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Notable Taiwanese Dramas

Posted on 07. Jun, 2009 in Top Lists

Many popular Taiwanese dramas are based on Japanese manga, shōjo manga in particular although some seinen manga have been made into dramas as well. Some examples include Meteor Garden (based on Hana Yori Dango), It Started With a Kiss (based on Itazura na Kiss), Marmalade Boy, and Peach Girl. In these adaptations, the characters’ names are read as Chinese or are changed to more Chinese-sounding names, and of course, the setting is moved to Taiwan.

Some of the most popular Taiwanese dramas include:

1999

• Ren jian si yue tian
• Once Upon a Time – 2000 Golden Bell Awards: Best Dramatic series

2000

• Big Hospital, Little Doctor

2001

• Meteor Garden
• Meteor Shower
• Poor Prince
• Lavender

2002

• Meteor Garden II

2003

• At The Dolphin Bay
• Westside Story

2004

• Yi Nan Wang – Longest Primetime Drama in Taiwan
• Mars
• Love Contract
• Love of the Aegean Sea
• Heaven’s Wedding Gown
• 100% Senorita
• The Outsiders II

2005

• It Started With a Kiss
• The Prince Who Turns into a Frog  – 2nd Highest rating Taiwanese drama
• Devil Beside You
• Green Forest My Home
• KO One

2006

• Hanazakarino Kimitachihe
• Dangerous Mind – 2007 Golden Bell Awards: Best Dramatic series
• Smiling Pasta
• Tokyo Juliet
• The Magicians of Love

2007

• Corner With Love
• My Lucky Star
• Why Why Love
• The X-Family
• Brown Sugar Macchiato
• Romantic Princess
• Ying Ye 3 Jia 1
• Queen’s
• Bull Fighting

2008

• They Kiss Again – The sequel of It Started With A Kiss begins with Xiang Qin and Zhi Shu’s wedding and honeymoon. Even after marriage, they experience problems and interferences within their marriage such as mistaken pregnancy, misunderstandings, and new found jealousies. Xiang Qin and Zhi Shu switch to medical school to become nurse and doctor. During that time, Zhi Shu meets new rivals who wish to outdo him and Xiang Qin makes four new friends, and one of them likes her and wishes to replace Zhi Shu. How will their lives turn out to be?
• Police et vous – Young men and women enter the police force for different reasons. This is the story of how their ideals clash with reality.
• Fated To Love You – (1st Highest rating Taiwanese drama ) – A really unfashionable working class girl Chen Xin Yi has the desire to tie down her handsome boyfriend to be with her. Due to certain reasons, her boyfriend gets her to go on a love cruise and she started to ponder on how to lose her virginity and tie down her boyfriend. Xin Yi ended up taking cold medicine which made her drowsy and went into Ji Cun Xi’s room. Cun Xi is the sole male heir to his family’s company and has been in love with his girlfriend, Anna, for a long time. He planned to propose to Anna on the boat but she didn’t turn up on the cruise. An island owner added drugs into Cun Xi’s drink and Cun Xi became disorientated and returned to his own room. Xin Yi and Cun Xi end up having a one night stand. Xin Yi later finds out that she’s pregnant and Cun Xi’s grandmother forces them to get married. Will a couple forced to marry for the sake of their unborn child find love with each other?
• Rolling Love
• Hot Shot
• Honey and Clover
• The Legend of Brown Sugar Chivalries
• Invincible Shan Bao Mei – 3rd Highest rating Taiwanese drama
• Miss No Good
• Love or Bread

2009

• ToGetHer - Mars is a superstar whose popularity went downhill after a series of negative publicity. His finances went into red alert and he had to find a new place to live. He ended up renting a place from Mo Mo, his homebody landlord. He befriended her and her childhood friend Jia Sen, a swimming captain with the intelligence of an 8-year-old.
• K.O.3an Guo – Guan Yu and his friend Zhang Fei got kicked out of their 24th school for starting fights, but then they encounter a new friend, Liu Bei, and they become sworn brothers. Liu Bei helps them attend Eastern Han Academy, a school exclusively for royalty. But on the condition to pay for his tuition. They manage to enroll the school safely, but then they realize that the school isn’t as safe as it looks. Evils are intending to invade the school and they must combine their strengths to prevent that from happening. As they encounter Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and Huang Zhong; they fight for peace together and the story begins to take on the road of Three Kingdoms.