Wish Upon A Star

Glad this voting project is useful for you as well! I read an article recently commenting the increasing popularity of mini web-series, to cater to the lifestyles of viewers who watch short streams in between breaks of busy schedules. Will see if this trend catches on for MDL viewers.
Would you mind sharing which are your "keepers"? Of the Kdramas i have watched, while i enjoyed while watching some of them, i do not have one that stays in me yet.

Can still vote as this is an evergreen list, though analysis would be done only yearly. And you can only vote for one and only one drama.

For shorter Chinese language dramas, can give Singaporean Chinese dramas a try? They are usually 20 episodes of 45 minutes per episode. Hong Kong dramas in the earlier years are also worth watching imho!

i have not watched many modern Cdramas, maybe cos i'm not a fan of romance dramas. I tried Oath of Love for Xiao Zhan, but dropped it after midway as the pace, meaningless misunderstandings and squabbles were too much to bear for me.

Thank you! The current genre classification can be confusing as dramas nowadays tend to have elements of different genres.

Más para tu lista de PTW y también me alegro de que te hayas aventurado en el mundo de los Chinese dramas! (Translated with Google Translate)

More for your PTW list and I'm also glad you have ventured into the world of Chinese dramas!

Can still vote as this is an evergreen list, though analysis would be done only yearly

I don't think this site is biased against Jdramas, but rather Jdramas are far less accessible for global viewers than Kdramas and Cdramas. Not just distribution but also availability of English subtitles.

For me the BOTB drama is one that resonated with and touched me immensely. It changes as my life experience change and thoughts mature over time, but only once in a while. When i started watching dramas, i dont have a BOTB. But In my last one decade of Asian dramas, i would say i have 2 change in BOTB drama!

Wanted to also filter the overall results by genres, but i feel there is no objective genre categorisation to base on. For example, i won't classify AoS as romance, though of course there are romance elements. Thus, only did the top genres for the BOTB list.

Can still vote as this is an evergreen list, though analysis would be done only yearly

Yea, Netflix covers a lot more Kdramas, thus more easily accessible by global viewers. Could the plot and characters of Cdramas be more talk-worthy?

While i think there may not be a million MDL users, there should be a few hundred thousands of MDL users, but only some of the MDL users are active, or bother to vote. Some also never update their watchlist. For reference: The most popular Kdrama Goblin has almost 180k watchers.

nah, i enjoy Douluo's story better + more interesting students and teachers

Thank you for your support! Yeah, i enjoy uncovering and analysing viewing trends.. helps me in discovering good dramas that i might have missed out. The plan is do yearly review to see if there are changes :) And i'm glad that The Untamed made this list - it's a drama that i chanced upon and which touched me ever so immensely.

For the record, dramas placed at 19th – 76th spots are:
(Dramas with the same number of votes are jointly placed at the same spot, sorted by year of first airing and alphabetical order)

🏆 19th: 9 votes each (3 dramas): 🔸 Go Ahead (2020), 🔸 Falling Into Your Smile (2021), 🔸Reset (2022)

🏆 22nd: 8 votes each (2 dramas): 🔸 Mr. Sunshine (2018), 🔸 The Long Ballad (2021)

🏆 24th: 7 votes each (4 dramas): 🔸 Healer (2014), 🔸 Eternal Love (2017), 🔸Ashes of Love (2018), 🔸 Happiness (2021)

🏆 28th: 6 votes each (3 dramas): 🔸 Goblin (2016), 🔸 One Spring Night (2019), 🔸 My Name (2021)

🏆 31st: 5 votes each (3 dramas): 🔸 The Story of Ming Lan (2018), 🔸 Someday or One Day (2019), 🔸 Through the Darkness (2022)

🏆 34th: 4 votes each (6 dramas): 🔸 I Told Sunset About You (2015), 🔸 Kill Me, Heal Me (2015), 🔸 W (2016), 🔸 Meteor Garden (2018), 🔸 Story of Yanxi Palace (2018), 🔸 Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (2021)

🏆 40th: 3 votes each (6 dramas): 🔸 The Uncanny Counter (2020), 🔸 True Beauty (2020), 🔸 Lost (2021), 🔸 The Red Sleeve (2021), 🔸 Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022), 🔸 My Girlfriend is an Alien 2 (2022)

🏆 46th: 2 votes each (11 dramas): 🔸 Queen Seon Duk (2009), 🔸 Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (2016), 🔸 The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (2018), 🔸 Strangers from Hell (2019), 🔸 18 Again (2020), 🔸 Tale of the Nine-Tailed (2020), 🔸 Bad Buddy (2021), 🔸 Doom at Your Service (2021), 🔸 Mouse (2021), 🔸 Move to Heaven (2021), 🔸 Word of Honor (2021)

🏆 57th: 1 vote each (20 dramas): 🔸 Dong Yi (2010), 🔸 It's Okay, That's Love (2014), 🔸 Twenty Again (2015), 🔸 Avengers Social Club (2017), 🔸 Live Up to Your Name (2017), 🔸 Stranger (2017), 🔸 The Crown Princess (2018), 🔸 Be Melodramatic (2019), 🔸 Hot Stove League (2019), 🔸 The Fiery Priest (2019), 🔸 Eternal Love of Dream (2020), 🔸Itaewon Class (2020), 🔸 Love and Redemption (2020), 🔸 Mystic Pop-Up Bar (2020), 🔸 The Penthouse: War in Life (2020), 🔸 My Fated Boy (2021), 🔸 Double (2022), 🔸 Draw the Line (2022), 🔸 P.S. I Hate You (2022), 🔸 Under the Skin (2022)

@lauranevitt @Nonsuch @Kannadin Do press on! After the world building and character development in the first third of the series, the story takes a turn as the plot thickens.. The first third of the series will eventually stitch back to the whole plot. This is a late bloomer drama that eventually overwhelms many viewers. Sharing a popular tweet that i chanced upon: https://twitter.com/katemond/status/1232072023691743237?s=46&t=uQpIEetF4XBdtwRedY6fyg

The article summarising the results of the inaugural Best of the Best – Drama Edition, based on the voting by the first 1004 votes as of Oct 9th, 2022, is now available here: https://kisskh.at/article/best-of-the-best-drama-edition

Just sharing my experience and thought you may want to give another go. No disrespect meant. Cheers.

🙌 Glad to meet like-minded mates.. I had fun working on this article with Cho Na as well :)

So, this is THE drama with the highest number of written reviews submitted!
And the reviews are still increasing.. it had 691 reviews 2 months ago, and 702 reviews now.

https://kisskh.at/28723-the-untamed#comment-11242611

The plot build-up may be slower for C-dramas vs K-dramas but C-dramas usually hit more emotionally than K-dramas.
Not sure which C-drama(s) you have referenced for too many characters, as usually C-dramas also have lead, second lead characters, and a list of support characters, like any other dramas.