Completed in 2025
Dramas and movies I completed in 2025, with spoiler-free comments.
In chronological order. Does not include dropped shows (also does not include variety shows).
Completed in 2024: https://kisskh.at/list/1Nkpz2DL
Completed in 2023: https://kisskh.at/list/LAljo7Y1
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1. The Way Home
Chinese Drama - 2024, 16 episodes
Loved the main characters. Very memorable story. Show felt disjointed towards the end due to Youku deleting scenes, but still happy I watched this show.
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2. Sword and Fairy 1
Chinese Drama - 2024, 40 episodes
Good story that pulls you right in. Great humor. Nicely paced with lots of variety. Fight scenes were satisfying to watch.
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3. The Rest of My Life
Chinese Movie - 2018
A low budget, low quality type of production. Movie spans high school, college, and working life so doesn't give you breathing room to connect with the characters. Don't really recommend.
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4. Love in the Air: Koi no Yokan
Japanese Drama - 2024, 8 episodes
Waste of time. Do not recommend. Acting was bad. A lot of things made no sense. Structure was dumb; it was like writers ran out of material so they suddenly switched to focusing on 2nd couple for latter half of the show. Lame overall.
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5. Secrets of the Shadow Sect
Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes
Real good short series with a story and characters that are gripping. Especially love the female lead character.
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6. Forbidden Zone
Chinese Movie - 2023
Enjoyable action movie with good use of CGI.
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7. Miseinen: Mijukuna Oretachi wa Bukiyo ni Shinkochu
Japanese Drama - 2024, 10 episodes
Really good. Extremely well made show with story and characters that are interesting and well developed.
(Note: there's an extra/special episode, "ep11.")
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8. Towards the Truth
Chinese Drama - 2025, 16 episodes
Decent mystery/investigative + supernatural type show. Cases were interesting.
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9. I Am Not Your Enemy
Chinese Drama - 2024, 20 episodes
Decent short series. It's a not-to-be-taken-seriously type of show, with goofy humor and a good story.
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10. The Song Inquisitor
Chinese Drama - 2025, 20 episodes
Watched it for the investigative aspect. Not good, but wasn't horrible enough to drop. Main problem is that cases were solved too abruptly.
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11. I Am Nobody: The Showdown Between Yin & Yang
Chinese Drama - 2025, 13 episodes
Seemed like a filler season. Had some good moments, but lacked charm of season 1. Also, ep5 can be skipped entirely; can't believe they had a filler episode for a show that only had 13 episodes in total.
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12. Cao Xuanxuan's Love Journey
Chinese Drama - 2025, 21 episodes
Very amateurish, almost cringey production. Director and writers are to blame as they clearly did not care. Do not recommend at all unless you're watching for your favorite stars.
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13. Moonlight Mystique
Chinese Drama - 2025, 40 episodes
Good show overall. Definitely recommend. Love all the main characters. Each arc is well done. (Has an extra/bonus episode.) 9.25/10
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14. Riverside Code at Qingming Festival
Chinese Drama - 2024, 26 episodes
Cases are interesting. The two main leads are outstanding. High quality production. 9.25/10
P.S. Don't miss the after-credit scene at the end of the last episode!
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15. Nearly - Royal Highness
Chinese Drama - 2025, 40 episodes
Waste of time. Poor production quality, very jumpy, not captivating, nothing unique or special at all.
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16. The Leopard Cat Scholar
Chinese Drama - 2025, 20 episodes
Very well made short series with great pull, good pacing, and interesting mysteries. (Based on story from The Great Escape, Season 6, eps5-6.) 8.75/10
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17. Happy New Year, MacarMo
Chinese Drama - 2025, 12 episodes
Very basic short series. Nothing special or unique about it. Also for a show this short, why did they put in a second couple? lol
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18. Perfect Match
Chinese Drama - 2025, 36 episodes
Hated it. Waste of a great cast. Hilarious Family did a way better job with this type of show. Too many sudden tonal changes. About 90% of the conflicts were: person A acts like a jerk, problem is resolved, "haha tricked you" person A was not a jerk and this is what really happened, then flashback reveal or plot twist; that was so tedious and annoying to see over and over again. Only endured the show because of the cast; do not recommend if you're not watching for the cast.
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19. Burning Stars
Chinese Movie - 2024
Not worth watching. Very cursory type of production, jumps from scene to scene. No real development or connection to characters. Do not recommend.
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20. The White Olive Tree
Chinese Drama - 2025, 38 episodes
Not well made. It's like they tried to force 3 different types of shows into one... imagine eating pizza and your first bite is just cheese, second bite is just sauce, third bite is just dough... it's not well blended together - that's this show. Plus so much cringe dialogue, unnecessary scenes, and excruciatingly slow pacing (you could watch at 2x speed and understand what's going on).
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21. Live or Love?
Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes
The main couple stuff was fantastic (9.5/10) - creative, interesting, and fun - and I would definitely recommend watching just for that. The side couple stuff was not bad, but basically your standard/typical plotlines. Overall, good show, 8.75/10.
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22. Futtara Doshaburi
Japanese Drama - 2025, 7 episodes
Meh. Nothing noteworthy at all. Very forgettable.
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23. Ying You Chang Feng Yi Bi Yuan
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
Alright short series. Seemed like a low budget and shorter version of Delicacies Destiny.
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24. Always Home
Chinese Drama - 2025, 30 episodes
10/10. Great show about love, family, friendship, growing up, etc. Main characters are so lovable. Pacing is fantastic; plotlines are not dragged out like in some other shows. Highly recommend.
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25. Pink Summer
Chinese Drama - 2024, 4 episodes
Amusing and funny short series about two neighbors. 9.25/10
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26. The Best Thing
Chinese Drama - 2025, 28 episodes
This was a good, light, calm show with beautiful people and scenery. 8.75/10
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27. The First Frost
Chinese Drama - 2025, 32 episodes
Hated it. Worst case interpretation: ML was basically a stalker. Best case interpretation: ML was an unrealistic character. Show was also badly made - too much stuff repeated, way too slow and draggy (should've been a 12-16 episode show), all episodes had flashbacks and a huge majority of them were annoyingly redundant.
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28. Red Blue
Japanese Drama - 2024, 8 episodes
Decent show. Well made. The fighting and the choreography were so nicely done.
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29. Love of Petals
Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes
Ok show. I have nothing horrible to say about it, but there was also nothing really outstanding.
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30. Why Do We Have to Hide It?!
Japanese Movie - 2025
Decent, simple short film.
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31. Hook Bait
Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes
Boring. Had no pull. Nothing worth talking about. Do not recommend.
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32. The Fox Spirit Da Ji
Chinese Movie - 2018
Pointless movie. Went nowhere. Waste of time.
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33. Ski into Love
Chinese Drama - 2025, 23 episodes
Episodes 1-13 were an easy 10/10 - so fun, light, fluffy, and cute; the development of the relationship and back-and-forth between ML & FL were great. After that, I wish they had done more trimming as some of the side stuff slowed things down. Worth watching. 9.25/10
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34. Dosei no Shinyu wo Suki ni Natte Shimatta
Japanese Special - 2024, 1 episode
Alright short film. Pretty basic; indie feel to it; nothing really special though. 7.25/10
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35. Secrets Happened on the Litchi Island
Chinese Drama - 2025, 7 episodes
Episodes 1-4 were great, felt different from a typical cdrama, and had the vibe of a European movie. Ep5-7 had different pacing and went through a lot in a short span of time. Overall ok show.
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36. Practice Daughter
Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes
First 17 episodes were great - nice, light, fun watch. Then the rest of the show got a tonal switch, parts felt rushed, parts didn't make sense... sigh... another one of those shows.
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37. Exorcist Chef
Chinese Drama - 2025, 24 episodes
Decent short series with good pacing, consistent tone throughout the show, and no filler stuff.
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38. Psych-Hunter
Chinese Drama - 2020, 36 episodes
This was SO BORING and way too long. Nothing about it was gripping - the characters, the pacing, the plot... all of it was so bland. Took me 3 months to finish. Also I didn't feel the bromance in this show at all.
If anyone else gets bored of this, just skip to the last episode.
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39. My Fated Boy
Chinese Drama - 2021, 29 episodes
Good, light show. Loved the humor and the ML character. 8.75/10
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40. The Seized Destiny
Chinese Drama - 2025, 20 episodes
Ok short series that had good moments and was mostly enjoyable though seemed like it was written to be a longer format type of show as a lot of things seemed to go by fast. 7.75/10
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41. Fortune Writer
Chinese Drama - 2024, 24 episodes
The concept of this short series seemed interesting at first, but as it went on, it made less and less sense. Also not emotionally engaging due to the "rewritings."
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42. Bullet Train Explosion
Japanese Movie - 2025
Gripping movie with good tension and action.