#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 14: Favourite trope
This one was tough as I have several ANTI-favourites.
I am not even sure if this even counts as a trope, but it makes me so happy every time I see it:
Asking consent for a first kiss. 😍
Poster for Japanese Drama Kotaro Lives alone showing the eponymous lead holding his sword surrounded by the other core cast
#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 13: Found family
#cDrama #jDrama & #kDrama have all produced great examples of this. But the first 2 that came to mind for me are #jDrama In one 'found family' is a BIG spoiler. So it's #KotaroLivesAlone for a stunning 7yo lead performance
Poster for the 2014 Japanese Drama Date, showing the two leads on a carousel horse
#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 12: Comedy
Possibly the MOST subjective genre. The first Drama that comes to mind whenever I see this even after 12 years, is the 2014 #jDrama #Date - whoever wrote it shared MY sense of humour almost perfectly.
Poster for the Japanese asadora Drama Anpan, showing the two leads together, with the male lead holding a partly eaten anpan.
#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 11: Childhood connection
I don't watch anything zombie, so on to a trope I loathe:
Kindergarten Kismet🤮
This trope is skin-crawlingly REPULSIVE to me, this #jDrama managed to make it work. Probably due to being 'based on a true story'
Poster for the Chinese Drama This Thriving Land showing the core cast in a grain field holding sheaves and/or harvesting tools
#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 9: Costume and production design
A recent 'foundation general' brouhaha (I have no side) reinforced my pick for this one.
#cDrama #ThisThrivingLand - peasant farmers LOOKED LIKE peasant farmers, (PORES!) their homes & environs seemed real.
Agent from Above gifset if you want a feel for the vibes–and yeah that's Nezha (and his Chupa Chup on the left) in the third one #twdrama www.tumblr.com/storge/81308...
Poster for Netflix Korean Drama "Love To Hate You", showing the 4 leads
#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 8: Enemies to lovers
The #TwDrama #BehindYourSmile is not bad, and they really ARE enemies, but this #kDrama was TOO MUCH FUN not to pick #LoveToHateYou
#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 7: Revenge
Not my favourite genre, making this an easy choice. Makjang revenge done perfectly and CAST perfectly #kDrama #MoneyFlower
Poster for Japanese Drama "Date my Daughter" showing the mother and daughter together
#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 5: Lots of strong contenders here, but since "found family" is it's own thang, this #jDrama is one of the very best biological mother-daughter Dramas I've seen.
First ep was fun! I recommend this one. I'm not a horror fan in any way and I didn't find anything too creepy for me
#twdrama
getting this one out of the way now because Ugh!
#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 5: Villain
For YEARS, my answer to this was automatic: The villain in S1 of #ForestOfSecrets
THEN I found out he was also the worst kind of villain IRL and there ain't no unkowing that.
Poster for the Chinese Drama Dear Enemy showing the three leads
Poster for the Korean Drama Divorce Attorney Shin, showing the eponymous lead with his work and friendship crew
#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 4: Drama friendship
Once again, to paraphrase Queen, there CAN'T be only one
#cDrama #DearEnemy
#kDrama #DivorceAttorneyShin
Friendship is absolutely at the core of both these very different Dramas and what elevated them both
My only complaint about Agent From Above so far is that it doesn't have Tseng Jing Hua in it, and every Taiwanese drama should have Tseng Jing Hua in it
#twdrama
Poster for Japanese Drama A Calm Sea and Beautiful Days With You showing the two leads in their wedding outfits
Poster for the Chinese Drama When I Fly Towards you, showing the two leads in their first meeting
Poster for Korean Drama Soundtrack #2, showing the two leads in two poses, the second listening to music together
Poster for the Taiwanese Drama "I'm Married But" - on the left, the poster for its original title in Mandarin. On the Right, a machine-translated version of the Mandarin
#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Day 3: Favourite Modern Romance
Sorry mine host, but asking this earns instant entry to the 99th Circle of Hell😈
Here's 1 modern (post-covid) fave from each of 'my' 4 countries
A Calm Sea
When I Fly Towards You
Soundtrack #2
I'm Married But
Ko Chia Yen, Sakaguchi Kentaro and Lee Jun Ki together in one Drama? Oh my!
#twDrama
#jDrama
#kDrama
(hashtags in the order of my interest in the cast 😀)
Exciting stuff!
koalasplayground.com/2026/01/28/l...
Adding Love Between Lines to our collab Video Game drama list due to the VR game. 97 dramas so far!! Any others I should add that are missing, peeps?
#kdrama #KdramaChallenge #jdrama #JdramaChallenge #Cdrama #CdramaChallenge #ThaiDrama #ThaiDramaChallenge #TWDrama #TWDramaChallenge
The Netflix and Disney+ #kDrama lineups for the year are lean pickings for me, reinforcing my urge to make this a rewatch-focused year. This outstanding #twDrama is one I'll get around to someday or one day 😈
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0rf...
Adding #LoveBetweenLines to our collab #architects, interior designers list. Anything else we're missing folks? We're up to 44 dramas, but I feel like there are more.
#kdrama #KdramaChallenge #jdrama #JdramaChallenge #Cdrama #CdramaChallenge #ThaiDrama #ThaiDramaChallenge #TWDrama #TWDramaChallenge
For romcoms that aren't seemingly compelled by law to include serial killers & bloody trauma like post-2015 #kDrama "romcoms" you may need to go abroad. #cDrama #HiddenLove #WhenIFlyTowardsYou #FakeItTillYouMakeIt #jDrama #TheReasonsWeFallInLove #twDrama #ImMarriedBut
I was just wondering whether 2026 might be the year that my combined total of #jDrama #cDrama and #twDrama finally equal my #kDrama total. The pie does not lie - of them I would need to watch 80 more to tie! 😱 #MaybeNextYear
Because I'm a kind, sweet and generous soul, I offer you a choice. Any one of these will be acceptable 😀
#kDrama
#GoodbyetoGoodBye
#cDrama
#TheTaleOfRose
#DearEnemy
#twDrama #ImperfectUs
Oh, it's not that - I count dropped and currently watching in my DB epsiode totals too. But for many years they didn't count rewatches (the reason I started my own DB) and especially with #twDrama their episode counts are often very different to the ones I watched
Day 31: Your favourite drama of 2025. #EYDC2025
#cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
This was really hard. For this one question, I've decided to limit myself to Dramas from 2025, so I just HAD TO answer on masto, 'cos one of the TWO winners' names won't even FIT here 😂
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#EYDC2025 Day 30: was 2025 a good drama year for you?
Yes. Out of 53, 18 (34%) I rated as 9/10 or higher. 9 #cdrama, 8 #kdrama, and 1 #TWdrama
Not mentioned yet:
#HommeFatale
#HelloMonster #RememberYou
#MeetYourself
#RebornRich
My two 10⭐️s:
#Hyena
#WinterBegonia
mydramalist.com/list/3EExvzX3
Day 30: Was 2025 a good drama year for you? #EYDC2025
#cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
The numbers don't lie.
2025 was emphatically NOT a good Drama year for me:
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Day 29: A 2026 drama you're excited for. #EYDC2025
#cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
There's only one 2026 Drama I know about for sure that I'm excited to see, and it's a #jDrama - and a second season!😱
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Day 28: An industry change you want to happen. #EYDC2025
#cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
Not one, but two, and they are both relevant to all the tagged Drama countries:
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Day 27: A drama you want more people to watch. #EYDC2025
#cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama
At first a toss-up, but in the end, an easy choice
robinwalter31.blogspot.com/2025/10/dear...
A still from the Korean Drama You and Everything Else, with the two leads , played by Kim Go Eun and Park Ji Hyun ,sitting next to each other. Kim's character is saying: I guess we just have a strange bond with each other.
8.25/10 for #kDrama #YouAndEverythingElse - #twDrama #ImperfectUs delivered a similar core story much better, in several key aspects. BUT, Kim Go Eun and Park Ji Hyun were amazing together, the reason I stayed with this one to the end, and the reason I scored it as highly as I did. Bravissima!
