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Maybe i should watch the anime after all?
It’s incredibly important to me that the anime decided to include this scene that wasn’t in the manga. In the manga, Maomao does pass out in Jinshi’s lap after saving him from what was obviously an assassination attempt.
HOWEVER, the manga cuts off at this point, keeping strictly in Maomao’s perspective, and cuts straight to when she regains consciousness in bed after being treated for her injuries. The manga doesn’t show how she got back. They SAY how, and she briefly mentions, “wow that must have been embarrassing; he carried me back,” but we don’t SEE it. We don’t get to feel the true impact of what that means. But the anime DID show us, and holy shit.
They SHOW us how taboo this is. They show Jinshi carrying her out of the temple, after a public attempt on his life.
They show us the shock and horror on Lakan’s face as Jinshi silently walks past him. Horror at the state his daughter is in, horror at another man—a man with a status he could never dare to question—staking such a public claim over his child, horror at the fact that he could never have this level of closeness with her (as Maomao would never allow it).
Everyone hides their gazes, as is their custom when someone of his rank passes by, but the air is different this time. Jinshi is furious, he’s terrified, and he could not give a single shit about how inappropriate it looks to these palace officials.
The shot that slowly follows her trail of blood—even though it’s a small detail—that in particular leaves such a intense impression of how poignant this is for him.
Maomao talked about this scene in the manga like it was nothing to her. She did what she set out to do: she saved the person who was targeted by the attack. She didn’t even know the target would be someone she knew. But she has no idea that this happened afterwards as a result of her bravery. To her, it likely wasn’t even an act of bravery at all. She acted on impulse; she did what she knew was the right thing to do.
The anime didn’t need to include this, because the manga didn’t show it. But damn, I’m so glad they did.
Started watching the apothecary diaries somebody please save her
do jinshi and maomao even end up together?? cause maomao does not seem interested in him at aallllllllllllll 😭😭😭😭💀💀💀
(i'm only like halfway-ish thru the anime and i haven't read the manga teehee)
are light novels and mangas different in any way?? (like i get ones a novel and a manga lol) by does the stories change at all??? are novels better because we get more insight or are mangas more interesting because of the visual but they also have a slow rollout and i have no idea where to read light novels for free 🥲🥲🥲 help is wanted 🤘🤘😩
OK POOKIES IS DECISIONS TIME ONCE AGAIN 😚😚😚😚😚🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
- recently finished assasination classroom and demon slayer ✅✅✅ (bot we're so fun love them!!)
NOW ON TO THE NEXT MWAHAHAGAGAGAGAGAH
WELL I DONT WANT TO BITCHES 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕 CANT TRUST ANY OF YOUS AND NOW I HAVE TO MAKE THE DECISION MYSELF LIKE A RESPONSIBLE SANE NORMAL PERSON UGH
OK POOKIES IS DECISIONS TIME ONCE AGAIN 😚😚😚😚😚🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
- recently finished assasination classroom and demon slayer ✅✅✅ (bot we're so fun love them!!)
NOW ON TO THE NEXT MWAHAHAGAGAGAGAGAH
I DID IT I FINISHED APOTHECARY DIARIES SHE WAS A CUTIE 🥰 🥹🫶🫶🤍
VOTING TIME AGAIN LOVIEKINS 🫶🥰🤪😈
finished apothecary diaries (LIKE ALL YOUS TOLD ME TO BLEUGH) so now it's onto the next with my indecisive procstinating self 🤗🤗🤗🪩🪩🪩🪩
Apothecary diaries….. I don’t care that she committed tax evasion. I wish rich people would pay their fair share though
But with her (I don’t live where she lives) Idrk since it was $300,000 instead of millions like every other rich person committing tax evasion.
(Poor people should be allowed to vomit tax evasion freely like the rich are able to!!!!!)
Maomao's Dislike of Jinshi
So I've been watching Apothecary Diaries and I think people are missing out on the root cause of why Maomao doesn't like Jinshi's interactions with her. It's not because he's too pretty, of high standing, or because she thinks he's annoying/etc., as they're just parts that make up the actual root cause. It's because she knows he's being fake.
Jinshi, because of who he is, where he lives, and how he was raised, covers up his true intentions almost constantly. That was how he trapped Maomao and singled her out as the one who warned Concubine Gyokuyou, after all. The premise to get all the servants in the room, the note telling her to stay put, and making her come with him without telling her where they were going? He let her worry that she was in trouble, so to keep her off-balance when he introduced her to Gyokuyou and also had kept her note to keep her pinned in a corner so she would have to comply with what he and Gyokuyou wanted.
Maomao prefers working with honest people. It's why she never wanted to ascend into the ranks where court politics were a constant presence, because in court politics, you have to assume most people are lying to you on some level. That's why she likes Gyokuyou; Gyokuyou has a similar mentality about the importance of honesty in the people around her and she reciprocates that honesty with the select people she lets her walls down around. When Jinshi is flirting or being super sweet to someone, Maomao knows he's often not being sincere, so when he flirts or acts all sweet with her, she's not going to believe in the sincerity of it because it's dangerous for her if he's not being sincere.
In Maomao's world, a man who makes false promises will not have severe consequences for his actions, unlike the women who fall for them. Growing up where she did and doing the work she did, Maomao knows exactly what kind of damage someone else's lies can bring to someone else who got caught in them. Maomao is not blind to the ugly truths of the world around her, unlike many her age, so interacting with Jinshi, someone who is usually some level of false in almost every encounter with her, is frustrating to her and he won't leave her alone. Lies are a form of poison themselves as they deteriorate a person's life and relationships and if not caught, can lead someone to their death or a fate akin to death, but unlike physical toxins, Maomao can't fix any damage from that kind of societal poison. As someone who wants a lowkey and unremarkable life because it's more peaceful, Jinshi could damage her goals with his falsehoods if she falls for any of them.
And we see that when Jinshi is actually honest about himself and his feelings with her, she treats him better. When he gives her his hairpin, when he's hugging her and crying because of what happened with Ah-Duo, and when he's at the Verdigris House, drowning his sorrows over letting Maomao go from the Rear Palace, Maomao is kinder to him and doesn't look at him with the immediate disdain and suspicion she often throws his way. Maomao even states she prefers the Jinshi, who is more childlike and bratty, which is something we see Gaoshun constantly discourage when Jinshi has those moments where his mask breaks. But in those moments, he's being honest.
For the position of Maomao's love interest, Jinshi's already got one foot ahead of any other guy around Maomao, as he is willing to let Maomao have more freedom in her special interests and gives her things and access to areas that play into her interests, like her dad does, which is more than most men in her society would ever allow. The only reason he actively goes against her toying with poison is he knows exactly what she's going to do with the poisons. But his main hinderance to getting Maomao to like him back is the training of being two-faced that's been ingrained into him for his survival in court. If he was more honest with her, rather than hiding himself under the veneer of a pretty man who is sweet, gets along with everyone, and keeps his knowledge close to the chest, he'd do so much better in earning Maomao's respect and affection.
I know this was frighteningly obvious but my dumbass only realised this a week ago so anyways- yk how maomao mentioned at the end of episode 21 that lihaku doesn't need all that money to buy out pairin since she likes him so the price isn't as steep. and after the end of the season it clicked that the reason for this convention was to prevent another fengxian situation from happening where a courtesan attempts to lower her value to be bought out. idk I thought it was pretty niche that the old granny placed that after what happened. which is understandable.
In style of a music video "love cat / biz×ZERA feat. LOLUET"
Episode 8 of Kusuriya no Hitorigoto/The Apothecary Diaries is out now! (^w^)
and one of my many favorite scene from the manga are out! \(^o^)/
Poor Shinji, the dude is so shocked that his brain is malfunctioning 🤣🤣😂
and I love the misunderstandings that Maomao's created 😂
I should have uploaded this on Halloween because it matched a witch's esthetic and beastman familiar.
But it's nowhere near Halloween.
So here it is
Witch!MaoMao x Beastman!Jin Shin
I can't help but draw them like this as it gives me an idea of an AU where MaoMao is a cat witch and Jin Shin is a powerful but low-class beastman or was he truly a low-class?
I have an idea of what the other character might be in this fantasy au I had in my mind. Mainly I have thought about MaoMao origin.
Also, I accidentally make MaoMao look taller in this drawing (-w-;)
Maomao from "Kusuriya no Hitorigoto" a.k.a. "The Apothecary Diaries".
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