Alchemy of Souls Part 2: Light and Shadow
환혼 시즌2: 빛과 그림자Checked and re-read
Watch it for closure, not for pleasure. Part 1 ended on a cliff and this is the only place the story finishes, so if you need the ending you have no choice. Almost everything else is a step down: the recast lead plays a different character rather than the same one, the amnesia plot eats roughly eight of the ten episodes, and the swordswoman who ran Part 1 spends most of this captive. Ten episodes should have fixed Part 1's bloat, and instead the plot stands still until the last two hours and then rushes. The production and the action are a step up, which was never the problem.
Jang Uk, now a fierce but troubled hunter of the soul shifters, meets an imprisoned young woman who seeks his help to reclaim her freedom.
Hooks early Episode 1, which is as good as it gets. Nothing later in the run beats the opening hour, and the plot does not move again until the last two.