absolutely adorable and heartwarming

I just finished watching this and what can i say, i understand the hype. I remember seeing this cdrama on mdl while it was still airing and wondered why in the world does it have such high ratings. well it makes sense why now that I've watched it.

i started it whilst it was still airing, and finished just now and well im obsessed. the story was absolutely adorable and so heartwarming as i mentioned in the title.

i absolutely adore how the ML showed so much vulnerability in the last episodes and we got to see his struggles. i think the actor really did an amazing job portraying the character. i just felt so weak when he would cry and be all vulnerable with Sang Zhi.

Talking about Sang Zhi, she was the sweetest and most adorably naive girl I've ever seen in cdramas. she was just everything and i loved how she adored Jiaxu until the last moment, always supporting him no matter what. I feel that this drama wanted to highlight that men can also be vulnerable and have some sensitive moments and that women are supposed to also comfort them. Zhao Lusi was amazing and i feel this drama wouldn't be the same without her.

The reason i didnt give this a 10/10 was because i love me some melodrama and some heart aches which this drama didn't give me any at all. it was adorable, sweet and didn't have any unnecessary bad moments even if i still wanted to see them argue. arguments are important in relationships nonetheless.

and also because it only focused on the MLs which honestly i absolutely loved that. but in some dramas the SMLs are so lovely and in some they are unnecessary. its always 50/50 but i cannot go on and say that i didnt like the fact that the drama mainly focused on the MLs as we got to see a lot of growth.

overall i loved this and would definitely recommend!! plus made me cry like a baby in the end, so cute !!

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this broke my heart and I'll never recover from it

theres two things i must say before i proceed with my review.
1) promises are made to be kept, and in this drama all promises were kept, at least the one that jang uk made with mu deok.
2)liars and soul-shifters will never have a happy ending. no matter what happens they'll always end up suffering. lies will come up to their surface and soul shifters will somehow go wild and die.

now for the review :
for the first 15 episodes, i would've given this drama 9/10. the reason is clear : it was hard for me to watch this. i sped through parts and i kept taking breaks.

but what was the reason i changed it to 10/10? the story. the characters. the plot twists. the sadness. the sorrow. the cries. the beautiful yet heart wrenching romance. everything was portrayed in such a well manner that it's quite difficult to not fall in love with it all. after ep 15 , things started getting better and better. especially episode 19 was my favorite episode and the kiss mudeok and janguk shared in that episode was probably one of the most beautiful scenes I've ever seen in my whole life. as a certified hopeless romantic i can say that jang uk is the standard.

that boy would die for mudeok. he protected her, he saved her life countless times, he risked it all for her. he didn't even seem to mind that he was killed by her but instead embraced her tightly. it was their promise after all.

the side characters, oh my god. i fell in love with every single one of them. they were so well written. no flaws. the humor, the romance, the sad parts everything was amazing. i enjoyed it all.

and i also adored how everything made sense. everything was connected. the plot twists, the sad parts all made sense. they weren't made up or completely different from the main story line no no. every one of them completed the other and trust me, details are everything. if you have an eye for the details, you'll notice them as the story progresses.

nobody can say alchemy of souls doesn't have an amazing storyline and that the characters aren't top notch. what can i say? i fell in love with all of them.

i cried, i laughed, i got mad, insanely mad. that ending. that ending made me cry so hard EVEN THOUGH I KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN. i spoiled it for myself yet it still hit me so hard i sobbed. it screams loudly that the acting was impeccable. the anger i felt was unexplainable and while at the time i saw the ending i thought to myself that i hated it, now that i come to think about it, it was beautiful. and it made so much sense. it was ought to happen. mudeok was a soulshifter.

all in all, i had a blast watching this even if i sped up some parts, some moments will be unforgettable for me and I'll never forget them.

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a simple and wholesome drama, with lots of animals!

This was such a cute drama! It's really wholesome and it makes you get your mind off of things. It's perfect for animal lovers.

But it's also not the best drama out there! It's a simple, mid one. The FL was a really cute cop and the actress did a great job. Can't say the same about the ML. I guess he didn't have much experience cause he looked really stiff and awkward but i could also be just wrong and maybe thats how his character was supposed to be. They also didn't have much chemistry and i found many moments where they were simply just awkward.

Would i recommend it? Definitely. But I definitely saw better ones and there definitely exist better ones out there. If the acting was a little bit better and if there was something memorable in this drama, I'd have given it an 8 or even an 8.5.

But overall, it wasn't bad and i would rewatch it if i wanted to watch something light and happy!

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W : a wonderful show but a bad execution

Honestly, this show kept me hooked im not gonna lie. it was very good, especially at the start but it all started going down once the storyline kept getting dragged and there were plot holes everywhere.

Whilst the romance was good, there was very less character development on the FL's side and her work seemed unrealistic, she was a cardiothoracic surgeon i don't think she'd have that much free time but then again its all fictional.

Kang Chul's storyline was very nice, hence why i have the story a 9/10, would've been 10 if it didn't have so many plot holes and it wasn't dragged.

The ending was okay? it left me a little disappointed but from what i remember (i watched this long time ago) it had a good ending so i cannot complain on that behalf.

The actors... the ML's acting was incredible but the FL... meh not that plausible but it was still good enough. All the other characters seemed pretty okay.

Now the main reason i have this an 8 was because of the rewatch value. This may not apply to everyone but i had a very hard time watching this. I kept skipping parts or speeding them up and I'd constantly stop the episodes and come back. It was either in the filler episodes or when things would get too spicy. Eitherways i wouldn't re-watch it again. I don't think its cause of the psychological aspect cause for example It's okay not to be okay focuses on psychology and its much deeper than W but unlike W, id rewatch IONTBO a million times.

I just think that it could've been better but i still remember that i enjoyed this and i binged watched it too so it couldn't have been that bad. It was just the continuous plot holes and the constant skipping of parts that makes me not want to re-watch it or rate it any higher than 8. Which by the way i think its a generous rating but i enjoyed it and the show made me cry so its okay. would recommend it but to your own risk!!

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