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And if you want to watch simply contemporary kdramas here are some nice ones of this year's:
-A Business Proposal
-Tomorrow
-Crazy Love
-From Now On, Showtime!

If you want something close to AoS by genre I'd recommend watching:
-Rurouni Kenshin Japanese movie series (best sword fights I've ever seen)
-Kingdom kdrama series

Historical (saeguk) type of kdramas:
-Mr. Queen
-Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist (ongoing)

And I'm sure there are countless wuxia cdramas out there similar to AoS, some people here may know some good ones.

So it needs to have romance?

If circulating rumors are true Naksu will regain her body and og Naksu actress will return to reprise her role.

Not earlier than December, as there are other shows scheduled up until that month, but most likely next year.
Just to give an example, another Netflix show called Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area Part 1 debuted at the end of June, around the same time as AoS. Part 2 with 6 more episodes is scheduled for release by the end of this year.
Alchemy of Souls part 2 will have 10 episodes, which is 4 more, and unlike Money Heist will have CGI, which also takes a lot of time to make. So I wouldn't hold my breath about this year, tbh.

That depends on what you've seen already and how old would you prefer. Ongoing, this year's, yesteryear's? Genre preference?

Yea, I feel like if this show really wants to break stereotypes about autistic people and show that autistic people too are capable of love, as autistic users keep commenting here, there's gotta be more from FL's side as well. Expressions of love are important, as well as trust in your partner, otherwise it'd feel one sided and hopeless. I get that FL's father already got used to this loneliness, but he's family, he won't go away anywhere. But FL needs to become less self-absorbed somehow, even if it's difficult for an autistic person, to keep ML happy by her side. I hope we'll see something more from FL in the upcoming episodes, not just a continuation of educational manual "How to properly treat autistic people".

It is, but there's part 2 with 10 more episodes anyway.

There are even younger support actors with characters like Dang Gu and Cho-Yeon who are doing much more admirable job. But it's fine if you like his acting. But some people are really in it only for his idol looks and they turn absolutely rabid if you disagree about him being, as they say, "fine af" 🤦‍♂️

Even his youngest version child actor had more emotions. It's just the actor, not the character.

And yea, as soon as you criticize an idol, lots of triggered fans come running with hate spam 😂. You can stop this, I will block you anyway.

Yea, I agree about the main couple. It takes two to be a happy together, it requires effort from both sides to have a healthy relationship. How long ML will have to keep pushing through in this lonely uphill battle to be happy with FL? Forever, like FL's father? If it's that hard now already, I can only imagine what their life's gonna be if they do end up together. That break-up was the first reality check. ML has to have a patience of a saint and boundless love to push through this. But must he always give without receiving? I wish that FL would be the one who'll come to apologize and try to get together again with ML in the upcoming episodes, but most likely it will be laid on ML's shoulders again.

And don't even get me started on Min Woo, he doesn't deserve a happy ending with anybody, but must be made accountable for his actions against FL, his family issues are not an excuse whatsoever.

Still in early stages.

That house's residents are full of mysteries, I'm sure more secrets are to be revealed. I've also read that Hye Soo was in love with the other brother and was supposed to marry him, but he died in that helicopter "accident". That other brother seems to be the key to their dysfunctional family.

No, the secretary has an affair with Hye Soo's husband. Hye Soo knows about it and pushes her into his arms intentionally, she hates her husband and mocks both of them at every opportunity. That dress was one of those. Funnily, her husband is in love with her, that's why he sent her the dress, but they have an arrangement that it's just business and she'll get a divorce when the chairman dies.
And the person who visited Hye Soo was Dong Rim, it was shown later again. He came to ask her a favor about his father.

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https://kisskh.at/article/alchemy-of-souls-will-not-air-next-week

What happened? Did we get score bombed by some disgruntled anti-fans again?

I agree. Number 4 is especially jarring for me. MW doesn't deserve a happy ending, he deserves to be made accountable for his actions against FL and to be forced to reflect on them. Otherwise it will send a despicable message to the audience that being an ableist and bullying and undermining disabled people for your own benefit is ok and you will actually get rewarded for it. My final rating hangs on how they will handle his character, everything else is minor compared to this forced shit.

This drama reminds of It's Okay To Not Be Okay. I hope this one won't be as boring though.

I liked how GYJ played her role. Very imposing, elegant and badass. Those beginning scenes were very cool in general, movie quality stuff.

In any case with the actresses, don't kill off Naksu, writers 🙏! That's the number one character I'm rooting for in this drama.