I love how part of the twist of this episode is that Maomao solves the whole mystery and determines that the solution is to... do nothing. And not only do nothing, but keep the answer to herself and lie by omission because she had no idea if Jinshi would try to prevent what was happening.
This episode was really beautiful, such a good love story, where you could feel how hard these two had to work to get their happy ending, and it feels all the better when you see the relief as they hug at the end.
If you check back to the beginning of ep.2, you will find concubine Fuyou informing Jinshi of the poisoning in the military camp after having received a letter from her childhood friend... which also indicates he knew of the link between them all along. This show has a lot of rewatch value.
Apothecary Diaries definitely has serious moments, I think a GOOD comedy should always be able to get serious for storytelling purposes, if needed. This show really struck me with that in episode 1 when Maomao says "they traded life for a moment of beauty, and lost both" This show reminds me a bit of the old tv show MASH, which was famous for being unserious 90% of the time and then slamming the audience with VERY hard topics about life and wartime. Maomao is seriously just SUCH an amazing character that the blend of comedy and drama work very well. It wouldn't be unfair to call her one of the best female MCs in anime already.
Eyyy, a MASH enthusiast! Still have the book the TV show was based on, and it will always be the best novel I've read when it comes to jumping back and forth with serious topics and comedy.
Concubines can be considered extra wives for the Emperor (or other ruler, such as the shoguns in Japan). They are to ensure that an heir can be born in case the main wife, the Empress, can’t conceive of a male child. In this story, there is no Empress yet, and the area that the concubines and their servants reside in is called the Inner Court. In the Edo period when the Tokugawa Shoguns ruled, the Concubines and their attendants resided in the Ooku (Inner Chambers). At its height, there were as many as over a thousand women in the Ooku. Lots of intrigue and power plays happened within the chambers. Men were not trusted to serve in these areas, so any men assigned to work in these areas had to have their manhood disabled… these are the Eunuchs. Therefore, Jinshi and his attendant are supposed to be eunuchs as well, but from the signs, it seems they are not. Jinshi has been assigned to test these women to be loyal to the Emperor, which implies that the Emperor intrinsically trusts him.
Well, there are different ways to create a eunuch, obviously removing everything is an option or, using a fishing analogy you can "remove" the reel but leave the fishing pole. In the second case the eunuch could still "go fishing" but no babies.
For that era most girls were deemed marriageable adult age at 15 or whenever they had their first period.The women in the rear palace were usually either political marriages or offering’s to get the emperors favor . Women were basically treated like property and the emperor was basically deemed a descendent of the gods., so it was deemed an honor for them to be given by their family’s.Eunuchs where either poor men who chose,or children given up buy there family’s for a better life/more opportunities,or those who were punished.which was quite often in those times for any little reason you could lose your life or be punished in one way or anther and it was usually severe unless you where nobility or had money. Male doctors were often not allowed to physically touch women due to issues of propriety and gender norms.After imperial china got rid of using slaves and started using basically indentured servants. It was common for poor families to sell their children to the palace for a better life/ or to have one less mouth to feed. This was few eras before china introduced the one child rule. So yay every thing sucked for commoners or poor folk.😅
1:00 Please don't look to this show for education. The setting is NOT imperial China. It's a fictional country in a fictional world that is a mashup of different Chinese time periods.
Lady Gyokuyou was not jealous because of freedom but she was jealous because the man really loved lady fuyou and she was the only woman for that man. Gyokuyou really loves the emperor, but she isn't the only woman he loves, emperor shared his love with many women
Nah...gyokuyou doesn't really love the emperor... She just knows that she will be his till she dies, so she is just making the best of her situation... She is also smart and considerate.. Isn't that greedy so they emperor also favours her
She is jealous because she couldn't fall in love and experience what true love is. Unfortunately Gyokuyou was put in a position due her family wanted her there ,she has to be loyal to the emperor. And she knows she there only for children and make honor to her family and she knows emperor yang loves someone esle. She his fav because she gave birth to a daughter emperor yang first daughter and child. But thst it nothing more. There is no love between them. Respect yes but no romance cause emperor yang heart was already taken long ago. I not saying more.
i saw the anime 4 times, i read the manga 2 time and currently reading the light novel... and EACH time i'm at the part where the courtesan reach her lover i can't hold myself. so beautiful
Don't feel bad for consorts, those are highly coveted positions with huge political influence... in many periods they actually ruled the empires, you see this in China, Korea, Ottoman Empire...
You forget the part that sometimes they were kidnapped and they were sold as slaves. They had no free will. Not to even mention the toxic environment in courts. They had to keep giving birth to sons so they would have some value.
Yeah, watching this, we really need to put the pov in that era, not today's logic, like things that are not allowed now may be allowed back then. This is based on Imperial China but the kingdom was fiction only. We may know this already but sometimes without realizing it, we put today's logic for a situation in that era but understandable, sometimes we just know very little about the era and that's fine, we can simply learn. Also, the show tells the time passes when you look the season changing. If you have questions, remember them but no need to dwell too much on them, that's fine. Simply remember as many details as you can, the show is good at answering many of your questions. Sometimes you'll get the answers soon, sometimes it'll take time.
really good episode not only is fuyou free...now she is also with the person she wants to be with it was a pretty dangerous task to get there but its nice that it payed off for them
the 4 concubines are not exactly his wifes, its... difficult to put in word... its like ladies of high status for the "gene pool" for the emporors children, gives connections to other feudal lords in a political way, and i wont try explain the situation of a certain of them, for... well... you will see and it will be explained by the show 😅
@@CaraPrezReacts as soon as you look at the rear palace as a den of politics everything will make more sense to you. All of these concubines are ladies of stature and station. They offer power to the royal family of the emperor through their subservience and loyalty. They gain power and station through their support of the Emperor and by extension the royal family. They are political party leaders in essence for the kingdoms they come from within the empire. There are a lot of other sociological aspects to the concubine relationship but UA-cam comments are too short for it and I don't want to spoil. 😅 In short, while their womanhood is the primary value, it is not the only value. Becoming an Empress through marriage to the Emperor is the highest station they can reach and their homelands have a lot of political power in the royal courts. The closer the concubine relationship with the emperor the greater the power of that concubine's family on the other side in court.
If the emperor had touched her that would have been it, I don't think she would have ever been allowed to leave... At least that's what happened in some periods. Of course people know of the 9 month pregnancy, but emperors are like gods so... who knows their powers?? So women that were involved with him couldn't be allowed to have children with anyone else.
Recently I got hooked on this anime too) But the seasons are over, and manga is being translated into my language slowly...I'm sad) PS. How did it happen that there is no Kuroshitsuji on the channel?) Almost like the foundation of the basics)) Is there a chance that it will happen?
The emperor (and every male in this time period) can have one official wife and multiple concubines. Yeah, they're practically sold. Women can't choose who they marry. The choice of who they are married off to is always a political move whether you're an emperor or a normal family. The goal in marrying off daughters is always to increase the family's social standing by choosing which family to ally with. The males can be normal citizens and work, or they can be slaves themselves. Women who work more often than not are slaves. Women of high standing are raised to be good in calligraphy, embroidery, and other arts. Women who want to work or start a business are frowned upon by society because working is only for males; women who opt to work are seen like wanting to be a slave worker. Only those who are born in important families are granted the opportunity to be court ladies; maids to even more important people inside the royal palace. In Maomao's case, she can only ever be regarded as an apothecary, never a doctor. Even if she is more knowledgeable than a palace doctor, she will never be granted a high and official title of "doctor". Wives are meant to handle running the household, including budgeting for the concubines of the husband. A jealous wife is also frowned upon. It is a mark of a kind and perfect wife to allow his husband multiple concubines to ensure that there are backup children to the male heir of the family. Also marrying off children of the concubines is a good political move to ally with other families, while the children of the wives are married off to families with better standing (ex. marrying them to the royal family). Concubines, especially if childless, can still be given away by the husband to someone else (but I've only read of the royal family doing this). The women of the emperor are all from political alliances. Thus, their fathers/brothers are fighting in court for power, meanwhile the concubines are vying for the emperor's affections and the chance to birth the first prince in order to secure the position of the emperor's official wife: the empress. Whoever becomes empress automatically gives political power to the concubine's family. It is ideally an AND situation, not an OR. The empress must be the mother of the heir prince. Otherwise, a civil war between the family of the empress vs the heir might happen.
Let me explain how it work Emperor yang has alot of concubines but the top 4 are the ones that he beds or are hight rank family. The concubine that gives birth the crown prince will become his wife automatically. Due she gave birth to the future heir of emperor Yang. So beging his wife she becomes empress. A other thing Emperor yang has alot of concubines due the statues of there family too. Its important to gave hight rank family daughters so that there family will ne a big support in your regin. So that how it is
you so we close to something during your recap, but missed it by a tiny bit. Lady Gyokuyou understands her own place as a emperors side, but I think that look she had was more of understanding her daughter, the daughter of the emperor is going to GIVEN to some man to buy his loyalty to the emperor, neither she nor her daughter are going to have any control of that. An likely it won't even be the emperors idea it will come from one of his court aids, "YOU SHOULD MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER TO X"
the artist who draws The Apothecary Diaries pleaded guilty to tax evasion in japan, so far Square Enix has confirmed that it will not be ending the The Apothecary Diaries, BUT most likely it will not be good, how can you be in the mood to write and draw while doing time and broke...
Suggestion out of nowhere as i just realized u dont have Mushoku tensei:Jobless reincarnation reactions i would recommend ... Or you guys have separate channels too ?
@@GreySeashell-j3m it is not meant to be pleasant but the anime as anime is amazing first 4 episodes might give bad vibes but it is still amazing and every decision matters ...
@@GreySeashell-j3m you are meant to feel uncomfortable sometimes during this anime it is a part of the show ... Character growth is basically a storyline
@@GreySeashell-j3m What are you even talking about troll? Its one of the best stories and the novels are even better. After the end of the season I couldnt resist and started reading the novels and just went through 13, 14 and 15. It was that good. The first anime that made me ever start reading a LN.
A later episode has Jinshi complaining about having to take libido-reducing drugs to do his job so, no, he is not a eunuch. More than that would be serious spoilers, but he is very intentionally positioned there by the Emperor.
I love how part of the twist of this episode is that Maomao solves the whole mystery and determines that the solution is to... do nothing. And not only do nothing, but keep the answer to herself and lie by omission because she had no idea if Jinshi would try to prevent what was happening.
This episode was really beautiful, such a good love story, where you could feel how hard these two had to work to get their happy ending, and it feels all the better when you see the relief as they hug at the end.
If you check back to the beginning of ep.2, you will find concubine Fuyou informing Jinshi of the poisoning in the military camp after having received a letter from her childhood friend... which also indicates he knew of the link between them all along.
This show has a lot of rewatch value.
Emperor also knew...he let it happen... Becouse he couldn't get his love, he is quite tolerant matters related to love
My goodness, I didn't know that😮
If you look at episode 2 again, the officer who stopped the senseless slaughter of the village was the childhood friend.
oh? Interesting.
Oh wow, never realised that. That's really nice to know thanks :D
The Apothecary Diaries and Frieren; These two shows conquered the Top Tier on My AnimeList last year
14:33 That entire scene and that last part especially makes me cry so much each rewatch.
Apothecary Diaries definitely has serious moments, I think a GOOD comedy should always be able to get serious for storytelling purposes, if needed. This show really struck me with that in episode 1 when Maomao says "they traded life for a moment of beauty, and lost both"
This show reminds me a bit of the old tv show MASH, which was famous for being unserious 90% of the time and then slamming the audience with VERY hard topics about life and wartime. Maomao is seriously just SUCH an amazing character that the blend of comedy and drama work very well. It wouldn't be unfair to call her one of the best female MCs in anime already.
Eyyy, a MASH enthusiast! Still have the book the TV show was based on, and it will always be the best novel I've read when it comes to jumping back and forth with serious topics and comedy.
The courtesan gamed the system to get her happy ending.
Concubines can be considered extra wives for the Emperor (or other ruler, such as the shoguns in Japan). They are to ensure that an heir can be born in case the main wife, the Empress, can’t conceive of a male child. In this story, there is no Empress yet, and the area that the concubines and their servants reside in is called the Inner Court. In the Edo period when the Tokugawa Shoguns ruled, the Concubines and their attendants resided in the Ooku (Inner Chambers). At its height, there were as many as over a thousand women in the Ooku. Lots of intrigue and power plays happened within the chambers.
Men were not trusted to serve in these areas, so any men assigned to work in these areas had to have their manhood disabled… these are the Eunuchs. Therefore, Jinshi and his attendant are supposed to be eunuchs as well, but from the signs, it seems they are not. Jinshi has been assigned to test these women to be loyal to the Emperor, which implies that the Emperor intrinsically trusts him.
Well, there are different ways to create a eunuch, obviously removing everything is an option or, using a fishing analogy you can "remove" the reel but leave the fishing pole. In the second case the eunuch could still "go fishing" but no babies.
For that era most girls were deemed marriageable adult age at 15 or whenever they had their first period.The women in the rear palace were usually either political marriages or offering’s to get the emperors favor . Women were basically treated like property and the emperor was basically deemed a descendent of the gods., so it was deemed an honor for them to be given by their family’s.Eunuchs where either poor men who chose,or children given up buy there family’s for a better life/more opportunities,or those who were punished.which was quite often in those times for any little reason you could lose your life or be punished in one way or anther and it was usually severe unless you where nobility or had money. Male doctors were often not allowed to physically touch women due to issues of propriety and gender norms.After imperial china got rid of using slaves and started using basically indentured servants. It was common for poor families to sell their children to the palace for a better life/ or to have one less mouth to feed. This was few eras before china introduced the one child rule. So yay every thing sucked for commoners or poor folk.😅
the pink haired lady is Gyokuyou, it is a hard name to remember. fun fact she AND her baby is voiced by Frieren's voice actor
Never watched the series but you made me found this show and I love it now
Thanks
That's awesome to hear!
1:00 Please don't look to this show for education. The setting is NOT imperial China. It's a fictional country in a fictional world that is a mashup of different Chinese time periods.
Lady Gyokuyou was not jealous because of freedom but she was jealous because the man really loved lady fuyou and she was the only woman for that man. Gyokuyou really loves the emperor, but she isn't the only woman he loves, emperor shared his love with many women
Nah...gyokuyou doesn't really love the emperor... She just knows that she will be his till she dies, so she is just making the best of her situation... She is also smart and considerate.. Isn't that greedy so they emperor also favours her
She is jealous because she couldn't fall in love and experience what true love is. Unfortunately Gyokuyou was put in a position due her family wanted her there ,she has to be loyal to the emperor. And she knows she there only for children and make honor to her family and she knows emperor yang loves someone esle. She his fav because she gave birth to a daughter emperor yang first daughter and child. But thst it nothing more. There is no love between them. Respect yes but no romance cause emperor yang heart was already taken long ago. I not saying more.
@@sephorapaulazammit4925 I like the emperor.... He seems quite advanced for his timeline
i saw the anime 4 times, i read the manga 2 time and currently reading the light novel... and EACH time i'm at the part where the courtesan reach her lover i can't hold myself. so beautiful
4:30 Ask yourself, why the doctor immediately pulled away the tea tablet when Jinshi appeared....
Don't feel bad for consorts, those are highly coveted positions with huge political influence... in many periods they actually ruled the empires, you see this in China, Korea, Ottoman Empire...
You forget the part that sometimes they were kidnapped and they were sold as slaves. They had no free will. Not to even mention the toxic environment in courts. They had to keep giving birth to sons so they would have some value.
He is unique. But you two will find out how unique he is hihi
Yeah, watching this, we really need to put the pov in that era, not today's logic, like things that are not allowed now may be allowed back then. This is based on Imperial China but the kingdom was fiction only. We may know this already but sometimes without realizing it, we put today's logic for a situation in that era but understandable, sometimes we just know very little about the era and that's fine, we can simply learn. Also, the show tells the time passes when you look the season changing.
If you have questions, remember them but no need to dwell too much on them, that's fine. Simply remember as many details as you can, the show is good at answering many of your questions. Sometimes you'll get the answers soon, sometimes it'll take time.
really good episode not only is fuyou free...now she is also with the person she wants to be with it was a pretty dangerous task to get there but its nice that it payed off for them
Finally the slap scene is next🎉
the 4 concubines are not exactly his wifes, its... difficult to put in word... its like ladies of high status for the "gene pool" for the emporors children, gives connections to other feudal lords in a political way, and i wont try explain the situation of a certain of them, for... well... you will see and it will be explained by the show 😅
We definitely learned to understand it more as it goes on😅
@@CaraPrezReacts as soon as you look at the rear palace as a den of politics everything will make more sense to you. All of these concubines are ladies of stature and station. They offer power to the royal family of the emperor through their subservience and loyalty. They gain power and station through their support of the Emperor and by extension the royal family. They are political party leaders in essence for the kingdoms they come from within the empire. There are a lot of other sociological aspects to the concubine relationship but UA-cam comments are too short for it and I don't want to spoil. 😅
In short, while their womanhood is the primary value, it is not the only value. Becoming an Empress through marriage to the Emperor is the highest station they can reach and their homelands have a lot of political power in the royal courts. The closer the concubine relationship with the emperor the greater the power of that concubine's family on the other side in court.
Let's hope that the emperor never realizes that he was duped.
Now Maomao looking at her pinky is different.
right?
I think the Emperor and Jinshi played along with Fuyou and her lover scheme. They could not formally say or reveal anything to anyone.
Yeah...he isn't that lusty... He just needed a marriage with a vassal country's princess....the emperor isn't that arrogant, is smart.
Yeah...he isn't that lusty... He just needed a marriage with a vassal country's princess....the emperor isn't that arrogant, is smart.
Yeah...he isn't that lusty... He just needed a marriage with a vassal country's princess....the emperor isn't that arrogant, is smart.
Yeah...he isn't that lusty... He just needed a marriage with a vassal country's princess....the emperor isn't that arrogant, is smart.
Yeah...he isn't that lusty... He just needed a marriage with a vassal country's princess....the emperor isn't that arrogant, is smart.
If the emperor had touched her that would have been it, I don't think she would have ever been allowed to leave... At least that's what happened in some periods. Of course people know of the 9 month pregnancy, but emperors are like gods so... who knows their powers?? So women that were involved with him couldn't be allowed to have children with anyone else.
Recently I got hooked on this anime too) But the seasons are over, and manga is being translated into my language slowly...I'm sad)
PS. How did it happen that there is no Kuroshitsuji on the channel?) Almost like the foundation of the basics))
Is there a chance that it will happen?
It's not a pinkie promise thing but watch for the thing with the pinky. It's important.
The emperor (and every male in this time period) can have one official wife and multiple concubines. Yeah, they're practically sold. Women can't choose who they marry. The choice of who they are married off to is always a political move whether you're an emperor or a normal family. The goal in marrying off daughters is always to increase the family's social standing by choosing which family to ally with.
The males can be normal citizens and work, or they can be slaves themselves. Women who work more often than not are slaves. Women of high standing are raised to be good in calligraphy, embroidery, and other arts. Women who want to work or start a business are frowned upon by society because working is only for males; women who opt to work are seen like wanting to be a slave worker. Only those who are born in important families are granted the opportunity to be court ladies; maids to even more important people inside the royal palace. In Maomao's case, she can only ever be regarded as an apothecary, never a doctor. Even if she is more knowledgeable than a palace doctor, she will never be granted a high and official title of "doctor".
Wives are meant to handle running the household, including budgeting for the concubines of the husband. A jealous wife is also frowned upon. It is a mark of a kind and perfect wife to allow his husband multiple concubines to ensure that there are backup children to the male heir of the family. Also marrying off children of the concubines is a good political move to ally with other families, while the children of the wives are married off to families with better standing (ex. marrying them to the royal family). Concubines, especially if childless, can still be given away by the husband to someone else (but I've only read of the royal family doing this).
The women of the emperor are all from political alliances. Thus, their fathers/brothers are fighting in court for power, meanwhile the concubines are vying for the emperor's affections and the chance to birth the first prince in order to secure the position of the emperor's official wife: the empress. Whoever becomes empress automatically gives political power to the concubine's family. It is ideally an AND situation, not an OR. The empress must be the mother of the heir prince. Otherwise, a civil war between the family of the empress vs the heir might happen.
Let me explain how it work
Emperor yang has alot of concubines but the top 4 are the ones that he beds or are hight rank family.
The concubine that gives birth the crown prince will become his wife automatically. Due she gave birth to the future heir of emperor Yang. So beging his wife she becomes empress.
A other thing Emperor yang has alot of concubines due the statues of there family too. Its important to gave hight rank family daughters so that there family will ne a big support in your regin. So that how it is
Can you please sort out the playlist? It's shuffled. Please arrange it in order of release. Thank you.
you so we close to something during your recap, but missed it by a tiny bit. Lady Gyokuyou understands her own place as a emperors side, but I think that look she had was more of understanding her daughter, the daughter of the emperor is going to GIVEN to some man to buy his loyalty to the emperor, neither she nor her daughter are going to have any control of that. An likely it won't even be the emperors idea it will come from one of his court aids, "YOU SHOULD MARRY YOUR DAUGHTER TO X"
Check out your lie in April
You evil person.
この人達面白い だれか翻訳してくれないかな
Day 7 of asking for an alya sometimes hides her feelings in russian Anime reaction
FIRST!!
the artist who draws The Apothecary Diaries pleaded guilty to tax evasion in japan, so far Square Enix has confirmed that it will not be ending the The Apothecary Diaries, BUT most likely it will not be good, how can you be in the mood to write and draw while doing time and broke...
That was the mangaka.
The original source is the light novels. Different artist
not sure if its been covered or not, but the show is writen by a women
Suggestion out of nowhere as i just realized u dont have Mushoku tensei:Jobless reincarnation reactions i would recommend ... Or you guys have separate channels too ?
God I hate that anime. Read the novel and dropped it too. It definitely wouldn't be Cara's cup of tea.
@@GreySeashell-j3m it is not meant to be pleasant but the anime as anime is amazing first 4 episodes might give bad vibes but it is still amazing and every decision matters ...
@@GreySeashell-j3m you are meant to feel uncomfortable sometimes during this anime it is a part of the show ... Character growth is basically a storyline
@@GreySeashell-j3m
What are you even talking about troll? Its one of the best stories and the novels are even better. After the end of the season I couldnt resist and started reading the novels and just went through 13, 14 and 15. It was that good. The first anime that made me ever start reading a LN.
@@teongreen5254 how in the world did you understand MT but fail to get re zero??
A later episode has Jinshi complaining about having to take libido-reducing drugs to do his job so, no, he is not a eunuch. More than that would be serious spoilers, but he is very intentionally positioned there by the Emperor.
if it comes up in a later episode, why are you telling them now?
Don't ruin the reaction by spoilers. Please use spoiler tags when revealing stuff that happens in the future.
2:18 cringe
why am I single... 😭😭😭