Best Alchemy of Souls Episodes, Ranked
All 20 episodes of Alchemy of Souls scored and sorted — from the 9.2/10 high of S1E11 to the 8.3/10 of S1E1.
Our rating: 8.78/10 average across 20 episode reviews (best 9.2, lowest 8.3).
All 20 episodes here belong to one season, so the story is really about how a single run rises, stumbles, and recovers. It opens steady rather than spectacular — S1E1 “Jang Uk Finds Naksu Behind Mu-deok’s Eyes” is the lowest-rated entry at 8.3, doing the slow work of setting up the body-swap premise before the chemistry kicks in.
The show climbs fast once the master-student dynamic clicks. The peak is a three-way tie at 9.2: S1E11 “Mu-deok Bets Jang Uk’s Jade on Ten Fights,” S1E12 “Mu-deok Feeds on a Soul Shifter,” and S1E19 “Jang Uk Gives Everything for Rain.” The first two land mid-run, when the training payoff and the soul-shifter reveal collide; the third is the late-season gut-punch that recontextualizes everything. Right behind them, S1E10 “Jang Uk Reads Mu-deok’s Love Letter” (9.1) is the quiet turn that makes the romance real.
The clear soft patch is the stretch after the midpoint high — S1E15 “Jang Uk and Mu-deok Confess Under Interrogation” and S1E16 “Naksu’s Sword Returns to Jang Uk” both sit at 8.4, where the plot machinery shows through more than the feeling does.
What’s notable is how tight the whole thing is: a 0.9 spread, an 8.78 average, and a back end that climbs from that dip into a finale (S1E20, 9.0) instead of coasting.
| Rank | Ep | Episode | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| T-1 | S1E11 | Mu-deok Bets Jang Uk's Jade on Ten Fights | 9.2 |
| T-1 | S1E12 | Mu-deok Feeds on a Soul Shifter | 9.2 |
| T-1 | S1E19 | Jang Uk Gives Everything for Rain | 9.2 |
| 4 | S1E10 | Jang Uk Reads Mu-deok's Love Letter | 9.1 |
| T-5 | S1E18 | Mu-deok Draws Naksu's Sword Again | 9.0 |
| T-5 | S1E20 | Naksu Draws Her Sword Again | 9.0 |
| 7 | S1E17 | Mu-deok Steps Toward the Ice Stone | 8.9 |
| T-8 | S1E5 | Jang Uk Chooses Mu-deok's Tree | 8.8 |
| T-8 | S1E7 | Mu-deok Breaks the Mirror of Longing | 8.8 |
| T-8 | S1E8 | Jang Uk Uses Naksu's Tansu | 8.8 |
| T-8 | S1E9 | Mu-deok Is Locked Outside Songrim | 8.8 |
| 12 | S1E3 | Jang Uk Kneels Before His New Master | 8.7 |
| T-13 | S1E2 | Jang Uk Finds His Crazy Master | 8.6 |
| T-13 | S1E4 | Jang Uk Draws His Father's Sword | 8.6 |
| T-13 | S1E6 | Jang Uk Chooses Tansu Over Safety | 8.6 |
| T-13 | S1E14 | Jang Uk Reaches Chisu | 8.6 |
| 17 | S1E13 | Mu-deok Sees the Ice Stone's Price | 8.5 |
| T-18 | S1E15 | Jang Uk and Mu-deok Confess Under Interrogation | 8.4 |
| T-18 | S1E16 | Naksu's Sword Returns to Jang Uk | 8.4 |
| 20 | S1E1 | Jang Uk Finds Naksu Behind Mu-deok's Eyes | 8.3 |
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