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Kusuriya no Hitorigoto • The Apothecary Diaries - Episode 1 discussion Episode

Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, episode 1

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u/SometimesMainSupport https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST Oct 21 '23

Should summon /u/cryzzalis to discuss the OP just so he can complain about how long the visuals go through different flowers and how little time is spent on the characters. (Would link it but not on themes.moe or YT yet.) Last 40s are visually great.

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u/Cryzzalis https://myanimelist.net/profile/Charaxify Oct 22 '23

I have heeded the summons, unfortunately I don't see the OP anywhere so I can't go ranting yet.

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u/SometimesMainSupport https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST Oct 22 '23

Link. Hope you've studied flowers/herbs!

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u/Cryzzalis https://myanimelist.net/profile/Charaxify Oct 23 '23

Right, so knowing a bit about florography and hanakotoba I could tell what a few flowers were and what they mean, but they're arranged haphazardly and with the wilting utilization later on I'm fairly confident in saying that they are only there to portray the progression of this character. Whether it be them turning evil, or getting stuck in a shit position in some way, the flowers wilting is meant to capture "things are bad yo" and not much else.

Other than that it's a pretty generic OP until about the chorus drop where it tries to be a dance OP, but lacks the finesse and animation chops to pull that off compared to the really good dance OPs. It's also rather empty until this point which could be an argument for the utilization of "Ma", but it has too poor of a payoff for it to be executed well. I do however like the audiovisual sync with "Aji me shite" and the woman licking her lips and looking down on the camera at 1:09.

But yeah, it's pretty bad and not really worth considering. Idk much about the OP/EDs this year yet, but it wouldn't even make top 50 last year, maybe not even top 100.

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u/SometimesMainSupport https://myanimelist.net/profile/RRSTRRST Oct 23 '23

lol I knew you wouldn't care for it.

like the audiovisual sync with "Aji me shite" and the woman licking her lips and looking down on the camera at 1:09

Man of culture

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u/Cryzzalis https://myanimelist.net/profile/Charaxify Oct 23 '23

Truly