Dramas 2025
The beginning of the year felt like pure serotonin being injected with each new drama. But then it hit a major wall for a bit and I was drip fed something amazing every once in a while for the rest of the year.
Avenue X mentioned that the number of chinese dramas this year dropped by a huge percentage and it was very felt :( What did air in the 2nd half of the year, there were only a couple where I was able to push through to the finish.
The best cdrama of the year for me is probably The Best Thing. It wasn't perfect but they were so sweet and the show had so much love put into it. After that it's probably Blossom which was super far outside of my drama comfort zone but I was sick the week of new years and binged the entire thing and loved it.
The kdrama with best start and worst end definitely goes to When the Phone Rings, it really matches the horse drawing meme. The beginning was so much fun and the ending was so wtf. I guess by process of elimination, My girlfriend is the man was my favorite kdrama? It was soooo fun and I was so proud of Arin and Sanha. My babiessssss <3 <3 <3 Everything else was pretty good but I only have vaguely warm feelings. I'm still confused by how much I liked Marry You given that it is literally just marriage propaganda.
For jdramas there's a very very clear winner in Chihayafuru Full Circle. My children made me feel so many emotions. I love them so much. It even got me to convince my ex-roommate to watch the anime and then all of the live action movies with me (which were still amazing).
Yearly breakdown:
10 Korean 7 Chinese 16 Japanese
Currently watching 1 korean and 1 chinese :)