{"id":109336,"date":"2024-03-26T07:26:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lostinanime.com\/?p=254095"},"modified":"2024-03-26T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T07:26:11","slug":"kusuriya-no-hitorigoto-the-apothecary-diaries-24-season-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/26\/kusuriya-no-hitorigoto-the-apothecary-diaries-24-season-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The Apothecary Diaries) \u2013 24 (Season Finale)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I admit the list isn\u2019t a long one, but\u00a0Kusuriya no Hitorigoto<\/em>\u00a0is certainly near the top for light novel adaptations I\u2019ve liked in recent years.\u00a0 Most of the LNs that really clicked for me are much older, from a time when the term meant something quite different, and recent examples are few and far between.\u00a0 It serves as a useful reminder for me that there\u2019s quality to be found in the medium, and not to dismiss it entirely and out of hand.\u00a0 The problem is that so few adapted LNs stray from the formula and traits which weigh most LNs down.<\/p>\n

The Apothecary Diaries<\/em>\u00a0certainly does, though.\u00a0 What flaws it has aren\u2019t the typical LN-specific ones, and it does an awful lot of things very well.\u00a0 In the end I liked it better than\u00a0Sousou no Frieren<\/em>\u00a0– it\u2019s natural to compare as both are two-cour Fall 2023 shows which wound up being the biggest commercial hits of that six-month period – and that\u2019s certainly an upset given my personal history.\u00a0 Credit where it\u2019s due – this is a really good adaptation of what\u2019s clearly a good source material.<\/p>\n

I would also say that Lakan\u2019s story ended up being the most interesting of the series, and it\u2019s certainly a good one to end on for that reason.\u00a0 I\u2019m fascinated by the amount of bad assumptions made about Lakan by new viewers.\u00a0 I never thought he was an evil person, for example, or – as most seemed to assume – that he\u2019d raped Fengxian or otherwise abused her in some way.\u00a0 He just always struck me as a basically decent guy made arrogant by dealing with people less smart than him, and possessed of a somewhat sadistic sense of humor (not unlike a certain apothecary).<\/p>\n

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I also noticed that after last week\u2019s episode, almost everyone seemed convinced Maomao was trying to get Lakan to buy out Meimei.\u00a0 And frankly, it baffles me that one could think it was anything other than what it was – a wager to get him to buy out Fengxian.\u00a0 How could the \u201cwithered rose\u201d possibly have referred to anything else? Maomao may in the back of her mind have been thinking he might choose Meimei and she\u2019d be fine with it, but that clearly was not her goal.<\/p>\n

I thought the denouement with Fengxian and Lakan was really well done. Honestly, the guy with prosopagnosia sees the face of the beautiful girl he fell in love with, not the fading and blotched invalid in the final stages of illness?\u00a0 That\u2019s poetic, no less.\u00a0 This whole affair is a tragedy, but not of Lakan\u2019s making.\u00a0 If anything It\u2019s a shame Maomao didn\u2019t act on this sooner, so the two of them could have had a little more time together to play Go<\/a>.\u00a0 Clearly, this withered rose is no less beautiful to Lakan.<\/p>\n

Xiaomao\u2019s view of her father is complicated.\u00a0 Yes, she\u2019s grateful that he \u201clanded that shot\u201d (ROFL).\u00a0 And she admits both that her mother became pregnant and carried her to term because she wanted to – if anything she tricked Lakan (presumably hoping to lower her price so she could be bought out by him).\u00a0 Yet she still dislikes (at least it\u2019s not hate) him.\u00a0 And at the heart of it, it\u2019s because they\u2019re too much alike.\u00a0 Lakan is smart enough to thrive based on instinct, which makes the more industrious (she learned that from her stepfather, clearly)\u00a0 Xiaomao envious. I genuinely hope she and her natural father have a real relationship before this story is said and done.<\/p>\n

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Maomao\u2019s dance on the rooftop<\/a> as a traditional sendoff for Fengxian was another quite lovely scene.\u00a0 One could almost say it was a sentimental action, from someone we don\u2019t typically see as a sentimental person.\u00a0 Of course it draws the attention of Jinshi, whose surprise arrival nearly causes a disaster.\u00a0 As is the wound on her leg reopens (that\u2019s happened so many times now I wonder if it\u2019s foreshadowing something), and she\u2019s about to stitch it up herself on the spot before Jinshi intervenes.<\/p>\n

Obviously the prospect of romance between Xiaomao and Jinshi has been teased pretty hard<\/a>, and it\u2019s an elephant in the room going forward.\u00a0 He\u2019s grown on me some after a very rough start, though I still don\u2019t really see much romantic chemistry there.\u00a0 Frankly she seems completely disinterested in romance and that may just be her nature.\u00a0 The stuff involving Jinshi\u2019s bloodline and his connection to the succession is of more interest to me as a future plot point than a potential relationship with Maomao.<\/p>\n

All this is relevant, of course, because of course we\u2019re getting a second (and eventual third, no doubt) season.\u00a0 That we would was never in doubt, but there were no games here – it was confirmed after the end credits.\u00a0 I\u2019d tag along just to heat Aoi Yuuki\u2019s tour de force performance, but\u00a0Kusuriya no Hitorigoto<\/em>\u00a0has a lot going for it besides that.\u00a0 It\u2019s a case where the hype leading into a potential kaijuu series was pretty much deserved, and that\u2019s almost as rare as a light novel in my year-end top 20 (or maybe even 10).<\/p>\n

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