The Best TV Shows on Youku

Every Youku Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Boasting a rich catalog, Youku features more than 20 shows, with broadcasting dates ranging from 2006 to 2025. Icons of Youku, Love Stories in the Countryside and The Legend of Qin made their debut in 2006 and 2007, setting industry standards. Our curated list, current as of January 2026, showcases over 20 of Youku’s highest-rated series.

  • The Demon Hunter
    The Demon Hunter (2023)9.4

    Meng Chuan witnessed his mother killed before his eyes, so he trained very hard hoping to one day avenge her death. But his peaceful days were broken as his wedding engagement being called off, an invasion by foreign forces, the sanctuary fallen into enemy hands… In order to protect the people of Ning City, he picked up his sword and vowed to be the strongest. This is a heavy responsibility and a long journey…

  • My Senior Brother is Too Steady
    My Senior Brother is Too Steady (2023)9.0

    After being reborn in the ancient times before the Great God-Conferment War, Li Changshou becomes a minor cultivator. His only dream is to live a long life as a cultivator. In order to survive in the cruel Primordial Times, Li Changshou tries hard not to accumulate any karma—killing inevitably leads to feuds. Thus, he always plans thoroughly before doing anything and never allows himself to walk into dangerous situations. He hides his trump cards well, trains himself in escape techniques, refines poisonous pills, and masters his mystical abilities. Li Changshou originally plans to remain hidden and safe in the mountain. There, he is supposed to cultivate until he ascends to immortality. However, everything changed one year when his master seems to think that their lives are too peaceful. He takes in a junior sister…

  • The Legend of Qin
    The Legend of Qin (2007)8.7

    The Legend of Qin follows the Qin dynasty from when the Emperor of the Qin, King Zheng conquered the other 6 nations and unified China, to the rise of the king of Western Chu, Xiang Yu, who capture the capital city, Xianyang.

  • Scissor Seven
    Scissor Seven (2018)8.6

    Seeking to recover his memory, a scissor-wielding, hairdressing, bungling quasi-assassin stumbles into a struggle for power among feuding factions.

  • The Vendetta of An
    The Vendetta of An (2025)8.6

    Xie Huai'an, son of the Huben Army's creator, survives his family's massacre. After ten long years in hiding, he returns to Chang'an disguised as a lowly registrar, moving step by step through jianghu clashes and palace power plays in a tense battle of wits to avenge his family and safeguard the realm.

  • Hidden Love
    Hidden Love (2023)8.5

    Since high school, Sang Zhi has had a crush on Duan Jiaxu. When fate brings them together again, they find a chance to embark on a sweet relationship.

  • I Am Nobody
    I Am Nobody (2023)8.5

    When a student unearths the truth behind his grandfather’s life, he must unveil his secret superpowers to an underworld eager for his emergence.

  • Legend of Xianwu
    Legend of Xianwu (2023)8.4

    As a loyal disciple, Ye Chen dedicated himself to guard the spiritual medicine field for his sect. But, during a fight with enemies, the spiritual field was destroyed. His loyalty and dedication to the sect could not save him. The loyalty he thought he had obtained from his peers and lover, could not save him from betrayal. Thus, he was shamelessly banished from the sect. With the help of a flame falling from heaven, Ye Chen began to develop himself into a stronger cultivator. Battled against his opponents, unfolded his legendary life and rewrote his own story…

  • The First Frost
    The First Frost (2025)8.4

    Wen Yifan, by chance, ends up living with her high school classmate Sang Yan, whom she once rejected. They keep their distance until Wen Yifan learns from Sang Yan that she sleepwalks, intertwining their lives once more.

  • The Disguiser
    The Disguiser (2015)8.2

    Set in the Japanese occupation era, the rich yet naive young master Ming Tai is trained to become an agent, and is later sent to become an underground spy for the Communists. Together with his brother and double agent Ming Lou, they try and bring down Wang Wei's Kuomintang Secret Service Headquarters.

  • Love in the Clouds
    Love in the Clouds (2025)8.2

    At the annual Qingyun Conference in the Hexu Six Realms, Ji Bozai, a warrior from the Jixing Abyss with a past as a convict, defeated Ming Yi, the cold warrior goddess who had reigned supreme for seven consecutive years. Overnight, Ji Bozai became the hottest new star in Jixing Abyss. Meanwhile, Ming Yi, hiding her true identity, disguised herself as a dancer to get close to Ji Bozai. Under their carefully crafted personas, the two engaged in a thrilling dance of deception and attraction, fighting for justice and fairness, and ultimately found a deep and moving love.

  • The Seven Relics of ill Omen
    The Seven Relics of ill Omen (2025)8.2

    Adapted from the novel The Seven Relics of ill Omen by Weiyu. In ancient times, a mysterious substance descended upon Fengzi Ridge. Capable of parasitic invasion, it twists the human heart and lures its host into evil. Now, these relics of ill omen have reemerged, unleashing a series of bizarre and gruesome murders. Five ordinary yet passionate young people—Mu Dai, Luo Ren, Thirteen-Thousand, Yan Hongsha, and Cao Yanhua—are successively drawn into this crisis through their own fateful encounters. They form the "Phoenix Squad" and embark on a perilous quest to subdue these ill omens. Amid life-and-death trials, Luo Ren and Mu Dai heal each other's wounds and forge a genuine bond. Through a long and arduous journey fraught with danger, the five overcome relentless challenges, their friendship tempered and deepened in the fires of adversity.

  • Relationship
    Relationship (2019)8.0

  • The Unclouded Soul
    The Unclouded Soul (2025)8.0

    For centuries, humans and demons have battled over the legendary Yuli Spring, a symbol of desire. Free-spirited Xiao Yao unexpectedly enters Ten Thousand Demons Valley, disrupting the demon world. There, she meets the powerful Demon King Hong Ye, who grows to admire her pure heart. Together, they face mysterious cases and formidable enemies, uncovering hidden truths along the way.

  • Happy Toon
    Happy Toon (2010)7.3

  • The Guardians of Carcosa
    The Guardians of Carcosa (2013)7.0

    The Guardians of Carcosa have made it their mission to protect all humans. Watch the battle for humanity ensue, and join adventures to the realms Carcosa Wonderland and beyond.

  • The Magical Chef of Ice and Fire
    The Magical Chef of Ice and Fire (2021)6.7

    Nian Bing is the son of a fire mage and an ice mage. After both of his parents were killed by the Ice Lord, Nian Bing received both of his parents' magic gems. When Nian Bing was trying to escape from the Ice Lord's followers, he managed to cast both fire and ice magic at the same time. An impossible feat for a mage. He fell from the cliff, unconscious, and was saved by an oldman. After he woke up, the oldman gave him a food so delicious he never tasted before. It turned out that the oldman was a genius chef, once called a spirit chef. And he wants Nian Bing to be his disciple no matter what! Is Nian Bing able to seek vengeance while aiming to become the greatest chef?

  • Super Wings
    Super Wings (2014)6.4

    An action-packed preschool series about an adorable jet plane named Jett who travels the world delivering packages to children. On every delivery, Jett encounters a new problem that the he and his friends the Super Wings must work together to solve!

  • Tomb of Fallen Gods
    Tomb of Fallen Gods (2022)6.0

    The book takes the protagonist Chennan's search for his lover Yuxin 10,000 years ago and the pursuit of the secrets of the destruction of gods and demons as clues, leading to the vast six paths, heaven and earth chess game, and deducing a legend full of blood, heroic and poignant, telling the legends of countless heroes and beauties, and discussing human nature, society, life and other elements.

  • Love Stories in the Countryside
    Love Stories in the Countryside (2006)5.6