I admit the checklist is not lengthy, however… Kusuriya no Hitorigoto positively ranks close to the highest for gentle novelty tweaks I’ve favored through the years. A lot of the LNs that actually clicked for me are a lot older, from a time when the time period meant one thing very completely different, and up to date examples are few and much between. It serves as a helpful reminder to me that there’s high quality within the medium, and that I shouldn’t dismiss it totally. The issue is that so few customized LNs deviate from the system and options that burden most LNs.
The pharmacist’s diaries however it definitely does. The issues it has aren’t the standard LN-specific flaws, and it does a number of issues very effectively. I ended up liking it extra then Sousou after freezing – it is pure to match since they’re each two-night exhibits within the fall of 2023 that ended up being the most important business hits of that six-month interval – and that is definitely troubling given my private historical past. Credit score the place it is due – this can be a actually good adaptation of what’s clearly good supply materials.
I might additionally say that Lakan’s story was in the end essentially the most attention-grabbing of the sequence, and for that cause it’s definitely an excellent story to finish on. I am fascinated by the quantity of unhealthy assumptions new viewers make about Lakan. For instance, I by no means thought he was a nasty particular person, or – as most appeared to imagine – that he raped Fengxian or in any other case abused her. He at all times struck me as a principally respectable man who turned conceited in coping with folks much less good than him, and who had a considerably sadistic humorousness (very similar to a sure pharmacist).
I additionally observed that after final week’s episode, nearly everybody appeared satisfied that Maomao was making an attempt to get Lakan to purchase out Meimei. And truthfully, it baffles me that you would assume it was something apart from what it was: a guess to get him to purchase out Fengxian. How might the “withered rose” probably have referred to the rest? Maomao could have thought at the back of her thoughts that he may select Meimei and she or he can be okay with it, however that clearly wasn’t her aim.
I believed the ending with Fengxian and Lakan was very effectively performed. Frankly, the person with prosopagnosia sees the face of the attractive woman he fell in love with, and never the fading and smeared invalid within the closing phases of the illness? That is poetic, no much less. This entire affair is a tragedy, however not of Lakan’s making. In any case, it is a disgrace that Maomao did not take motion on this sooner, so they may have had slightly extra time collectively taking part in Go. It’s clear that this withered rose isn’t any much less stunning to Lakan.
Xiaomao’s view of her father is sophisticated. Sure, she is grateful that he “landed that shot” (ROFL). And he or she admits that her mom received pregnant and carried her to time period as a result of she needed to – if something, she fooled Lakan (presumably in hopes of decreasing her worth so she might be purchased out by him). But she nonetheless hates him (no less than it isn’t hate). And the core of it’s that they’re too comparable. Lakan is sensible sufficient to thrive on intuition, which makes the extra diligent (she clearly realized that from her stepfather) Xiaomao jealous. I sincerely hope that she and her pure father have an actual relationship earlier than this story is claimed and performed.
Maomao’s dance on the roof as a conventional farewell for Fengxian was one other very stunning scene. You might nearly say it was a sentimental motion, from somebody we do not normally see as a sentimental particular person. Naturally, it catches the eye of Jinshi, whose sudden arrival almost causes catastrophe. Because the wound on her leg opens up once more (that is occurred so many instances, I ponder if it foreshadows one thing), and she or he’s about to sew it up proper then and there herself earlier than Jinshi intervenes.
Clearly, the prospect of a romance between Xiaomao and Jinshi has been teased fairly laborious, and it is an elephant within the room going ahead. He is grown on me a bit after a really rocky begin, though I nonetheless do not actually see a lot romantic chemistry there. Actually, she appears fully bored with romance and which will simply be her nature. The problems surrounding Jinshi’s bloodline and his connection to the succession are of extra significance to me as a future plot level than a potential relationship with Maomao.
All of that is related, after all, as a result of we’re clearly getting a second (and finally third, little question) season. That we might do this was by no means unsure, however there have been no video games right here – it was confirmed after the credit. I used to be solely going to return alongside to boost Aoi Yuuki’s tour de power, however… Kusuriya no Hitorigoto additionally has lots to supply. It is a case the place the hype resulting in a possible kaijuu sequence was just about deserved, and that is nearly as uncommon as a lightweight novel in my year-end prime 20 (or possibly even 10).
