With so many incredible titles released this year, it’s hard to decide which Taiwanese Dramas we love best! Of course that didn’t stop us from trying! Highlighting the best of the best, we’re happy to share our collection of the BEST TAIWANESE DRAMAS of 2022 with you!

BEST TAIWANESE DRAMAS of 2022

Delivery worker Tai Che Ni (Sean Chang) is on his way to hand over a package to a man named Hai Yi (Linus Wang) when he’s suddenly transported 22 years into the future to 2022. He manages to locate Hai Yi, who turns out to be the heir to a massively lucrative business group empire. Distraught, Che Ni longs to return “home” to 2000, but as he begins to spend time with Hai Yi, they start developing feelings for one another. Che Ni even discovers a tender side to the business heir that most people know nothing about. Meanwhile, love may also be on the horizon for distant company manager Liang Wen Hsen (Anson Chen), and his office’s newest recruit – the tender-hearted orphan Lin Huai En (Jason Tauh). Will love help solve these men’s problems, or will it only create new issues? This 2022 Taiwanese BL drama, directed by Nancy Chen, is the fifth installment in the “HIStory” series.

HIStory 5: Love In The Future

Time Travelers of Love 💘

Fu Li Gong (Shih Cheng Xuan) and Zheng Ze Shou (Max Lin) have spent their entire lives together, from childhood best friends to attorneys working side by side. However, their relationship starts to take a turn when they find that they can’t stop thinking about each other in ways that aren’t just platonic anymore. Meanwhile X (Zheng Qi Lei), a night owl bartender, and Jian Ying Ze (Matt Lee), an early-bird laundromat owner spark their own unexpected romance. As these pairs navigate personal and professional challenges, their evolving relationships face trials that could strengthen their bonds or drive them apart. Will they conquer the obstacles to find true love, or will their differences prove too great to overcome? This 2022 Taiwanese-Japanese co-produced BL drama was directed by Chiang Ping Chen.

Plus and Minus

Love Have No Rules Team

With an almost unfair combination of good grades and even better looks, Ye Guang (Li Zhen Hao) is easily his high school’s most popular guy. Constantly drawing the attention of everyone around him, it came as no surprise when he announced that he was running for student body president. What did come as a surprise was who was announced to run against him.

A quiet, almost completely unnoticeable student who spent much of his time working at his family’s noodle stall, Xu Qi Zhang (Jyun) wasn’t anyone’s first choice for student body president. But what no one at school knew was that as lead singer and guitarist of a band, Qi Zhang’s quiet demeanor in class was completely transformed, everytime he stepped on stage. The complete opposite of Ye Guang in almost every way, the two boys might have seemed like the perfect rivals in a school election but in reality, things couldn’t have been more different.

Having met outside of school by chance, Ye Guang and Qi Zhang begin an unexpected friendship that steadily grows into something more. But how can this unlikely couple find happiness when the entire school expects them to hate each other?

Adapted from the novel “Secretly” by Huang Si Mi, “About Youth” is a 2022 Taiwanese romantic drama directed by Tsai Mi Chieh.

About Youth

 Secrets of Youth Team

Pu Le Jian (Guo Yu Chen) is a young coffee shop staff member, but he dreams of becoming a popular YouTuber. He and one of his close friends make videos about discovering unusual and sometimes spooky places, but their efforts to create riveting content are amateurish and bumbling. Regardless, he refuses to give up, and spends his spare time at the cafe editing his videos.

One day, a young stranger named Amber (Lin Hui Min) comes to the coffee shop claiming to be a photography and film student who has returned from studying in the UK. Amber offers to give Pu Le Jian some pointers and improve the quality of his videos, and the latter happily accepts. Pu Le Jian and Amber begin to spend more time together, but the former can’t seem to shake off the feeling that he knows Amber from somewhere. A sense of mutual attraction begins to build between them, but Amber has secrets. And there are further pressures on the duo from Pu Le Jian’s mother, who keeps nagging him to get married, as well as his long-time friend and female workmate, who seems to have a crush on Pu Le Jian…

“DNA Says Love You” is a 2022 Taiwanese drama series that was directed by Eri Hao.

DNA Says Love You

⚗️Love chemistry🧬

KKTV

Long Jie (Kent Tsai) is a high school student whose life appears to have been cursed with endless rotten luck. From his family life to his studies and his social life, nothing seems to ever go right for him. When a family tragedy compounds his misery, leaving him alone, he thinks things can’t get any worse...until things take a turn for the bizarre.

All of a sudden, he finds himself face-to-face with a merman name Ren Yu (Bruce He). The latter cannot survive out of water for long, and claims that it is Long Rie’s fault that he has been brought ashore. Long Jie agrees to help and takes this half-man-, half-sea creature back to his home, where Ren Yu promptly takes over the bathtub! Forced to live with this unlikely marine being, Long Jie eventually finds that Ren Yu is actually quite a lot of fun – although the whole situation gets weirder still when the merman becomes his classmate. But there’s magic in the air, and if too long goes by without Ren Yu returning to the sea, there could be trouble ahead. What will become of their friendship when the call of the ocean begins to grow louder?

“49 Days with a Merman” is a 2022 Taiwanese drama series that was directed by Zhang Xi Ming.

49 Days with A Merman

🧜‍♂️ My friend is a Merman 🧜

SETTV

From the moment they were born, Wu Pei Pei (Lin Da Yuan) and Li Yu Xuan (Simon Lian) have been each other’s greatest rivals. Growing up as neighbors, the two were constantly compared to each other by their parents. Despite the rivalry between their fathers, Pei Pei and Yu Xuan still found a way to secretly become friends; until an unfortunate accident drives them apart.

Now adults, Pei Pei and Yu Xuan have spent their entire lives next to each other but have yet to find a way to overcome the incident that drove them apart all those years ago. Still being constantly compared to each other by their fathers, Pei Pie and Yu Xuan have never once let go of the competitive spirit that has been driving them since childhood. Forever trying to outdo the other, their endless confrontations have served to spur each of them to greater heights; proving that no matter how reluctantly they are to admit it, they have each played an unexpected role in the other’s success.

Having spent the majority of their lives fighting, Pei Pei and Yu Xuan seem destined to remain eternal rivals. But underneath all that bickering lies the fragments of a relationship that has the potential to bring them together forever. Can Pei Pei and Yu Xuan find a way to put aside their differences long enough to let love blossom, or will their lifelong rivalry keep them apart for good?

A lighthearted tale of love and family, “Happy Enemy” is a 2022 Taiwanese romantic comedy drama directed by Shen Yi and Liu Jian Lu.

Happy Enemy

 ✨ Twist of Fate Team 💘

Bai Lang (Andy Wu) is a bar-restaurant owner with an all-too-familiar phobia. Ever since he was a young child, he has dreaded having to go to the dentist. And although he has tried countless times to change dentist in search of someone who does not fill him with dread, nothing frightens him more than the idea of having to have his teeth checked. But all that changes on the day that he visits the Gao Leng Dental Hospital – and meets the hospital’s chief dentist Jin Xun’an (Yu Jin)…

Jin Xun’an is not like all the dentists that Bai Lang has met before. He is gentle, caring, and kind. And Bai Lang begins to feel that Jin Xun’an sees him as more than a patient – and has romantic feelings toward him. But can love really spark between a dentist and his patient? Meanwhile, Zhou Cheng Hao (Alex Chou) a senior bartender at Bai Lang’s bar and the owner’s close friend is developing a close relationship with He Qing Tian (Michael Chang) – a rebellious young man 12 years his junior. Many obstacles stand in the way of love for this quartet – but will Cupid find a way to bring happiness to them all?

“My Tooth Your Love” is a 2022 Taiwanese drama that was directed by Jiang Rui Zhi.

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