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What landed this month across the major vertical drama apps, with official links.
This section counts what the platforms actually published, rather than repeating what they announced. Each month we pull the uploads from the official YouTube channels the apps run themselves, measure the duration of every video, and set aside anything under three minutes, because a trailer is not an episode.
That method has a cost we state in every piece: YouTube publishing is not the same as in-app release, channels cover very different spans of time, and one channel hitting an API limit can truncate a month. A monthly count here is a floor with a stated method, not a complete release calendar — nobody publishes one of those for this category.
One piece a month, published after the month has closed rather than during it, because a month counted while it is still running is not a count. We do not backfill months we have no collection for, and where a channel hit an API limit inside the window we say so in the piece instead of quietly reporting the truncated figure as the whole month.
How we source and check everything on this site is in our editorial policy.
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