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Killer_Queen

Anne613 

This is slightly harder for me as I've long given hope that I will enjoy romance but I will give it a shot.

-a-business-proposal 

It made my laugh our loud. It is the typical rich ML and poor FL with a contract marriage and hidden identity. It was definitely worth the watch with interesting characters. I loved the second couple as well.

-beauty-newbie 

It is a hit or miss with this one. Personally I'm more neutral and sometimes seems the romance isn't their and there is no little sexual connection. But we all loved the sassy best friend. 

devil-sister

It was excellent acting with you really hating some, feel sorry for others. It was a classic case of love triangles, marriage convenience. It did get a little dark

let-s-talk-about-chu

This for me was informative about relationships for different age pairs so someone im sure will be relatable and take some life lessons from it. It is quite mature though 

Would love for recommendations to be from my plan to watch only as it is almost as long as my competed so need to shrink it a little. 

I accept ji kara 9 ji made

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autumn iris

Hello, Killer_Queen

I'd like to recommend one of these:


3 dramas from your ptw list

- 5-ji Kara 9-ji Made

An English teacher meets a temple heir who registers a package of English course from her (even though the man is very fluent) in order to date and marry her. But there's also a few men who seems to like her. Which man will she choose as marriage partner?

- Be My Favorite

A grown-up man gets a wedding invitation from his college crush, but then he finds a tool in his room to get back to the past (and back to the future many times) to change his fate. It's just there's this tall and handsome guy keep ruining his plan. Will he get to change his fate?

- We Best Love S1

A boy never win #1 since forever because his rival is unbeatable. But when he's heartbroken from failed love, his rival try to comfort him. Could it be there's something more than rivalry?


And 2 impressive (imo) movies:

- A Company Man

A contract killer falls in love with an ordinary woman. He tries to quit his job, but would it be that easy?

- Secretly, Greatly

Several spies from North Korea enter South Korea and stay vigilant to wait for further instruction. As they become comfortable with their ordinary life, there's a new mission come. Will they be able to survive this mission?

I prefer not to watch zombie, bullying, ghost, marriage affair, sexual harrassment, incest, more than 20 years age-gap romance; but if you want to recommend me some great ones I don't mind. But it'll be better if they're less bloody than Beyond Evil or Kingdom.

I prefer to watch less episode than more since I have to catch up with my 8 airing dramas and some completed drama, but I don't mind if it's a masterpiece, as long as it's under 40 episodes.

Thank you in advance.

I accept Better Days. It's been on my ptw list since ages actually, but since the theme is bullying I need to prepare my heart first.

Status: Completed

Rating: 10/10

Better Days told an unsual realationship between a good student and a small-time punk (as the middle-aged police said near the end). They met through accident when the small-time punk being beaten and the good student was asked by the beater to kiss the punk and she did it. The movie begin with one of the student jump from the school building and the good stufend cover her with her jacket then she got asked by the police about the dead student, she said she didn't know but then she got bullied by the bullies. Later she asked protection from the small-time punk. If i told more it'll be spoiler. Please watch it if you haven't.

It's very deep and heavy. I get goosebumps and shed some tears from time to time.

Thank you for the recommendation. I love it so much.

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KC Drama LOVER

9th Challenge Completed!{?}

Hello, autumn iris! I was confused on what should I recommend you, so I added some of my fav and some from your plan to watch

-Click on the title to reach the page (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧



I wasn't sure what to recommend you so I decided the one from your PTW but I need to warn you that it's a tearjeaker.

I am open to all recommends. Prefer BL or any type of movies. Dramas are okay but not more than 10 episodes.

Don't worry, just recommend me. I am sure that one of your recommend is in my PTW so absolutely don't go there („• ֊ •„)੭

I accept autumn iris's recommendation of  Till We Meet Again 

Status: Completed

Rating: 9.5/10

Thoughts: Thank you autumn iris for the recommend! The ghost part were really weird but leaving that everything else was beautiful. I always loved the concept of red string. But I didn't like how they tied string of Alan Shi with Pinky, it would be better with Mi, I am okay since everything ends well even if not it's not how I wanted. First I thought the string was going to the snail, the vet doctor was holding lol. I tried so much to not cry cause my mom was sitting in front that my throat started to hurt so bad but since I have periods and my cramps are deathly painful so my mom didn't suspect.

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autumn iris

Hello, KC Drama LOVER

I'd like to recommend some sad movies from your ptw list:

- Hello Ghost (family always protect you)

about a suicidal man who needs to fulfill the wishes of the ghosts around him to get rid of them

- Till We Meet Again (true love means sacrifice)

about a ghost who become god of love, trying to match her girlfriend with another man but she haven't forget him so all the red string she wear always snatch

- Your Eyes Tell (it's never too late to atone your mistake)

about a criminal and retired boxer who fall in love with a blind girl

Some psychological BL movies:

- Dangerous Drugs of Love (suicide is never the answer, survival is)

about the kidnap, confinement, and rape of a suicidal man by a doctor

(warning.: It's very explicit and dark)

- Method (it's important to live in reality not in some fantasy)

about an actor and and an idol acting together and mix the script and the reality


Some Thailand movies:

- How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies (family never stop loving each others)

about a man who take care of his dying grandma to gain inheritances

- Pee Mak (love has no boundaries)

about a soldier who goes home finding his wife and son are strange, not knowing they're ghosts

Recommend me anything as long as I haven't watched or dropped it.

I choose Someday or One Day.

Thank you Anne613 for the recommendation.

Status: CW 5/13

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Anne613

1st  Challenge | 2nd Challenge | 3rd Challenge | 4th Challenge | 5th Challenge | 6th Challenge | 7th Challenge

Hello autumn iris, I checked out your profile and picked a couple of recs for you.

You can  choose  one from the following options:

Open for any recs specially from romance genre, and preferably with a happy ending. Feel free to check my completed drama list to see what I've enjoyed!

P.S. - Please try to ignore my plan to watch list!

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I accept ElBee’s recommendation to watch "Be Melodramatic." Honestly, I don’t think I’d have given it a shot without the nudge.

Status - CW Dropped (2/16)

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I'm sorry, but I had to drop it.

The drama feels like it's trying too hard to be edgy. Most of the characters are portrayed with heavy sarcasm. While being different can be fun, here it feels forced, like each character is trying too hard to appear cool. Instead of feeling authentic, it's a bit of a mockery of reality. Maybe I’ll give it another shot some other time.

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Wish Upon A Star
9th We Watch Challenge 2024 Award Ceremony
A long overdue award ceremony, since the last ceremony on September 8th! 

Presenting to you the jumbo 9th We Watch Challenge 2024 Award Ceremony covering challenges completed in the two months since September 8th, with a total of 24 customised badges, comprising 10 Gold Badges, 8 Silver Badges and 6 Bronze Badges - A first time to have a top-heavy award ceremony! And we welcome new challengers SAOMEO146, Montanic, Anne613, sapphire, Mia and max at this Award Ceremony.


Gold Badges
•   SAOMEO146 for recommending Link Click which has been rated 10/10
•   SAOMEO146 for recommending Dali and the Cocky Prince which has been rated 10/10
•   SAOMEO146 for recommending The Penthouse Season 3: War in Life which has been rated 10/10
•   leafless7 for recommending One Day Off which has been rated 10/10
•   leafless7 for recommending Two Lights: Relumino which has been rated 10/10
•   KC Drama LOVER for recommending Pyramid Game which has been rated 10/10
•   KC Drama LOVER for recommending Better Days which has been rated 10/10
•   sapphire for recommending The Kidnapping Day which has been rated 10/10
•   Monotanic for recommending Hold My Hand at Twilight which has been rated 10/10
•   Anne613 for recommending Even if This Love Disappears From the World Tonight which has been rated 10/10

Silver Badges
•   SAOMEO146 for recommending 1 litre no namida which has been rated 9.5/10
•   Monotanic for recommending Rojo no Ruka which has been rated 9.5/10
•   KC Drama LOVER for recommending Lovely Runner which has been rated 9/10
•   SKYLINE for recommending Midnight Runners which has been rated 9/10
•   jenn for recommending The Bring It On, Ghost which has been rated 9/10
•   Saygo for recommending Soundtrack #1 which has been rated 9/10
•   Tanii for recommending The Spirealm which has been rated 9/10
•   Mia for recommending The Beauty Inside which has been rated 9/10

Bronze Badges
•   leafless7 for recommending First Love Hatsukoi which has been rated 8.5/10
•   leafless7 for recommending Racket Boys which has been rated 8.5/10
•   leafless7 for recommending Even if This Love Disappears From the World Tonight which has been rated 8/10
•   Tanii for recommending When I Fly Towards You which has been rated 8/10
•   Mart for recommending The Sign which has been rated 8/10
•   Max for recommending Nen a Gumi which has been rated 8/10

Hall of Fame

This Hall of Fame records some astronomic rise with leafless7 rocketing to second place with 13 Customised Badges (from 7 at the last ceremony) and KC Drama LOVER rising to 7 Customised Badges (from 4 at the last ceremony). We see the same for new challengers SAOMEO146's and Montanic's maiden entry into the Hall of Fame with 8 and 4 Customised Badges respectively.

21  Customised Badgesjenn (3x Gold, 5x Silver, 13x Bronze)
13 Customised Badgesleafless7 (3x Gold, 3x Silver, 7x Bronze), Elbee (2x Gold, 5x Silver, 6x Bronze)
10 Customised BadgesJojo77 (2x Gold, 2x Silver, 6x Bronze), Sweetsis / Killer_Queen  (9x Silver, 1x Bronze)
9 Customised BadgesTanii (2x Gold, 3x Silver, 4x Bronze)
8 Customised BadgesSAOMEO146 (5x Gold, 2x Silver, 1x Bronze)
7 Customised BadgesKC Drama LOVER (3x Gold, 3x Silver, 1x Bronze), JulyMoon (1x Gold, 2x Silver, 4x Bronze)
6 Customised BadgesSelma (1x Gold, 3x Silver, 2x Bronze), SKYLINE (1x Gold, 2x Silver, 3x Bronze)
5 Customised Badgesneriya (1x Gold, 2x Silver, 2x Bronze),  dearuto (1x Gold, 1x Silver, 3x Bronze), Saygo (2x Silver, 3x Bronze),  Mart (1x Silver, 4x Bronze)
4 Customised BadgesMonotanic (2x Gold, 2x Silver)
3 Customised Badgestheis (1x Gold, 2x Bronze), solana (2x Silver, 1x Bronze)

HEARTIEST CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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ElBee

25th challenge completed!

Hi, Anne613!

I had to think a while to recall some romances that have happy endings without too much sadness making them bittersweet. Here are a few I can recommend based on what you’ve enjoyed so far:

Twinkling Watermelon is a rare case where I think a show is well worth the hype (and man there is a lot of hype for it)-some initial hype was because of the young actors, but the story is what made it sustain the high praise. It has an interesting combination of music and deaf characters as main focal points, but the character dynamics are fun, tender, sweet, and sometimes overly familiar/real in a way that is quite authentic to teenhood of the main era we see them in. I think you’ll enjoy it. It is high energy and was either the first or last thing I watched in a given day when it aired (first because I couldn’t wait, last because I wanted it to be what I fell asleep after seeing!) The bromance is even stronger (and gave me fun secondhand embarrassment that made me turn red while laughing) than the romance, but the romance is really endearing the whole way through.

Thirty But Seventeen is a story where first love leads to trauma but returns to bring healing… the romance is a slower burn here as the FL has been in a coma for 13 years and goes back to the house she lived in before (so cohabitation is part of it, too) where the one living in it is a traumatized man who thought she was gone from this world after he told her what bus stop to get off at and blamed himself for her particular death on that bus. That should be enough description to let you know if it is your kind of story. Bromance is pretty cute in it, too.

After reading your message, I am going to offer these two that fit your descriptions (didn’t want to just use your PTW): 

Be Melodramatic 

It’s Okay to Not Be Okay

Bits of charming quirkiness, character-driven, emotional, romance... they fit the bill and are very unique in their own lasting ways. Hopefully one of them works! 

Ready for recs! Anything up to ~20 hours works, my only firm exception/non-option dubbing (so no historical cdramas). Please ignore my PTW and just tap the score button on my lengthy completed list (and country if you are only recommending from one or two places) to sort by rating see what I rated very high and very low and obviously check if I’m already watching it (not all eps get updated as regularly so even if it says 0 seen, I’ve started it, just been distracted from updating things not on air). Weird=wonderful for me so long as the writing and acting can pull me in! I could use something a little (or very) bizarre and funny or you can always entice me with a thriller!

I accept jenn’s recommendation for Kill Bok Soon!

Thoughts/rating: This was a fun ride! Jeon Do Yeon has yet to disappoint me! It was on my watchlist from the time she was cast (and my notes said “bonus Lee Jae Wook cameo” which made choosing it easy-and what a sweet cameo-except wait, who’s that girl calling ahjussi?! lol).  It feels really hard to rate, but I gave it an 8.5-I would’ve liked it as a miniseries more just to get more story development for the daughter in particular, and more cases would’ve been welcome, especially a flashback, perhaps, to her very early start beyond the first encounter… I could definitely enjoy another 10 hours of it! I wish it hadn’t rushed quite so much (in terms of the story not having enough time to development-the fast action with the slow downs and them reading each other was fantastic!), but that is pretty common for films. Thanks for getting it off my PTW list! :)

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jenn

31 Challenge | 32 Challenge:

Hi, my lovely El?

As always I struggled but I found some things to recommend. they vary in length 


1. Kill Bok Soon - it's a movie. It is about a mother, who also happens to be an assassin and ends up in a certain situation when her contract renewal approaches. Sorry it's vague but it's hard to explain it without spoilers lol

2. My Only Love Song - it's an enjoyable drama. the FL is very arrogant and greedy so when she ends up back in time she has a difficult time adjusting (20 eps)


3. My Liberation Notes - feel like you might enjoy it

no horror or longer than 20 eps please.

looking for something light to watch not so heavy in meaning or requires a lot of thought lol

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Tanii

12th Challenge completed!

Hi jenn!

I recommend you to watch Under the Skin! It's one of my faves and the chemi between the leads is really good. I didn't see it on your list but just in case I missed it you can let me know and I'll pick something else!

If not that then a light one would be My Sweet Mobster. :)

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Waiting for rec!

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KC Drama LOVER

10th Challenge Completed!{?}

Hello, Tanii ! I will recommend you the one I did previously since that's all I have in my mind.

-Click on the title to reach the page (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

I am open to all recommends. 

Don't worry, just recommend me. I am sure that one of your recommend is in my PTW so absolutely don't go there („• ֊ •„)੭

I accept  Anne613's recommendation of Lighting Up the Stars

Status: PTW

Rating:

Thoughts:

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Anne613

1st  Challenge | 2nd Challenge | 3rd Challenge | 4th Challenge | 5th Challenge | 6th Challenge | 7th Challenge | 8th Challenge

Hello KC Drama LOVER, I checked out your profile and picked a couple of recs for you.

You can  choose  one from the following options:

Open for any recs specially from romance genre, and preferably with a happy ending. Feel free to check my completed drama list to see what I've enjoyed!

P.S. - Please try to ignore my plan to watch list!

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