

x

In the Woods 

OR

By the Sea

https://mydramalist.com/734003-eden-descendants-of-instinct-2

Eden Season 2 (2022)

TV SHOW

x

In a Jungle 

OR 

On a Rooftop

https://mydramalist.com/714577-seasons-of-blossom

Seasons of Blossom (2022)

DRAMA

x

On a Mountain 

OR 

On an Island

https://mydramalist.com/725837-single-s-inferno-season-2

Single's Inferno Season 2 (2022)

TV SHOW

x

In a City 

OR

In a Small Town

https://mydramalist.com/703721-i-don-t-want-to-do-anything

Summer Strike (2022)

DRAMA

x


15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

An Umbrella 

OR

A Backpack

https://mydramalist.com/33333-traveler

Traveler Season 1

TV SHOW

-2 Actors on a trip carrying backpacks

x

A Truck  

OR

A Sports Car

https://mydramalist.com/35551-pipeline

Pipeline (2021)

MOVIE

-ML drives to pipeline site in a Red Porche 911

x

A Smartphone 

OR

A Phone Booth

https://mydramalist.com/21817-a.i.-love-you

A.I. Love You (2016)

MOVIE

-FL installs an A.I. on phone

 x

A Suit /Dress 

OR

A Hoodie

https://mydramalist.com/164-a-moment-to-remember

A Moment to Remember (2004)

MOVIE

-ML's only suit & made by wife

x

A Book 

OR

A Crossbow

https://mydramalist.com/701623-chijo-no-seppun

Blinded Kiss (2021)		DRAMA

-FL is a Librarian needing an apt to house her collection of books

x


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 

Child Actor/Actress 

OR 

Veteran Actor/Actress 

https://mydramalist.com/10166-plus-nine-boys

Plus Nine Boys (2014)

DRAMA

(Choi Ro Woo)

 -ML3 plays a 9 year old @ age 7

x

Idol actor/ Idol actress 

OR

Former Child Actor/Actress 

https://mydramalist.com/80001-link

Link: Eat, Love, Kill (2022)

DRAMA

(Yeo Jin Goo) 

-ML former child Actor

x

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)

https://mydramalist.com/24643-dear-prince

Dear Prince (2017)

DRAMA

-Both characters kiss to return their genders back

x

Able Bodied 

OR

Living with a disability 

https://mydramalist.com/28621-incheon-airport-people

Where Stars Land (2018)

DRAMA

-1 arm & 1 leg destroyed, needs wheelchair

x

Public Figure  

OR

Hidden Identity

https://mydramalist.com/727983-joseon-lawyer

Joseon Attorney: A Morality (2023)

DRAMA

-FL has 2 identities

x


17. Camouflage?

Progress:  5/5

Choice of Route )

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Athlete 

OR 

Artist

https://mydramalist.com/47057-dream

Dream (2023)

MOVIE

Sport: Soccer

x

Glasses 

OR

Tattoos

https://mydramalist.com/79607-youngest-son-of-a-conglomerate

Reborn Rich (2022)

DRAMA

x

Identity Swap 

OR

Body Swap

https://mydramalist.com/4236-big

Big (2012)


DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x

Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead

OR 

Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead

https://mydramalist.com/705863-kill-bok-soon


Kil Bok Soon (2023)

MOVIE

FL = Assassin

x

Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead

OR

Antihero/Antiheroine

https://mydramalist.com/31736-bureau-of-transformer

Bureau of Transformer (2019)

DRAMA

x


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

https://mydramalist.com/28743-lovely-horribly

Lovely Horribly (2018)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x

Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead 

OR

Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead

https://mydramalist.com/36445-the-sweet-love-story

The Love Equations (2020)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

ML = Forensic Science Major

x

Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead 

OR

Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead

https://mydramalist.com/18452-goblin

Goblin (2016)

DRAMA

x

Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead

OR 

Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead 

https://mydramalist.com/13857-love-me-if-you-dare

Love Me if You Dare (2015)

DRAMA

-MDL Tag

x

Killer 

OR

Healer  

https://mydramalist.com/40349-midnight

Midnight (2021)

MOVIE

ML = Psychopathic killer

x


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:  5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Pet  

OR 

Pest

https://mydramalist.com/46321-kimi-no-me-ga-toikakete-iru

Your Eyes Tell (2020)

MOVIE

-ML buys a dog for blind FL

x

Talking Pet  

OR

Animal Death

https://mydramalist.com/382-one-million-yen-girl

One Million Yen Girl (2008)

MOVIE

-Room mate tosses kitten out in rain & it drowns

x

Zoo animal  

OR

Farm Animal

https://mydramalist.com/7894-silver-spoon

Silver Spoon (2014)

MOVIE

x

Veterinarian  

OR

Animal Control

https://mydramalist.com/35325-the-best-of-you-in-my-mind

The Best of You in Mind (2020)

DRAMA

-FL vet student

x

Romantic Ride on a Horse  

OR

Horse Ridden to Out to War

https://mydramalist.com/731605-the-legend-and-butterfly

The Legend & Butterfly (2023)

MOVIE

x


20. Where the Humans Are…

Progress:  5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Human Turns into an Animal   

OR

Animal turns into a Human

https://mydramalist.com/17259-catman

Catman (2021)

MOVIE

-Cursed to be a cat 


x

Adorable animals 

OR 

Animal Attack

My Lovely Liar (2023) - MyDramaList 

My Lovely Liar

Drama

-Pet Turtle

x

Animal in the Wild 

OR

Animal in a City

Hachiko (2023) - MyDramaList 

Hachiko (2023)

MOVIE

-Dog

x

Pet dressed in Clothes 

OR 

Animal Abuse

https://mydramalist.com/1538-the-chaser

The Chaser (2008)

MOVIE

-Dog 

x

Second Lead Caring For Animals 

OR 

Antagonist Caring For Animals

https://mydramalist.com/63259-the-door-into-summer

The Door into Summer (2021)

MOVIE

-briefly at end while ML finishes up his tasks

x

 

21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress:  5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Funeral Director 

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care)

https://mydramalist.com/11550-suspicious-ward-no.-7

Drama Special Season 5: Suspicious Ward No. 7 (2014)

DRAMA SPECIAL


x

Virtual Reality  

OR 

Ghosts

https://mydramalist.com/53101-missing

Missing: The Other Side (2020)

Drama

x

Corruption 

OR

Teamwork

https://mydramalist.com/40-liar-game

Liar Game (2007)

Drama

x

Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game

https://mydramalist.com/30814-tazza-3

Tazza 3: One-Eyed Jacks (2019)

MOVIE

x

Friendship 

OR

Bullying

https://mydramalist.com/737319-poong-the-joseon-psychiatrist-season-2

Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist Season 2 (2023)

DRAMA

-ML & his group create strong bonds

x


22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress:  5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Colleagues 

OR

Inmates

https://mydramalist.com/685801-big-mouse

Big Mouth (2022)

DRAMA

x

Bromance 

OR 

Sismance

https://mydramalist.com/17103-the-last-ride

The Last Ride (2016)

MOVIE

x

Parent-Child 

OR

Sibling 

https://mydramalist.com/733717-mitaraike-enjou-suru

Burn Down the House (2023)

DRAMA

Mother / son bad relationship contrasted with FL / her mom good one

x

Assailant-Victim 

OR

Student-Teacher

https://mydramalist.com/69827-smartphone

Unlocked (2023)

MOVIE

x

Doctor-Patient 

OR

Soldier

https://mydramalist.com/59227-love-parasite

Parasite in Love (2021)

MOVIE

x


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 

Celestial Body 

OR  

Body Part 

https://mydramalist.com/38045-puppy

My Heart Puppy (2023)

MOVIE

Part: Heart

x

Color 

OR

Emotion 

https://mydramalist.com/66983-robot-in-the-orange-garden

Robot in the Orange Orchard (2022)

DRAMA

Color: Orange

x

Object 

OR

Verb 

https://mydramalist.com/692045-golden-spoon

The Golden Spoon (2022)

DRAMA

Object: Spoon

x

Animal

OR

Number 

https://mydramalist.com/701881-hounds

Bloodhounds (2023)

DRAMA

Animal: Dog

x

Season 

OR

Calendar-related word 

https://mydramalist.com/740725-e-mo-shao-ye-bie-wen-wo

Promise in the Summer (2023)

DRAMA

Season: Summer

x


24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover   

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Domesticated Animal 

OR

Wild Animal 		https://mydramalist.com/22730-this-is-not-what-i-expected

This is Not What I Expected (2017)


MOVIE


-Dog dressed in Top Hat

x

Flower 

OR 

Building 

https://mydramalist.com/685237-untitled-kim-eun-sook-project

The Glory (2022)

DRAMA

x

Light Colors 

OR

Dark Colors 

https://mydramalist.com/704539-connect

Connect (2022)

DRAMA

x

Rainbow 

OR

Door 

https://mydramalist.com/725297-delivery-man

Delivery Man (2023)

DRAMA

-Taxi Car Door

x

Only Words 

OR 

Geometrical Shapes 

https://mydramalist.com/719603-boys-planet

Boys Planet (2023)

TV SHOW

x


Origin

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

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

25.  Countries of MDL

Progress:  7/7

Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

China

https://mydramalist.com/32010-assasin-in-red

A Writer's Odyssey (2021)

MOVIE

x

Hong Kong

https://mydramalist.com/22368-vampire-cleanup-department

The Vampire Clean Up Department (2017)

MOVIE

x

Japan

https://mydramalist.com/716661-high-low-the-worst-sequel

High&Low the Worst Cross (2022)

MOVIE

x

Philippines

https://mydramalist.com/27607-can-t-help-falling-in-love

Can't Help Falling in Love (2017)

MOVIE

x

South Korea

https://mydramalist.com/15094-marital-harmony

The Princess & the Matchmaker (2018)

MOVIE

x

Taiwan

https://mydramalist.com/716863-the-ghost-and-i-becoming-family

Marry My Dead Body (2022)

MOVIE

x

Thailand

https://mydramalist.com/715891-my-dear-donovan

My Dear Donovan (2022)

DRAMA

x


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
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MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet

 

Starting date: 2023.09.15.

Link to your Drama list: https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/Ciracchi

Progress Habitat: Plains - Red Panda

 


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

 Web Series

OR

 TV SHOW*

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


IU TV


Watching all episodes when they come out, currently 97/97


yes

MOVIE

OR

DRAMA SPECIAL


You've Got a Friend



yes

Co-Produced


OR

Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL


One Piece





yes

Anthology 

OR

Omnibus

OR

Treat: Watch a drama with a sex doll in the main role


My Sexdoll



yes

Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic

Or

Adapted From a Novel / Book


Liar Game 2





yes


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)

Stolen Identity


yes

Independent Film

OR

Propaganda

R100



yes

Documentary Genre


OR


 Mockumentary

OR

Treat:

Watch a drama that has a vibrator on it’s cover picture

Raise de wa Chanto Shimasu Season 2


yes

Adapted from Folklore 

OR

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person

OR

Treat: Watch a drama that features the struggles of an ex-prostitute

Call Me Chihiro


yes

Historical Fiction

OR

Historical genre  + tag Based on True Story

Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938



yes

 

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

Sweet Home Season 2


yes

Comedy

OR

Tragedy

Sunny


yes

Thriller

OR

Romance

The Glory Part 2



Youth

OR

Political 

Nevertheless,



Action

OR

Life

Duty After School: Part 1



 

Time is Relative

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

4. Year of Origin   

Tutorial

Progress:  5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

in 2023

OR

1940-1959

Delightfully Deceitful




yes

1990-1999

OR

the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)


Murder at Shijinsou


https://mydramalist.com/profile/Ciracchi

2019


yes

2000-2010

OR

the month (not necessarily the year) you were born

Sexy Cats


2004


yes

year generated by this website

OR

1950-1969


Liar Game X



2010


yes

2017-2022

OR

1970-1989


Sensei Kunshu


2018


yes


5. Duration of The Hike

 Tutorial

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

 Short Length Series

 OR

 Short Film 

 The West Wind Is Strong



yes

DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes

Or

DRAMA with  30 episodes or more. 

Murai no Koi


yes

DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer.

 Youkai Sharehouse: Kaettekita n Kai



yes

DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts  180 minutes or longer. 

Island Part 2



yes

DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes

OR

DRAMA with 8 episodes or less.  

Agency



yes


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

Duty After School: Part 2


yes

Different Timelines 

OR

Time Loop

Signal


yes

Time Skip 

OR 

Time Travel

Twinkling Watermelon


yes

Winter 

OR

Summer

Backstreet Rookie


yes

Fall  

OR

Spring

Once Upon a Crime


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.

7. Sharing is Caring

Tutorials: 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


Liar Game




yes


with less than 10,000 viewers

OR

ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001)


Arthdal Chronicles Part 2




yes

DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list 

OR

DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list


Once Again





yes

mentioned in the MDL Forums

Or

mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds)


The Glory


https://mydramalist.com/profile/Gelatinne/feeds/djVdnIB


yes

with the newest release date in your PTW list


OR

with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist

Night Has Come




yes


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)


Boyhood



https://mydramalist.com/750639-the-hidden-dragon/trailers/37873


yes

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).

Love to Hate You



https://mydramalist.com/list/1VKGKGKL


yes

from your most viewed tags

Or

from your least viewed genres under your profile stats

Death's Game



Most viewed tag - Death


yes

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)

Unlocked


https://mydramalist.com/article/21-best-korean-movies-of-2023


yes

with over 10 Reviews

OR

with 0 Reviews when you started watching it

Imawa no Kuni no Alice Season 2



yes



9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters

For 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


Smugglers



Awards


yes

from an award-winning director

OR

that has one of your favorite actresses


Dream



<3 

IU My Love

<3

yes


from an award-winning screenwriter

OR

that has one of your favorite actors

Song of the Bandits



Kim Nam Gil



yes

from an award-winning actor

OR

by the same director as one of your favorite titles

Two Weeks


Lee Joon Gi


yes

from an award-winning actress


OR

by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before


Doona!		Bae Suzy



yes


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

Exorcism

Island


Yes

Cohabitation

OR

Long Distance Relationship

Not Others


Yes

Fluffy 

OR

Sexual Assault

Better Days


Yes

Contract Relationship 

OR

Secret Relationship

King the Land



Yes

Opposites Attract 

OR

Domestic Abuse

 The Penthouse: War in Life



yes

 

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

The Treacherous

Extreme Sexual Content

yes

Age Gap [Drama Life]  

OR

Classmates' Relationship

20th Century Girl


yes

features a Heterosexual relationship  

OR

Same-Sex relationship

See You in My 19th Life



yes

 Enemies to Lovers 

OR

Love at First Sight

Oasis

yes

Nice Female Lead / Male Lead

OR 

Aggressive Female Lead /Male  Lead

Assassination


yes


12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route  

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Slight Comedy 


OR


Black Comedy

Mask Girl


yes

Happy Ending 

OR

features some type of Doomsday

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead


yes

Tragic Past

OR

Sketch Comedy

Silenced



yes

features a Celebration 

OR

Mourning

Oh No! Here Comes Trouble



yes

 Healing 

OR

Suicide

Stranger


yes


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

Tale of the Nine-Tailed


yes

Misunderstanding 

OR

Character Development


Liar Game: The Final Stage


yes

 Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot

OR

LGBTQ+

D.P. Season 2


yes

Suspense

OR

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance

Revenant


yes

 Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead

OR

Discrimination

Bo Ra! Deborah



yes

 

 

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

Heartbeat


yes

In the Woods 

OR

By the Sea

In Love and Deep Water



Yes

In a Jungle

OR

On a Rooftop

Arthdal Chronicles Part 1


Yes


On a Mountain 

OR

On an Island

Love Alarm


Yes

In a City 


OR


In a Small Town

Once Upon a Small Town


yes


15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

An Umbrella

OR

A Backpack

Joseon Attorney: A Morality


yes

A Truck 

OR

A Sports Car

Unlock My Boss


Yes

A Smartphone

OR

A Phone Booth

Celebrity


 Yes

A Suit /Dress

OR

A Hoodie

Midnight Museum


Yes

A Book 

OR

A Crossbow

OR

Treat: Watch a title with a number in it’s title

17.3 About a Sex


Yes

 

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 

Child Actor/Actress 

OR

Veteran Actor/Actress

The Killing Vote

Veteran

Park Sung Woong

Yes

Idol actor/ Idol actress

OR

Former Child Actor/Actress 

Mission 1: Possible

Lee Sun Bin

Yes

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)

Raise de wa Chanto Shimasu


Yes

Able Bodied

OR

Living with a disability 

The Battleship Island


Yes

Public Figure  

OR

Hidden Identity

Arthdal Chronicles Part 3: The Prelude to All Legends


yes

 

17. Camouflage?

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Athlete 

OR

Artist

Soundtrack #1


Yes


Glasses

OR

Tattoos

Real


Yes

Identity Swap 

OR

Body Swap

Boku wa Mari no Naka


Yes

Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead


OR

Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead

Midnight Runners


yes

Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead

OR

Antihero/Antiheroine

OR

Treat: Watch a drama that features a ”sex and romance advice podcast”


Hit the Spot


Yes

 

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

Moving


yes

Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead 


OR


Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead

The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale


Yes

Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead 

OR

Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead

My Lovely Liar


yes

Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead 

OR

Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead 

Class of Lies


yes

Killer

OR

Healer  

Kill Bok Soon


yes

 

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: 2/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Pet 

OR

Pest

Hachiko


yes

Talking Pet  

OR

Animal Death




Zoo animal  

OR

Farm Animal




Veterinarian 

OR

Animal Control




Romantic Ride on a Horse  

OR

Horse Ridden to Out to War

Arthdal Chronicles: The Sword of Aramun


yes


20. Where the Humans Are…

Progress: 2/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Human Turns into an Animal   

OR

Animal turns into a Human

Alienoid 1


yes

Adorable animals 

OR

Animal Attack

The Pirates 2: The Last Royal Treasure


yes

Animal in the Wild

OR

Animal in a City




Pet dressed in Clothes

OR

Animal Abuse




Second Lead Caring For Animals

OR

Antagonist Caring For Animals




 

21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress: 0/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Funeral Director

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care)




Virtual Reality  

OR

Ghosts




Corruption

OR

Teamwork




Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game




Friendship

OR

Bullying




 

22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress: 0/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Colleagues

OR

Inmates




Bromance

OR

Sismance




Parent-Child 

OR

Sibling




Assailant-Victim

OR

Student-Teacher




Doctor-Patient

OR

Soldier





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 

Celestial Body

OR 

Body Part




Color


OR


Emotion




Object

OR

Verb




Animal

OR

Number




Season

OR

Calendar-related word





24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover   

Progress: 0/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Domesticated Animal


OR


Wild Animal 




Flower

OR

Building




Light Colors 

OR

Dark Colors




Rainbow

OR

Door




Only Words 

OR

Geometrical Shapes




 

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




Hong Kong




Japan




Philippines




South Korea




Taiwan




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

Watch a drama with a number in it’s title

17.3 About a Sex

A Book 

OR

A Crossbow


yes

Watch a drama that has a vibrator on it’s cover picture

Raise de wa Chanto Shimasu Season 2

Documentary Genre


OR


 Mockumentary


yes

Watch a drama with a sex doll in the main role

My Sexdoll

Anthology

OR

Omnibus


yes

Watch a drama that features a ”sex and romance advice podcast”


Hit the Spot

Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead

OR

Antihero/Antiheroine


yes

Watch a drama that features the struggles of an ex-prostitute

Call Me Chihiro

Adapted from Folklore

OR

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person


yes








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MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet

 

Starting date: 28.09.2023

Link to your Drama list: https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/ccbai

Progress Habitat: 18/25



Plan to Watch - Currently watching - Completed


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

 Web Series

OR

 TV SHOW*

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

Terrace House
Boys and Girls in the City
Episodes 1 - 5

Yes

MOVIE

OR

DRAMA SPECIAL


Ballerina


Yes

Co-Produced 


OR 

Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL

Plus & Minus



Yes

Anthology 

OR 

Omnibus

Til Death Do Us Apart


Yes

Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic

Or

Adapted From a Novel / Book

Little Women



Yes


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)

Juvenile Justice

Yes

Independent Film 

OR 

Propaganda

Hellbound

Yes

Documentary Genre


OR


 Mockumentary

NCT 127: The Lost Boys

Yes

Adapted from Folklore 

OR 

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person

Like in the Movies

Yes

Historical Fiction 

OR 

Historical genre  + tag Based on True Story

Kingdom: Ashin of the North

Yes


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 

Zettai Kareshi

Yes

Comedy 

OR

Tragedy

Ossan's Love

Yes

Thriller

OR

Romance

Dangerous Romance

Yes

Youth 

OR

Political 

Only Friends

Yes

Action 

OR

Life

Triad Princess

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 one  you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time 

4. Year of Origin   

Tutorial

Progress: 5/5  

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

in 2023

OR

1940-1959

Tsuiraku JK to Haijin Kyoshi



Yes

1990-1999

OR

the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)

Kikujiro



Yes

2000-2010

OR

the month (not necessarily the year) you were born

Ikebukuro West Gate Park


Yes

year generated by this website

1991, 1995, 1999, 2008

OR

1950-1969

Ichi



Yes

2017-2022

OR

1970-1989

Kingdom Season 2


Yes


5. Duration of The Hike

 Tutorial

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

 Short Length Series

 OR

 Short Film 

The Ingenuity of the Househusband


Yes

DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes 

Or

DRAMA with  30 episodes or more. 

Kimi to Nara Koi wo Shite Mite mo

Yes

DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer.

Zom 100 Bucketlist of the Dead


Yes

DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes

OR

MOVIE that lasts  180 minutes or longer. 

A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

Yes

DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes

OR

DRAMA with 8 episodes or less.  

I promised you the  Moon

Yes


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

The Glory 2

Yes

Different Timelines  

OR 

Time Loop

Detention

Yes

Time Skip 

OR  

Time Travel

Boku Dake ga Inai Machi

Yes

Winter 

OR 

Summer

The Master Plan

Yes

Fall  

OR

Spring

Autumn's Concerto

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. 

7. Sharing is Caring

Tutorials: 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

I told Sunset about You



Yes

with less than 10,000 viewers

OR

ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001)

Reset



Yes

DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list 

OR

DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list

Fudanshi Bartender no Tashinami


Yes

mentioned in the MDL Forums

Or

mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds)


Yume de Mita Ano Ko no Tame ni		Feed


Yes

with the newest release date in your PTW list


OR

with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist

Hunting of Fools





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)

HIStory: Obsessed
Recommendations

Yes

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).

One Room Angel
Absolute Favorite 2023 BL Series
Yes

from your most viewed tags 

Or

from your least viewed genres under your profile stats

A Taxi Driver
Political
Yes

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)

Soul Mechanic
Heal Your Heart: Therapy in K-Dramas

Yes

with over 10 Reviews

OR

with 0 Reviews when you started watching it

The Devil Judge

Yes


9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters

For 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

Skeleton Flowers
Sawai Kaori

Yes

from an award-winning director

OR

that has one of your favorite actresses

In those Days
Imaizumi Rikiya


Yes

from an award-winning screenwriter

OR

that has one of your favorite actors

3 Papas
Yamada Yuki
Yes

from an award-winning actor

OR

by the same director as one of your favorite titles

Shoplifters
Lily Franky

Yes

from an award-winning actress


OR

by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before

Hotel del Luna

IU
Yes


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

Exorcism

Let's fight Ghost

Yes

Cohabitation 

OR

Long Distance Relationship

Otonari ni Ginga

Yes

Fluffy 

OR

Sexual Assault

Hold Me

Yes

Contract Relationship 

OR

Secret Relationship

On Air

Yes

Opposites Attract 

OR

Domestic Abuse

 Kingyo Tsuma


Yes


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

Love and Leashes
Yes

Age Gap [Drama Life]  

OR 

Classmates' Relationship 

Sweet Games

Yes

features a Heterosexual relationship  

OR 

Same-Sex relationship

Show Me Love
Yes

 Enemies to Lovers

OR 

Love at First Sight

Hana Yori Dango

Yes

Nice Female Lead / Male Lead 

OR 

Aggressive Female Lead /Male  Lead

As Long As We Both Shall Live

Yes


12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route  

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Slight Comedy 


OR


Black Comedy

D.P.

Yes

Happy Ending 

OR 

features some type of Doomsday

Your Eyes Tell

Yes

Tragic Past 

OR 

Sketch Comedy

Night in Paradise

Yes

features a Celebration 

OR

Mourning

Boku dake ga 17sai no Sekai de

Yes

 Healing 

OR

Suicide

We're Not Trash

Yes


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

Along With the Gods

Yes

Misunderstanding 

OR

Character Development

Honey Lemon Soda

Yes

 Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot 

OR

LGBTQ+

Followers

Yes

Suspense

OR 

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance

Forgotten

Yes

 Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead 

OR 

Discrimination

Kimi ni wa Todokanai

Yes



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

House of Flying Daggers

Yes

In the Woods 

OR

By the Sea

Suki na Hito ga Iru Koto

Yes

In a Jungle

OR 

On a Rooftop

Onoda

Yes

On a Mountain 

OR 

On an Island

The Stranded

Yes

In a City 


OR


In a Small Town

99.9% Criminal Lawyer

Yes


15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress: 1/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

An Umbrella 

OR

A Backpack

Bokura no Shokutaku


A Truck  

OR

A Sports Car

Black Knight


A Smartphone 

OR

A Phone Booth

Unlocked

 Yes

A Suit /Dress 

OR

A Hoodie

Our Dating Sim


A Book 

OR

A Crossbow

Chijo no Kiss



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 

Child Actor/Actress 

OR 

Veteran Actor/Actress 

Born With It
Yes

Idol actor/ Idol actress 

OR

Former Child Actor/Actress 

Night Has Come

Yes

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)

Beneath the Shadow

Yes

Able Bodied 

OR

Living with a disability 

Until Rainbow Dawn
Yes

Public Figure  

OR

Hidden Identity

Taikan Yohou

Yes


17. Camouflage?

Progress: 1/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Athlete 

OR 

Artist

Kaidanshita no Gogh

Glasses

OR

Tattoos

Girl Next Room: Midnight Fantasy

Identity Swap 

OR

Body Swap

The Dude in Me
Yes

Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead


OR 

Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead

Money Heist

Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead

OR

Antihero/Antiheroine

Invisible


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

Midnight

Yes

Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead 


OR


Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead

Sell Your Haunted House

Yes

Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead 

OR

Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead

Five Steps to Accept Farewell

Yes

Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead 

OR 

Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead 

Accidentally in  Love

Yes

Killer 

OR

Healer  

Copycat Killer

Yes


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: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Pet  

OR 

Pest

Roommates of Poongduck 304

Yes

Talking Pet  

OR

Animal Death

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Yes

Zoo animal  

OR

Farm Animal

Once Upon a Small Town

Yes

Veterinarian  

OR

Animal Control

La Pluie

Yes

Romantic Ride on a Horse  

OR

Horse Ridden to Out to War

Be Mine SuperStar
Yes


20. Where the Humans Are…

Progress: 2/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Human Turns into an Animal   

OR

Animal turns into a Human

Meow, Ears Up
Yes

Adorable animals 

OR 

Animal Attack

Kikazaru Koi ni wa Riyuu ga

Animal in the Wild 

OR

Animal in a City

Gudetama: An Excellent Adventure

Pet dressed in Clothes 

OR 

Animal Abuse

Lei & Mar
Yes

Second Lead Caring For Animals 

OR 

Antagonist Caring For Animals

Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey

 

21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress: 3/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Funeral Director 

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care)

Birthcare Center

Virtual Reality  

OR 

Ghosts

The Ghost Bride
Yes

Corruption 

OR

Teamwork

Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo

Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game

Cube
Yes

Friendship 

OR

Bullying

High & Low: The Worst
Yes


22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Colleagues 

OR

Inmates

Oh! My Assistant

Bromance 

OR 

Sismance

Little Forest

Parent-Child 

OR

Sibling 

Double Savage

Assailant-Victim 

OR

Student-Teacher

Lesson in Love

Doctor-Patient 

OR

Soldier

Hoshi Furu Yoru ni


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 

Celestial Body 

OR  

Body Part 

To My Star
Yes

Color 


OR


Emotion 

Red Devil and Heroine Su
Yes

Object 

OR

Verb 

He Won't Kill, She Won't Die
Yes

Animal

OR

Number 

6ixtynin9
Yes

Season 

OR

Calendar-related word 

May - December - January
Yes


24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover   

Progress: 1/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Domesticated Animal


OR


Wild Animal 

Only You

Flower 

OR 

Building 

Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san


Light Colors 

OR

Dark Colors 

Marry Me

Rainbow 

OR

Door 

Oh, Mando!

Only Words 

OR 

Geometrical Shapes 

The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window
Yes


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




Hong Kong




Japan

Trillion Game

Yes

Philippines




South Korea




Taiwan




Thailand





Treats


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: 01/01/2023

End Date: 11/?/2023-will be done on the 16th

Link to your Drama list: List

Sign Up Form: Sign-in Part 1 / Sign-in Part 2

Progress Habitat: Elephant Black Hole + Tiger

Progress: 635/635 

Block Progress: 25/25 

Before Challenge: 1,812 projects

After Challenge: 2,447 projects


Which Route did I use?:

 First Option        Second Option

Korea: ( 227)   Japan:  (136)    Thai:  (115)    China:  (70)

Philippines: (29)   Taiwan: (39)   Hong Kong: (19)


Dramas: (268)   Movies: (295)   Special: (56)   TV Shows: (16)



CATEGORIES 1-11 ARE ON PART 1 BECAUSE OF WORD COUNT MAXIMUM. SEE YOU THERE!




12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying

Progress: 25/25

Choice of Route  

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Slight Comedy 


OR


Black Comedy


2. Strangers Again

3. Be Melodramatic

4. Romance  Doll

5. Supervisor Husband


1. ✔️

02/14

2. ✔️

02/25

3. ✔️

05/11

4. ✔️

07/24

5. ✔️

08/26

Happy Ending 

OR 

features some type of Doomsday


 2. The Perfect Man's Man 



4. On my Way to School

5. Crazy Beautiful You



1. ✔️

02/14

2. ✔️

06/02

3. ✔️

07/27

4. ✔️

07/31

5. ✔️

10/02

Tragic Past 

OR 

Sketch Comedy



2. I Am U 

3. Bokura no Micro na Shuumatsu

4. Innocent

5. Extremely Perilous Love


1. ✔️

01/13

2. ✔️

01/25

3. ✔️

02/26

4, ✔️

06/04

5. ✔️

08/18

features a Celebration 

OR

Mourning



3. Sirius

4. Hope (2013)

5. Wedding Plan

1. Character's Parent


3. mom mourns the good brother in jail

4. parents mourn the child's loss of innocence

1. ✔️

03/02

2. ✔️

07/17

3. ✔️

07/29

4. ✔️

08/13

5. ✔️

08/31

 Healing 

OR

Suicide




4. Move to Heaven  *R

5. Mars  *R



1. ✔️

01/04

2. ✔️

06/11

3. ✔️

06/26

4. ✔️

08/23

5. ✔️

09/03

 

13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff

Progress: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

features a Religious Leader 

OR

Some type of God


2. See Hear Love

3. Doom at Your Service  *R

4. Tooties and the Fake

5.  Handmade Love

1. Monk ML


2. Priest Cameo

3 &5. Deity ML

4. Monk Cameo

1. ✔️

06/25

2. ✔️

07/09

3. ✔️

07/30

4. ✔️

09/20

5. ✔️

10/26


Misunderstanding 

OR

Character Development




4. Bad Romeo

5. Truth or Dare


1. ✔️

03/04

2. ✔️

04/06

3. ✔️

04/14

4. ✔️

05/14

5. ✔️

06/02

 Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot 

OR/ AND

LGBTQ+




3. Zenra Meshi



5. The Third Party

2. Female

4. Male

1. ✔️

02/14

2.  ✔️

05/03

3.  ✔️

07/01

4. ✔️

07/11

5. ✔️

07/22

Suspense 

OR 

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance



2. Our Blooming Youth

3. Bokura no Shokutaku

4.  The Devotion of Suspect X

5. My Lovely Liar

1. Romance


2. Both

3. Romance

1. ✔️

02/13

2. ✔️

04/10

3. ✔️

06/08

4. ✔️

08/05

5. ✔️

09/19

Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead

OR 

Discrimination


2. Pumpkin Time (Movie)

3. Bed Friend

4. Utsukushii Kare  *R

5. Mine

1. Racism/Gender


2 & 4. ML

3. Work

5. Class 

1. ✔️

01/31

2.✔️

04/18

3. ✔️

04/23

4. ✔️

08/21

5. ✔️

09/27


 

 

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: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

On a Field  

OR 

On a Cliff




4. Home School

5. King the Land 

1. Acting Audition/training


2. ML saves FL

3. Both leads fall

4. Talk about rules/introduction

5. ML & FL fall

1. ✔️

01/02

2. ✔️

01/04

3. ✔️

04/24

4. ✔️

08/05

5. ✔️

08/07

In the Woods 

OR

By the Sea

1. Stolen Identity 2

2. The Eighth Sense


3. Light the Night Season 1

4.  Ouran High School Host Club  *R

5. The Forest of Love

1. Kiss

2. Surf Club

3. Hand found (ep. 1)

4. work/vacation

5. murder takes place

1. ✔️

02/02

2. ✔️

04/28

3. ✔️

06/04

4. ✔️

07/07

5. ✔️

07/24

In a Jungle 

OR 

On a Rooftop

1.  Amerio Paradox

2. Never Let me Go


3. Our Dating Sims


4. Our Skyy 2: A Tale of a Thousand Stars


5. Tsuiraku JK to Haijinn Kyoshi

1. most scenes

2. ML vents/kiss

3. kiss

4. Proposal

5. teacher/student interaction

1. ✔️

02/09

2. ✔️

03/01

3. ✔️

04/05

4. ✔️

06/08

5. ✔️

08/02

 

On a Mountain 

OR 

On an Island

1. Night in Paradise

2. Busted Season 1 


3. Moe no Suzaku

4, The Naked Island

5. Word of Honor Epilouge

1. Jeju Island

2. Finding clues

3. Mountain setting

4. Island setting

5. Mountain scenes featured

1. ✔️

05/29

2. ✔️

07/30

3. ✔️

08/14

4. ✔️

09/28


In a City 


OR


In a Small Town


1. Falling in Love like a Romantic Drama 2

2. My Liberation Notes


3. Love Tractor

4. Run For the Money

5. Wish You: Your Melody From my Heart (Movie)


1. Date

2. Rural/small town setting

3. City setting

4.  city setting/the whole plot of show

5.MLs meet for the first time.

1. ✔️

01/01

2. ✔️

01/15

3. ✔️

06/30

4. ✔️

07/04

5. ✔️

08/05

 

15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress: 25/25 

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

An Umbrella 

OR

A Backpack

1. Tokyo March

2. A Practical Guide to Being a Superstar Assistant

3. Our Skyy 2: Bad Buddy

4. An Inconvenient Love

5. The Girl and the Gun

1. FL at a grave

2. Fight Scene

3. Meet other characters

4. ML always has it on

5. FL lead takes revenge

1. ✔️

01/23

2. ✔️

05/31

2. ✔️

06/01

4. ✔️

07/03

5. ✔️

07/22

A Truck  

OR

A Sports Car

1. Desire Catcher

2.  Successful Story of a Bright Girl


3. Seoul Vibe

4. The Childe

5. The Lost Lotteries

1. Victim 1-5 involved with truck

2. ML takes FL after confrontation with the  2nd FL

3. Used for cons

4-5. Almost got run over

1. ✔️

05/22

2. ✔️

05/28

3. ✔️

07/22

4. ✔️

08/29

5. ✔️

09/21

A Smartphone 

OR

A Phone Booth

1.  Stolen Identity

2. Midnight Museum


3. Busted Season 3

4. Pending Train: 8:23, Ashita Kimi to

5. Back to the 90's

1. Phone hacked

2 & 5. Portal

3. One character almost got killed

4. most characters used for trying to contact family

1. ✔️

02/02

2. ✔️

04/05

3. ✔️

08/16

4. ✔️

08/16

5. ✔️

09/20

A Suit /Dress 

OR

A Hoodie

1. Missed Connections

2. The Uncanny Counter  *R


3. Learn From Experience Part 1

4. Stay with Me (2018)

5. Once Upon a Crime

1. FL got rejected


2. Most character wear it

3-4. ML always wears it in important scenes

5. Most women wear it in this movie

1. ✔️

06/26

2. ✔️

06/26

3. ✔️

08/13

4. ✔️

08/17

5. ✔️

09/18

A Book

OR

A Crossbow

1.A Familiar Stranger  *R


2. Original Sin

3. A Shoulder to Cry On

4.  Same Same is not the Same


5. Gunman in Joseon

1. ML saves FL

2. Bible

3. Archery club

4. Kiss scene

5. Fight scenes

1. ✔️

01/04

2. ✔️

04/03

3. ✔️

04/05

4. ✔️

06/02

5. ✔️

07/11

 

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: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Child Actor/Actress 

OR 

Veteran Actor/Actress 

1. Special Delivery


2. What did the Lady Forget?

3. Mom, Don't Do That

4. Zoku Aoi Sanmyaku 

5. Our Little Sister

(11 years old as of 2023)

2. Saito Tatsuo  (about 39 years of acting)

3. Billie (71 years old as of 2023)

4.  Hara Setsuko  (30 years of acting)

5. Hirose Suzu (15 when debuted)

1. ✔️

02/13

2.  ✔️

05/02

3. ✔️

07/13

4. ✔️

08/15

5. ✔️

10/02

Idol actor/ Idol actress 

OR

Former Child Actor/Actress 

1. Tony

2. Barbie


3. Ocean Like Me (Movie)

4. Let's Eat Something, Anna

5. Our 30 Minute Sessons

1. Elijah Canlas (was 14 at debut)

2.  Kim Sae Ron (was 9 at debut)


3. Holland (solo)

4. Nam Gyu Ri (solo)

5. Kitamura Takumi (DISH)

1. ✔️

06/09

2. ✔️

07/06

3. ✔️

07/10

4. ✔️

07/23

5. ✔️

09/24

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)

1. She is my Father


2. The App from Heaven

3. Show me Your Love

4. Egoist

5. Pumpkin Time

1. ML

2. ML to FL

1. ✔️

04/16

2. ✔️

04/17

3. ✔️

08/21

4. ✔️

09/26

5. ✔️

10/05

Able Bodied 

OR

Living with a disability 

1. Midnight (2021)


2. Binding Souls

3. Icarus

4. The Day I Loved You

5. 37 Seconds    *R

1 & 5. FL

4. ML

1. ✔️

01/19

2. ✔️

04/22

3. ✔️

06/02

4. ✔️ 

06/13

5. ✔️

07/12

Public Figure  

OR

Hidden Identity


1.  18 Again  *R

2. Crash Course in Romance

3. Our Skyy 2: Bad Buddy x A Tale of a Thousand Stars

4. House of Stars


5. Provoke


2-3. Teacher ML

4. Actors/Actresses

1. ✔️

02/14

2. ✔️

03/04

3. ✔️

06/08

4. ✔️

07/17

5. ✔️

07/27

 

17. Camouflage?

Progress: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Athlete 

OR 

Artist

1. Check Out Special Episode

2. Little Man

3. Our Skyy 2: Star in my Mind


4. Bloodhounds

5. Water Boyy: The Movie


1. Photographer ML

2 & 5. Swimmer ML

3. Artist ML

4. Boxer ML

1. ✔️

04/13

2. ✔️

04/16

3. ✔️

04/27

4. ✔️

06/28

5. ✔️

09/22


Glasses 

OR

Tattoos

1. Between Us


2. The Glory Part 2

3. Good Job

4. My Dear Donovan


5. Why R U? (2023)

1 & 5. ML

2.-3. FL

4. Both


1. ✔️

01/31

2. ✔️

03/11

3. ✔️

05/05

4. ✔️

05/16

5. ✔️

09/14

Identity Swap 

OR

Body Swap

1.  A Rose and a Tulip

2. My Lethal Man

3. Our Skyy 2: My School President


4. Vice Versa 

5. Secret Theory of Kissing


1. ✔️

01/19

2. ✔️

02/22

3. ✔️

05/19

4. ✔️

10/26

5. ✔️

10/27

Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead


OR 

Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead

1. Decoy Part 1


2. Enter the Fat Dragon

3. Miss & Mrs. Cops

4.  Double Savage


5. My Paparotti

1-2. ML

3. FL

4-5. ML

1, ✔️

02/09

2. ✔️

03/19

3. ✔️

05/25

4. ✔️

05/28

5. ✔️

09/20

Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead

OR

Antihero/Antiheroine


2. Risky  

3. Invisible 

4. Arthdal Chronicles Part 2

5. Arthdal Chronicles Part 3

1. Antihero

2. Antiheroine

3. Both

4-5. Antihero

1. ✔️

03/01

2. ✔️

04/22

3. ✔️

04/24

4. ✔️

09/24

5. ✔️

10/06

 

18. What Are You?  

Progress: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead 

OR 

Weak Female Lead / Weak Male Lead

1. Revenge of Others

2. Love to Hate You

3.  Innocent Special


4. Moving

5.  Connected

1. Both

2-4. ML

5. FL


1. ✔️

01/28

2. ✔️

02/16

3. ✔️

06/02

4. ✔️

09/24

5. ✔️

10/15

Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead 


OR


Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead


1. Miss Chun is Litigator

2.  Unlocked

3. My Perfect Stranger


4. Blue Summer

5. My Everlasting Bride

1-2. FL

3. ML

4. FL

5. Both

1. ✔️

04/23

2. ✔️

06/22

3. ✔️

06/29

4. ✔️

07/10

5. ✔️

09/26

Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead 

OR

Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead

1. The Sword and the Brocade  *R

2. Heroine Disqualified

3.  Heartbeat


4. Destined with You

5. Pee Mak (2013)

1 & 4. ML

2-3 & 5. FL

1. ✔️

04/13

2. ✔️

05/12

3. ✔️

08/16

4. ✔️

10/13

5. ✔️

10/21

Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead 

OR 

Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead 


2. Stay with Me (2023)

3.  We Best Love: No. 1 for  You  *R

4. Crazy Love

5. Bounty Hunters

1-5. ML
1.  ✔️

03/01

2. ✔️

08/14

3. ✔️

08/22

4. ✔️

08/28

5.  ✔️

10/03

Killer 

OR

Healer  

1.  My Decoy Bride

2. Somebody


3.  Fireworks of my Heart

4. The Legend of Zhuohua

5. Battle Royale II: Requiem 

1. Assassin ML & FL

2. Serial Killer ML

3-4. Doctor FL

5. ML

1. ✔️

06/10

2. ✔️

06/28

3. ✔️

08/08

4, ✔️

09/14

5. ✔️

10/04

 

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: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Pet  

OR 

Pest

1.  Royal Rumors

2. Decision to Leave


3. Stay Away From Me  *R

4. Tokyo Profile

5. Busted Season 2

1. Cat

2. Bird

3. FIsh

4. Rat

5. Insects

1. ✔️

04/01

2. ✔️

05/17

3. ✔️

07/27

4. ✔️

08/13

5. ✔️

08/15

Talking Pet 

OR

Animal Death

1. Hunger

2. Till the End of the  Moon

3. Detective K: Secret of Virtuous K

4. My Dear Guardian

5. Re/Member

2. Crow

4. Cat

1. ✔️

04/14

2. ✔️

05/19

3. ✔️

07/26

4.  ✔️

10/01

5.  ✔️

10/02

Zoo animal  

OR

Farm Animal

1.  Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure

2. F4 Thailand: Boys Over Flowers  *R


3. It Started with a Kiss  *R

4. Silver Spoon

5. Kimi to Nara Koi wo Shite Mite mo

1. Chick

2-3. Zoo date

4. Various

5. Aquarium (ep. 1)

1. ✔️

01/08

2. ✔️

05/16

3. ✔️

06/08

4. ✔️

10/13

5.  ✔️

11/02

Veterinarian  

OR

Animal Control

1. La Pluie

2.  Kill It

3. Love Can't Be Said

4. Juui Dolittle

5. My Precious 

1-2. ML

3. & 5  FL

4. Both

1. ✔️

07/15

2. ✔️

10/08

3.  ✔️

10/11

4. ✔️

10/21

5. ✔️

10/26

Romantic Ride on a Horse  

OR

Horse Ridden to Out to War

1.  My Tooth Your Love

2. Joseon Attorney: A Morality


3. The Devil Rider

4. Song of Bandits 

5. Red Heroine


1.  ✔️

02/22

2. ✔️

05/20

3. ✔️

07/29

4. ✔️

10/11 

5. ✔️

10/13

 

20. Where the Humans Are…

Progress: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Human Turns into an Animal   

OR

Animal turns into a Human

1. Alienoid 1


2. Once Upon a Time

3. Bear Man

4. My Woofy Poofy Love

5. Enormous Legenedary Fish

1. Fox 

2. Nine-tailed fox

3. Bear

4. Dog

5. Fish

1. ✔️

05/10

2. ✔️

07/23

3. ✔️

07/29

4.  ✔️

10/26

5.  ✔️

10/29

Adorable animals 

OR 

Animal Attack

1. Thirty but Seventeen  *R

2. Moonlight Whispers

3. OMG! Oh my Girl

4.  The Pool

5. The Pirates 2: The Last Royal Treasure

1-3. Dogs

4. Alligator

1. ✔️

05/10

2. ✔️

09/21

3. ✔️

10/03

4. ✔️

10/09

5. ✔️

10/11

Animal in the Wild 

OR

Animal in a City

1. Marriage Contract  *R

2. The Meg 


3. Meg 2: The Trench


4.  You're Beautiful  *R

5. Made in China

1. ✔️

04/23

2. ✔️

07/30

3. ✔️

09/26

4. ✔️

10/15

5. ✔️

10/21

Pet dressed in Clothes 

OR 

Animal Abuse

1. School Tales the Series


2. Confessions (2010)


3. The First Responders 2

4. Remember Me

5. Naughty Babe


1. ✔️

03/09

2. ✔️

05/14

3. ✔️

10/07

4. ✔️

10/17

5. ✔️

10/21

Second Lead Caring For Animals 

OR 

Antagonist Caring For Animals

1. The Glory 

2.  Alchemy of Souls 2: Light and Shadows


3.  Bromance  *R

4. Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey 2

5. Reign of Assassins


1. ✔️

01/04

2. ✔️

01/21

3. ✔️

10/15

4. ✔️

10/27 

5. ✔️

10/27

 

21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Funeral Director

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care)

1. Unnatural

2. The Real Has Come

3. May I Help You

4, The Worst of Evil

5. Hoshi Furu Yoru Ni


1. ✔️

07/15

2. ✔️

09/10

3. ✔️

10/19

4. ✔️

10/25

5.  ✔️

10/28

Virtual Reality  

OR 

Ghosts

1. Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

2. Jung_E

3. Devil in the Lake

4. Marry my Dead Body

5. Unlock my Boss


1.  ✔️

01/21

2. ✔️

04/14

3. ✔️

07/10

4. ✔️

08/11

5.  ✔️

10/27

Corruption 

OR

Teamwork

1. The Roundup


2. The First Responders

3. The Whistleblower (2014)

4. Yasksha:  Ruthless Operations

5.Keiseki: Dear to Me


1. ✔️

01/30

2. ✔️

06/08

3. ✔️

07/30

4.  ✔️

10/15

5.  ✔️

11/08

Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game

1. Call it Love (2023)


2. Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp

3. Imawa no Kuni no Alice 2

4. Youth Actors' Retreat  *R

5. A Day in Tongyeong

1. Jenga

4. Various

1. ✔️

06/18

2. ✔️

06/27

3. ✔️

07/10

4. ✔️

09/28

5. ✔️

10/06

Friendship 

OR

Bullying

1. Some (2014)

2.  Even If

3. Love is Colorblind

4. From Now on, It's Graduation Day Ceremony Only for You

5.  Plus and Minus Extra


1. ✔️

06/02

2. ✔️

07/03

3.  ✔️

07/13

4. ✔️

08/15

5. ✔️

08/31

 

22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Colleagues 

OR

Inmates

1. 2037


2. Girl2K


3. The Merciless

4. Plus and Minus

5. My Sweet Dear (Movie)


1. ✔️

02/13

2. ✔️

04/18

3. ✔️

05/29

4. ✔️

07/03

5. ✔️

08/05

Bromance 

OR 

Sismance

1.  A Little Thing Called First Love


2. BECK

3. The Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938


4.  17.3 About a Sex

5. Advance Bravely


1. ✔️

01/06

2. ✔️

05/20

3. ✔️

06/12

4. ✔

08/23

5. ✔️

08/28

Parent-Child 

OR

Sibling 

1. A Sunflower Family  *R

2. The Panti Sisters

3.  Fahlanruk


4. Mitaraike, Enjiu Suru

5. Lightning

1. Father-Son

2-3. Brothers

4. Various Sibling relationships

5. Mother-Daughter

1. ✔️

01/21

2. ✔️

04/18

3. ✔️

06/14

4. ✔️

07/20

5. ✔️

08/14

Assailant-Victim 

OR/ AND

Student-Teacher

1. Bride's Revenge

2.  Watashi to Otto to Otto no Kareshi

3. Baby Maybe

4. Delivery Man


5. The Karate Kid


1. ✔️

02/26

2. ✔️

04/14

3. ✔️

04/16

4. ✔️

07/10

5. ✔️

08/13

Doctor-Patient 

OR

Soldier

1. Beat Back

2. Doctor Cha

3. Mulan  *R

4. Eye of the Storm

5. Asymmetry


1. ✔️

02/02

2. ✔️

06/09

3. ✔️

07/30

4. ✔️

08/18

5. ✔️

09/21

 

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: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Celestial Body 

OR  

Body Part 




4. Stargazer: Astroscope

5. A Man Who Went to Mars


1. ✔️

02/09

2. ✔️

06/08

3. ✔️

07/03

4. ✔️

08/12

5. ✔️

10/02

Color 


OR


Emotion 



3. Daemuga: Sorrow and Joy

4. Blues Harp

5. Happy Merry Ending (Movie)


1. ✔️

04/15

2. ✔️

05/17

3. ✔️

08/11

4. ✔️

08/13

5. ✔️

09/17

Object 

OR

Verb 



3. Underwear Season

4. Love or Money

5. Behind Cut (Movie)


1. ✔️

01/01

2. ✔️

04/03

3. ✔️

04/14

4. ✔️

04/19

5. ✔️

07/10

Animal

OR

Number 


2. Take 1

3.  Project Wolf Hunting

4. My Eleventh Brother

5. The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen


1. ✔️

03/01

2. ✔️

03/09

3. ✔️

05/17

4. ✔️

06/02

5. ✔️

08/14


Season 

OR

Calendar-related word 


2. Eternal Summer

3. Promise in the  Summer

4. The Love of Winter

5. May-December-January


1. ✔️

03/02

2. ✔️

06/03

3. ✔️

06/05

4. ✔️

07/03

5. ✔️

10/03


 

24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover   

Progress: 25/25

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Domesticated Animal 


OR


Wild Animal 


2. Manhunt (2017)

3. My Heart Puppy 



1.✔️

01/21

2. ✔️

06/28

3. ✔️

07/27

4. ✔️

08/06

5. ✔️

09/10

Flower 

OR 

Building 




4. My Beautiful Man: Eternal


5.  Jun & Jun


1. ✔️

04/03

2. ✔️

06/05

3. ✔️

06/23

4. ✔️

08/21

5. ✔️

09/10

Light Colors 

OR

Dark Colors 




4. Taikan Yoho

5. Rerun


1. ✔️

04/16

3. ✔️

06/26

4. ✔️

07/12

5. ✔️

10/14

5.  ✔️

10/24

Rainbow 

OR

Door 


2. AI Love You

3. The 8-Year Engagement

4. Table Manner (2018) 

5. Keiseki +



1. ✔️

03/01

2. ✔️

06/26

3. ✔️

10/02

4. ✔️

10/05

5. ✔️

10/15

Only Words 

OR 

Geometrical Shapes 

3. F4 Thailand: The Journey

4.  Grasshopper

5. Hello Stranger: The Movie


1. ✔️

04/03

2. ✔️

05/18

3. ✔️

06/12

4.  ✔️

10/02

5. ✔️

10/03

 

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: 35/35

Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

China


2. Forever Love (2023)


3. The Fallen Bridge


4. Love at First Sight (2016)


5. My Journey to You




1.✔️

07/13

2. ✔️

10/28

3.  ✔️

10/29

4. ✔️

10/29


5. ✔️

11/01

Hong Kong


2. Happy Together (1997)


3. PG Love


4.Vampire Cleanup Department


5. Love is Cold (2017)


1. ✔️

08/08

2. ✔️

10/28

3. ✔️

10/29

4. ✔️

10/31

5. ✔️

10/31

Japan


2. Ousama ni Sasagu Kusuiyubi


3.  Liverleaf


4. The Land of Rain Trees


5. Wednesday is Missing


1. ✔️

07/11

2. ✔️

10/28

3. ✔️

10/29

4. ✔️

10/29

5. ✔️

10/31

Philippines


2. Erotica  Manila


3. Keys to the Heart (2023) 


4. Irog


5. Haliparot


1. ✔️

04/14

2. ✔️

10/28

3. ✔️

10/28

4. ✔️

10/28

5. ✔️

10/29

South Korea

1. Monstar  *R


2. Eun Ha


3. Ditto (2022)


4. Smugglers (2023)


5. Bump up  Business



1. ✔️

02/22

2. ✔️

10/28

3. ✔️

10/29

4. ✔️

10/29

5. ✔️

10/29


Taiwan


2. Bad Education


3. Love Scams


4. My Gift


5. Undercover Carp


1. ✔️

04/17

2. ✔️

10/28

3.  ✔️

10/31

4. ✔️

10/31

5. ✔️

11/01

Thailand


2. ATM: ER Rak Error


3. Happy Old Year


4. Love in Translation


5. Ai Long Nhai: The Endless Love






1. ✔️

06/29

2. ✔️

10/29

3. ✔️

10/29

4. ✔️

10/30

5. ✔️

10/30

 

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: 29 th Sep 2023     

Link to your Drama list: https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/DonnaK2O

Progress Habitat: 25/25

Link to your turn-in form: https://mydramalist.com/discussions/forum-games/83753-mdl-s-2023-watch-challenge-turn-in-thread?pid=2919921&page=5#p2919921 

[ ✓ ] 21/09[ ✓ ] 21/0914/10 [ ✓ ][ ✓ ] 23/10[ ✓ ] 26/10[ ✓ ] 11/11
[ ✓ ] 19/11[ ✓ ] 29/11[ ✓ ] 17/12[ ✓ ] 31/12
[ ✓ ] 31/12[ ✓ ] 
Rotas Cumpridas: 127/127                           

Objetivo:

Asian Elephant plains + Tiger 


[ ✓ ][ ✓ ] [ ✓ ] 


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

 Web Series

Back to Seventeen
https://mydramalist.com/743775-wo-hui-dao-shi-qi-sui-de-li-you

Completed in 09/10/2023

DRAMA ESPECIAL

Love Between Fairy and Devil Special

https://mydramalist.com/738515-love-between-fairy-and-devil-special

Completed in 22/08/2023

Co-Produced
                 Ayla: The Daughter of War
https://mydramalist.com/29161-the-daughter-of-war

Completed in 23/10/2023

Ônibus

Adoring

https://mydramalist.com/50413-adoring

Completed in 23/10/2023

Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic

Shanai Marriage Honey 
https://mydramalist.com/77393-shanai-marijjihani

Completed in 23/10/2023


2. Is it True?

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route  

Essentials 

Notes

Completed  

Advertisement  

Two Lights: Relumino

https://mydramalist.com/26419-two-lights

Completed in 24/10/2023


Propaganda

 

                    6/45

https://mydramalist.com/63777-6-45

Completed in 25/10/2023

Documentary Genre

Goblin Special: The Summoning

https://mydramalist.com/22407-goblin-special-the-summoning

Completed in  12/09/2023

Adapted from Folklore

Hua Mulan
https://mydramalist.com/71211-hua-mulan

Completed in 26/10/2023

Historical Fiction

Wrong Carriage, Right Groom
https://mydramalist.com/78349-new-wrong-carriage-right-groom

Completed in  14/09/2023


3. All About the Gen(r)es 

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials  

Notes

Completed  

Sci-Fi  

The King: Eternal Monarch

https://mydramalist.com/35039-the-king-the-eternal-monarch

Completed in  30/01/2023

Comedy

Spellbound

https://mydramalist.com/2912-spellbound

Completed in  02/11/2023

Romance

Exploration Method of Love

https://mydramalist.com/713107-modawi-s-secret

Completed in  27/08/2023

Youth 

Twenty

https://mydramalist.com/9743-twenty

Completed in 31/12/2023

Action 

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

https://mydramalist.com/18894-strong-woman-do-bong-soon

Completed in  21/01/2023


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 Origin   

Tutorial

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

in 2023

Beauty of Resilience

https://mydramalist.com/695281-hua-rong

Completed in 19/06/2023

1990-1999

                Love Letter

https://mydramalist.com/1589-love-letter

Completed in 26/10/2023

2000-2010 _

                 The Karate Kidhttps://mydramalist.com/751665-the-karate-kid

Completed in 10/05/2023

year generated by this website

Kiss Goblin

https://mydramalist.com/58877-kiss-ghost

Escolhido 2020

Terça-feira, 1º de dezembro de 1992
Sábado, 20 de março de 1993
Segunda-feira, 2 de maio de 2005
Terça-feira, 26 de dezembro de 2017
Quarta-feira, 2 de dezembro de 2020

Carimbo de hora: 13/10/2023 12:53:35 UTC


Completed in 26/10/2023

2017-2022

Here Is My Exclusive Indulge

https://mydramalist.com/690503-here-is-my-exclusive-indulge

Completed in 21/08/2023


5. Duration of The Hike

 Tutorial

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

Short Length Series

Goodbye Mr. Shao
https://mydramalist.com/752331-goodbye-mr-shao

Completed in 12/10/2023

DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes 

Oh! My Emperor Season 2

https://mydramalist.com/28898-oh-my-emperor-season-two

Completed in 20/09/2023

DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes

Please Be My Family

https://mydramalist.com/726969-please-be-my-family

Completed in 15/06/2023

DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes

Back From the Brink

https://mydramalist.com/79467-hu-xin

Completed in 09/06/2023

DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes

Oh My Ghost
https://mydramalist.com/14213-oh-my-ghostess

Completed in  14/08/2023


6. Time Can Be Confusing 

Progresso: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials  

Notes

Completed 

Full second season of a DRAMA

Please Don't Spoil Me Season 2
https://mydramalist.com/719905-please-don-t-spoil-me-season-2

Completed in 12/11/2023

Time Loop

Reset

https://mydramalist.com/697563-kai-duan

Completed in 09/08/2023

Time Skip

Oh! My Emperor

https://mydramalist.com/26812-oh-my-imperor

Completed in 19/09/2023

Winter

Goblin

https://mydramalist.com/18452-goblin

Completed in 16/01/2023

Fall 

We're Not Trash
https://mydramalist.com/743249-we-re-not-trashCompleted in 06/11/2023

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: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember

The Glory

https://mydramalist.com/685237-untitled-kim-eun-sook-project

Completed in 08/10/2023

with less than 10,000 viewers

Night of Love With You

https://mydramalist.com/723937-night-of-love-with-you

Completed in 11/10/2023

DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list

Prodigy Healer
https://mydramalist.com/32685-qing-nang-zhuan

30/10/2023

mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds)

The Secret Life of My Secretary

https://mydramalist.com/28963-hitting-on-the-blind-boss

Completed in 23/09/2023

with the newest release date in your PTW list

Strong Girl Namsoon

https://mydramalist.com/729535-strong-woman-kang-nam-soon

Completed in 26/11/2023


8. Examined…

Tutorial

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page)
One Smile Is Very Alluring

https://mydramalist.com/18916-one-smile-is-very-alluring


https://mydramalist.com/recommendations

Completed in 19/11/2023

found on a Voting List in the list index (add a link to the list).

Her Private Life

https://mydramalist.com/list/1NkjPZqL

Completed in 01/07/2023

from your least viewed genres under your profile stats

Cinderella Chef

https://mydramalist.com/28676-cinderella-chef



Completed in 05/08/2023

found mentioned in an  Article on MDL (add a link to the article)

Please Don’t Spoil Me
https://mydramalist.com/list/1Nky9NWL?page=2

Completed in 12/11/2023

with 0 Reviews when you started watching it

Just Spoil You
https://mydramalist.com/746263-crazy-second-marriage




Completed in 16/08/2023


9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

Award-winning

My Love from the Star

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Drama_Awards#Best_Drama

award:

 "Best Drama" in 2014

Completed in 04/12/2023

from an award-winning director

Parasite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Bell_Awards

award:

 “Grand Bell Awards - Best Director” in 2020

Completed in 13/12/2023

from an award-winning screenwriter

Decision to Leave

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Bell_Awards

award:

 "Grand Bell Awards - Best Screenplay" in 2022

Completed in 11/12/2023

from an award-winning actor

Miss the Dragon Special

In 2016, Wang won the overall championship at the "Sichuan Campus Red Festival"

https://mydramalist.com/people/16461-wang-he-di

Completed in 12/03/2023

from an award-winning actress

The Romance of Tiger and Rose

actress Zhao Lusi

"Best Actress Award" at the 7th Hengdian Film and Television Awards in 2020

https://mydramalist.com/people/18211-lusi-zhao

Completed in 12/03/2023


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
Love to Hate You
https://mydramalist.com/713771-love-battleCompleted in 24/07/2023
Cohabitation
Wednesday 3:30 PM
https://mydramalist.com/22926-wednesday-330-p.mCompleted in 20/10/2023
Fluffy
Exclusive Fairytale		https://mydramalist.com/710873-du-jia-tong-huaCompleted in 27/11/2023
Secret Relationship
Love and Leashes

https://mydramalist.com/690053-moral-sense		Completed in 05/11/2023

Opposites Attract 

Please Feel at Ease Mr. Ling

https://mydramalist.com/61887-please-feel-at-ease-mr-lingCompleted in 17/12/2023


11. Finding a Mate

Progress: 5/5

Escolha da rota 

Essenciais 

Notas

Concluído 

 First Love

When I Fly Towards You

https://mydramalist.com/62295-luo-yao-knew-what-he-meant
Completed in 10/01/2023

Age Gap [Drama Life]   

Eternal Love
https://mydramalist.com/16547-eternal-loveCompleted in 27/03/2023

features a Heterosexual relationship 


A Female Student Arrives at the Imperial College
https://mydramalist.com/63349-here-comes-a-female-student-at-guo-zijian		Completed in 01/06/2023

 Enemies to Lovers 


Introverted Boss		https://mydramalist.com/21306-introverted-boss
Completed in 12/02/2023

Nice Female Lead / Male Lead


Miss the Dragon		https://mydramalist.com/53591-yu-longCompleted in 12/03/2023


12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route
Essentials

Notes

Completed

Slight Comedy


Love You Seven Times		https://mydramalist.com/68185-the-seventh-generationCompleted in 30/08/2023

Happy Ending

Romantic
https://mydramalist.com/757313-romanticCompleted in 14/10/2023

Tragic Past


Untouchable Lovers		https://mydramalist.com/11462-untouchable-loversCompleted in 13/09/2023

Mourning


See You in My 19th Life		https://mydramalist.com/716735-see-you-in-my-19th-lifeCompleted in 23/07/2023

Healing


Unforgettable Love		https://mydramalist.com/66371-unforgettable-loveCompleted in 25/06/2023


13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

Some type of God

Doom at Your Service 
https://mydramalist.com/61489-destructionCompleted in  21/07/2023

Misunderstanding

Angel's Last Mission: Love
https://mydramalist.com/32362-love-of-my-lifeCompleted in
28/07/2023

 Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot

It's Okay to Be Sensitive
https://mydramalist.com/30463-it-s-okay-to-be-sensitiveCompleted in  30/10/2023

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance

Love Like the Galaxy: Part 1
https://mydramalist.com/687167-xing-han-can-lanCompleted in  15/02/2023

Discrimination

Tomorrow
https://mydramalist.com/695963-tomorrowCompleted in  13/07/2023



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  

Heartbeat
https://mydramalist.com/746637-my-heart-beats
Completed in 15/08/2023

By the Sea


Behind Your Touch		https://mydramalist.com/734371-hip
Completed in 02/10/2023

On a Rooftop

W
https://mydramalist.com/16589-wCompleted in 07/10/2023

On a Mountain

King the Land
https://mydramalist.com/726273-king-the-lander
Completed in 07/08/2023

In a City

Love Is Sweet
https://mydramalist.com/49871-love-is-sweetCompleted in 21/10/2023


15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route  

Essentials

Notes

Completed

An Umbrella

Hidden Love
https://mydramalist.com/729705-hidden-love

Completed in 07/08/2023


A Sports Car

Celebrity
https://mydramalist.com/708775-celebrityCompleted in 11/11/2023

A Phone Booth


20th Century Girl		https://mydramalist.com/699543-the-twentieth-century-girl

Completed in 15/09/2023

A Suit /Dress

Crazy Love
https://mydramalist.com/706923-crazy-loveCompleted in 06/01/2023

A Book 


Destined with You		https://mydramalist.com/734875-irresistible-loveCompleted in 16/10/2023


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

Child Actor/Actress


The Love You Give Me		https://mydramalist.com/723145-the-love-you-give-meCompleted in 01/06/2023

Idol actor/ Idol actress

Warm on a Cold Night

https://mydramalist.com/77441-jiu-xiao-han-ye-nuan		Completed in 04/04/2023

Cis gender Identity   (same as the gender assigned to them at birth)

You Are My Exclusive Surprise

https://mydramalist.com/747799-you-are-my-exclusive-surprise		Completed in 09/09/2023

Living with a disability

Forever Love
https://mydramalist.com/748565-mang-ai-qian-jinCompleted in 21/09/2023

Hidden Identity

Alchemy of Souls

https://mydramalist.com/52939-can-this-person-be-translatedCompleted in
23/01/2023


17. Camouflage?

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials

Notes

Completed

Athlete

Twenty-Five Twenty-One
https://mydramalist.com/695149-twenty-five-twenty-oneCompleted in18/09/2023

Tattoos

Special Delivery
https://mydramalist.com/37023-special-cargoCompleted in 09/11/2023

Body Swap

The Trust

https://mydramalist.com/64007-no-doubt-in-us		Completed in 28/04/2023

Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead

The Uncanny Counter
https://mydramalist.com/62085-a-wonderful-rumorCompleted in 07/12/2023

Antihero/Antiheroine

 The Glory Part 2
https://mydramalist.com/745581-the-glory-season-2Completed in 10/08/2023


18. What Are You?

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead

Be With You
https://mydramalist.com/24153-be-with-youCompleted in 10/11/2023
Smart Male Lead

Space Sweepers

https://mydramalist.com/32761-lighting-arcCompleted in 18/11/2023

Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead

Eternal Love of Dream 
https://mydramalist.com/26385-three-lives-three-worlds-the-pillow-book

Completed in 22/04/2023

Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead

XX
https://mydramalist.com/42045-blue-moonCompleted in 25/12/2023

Killer

The Long Ballad
https://mydramalist.com/53953-princess-changgeCompleted in 13/12/2023


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: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

Pet 

The Door into Summer
https://mydramalist.com/63259-the-door-into-summerCompleted in 24/12/2023

Talking Pet 

Till the End of the Moon
https://mydramalist.com/693513-hei-yue-guang-wen-na-be-ju-benCompleted in  05/10/2023

Zoo animal 

Daytime Shooting Star
https://mydramalist.com/20736-daytime-shooting-starCompleted in  02/11/2023

Veterinarian

Noble, My Love
https://mydramalist.com/15171-noble-my-loveCompleted in 27/12/2023

Romantic Ride on a Horse

Congrats My Ex!
https://mydramalist.com/758157-congrats-my-exCompleted in 31/12/2023


20. Where the Humans Are…

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

Human Turns into an Animal 

Catman
https://mydramalist.com/17259-catmanCompleted in 31/10/2023

Adorable animals

The Universe’s Star

https://mydramalist.com/19950-star-of-the-universeCompleted in 14/11/2023

Animal in a City

This Is Not What I Expected

https://mydramalist.com/22730-this-is-not-what-i-expectedCompleted in 12/11/2023

Pet dressed in Clothes

My Sassy Princess

https://mydramalist.com/686379-zhu-qing-haoCompleted in 07/03/2023

Antagonist Caring For Animals

Alchemy of Souls Season 2: Light and Shadow
https://mydramalist.com/733261-alchemy-of-souls-part-2

Completed in 23/01/2023

 

21. Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials

Notes

Completed

Birth care (Postpartum care)

Move to Heaven

https://mydramalist.com/49231-move-to-heavenCompleted in 18/12/2023

Virtual Reality 

Love Better Than Immortality
https://mydramalist.com/31318-spring-flower-autumn-moonCompleted in 05/11/2023

Teamwork

Midnight
https://mydramalist.com/40349-midnightCompleted in 31/12/2023

Friendly Game 

Mr. Queen
https://mydramalist.com/58365-queen-cheorinCompleted in
07/01/2023

Friendship

A Business Proposal
https://mydramalist.com/693591-in-house-confrontationCompleted in 10/10/2023


22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress: 5/5

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

Inmates

Miracle in Cell No. 7
https://mydramalist.com/4517-miracle-in-cell-no.-7Completed in 31012/2023

Bromance

So I Married an Anti-Fan
https://mydramalist.com/30519-so-i-married-an-anti-fanCompleted in 16/01/2023

Sibling

Who Rules the World
https://mydramalist.com/54851-try-the-worldCompleted in 24/12/2023

Assailant-Victim

A Familiar Stranger
https://mydramalist.com/733007-the-evil-face
Completed in 17/12/2023

Soldier


Secretly Greatly
https://mydramalist.com/5947-secretly-greatlyCompleted in 31/12/2023


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  

Celestial Body
The Wandering Earth 1
https://mydramalist.com/31632-the-wandering-earthCompleted in 29/11/2023
Emotion
Love Between Fairy and Devil 

https://mydramalist.com/53117-cang-lan-jueCompleted in 2023-06-21

Verb

Bossy Husband Who Loved Me
https://mydramalist.com/739247-fu-jun-qing-zi-zhongCompleted in 07/11/2023

Number

Love of Thousand Years
https://mydramalist.com/34088-the-killing-of-three-thousand-crowsCompleted in 19/11/2023

Season

Autumn Fairy Tale
https://mydramalist.com/33260-autumn-fairy-taleCompleted in 21/11/2023


24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover

Progress:5/5

Choice of Route 

Essentials

Notes

Completed

Wild Animal
https://mydramalist.com/32357-i-won-t-hurt-youCompleted in 25/12/2023

Flower

Dating in the Kitchen
https://mydramalist.com/52139-like-youCompleted in 23/11/2023
Light Colors 
I Hear You
https://mydramalist.com/29000-i-hear-youCompleted in 25/09/2023

Door

Hu Tong
https://mydramalist.com/698265-hu-tongCompleted in 28/12/2023

Geometrical Shapes 

Ga Doo Ri’s Sushi Restaurant
https://mydramalist.com/58433-ga-doo-ri-s-sushi-restaurantCompleted in 29/12/2023


Origin

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

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

25. Countries of MDL

Progress: 7/7

Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

China

Please Don't Spoil Me Season 3https://mydramalist.com/720943-please-don-t-spoil-me-season-3Completed in 12/11/2023

Hong Kong

Drunken Master
https://mydramalist.com/2652-drunken-masterCompleted in 27/10/2023

Japan

As Long As We Both Shall Live
https://mydramalist.com/726653-my-happy-marriageCompleted in 05/11/2023

Philippines

The Hows of Us
https://mydramalist.com/28935-the-hows-of-usCompleted in 19/11/2023

South Korea

Sweet & Sour
https://mydramalist.com/40743-sweet-and-sourCompleted in 22/01/2023

Taiwan

 

Fall in Love at First Kiss 

https://mydramalist.com/30142-it-started-with-a-kissCompleted in 19/11/2023

Thailand

Enigma
https://mydramalist.com/743905-enigmaCompleted in 14/11/2023


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

RouteEssentialSubstitute for

Notes

Completed


 



















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wolffanghameha

2023 MDL Watch Challenge Sign-up Sheet
 

Starting date: 30th Sep 2023

Link to your Drama list: https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/wolffanghameha

Progress, Habitat: 0


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 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







MOVIE

OR

DRAMA SPECIAL






Co-Produced 


OR 

Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL







Anthology 

OR 

Omnibus







Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic

Or

Adapted From a Novel / Book








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)




Independent Film 

OR 

Propaganda




Documentary Genre


OR


 Mockumentary




Adapted from Folklore 

OR 

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person




Historical Fiction 

OR 

Historical genre  + tag Based on 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 

Historical 

OR 

Sci-Fi 

All of us are deadSci-fi

Comedy 

OR

Tragedy

It's OK not to be OK

Thriller

OR

Romance

Summer Strike

Youth 

OR

Political 

We're Not Trash

Action 

OR

Life

Moving [finished]


Time is Relative

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

4. Year of Origin   

Tutorial

Progress:  

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

in 2023

OR

1940-1959







1990-1999

OR

the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form)







2000-2010

OR

the month (not necessarily the year) you were born







year generated by this website

OR

1950-1969







2017-2022

OR

1970-1989








5. Duration of The Hike

 Tutorial

Progress:

Choice of Route

Essentials

Notes

Completed

 Short Length Series

 OR

 Short Film 

 




DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes 

Or

DRAMA with  30 episodes or more. 




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




Different Timelines  

OR 

Time Loop




Time Skip 

OR  

Time Travel




Winter 

OR 

Summer




Fall  

OR

Spring





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







with less than 10,000 viewers

OR

ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001)

Nagi's Long Vacation





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 Westminsters

For 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. 



12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying

Progress:

Choice of Route  

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Slight Comedy 


OR


Black Comedy




Happy Ending 

OR 

features some type of Doomsday




Tragic Past 

OR 

Sketch Comedy




features a Celebration 

OR

Mourning




 Healing 

OR

Suicide





13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

features a Religious Leader 

OR

Some type of God




Misunderstanding 

OR

Character Development




 Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot 

OR

LGBTQ+




Suspense 

OR 

Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance




 Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead 

OR 

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:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

On a Field  

OR 

On a Cliff




In the Woods 

OR

By the Sea




In a Jungle 

OR 

On a Rooftop




On a Mountain 

OR 

On an Island




In a City 


OR


In a Small Town





15. Humans Have So Many Things

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

An Umbrella 

OR

A Backpack




A Truck  

OR

A Sports Car




A Smartphone 

OR

A Phone Booth



 

A Suit /Dress 

OR

A Hoodie




A Book 

OR

A 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 a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions. 

 16. Who Are We?

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Child Actor/Actress 

OR 

Veteran Actor/Actress 




Idol actor/ Idol actress 

OR

Former Child Actor/Actress 




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)




Able Bodied 

OR

Living with a disability 




Public Figure  

OR

Hidden Identity







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 

Pet  

OR 

Pest




Talking Pet  

OR

Animal Death




Zoo animal  

OR

Farm Animal




Veterinarian  

OR

Animal Control




Romantic Ride on a Horse  

OR

Horse Ridden to Out to War





 

21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Funeral Director 

OR

Birth care (Postpartum care)




Virtual Reality  

OR 

Ghosts




Corruption 

OR

Teamwork




Friendly Game  

OR

Death Game




Friendship 

OR

Bullying





22. Who Am I When I Am With You?

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Colleagues 

OR

Inmates




Bromance 

OR 

Sismance




Parent-Child 

OR

Sibling 




Assailant-Victim 

OR

Student-Teacher




Doctor-Patient 

OR

Soldier





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 

Celestial Body 

OR  

Body Part 




Color 


OR


Emotion 




Object 

OR

Verb 




Animal

OR

Number 




Season 

OR

Calendar-related word 





24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover   

Progress:

Choice of Route 

Essentials 

Notes

Completed 

Domesticated Animal 


OR


Wild Animal 




Flower 

OR 

Building 




Light Colors 

OR

Dark Colors 




Rainbow 

OR

Door 




Only Words 

OR 

Geometrical Shapes 





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




Hong Kong




Japan




Philippines




South Korea




Taiwan




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


 




















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tartlovr

MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet

 

Starting date: October 4, 2023

Link to your Drama list: tartlovr's watch list!!

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

 Web Series

OR

 TV SHOW*

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


Semantic Error

yes

MOVIE

OR

DRAMA SPECIAL

KinnPorsche Side Story

yes

Co-Produced 


OR 

Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL
plus & minus

yes

Anthology 

OR 

Omnibus

girl from nowhere


Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic

Or

Adapted From a Novel / Book
bad buddy



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)



Independent Film 

OR 

Propaganda




Documentary Genre


OR


 Mockumentary



Adapted from Folklore 

OR 

Inspired by Real Events / Real Person



Historical Fiction 

OR 

Historical genre  + tag Based on 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 

Historical 

OR 

Sci-Fi 




Comedy 

OR

Tragedy




Thriller

OR

Romance




Youth 

OR

Political 




Action 

OR

Life




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