MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-Up SheetStarting date: Jan 1st, 2023 Link to your Drama List: Aad's List Progress Habitat: 25/25 |
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 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 | Web Series: My Little Happiness | Yes | |
OR | Drama Special: SaifahZon's Story | Yes | |
OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Co-Produced: The Hours of Tree | Yes | |
OR | Anthology: School Tales the Series | Yes | |
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | Novel: So I Married an Anti-Fan | Yes | |
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) | Advertisement: Touch Me if You Can | Yes | |
OR | Independent film: Irog | Yes | |
OR | Documentary Genre: Burn the Stage: The Movie | Yes | |
OR | Real Events: Girl from Nowhere | Yes | |
OR | Historical Fiction: The Imprisoned Canary | Yes | |
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 | Sci-Fi: I'm Not a Robot | Yes | |
OR | Comedy: Hi Venus | Yes | |
OR | Thriller: Bad Genius | Yes | |
OR | Youth: Go Go Squid 2: Dt. Appledog's Time | Yes | |
OR | Action: Never Let Me Go | Yes | |
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 | 2023: Island Part 2 | Yes | |
OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | the year a member on this page joined MDL: The Right One | Profile | Yes |
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | The month: The Director Who Buys Me Dinner | Yes | |
year generated by this website OR | year generated: TharnType Season 2: 7 Years of Love | Yes | |
OR | 2017-2022: Born to Btob | Yes | |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Short Length Series: Somehow 18 | Yes | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | 30 episodes or more: Lighter and Princess | Yes | |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | 90 or longer: Bring The Soul: The Movie | Yes | |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | 40-50 min ep: Love Mechanics: Director's Cut | Yes | |
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | 8 ep or less: The Leaked | Yes | |
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 | Only 1 episode: Snowdrop | Yes | |
OR | Time Loop: Triage | Yes | |
OR | Time Travel: Can You Deliver time? 2002 | Yes | |
OR | Winter: Us and Them | Yes | |
OR | Spring: Oh! My Assistant (Movie) | Yes | |
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: 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 | PTW of another: Theory of Love | another user | Yes |
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | >10000 viewers: Buying Ears | Yes | |
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | smallest: Nevertheless, | Yes | |
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | mentioned in MDL feeds: Island Season 1 | Yes | |
with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist | newest release: Ai Long Nhai: The Endless Love | Yes | |
8. Examined…Tutorial | 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) | recommendations: Love Mate | Yes | |
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). | voting list: MSP | Voting List | Yes |
from your most viewed tags Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | tags: Our Dating Sim | Yes | |
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) | Article: The Story of 90 Coins | Article | Yes |
with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | 10 reviews: Star and Sky: Star in My Mind | Yes | |
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 |
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites | writer: Star and Sky: Sky in Your Heart | Yes | |
from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses | Favorite actress: Bite Sisters | Kang Hanna | Yes |
from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors | that has one of your favorite actors: Between Us Special Clip | Prem Warut | Yes |
from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles | Fav title: The Shipper | Yes | |
from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | director/writer: AI Love You | Yes | |
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 | Ex-GF comes back: I'm Tee, Me Too | Yes | |
OR | Cohabitation: More than Blue | Yes | |
OR | Fluffy: Forever Love | Yes | |
OR | Contract Relationship: Perfect and Casual | Yes | |
OR | Opposites attract: Dali and the Cocky Prince | Yes | |
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 | Mild SC: Between Us | Yes | |
OR | Age Gap [Drama Life]: Le Vrai Où | Yes | |
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | Same-sex relationship: Until We Meet Again | Yes | |
OR | Enemies to Lovers: Cinderella and the four knights | Yes | |
Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR | Aggressive ML / Nice FL: Watching | Yes | |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Slight Comedy: Midnight Motel | Yes | |
OR features some type of Doomsday | Happy Ending: To Fly With You | Yes | |
OR | Sketch Comedy: Family Gathering | Yes | |
features a Celebration OR | Celebration: Love Mechanics | Yes | |
OR | Healing: Unforgettable Love | Yes | |
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: Midnight Museum | Yes | |
OR | Misunderstanding: Summer, Bus | Yes | |
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | LGBTQ+: Star & Sky Special Ep | Yes | |
OR | Slow burn: Secret | Yes | |
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | Popular ML / FL: Fighting Girl | Yes | |
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 | On a cliff: The Eclipse | Yes | |
OR | By the Sea: Love Between Fairy and Devil | Yes | |
OR | On a Rooftop: Let's Fight Ghost | Yes | |
OR | On an Island: Even Sun | Yes | |
OR | In a Small Town: The Secret of Guan Guan | Yes | |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Backpack: Best Mistake Season 2 | Yes | |
OR | A truck: A Shoulder to Cry On | Yes | |
OR | Smartphone: Unlocked | Yes | |
OR | A suit: Cutie Pie 2 You | Yes | |
OR | Book: Dark Blue Kiss | Yes | |
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 | Veteran actor/actress: The Devil Judge | Ye | |
OR | Idol actor/ idol actress: Youtuber Class Season 1 | Yes | |
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) | Cis gender identity: Find Yourself | Yes | |
OR | Living with a disability:Moonlight Chicken | Yes | |
OR | Hidden Identity: Alchemy of Souls Season 2: Light and Shadow | Yes | |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Athlete: 2521 | Yes | |
OR | Glasses: Lovely Writer | Yes | |
OR | Identity: Our Skyy 2: My School President | Yes | |
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | Criminal ML: Those That Follow | Yes | |
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | Antiheroine: GFN 2 | Yes | |
18. What Are You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | Strong FL: Kleun Cheewit | Yes | |
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR | Smart ML: Suspicious Partner | Yes | |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | Cold ML: Semantic Error | Yes | |
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | Poor FL: The Bride of Habaek | Yes | |
OR | Killer: Save Me | Yes | |
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 | Pet: Bed Friend | Yes | |
OR | Death: CCiR | Yes | |
OR | Zoo: First Love | Yes | |
OR | Vet: Love Can't Be Said | Yes | |
OR | War: See You in My 19th Life | Yes | |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Animal to human: Till the End of the Moon | Yes | |
OR | Adorable animals: ITSAY | Yes | |
OR | City: My Woofy Poofy Love | Yes | |
OR | Pet dressed in clothes: Back | Yes | |
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | Yellow cover: Love Is Sweet | Treat used | Yes |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Funeral Director: Forever Love (2023) | Yes | |
OR | Ghosts; Bulgasal: Immortal Souls | Yes | |
OR | Teamwork: Gaus Electronics | Yes | |
OR | Death game: Imawa no Kuni no Alice | Yes | |
OR | Friendship: First Day of Becoming a JYP Trainee | Yes | |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Colleagues: A Boss and a Babe | Yes | |
OR | Bromance: Kill Me, Heal Me | Yes | |
OR | Coming out: Napat | Treat used | Yes |
OR | Student-teacher: A Love So Beautiful | Yes | |
OR | Doctor-Patient: Kokdu: Season of Deity | Yes | |
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 | Celestial body: Our Skyy 2: Star in My Mind | Yes | |
OR | Emotion: An Inconvenient Love | Yes | |
OR | Verb: Live For Real | Yes | |
OR | Animal: Fish Upon the Sky | Yes | |
OR | Calendar: The Eighth Sense | Yes | |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Domesticated: Only You | Yes | |
OR | Flowers: Help, I Accidentally Stole My Shixiong's Crush! | Yes | |
OR | Dark Colors: Hua Jai Sila | Yes | |
OR | Rainbow: Love is Color Blind | Yes | |
OR | Only words: Between Us Special | Yes | |
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 |
| One Smile Is Very Alluring | Yes | ||
| No Distance Left to Run | Yes | ||
| Ameiro Paradox | Yes | ||
| Four Sisters Before the Wedding | Yes | ||
| Top Management | Yes | ||
| WBL | rewatch | Yes | |
| Dirty Laundry | Yes | ||
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: 2/5 | Forest Used: /4 | Mountain Used: /3 | Space Used: /2 | Black Hole Used: /1 | |
Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | Completed | ||
| Watch a drama with a yellow cover | | Second Lead Caring For Animals OR Antagonist Caring For Animals | 20/5 | Yes | ||
| Watch a drama/movie about coming out |  | Parent-Child OR Sibling | 22/3 | Yes | ||
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| MDL Profile | theHouseFinch | ||
| Duration | January 1, 2023–December 31, 2023 | ||
| Animal: Elephant | Stage: Plains | Habitats: 025 | Essentials: 127 |
TaxonomyIn the following habitats your mission is to find essentials according to type or genre. | |||
| 01 Type | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
Web Series OR TV SHOW* At least 5 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.) | Suchwita (2022) | TV Show | March 02 |
| J-Hope in the Box (2023) | Movie | February 19 | |
| Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | One Piece (2023) | Co-Produced | November 29 |
| Drama Festa: Hello Dracula (2020) | Anthology | December 03 | |
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic OR Adapted From a Novel / Book | The Interest of Love (2022) | Adapted From a Novel | February 09 |
| 02 Is it true? | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
Advertisement OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | Buying Ears (2020) | Advertisement | November 27 |
| House of Hummingbird (2018) | Independent Film | December 25 | |
| Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | Yellow Door: Looking for Director Bong’s Unreleased Short Film (2023) | Documentary | December 29 |
Adapted from Folklore OR Inspired by Real Events / Real Person | The Throne (2015) | Inspired by Real Events | December 31 |
Historical Fiction OR Historical genre + tag Based on True Story | The Forbidden Marriage (2022) | Historical Fiction | January 22 |
| 03 All About the Gen(r)es—Watch a title from one of the following genres. | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
Historical OR Sci-Fi | A Time Called You (2023) | Sci-Fi | September 15 |
| Going Seventeen (2023) | Comedy | November 29 | |
| See You in My 19th Life (2023) | Romance | July 25 | |
| Time and Him Are Just Right (2022) | Youth | January 14 | |
| Island Season 2 (2023) | Action | March 10 | |
Time is RelativeIn 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 specific dates, in the second and third ones, you get to dig deeper into the concept of time | |||
| 04 Year of Origin | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Night Has Come (2023) | In 2023 | December 27 | |
1990-1999 OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | Someday or One Day (2019) [Rewatch] | 2019 [Susuyachan} | September 08 |
2000-2010 OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | Battle Royale (2000) | 2000–2010 | December 23 |
| Master (2016) | [1993, 2000, 2008, 2016] | February 12 | |
| The Drug King (2018) | 2017–2022 | February 02 | |
| 05 Duration of the Hike | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| My Dearest Part 2 (2023) | Short Length Series | November 19 | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes OR DRAMA with 30 episodes or more. | Stand by Me (2023) | 30 Episodes | October 11 |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | Exclusive Fairytale (2023) | 30 Minutes | August 05 |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | D.P. Season 2 (2023) | 50 Minutes | August 06 |
DRAMA with at least one episode that lasts over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | Hotel del Luna (2019) | 80 Minutes | January 16 |
| 06 Time Can Be Confusing | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938 (2023) | Second Season | June 11 | |
| The Classic (2003) | Different Timelines | December 24 | |
| Il Mare (2000) | Time Travel | February 08 | |
| Steel Rain (2017) | Winter | January 29 | |
| Little Forest: Summer & Autumn (2014) | Fall | December 24 | |
The Chronicles of MDLIn the following habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favorites, and those others have awarded or written about. | |||
| 07 Sharing is Caring | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| That has been on your PTW for longer than you can remember or from the watchlist of another user doing this challenge | Sweet Home Season 2 (2023) | Longer Than I Can Remember | December 30 |
Less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | Marry My Dead Body (2022) | Less than 10,000 viewers [6,043] | August 26 |
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | Decoy: Part 1 (2023) | 6 Episodes | February 12 |
Mentioned in the MDL Forums OR mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | Doctor Cha (2023) | Feeds | June 04 |
| With the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist | Soundtrack #2 (2023) | Newest Release Date | December 20 |
| 08 Examined… | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 04/05 |
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) | Love 911 (2012) | Recommendations | December 31 |
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). | Hello Ghost! (2023) | i see GHOSTS | December 21 |
from your most viewed tags OR from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | My Lovely Liar (2023) | Most Viewed Tags [Romance] | September 19 |
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) | Shadow (2018) | Mentioned in an Article | December 31 |
with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | Please Tell Me So (2021) | Over 10 Review | December 31 |
09 Your Fanciers and Westminsters—For this habitat, we ask you to link to the award/person’s page.*List with awards | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites | Old Boy (2003) | Grand Prix [Cannes Film Festival] | August 20 |
From an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses | Broker (2022) | Director [Koreeda Hirokazu] | January 22 |
From an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors | Revenant (2023) | Award-Winning Screenwriter [Kim Eun Hee] | August 20 |
From an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles | The Good Bad Mother (2023) | Director [Shim Na Yeon] | June 09 |
| From an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | Crash Course in Romance (2023) | Jeon Do Yeon [Actress] | March 05 |
Getting Up Close and PersonalIn 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… | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR Exorcism | Island Season 1 (2022) | Exorcism | January 15 |
| Not Others (2023) | Cohabitation | August 22 | |
| Ballerina (2023) | Sexual Assault | December 07 | |
| Love to Hate You (2023) | Contract Relationship | February 12 | |
| King the Land (2023) | Opposites Attract | August 06 | |
| 11 Finding a Mate | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
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 (2022) | Sexual Content | January 15 |
| Hidden Love (2023) | Age Gap | August 13 | |
Features a Heterosexual relationship OR Same-Sex relationship | The Matchmakers (2023) | Heterosexual relationship | December 26 |
| Mr. Bad (2022) | Enemies to Lovers | July 16 | |
Nice Female Lead/Nice Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead/Aggressive Male Lead | Ode to My Father (2014) | Nice Male Lead | December 26 |
| 12 Laugh It Off or Die Trying | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | Yu Yu Hakusho (2023) | Slight Comedy | December 22 |
Happy Ending OR features some form of Doomsday | When I Fly Towards You (2023) | Happy Ending | July 24 |
| Copycat Killer (2023) | Tragic Past | September 17 | |
Features a Celebration OR Mourning | All These Years (2023) | Mourning | July 15 |
| Meet Yourself (2023) | Healing | February 06 | |
| 13 Seeing is Believing…and some other stuff | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
Features a Religious Leader OR Some type of God | Daemuga: Sorrow and Joy (2022) | Religious Leader | August 27 |
| Dream (2023) | Character Development | December 10 | |
| Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san (2023) | Female-Centered Plot | January 20 | |
| Call it Love (2023) | Slow Burn Romance | April 12 | |
| Black Knight (2023) | Discrimination | July 26 | |
Significant DetailsIn the following habitats we ask 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? | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Song of the Bandits (2023) | On a Field | October 01 | |
| In Love and Deep Water (2023) | By the Sea | December 28 | |
| The Unjust (2010) | On a Rooftop | December 29 | |
| Castaway Diva (2023) | On an Island | December 03 | |
| In a City OR In a Small Town | Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area - Part 1 (2022) | In a City | February 20 |
| 15 Humans Have so Many Things | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Enigma (2023) | Backpack | August 25 | |
| Remember (2022) | A Sports Car (Porsche) | June 21 | |
| Unlock My Boss (2022) | A Smartphone | March 19 | |
| Destined With You (2023) | A Suit/Dress | October 13 | |
A Book OR A Crossbow | Trolley (2023) | A Book | February 26 |
The Main AttractionIn 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 tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions. | |||
| 16 Who are we? | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Nobody Knows (2004) | Child Actor/Actress | December 31 | |
| Our Blooming Youth (2023) | Idol Actor | April 12 | |
Transgender identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth) OR Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth) | Call Me Chihiro (2023) | Transgender | April 30 |
| Haunters (2010) | Disability | January 25 | |
| Mission 1: Possible (2021) | Hidden Identity | February 04 | |
| 17 Camouflage? | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Nothing But You (2023) | Athlete | April 27 | |
| Parallel Novel (2016) | Glasses | December 18 | |
| Canola (2016) | Identity Swap | December 20 | |
| Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR Criminal Female Lead/Criminal Male Lead | Oh No! Here Comes Trouble (2023) | Cop Female Lead | May 14 |
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR Antihero/Antiheroine | Moving (2023) | Superhero Male Lead | September 23 |
| 18 What are you? | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR Weak Female Lead / Weak Male Lead | Kill Bok Soon (2023) | Strong Female Lead | April 09 |
| Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead | Divorce Attorney Shin (2023) | Smart Male Lead | April 15 |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR Clingy Female Lead/Clingy Male Lead | Cold Eyes (2013) | Cold Male Lead | December 22 |
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR Poor Female Lead/Poor Male Lead | Death’s Game (2023) | Poor Male Lead | December 26 |
| Decoy: Part 2 (2023) | Killer | April 29 | |
Pay attention, it can be gone in a flashIn 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 | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Daily Dose of Sunshine (2023) | Pet | December 15 | |
| Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP (2020) | Talking Pet | December 22 | |
| The Priests (2015) | Farm Animal [Pig] | January 31 | |
| Believer (2018) | Veterinarian | December 25 | |
| My Dearest (2023) | Horse Ridden Out to War | September 4 | |
| 20 Where the Humans Are… | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Alienoid 1 (2022) | Animal Turns into a Human | December 18 | |
| My Heart Puppy (2023) | Adorable Animals | December 30 | |
| The Tiger (2015) | Animal in the Wild | December 29 | |
| Back (2022) | Pet dressed in Clothes | December 15 | |
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR Antagonist Caring For Animals | The Glory (2022) | Antagonist Caring for Animals | December 12 |
| 21 Friendly Ways to Live or Die | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Lighting Up the Stars (2022) | Funeral Director | December 03 | |
| Jung_E (2023) | Virtual Reality | February 26 | |
| KUNDO: Age of the Rampant (2014) | Corruption | January 25 | |
| Going Seventeen 2023: Don't Lie (2023) | Friendly Game | April 12 | |
| Golden Slumber (2018) | Friendship | February 14 | |
| 22 Who Am I When I Am With You? | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| One Dollar Lawyer (2022) | Colleagues | October 20 | |
| Crash Landing on You (2019) [Rewatch] | Bromance | December 27 | |
| Twinkling Watermelon (2023) | Parent-Child | November 14 | |
| The Glory Part 2 (2023) | Assailant-Victim | December 19 | |
| Illang: The Wolf Brigade (2018) | Soldier | January 29 | |
Name and CoverIn the following habitats we ask 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 | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Moonlit Winter (2019) | Celestial Part | December 31 | |
| Color OR Emotion | Orange (2015) | Color | December 28 |
| Taxi Driver 2 (2023) | Object | April 16 | |
| Bloodhounds (2023) | Animal | June 18 | |
| The Kidnapping Day (2023) | Calendar-Related Wor | October 25 | |
| 24 Pretty Pictures on the Cover | |||
| Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 05/05 |
| Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | Only You (2022) | Domesticated Animal | December 31 |
| Jinny’s Kitchen (2023) | Building | May 12 | |
| Suga: Road to D-Day (2023) | Dark Colors | April 21 | |
| Bunny Drop (2011) | Door | December 31 | |
| Emergency Declaration (2022) | Geometrical Shapes | December 28 | |
OriginIn the following habitats your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either to 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 | |||
| Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed 07/07 |
| China | Embrace Again (2021) | December 22 | |
| Hong Kong | Fist of Fury (1972) | December 19 | |
| Japan | Summer Blooms (2017) | December 31 | |
| Philippines | Keys to the Heart (2023) | December 28 | |
| South Korea | A Brand New Life (2009) | December 31 | |
| Taiwan | Eye of the Storm (2023) | September 01 | |
| Thailand | OMG! Oh My Girl (2022) | December 18 | |
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. | |||||
| My Treats | Plains: 00/05 | Forest: 00/04 | Mountain: 00/02 | Space: 00/02 | Black Hole: 00/01 |
| Route | Essentials | Substituted For | Notes | Completed | |
Turn-In Form: https://mydramalist.com/discussions/forum-games/83753-mdl-s-2023-watch-challenge-turn-in-thread?pid=2920283&page=6#p2920283
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up Sheet |
Plan to Watch --- Currently Watching --- (✔︎) Completed (Date Completed)
Taxonomy
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials that are according to type or genre.
(✔︎) 1. Type | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
(✔︎) Web Series OR TV SHOW* | Better Things (2023) | Oct 31st | |
(✔︎) MOVIE OR | Flaming Cloud (2023) | Nov 1st | |
| Co-Produced OR (✔︎) Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL. | Congrats My Ex! (2023) | Mahir Pandhi | Dec 29th |
(✔︎) Anthology OR | Love Is... (2017) | Dec 30th | |
(✔︎) Adapted from a Manga/Webtoon/Manhua/Manhwa/Comic OR | Shanai Marriage Honey (2020) | Manga | April 25th |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something - not the same as the school genre.) | |||
OR | |||
| Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route Watch a title from one of the following genres: | 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 into the concept of time.
4. Year of OriginTutorial | Progress: 0/5 | ||
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 | |||
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
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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 lasts over 60 minutes. OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | |||
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA. OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA. | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
The Chronicles of MDL
In the following habitats your mission is to find essentials by exploring MDL, your personal favourites, and, those others have awarded or written about.
7. Sharing is CaringTutorials: 1 2 3 | Progress: 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. | |||
8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
On your Recommendations page (add a link to the page). OR Appearing in the first 5 pages of the 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: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning OR By the same Writer as one of your favourite titles. | |||
From an Award-winning Director. OR That has one of your favourite Actresses. | |||
From an Award-winning Screenwriter. OR That has one of your favourite Actors. | |||
From an Award-winning Actor. OR By the same Director as one of your favourite titles. | |||
| 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 enclosed a list or used the words featured 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 |
(✔︎) Interspecies Romance
| I Don't Want to Fall in Love With Humans (2022) | Treat | April 30th |
(✔︎) Cohabitation OR | Put Your Head on My Shoulder Thai (2021) | July 21st | |
OR (✔︎) Sexual Assault | Confess Your Love (2023) | Aug 3rd | |
OR | Forever Love (2022) | March 30th | |
(✔︎) Arranged Marriage
| Hanaoni 2 (2009) | Treat | March 15th |
(✔︎) 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 | Hidden Love (2023) | July 30th | |
(✔︎) Age Gap [Drama Life] OR | The Only You (2021) | April 14th | |
(✔︎) Features a Heterosexual Relationship. OR | Who Stole My Kiss (2022) | March 31st | |
(✔︎) Enemies to Lovers OR | Hanaoni 3 (2009) | March 15th | |
(✔︎) Long Time Crush
| Secretary Bai Wants to Resign Everyday (2022) | Treat | April 2nd |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | |||
OR Features some type of Doomsday. | |||
OR | |||
Features a Celebration. OR | |||
OR | |||
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Features a Religious Leader. OR | |||
OR | |||
Female-Centered Plot/Male-Centered Plot OR | |||
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: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
| In a City OR In a Small Town | |||
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 0/5 | ||
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..., get's a..., has a.... Each route will either include a tag or a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
16. Who Are We? | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
Trans gender Identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth). OR Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth). | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
| Cop Female Lead/Cop Male Lead OR | |||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | |||
(✔︎) 18. What Are You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
(✔︎) Strong Female Lead/Strong Male Lead OR | Night of Love With You (2022) | Strong Female Lead | March 30th |
| (✔︎) Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead | Let's Date, Professor Xie (2023) | Smart Female Lead | July 30th |
(✔︎) Cheerful Female Lead
| A Business Proposal (2022) | Treat | Jan 9th |
(✔︎) Rich Female Lead/Rich Male Lead OR | Female CEO Love Me (2022) | Rich Female Lead | April 2nd |
(✔︎) Killer OR | I Want to Live to the Finale (2021) | April 2nd | |
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: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | |||
21. Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
22. Who Am I When I'm With You? | Progress: 0/5 | ||
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 |
(✔︎) Celestial Body OR | Sh**ting Stars (2022) | Shooting Stars | Feb 28th |
| Colour OR (✔︎) Emotion | Love Between Fairy and Devil (2022) | Love | July 17th |
(✔︎) Object OR | Meet by Window (2021) | Window | April 18th |
OR (✔︎) Number | Love Me in Three Days (2022) | Three | March 31st |
OR | Date (2021) | Date | Dec 28th |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: 0/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
Origin
In the following habitat your mission is to find essentials from the countries of MDL. You get to choose either watch 5 titles from 5 different countries OR watch 7 titles from 7 different countries.
Note: You must gather essentials from all 7 countries in every environment if you wish to get to the next stage (environment) of the challenge. You may not use treats in the international habitat if you wish to get the TIGER badge.
(✔︎) 25. Countries of MDL | Progress: 7/7 | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
(✔︎) China | Ready for Love? (2023) | Aug 31st | |
(✔︎) Hong Kong | Table for Six (2022) | Dec 31st | |
(✔︎) Japan | Hoshi Kara Kita Anata (2022) | April 24th | |
(✔︎) The Philippines | Love From Home (2021) | Dec 31st | |
(✔︎) South Korea | The Boy Next Door (2017) | Dec 31st | |
(✔︎) Taiwan | Bro and Me (2019) | Dec 30th | |
(✔︎) Thailand | Lemon vs Melon (2023) | Dec 31st | |
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: 4/5 | Forest Used: 0/4 | Mountain Used: 0/3 | Space Used: 0/2 | Black Hole Used: 0/1 |
| Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | Completed |
I Don't Want to Fall in Love With Humans (2022) | Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back/Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | April 30th | ||
| (✔︎) Arranged Marriage | Hanaoni 2 (2009) | OR | March 15th | |
Secretary Bai Wants to Resign Everyday (2022) | 11.5 OR | April 2nd | ||
(✔︎) Cheerful Female Lead | A Business Proposal (2022) | Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | Jan 9th |
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up SheetStarting date: Link to your Drama list: Progress Habitat: | ||||||||||||||
Finished *** In-Progress *** Plan-to-Watch
| Levels | Stage and Number of Habitats to get the Animal in that Stage | |||||
| Animal | Plains | Forest | Mountain | Space | Black Hole | |
| 1 |  | 2 | 27 | 52 | 77 | 102 |
| 2 |  | 4 | 29 | 54 | 79 | 104 |
| 3 |  | 6 | 31 | 56 | 81 | 106 |
| 4 |  | 8 | 33 | 58 | 83 | 108 |
| 5 |  | 10 | 35 | 60 | 85 | 110 |
| 6 |  | 13 | 38 | 63 | 88 | 113 |
| 7 |  | 16 | 41 | 66 | 91 | 116 |
| 8 |  | 19 | 44 | 69 | 94 | 119 |
| 9 |  | 22 | 47 | 72 | 97 | 122 |
| 10 |  | 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 | 125 |
| Bonus |  | If you complete titles from all the countries listed on MDL without using treats, you get the Tiger Badge! | ||||
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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OR | |||
| Co-Produced OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Co-Produced |
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OR | Omnibus |
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Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | Adapted from a manwha |
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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) | Ad |
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OR | Indie Film |
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| Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | Mockumentary |
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OR | Adapted from Folklore |
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OR | Historical Fiction |
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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 | Historical |
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OR | Comedy |
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OR | Romance |
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OR | Political |
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OR | The Great Battle | Action |
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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 |
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OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) |
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OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born |
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year generated by this website OR |
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OR |
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5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Short Length Series |
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DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | Drama with 30 ep or more |
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DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | Recipe for Farewell | Drama with 30-40 min ep |
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DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | Movie that lasts 180 min or longer |
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DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | Drama with 8 eps or less |
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6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 4/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | Second Season of a Drama |
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OR | Time Loop |
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OR | Time Travel |
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OR | Summer |
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OR | Spring |
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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 | Forever on PTW list |
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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) | ranked 1-1000 |
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DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | Drama with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list |
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mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | Mentioned in the MDL forums |
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| with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist | With the newest release date in your PTW list |
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8. Examined…Tutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
on your Recommendations page (add a link to the page) Or appearing in the first 5 pages of MDL Home Trailers section (add a link to the trailer) | Appearing in first 5 pages of MDL HomeTrailers |
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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). | Voting List |
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from your most viewed tags Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | From your most viewed tags |
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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 an Article |
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with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | over 10 reviews |
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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: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites | Award Winning |
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from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses | One of your Fav Actresses |
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from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors | One of your Fav Actors |
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from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles | Award Winning Actor |
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| from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | Award Winning Actress |
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Getting up Close and Personal
In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with relationships and the human experience most of these are tags, but in some cases we have inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route.
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back |
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OR | Long Distance Relationship |
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OR | Fluffy |
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OR | Secret Relationship |
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OR | Opposites Attract |
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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 | First Love |
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OR | Age Gap |
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features a Heterosexual relationship OR | Heterosexual Relationship |
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OR | Love at First Sight |
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Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR | Nice Male Lead |
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12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | Black Comedy |
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OR features some type of Doomsday | Happy Ending |
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OR | Tragic Past |
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features a Celebration OR | Mourning |
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OR | Healing |
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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 |
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OR | Character Development |
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Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | Female-Centered Plot |
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OR | Suspense |
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Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | Discrimination |
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Significant details
In the following habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
14. Where Are We? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | On a Cliff |
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OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
| In a City OR In a Small Town | In a City |
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15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | A Phone Booth | | |
OR | A Hoodie |
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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 | Child Actress |
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OR | Former Child Actor |
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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) | Trans gender identity |
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OR | Living with a disability |
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OR | Hidden Identity |
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17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Athlete |
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OR | Glasses |
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OR | |||
| Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | |||
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | Antiheroine |
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18. What Are You? | Progress: 1/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | Strong Female Lead |
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| Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead | Smart Male Lead |
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Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | |||
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | Poor Male Lead |
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OR | Killer |
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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:5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Pet |
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OR | Talking Pet |
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OR | Farm Animal |
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OR | Veterinarian | ||
OR | Romantic Ride on a Horse |
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20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | Adorable Animals |
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OR | Animal in a City |
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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 | Funeral Director |
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OR | Virtual Reality |
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OR | Corruption |
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OR | Friendship |
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22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | Bromance |
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OR | Sibling |
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OR | Assailanr-Victim |
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OR | Soldier |
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Name and Cover
In the following habitats we ask of you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24) your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Celestial Body |
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| Color OR | Color |
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OR | Object |
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OR | Number |
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OR | Season |
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24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress:5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | Domesticated Animal |
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OR | Flower |
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OR | Light Colors |
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OR | Door |
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OR | Geometric Shapes |
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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 |
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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.
1. Type | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR
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| Co-Produced OR
| Korean: Duration: 2 hrs | X- Completed | |
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| Korea; Eps: 4; Duration: 20 mins |
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Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or |
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Persona (2019)
Taikan Yoho (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 |
OR | Chinese Drama; Duration: 1 hr 36 mins | Jan. 4, 2023 | |
OR | Japan; Eps: 10 ; Duration: 30 mins | Jan. 9, 2023. | |
OR | Thailand; Eps: 12; Duration: 53 mins | Jan 29, 2023 | |
OR | Thailand; Eps:12; Duration: 45 mins | Feb 3, 2023 | |
OR | Korean; Duration: 2 hrs 13 mins ; | Jan. 3, 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
4. Year of OriginTutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
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OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | Taiwan;Duration: 21 Mins; Short Film |
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year generated by this website OR |
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OR | Thailand; Eps:12; 55 mins |
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Vice Versa (2022) 5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Short Film; Taiwanese; Duration: 40 mins | Jan. 2, 2023 | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | Japan; Eps: 9; Duration: 24 mins. | Jan. 11, 2023. | |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR
|  609 Bedtime Story (2022) | Thailand; Eps: 11; Duration: 35 mins | Feb 4, 2023 |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR
| Thailand; Eps: 13; Duration: 43 mins | Jan. 6, 2023 | |
OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | Thailand; Eps: 4; Duration: 45 mins | Jan 27, 2023 | |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR
| Japan; Eps: 4; Duration: 25 mins | Feb 28, 2023 | |
OR | Thailand; Eps: 13; Duration: 44 mins | Feb 1, 2023 | |
OR | Japan; Duration: 1 hr | Jan 30, 2023 | |
OR | Thailand; Miniseries: Duration: 1 Minute; Eps: 14 | March 20, 2023 | |
OR | Korea; Eps: 8; Duration: 12 mins | Completed | |
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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR from the Watchlist of another user doing this challenge |
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with less than 10,000 viewers OR
| Korea; Viewers 28 ; Duration: 7 mins | Jan. 8, 2023 | |
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR
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Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) |
| Jan. 12, 2023 | |
| with the newest release date in your PTW list OR
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[newest at the time I started 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: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Award-winning OR by the same writer as one of your favorites |
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OR that has one of your favorite actresses |
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OR that has one of your favorite actors |
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from an award-winning actor OR
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OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before |
| Feb 19, 2023 | |
Sweet Home (2020)
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 | Thailand; Eps: 14; Duration: 60 mins | Jan 17, 2023 | |
OR | Thailand; Eps: 12; Duration: 55 mins | March 1, 2023 | |
features a OR | Thailand; Eps: 10; Duration: 46 mins | Feb 12, 2023 | |
OR | Thailand; Eps: 12; Duration: 36 mins | Jan 25, 2023 | |
Nice Female Lead / Aggressive Male Lead OR | China; Duration: 1hr 43 mins. | Jan. 7, 2023. | |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Slight Comedy OR | Thailand; Eps: 1; Duration: 8 mins | Jan 17, 2023 | |
OR
| Japan; Eps: 4; Duration: 29 mins [AKA: The Reason Why He Fell in Love with Me] | Jan 26, 2023 | |
OR | Korea; Duration: 30 mins; Eps: 7 | May 12, 2023 | |
features a Celebration OR | Korea; Eps: 12; Duration; 1 hr 30 mins | Oct 01, 2023 | |
OR | Thailand; Duration: 43 mins; Eps: 12 | May 19, 2023 | |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
| Thailand; Duration: 45 mins; Eps: 12 | May 24, 2023 |
OR | Japan; Duration: 1 hr 22 mins | Feb 8, 2023 | |
OR | Japan; Eps: 8 ; Duration: 25 mins | Feb 10, 2023 | |
OR | Taiwan; Short Film; Duration: 9 mins | Jan 21, 2023 | |
OR | China; Duration: 1 hr 31 mins | April 5, 2023 | |
Past-Senger (2023)
Fragile Souls (2019)
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 | Thailand; Eps: 2; Duration: 46 mins | May 4, 2023 | |
OR | Korean; Duration: 45 mins | March 5, 2023 | |
OR | Korean; Eps: 16; Duration: 1 hr 5 mins | Jan 14, 2023 | |
OR |  Fragile in Love (2007) | Taiwan; Duration: 13 mins | June 28, 2023 |
| In a City OR | Korean; Duration: 30 mins | March 6, 2023 | |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR |
| Korea; Duration: 15 mins; Eps: 8 | March 30, 2023 |
OR | Thailand; Eps:10; Duration: 47 mins | April 23, 2023 | |
OR | Korea; Eps: 10; Duration: 27 mins | Feb 17, 2023 | |
OR | China; Episodes: 30; Duration: 10 mins | March 12, 2023 | |
OR | Japan; Eps: 10; Duration: 30 mins; | Jan 15, 2023 | |
Our Dating Sim (2023)
Chains of Heart (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.
16. Who Are We? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Korea; Duration: 25 mins | Jan 28, 2023 | |
OR | Japan; Duration: 30 mins; Eps: 6 | March 31, 2023 | |
OR Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth) | Korean; Duration: 21 mins | Feb 21, 2023 | |
OR |
| Japan: Duration: 2 hrs 11 mins | April 10, 2023 |
OR | Korean; Eps: 8; Duration: 25 mins. | Jan 13, 2023 | |
Jack O'Frost (2023) 
Call Me Chihiro (2023)
17. Camouflage? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | China; Duration: 1 hr 47 mins | March 3, 2023 | |
OR |
| Korea; Duration: 35 mins; Eps: 10 | April 14, 2023 |
OR | Thailand; Duration: 47 mins; Eps: 3 | April 18, 2023 | |
OR | Taiwan; Duration: 16 mins | Feb 26, 2023 | |
OR |
| China; Duration: 11 mins | April 16, 2023 |
Unintentional Love Story (2023)
Word of Honor: Epilogue (2021)18. What Are You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Korea; Eps: 16; Duration: 1 hr 10 mins | Feb 6, 2023 | |
OR Naive Female Lead/Naive Male Lead |
| Japan; Duration: 34 mins; Eps: 12 | April 9, 2023 |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR |
| Korean; Duration: 19 mins; Eps: 8 | March 24, 2023 |
OR | Thailand; Eps: 14; Duration: 45 mins | Feb 16, 2023 | |
OR | Korea; Eps: 8; Duration: 55 mins | May 5, 2023 | |
From Me to You (2023)
All the Liquors (2023) 
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Korea; Eps: 16; Duration: 1 hr 10 mins | May 30, 2023 | |
OR | Thailand; Duration: 1 hr 5 mins | April 8, 2023 | |
OR | Korea; Duration: 35 mins; Eps: 52 | April 3, 2023 | |
OR | Thailand; Duration: 5 mins | April 15, 2023 | |
OR | Thailand; Eps: 12; Duration: 50 mins | Feb 27, 2023 | |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 5/5 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Korean; Duration: 14 mins | April 13, 2023 | |
OR | Korea; Eps:2; Duration: 14 mins | Jan 20, 2023 | |
OR | Korean; Duration: 1 hr 50 mins | May 3, 2023 | |
OR | Japan; Duration: 1 hr 10mins | March 13, 2023 | |
OR | Korea; Duration: 1 hr 38 mins | Feb 20, 2023 | |
Attraction(2014)
One Summer Night (2016)25. Countries of MDL | Progress: 7/7 | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
China; Duration: 1 hr 47 mins | March 3, 2023 | ||
Hong Kong; Duration: 33 mins | May 1, 2023 | ||
Japan; Eps: 8; Duration: 24 mins | Feb 15, 2023 | ||
Philippines; Eps: 7; Duration: 34 mins | March 15, 2023 | ||
Korea; Short Film; Duration: 14 mins | Jan 24, 2023 | ||
Taiwan; Duration: 16 mins | Feb 22, 2023 | ||
 Sweet Student Boy (2016) | Thailand; Duration: 1 hr 43 mins | March 17, 2023 | |
MDL Watch Challenge 2023 Sign-up SheetStarting date: 1 January, 2023 Link to your Drama list: https://mydramalist.com/dramalist/grieff/ Progress Habitat: Plains 00/25 [16/127] Dramas: 05 || Drama special: 02 || Movies: 05 || Variety show: 04 ⇀ Plan to Watch || ⟳ Currently watching || ✓ Completed ✗ Habitat completed 00 || Animal: ✗ |
Taxonomy
In the following habitats, your mission is to find essentials that according to type or genre.
1. Type | Progress: 04 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR At least 5 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 | ?? Convenience Store Restaurant | TV Show (Ep. 62, 63, 67, 68,69 ) | ✓ Feb 23 |
OR | ?? Suspect X | Movie | ✓ Jun 11 |
OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | ?? The Outlaws | Actor from a country NOT on MDL(Ma Dong Seok) | ✓ June 10 |
OR | ?? Persona | Anthology | ✓ Jan 12 |
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | ?? Would You Like a Cup of Coffee? | Adapted from the manhwa "How About a Cup of Coffee?" | ⟳ |
2. Is it True? | Progress: 02 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR Educational (tries to teach viewers something-not the same as the school genre) | ?? Please Tell Me So | Advertisement | ✓ Jan 18 |
OR | ?? Descendants of the Sun | Propaganda | |
OR | ?? The Penthouse Season 3: Hidden Room - The Beginning of the End | Documentary | ✓ Jan 28 |
OR | ?? Chunhyang | Adapted from Folklore | |
OR | ?? Mr. Sunshine | Historial Fiction | |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: 01 | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ?? Kingdom Season 2 | Historical | |
OR | ?? Rea(L)ove | Comedy | Jun 29 |
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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: 01 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ?? Divorce Attorney Shin (Sacred Divorce) | 2023 | ⟳ |
OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | ?? Sandglass | 1995 | ⟳ |
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | ?? The Sword With No Name | 2009 | |
year generated by this website OR | ?? Horse Doctor / Architecture 101 / Pacemaker | 2012 (generated) | |
OR | ?? Intimate Strangers | 2018 | ✓ Mar 13 |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: 02 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Short Length Series | ⟳ | |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | The Horse Doctor | 30 episodes or more (50 ep) | |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | Movie longer than 90 min (129 minutes) | ✓ May 31 | |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | ?? Gokushufudo | Drama with 40-50 min (46 min) | Jul 3 |
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | ?? The New Employee | 8 episodes or less (7 ep) | ✓ Mar 17 |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | Kingdom Season 2 | ||
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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: 01/xx | ||
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 | ?? Are You Human Too? | PTW longer (~2020) | |
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | ?? Here's My Plan | Less than 10,000 [4,461 viewers (as Jan 2)] | ✓ Jan 2 |
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | ?? Connect | Smallest number of ep in PTW list (5 Jan) - 6 | |
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | ?? Maiko-san Chi no Makanai-san | 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: 01 | ||
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) | ?? Ticketing on Two Feet | 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 | ?? Bad Prosecutor | Most Viewed tags: Friendship (90), Death & Happy Ending (73) 1. Least viewed genres: Law (7) | |
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) | ?? Move to Heaven | Game | |
with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | ?? Changing Majors | 0 Reviews (as Jan 1) | ✓ Jan 25 |
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 | |||
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: 01 | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | ?? Island Season 1 | Exorcism | |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | ?? Nigeru wa Haji da ga Yaku ni Tatsu | Contract Relationship | Aug 03 |
OR | Opposites Attract | Jun 30 | |
11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 02/xx | ||
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 | ?? Galileo | Brief Nudity | ✓ Jan 15 |
OR | ?? Beyond Evil | Age Gap [Drama Life] | |
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | ?? Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!: The Movie | Same-Sex | ✓ Jan 1 |
OR | ?? Semantic Error | Enemies to Lovers | |
Nice Female Lead / Nice Male Lead OR | ?? Chicago Typewriter | Nice Female Lead | |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR features some type of Doomsday | |||
OR | ?? Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds | Tragic Past | Jul 29 |
features a Celebration OR | |||
OR | ?? Sea of Hope | Healing | |
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 | |||
OR | Perfect Number | Suspense | |
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | |||
Significant details
In the following habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
14. Where Are We? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
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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 | |||
OR | ?? 100 Days My Prince | Idol actor (Doh Kyunsoo) | |
Trans gender identity (different than the gender assigned to them at birth) OR Cis gender Identity (same as the gender assigned to them at birth) | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
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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 | Legally Romance | Smart 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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OR | ?? Love Village | Teamwork | ✓ Jun 09 |
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OR | ?? 20th Century Girl | Friendship | |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
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Name and Cover
In the following habitats we ask of you to pay attention to the name and cover of the title. For the first one (23) your mission is to find titles that have one of the following things. For the second one (24) your mission is to look at the cover. Each route includes a link to a list with more detailed instructions.
23. It's Only Words in the Name | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | |||
OR | Take Care of My Cat | Animal | |
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24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | ?? Military Prosecutor Doberman | Domesticated Animal (Doberman) | |
OR | ?? Stranger 2 | Building | |
OR | ?? Through the Darkness | Dark Colors | |
OR | |||
OR | ?? Kingdom: Legendary War | Geometrical Shapes (Square) | ⟳ |
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: 03 | ||
Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| ?? Better Days | |||
| ?? Zero to Hero | |||
| ?? MIU 404 | Jul 31 | ||
| ?? Hello Stranger | Aug 01 | ||
| ?? Hero | |||
| ?? Your Name Engraved Herein | |||
| ?? 2gether | Aug 27 | ||
Treats
This is where you gather treats, to use whenever you wish to avoid the paths given in a habitat. You come up with the treats on your own, they may not cover anything mentioned in this challenge (but you may use previous years' prompts for inspiration). Every time you start a new stage, you will be awarded a new number of treats according to the table below.
My Treats! | Plains Used: /5 | Forest Used: /4 | Mountain Used: /3 | Space Used: /2 | Black Hole Used: /1 | |
Route | Essential | Substitute for | Notes | Completed | ||
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Starting date: January 1, 2023 | Link to your Drama list: sone |
| Finished date: | Progress Habitat: |
| Dramas | Movies | TV Shows | Specials | Re-watch |
| 28 | 14 | 2 | 13 | 3 |
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* |
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| Co-Produced |
(France, Singapore, Indonesia, Germany, and Qatar) |
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Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic |
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2. Is it True? | Progress: 1/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
Ad for an Oppo phone |
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| Documentary Genre OR Mockumentary | ||||
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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 | |
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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: 2/5 | |||
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 | 47 min |
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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: 3/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
Full second season of a DRAMA |
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On FL's 50th birthday, she makes a wish to go back in time to relive her life and then suddenly wakes up as her 25-year-old self |
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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: 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 | ||||
with less than 10,000 viewers | 0 watchers as of date watched |
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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 |
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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). | ||||
found mentioned in an Article on MDL (add a link to the article) |
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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: 2/5 | |||
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 | ||||
that has one of your favorite actors |
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from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles | ||||
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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 | |
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Set in the midst of the global pandemic, the 2 MLs who had previously been communicating online, decide to try living together for a brief period of time |
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The FL who's set to wed her long-time boyfriend, discovers she's already married to a stranger. They have to keep their relationship secret until they can figure out how to undo it |
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11. Finding a Mate | Progress: 2/5 | |||
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 | ||||
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12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: 1/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
| Slight Comedy OR Black Comedy | ||||
OR features some type of Doomsday | ||||
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One of the main character's father dies. Him, his mother, and his brother are all shown in mourning |
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13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: 1/5 | |||
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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Significant details
In the following habitats we ask of you to look for the details in the significant scenes, in the first one (14) we ask you to notice the surroundings, in the other the objects involved (15).
14. Where Are We? | Progress: 3/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
The princess saves one of the townspeople from falling off a cliff during her competition to become queen |
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In episode 1 & 2, the 3 main leads build a structure to temporarily live in the woods as a getaway before their friend has to start her cancer treatment |
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Jeju Island |
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| In a City OR In a Small Town | ||||
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: 4/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
So many umbrellas in this drama!! Some were used to symbolize friendship, others love. One significant scene is the ML who likes the FL throughout is always meeting her with an umbrella even though she just wants him to leave her alone. We start to see her return his feelings by showcasing her bringing him in to share the umbrella with her instead of telling him to go away.
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In the final episode, one main character drives her sports car (a Porsche 911 Carrera) to intercept the other main character's car en route to the airport to prevent her from leaving the country and tell her they can finally be together |
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The serial killer called "The Subway Ghost" lures his victims by stealing their wallets then calling them from a phone booth telling them to meet with him to get their wallets |
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Two women keep making eye contact at a café. One is reading a book and the other takes note of the title. She then posts on social media about her experience. The reader sees this post and they confirm each other's identity using the book title. |
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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: 2/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
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Seohyun from Girls' Generation |
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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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Both leads are actresses |
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17. Camouflage? | Progress: 3/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
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Gavreel (played by |
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The ML and his grandma swap bodies |
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| Cop Male Lead |
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Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | ||||
18. What Are You? | Progress: 3/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
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| Naive Female Lead |
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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: 1/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
Main characters adopt a dog together |
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20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: 2/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
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One FL goes missing as a child after getting separated from her older sister. The older sister ran to see baby turtles born and is shown watching them make their way to the ocean. |
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This show takes place in abandoned Tokyo. In Episode 4 a panther is in an underground highway tunnel. Episode 5: the game is to gain points by killing dangerous animals (snake, tigers, etc) |
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Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | ||||
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: 4/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
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FL attends ML's basketball game to make a big public display of cheering him on |
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22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: 3/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
A good part takes place in office setting with colleagues (ML is FL's colleague wo ends up becoming her boyfriend) |
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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: 2/5 | |||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed | |
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| Color OR | ||||
pearl, door |
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one million |
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24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
| Domesticated Animal OR Wild Animal | |||
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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 | |
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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 SheetStarting date: January 1, 2023 Completing date: September 2, 2023 Link to your Drama list: virgievirgie's Drama List Goal: 25 Habitats/127 Essentials (Elephant/Plains + Tiger) Progress Habitat: 25/25 |
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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 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 | Dong Lan Xue | Web Series | 5/14/23 |
OR | Lighter & Princess Extra | Drama Special | 7/6/23 |
OR Starring an Actor/Actress in a project from a country NOT on MDL | Summerdaze | Afred Sng | 1/1/23 |
OR | Good Old Days | Anthology | 7/11/23 |
Adapted from a manga / webtoon / manhua / manhwa / Comic Or | My Ride | Novel | 1/2/23 |
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) | Love Refresh | Advertisement | 1/5/23 |
OR | Just Friends? | Independent Film | 4/18/23 |
OR | Hidden Love Special | Documentary | 8/27/23 |
OR | The Last 10 Years | Inspired by a real person | 9/1/2023 |
OR | Miss Truth | Historical Fiction | 8/6/23 |
3. All About the Gen(r)es | Progress: | ||
Watch a title from one of the following genres Choice of Route. | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Pledge of Allegiance | Historical | 6/6/23 |
OR | Sing My Crush | Comedy | 8/3/23 |
OR | Liar | Romance | 3/18/23 |
OR | My Calorie Boy | Youth | 1/4/23 |
OR | Advance Bravely | Action | 2/23/23 |
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 | Bokura no Shokutaku | 2023 | 6/8/23 |
OR the year a member on this page joined MDL (link to the account/challenge form) | No Working After Hours | 2019 - Susuyachan | 8/3/23 |
OR the month (not necessarily the year) you were born | Love Tractor | June (6/7-6/21) | 7/4/23 |
year generated by this website OR | Where the Lost Ones Go | Tuesday, 29 August 2017 | 7/5/23 |
OR | Bad Genius | 2017-2022 (2020) | 7/3/2023 |
5. Duration of The HikeTutorial | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Our Dating Sim | Short Length Series | 3/30/23 |
DRAMA with 20-30 minute episodes Or | Liar: Surecigau Koi | 25 mins | 3/18/23 |
DRAMA with 30-40 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 90 minutes or longer. | 30 mins | 4/27/23 | |
DRAMA with 40-50 minute episodes OR MOVIE that lasts 180 minutes or longer. | The Ingenious One | 40-50 minute (45 mins) | 6/18/23 |
DRAMA with at least one episode that last over 60 minutes OR DRAMA with 8 episodes or less. | My Lovely Bodyguard | 1 hr 30 mins | 7/17/23 |
6. Time Can Be Confusing | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Full second season of a DRAMA OR Only 1 episode of a DRAMA | Young Blood 2 | Season 2 | 8/24/23 |
OR | My Perfect Stranger | Diff Timelines | 6/25/23 |
OR | To Sir, With Love | Time Skip | 1/8/23 |
OR | Road Home | Winter | 4/2/23 |
OR | Late Autumn | Fall | 5/31/23 |
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 | Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!: The Movie | AthenaTheStorierX'sWatch list | 6/12/23 |
with less than 10,000 viewers OR ranked 1-1000 (if you have seen them all you can go for 1001) | Prism | 466 viewers | 2/7/23 |
DRAMA with the smallest number of episodes in your PTW list OR DRAMA with the highest number of episodes in your PTW list | He She It | Smallest # of eps | 5/21/23 |
mentioned in the MDL Forums Or mentioned in the MDL Feeds (any feeds) | The Eighth Sense | Feeds | 5/12/23 |
with the newest release date in your PTW list OR with a release date older than the oldest title in your Watchlist | See You in My 19th Life | newest release date | 8/20/23 |
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) | Unchained Love | Trailer | 2/20/23 |
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). | Back From The Brink | Happily Ever After | 6/30/23 |
from your most viewed tags Or from your least viewed genres under your profile stats | My School President | Friendship (most viewed tag) | 4/25/23 |
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) | Flash Marriage (Article) | Article Link | 5/29/23 |
with over 10 Reviews OR with 0 Reviews when you started watching it | The Rational Life: The Proposal Battle | 0 Review | 1/12/23 |
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 | Stand or Fall | Qin Lan | 8/19/23 |
from an award-winning director OR that has one of your favorite actresses | Warm on a Cold Night | Li Yi Tong (fav actress) | 3/18/23 |
from an award-winning screenwriter OR that has one of your favorite actors | Fireworks of My Heart | Yang Yang (fav actor) | 7/29/23 |
from an award-winning actor OR by the same director as one of your favorite titles | Alchemy of Souls Season 2 | Lee Jae Wook (Best New Actor 2019, Rookie of the Year 2020) | 1/27/23 |
from an award-winning actress OR by a director/writer you haven't seen anything from before | The Love Proposal | Jariwat Uppakharnchaiyaphat (Director) | 3/27/23 |
Getting up Close and Personal
In the following habitats you are asked to find essentials that have to do with relationships and the human experience most of these are tags, but in some cases we have inclosed a list or used the words features so please pay attention. We would also like to warn sensitive participants , as some of the routes below are indeed dark. but remember you can always choose a lighter route.
10. Kiss, F***, Kill, Exorcism… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Ex-Boyfriend Comes Back / Ex-Girlfriend Comes Back OR | Rivalry | Ex-GF comes back | 3/3/23 |
OR | Hold My Hand at Twilight | Cohabitation | 4/4/23 |
OR | Time and Him are Just Right | Fluffy | 2/17/23 |
OR | Destined to Meet You | Contract Relationship | 1/18/23 |
OR | Opposite Attract | 4/19/23 | |
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 | Hit the Spot | Extreme Sexual Content | 1/14/23 |
OR | She and Her Perfect Husband | Age Gap | 1/30/23 |
features a Heterosexual relationship OR | Watashi ga Kemono ni Natta Yoru | Heterosexual relationship | 5/9/23 |
OR | Love to Hate You | Enemies to Lovers | 2/12/23 |
Nice Female Lead / Male Lead OR Aggressive Female Lead /Male Lead | Hi Venus | Nice Male lead | 1/10/23 |
12. Laugh it Off or Die Trying | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Under the Queen's Umbrella | Black Comedy | 4/2/23 |
OR features some type of Doomsday | From Me to You | Happy Ending | 5/13/23 |
OR | Return Man | Tragic Past | 5/14/23 |
features a Celebration OR | Dinner Mate | Mourning (ML's mom passed away) | 5/4/23 |
OR | The Silence of the Monster | Healing | 2/11/23 |
13. Seeing is Believing… and some other stuff | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
features a Religious Leader OR | The Starry Love | Some type of God | 3/12/23 |
OR | My Beautiful Man Season 2 | Character Development | 8/19/23 |
Female-Centered Plot / Male-Centered Plot OR | Watashi ga Kemono ni Natta Yoru 2 | Female-centered plot | 5/11/23 |
OR | Call It Love | slow burn romance | 4/18/23 |
Popular Male Lead / Popular Female Lead OR | Motokare Retry | Popular male lead | 3/25/23 |
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 | Alchemy of Souls | On a cliff | 1/26/23 |
OR | The Curse of Saree | In the Woods - Magnolia Forest | 4/7/23 |
OR | The Glory | Rooftop | 4/11/23 |
OR | Otonari ni Ginga | On an Island - FL is from an island | 7/6/23 |
OR | Racket boys | In a small town | 6/3/23 |
15. Humans Have So Many Things | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Finland Papa | Umbrella - FL's grandmother went to ML in the rain with an umbrella to comfort him after the death of FL's father. | 5/16/23 |
OR | Shizuka-chan to Papa | Truck-Truck used to haul recyclable appliances and goods by FL and her friend | 5/30/23 |
OR | To Love | Phone booth - anonymous call made by ML to report drug transportation and anonymous call made to ML about the murder of ML's friend 6 years ago. | 4/23/23 |
OR | Provoke | Dress - FL was asked to wear a blue dress by 2ML (ML's father) on the day of her supposedly impending death. A dress that 2ML requested and said she looks most beautiful in. | 4/20/2023 |
OR | The Novelist: Playback | Rio finally was able to write and finish a new book when back home and wanted to gift it to Haruhiko | 3/12/23 |
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 | The Secret Romantic Guesthouse | Veteran | 5/23/23 |
OR | Jitenshaya-san no Takahashi-kun | Idol actor | 1/27/23 |
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) | Salon de Nabi | Trans gender | 3/19/23 |
OR | Silent | Disability | 1/6/23 |
OR | Imitation | Public Figure | 2/6/23 |
17. Camouflage? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Nothing But You | Athlete | 4/15/23 |
OR | Watashi ga Kemono ni Natta Yoru 3 | Tattos (ep 3)T | 5/11/23 |
OR | Love of Replica | Identity Swap | 5/16/23 |
Cop Female Lead/ Cop Male Lead OR | History 3 Trapped | Cop male lead | 8/26/23 |
Superhero Male Lead/Superhero Female Lead OR | Painted Skin | Antiheroine | 8/26/23 |
18. What Are You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
Strong Female Lead / Strong Male Lead OR | Lighter & Princess | Strong Female Lead | 3/24/23 |
Smart Female Lead/Smart Male Lead OR | Brotherhood of Blades 2 | Naive Female lead | 4/30/23 |
Cold Female Lead/Cold Male Lead OR | Royal Rumours | Cold male lead | 4/10/23 |
Rich Female Lead/ Rich Male Lead OR | Song of Youth | Rich Male Lead | 2/26/23 |
OR | Long Time No See | Killer | 2/4/23 |
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 | A League of Gentleman | Pet-Both leads took care of white cat mom and kittens - built a house and brought them food | 5/27/23 |
OR | Choco Milk Shake | Animal death | 1/11/23 |
OR | Here We Meet Again | Zoo animal-Leads had a date at the zoo. | 6/11/23 |
OR | Once Upon a Small Town | Veterinarian | 7/7/23 |
OR | Till The End of The Moon | Horse ridden out to war | 5/10/23 |
20. Where the Humans Are… | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Catman | Human turns into animal | 3/13/23 |
OR | The Longest Promise | ML turned into a fluffy animal when getting intimate with FL after the magic put on him | 8/1/23 |
OR | Work Later, Drink Now Season 2 | Wild boars up the mountains (Wild) | 3/14/23 |
OR | The Glory Part 2 | Animal abuse | 3/14/23 |
Second Lead Caring For Animals OR | Mysterious Lotus Casebook | 2ML (Fang Duo Bing/Joseph Zeng) took care of ML's dog | 8/13/23 |
21.Friendly Ways to Live or Die | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | Lighting Up the Stars | Funeral Director | 7/12/23 |
OR | Itsuka, Nemuri ni Tsuku Hi | Ghosts | 6/19/23 |
OR | The Nokdu Flower | Corruption | 1/17/23 |
OR | Isa Pa with Feelings | Friendly game (deaf party game) | 6/19/23 |
OR | The Blood of Youth | Friendship | 2/4/23 |
22. Who Am I When I Am With You? | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | The New Employee | Colleagues | 2/5/23 |
OR | Gentlemen of East 8th | Bromance | 5/20/23 |
OR | Double Love | Sibling | 1/21/2023 |
OR | Bloodhounds | Assailant-Victim | 6/12/2023 |
OR | Radiation House | Doctor-Patient | 1/15/2023 |
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 | My Tooth Your Love | Body Part | 1/30/23 |
OR | Black Knight | Color | 8/8/23 |
OR | Nagatan to Aoto: Ichika no Ryourijou (Kitchen Knife and Green Chili Pepper) | Object | 6/13/23 |
OR | Moonlight Chicken | Animal | 6/7/23 |
OR | Summer Strike | Season | 2/21/23 |
24. Pretty Pictures on the Cover | Progress: | ||
Choice of Route | Essentials | Notes | Completed |
OR | The Forbidden Marriage | Domesticated Animal | 2/14/2023 |
OR | Ousama ni Sasagu Kururiyubi | Flower | 7/2/2023 |
OR | The Gifted: Graduation | Dark | 1/22/23 |
OR | Like in the Movies | Rainbow | 3/25/23 |
OR | Be My Favorite | Geometrical Shapes | 8/15/23 |
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 |
| Sisterhood | 7/11/23 | ||
| Stay Still | 9/2/23 | ||
| My Cuteness is about to expire? | 5/23/23 | ||
| Gameboys: Out in the Open | 9/1/2023 | ||
| Romanced | 6/19/23 | ||
| No Regrets in Life | 8/30/23 | ||
| Laws of Attraction | 9/2/23 | ||
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 | |
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