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Special mention (not Asian Drama): Peaky Blinders - I love you, Cillian Murphy! You handsome and smart gangster! (Drinks whiskey and smokes a nonexistent cigarette.)

Sure, why not and probably you can recommend dramas that I am not watching lol. I'll leave out the ones that was already mentioned in the comments.

35sai no Shoujo - like 30 but 17 but serious and really good slice-of-life version.

Birthcare Center - unique plot and too funny and awesome.

Bokura wa Koi ga Hetasugiru - Shirasu Jun in a romance drama again. 'Nough said. You know what I'm talking about if you've watched I Don't Love You Yet (In Time With You Japanese version)

Delayed Justice - Kwon Sang Woo (you probably know this already).

Do Do La (blalala too long) - I bet you're already a fan.

Gokushufudo - Chiaki-senpai (Tamaki Hiroshi) switched roles with Nodame, except gangster lol.

Kiken na Venus - I like the actors but I put this on hold since I'm watching more interesting dramas.

Marry Me - also on hold for same reason as above. And female lead is just too nice and innocent.

Private Lives - you probably know. Too confusing plot but staying for the couples. Maybe.

Start-up - you also know. Opposite of Private Lives. Interesting plot but the love triangle is repelling me.

Takeuchi Ryoma no Satsukyu - Takuechi Ryoma in a mockumentary. If you've watched Kahogo no Kahoko (strongly recommended), then you know this guy is talented.

Talio Fukushu Daiko no Futari - I love Okada Masaki but I don't know if I should continue. Still trying to finish the pilot episode.

Satsui no Michinori - unique and weird lol. A revenge-plot made into dark comedy. First Plan: Name this project. Second Plan: Find a cool headquarters to brainstrom evil plans. Third Plan: Research top weapons for murder.

Shanai Marriage Honey: Japan is really pushing this marriage agenda to young people since they've been having all this flash marriage dramas lately lol.

Oh I suck at that. Out of all the 500+ dramas I watched, I only rewatched a handful. So I'm constantly looking for more. Right now, I probably have about 15 airing dramas that I'm watching (don't judge me, it's the pandemic haha).

Haha no worries. I started watching 13 years ago so I can relate. I've probably watch almost all good Asian dramas out there.

The drama ended yesterday. It was an open ending. Episode 14 never happened. They were just showing another drama full of tropes and cliches. I think it was grandpa's story.

Nope, nobody's going to fool and tell me otherwise. Ha. Ha. Haaaaaaa. (Sigh.)

Haha more than getting toothache, it made me feel uncomfortable since it's so cringy and embarrassing to the point I want to skip the whole episode.

Same. But I guess I expected more since they presented fresh ideas (for Cdrama). like a female CEO instead of a male one and the female lead using marriage just to have a baby. However, they used a lot of tropes or cliches after the first few episodes and threw this awkward romance lol. So it's not bad but not exactly good too. Just something to watch in the background while you are busy doing other things haha.

I had a feeling since you like OCN. What about older dramas like Bad Guys and Cruel (Heartless) City? Gap Dong is good too.

WARNING: Don't watch episode 16! The cheese is too much and not in a good way. It makes me feel agitated like I want to throw a cat out of the window. I want to destroy hundreds of pillows. It even makes me want to kill coackroaches!!! Haha I'm laughing but I'm serious.

Really, I couldn't even watch it fully since I kept looking away. I want to throw salt at them to wake them up and tone down the sweetness and rainbows. How do I explain it. Like teens having their first relationship and they copied relationship ideas from fluffy teen dramas or shoujo mangas. Seriously, I even want to go back to their old relationship - bickering and playing around with each other. This is just not what I expected at all lol.

Watch Search (OCN drama). I love Search and the leads, especially Jang Do Yoon. I'm not into zombie shows but I love the military setting and the fact that the lead is a military dog handler not the typical sniper or captain.

Too good. Best Tdrama I watched. The plot is original and the cast is good. It also tackles social issues such as suicide, gender, death, etc.

Same! I also watch Taiwanese. I highly recommend Someday or One Day if you haven't watched it. I'm sure you saw the rave about it here.

Haha nice to see you here. It's rare to find someone who watches Jdoramas, especially a Cdrama viewer. Btw, I agree. I even described the friend using a song: This hoe's ain't loyal. Lol.

(Sings.) This hoe's ain't loyal.

I mean, I would cut off that friend in a flash like our friendship never happened. And Hana is just...*sigh* You need to grow a backbone, lady, before you start another relationship. It's good that the male lead is helping her, but they should be friends for now since they both have baggage and they stil don't know each other (c'mon, just 2 encounters and they fell in love).

If you want a summary of this drama, Mizuki (the female lead's bestfriend) just needs to be described using Chris Brown's lyrics here:

I'm not saying this is a bad drama though. I said the leads' story is interesting but not the secondary. I'm still watching and we were just talking about Cdrama romcoms in general. And yes, we all agree to disagree, that's why I love dicussions or debates. You always hear a new perspective and learn something new.

Yes. They want to to tell stories about unimportant characters, so they end up not putting more thought to the main leads story. Very scattered. If they want to do a multicharacter story, then don't create a plot about just two people but a group of people intertwined with each other and actually serve purpose to the plot. Jdoramas are better when it comes to dramas like that because they have those elements I mentioned. The only Cdrama that has those elements somehow is Go Ahead where the father actually stole the show and his relationship with his children is just too good that it will make you jealous.

Agree. Their story is super cliche and uninteresting compared to the leads.

More than seeing them as annoying, I see them as fillers. When I see them on the screen I'm like, "Welp, time to skip." It's because the second male lead is stoic and uninteresting while the second female lead is just a fangirl who daydreams all day. They're basically caricatures. Too...one-dimensional and that's true for almost all secondary couples in the Cdrama world. They're just there for the sake of having secondary characters. They serve no purpose to the plot. They are not even helping to move the plot -_-

2 words to summarize episode 13: OVERLY DRAMATIC. Even most of the background songs are dramatic. I don't know why most Cdramas always opt for the dramatic effect just like a stage play versus natural or more realistic.

The most subtle and more realistic Cdrama I ever watched was Go Ahead. Well, I guess that one is more like slice-of-life than romcom, so it makes sense. The only less cliche or more natural romcom is probably Love is Sweet (but then again, the plot is not the best, the leads saved it). Anyway, all Cdrama romcoms I watched, I always have the fast forward button on standby. I still don't understand why they have to stretch a simple and fluffy love story to 30 or so episodes and create loads of unnecessary extra characters and second or third couples. Why not condense it, make it simple, and hire less supporting cast to save time and budget. And not to mention, to save the story quality.