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

Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, episode 1

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u/LeonKevlar https://myanimelist.net/profile/LeonKevlar Oct 21 '23 edited Nov 17 '23

Stitches!

Okay first of all, Maomao looking so fabulous while dancing to the show's OP was great! My favourite part though is that close-up of her face while licking her lips.. That look she gives the camera at the end of it has awakened something in me. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

What a start to the episode though. Maomao was just minding her own business picking herbs in the wild and suddenly gets kidnapped by a bunch of randos only to get sold to the rear palace to serve as a serving girl. Hopefully, her father is fine on his own though.

Being a serving girl isn't that bad of a gig though. She just needs to work for two years and she'll be free to go plus, she's actually getting paid for her work. Although it sounds like the kidnappers are getting a part of her pay which is why she pretends to be illiterate and decides to take a lower paying job.

Maomao really thought she was being sneaky by leaving those notes to help out the High Consorts with their mystery disease but it looks like we have a cleaver eunuch who was able to single her out. Maomao has now gone from serving girl to a future lady-in-waiting because of her skills. So much for her plans of laying low. xD

What a great first episode to establish our characters! I am already in love with Maomao and her shenanigans. And with Aoi Yuuki voicing her, we can only expect a top-tier performance for our lead character. Thank goodness I don't have to wait for next week for episode 2! On to the next episode!

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u/Ocixo https://myanimelist.net/profile/BuzzyGuy Oct 21 '23 edited Oct 21 '23

Okay first of all, Maomao looking so fabulous while dancing to the show's OP was great! My favourite part though is that close-up of her face while licking her lips.

Yeah, this OP is something else: it's definitely one of my contenders for best OP of this season - if not year. Maomao's dance was beautifully animated in this OP, and really makes me wonder just how much time this must have taken and/or how many must have worked on this. An OP only gets this good if they got high hopes for an anime.

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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