Apothecary Diaries 3-4

46:55 realizing at this point that my mind is filthy 😂

Also for the change in Lihua's personality, I think a lot of the initial moments of seeing her in the series, she was heavily influenced by the lead poisoning from the white powder. Lead poisoning can definitely cause major personality changes and make someone extremely irritable. If she was wearing the make up from the beginning all the way to Maomao slapping the lady-in-waiting, then Lihua's personality most likely eroded as she did.

First video plug was 7/10 but this one...3/10

I doubt we'll ever see the emperor's face. It's one of those things that simply wasn't done in China during that era. During the Tang dynasty when the series borrows from heavily looking at the emperor was sacrilege worth it of execution. Even the ministers had strict rules about when and where they could look and speak when the emperor was present. I want to imagine some exceptions wereade for the empress/imperial concubines but for all I know they blind folded the women, that aspect the the culter wasn't documented as extensively as others. If your not familiar with flagellation- it's always brutal but the easiest depiction your likely to find would be rewatching The DaVinci Code. The albino guy performs self flagellation at one point. Only difference between doing it for penence like some Catholic sect do, and punishment is when using it for punishment the recipients survival is optional.

Maomao with the shift against the lady in waiting caught me off guard too when I first watched it. This anime has so much to give and they deliver it amazingly.

It’s not really wrong to say she should be beheaded within the standards of that society. In a modern society she absolutely shouldn’t be, to be clear lol. What she did was an honest mistake, just an INCREDIBLY dumb one. She should be punished, but obviously not sentenced to death. But yeah... any regular serving girl would’ve been beheaded without a second thought. A lot of these ladies-in-waiting come from noble or otherwise important families, which gives them protections an ordinary servant wouldn’t have. Not all of them, of course.

The Emperor’s voice just does not fit at all for me in the dub lol. Everyone else is pretty good, especially Maomao. Still prefer the JP but can't deny the EN VA is doing a very good job as well. I honestly wasn’t even paying much attention to the voices until the Emperor showed up. Dude sounds like a teenager trying to sound like a grown man. It’s so weird lol. Then I looked him up and... oh, that explains it. His most prominent role is the MC from Rent-a-Girlfriend. It sounds exactly like they took THAT character and told him to speak like an emperor lmao.

Ill give the plug a 6/10, must say flowed smooth but could use a little more flare :) keep it up, ive got faith you'll get it profected soon.

Not just boobs out. Maybe snuggle something in between them...

Maomao slapping the lady in waiting was the moment where I knew I was hooked on the show. I enjoyed the first three episodes, but that was when I knew I was in for the long haul.

"Should be beheaded" dammm Karli didn't expect this. 😭

Maomao snapping is still my favorite scene in the whole show. It's so unexpected from her, but it makes perfect sense

14:09 The start of Maomao looking at her left pinky when contemplating things. Info seed planted. Lead poisoning, studies tie early lead exposure to aggression, antisocial behavior, and conduct disorders. Lihua slapping Gyokuyou probably was due to the lead poisoning affecting Lihua's mental condition.

I think it’s important to remember the context in terms of lady Lihua losing her son. These women have to constantly have their guard up and as soon as her son is born he is a target. Suddenly her son is sick the doctor can’t give her any answers she is sick as well the amount of stress must have been insane. Also not a lot of people notice but it wasn’t actually her that picked up the note Mao Mao left but one of her ladies so she never saw it. And when a rival concubine comes and try’s to give her advice how can she trust her it could have been her people who poisoned her son. It was a situation that came about because of the toxic culture in the rear palace.

Every time Carly says courtesan it sounds like some kind of medicine Cortizon and I can't unhear it 🤣

Appropriate call your cay "Maomao" as it does actually mean "cat".

10/10

I had only heard about this show very very briefly but assumed I wouldn't be into it so never watched, then when I saw you guys were reacting to it I thought this would be the best time to give it a go, since then I have binged the entire 2 seasons and cannot wait for more and I'm now super excited to see your reactions to it, so thank you for making me find an anime that now sits in my top 3 favourite anime

one of the all time best mystery/drama lets goo. also frieren/maomao some of the most goated recent female mcs. so nice going to cons and seeing so much of those 2 instead of a million genshin girls. The world is slowly healing.

So what do we think she told her to do with her boobs?

can't wait to see you guys reaction on Ep36❤️❤️

Hahah "To be so clear, I'm booing Taylor." Taylor over here being cringe but getting the message through in an entertaining way and Karlii, cringing so hard.

LETS GO APOTHECARY FRIDAYS

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