It is that time of the year again. Keeping with MDL tradition, we present to you the 2023 MDL Watch Challenge. Whether you you want to challenge yourself, diversify your Watchlist, or just join the fun, this challenge is open for all.
To join in the fun, you must READ and FOLLOW these RULES and instructions. They may sound tricky at first, but we are sure you will get the hang of it, and we are HERE to guide you!
This Challenge starts on January 1, 2023 and ends December 31, 2023!
You may join the challenge any time during the year 2023, be it January, February, May or December.
The last day for submissions is January 3, 2024, but no matter when you join the challenge, all titles must have been watched between January 1 and December 31, 2023.
Below you will find:
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Special thanks to all the participants and creators of previous years challenges as well as Yuanwei who has helped us out behind the scenes.
- Copy the text in the box below:
2023 MDL Watch Challenge Sign-up Sheet |
2. Paste in the box marked “Quick reply.”
3. Press Reply. NOTE: This is the ONLY time you are to post ANYTHING in this thread; anything else posted here will be ignored! However, you will have to edit your post over the course of the challenge!
4. Fill in your challenge entry according to the instructions on the application. The application serves as BOTH your application and your worksheet during the year. Congratulations! You are now part of this year’s challenge!
*You do not have to use tables, make sure to include bot the route and essential in your application
5. Go to your post (when you pressed reply, you made a post), copy the link to your post, and bookmark or paste the link somewhere you’ll have access to it (like your profile; pro tip: copy the link to the one below you too-it will save you from scrolling down to the edit button).
6. Read the rules and details about the challenge HERE.
7. Copy and paste the habitats of your choice either from THIS POST, or THIS DOCUMENT , you can also try THIS HACK
Note: The colors rarely follow, you may use whatever colors you would like, however if you want to use the ones we used, here are the codes#3A81A0 #485E4D AA824C #5E5E5E #7CBBB6#3D5255 |
8. If you have any questions, go to the FAQ and see if those have been answered. If not, post your question there. You can also discuss the challenge in the FAQ thread or on our challenge account’s feed.
9. Once you COMPLETE the challenge and are sure you will not want to do anything more with this challenge for 2023, follow the turn-in instructions HERE!
For this year's challenge, we have chosen the theme animals. While this affects our choice of words, it is just for fun. However, understanding the wording used in the challenge may come in handy:
Essential: Title
Route: Prompt that describes the traits your Essential (title) must have
Habitat: a group of 5 routes
Treat: An extra route that you can use as a substitute when neither choice of route feels right for you.
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Here are the basic rules for this challenge. For questions about these, visit our FAQ forum.
This year's challenge is a little bit like a game where you collect essentials (watch dramas) by following a chosen route (descriptions) to gain access to a habitat (group of essentials). The more habitats you gain access to, the more animals you will find (levels you'll complete). Once you have gained access to all the habitats in one stage, you can move on to the next stage where you move to finding animals in a different setting.
We would like to be clear about a few of this year's routes. Some of them will take you down a dark, dark road... This is because we want to make way for these stories. HOWEVER, no matter what level or stage you choose to complete, all dark routes are OPTIONAL. All habitats (with the exception of #25, Countries of MDL) will give you two choices of routes to find each essential, and we have made sure a dark route is always accompanied by a lighter route to choose from.
Disclaimer: MDL is an ever-changing platform, so some of the links, tags and genres that are used for this challenge may have changed during the duration of the challenge. If that happens go HERE. We will, however, not change the application form once it has been published... |
1. Start by completing the titles that match the route of your choice from any one of the Habitats within the challenge (you must complete 5 titles per habitat, one per choice of route).
2. After that you will have to complete a second one to reach the level “Plains Korean Crow.” Now you have watched enough to participate in the challenge and can theoretically turn in your application HERE if you do not want to add anything more! Congratulations!
3. If you do want to reach a higher level than “Plains Korean Crow,” just keep adding as many Habitats as you want/can until you reach your goal and/or the date is December 31, 2023.
4. It is enough to complete two Habitats to complete this challenge.
5. You cannot "complete" the whole challenge (well, not without watching every title from every single country on the MDL website in a single year!) as it is a circuit and therefore never-ending.
6. You may choose any of the Habitats within the challenge as well as complete them in any order you would like.
7. Feel free to choose a Badge to add to your profile or create your own!
In other words: Start off at Plain Korean Crow and work your way toward the Black Hole Elephant and beyond by counting the numbers of Habitats you have completed by December 31st.
Bonus: Complete titles from all the countries found on MDL to receive a Tiger Badge.
Curious about the animals? We have added information about each animal and the challenge as a whole go here.
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So many choices...
To complete a Habitat:
1. Choose ONE of two routes to find a title that fills an essential
2. Add 5 Essentials: Watch 5 titles matching 5 Routes in the Habitat of your choice. You can also choose to use a treat to complete the habitat.
3. You must watch the entire title within the period of January 1-December 31, 2023, no matter when you join the challenge.
4. Each essential (title you watch) can only be used ONCE in the whole challenge.
5. You can add the essentials in any order you want and move them around until you turn in your entry.
6. To complete a Level and obtain access to the animal of your choice, you must complete the number of habitats stated in the table below: 2 habitats for the Plains Korean Crow, 29 for the Forest Blue Magpie etc...
7. To compete a Stage (Plains, Forest, etc.), you must obtain access to all the animals and start over in the new environment.
8. For each stage you enter just add a number in the same square.
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Levels | Stage and Number of Habitats to get the Animal in that Stage | |||||
Animal | Plains | Forest | Mountain | Space | Black Hole | |
1 |
| 2 | 27 | 52 | 77 | 102 |
2 |  | 4 | 29 | 54 | 79 | 104 |
3 |  | 6 | 31 | 56 | 81 | 106 |
4 |  | 8 | 33 | 58 | 83 | 108 |
5 |
| 10 | 35 | 60 | 85 | 110 |
6 |
| 13 | 38 | 63 | 88 | 113 |
7 |
| 16 | 41 | 66 | 91 | 116 |
8 |
| 19 | 44 | 69 | 94 | 119 |
9 |
| 22 | 47 | 72 | 97 | 122 |
10 |
| 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 | 125 |
| Bonus badge! |  | If you complete titles from all the countries listed on MDL without using treats, you get the Tiger Badge! | ||||
As this year is a limitless challenge, if you do happen to complete more than 125 blocks/ 635 titles in 2023, we will of course add more stages. | ||||||
Using Treats
- Each Treat can only be used ONCE in the challenge.
- You may use as many treats as you want per Habitat, but remember you only have a limited number of treats determined by the environment you have reached.
- You will create the treat routes all on your own, and you may use anything NOT covered in this challenge. You may also go to previous years' challenge prompts for inspiration.
- Every time you start a new stage, you will be awarded a new number of treats according to the table below.
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Environment | Plains | Forest | Mountain | Space | Black Hole | Beyond |
Number of available substitutes added | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Total number of substitutions allowed | 5 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 15 |
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Those who turn in their challenge here by January 3, 2024, will have their form added to the Hall of Fame.
We do not check your challenge entries, but the community will and will let us know if your choices did not qualify. We cannot watch every title everyone chooses.
Here is the 2022 Hall Of Fame. We update the hall of fame as people turn in their forms, So DO NOT turn in until you are completely done with the challenge. We will try to have the Hall of fame updated completely by the first week in February 2024, but we are human, and things happen in our lives, too.
Feel free to choose a badge to add to your profile or create your own!
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You edit as you go along. For your convenience, save the link to your sheet so you can go back and edit it whenever you want-we can’t find it any more easily than you can! TIP: If your post link suddenly doesn't work, go back one page and check there-someone may have deleted their post and bumped yours up! | Go to the FAQ page, read and ask away... Note: questions posted in the FAQ forum will be answered by us and other experienced users. Questions posted or sent to our account will be answered by us but may take more time. Please check the FAQ before sending us a question, as it may already have been answered there. | If your worksheet is completed successfully and your turn-in form is submitted by January 3, 2024, you will be included in the Hall of Fame. If you submit your form January 4, 2024, or later, you will have had the joy of completing the challenge, but your entry will not be added to the Hall of Fame. |
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Here is the hall of fame for 2022
We do not check your turn ins but the community will and let us know if your choices did not qualify. we cannot watch every title everyone chooses.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
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 Rivka44 Turn-In Form |  _galoreTurn-In Form |  RienTurn-In Form |  flytoskyTurn-In Form |
 L1s1Turn-In Form | |||
| Total: 5 | |||
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 RainbowTurn-In Form | |||
| Total: 1 | |||
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 KC Drama LOVERTurn-In Form |  DejesTurn-In Form | Turn-In Form |  ExeiyaTurn-In Form |
 LysTurn-In Form |  BeckyTurn-In Form |  LeafTurn-In Form |  heart burnTurn-In Form |
 anniebellaTurn-In Form |
|  BingerWatcherTurn-In Form |  Old Anime LadyTurn-In Form |
| Total: 12 | |||
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 ElBeeTurn-In Form | |||
| Total: 1 | |||
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 MartTurn-In Form |  SKYLINETurn-In Form | ||
| Total: 2 | |||
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Turn-In Form |  rynTurn-In Form |  Blair TonkinTurn-In Form |  Kang JiaTurn-In Form |
 NineTurn-In Form |  safirblaSVT Turn-In Form |  annyTurn-In Form |  VickyTurn-In Form |
 Ara 99Turn-In Form | |||
| Total: 9 | |||
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 ColourMePurpleTurn-In Form | |||
| Total: 1 | |||
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 IcywolfoskelsosTurn-In Form |  Vivi Turn-In Form |  WeantelleTurn-In Form |  Faye SeliniTurn-In Form |
 JigeumbuteoTurn-In Form |  JulyMoonTurn-In Form |  halTurn-In Form |  VinceTurn-In Form |
 LitchiTurn-In Form |  Michelles_MusingsTurn-In Form |  AllyMiaTurn-In Form |  PrincessJirachiTurn-In Form |
 cowboy_taeilTurn-In Form |  chelseyTurn-In Form |  CollonyTurn-In Form | |
| Total: 15 | |||
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 AthenaTheStorierXTurn-In Form |  ShiroTurn-In Form |  Xiao ZiTurn-In Form | |
| Total: 3 | |||
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 yoondahyeonTurn-In Form |  TaniiTurn-In Form |  Bad_humourTurn-In Form |  MiiTurn-In Form |
 AimsTurn-In Form |  BriTurn-In Form |  SolanaTurn-In Form |  EchoTurn-In Form |
 jaxagon7717Turn-In Form | |||
| Total: 9 | |||
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 dyingcamelliaTurn-In Form |  kura2ninjaTurn-In Form |  ccbaiTurn-In Form |  LiaTurn-In Form |
 KSuuh Turn-In Form |  Jubies33Turn-In Form |  CiraTurn-In Form |  JennTurn-In Form |
 katherine197Turn-In Form | |||
| Total: 9 | |||
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 ZhouYanRan Turn-In Form | |||
| Total: 1 | |||
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 BabyNandosTurn-In Form | |||
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 melolightsTurn-In Form |  emiTurn-In Form |  Komentator isenk Turn-In Form |  LuckyNine12Turn-In Form |
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Congratulations and thank you for joining us for this year's challenge!
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Last Updated: 2/1
Badges and Banners
We are always happy to receive Badges and Banners from the community, so if you feel like pitching in, DM us a link to your Badges and/ or Banners and we will add them in the tables below.
Below are a few examples of each participants badges, but if you click on the link above the bades it will take you to their gallery's where there is a lot more!
| Creator | Badges |
Check out Rien's gallery for more badges like these   | |
 | Check out shroomshiro's gallery for more badges like these:   |
 flytosky | Check out flytosky's gallery at Postimg or Imegur for more badges like these  |
Dream's gallery   | |
 Gummy_Marshmallow | Gummy_Marshmallow 's gallery    |
Litchi's Gallery   |
Rien
Dreams
| Creator | Banners |
| Check out flytosky's gallery :Potimg or imgur for more banners like this |
Gummy_Marshmallow | Gummy_Marshmallow 's gallery no 2 has both badges and banners  |
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Achievement Badges:
| Watch titles from all the 7 countries represented on MDL and you archive this badge. |    More tiger badges can be found here | |
The other badges can be found in the hall of fame, if you would like to make an achievement badge, feel free to send it to us and we will add it below.
| DL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet Starting date:1/1/2023 Link to your Drama list: Old_Anime_Lady's List | |
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 |
OR TV SHOW* | and | ||
OR | and | ||
| Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | and | ||
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| Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi: Summer Special 2015 | |||
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | The Visitor in the Eye | ||
2. Is it True? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | NO | ||
OR | NO | ||
| Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | NO AND | ||
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3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | The King Is Invincible | ||
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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 OriginTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | NO | ||
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | |||
year generated by this website OR | 2011 | ||
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5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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| Mada Mada Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | AND | ||
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. | Soredemo, Ikite Yuku | ||
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 | Lupin no Musume Season 2 | ||
OR | NO | ||
OR | NO | ||
OR | NO | ||
OR | NO | ||
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 CaringTutorials: 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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). |
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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) | NO And | ||
with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | |||
9. Your Fanciers and WestminstersFor 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 |
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from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors |
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from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles |
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| 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 | |||
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11. Finding a Mate | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content | Brief Nudity | Prolonged Nudity | Partial Nudity | Mild Sexual Content | Sexual Content | Extreme Sexual Content | And | ||
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features a Heterosexual relationship OR | |||
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Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR | |||
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | |||
OR features some type of Doomsday | |||
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features a Celebration OR | |||
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13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | AND | ||
OR | The Knight of Shadows Between Yin and Yang AND | ||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | AND | ||
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Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | |||
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 |
OR | Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance | ||
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OR | Sakra AND | ||
| In a City OR In a Small Town | AND | ||
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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OR | Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!: The Movie | ||
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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 |
OR | Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons | ||
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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) | AND | ||
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OR | AND | ||
17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | AND | ||
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| Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | AND | ||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | |||
18. What Are You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | |||
| Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead | |||
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | |||
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | |||
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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 |
OR | AND | ||
OR | AND | ||
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20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | |||
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | AND | ||
OR | AND | ||
OR | New World | ||
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22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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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 |
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| Color OR | |||
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OR | AND | ||
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24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
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OR | AND | ||
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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 |
| Dynasty Warriors | |||
America ni Makenakatta Otoko - Bakayaro Souri Yoshida Shigeru | |||
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 SheetStarting date: January 1stLink to your Drama list: | | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR TV SHOW* |
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| Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL |
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2. Is it True? | Progress: Plains: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) |
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3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: Plains 5/5 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Plains | Forest | Notes |
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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 OriginTutorial | Progress: Plains 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
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OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) |
| Plains: 2019 | |
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born |
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year generated by this website OR |
| Plains: 2016 | |
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5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: Plains 5/5Forest: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
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DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or |
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DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. |  |
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DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. |
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DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. |
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6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: Plains: 5/5Forest: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plais | Forest | Notes |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA |
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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 CaringTutorials: 1 2 3 | Progress: Plains: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
| that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge |
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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 |
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mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) |
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| with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist |
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8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: Plains 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
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) |
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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). |
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from your most viewed tags Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats |
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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) |
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with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it |
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9. Your Fanciers and WestminstersFor this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page.*List with awards | Progress:Plains: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites |
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from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses |
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from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors |
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from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles |
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| from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before |
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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: Plains 5/5Forest: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR |
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11. Finding a Mate | Progress: Plains 5/5Forest 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content | Brief Nudity | Prolonged Nudity | Partial Nudity | Mild Sexual Content | Sexual Content | Extreme Sexual Content |
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features a Heterosexual relationship OR |
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Nice Female Lead / Nice Male Lead OR |
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12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: Plains; 5/5Forest 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
| Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy |
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OR features some type of Doomsday |  |
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OR |  |  Censored Romance | |
features a Celebration OR |
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Multiple perspectives | |
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13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: Plains 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
features a Religious Leader OR |  | ||
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Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR |  | ||
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Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR |
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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: Plains 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR |
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| In a City OR In a Small Town |
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15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: Plains 5/5Forest 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR |
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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: Plains 5/5Forest: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR |
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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) |
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17. Camouflage? | Progress: Plains 5/5Forest: /5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR |
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| Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR |
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Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR |
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18. What Are You? | Progress: Plains 5/5Forest 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR |
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| Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead |
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Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR |  |
Weather Forcaster lead | |
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR |
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OR |
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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: Plains 5/5Forest: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR |
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20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: Plains 5/5Forest: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR |
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Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
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21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: Plains: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
Reincarnation |
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22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress:Plains: 5/5Forest 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR |
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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: Plains 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
OR |
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| Color OR |
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| Sweat and Soap | |
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24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: Plains 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
| Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal |
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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: Plains 7/7Forest: 7/7 | ||
Route | Plains | Forest | Notes |
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Treats
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! | |||||
| Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | ||
|  | Dokumentary/ Mokementery | |||
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Tabu |  | Forest OR | |||
Weather Forcaster lead |  | Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead | |||
| Censored Romance | | OR | |
| Multiple perspectives |  | features a Celebration OR |
Other:
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 6/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR TV SHOW* | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ ✔ | ||
| Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | ✔ | ||
OR | |||
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | webtoon novel | ✔ ✔ | |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 1/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | |||
OR | |||
| Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | |||
OR | |||
OR | ✔ | ||
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 8/10 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ ✔ | ||
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 OriginTutorial | Progress: 5/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔ | ||
OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | |||
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | 2006 June | ✔️ ✔ | |
year generated by this website OR | 2020 | ✔ | |
OR | 2021 | ✔ | |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 7/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔ | ||
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | 36 ep | ✔ | |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | All That We Loved Ballerina | 35 min 92min | ✔ ✔ |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | 45 min | ✔ | |
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. |
8ep | ✔ ✔ | |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 5/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
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 CaringTutorials: 1 2 3 | Progress: 3/10 | ||
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) | 06/27 - 1,000 ~ | ✔ | |
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | 4 episodes | ✔ | |
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: 5/10 | ||
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 WestminstersFor this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page.*List with awards | Progress: 7/10 | ||
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 | Han Jun Hee : D.P. | ✔ ✔ | |
| 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: 6/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | ✔️ ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content | Brief Nudity | Prolonged Nudity | Partial Nudity | Mild Sexual Content | Sexual Content | Extreme Sexual Content | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | ✔️ ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
Nice Female Lead / Nice Male Lead OR | |||
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | ✔ | ||
OR features some type of Doomsday | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
features a Celebration OR | |||
OR | ✔ ✔ | ||
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | Priest | ✔ | |
OR | |||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | ✔ | ||
OR | slow burn romance |
✔ | |
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | popular male lead | ✔️ ✔ | |
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: 3/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
| In a City OR In a Small Town | |||
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 4/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
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: 3/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | ✔ | ||
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) | |||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | actress | ✔ | |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 4/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | archery | ✔ | |
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | |||
| Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | |||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | antiheroine | ✔ ✔ | |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 3/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | ✔ | ||
| Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead | |||
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | |||
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
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: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | |||
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | |||
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 4/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔️ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 4/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | firefighters/doctors | ✔ | |
OR | |||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
OR | ✔ | ||
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: 2/10 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
| Color OR | |||
OR | see | ✔ | |
OR | 1938 | ✔ | |
OR | |||
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
OR | |||
OR |
| ✔ | |
OR | |||
OR | |||
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: 4/5 | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
✔ | |||
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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 | ||
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet | ||
Starting date January 1, 2023 | Link to your Dramal list: | Goal Level 6: Rhesus Macaque (13 habitat) |
Essentials 56 |  | Finished Habitats 8 |
1. Type | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Web Series | - | ✓ | |
| ✓ | ||
Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Ma Dong Seok nationality is American. | ✓ | |
- | ✓ | ||
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic | - | ✓ | |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 5/0 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Advertisement | |||
Adapted from Folklore | |||
Historical Fiction | |||
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 | - | ✔ | |
Ameiro Paradox | - | ✔ | |
- | ✔ | ||
- | ✓ | ||
- | ✓ | ||
4. Year of OriginTutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
- | ✔ | ||
1990-1999 |
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2000-2010 | January | ✔ | |
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- | ✔ | ||
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 5/3 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
- | ✔ | ||
- | ✔ | ||
- | ✔ | ||
8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page) | ✔ | ||
found on a Custom List (add a link to the list). | Our Skyy 2: My School President | ✔ | |
from your most viewed tags | Friendship | ✔ | |
with someone or something mentioned in a Game on MDL (add a link to the game) | ✔ | ||
with over 10 Reviews | I don't know when I started, but even at the finishing date (14.04.2023) there are no reviews. | ✔ | |
9. Your Fanciers and WestminstersFor this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page.*List with awards | Progress: 5/0 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning | |||
from an award-winning director | |||
from an award-winning screenwriter | |||
from an award-winning actor | |||
from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | |||
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back | - | ✓ | |
| Cherry Blossoms After Winter | - | ✓ | |
- | ✓ | ||
- | ✓ | ||
- | ✓ | ||
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
First Love | - | ✓ | |
- | ✓ | ||
features a Heterosexual relationship | - | ✓ | |
- | ✓ | ||
Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead | - | ✓ | |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
- | ✓ | ||
Happy Ending | - | ✓ | |
- | ✓ | ||
features a Celebration | In the last epidose New Years celebration | ✓ | |
- | ✓ | ||
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5/4 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader | |||
- | ✓ | ||
- | ✓ | ||
- | ✓ | ||
- | ✓ | ||
14. Where Are We? | Progress: 5/4 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Our Skyy 2: Bad Buddy x A Tale of Thousand Stars | - | ✓ | |
- | ✓ | ||
Jejudo in ep 2 & 3 | ✓ | ||
| In a City OR In a Small Town | Our Skyy 2: Bad Buddy | - | ✓ |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 5/1 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
- | ✓ | ||
| Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead | |||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead | |||
19. The Petting Zoo | Progress: 5/1 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
- | ✓ | ||
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: 5/0 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Second Lead Caring For Animals | |||
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 5/1 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
- | ✓ | ||
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
- | ✓ | ||
| Color OR Emotion | - | ✓ | |
- | ✓ | ||
| Going Seventeen 2020 | - | ✓ | |
- | ✓ | ||
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 5/2 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
- | ✓ | ||
- | ✓ | ||
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 | ||
Last edited: 2023.12.21.
| ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Starting Date: 01/01/2023 My Drama List Habitat Progress: 16 Essentials: 82 ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ |  | ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ Drama 48 Movie 23 TV Show 0 Drama Special 9 Treats 2 ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ |
Taxonomy | |||
1. Type Progress 5/5 | 12/12/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Web Series or TV Show | First Love: Hatsukoi (2022) Released by an online streaming service | 11/01/2023 | |
| Movie or Drama Special | Drama Special Season 13: Let's Meet in an Unfamiliar Season (2022) | 07/01/2023 | |
| Co-Produced or Starring an Actor from a country NOT on MDL | Office Romance Recipe (2022) Ahn Hyo Seop is Canadian | 03/12/2023 | |
| Anthology or Omnibus | Replaylist (2017) | 12/12/2023 | |
| Adapted From a Manga/ Wetoon/Manhua/Manhwa/Comic or Adapted From a Novel/Book | Perfect Marriage Revenge (2023) The Essence of a Perfect Marriage (완벽한 결혼의 정석) Written by Young (영) and Lee Beom Bae (이범배) Illustrated by Je Ri Bol (제리볼) | 11/12/2023 | |
3. All about Genre Progress 5/5 | 30/12/2023 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Historical or Sci-Fi | Sweet Home (2020) Rewatched | 07/12/2023 | |
| Comedy or Tragedy | Oshi ga Joshi Narimashite (2023) | 30/12/2023 | |
| Thriller or Romance | See You in My 19th Life (2023) | 21/12/2023 | |
| Youth or Political | Doona! (2023) | 12/11/2023 | |
| Action or Life | Sweet Home Season 2 (2023) | 09/12/2023 | |
Time is Relative | |||
4. Year of Origin Progress 5/5 | 24/02/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| 2023 or 1940-1959 | Call Me, Chihiro (2023) | 24/02/2023 | |
| 1990-1999 or Year a member joined | Love Letter (1995) | 15/01/2023 | |
| 2000-2010 or Birth month | Drama Stage Season 1: Anthology (2018) My Birthday is in January and this was released on the 6th of January. | 08/01/2023 | |
| Random year generator or 1950-1969 | Flying Colors (2015) 1995, 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016 | 26/01/2023 | |
| 2017-2022 or 1970-1989 | Mine (2021) | 07/01/2023 | |
6. Time Can be Confusing Progress 5/5 | 16/12/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Date |
| Full Second Season or Only One Episode | The Glory Part 2 (2023) | 29/03/2023 | |
| Different Timelines or Time Loop | Celebrity (2023) Shows both a past and present timeline | 12/10/2023 | |
| Time Skip or Time Travel | My Perfect Stranger (2023) Both leads travel back in time | 30/09/2023 | |
| Winter or Summer | Something Between Us, Summer Story (2020) | 16/12/2023 | |
| Fall or Spring | The Cherry Orchard (1990) Depicts a day in spring, with the idea of 'Spring Mosquitoes' being mentioned at one point. | 12/10/2023 | |
The Chronicles of MDL | |||
7. Sharing is Caring Progress 5/5 | 22/02/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| PTW Longer Than Remember or Watchlist of another User | Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) Taken from Blair Tonkin's Watchlist | 16/01/2023 | |
| Less than 10,000 viewers or Ranked 1-1000 | New World Makers (2021) 603 Viewers at the time of Completion. | 07/01/2023 | |
| Drama smallest # eps PTW or Drama highest # eps PTW | Bakayarou no Kiss (2022) - Had the smallest number of episodes with 5 while She and Her Perfect Husband had the highest number of episodes with 40 | 07/02/2023 | |
| Mentioned in MDL Forums or Mentioned in MDL Feeds | 20th Century Girl (2022) Mentioned in Love at First Sight for ML | 22/02/2023 | |
| Newest release date PTW or Older than oldest title in Watchlist | So Goes My Love (1938) The oldest title in my watchlist was Nobuko (1940) at the time of starting this challenge. | 05/01/2023 | |
8. Examined... Progress 10/10 | 21/11/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| On Your Recommendations Page and Appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers | One Smile is Very Alluring (2016) | 24/02/2023 | |
| Daily Dose of Sunshine (2023) Trailer page 1 on the 06/10/2023 | 21/11/2023 | ||
| Found on a Custom List and Found on a Voting List | Love to Hate You (2023) Finest Netflix Originals | 27/02/2023 | |
| Semantic Error (2022) Number 24 on Most Romantic kdrama ever made at Time of Watching. | 05/03/2023 | ||
| From your Most Viewed Tag and From your Least Viewed Genre | Kimi no Hana ni Naru (2022) Most Viewed Tag: Friendship | 23/02/2023 | |
| Single & Ready to Mingle (2022) Least Viewed Genre: Sitcom | 06/10/2023 | ||
| Mentioned in a Game on MDL and Mentioned in an Article on MDL | 1. Involves a Bizarre but Cute Scene. Treats are at bottom of post. | 05/02/2023 | |
| Catman (2021) Movies You May Want to Watch If... (First Half of 2021) | 27/02/2023 | ||
| With Over 10 Reviews and With 0 Reviews when you started watching. | My Lovely Liar (2023) With a lot more than 10 reviews at the time of completion. | 25/09/2023 | |
| A LDF Original Series (2022) 0 Reviews at Time of Watching. | 24/02/2023 | ||
9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters Progress 5/5 | 21/12/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Award-Winning or By the same Writer as one of my favourites | Search WWW (2019) (Rewatch) This drama is one of my least favourite dramas but I thought I'd give it another chance after discovering that the Screen Writer also wrote one of my favourite dramas Twenty-Five Twenty-One (2022). That Screen Writer is Kwon Do Eun. | 29/03/2023 | |
| From an award-winning Director or Includes one of my favourite Actresses | Drama Special Season 5: We all Cry Differently (2014) Kim So Hyun is a brilliant actress, when I first saw her in Thorn Birds, I thought her acting was phenomenal. She has since continued to impress me with her roles in School 2015, Tale of Nok Du and most recently My Lovely Liar. | 20/12/2023 | |
| From an Award-Winning Screenwriter or Includes one of my favorite Actors | Trap by Seo In Guk (2023) Seo In Guk was one of the first actors that caught my attention. While watching Master's Sun, I often waited for his character, a charming security guard from what I remember (it's been ten years) to pop up. Soon after, I checked reply 1997 and it's fair to say he may be one of the reasons I ended up hooked on Kdramas. | 21/12/2023 | |
| From an Award-Winning Actor or By the same Director as one of my favourite Titles. | The First Responders (2022) Six Flying Dragons (2015) is one of the longest dramas I have ever managed to watch, what's even more of a feat is that it is a political drama. I find political dramas really difficult to watch so its fair to say it's one of my favourites. With that being said both dramas share Shin Kyung Soo as their director and both dramas were really fun to watch. So I will be looking out for more dramas directed by him. | 28/09/2023 | |
| From an Award-Winning Actress or By a Director/Writer, I haven't seen anything from before | Destined With You (2023) I haven't seen any of the work by Noh Ji Sul the Screen Writer of this drama. | 13/10/2023 | |
Getting Up Close and Personal | |||
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism... Progress 5/5 | 29/12/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Ex Returns or Exorcism | Drama Stage Season 3: Big Data Romance (2019) Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back Tagged | 27/12/2023 | |
| Cohabitation or Long Distance Relationship | Night, Birds Scream (2022) Cohabitation Tag | 23/12/2023 | |
| Fluffy or Sexual Assault | Love Station (2021) Fluffy Tag | 29/12/2023 | |
| Contract Relationship or Secret Relationship | About Love (2014) Secret Relationship Tag | 24/12/2023 | |
| Opposites Attract or Domestic Abuse | King the Land (2023) Opposites Attract Tag | 23/10/2023 | |
11. Finding a Mate Progress 5/5 | 16/09/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| First Love or Nudity | A Time Called You (2023) First Love | 16/09/2023 | |
| Age Gap or Classmates' | From Me to You (2023) Classmates' Relationship | 11/04/2023 | |
| Heterosexual or Same-Sex | Jack O'Frost (2023) Same-Sex Relationship | 02/04/2023 | |
| Enemies to Lovers or Love at First Sight | Call it Love (2023) Enemies to Lovers | 01/06/2023 | |
| Nice Lead or Aggressive Lead | It's Okay not to be Okay (2020) Rewatch - Nice Male Lead | 28/04/2023 | |
| Significant Detail | |||
The Main Attraction | |||
16. Who are We? Progress: 5/5 | 21/12/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Child Actor/Actress or Veteran Actor/Actress | Strong Girl Nam Soon (2023) Kim Hae Sook | 16/12/2023 | |
| Idol Actor/Actress or Former Child Actor/Actress | Dream (2023) IU | 15/10/2023 | |
| Trans Gender Identity or Cis Gender Identity | The Fish with One Sleeve (2021) | 18/12/2023 | |
| Able Bodied or Living with a Disability | Unspeakable Love (2020) | 18/12/2023 | |
| Public Figure or Hidden Identity | Nothing Serious (2021) | 21/12/2023 | |
18. What are You? Progress: 5/5 | 19/12/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Strong Lead or Weak Lead | The Glory Season 1 (2022) Strong Female Lead | 02/01/2023 | |
| Smart Lead or Naive Lead | Our Blooming Youth (2023) Smart Female Lead | 11/05/2023 | |
| Cold Lead or Clingy Lead | As Long as We Both Shall Live (2023) Cold Male Lead | 19/12/2023 | |
| Rich Lead or Poor Lead | Your Eyes Tell (2020) Poor Male Lead | 03/01/2023 | |
| Killer or Healer | Dr Romantic Season 2 (2020) It's set in a Hospital and focuses on Doctors and Nurses, who heal individuals to the best of their ability given the circumstances surrounding the medical issue. | 12/03/2023 | |
Pay Attention, It can be Gone in a Flash | |||
21. Friendly Ways to Live or Die Progress 5/5 | 09/11/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Funeral Director or Birth Care | Unnatural (2018) Funeral Director Supporting Character | 08/10/2023 | |
| Virtual Reality or Ghosts | 2. Who's Doing the Chasing? Treats are at the Bottom of the Post. | 09/11/2023 | |
| Corruption or Teamwork | Fireworks of My Heart (2023) Teamwork | 27/09/2023 | |
| Friendly Game or Death Game | Imawa no Kuni no Alice Season 2 (2022) Death Game | 12/02/2023 | |
| Friendship or Bullying | Run On (2020) Friendship Tag Rewatched | 20/02/2023 | |
22. Who am I when I'm With You? Progress 5/5 | 13/12/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Colleagues or Inmates | Flight to You (2022) | 28/01/2023 | |
| Bromance or Sismance | Bad and Crazy (2021) | 21/01/2023 | |
| Parent/Child or Sibling | Drama Special Season 4: Yeonu's Summer (2013) Mother-Daughter Relationship Tag | 13/12/2023 | |
| Assailant/Victim or Student/Teacher | Lesson in Love (2022) | 04/02/2023 | |
| Doctor/Patient or Soldier | D.P. Season 2 (2023) | 09/10/2023 | |
Name and Cover | |||
23. It's Only Words in the Name Progress 5/5 | 21/12/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Celestial Body or Body Part | Click Your Heart (2016) (Rewatch) | 21/12/2023 | |
| Colour or Emotion | Love Me Like I Do (2023) | 19/02/2023 | |
| Object or Verb | Lipstick (2019) | 19/02/2023 | |
| Animal or Number | Otto wo Shakaiteki ni Massatsu suru 5-tsu Hoho (2023) | 04/10/2023 | |
| Season or Calender-Related Word | Dried Flower: Our Room in July (2021) | 06/02/2023 | |
Origin | |||
25. Countries of MDL Progress 7/7 | 02/12/2023 | ||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| China | All These Years (2023) A movie from China | 08/10/2023 | |
| Hong Kong | Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (2016) A movie from Hong Kong | 06/10/2023 | |
| Japan | Once Upon a Crime (2023) A movie from Japan | 20/09/2023 | |
| Philippines | An Inconvenient Love (2022) A movie from the Philippines | 14/10/2023 | |
| South Korea | Oh! Youngsim (2023) A drama from South Korea | 16/06/2023 | |
| Taiwan | Hear Me (2009) A Movie from Taiwan | 10/10/2023 | |
| Thailand | The Library (2013) A Movie from Thailand | 02/12/2023 | |
Treats | ||||
| Choice of Route | Essential | Substitution for | Notes | Completed |
| 1. Involves a Bizarre but Cute Scene. | Almost Love (2022) Image of the scene that I found to be bizarre but cute → Mentioned in a MDL Game |  | 05/02/2023 | |
| 2. Who's doing the Chasing? | The Forbidden Flower (2023) Female chases Male first Tag → Ghosts | 09/11/2023 | ||
