Lucy

I have never watched a Chinese production, the language is very weird but I don't know why I liked this drama. I've seen a short scene on viki's Facebook page. Anyway I'm worried about the language but now I'm worried even more because of your comment. What is dubbing?

Thank you :)

She was my favorite Japanese actress. This is heartbreaking news but I wish her all the best.

Oh thanks for answering! I really appreciate it. I'll give it a try then. thank you!

I'm planing to watch this one only for Kento, sports are not my thing. Should I go straight to Tumbling and drop this one ?

I completed watching the show and I'm still wondering why is it rated so highly? Why is it recommended pretty much everywhere? It's too slow and pointless for me. I liked the comedy but not the plot. For me it worth 7/10, maybe less. Thank you Yuri-chan for making it bearable.

@Tanya94 When you say "two recent dramas deviated from this expected cliché" which ones do you mean?
I hate all this clichés. Let me add one more : when the female lead fall for someone in the first episodes and he don't give a * about her but once she falls for the other guy he wants her back. This is the kid of useless second lead that I just wanna slap.
Mention to Boys over flowers and The girl and three sweethearts.

I really hate weak female leads and jerk male leads. So can anyone tell me which drama is in the very first picture? The one showing a strong female lead in opposition to a weak one. I think the weak one is from playful kiss ? I'm not sure, I hated love in Tokyo so I didn't watch the Korean remake. Anyway if someone can tell me which one is the drama with a strong women I will be grateful.

You made a list of some good dramas.
I'm a bit disappointed that secret garden got a 9th rang while Jealousy incarnate got 6th one. There were some comedy in JI but the romance and the story were too silly and stupid for me, it didn't deserve 24 episodes.
My recommendations are :
Shopping King Louis (great chemistry and very cute couple)
Kill Me, Heal Me (great, moving and deep story)
Bring It On, Ghost (good comedy and some suspense)
Queen In Hyun's Man (You can have everything here, seems perfect to me)
From 9 to 5 (Jdrama it's different, fresh and fun)

Is this drama in Korean or Mandarin ? It seems like all actors are Korean so why is it marked as a Chinese drama ?

I haven't watch a Jdrama from 2014. There are too many Kdramas that I got lost in Korean world and I stopped watching Japan's productions. But after so many years the kdramas are not as good as they were before, too meaningless and too predictable. I thought it's time for a change or rather a come back so I picked this one because I love Oguri so much.
I wasn't disappointed, It was a good drama. The only thing that really ticked me off was the end, the stupid Ikuo should have gone to the hospital instead of going to the orphanage. It's like he wanted both of them to die there at the end. It seems like even if Tatsuya didn't get shoot, they would have went to die there anyway.

I think this is the greatest article I've ever read on MydramaList. I always talk about this exact things with my friend and she laughs at me. I've never understood the concept rich man poor women while they have the exact same smartphone. Or when a person buy a complete stranger the newest smartphone just before she don't have one and he need to contact her for some silly reason. Like I'm giving you a 800$ phone but it's not like I love or something, I just need my stupid 1$ key chain back ...
I always hate when CEO's outfit looks like my duvet or my patterned curtains.
I also usually wonder : am I the only one who doesn't remember my friend from the nursery ? They have this weird need of being linked to their soulmate as kids.
Anyway thank you @cityhunter83

What you both said is actually funny! Do you know what else doesn't make sense ? A living goblin, a friendly grim reaper and a powerful butterfly. But this is called a fantasy. It doesn't have to make sense compared to your real life, as long as it make sense compared to the "constants" of the story. I'm not a big fan of supernatural either but I enjoyed it. So if you don't like fantasy go for melodrama, school, or action. Try King2hearts it's awesome.
As I said before it was the contract as the goblin explained later. The 9 thing was my additional opinion, note that I said "also ... it's more likely".
The contract scene was there for this special reason, she even made the effort of duplicating it and Falsifying the signature. I'm rather happy that it wasn't a useless scene to make the drama unnecessary long like it's the case for a lot others.
Anyway I think it's a good drama, it's not flawless as I didn't enjoy much the main actress, in some crying scenes it's too obvious that she's faking it but I think the plot is nice although I didn't like the Samshin Lady and the butterfly thing.
By the way if you didn't watch "W" DON'T do it. It didn't make sense, even for me x)

@kingsqueen Good point :)

He's not back because of the candle, he's back because of the contract. He explained it later. The contract says he has to answer if she calls him when first snow fall and make her wish true. I don't remember exactly what was her wish but I think she said something like "I want to know who's the person I forgot about, please save me" before blowing out the candle.
Also the reaper said that the number 9 is kind of special and unpredictable. The first time they met, she was 19 and he was 939 .. so it's more likely to meet again when she's 29.

Then they didn't actually meet each other. Thanks for the clarification. I watched it with French subs and they used the word meet (rencontrer) so I got confused. Thanks :)

First of all, I hated Love in Tokyo too, and I think the Korean remake Playful kiss is as bad as the original. So don't blame the country, it's the scenario's fault.
That's weird but I don't know the two others you mentioned.
If you like romance try 1 Litre of Tears, Hana yori dango (remade in Korea as Boys over flowers), speaking od remakes, if you liked You are beautiful there is a Japanese remake Ikemen Desu Ne, the music is as great as the original and it's really funny. There is one more good drama which is fun with a great plot Ryusei no Kizuna. And you may like also Summer Snow. I'm not a big fan of romance so I don't have much to offer here lol.
School dramas : Ouran High School Host Club (very funny), Gokusen (1.2.3), GTO...
Fantasy : Orthros no Inu, liar game (the K remake is good too).
Comedy : this is like the outstanding part of all Jdramas : "My Boss, My Hero", Atashinchi no Danshi ...
If you don't mind detective and thriller drama, I would recommend you to start with Tokyo DOGS or Ouroboros.

Enjoy !

That's why she asked the reaper about her life number, he said it was her first so she will come back each time. However their 4 times will end eventually lol.
I'm still curious about one thing. He said he met her in Joseon time, I guess she was the waitress, when he had vision about smartphones. So there is no way this would be her first life ...

No love triangle, fortunately :)

MBC : I think this year's production are disappointingly poor. I couldn't connect to W. I like complicated scripts but this one was rather messy and lost in its own bases. I didn't watch flower in prison so in my opinion the best MBC drama for this year was Shopping King Louie. It was hilarious, cute and romantic. I prefer action, thriller and complicated scripts but in it's own sweet gender I think Shopping King Louie is perfect. I'm not fan of historical dramas but if flower in prison is good I might give it a try.

SBS : Here we have at least a bunch of dramas to watch. They seem to be more rich or something lol, besides, we have an award for every actor, I think all dramas got awards so everyone is happy lol. I guess that's also why they don't really pick "best drama of the year" they are rewarding talented actors regardless how good or bad the drama is. The one thing I can't understand, there is so many "people" in Scarlet Heart Ryeo, why it has to be Seohyun for the award ? I barely remember her role, it wasn't that impressive. Anyway, I didn't watch Doctor Romantic but it looks like the cast was the biggest winner so I might give it a try. I watched Jealousy till the end : a huge waste of time. I couldn't connect the Doctors so I dropped it. The best dramas for me are Remember and Scarlet Heart. I still didn't watch Legend of the blue sea but I think it's going to be good.

KBS : Everyone agrees that Descendants of the sun was epic, it definitely deserve to be on top. Moonlight drawn by clouds wasn't bad but it's not that great either. I would have loved if Ji Soo and Jang Hyuk got awards for "Page Turner" and "Beautiful Mind".

In my opinion the best drama of the year would be Descendants Of the Sun.