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Arranged marriages, forced marriages, fake relationships, and contract relationships of all sorts that ultimately lead to love.
Chinese dramas that are short length (15 mins. or less an episode) or full length dramas with 15 or fewer episodes. Also includes Taiwanese…
Dramas and movies featuring characters with mental or physical disabilities, mental illness, chronic illnesses, and more.
For when you just need a man or woman in armor or a historical uniform to save the day....leads who are generals, soldiers, or warlords.
Dramas and movies with beautiful and/or unusual/unique aesthetics relating to costumes, sets, lighting, or cinematography.
My favorite sort of happy ending stories - the leads are together and parents (adopted/biological child/children and/or pregnancy). Also included…
Dramas and movies in which the characters appear to be someone other than who they truly are due to body/face swaps, power swaps, identity swaps,…
Dramas and movies with plot centered around or leads whose careers are in the arts - painting, music, writing, dance, theatre, entertainment,…
Dramas and movies in which characters are humans with some magical power or they gain power from a magical object they possess.
Dramas and movies with LGBTQ+ characters, including BLs, GLs, censored BLs, and dramas featuring supporting characters.
Thai Dramas that are short length (15 mins. or less an episode) or full length dramas with 15 or fewer episodes.
For when you're in the mood for screaming at your screen after it goes black. Cliffhangers for second seasons that never happened, endings up…
Stories where the endgame pairing isn't the usual "met as children and loved forever" - the leads have romantic relationships and…
Unconventional MLs on the gray side - villains, antiheros, playboys, bad boys with a heart of gold, and more.
Dramas and movies in which the plot is driven by the FL or ML's quest for revenge for something that happened to them or their family.
Dramas where instead of an enemies to lovers arc, the leads go back and forth between hatred and love in their relationship.
Stories in which the FL physically and/or emotionally saves the ML at least once.
Childhood connections, childhood and earlier meetings, separations during and toward the end, basically any stories that ultimately feature…
Stories in which one of the leads was raised as a weapon, assassin/killer, and/or tool by someone who planned to use them for some purpose.…
Dramas and movies centered around food, restaurants, cafes, bars, and cooking.
The delightful or not so delightful trope! Dramas and movies where at least one of the leads loses their memory at least once.
Dramas in which the leads live together before being in a relationship or live in the same apartment building next door to each other. Excludes…
Dramas and movies in which a storyline or all of the plot revolves around life inside the palace.
Dramas I loved that I rarely see mentioned/recommended or are very unpopular. Full length dramas only because literally all mini dramas are…
Couples with large height differences, guaranteed to make the heart flutter!
Dramas and movies based upon a true story, ranging from historical figures to events, to varying degrees of accuracy.
Korean dramas that are short length (15 mins. or less an episode) or full length dramas with 15 or fewer episodes.
Dramas and movies with a school setting or leads who are students or teachers.
Romances between an employer and their employee or master and their servant (excluding bodyguards).
When you need romance with a bit more fire - particularly sizzling chemistry, yearning/UST, scenes that makes you wonder where exactly the censors…
Dramas and movies with hidden and secret pregnancies and children, such as the FL conceals her pregnancy intentionally or unintentionally from…
Dramas in which the leads are more than star-crossed - either one of them or their family destroyed the other's family or one of the leads has…
Dramas and movies in which the main characters have a pet (not just dogs or cats!) that features in the story or work as veterinarians. Shapeshifter…
Dramas and movies with angels, demons, gods, grim reapers, goblins, or plant fairies.
Dramas and movies with a rich lead and a poor(er) lead in a romantic relationship.
"Few things say ‘I love you’ like a bullet to a non-essential area." - NikitaYou know how it goes, for some reason there has to…
Sad endings (my definition is the leads don't end up together due to death or separation) and happy endings for the main couple but are otherwise…
The hardest working guest star - the cliffs that everyone falls off. But never fear! If you're the FL or ML, you'll just come back after a while,…
Romances between step family, in-laws or adopted (not blood related) siblings, and the occasional related one.
