Criteria:
✓ Main leads are immortal heroes (e.g. gods / fairies / sprites)
Genres:
✓ Xianxia
✓ Usually a Romance
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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:
𐄂 Dramas where Mystery > Wuxia are in Period Mystery Romances or Investigative / Procedurals (less BG romantic)
Qihuan
Criteria:
✓ Fantasy World-Building
✓ Costumes
✓ Includes Xuanhuan
✓ NOT Xianxia or 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:
𐄂 Mystery
𐄂 Wuxia
𐄂 Wuxia
Period Mystery Romances
Criteria:
✓ Period
✓ Mystery (Procedural)
✓ Romance
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
𐄂 Republican (Era Dramas)
𐄂 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:
𐄂 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:
𐄂 Ladies Ensembles
𐄂 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):
𐄂 CEO romances
𐄂 Campus romances
𐄂 Female ensembles
𐄂 Female ensembles
𐄂 Work++ / Family++
Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance
✓ Balance of Work / Family / Self-Improvement
✓ Workplace Dramas (including lawyers, doctors, firefighters, bankers, etc.)
✓ Big Family Dramas
✓ Romance can still be romantic. It just isn't the focus.
✓ Balance of ML and FL screen-time
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
✓ CEOs who actually work
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
𐄂 Ladies Ensembles
𐄂 Romantic > Work/Life/Family are in Contemporary Romance Central
Ladies Ensemble
✓ Screentime: FLs >>> MLs
✓ Balance of Work / Family / Romance
Genres (but not all-inclusive):
✓ Occasional CEOs
Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:
𐄂 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:
𐄂 Police / Mafia
𐄂 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
𐄂 Contemporary ones with more romance is in Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance
𐄂 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:
𐄂 Procedural police/detective shows where MCs are police officers or related
𐄂 Police vs. Mafias
BL & Ambiguous Bromance
Criteria:
✓ Romance between men
✓ Ambiguous BL
Terms
Brotherhood: Pure friends. [Not included in this list]Bromance: Boy friendship with chemistry. Still friends.
Ambiguous Bromance: We can interpret them as in love.
BL: They're in love.
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