Season 1

Watch It Started With a Kiss (惡作劇之吻, 2005) Season 1 online on iFILM — a twenty-episode Taiwanese romance-comedy that adapts Kaoru Tada's Japanese manga Itazura na Kiss. It opens on a clumsy, stubborn high-schooler who confesses to the smartest, coldest boy in class. He turns her down flat.

Then fate forces them together. Her family home collapses, and she and her father move in with — of all people — his family. The season is one long slow burn between opposites: she is warm and graceful at nothing, he is brilliant and unreadable. Misread signals, jealousy, exam stress and a first real crush stretch out across all twenty chapters at an unhurried pace.

Ariel Lin and Joe Cheng turned this into a touchstone of the genre, the version that later spun off Korean and Japanese remakes. If you like "opposites attract" told patiently, this season is built for you. Stream It Started With a Kiss Season 1 online on iFILM.