Criteria:
✓ Main leads are immortal heroes (e.g. gods / fairies / sprites)
Excludes:
π Wuxia and Costume Qihuan
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January 1, 2019
Wuxia
✓ Main leads are mortal heroes (i.e. humans)
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
✓ Wuxia
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
π Dramas where Mystery > Wuxia are in Period Mystery Romances or Investigative / Procedurals (less BG romantic)
Costume Qihuan
Criteria:
✓ Fantasy World-Building
✓ Costumes
✓ Includes Xuanhuan
✓ Includes Xianxia with little romance
✓ NOT Wuxia
**Qihuan is a broad genre that means Fantasy and should include contemporary dramas, but I'm only using it for fantasy costume dramas that are not xianxia and wuxia.
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
✓ Qihuan / Historical Era (e.g. Republican Fantasies)
Era Dramas
✓ Serious War Times
✓ Trashy Republican Romances
✓ Half-bald Times
✓ 1990s, etc.
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
✓ Mystery
Scheming/Palace Romances
Criteria:
✓ A degree of seriousness in the plot
✓ Scheming / Revenges / Palace Politics
✓ Romance
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
✓ Transmigration
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
π Mystery
π Wuxia
π Wuxia
Period Mystery Romances
Criteria:
✓ Period
✓ Mystery (Procedural)
✓ Romance
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
π Republican (Era Dramas)
π Non-romantic period mysteries are in Investigative / Procedurals or Crime / Suspense
Light Period Romcoms
Criteria:
✓ A love story in Costumes
✓ Mostly light romcoms
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
✓ Period
Excluding overlapping dramas (which will be its own category):
Campus Romances / Coming of Age
Criteria:
✓ Campus Romances
✓ Coming of Age
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
π Students / Teachers who actually study/work more than love are in Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance.
CEO Romances
Criteria:
✓ CEO/Heir or Manager-Employee relationship
✓ CEOs can be ML or FL
✓ CEO
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
π Ladies Ensembles
π CEOs who are actually working in more serious dramas (Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance)
Note:
♥ Standards are low
Contemporary Romance Central
Criteria:
✓ Love story is front and centre.
✓ Balanced ML vs FL screen-time
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
Excluding overlapping dramas (which will be its own category):
π CEO romances
π Campus romances
π Female ensembles
π Female ensembles
π Work++ / Family++
Work/Family/Life (Medium Romance)
Hey there, you're in Contemporary Romances with 6 subsections:
(★ = You are here):
Campus Romances (We go to school)
✓ High school or university – love blossoms under fluorescent lights and midterm pressure.
CEO Romances (We don't work)
✓ Billionaire bosses and fantasy jobs where no one actually works, but everyone falls in love.
Contemporary Romance Central (We pretend to work)
✓ General modern romances where jobs exist but mainly as backdrops to kissing and falling
★ Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance (We work and love)
✓ Where "real" life meets love
Life First, Love Second (We mainly work and slightly love at most)
✓ Not even the passenger seat, but the back seat of a packed van. Or not even. Slice-of-life dramas where the career grind, family, and friendships take center stage – romance may or may not tag along.
Ladies Ensemble [Overlapping section]
✓ Female-led stories featuring a group of women navigating love, life, careers, and each other.
Life First (Low Romance)
Hey there, you're in Contemporary Romances with 6 subsections:
(★ = You are here):
Campus Romances (We go to school)
✓ High school or university – love blossoms under fluorescent lights and midterm pressure.
CEO Romances (We don't work)
✓ Billionaire bosses and fantasy jobs where no one actually works, but everyone falls in love.
Contemporary Romance Central (We pretend to work)
✓ General modern romances where jobs exist but mainly as backdrops to kissing and falling
Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance (We work and love)
✓ Where "real" life meets love
★ Life First (Love Maybe Second) (We mainly work and slightly love at most)
✓ Not even the passenger seat, but the back seat of a packed van. Or not even. Slice-of-life dramas where the career grind, family, and friendships take center stage – romance may or may not tag along.
Ladies Ensemble [Overlapping section]
✓ Female-led stories featuring a group of women navigating love, life, careers, and each other.
Ladies (+ Ensemble)
✓ Screentime: FLs >>> MLs
✓ Balance of Work / Family / Romance
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
✓ Occasional CEOs
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
π Balanced in ML & FL screen time (e.g. Contemporary Romance, Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance)
Action | Thriller | Sports
Criteria:
✓ Action (+ Desert)
✓ Sports
✓ Thriller
✓ Sci-fi
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
π Police / Mafia
π Crime / Suspense
Investigative / Procedurals
Criteria:
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
✓ MC is a professional who investigates crimes (constables, PSPs, forensic scientists)
✓ Police Procedurals and Police vs. Mafia
✓ Two/Many-Men-on-Poster-Dramas
✓ Detective Fiction (Periods)
✓ Minimal Romance or BL
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
✓ Period and Contemporary
π Contemporary ones with more romance is in Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance
π Period ones with more romances is in Period Mystery Romances
Crime and Suspense
✓ A single crime/suspense unfolds
✓ For crimes, MCs are involved in the crime rather than just investigating it.
✓ +/- Romance
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
π Procedural police/detective shows where MCs are police officers or related
π Police vs. Mafias
BL & Ambiguous Bromance
Criteria:
✓ Romance between men
✓ Ambiguous BL
Terms
Brotherhood: Pure friends. [Excluded in list]Bromance: Boy friendship with chemistry.
Ambiguous Bromance: Between love/friendship. Interpretation is possible
BL: They're in love.
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