A place to compile RR recommendations by fellow group members!

Want to include your own? Fill in the template provided down below with the relevant information and post it in this club's thread. ¡Read the notes at the end for more information!

This thread is reserved for dedicated recommendation posts, "you should watch this" posts should be kept to the feeds or to the RR club! 💓

Please keep this thread only for Asian dramas, movies, and specials! For content outside of MDL, please refer to THIS THREAD (coming soon...)

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Guidelines:

1. Only post 1 recommendation per post (i.e. every rec should be its own post to facilitate linking)

2. Keep the TL;DR spoiler-free and tag anything that IS a spoiler as such!

3. Only recommend titles you've personally watched (at least over 50%).

4. Please read through the notes at the end for instructions on how to post.

5. Questions or suggestions can be brought up in the RR club. Please keep this thread for recommendations only.

6. You can post multiple times in a row with no limit to how often.

7. Preferably no repeated recs.

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Member Recommendation Template

[Example post]

NOTES:
• The brackets and the text within should be removed from the template and replaced with the relevant information.
• You are free to make it as lengthy as you want, but you must provide a short overview in the TL;DR section.
• The TL;DR should be a couple of sentences long. The idea is for it to be brief.
Note: If your notes are short, you don't need to include a TL;DR.
• You are free to format it however you like and include images or GIFs. Make use of the table feature (top right in the toolbar).
• You are free to add more sections (e.g. country of origin, release year, actors, etc), but it's not necessary.

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Title: A Talented Girl Grows Up
Type: Drama
Tags: Physically Strong FL, Weak ML, Bold FL, Flirty FL, Shameless FL, Reserved ML, Dominant FL, Submissive ML, Softspoken ML, Masculine FL, Feminine ML, Elegant ML, Nurturing ML, Gentle ML, Prince in Peril ML, Gentlewoman FL, Jealous FL | Strong FL x Weak ML, Bold FL x Reserved ML, Crude FL x Elegant ML, Dom FL x Sub ML, Masc FL x Fem ML | FL saves ML, FL pampers ML ||| Female Led narrative 

TL;DR: Delightfully RR all throughout. FL is a very dominant, strong, badass, gentlewoman, and ML is such an elegant, soft-spoken, beautiful nurturing hubby. The leads LOVE being RR. Can't recommend enough!

A typical transmigrator FL that defies the clichés and lives out her martial artist gentlewoman dream! She's rowdy, bold, assertive, badass, and also physically strong. She ends up married to the top scholar ML, who's weak, soft-spoken, gentle, and elegant. She teases him a lot for being uptight, and he gets flustered about it. It's such a delight to see this thorough RR throughout the drama. If you want a FL that's physically strong, carries her man on multiple occasions, protects him from bad guys, does the grand romantic gestures, and gets jealous of anyone who comes close to him while he's the embodiment of an elegant motherly husband that looks at her with enamored eyes and loves her attention, then this is for you.

ML especially stood out to me because the combination of weak, soft-spoken, gentle, and elegant is such a rare combo for a ML to have! I almost wish FL looked more masculine so the couple could've been a perfect 10/10, but I'll take this as well.

It's also worth noting that though the drama is a comedy, the RR is not played for laughs often. It's actually quite tasteful (with the exception of ML being physically weak being comedic). Also, a rare instance where the leads are 100% comfortable in their role reversal and aren't humiliated or otherwise dissatisfied, even if a little. They're actually thriving. 

GIFs by me

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Title: Colorful Love: Genderless Danshi ni Aisareteimasu
Type: Drama
Tags: Stylist ML. Virago FL, Simp/Down-bad FL, Strong FL, Protective FL, Feminine ML, Sweet ML, Cute ML, Puppy ML, Sensitive ML, Gentle ML | Protective FL x Protected ML, Feminine FL x Feminine ML, Tall FL x Short ML (by very little but still) ||| Manager SFL.
Feminine SML, Bratty SML, Diva SML, Flamboyant SML, Aloof SFL, Chill SFL | Chill SFL x Flamboyant SML, Older SFL x Younger SML. 

TL;DR: A beautiful fem x fem hetgnc romance that tackles gender roles, gender expression, and attraction in a touching and delicate way!

A feminine ML that doesn't just wear dresses and a wig, but rather fully encompasses femininity in a way I haven't seen before. He's a stylist who's gentle, sweet, cute, and a lil sassy. Then there's FL who seems kinda bland by comparison but is anything but. She's opinionated, strong, protective, and tremendously down-bad for ML. They're similar in the sense that they're both feminine, but they're still role reversal and it's amazing.

Then there's the secondary couple. Aloof manager woman x bratty feminine celebrity. He starts out pretty misogynistic so it's definitely a taming situation but he gets a lot of growth! She's older, colder, and more masculine than he is, but their dynamic is more trad than the leads, though definitely still atypical.

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Title: You're My Pet (2003)
Type: drama
Tags: Clingy Male Lead, Older Woman/Younger Man, Smart Female Lead, Cold Female Lead
TL;DR: Our female lead is highly successful at work but seen as too cold and aggressive to get along with. She finds a pitiful young man sleeping outside and takes him home to care for him as her pet. What begins as under-negotiated petplay power exchange with 24/7 bratty submission and service slowly grows into something beyond the bounds of their platonic kink dynamic. Serious, psychological, yet sweet, this drama sticks with the plot of its source material until the final few episodes, so even manga fans may be in for a surprise should they give it a try.

Title: Wing Chun (1994)
Type: movie
Tags: Martial Artist Female Lead, Gender Bender, Childhood Friends' Relationship
TL;DR: This might be a stretch, but I would argue that our female lead is stronger and more assertive than her sweet and foolish male lead