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Taxonomy
Time is Relative
The Chronicles of MDL
Getting up Close and Personal
Significant details
The Main Attraction
Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
Name and CoverIn 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.
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.
TreatsThis 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.
Last Edited: 12/14/2023 |
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet |
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Starting date: January 1st Link to your Drama list: Progress Habitat: Plains - 9 habitats completed |
TIME IS RELATIVE ☑️
5. Duration of The Hike | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Short Length Series | Otonari ni Ginga | 15 min eps | ☑️ (08) |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes | Real⇔Fake | 25 min eps | ☑️ (03) |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes | Gachi Koi Nenchakujuu | 30 min eps | ☑️ (08) |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes | Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san | 43 min eps | ☑️ (07) |
DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | Real⇔Fake Season 2 | 4 eps | ☑️ (04) |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | Akai Ringo | Watched first ep only then dropped it | ☑️ |
Time Loop | Hitohira no Hatsukoi | ☑️ (04) | |
Time Skip | Brush Up Life | ☑️ (03) | |
Winter | One Day: Seiya no kara Sawagi | Christmas themed drama where everything happens in one single day, hence set in winter. | ☑️ (12) |
Fall | Tatta Hitotsu no Koi | Re-Watched it this year. Most of the setting is on fall; there is halloween, fall fashion and all. | ☑️ (12) |
THE MAIN ATTRACTION ☑️
18. What Are You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead | Grand Maison Tokyo | Strong Female Lead | ☑️ (08) |
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead | MIU 404 | Smart Male Lead | ☑️ (11) |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead | Kyojo | SP 2 ep drama / Cold Male Lead | ☑️ (05) |
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead | 18-sai, Niizuma, Furin Shimasu. | Rich Female Lead | ☑️ (12) |
Healer | Get Ready! | Surgeon whose skills help save people who has been given up by other doctors. | ☑️ (05) |
TAXONOMY ☑️
1. Type | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Web Series | The Days | ☑️ (08) | |
DRAMA SPECIAL | Kyojo 2 | ☑️ (10) | |
Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Knights of the Zodiac | ☑️ (05) | |
Anthology | Watashi ga Kemono ni Natta Yoru | ☑️ (12) | |
Tenshoku no Mao-sama | ☑️ (12) |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Historical | Once Upon a Crime | ☑️ (8) | |
Tragedy | Hyakuman Kai Ieba Yokatta | ☑️ (3) | |
Thriller | Kanojotachi no Hanzai | ☑️ (11) | |
Youth | Beni Sasu Life | ☑️ (10) | |
Action | VIVANT | ☑️ (11) |
GETTING UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL ☑️
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back | Sono Kekkon, Shoki desu ka? | ☑️ (11) | |
Cohabitation | Usokon | ☑️ (11) | |
| none | using a substitue for this one | none |
Boss-Employee Relationship | Ousama ni Sasagu Kusuriyubi | My 3rd treat | ☑️ (11) |
Watashi no Oyome-kun | ☑️ (09) | ||
Opposites Attract | Oshi ga Joshi ni Narimashite | ☑️ (12) |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
none | using a substitue for this one | none | |
A drama featuring Baseball | Gekokujo Kyuji | My 1st treat | ☑️ (12) |
Age Gap [Drama Life] | Nagatan to Aoto: Ichika no Ryourijou | ☑️ (07) | |
features a Heterosexual relationship | My Second Aoharu | ☑️ (12) | |
Love at First Sight | Unknown | ☑️ (08) | |
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead | Real⇔Fake Final Stage | Nice Male lead | ☑️ (05) |
Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash ☑️
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Colleagues | Reversal Orchestra | ☑️ (04) | |
Sismance | 18/40: Futari Nara Yume mo Koi mo | ☑️ (11) | |
Parent-Child | Mitaraike, Enjou Suru | ☑️ (08) | |
Student-Teacher | Tsuiraku JK to Haijin Kyoshi | ☑️ (08) | |
| none | using a substitue for this one | none |
Programmer/software developer | Trillion Game | My 2nd treat | ☑️ (11) |
My Treats! | Plains Used: 3/5 | Forest Used: 0 /4 | Mountain Used: 0 /3 | Space Used: 0/2 | Black Hole Used: 0/1 | |
Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | Completed | ||
A drama featuring Baseball | Gekokujo Kyuji | First Love OR Nudity | ☑️ (12) | |||
Programmer/software developer | Trillion Game | Doctor-patient OR Soldier | ☑️ (11) | |||
Boss-Employee Relationship | Ousama ni Sasagu Kusuriyubi | Fluffy OR Sexual Assault | ☑️ (7) | |||
Starting date: January 1, 2023 |
Taxonomy
1. Type | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL |
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Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or Adapted From a Novel / Book | Reibai Tantei Jozuka Hisui Imawa no Kuni no Alice Se |
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) |
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Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary |
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Adapted from Folklore OR Inspired by Real Events / Real Person |
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Historical Fiction OR Historical genre + tag Based on True Story |
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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 |
Historical OR Sci-Fi |
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Time is Relative
4. Year of OriginTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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1990-1999 OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) |
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| 1990, 1993, 1996, 2001, 2017 | ||
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5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Two Belles in Love | 3/08 | ||
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or DRAMA with 30 episodes or more. | Koi to Dangan | ||
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | |||
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes |
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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: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA |
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The Chronicles of MDL
7. Sharing is CaringTutorials: 1 2 3 | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge | |||
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | |||
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list | |||
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 | older than oldest title: prior to 1954 |
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). | |||
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: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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 | |||
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 |
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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
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR Exorcism | |||
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11. Finding a Mate | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
First Love OR Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content | Brief Nudity | Prolonged Nudity | Partial Nudity | Mild Sexual Content | Sexual Content | Extreme Sexual Content | Hit the Spot | ||
Fireworks of Yesteryear | |||
features a Heterosexual relationship OR Same-Sex relationship | |||
Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR Some type of God | Till We Meet Again | ||
Love In The Air | |||
Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Name and Cover
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Color OR Emotion | |||
A Flower For Three Lives | 3/01 | ||
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
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 |
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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 |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
2. Is it True? | Progress:25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | |||
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Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | |||
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3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress:40/40 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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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: 30/30 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress:38/38 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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. |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | |||
OR | |||
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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:25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge | |||
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | |||
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | |||
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: 25/25 | ||
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
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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: 30/30 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR by the same writer as one of your favorites | |||
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 | https://mydramalist.com/people/249-sato-takeru
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from an award-winning actor OR
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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:30/30 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | |||
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11. Finding a Mate | Progress:30/30 | ||
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 | |||
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Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR
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12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress:30/30 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | |||
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features a Celebration OR | |||
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13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress:35/35 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | |||
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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:25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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In a City OR In a Small Town |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress:25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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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:30/30 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
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Trans gender identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth) OR
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17. Camouflage? | Progress:25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
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Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | |||
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18. What Are You? | Progress:35/35 | ||
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:25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress:25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress:25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress:25/25 | ||
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:25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Color OR | |||
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24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress:25/25 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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.
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-Up SheetStart Date: January 1st, 2023 |
1. TYPE | PROGRESS: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | OMG! Oh My Girl | ✓ | |
Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | |||
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Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | Alice in Borderland |
3. ALL ABOUT THE GEN(R)ES | PROGESS: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo | ||
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OR | The Glory | ✓ | |
OR | True Beauty | ✓ | |
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5. DURATION OF THE HIKE | PROGRESS: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes
| Extraordinary You | ||
OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | 20th Century Girl | ||
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | |||
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | The Glory Part 2 | ✓ |
7. SHARING IS CARING | PROGRESS: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge | |||
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | |||
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | |||
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | |||
with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist |
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet |
Completed: Green
In Progress: Red
Plan to Watch: Blue
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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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Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | Adapted from a manwha |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | Ad | ||
OR | Independent Film | ||
Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | Mockumentary | ||
OR | Inspired by Real Events/Real Person | ||
OR | Historical Genre + Tag Based on True Story |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Historical or Sci-Fi Sci-Fi | ||
OR | Comedy | ||
OR | Thriller | ||
OR | Political | ||
OR | Action |
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: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
In 2023 | ||
OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) |
1997 | ||
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born |
2010 | ||
year generated by this website OR |
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2018 |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
| Short Length Series | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | Drama with 20-30 minue Episodes 20 mins~ | ||
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | Movie that lasts 90 minues or longer | ||
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | Drama with 40-50 minute Episodes | ||
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | Drama with 8 eps or less |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | Full Second Season of a Drama | ||
OR | Different Timelines or Time Loop Time Loop | ||
OR | Time Travel | ||
OR | Summer | ||
OR | Fall |
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: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge |
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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) |
Rank: 22 | ||
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list |
3 Eps | ||
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: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page) Or appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) | |||
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 Death 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) | Mentioned in a Article | ||
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: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites 2022 Grand Prize Award |
2022 Grand Prize Award | ||
from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses Director: Han Jae Rim |
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from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors Fave Actor: Lee Jong Suk |
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from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles Writer: Kim Eun Sook | By the same director as one of your favorite titles | ||
from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before 53rd Baeksang Awards, Best Actress (Im Yoon Ah) |
53rd Baeksang Awards, Best Actress (Im Yoon Ah) |
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: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | Ex-boyfriend comes back/ Ex-Girlfriend Comes back or Exorcism Exorcism | ||
OR | Cohabitation or Long Distance Relationship Cohabitation | ||
OR | Fluffy or Sexual Assualt Fluffy | ||
OR | Contract Relationship or Secret Relationship Contract Relationship | ||
OR | Opposites Attract or Domestic Abuse Opposites Attract |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 4/5 | ||
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 | Nudity | ||
OR | Age Gap {Drama Life} | ||
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | Same-Sex Relationship | ||
OR | Enemies to Lovers | ||
Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR | Nice Female Lead |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | Black Comedy | ||
OR features some type of Doomsday | Features some type of Doomsday | ||
OR | Tragic Past | ||
features a Celebration OR | Features Celebration | ||
OR | Suicide |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | Religious Leader | ||
OR | Character Development | ||
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | Male-Centered Plot | ||
OR | Suspence | ||
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | Discrimination |
Significant details
In the following habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
14. Where Are We? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
On a Field | ||
OR | In the Woods | ||
OR | On a Rooftop | ||
OR | On a Island | ||
In a City OR In a Small Town | In a City |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | An Umbrella | ||
OR | Sports Car | ||
OR | A Smartphone |
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OR | A Hoodie | ||
OR | A Book |
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 | Child Actor/Actress | ||
OR | Idol Actor/Idol Actress | ||
Trans gender identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth) OR Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth) | Trans gender identity | ||
OR | Living with a Disability | ||
OR | Hideen Identity |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Artist | ||
OR | Glasses | ||
OR | Body Swap | ||
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | Criminal Male Lead | ||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | Antihero |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | Strong Female Lead | ||
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead | Smart Female Lead | ||
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | Cold Male Lead | ||
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | Rich Male Lead | ||
OR | Killer |
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 | Pet | ||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Animal turns into a Human | ||
OR | Adorable Animals | ||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Funeral Director | ||
OR | Virtual Reality | ||
OR | |||
OR | Death Gaame | ||
OR | Bullying |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Inmates | ||
OR | Bromance | ||
OR | Sibling | ||
OR | Assailant-Victim | ||
OR | Solider |
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 |
OR | |||
Color OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | Domesticated Animal | ||
OR | Flower or Building Flower | ||
OR | Light Colors | ||
OR | Rainbow | ||
OR | Geometrical Shapes |
Origin
-In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries Or watch 7 titles from 7 different countries.
Note: You must gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge. You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge.
25. Countries of MDL | Progress: 3/7 | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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 | ||
2023 MDL Watch Challenge Sign-up Sheet |
2023 MDL Watch Challenge
Starting date: January 1st, 2023
Link to your Drama list: felicia
Progress Habitat: 16/16 ✔︎
DRAMAS: 63 | MOVIES: 15 | DRAMA SPECIALS: 2 |
Taxonomy
2. Is it True? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | Drama Special | ✔︎ | |
OR | Movie | ✔︎ | |
OR Mockumentary | Movie, rewatch | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
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 |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | Movie | ✔︎ | |
OR | Movie | ✔︎ | |
OR | Movie | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ |
The Chronicles of MDL
8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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
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from your most viewed tags Or
| Death | ✔︎ | |
Or found mentioned in an Article on MDL (add a link to the article) | Article, Movie |
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with over 10 Reviews OR
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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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR by the same writer as one of your favorites | Quartet (Sakamoto Yuji) Movie | ✔︎ | |
OR that has one of your favorite actresses | Jeon Do Yeon | ✔︎ | |
OR that has one of your favorite actors | Kang Ha Neul Movie | ✔︎ | |
from an award-winning actor OR
| ✔︎ | ||
from an award-winning actress OR
| ✔︎ |
Getting up Close and Personal
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR
| ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
features a OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
Nice Female Lead / Nice Male Lead OR | ✔︎ |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Slight Comedy OR | Divorce Attorney Shin | ✔︎ | |
OR
| Movie | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | I Told Sunset About You | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | ✔︎ |
Significant details
14. Where Are We? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
In a City OR | ✔︎ |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | DNA Says Love You | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
The Main Attraction
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead | HIStory3: Trapped | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | Movie | ✔︎ | |
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR | ✔︎ | ||
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | Movie | ✔︎ |
Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | Drama Special | ✔︎ |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Reversal Orchestra | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | Movie | ✔︎ | |
OR | Movie | ✔︎ |
Name and Cover
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Movie | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | Movie, rewatch | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 |
Starting date: January 1st, 2023
Link to your Drama list: melolights
Progress Habitat: 22/22
Completed: ✔︎
DRAMAS: 93 | MOVIES: 16 | DRAMA SPECIALS: 1 |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | ✔︎ |
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 |
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: 5/5 | ||
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 | April | ✔︎ | |
year generated by this website OR | 2018 | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | ✔︎ | ||
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR
| Bokura wa Koi ga Hetasugiru | ✔︎ | |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR
| ✔︎ | ||
OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | ✔︎ |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR
| ✔︎ | ||
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.
8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Or appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) | ✔︎ | ||
OR found on a Voting List in the list index (add a link to the list). | ✔︎ | ||
from your most viewed tags Or
| Romance | ✔︎ | |
with someone or something mentioned in a Game on MDL (add a link to the game) Or
| ✔︎ | ||
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR by the same writer as one of your favorites | Same writer as Jitenshaya-san no Takahashi-kun | ✔︎ | |
OR that has one of your favorite actresses | ✔︎ | ||
OR that has one of your favorite actors | Kusakawa Takuya | ✔︎ | |
from an award-winning actor OR
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Fujioka best supporting actor@ tokyo drama awards | ✔︎ | |
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | Minami-kun no Koibito - My Little Lover | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR
| ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Black Comedy | ✔︎ | ||
OR features some type of Doomsday | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
features a OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | The Director Who Buys Me Dinner | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | Kabe Sa Doujin Sakka no Neko Yashiki-kun wa Shouninyokkyuu wo Kojiraseteiru | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
In a City OR | ✔︎ |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 5/5 | ||
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Kamiki Ryunosuke | ✔︎ | |
OR | Sato Taiki | ✔︎ | |
OR Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth) | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | ✔︎ | ||
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR | ✔︎ | ||
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Bird | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | Chicken | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | Shinai naru Boku e Satsui wo Komete | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
Color OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR | Sakura | ✔︎ | |
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ | ||
OR | ✔︎ |
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet |
Completed | Currently Watching | Plan to Watch
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR TV SHOW* | TV Show Episodes 1-8 | September 28, 2023 | |
OR | Drama Special | May 11, 2023 | |
Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | October 30, 2023 | ||
OR | Anthology | November 16, 2023 | |
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | Adapted from a Webtoon | May 11, 2023 |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 5 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Sci-Fi | December 10, 2023 | |
OR | Comedy | December 9, 2023 | |
OR | Romance | November 22, 2023 | |
OR | Youth | December 27, 2023 | |
OR | Action | December 11, 2023 |
Time is Relative
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that have something to do with time, in the first habitat you are instructed to find essentials that started airing between certain dates, in the second and third one you get to dig deeper in to the concept of time
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Short Length Series | December 7, 2023 | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | 25 min. per episode | December 14, 2023 | |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | Gameboys Season 2 | 31 min. per episode | November 22, 2023 |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | 46 min. per episode | December 6, 2023 | |
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | 6 episodes | December 8, 2023 |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | February 1st, 2023 | ||
OR | Different Timelines | June 28th, 2023 | |
OR | Roommates of Pyeongduck 304 | Time Skip | May 10, 2023 |
OR | Winter | November 11, 2023 | |
OR | Fall | November 20, 2023 |
Getting up Close and Personal
In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with relationships and the human experience most of these are tags, but in some cases we have inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route.
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5 | ||
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 | Sexual Content | October 2, 2023 | |
OR | Age Gap | March 17, 2023 | |
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | Same-Sex Relationship | July 31, 2023 | |
OR | Enemies to Lovers | December 21, 2023 | |
Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR | Nice Female Lead | December 31, 2023 |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | Slight Comedy | November 16, 2023 | |
OR features some type of Doomsday | Happy Ending | September 27, 2023 | |
OR | Tragic Past | April 13, 2023 | |
features a Celebration OR | Wedding | April 11, 2023 | |
OR | Healing | November 20, 2023 |
The Main Attraction
-In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials where one of the main characters (listed as a main) either is ..., gets a... has a... Each route will either include a a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Boxing | June 17, 2023 | |
OR | Glasses | April 14, 2023 | |
OR | The Heavenly Idol | Body Swap | October 26, 2023 |
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | Cop Female Lead | October 26, 2023 | |
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | Antiheroine | September 5, 2023 |
Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
-In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that feature the following things. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Colleagues | October 3, 2023 | |
OR | Bromance | November 21, 2023 | |
OR | Brother-Sister Relationship | May 11, 2023 | |
OR | Student-Teacher | December 20, 2023 | |
OR | Soldier | October 4, 2023 |
Treats
This is where you gather treats, to use whenever you wish to avoid the paths given in a habitat. You come up with the treats on your own, they may not cover anything mentioned in this challenge (but you may use previous years' prompts for inspiration). Every time you start a new stage, you will be awarded a new number of treats according to the table below.
My Treats! | Plains Used: /5 | Forest Used: /4 | Mountain Used: /3 | Space Used: /2 | Black Hole Used: /1 | |
Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | Completed | ||
2023 MDL Watch Challenge Sign-up Sheet
Starting date: January 1, 2023
Link to your Drama list: My List
Progress Habitat:
Legend: Currently Watching, Plan to Watch, Completed (✓)
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
TV SHOW | Episodes 1-10 | ✓ | |
✓ | |||
Starring an Actor/ | Luke Ishikawa Plowden (American) | ✓ | |
Adapted from a manga / | Adapted from a manga | ✓ |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Rewatch | ✓ | ||
Mockumentary | |||
My Dearest | ✓ |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
✓ | |||
✓ | |||
✓ |
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: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
2023 | ✓ | ||
1996 | |||
2010 | |||
| |||
2022 | ✓ |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
37 min. | |||
36 episodes | ✓ | ||
MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | Ditto | 114 min. | ✓ |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes | 45 min. | ✓ | |
DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | 6 episodes | ✓ |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA | Season 2 | ✓ | |
✓ | |||
✓ | |||
Winter setting | |||
Spring setting |
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: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember | ✓ | ||
ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | ranked #12 as of Jan. 3, 2023 |
| |
DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | 122 episodes, as of Jan. 6, 2023 | ✓ | |
mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | Mentioned by Anusaya in a feed | ✓ | |
with the newest release date in your PTW list | Aired its first episode on Jan. 6, 2023 |
8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) | Link (page 3) | ||
found on a Custom List (add a link to the list). | ✓ | ||
Top Tag: Death | |||
found mentioned in an Article on MDL (add a link to the article) | ✓ | ||
with over 10 Reviews | 33 reviews when I started watching | ✓ |
9. Your Fanciers and WestminstersFor this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page.*List with awards | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning | |||
that has one of your favorite actresses | Shin Hye Sun | ✓ | |
that has one of your favorite actors | Park Hyung Sik | ✓ | |
from an award-winning actor | Park Hae-il won Best Actor at the 58th Grand Bell Awards | ✓ | |
by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | Lee Jin Seo, director | ✓ |
Getting up Close and Personal
In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with relationships and the human experience most of these are tags, but in some cases we have inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route.
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
✓ | |||
Not Others | ✓ | ||
✓ | |||
✓ | |||
✓ |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
The Uncanny Counter S2 | ✓ | ||
Twinkling Watermelon | ✓ | ||
✓ | |||
Heartbeat | ✓ | ||
Aggressive Male Lead |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Slight Comedy | Perfect Marriage Revenge | ✓ | |
✓ | |||
features a Celebration | |||
✓ |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader | |||
✓ | |||
Escape of the Seven | Popular Female 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: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
✓ | |||
Rewatch | ✓ | ||
Rewatch | |||
In a Small Town | ✓ |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
✓ | |||
✓ | |||
✓ | |||
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: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Seo Woo Jin | |||
Idol Actor | ✓ | ||
Trans gender identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth) | |||
Rewatch first 7 episodes | ✓ | ||
✓ |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
✓ | |||
Criminal Male Lead | |||
Antiheroine |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Male Lead | ✓ | ||
Smart Male Lead | ✓ | ||
Cold Male Lead | ✓ | ||
Rich Male Lead | ✓ | ||
Doctor Female Lead | ✓ |
Pay attention, it can be gone in a flash
-In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that feature the following things. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
19. The Petting Zoo | Progress: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
✓ | |||
OR | |||
Veterinarian Female Lead | ✓ | ||
OR |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
✓ | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
✓ | |||
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Office setting | ✓ | ||
✓ | |||
Brothers relationship | |||
Dangerous Romance | ✓ | ||
Tag: Army, Soldier | ✓ |
Name and Cover
In the following habitats we ask of you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24) your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Color | Rewatch first 7 episodes | ||
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Wild Animal | |||
✓ | |||
✓ | |||
✓ | |||
Be My Favorite | ✓ |
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: 2/7 | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
✓ | |||
✓ | |||
Copycat Killer | |||
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 | ||
Starting date: January 1, 2023
Link to your Drama list: LunaNoir's Watchlist
Progress Habitat: 10/10
⭐ = Fitting drama found
★ = Currently Watching
Date Format: DD/MM/YY
1. Type | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Web Series OR TV SHOW* At least 5 o f a title listed as a Tv Show The episodes do not need to be in consecutive order. Please list episode air dates OR episode numbers | Once Upon a Small Town | Web Series | 26.12.2023 |
MOVIE OR DRAMA SPECIAL | My Little Hero | Movie | 28.03.2023 |
Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Casa Armor: Exclusive for Ladies | with Clara Lee (British Nationality) | 13.08.2023 |
Anthology OR Omnibus | Triple - Do You Want? | Omnibus | 23.02.2023 |
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or Adapted From a Novel / Book | Something In My Room | Adapted from a Comic | 21.08.2023 |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Advertisement OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | When You Love Yourself | Educational | 27.02.2023 |
Independent Film OR Propaganda | Just Friends? | Independent Film | 16.08.2023 |
Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | Cupid's Last Wish: Behind The Scenes | Documentary Genre | 12.02.2023 |
Adapted from Folklore OR Inspired by Real Events / Real Person | When I Get Home, My Wife Always Pretends to be Dead | Inspired by Real Events | 25.11.2023 |
Historical Fiction OR Historical genre + tag Based on True Story | Sakuran | Historical Fiction | 28.10.2023 |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Historical OR Sci-Fi | The Forbidden Marriage | Historical | 07.12.2023 |
Comedy OR Tragedy | Hakozume: Tatakau! Koban Joshi | Comedy | 28.02.2023 |
Thriller OR Romance | The First Responders | Thriller | 17.02.2023 |
Youth OR Political | 49 Days With A Merman | Youth | 14.09.2023 |
Action OR Life | Mental Tsuyome Bijo Shirakawa-san | Life | 07.08.2023 |
4. Year of Origin | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
in 2023 OR 1940-1959 | One Day Off | in 2023 | 26.11.2023 |
1990-1999 OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | Miss Granny | kura2ninja Join Year: 2014 Link to account / Link to Challenge Form by the time I watched this we were on the same page number 6, see proof | 03.12.2023 |
2000-2010 OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | Exit | Month I was born: July | 17.12.2023 |
year generated by this website OR 1950-1969 | Bad Guys | year generated: 2014 | 22.02.2023 |
2017-2022 OR 1970-1989 | Birthday | 2017-2022 -> 2019 | 27.11.2023 |
5. Duration of The Hike | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Short Length Series OR Short Film | Love Between Fairy and Devil Special | Short Length Series | 06.02.2023 |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or DRAMA with 30 episodes or more | Koi to Dangan | Drama episode length 24 min | 10.09.2023 |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer | Low Season | runtime 2 hr. 5 min. | 13.08.2023 |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer | TOKYO AIRPORT - Tokyo Kuukou Kansei Hoanbu | Drama with 45 minute episodes | 11.09.2023 |
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less | To The Moon and Back | episode length: 1h 10min | 17.11.2023 |
7. Sharing is Caring | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge | May I Help You | In Watchlist of Echo and Tasnima_329 | 29.01.2023 |
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | Gibo To Musume no Blues | 3,393 watchers when I completed watching | 08.06.2023 |
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | You Are My Hero | 40 episodes | 12.08.2023 |
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | Let's Fight Ghost | Feed post screenshot | 09.01.2023 |
with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist | The First Responders Season 2 | Release Date:Aug 4, 2023 - Sep 9, 2023 watched while it aired | 24.09.2023 |
8. Examined… | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page) Or appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) | Marry My Dead Body | Trailers Page 2: photo proof Link to trailer | 06.12.2023 |
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). | Tokyo MER | List (Position 181)-Photo proof | 20.03.2023 |
from your most viewed tags Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | Not Me | Most viewed tag: Friendship | 12.01.2023 |
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) | Like Father, Like Son | in article: MDL Choice: Heisei Dramas and Movies | 03.03.2023 |
with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | Hakozume: Motto tatakau! Machiyama Sho no Hitobito | 0 reviews when added (screenshot) | 28.02.2023 |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
First Love OR Nudity: one of the following Nudity/Sexual content | Brief Nudity | Prolonged Nudity | Partial Nudity | Mild Sexual Content | Sexual Content | Extreme Sexual Content | Love and Leashes | Sexual Content | 26.12.2023 |
Age Gap [Drama Life] OR Classmates' Relationship | BL Metamorphosis | Age Gap [Drama Life] | 16.12.2023 |
features a Heterosexual relationship OR Same-Sex relationship | Cherry Magic Movie | Same-sex Relationship | 07.12.2023 |
Enemies to Lovers OR Love at First Sight | Mr. Pride vs. Miss Prejudice | Enemies to Lovers | 04.12.2023 |
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead / Male Lead | Extreme Job | Nice Male Lead | 27.12.2023 |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR Some type of God | Love Between Fairy and Devil | Some type of God | 06.02.2023 |
Misunderstanding OR Character Development | Navillera | Character Development | 04.03.2023 |
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR LGBTQ+ | Age of Youth 2 | Female-Centered Plot | 20.11.2023 |
Suspense OR Slow Burn Story / Slow Burn Romance | Angel's Last Mission: Love | Slow Burn Romance | 13.03.2023 |
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR Discrimination | Taikan Yoho | Popular Male Lead | 22.11.2023 |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Colleagues OR Inmates | Tokyo MER: Sumidagawa Mission | Colleagues | 20.08.2023 |
Bromance OR Sismance | Oh No! Here Comes Trouble | Bromance | 21.12.2023 |
Parent-Child OR Sibling | The Witch's Diner | Parent-Child (Mother-Daughter) | 24.02.2023 |
Assailant-Victim OR Student-Teacher | 3 Nen A Gumi: Ima kara Mina-san wa, Hitojichi Desu | Student-Teacher | 12.02.2023 |
Doctor-Patient OR Soldier | A Tale of Thousand Stars | Doctor-Patient | 15.08.2023 |
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet Starting date: 01/01/2023 |
2 Habitats: Oct 11th | 4 Habitats: Nov 1st | 6 Habitats: Nov 29th |
8 Habitats: Dec 8th | 7 Countries: Dec 13th | 10 Habitats: Dec 17th |
13 Habitats: Dec 31st |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR At least 5 episodes of a title listed as a TV Show. The episodes do not need to be in consecutive order. Please list episode air dates OR episode numbers | Secretary Bai Wants to Resign Everyday | Web Series | Feb 16th |
OR | Drama Special Season 8: Let Us Meet | Drama Special | Oct 18th |
OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Co-Produced | Sep 3rd | |
OR | Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo | Anthology | Oct 17th |
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / comic Or | Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / comic | Nov 29th |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 3/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | Lost in your Eyes | Advertisement | Sep 4th |
OR | |||
OR | Love at First Flood | Inspired by Real Events/Real Person, Movie | Oct 12th |
OR | Joseon Attorney: A Morality | Historical Fiction | May 21st |
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 |
OR | Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist Season 2 | Historical | Feb 9th |
OR | Crash Course in Romance | Comedy | Mar 5th |
OR | Romance | Nov 1st | |
OR | From Me to You | Youth | Apr 2nd |
OR | Hi Venus | Life | Jan 24th |
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
Progress: 1/5 | |||
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 | |||
year generated by this website OR | |||
OR | 2017-2022, Rewatch | Nov 19th |
5. Duration of The Hike | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
| Short Length Series | Jun 28th |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | Kanojo, Okarishimasu | 20-30 minute episodes | Feb 3rd |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. |
| 30-40 minute episodes | Oct 7th |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | Mr. Lipstick | 40-50 minute episodes | Mar 7th |
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | Remarriage and Desires | 8 episodes or less | Feb 28th |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | Alchemy of Souls Season 2: Light and Shadow | Second Season | Jan 8th |
OR | Secretary Bai Wants to Resign Everyday | Different Timelines | Feb 16th |
OR | My Perfect Stranger | Time Travel | Jun 21st |
OR | Little Forest: Winter & Spring | Winter, Movie | Oct 11th |
OR | Little Forest: Summer & Autumn | Fall, Movie | Oct 11th |
The Chronicles of MDL
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites and those others have awarded or written about.
7. Sharing is Caring | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge | |||
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | With less than 10,000 viewers | Jun 8th | |
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | |||
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | |||
with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist |
8. Examined… | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page) Or appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) | |||
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 | 0 Reviews | Dec 31st |
9. Your Fanciers and Westminsters For this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person's page. | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites | |||
from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses | |||
from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors | |||
from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles | |||
from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu | Award Winning Actress - Yui Aragaki, Rewatch | Aug 12th |
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: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | |||
OR | Hamaru Otoko ni Keritai Onna | Cohabitation | Mar 18th |
OR | |||
OR | Love to Hate You | Contract Relationship | Feb 15th |
OR |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 5/5 | ||
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 | Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo | First Love | Feb 7th |
OR | Age Gap [Drama Life] | Sep 3rd | |
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | GAP | Same-Sex Relationship | Feb 22nd |
OR | Love at First Hate | Enemies to Lovers | Apr 23rd |
Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR | Daily Dose of Sunshine | Nice Female Lead/Nice Male Lead | Nov 11th |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Black Comedy | Aug 23rd | ||
OR features some type of Doomsday | Lion Pride | Happy Ending | May 7th |
OR | You Are Desire and You Are Desire Extra | Tragic Past | Sep 19th |
features a Celebration OR | Mourning | Dec 10th | |
OR | Suicide | Aug 7th |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | Tieng Narng Mai | Some type of God | June 25th |
OR | A Fist Within Four Walls | Misunderstanding | May 28th |
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot, Movie | Oct 12th | |
OR | When I Fly Towards You | Slow Burn Story/Slow Burn Romance | Aug 6th |
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | Popular Male Lead/Popular Female Lead, Rewatch | Oct 11th |
Significant details
In the following habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
14. Where Are We? | Progress: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | Manatsu no Cinderella | By the Sea | Oct 4th |
OR | |||
OR | |||
Tokyo Joshi Zukan | In a City | May 15th |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 2/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | Unlock My Boss | Smartphone | Jan 29th |
OR | |||
OR | Bo Ra! Deborah | Book | May 27th |
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: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938 | Veteran Actor/Actress: Kim So Yeon | Jul 5th |
OR | Idol actor/Idol actress: Yamada Ryosuke | Jul 1st | |
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) | Nagatan to Aoto: Ichika no Ryourijou | Cis gender Identity | Dec 27th |
OR | Living with a disability | Nov 14th | |
OR | Public Figure | Oct 22nd |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | H2: Kimi to Ita Hibi | Athlete, Rewatch | Mar 15th |
OR | Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu: Ganbare Jinrui! Shinshun Special!! | Glasses, Rewatch | Aug 13th |
OR | Castaway Diva | Identity Swap | Dec 3rd |
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead | Sep 10th | |
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | My Dearest Part 2 | Antihero | Nov 20th |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | Our Blooming Youth | Strong Female Lead | Apr 11th |
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead | MIU 404 | Smart Male Lead | Mar 12th |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | My Girlfriend Is an Alien | Clingy Female Lead | Apr 6th |
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | My Girl (Thai) | Rich Male Lead | Apr 16th |
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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 |
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20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
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Second Lead Caring For Animals OR |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Ho Goo's Love | Birth care (Postpartum care) | Jul 30th |
OR | Eight Hours | Virtual Reality | Jan 25th |
OR | Delightfully Deceitful | Teamwork | Jul 18th |
OR | Yu Yu Hakusho | Death Game | Dec 16th |
OR | UMG | Friendship | Jun 4th |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Here We Meet Again | Colleagues | Jun 14th |
OR | Sismance, Movie | Dec 19th | |
OR | Not Others | Parent-Child | Aug 22nd |
OR | Student-Teacher | Dec 20th | |
OR | Doctor-Patient, Movie | Dec 17th |
Name and Cover
In the following habitats we ask of you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24) your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! | Body Part | Dec 31st |
Color | When a Snail Falls in Love | Emotion, Thai | Jul 18th |
OR | Trade Your Love | Verb, Movie | Jul 19th |
OR | Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead | Number, Movie | Aug 8th |
OR | Season | Dec 31st |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Joosama ni Sasagu Kusuriyubi | Flower | Jul 20th |
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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: 7/7 | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
The Queen of Kung Fu 1 | Movie | Oct 19th | |
Love Off the Cuff | Movie | Aug 13th | |
In Love and Deep Water | Movie | Nov 30th | |
Spellbound | Movie | Nov 22nd | |
She's on Duty | Movie | Dec 13th | |
Hear Me | Movie | Dec 12th | |
May Who? | Movie | Oct 18th |
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 0/5 | Forest Used 0/5 | Mountain Used 0/5 | Space Used 0/5 | Black Hole Used 0/5 |
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: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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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Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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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) | |||
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | |||
year generated by this website OR | |||
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5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | |||
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | |||
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | |||
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | |||
OR | Reset | Jan 25 | |
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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: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
that has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge | |||
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | |||
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | |||
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | |||
with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist |
8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page) Or appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) | |||
found on a Custom List (add a link to the list). OR found on a Voting List in the list index (add a link to the list). | |||
from your most viewed tags Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | |||
with someone or something mentioned in a Game on MDL (add a link to the game) Or found mentioned in an Article on MDL (add a link to the article) | |||
with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it |
9. Your Fanciers and 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 | |||
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 | The Blood of Youth | Same directoras Under the power | Feb 5 |
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: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | My Sunshine | ||
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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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | |||
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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 |
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In a City OR In a Small Town |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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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 | |||
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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: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | |||
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 | |||
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: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
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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 | |||
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22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
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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: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
Color OR | |||
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24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
OR | |||
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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 |
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 | ||