Herman

It's on Viki

Oh, I never actually finished it, thanks for the info. The site says 14 but it looks like it might actually be only 10. The 10th episode seems to close most everything up. It was hard to find an official statement on the number of episodes.

I believe it is 14

Omg I completely forgot it was 2018 until I saw it in the polls... I forgot it in nomination! So good

And this year had some of my favorite kdramas ever... interesting. Mother, My Mister, Life on Mars, Mr Sunshine...
I guess I'll have to watch Story of Yanxi Palace. I personally really enjoyed the first half of Ever Night because I think it's one of the best uses of visual effects I've seen in Cdramas. I liked Legend of Fu Yao for awhile, but it totally fails on the visual aspect. It looks so childish compared to Ever Night. Same with Ashes of Love, though not quite to the same degree and I realize they are attempting different ideas which are less grounded in reality. Agree with the Thai ones, because I at least watched Bhuppae Sunniwat and had a lot of fun with it!

There is no doubt that Ever Night is the best... literally nothing else compares to it...

Best Chinese Drama of 2018: Ever Night
Best Historical Drama: Ever Night
Best Novel Adaptation: Ever Night

I guess I'll update this when I get time

Well, I hardly watch anything Japanese so I might skew things, but I just watched Tonight, at Romance Theater because I didn't enjoy Stepmother and Daughter's blues just so I could nominate Ayase Haruka and Honda Tsubasa.

Best Japanese Movie of 2018: Tonight, at Romance Theater
Best Japanese Actor: Sakaguchi Kentaro: Tonight, at Romance Theater
Best Japanese Actress: Ayase Haruka :) Tonight, at Romance Theater
Best Japanese Supporting Actor: Nakao Akiyoshi: Tonight at Romance Theater
Best Japanese Supporting Actress: Honda Tsubasa: Tonight at Romance Theater

Well this year has some of my very favorite Kdramas ever! As well as some huge disappointments, but oh well...
Best Screenwriter:
Park Hae Young: My Mister, Lee Ah Ram: Come and Hug Me
Best Director:
Lee Eung Bok: Mr. Sunshine, Lee Jung Hyo: Life on Mars, Kim Cheol Kyu: Mother
Best Korean Drama of 2018:
My Mister, Mother, Life on Mars
Best Mini Series/Web Drama:
Top Management
Best Romance Drama:
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, 30 but 17, My ID is Gangnam Beauty
Best Comedy Drama:
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, Feel Good to Die, I Picked up a Star on the Road
Best Romantic/Comedy Drama:
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, 100 Days my Prince, The Beauty Inside
Best Historical/Sageuk Drama:
Mr Sunshine.
Best Family Drama:
Mother, My Mister, Come and Hug Me
Best Action/Thriller/Suspense Drama:
Life on Mars, Mother, Come and Hug Me
Best Melodrama:
Nice Witch?
Best Actor:
Lee Sun Kyun, Yoo Yeon Seok, Jung Kyung Ho
Best Actress:
IU, Go Ah Sung, Park Min Young
Best Supporting Actor:
Park Ho San, Jang Ki Yong, Yoon Joo Man
Best Supporting Actress:
Lee Hye Young, Do Hee, Heo Jung Eun
Best Up and Coming Actor of 2018:
Go Woo Rim, Yoon Chan Young, Choi Min Young
Best Up and Coming Actress of 2018:
Heo Yool, Ryu Han Bi, Park Shi Eun
Best Villain:
Heo Joon Ho as Yoon Hui Jae
Best Idol Actor (or Actress):
IU, Cha Eun Woo
Best Couple:
What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, Something in the Rain, Come and Hug Me
Best Bromance:
Mr Sunshine, Life on Mars, The Beauty Inside
Best OST:
Mr. Sunshine.

Because Song Yi Ren.

I've only watched to 32, but this is by far one of the best Chinese dramas. As far as quality, this completely overshadows dramas like Legend of Fu Yao. No matter how much I tried to like Legend, all the visual effects were so stunted, but this drama is very well done and the shots are very good. The shooting reminds me a little of Rise of Phoenixes (though I never finished that...). Just from what I've seen it is my favorite Chinese drama and probably tops most Korean ones as well.

It can also be watched raw here: http://qdrama.net/kr181101/

It's currently airing. There are 10 episodes out.

Yeah yeah :) I knew Goblin was fantasy going in, I can't fault that one for a sword in the chest. That's why I watched it. This show was waay not what I expected lol.

I didn't think of that, I can see how if it was so realistic and placed in your reality it would affect your muscles.
However, I do think there is a need for haptic feedback at least, something that can stimulate your nervous system. Otherwise I think it would still be rather awkward. Currently developers try things like haptic gloves and full body suits. I doubt an eye lens could control that sort of thing...
Also, I still think with the sword hits you would need some sort of electrical muscle stimulation. Something like this is a good example though very rough lol:
https://hpi.de//baudisch/projects/ems-ar-haptics.html

Or, you know, on Viki

This could be my next fav. Love the two leads and they're better together than I thought they would be. It's fun to see the cliche CEO and poor girl turned on its head, but at the same time this shouldn't really be compared to those kind of dramas anyway. I'm getting almost My Mister feels from this... but with an actual romance. :)

Posting three of the same comment is plain ridiculous. :)
I agree, you can't rate the drama on one episode, so I guess we have an episode rating here. Personally, I find it odd when people post reviews of dramas before they finish, but I do like to see ratings when there are at least a few episodes out to see if I should bother with a drama.
Agree on PSH too. I don't think PSH is a good actress, but I really like here lol... Does that make me superficial?
I was one of the people complaining about the AR... I get it, it's a drama, I can suspend my thoughts for awhile. I just prefer a drama when I don't have to constantly push back my thoughts, so I guess personal preference. Really enjoying Encounter for example. I'm a programmer, and I was just scratching my head at someone exclaiming how real a fake sword is as they touch air and trying to figure out how seeing something can induce your muscles to stop a sword swing as if clashing against another weapon... :/

Okay, that might make me continue with more episodes then. I was not particularly drawn in with first, but I love Queen In Hyun's Man. :D

Because there are only 29 votes so far. Earlier there were even fewer and they were all good, now others are weighing in. Someone decided it is one star so that hurts it.

Lol ok.
It probably bothers me more because I'm a programmer myself. I guess I'm not a genius... ㅠㅠ