@@resolvedfate1295It's also her fault for not saying it explicitly, as someone in the episode pointed out (I think it was MeiMei). They were both really bad at communicating their feelings sadly.
People keep saying "Maomao got her mother's looks and her father's intellect" keep forgetting that their relationship started with her beating him at the game he was proficient at and probably they were tied at worst over years which is why Lakan even was interested in her. Not to mention she devised the plan where he could afford to purchase her while he failed to grasp this plan. If anything, Maomao got a reinforced intellect and cunning from both her parents which is also how she keeps beating Lakan's schemes and also tricked him.
@@justinnelson1118 She probably thought he could figure it out which he couldn't. Then again if he was back in 6 months like he told her, he'd be there to find out. She probably was being awkward in her own way but that cost her too much unlike him.
@@sapphyrus unfortunately he was summoned by the military and to refuse means to be executed so he had no choice. Lack of communication plus order of events screwed it up
@@sapphyrus Yeah, as far as I have been able to find, she didn't know about his condition and so wouldn't know, that she needed to be clear with him. Add to that, that Lakan is likely as Emotionally immature as child, having barely been able to relate to others, would know very little about Love, untill he lost it, that is.
It hurts more when you interpret things as Lakan painting himself as a villain on purpose as a form of self-punishment. He leaves Jinshi with the implication that he'd assaulted Maomao's mother with the express intent of lowering her value as a courtesan as though he were obsessed with her only to find out they both legitimately cared for each other and their seperation was forced through extenuating circumstances. That man probably wakes up every morning and tells himself how much of a garbage human being he is.
Oh man I hadn't even thought of that angle, the only reason we're given to believe that he's a dirtbag is the way he talks to Jinshi. If that's an expression of his obvious self-loathing, that makes a lot of sense...
For those who didn't know, Lakan (father) could always beat Fengxian (mother) at xiangqi (Chinese chess), but could never beat her at go. The fact that he chose to play go at that moment was significant for wanting Fengxian to make her wish true.
Circling back after last episode, this is the thing that maomao's still to traumatized to understand: her parents genuinely loved each other, and her mother raged BECAUSE of that sense of betrayed love. (And because Lakan was too dumb/scared to just tell Fengxian how he felt, and to realize what their night truly meant to Fengxian.)
The show literlly gaslights you into hating him. And it makes some scense notnmake sense. Like why does Maomao seem to fear him the whole show and hide from him if he is actully a chill dude?
Dramatic irony, we know what happened to him but the other characters don't. To Maomao he was a deadbeat dad that ran off after impregnating her mother.
I feel like so bad for prejudging Lakan so hard,what a tragic character…both him and Fengxian,if the circumstances were a bit different they would be a happy family with Maomao…
At first i blamed Lakan for most of the problems but now i feel bad for doing that, now i know why someone wise once said "Never judge someone without knowing the whole story. You may think you understand but you don't"
Minor detail, but it is interesting that for Fenxian they hired the same VA that voiced the MC in another famous Chinese themed fiction - Saiyunkoku Monogatary. Also, if anyone have not caught it. The scene with nail polisher that continues MaoMaos explanation about it from the previous episode: 1. Nail polisher courtesans use has two main components: essences of balsam and woodsorrel. 2. "Fenxian" means "balsam". 3. "MaoMao" means "little cat" and woodsorrel is called "cats paw/foot" in some asian countries. 4. Her mother choose this name delibertately considering that Lakan was fascinated by it.
I like how both MaoMao and Jinshi, throughout the whole Second Cour, end up bordering unreliable narrator territory with their demeanor towards Lakan portraying him as the most awful person. But all you needed was a flip of perspective, or rather, just a neutral one: When Lakan insinuated, while grinning maliciously, that he did something deplorable to lower Fengxian's price, it wasn't him bragging about a coldly and methodically premeditated plan. It's his Guilt speaking, dressed in nihilism and self-deprecating/sardonic coping. He wasn't grinning out of Pride. But out of misery and self loathing.
Excellent way of subverting expectations. I hated the guy as soon as he showed up purely based on a one-sided observation, now I kinda feel sorry for him. Hoping for a season 2.
If she had taught by Luomen, who is her father's uncle and who respects him, she probably wouldn't be much different. She would be happier, she would know fewer brothel tricks (although she would still know some of them from her mother) and she would have a better base for experiment, and if she was lucky, maybe she wouldn't have to get married, because her father doesn't seem to particularly accept conventions.
@@landark7666One thing that would be important if Lakan followed the same path that he did is that, despite his father's wishes, Lakan still became head of his clan. And he's a very high ranking official, just like concubine Loulan's father. That would mean that socially, Maomao would be on the same level as the high ranking concubines (at least before they became concubines). She still could be, if she was officially acknowledged as Lakan's daughter.
I never saw anything wrong with what he did. He never forced her to be his daughter and he never crossed the line. He got angry when Maomao was punched and he was traumatized when she almost died. The fact that he wanted to lower the price of the courtesan seemed strange to me from the beginning, because why didn't he buy her if he wanted to lower her price? There were too many strange things that I didn't understand from the beginning, now it all makes sense.
* LIGHT SPOILERS* I remember reading this and just being do devastated for these two. Like yeah Lakan ain't a GREAT person, but they actually wanted to be with one another and everything just ended up in tragedy. I'm happy with how their story ends though.
@@FaustV1 *Full Spoilers* Basically Mao Mao beats him at a chess match (sort of) and the wager was that if she won he would buy a girl from the verdigris house. So he loses and buys out Fengxian (MaoMao's mom) after all these years. And though Syphilis ravaged her body and mind he still sees the beautiful woman he fell in love with all those years ago. I haven't read past vol.. 10 I think so idk if anything happens after that.
When you think about it laklan choose Go after mentioning he had a nasty thought but pretty sure maomao mother is stronger in that game so shows he had a slight hint but didn't want to go through with it until she forced the hint. Like look at the conditions she gave and even gave him the option to choose. It was clear as day as he also knew her price was getting hiked but he was just naive.
To put an often misunderstood line into context. You have to remember that Fengxian always wins at go, and Lakan always wins at chess. SO when they said they want to play go and chess in bed, they were talking about who should be the top in the relationship.
its actually a reference to whether they wanted a boy or girl, because iirc the characters in chinese r vaguely similar. Fengxian wanted a girl, while Lakan wanted a boy.
Yeah, their story was absolutely tragic. What Mao Mao did was selfless though, and the way she kept hammering about how Luomen played a major role in shaping her life really goes to show how much she treasures the guy. What a show.
Her doing this extremely risky plan whilst not even telling him her plan was very dumb.I'm tired of seeing how they make it seem like it was his fault for not catching on.
This whole episode was such a crazy subversion. Like you're really gonna tell me that this shady AF guy who literally sees other people as chess pieces, and who insinuated that he sexually assaulted Maomao's mother, is at worst just a coward with bad communication skills? Now that I think about it, I'm willing to bet that him seeing other people as chees pieces is just some metaphor for how isolated he feels from others. Would certainly explain why he could "see" Maomao's mother and Maomao herself.
Also, wow, what a lovely title. Couldn't be more tactful and subtle if I tried... That is, if I aimed to replicate the dexterity of a rampaging Elephant through a whole Glassware aisle
You know, this story is similar to the ep 3 love story but, only here they do not achieve to be together as that couple, a happy ending. So yeah, bad luck
I find so ridiculous how blind some women of the court are, always sh!tting on maomao’s looks when she her drawn on freckles barely manage to make her less attractive. her mom was a knockout, OFC maomao is a beauty too. It irritates me how random jealous maids fail to see that
And all the issues, because noone was aware that Lakan was in autism spectrum. Noone except Lakan's uncle and Maomao's granduncle, (and adopitve das) Luomen. Out of love to nephew, he took care ofvhis daughter.
@friendchannel5382 I'm used to inter laced fingers being... spaced out. instead, her thumb and index are connected, as opposed to her thumb being over his thumb...
Just the way their hands came together made it look like while they're both bad at verbal communication, there was a lot of physical attraction happening. The clothes chucked every which way on the floor also suggested they got, um, heated :D
Not gonna lie, i think i liked him from the scene of him cleaning his fingers of a officers hat, i still didnt trust him but i liked him, realizing he wasn't a... Ya know, was a big boon
I assumed from Lakans conversations with Jinshi that MaoMao was potneitally a product of r*** and that is what forced her mother to take on customers and caused MaoMaos resentment of him. This gives a more intersting depth to Lakans character though.
it can actually be read as self projection, that he tried to make himself out to be a monster, both in his and others eyes, cause that is how he feels about himself.
@@chriswihuluI like that idea. He chose not to object to his father forcing him to sgo abroad, and then stayed away longer than expected and now he has tremendous feelings of guilt. Could be read both as life taking an unfortunate path for both of them but also that he in the end chose to go and ultimatly stay away even if he now regrets it.
@@Alexander-kc8oq Well, he didn’t really study abroad. Anime misinterpreted the events. What really happened was that his father, who was his superior, told him to go on a military campaign. And we all know what happens if a military officer disobeys direct orders from the higher ups. So really, he had no choice in the matter.
The thing is that the source material included a lot of subtle hints that it is effectively impossible for a courtesan to be either assaulted or to become pregnant against her wishes at a high ranking brothel. There are security systems in place against both. The anime cut a good part of these to keep up the pacing which means that you have to really pay attention to get the hints that remain that things were not what they seemed.
Spoiler answer Because the granny did not want him seeing her . She kept him away from her . She didn’t trust him because her pregnancy almost destroyed her business. & left with no word from him , so she thought he knocked her up and abandoned her.
1:28 Call me immature but I just can’t get over both of them being like “I want to play Go/Chess.” Like was it THAT bad or are they just that obsessed. Either way I’m petty and laughed. Edit = spelling mistake. I wrote “I’m PRETTY and laughed” instead of “I’m PETTY and laughed.”
It isn't in this scene, but could anyone explain what the fingers that Lakan received meant? Was that her announcing her sickness? Or pregnancy, since she sent Maomao's too? I get the general feeling but I was wondering about the exact signification. There was so much information to be read between the lines in this episode, I feel like I couldn't follow it all😭 Absolutely loved the episode though!!!
In extreme measures, courtesans would cut off their fingers as an act of love. Some would even commit suicide with their lovers if they can't be together.
You know how people would make promises to each other through a pinkie swear? I think there’s also the tradition of lovers pinkies being connected by a red string of fate. The night they slept together, they made a promise. although he didn’t get the hint that she wanted to lower her price for him and was pregnant and waiting for him to buy her out. Basically, by sending him her severed pinkie finger, she was cursing him for breaking their promise to be together. It also alludes to a lovers suicide.
honestly she got both from both. She has her mother's beauty with her father's cat (or fox) like behaviour, and she got her mother's cunning with her father's analytical mind.
Ngl black was gonna win in the GO game I saw his gameplay😂 Edit:I am actually talking about the gameplay no joke I wasn't talking about bro rizzing her up with his game he won the game of GO and you could also say he won her heart also........my nerdiness kicked in that why I'm probably still single😂
It makes sense in the episode. Lakan has face blindness and later in life he started viewing people as game pieces he can use in his plans. It does kinda look goofy though
The show literlly gaslights you into hating him. And it makes some scense notnmake sense. Like why does Maomao seem to fear him the whole show and hide from him if he is actully a chill dude
OK I take back the very bad things I said earlier about Lakan like traitor should be poisoned. I was mislead by his cutscenes where he appeared cold blooded, and Maomao’s death gazes whatever. 💀 He is an autistic savant, but he’s also a fool, a self centered dead beat Dad who abandoned Fengxian for 3 years, never answered her mail or attempted to contact her; she lost her favored status because she bore his child, was abused, got the clap, and went insane; Maomao lost her mom, and lived a life of hardship.
Aban-he was literally sent off for military duties by his father, who was his superior _and_ someone who hated him. Do you know what happens if you don’t answer a summon for military duties?
I mean, it looks more like his only mistake was conceiving Maomao; everything else was just bad circumstances. Lakan didn't want to be gone as long as he was - didn't even want to go in the first place, and the letters Fengxian sent him don't appear to have been forwarded. So to the brothel staff it looked like he just ruined her and then walked away. I wonder if he even knows Fengxian is still alive... all we were shown in that he got sent her fingers. It'd be even more tragic if he assumed she was dead and that's why he never bought her out after returning. Meanwhile Maomao was raised on the narrative that he's the worst and was actively kept from him. I have to wonder why Luomen didn't sort that mess out.
@@Narifamenhonestly I still wonder why luomen didn't try to build up a relationship between maomao and her father unless he was of the opinion that being raised by himself was the better option
@@Moocow2003he probably didn't want her to be used and wanted Mao Mao to grow up independent. Her mom was used as a courtesan with no actual self autonomy. Lakan is part of an Imperial system, and he would have raised Mao Mao to play politics or even enter the rear palace as a courtesan.
Considering that his only form of entertainment and his passion at the time was playing go and shogi…they bonded over interests. That’s a pretty common way how love starts.
@@kziila0244 It wasn't taken as criticism, but why do you feel the need to "explain" their love to an obvious joke? Again, this is my experience in the discussion around this show. No matter what, people feel the need to come in and "explain" or "correct" people. Even if it's a joke. Even if the people barely know more than the basics of the stuff they are discussing. It's weird, because I have not seen it anywhere else.
Considering the "bet" that was made at the beginning, her saying she wants to play another game of Go, which she was better than him at, was another way of saying she wanted some more of that joystick
Unrelated but can somebody explain how Paul who at first avoids heading south because of his vision where there are lots of people suffering and dying after he gains control immediately went full Lisan al gaib and go on war for revenge and control? Like i get that he drinks the water of life and realize that he is a Harkonnen but don't understand why it changes his personality to such extreme dark turns.
It's supposed to happen over a longer period but after drinking the water of life he sees all possible paths and realizes him being the chosen one was the best path. He couldn't be reluctant anymore and had to embrace the role.
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Their lovestory is heartbreaking, Fengxian wanted to be bought by Lakan not anyone else, they both loved eachother. well that took a tragic turn...
Ya she got pregnant on purpose. So her value lowered. But unfortunately he had to leave for a while. And him not catching her signs quick enough.
@@resolvedfate1295It's also her fault for not saying it explicitly, as someone in the episode pointed out (I think it was MeiMei). They were both really bad at communicating their feelings sadly.
@@Hikari12217 Like a certain apohecary cat girl, right? The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. All three are very smart but awkward persons.
This episode brought me heavily to tears.
@@tarkovtxusa6626 Same,it's natural to react like that.
People keep saying "Maomao got her mother's looks and her father's intellect" keep forgetting that their relationship started with her beating him at the game he was proficient at and probably they were tied at worst over years which is why Lakan even was interested in her. Not to mention she devised the plan where he could afford to purchase her while he failed to grasp this plan. If anything, Maomao got a reinforced intellect and cunning from both her parents which is also how she keeps beating Lakan's schemes and also tricked him.
Too bad she wasn't honest about her pregnancy and this fate could've been avoided😢
@@justinnelson1118 She probably thought he could figure it out which he couldn't. Then again if he was back in 6 months like he told her, he'd be there to find out. She probably was being awkward in her own way but that cost her too much unlike him.
@@sapphyrus unfortunately he was summoned by the military and to refuse means to be executed so he had no choice. Lack of communication plus order of events screwed it up
Sometimes when people see a pretty woman they forget she has other attributes🥲
@@sapphyrus Yeah, as far as I have been able to find, she didn't know about his condition and so wouldn't know, that she needed to be clear with him. Add to that, that Lakan is likely as Emotionally immature as child, having barely been able to relate to others, would know very little about Love, untill he lost it, that is.
It hurts more when you interpret things as Lakan painting himself as a villain on purpose as a form of self-punishment. He leaves Jinshi with the implication that he'd assaulted Maomao's mother with the express intent of lowering her value as a courtesan as though he were obsessed with her only to find out they both legitimately cared for each other and their seperation was forced through extenuating circumstances.
That man probably wakes up every morning and tells himself how much of a garbage human being he is.
Oh man I hadn't even thought of that angle, the only reason we're given to believe that he's a dirtbag is the way he talks to Jinshi. If that's an expression of his obvious self-loathing, that makes a lot of sense...
😭
💔
Living like that for 17 years and finally getting their happy ending
For those who didn't know, Lakan (father) could always beat Fengxian (mother) at xiangqi (Chinese chess), but could never beat her at go. The fact that he chose to play go at that moment was significant for wanting Fengxian to make her wish true.
That's a good point.
THAT didn't come across on first watch. Thanks.
I read that and totally forgot about it, I just went back to highlight that in the book thanx!!
😮😮
Circling back after last episode, this is the thing that maomao's still to traumatized to understand: her parents genuinely loved each other, and her mother raged BECAUSE of that sense of betrayed love.
(And because Lakan was too dumb/scared to just tell Fengxian how he felt, and to realize what their night truly meant to Fengxian.)
To think I thought Lakan was a r**ist,but actually they both loved each other so very much…yet another lesson to not judge without full context.
I mean i think thats the intended idea you're supposed to come to and lakan does not help that assumption
@@VeenanNorviusand that's what i love abt this anime, completely broke my expectations in one single episode
never judge a book by his cover
The show literlly gaslights you into hating him. And it makes some scense notnmake sense. Like why does Maomao seem to fear him the whole show and hide from him if he is actully a chill dude?
Dramatic irony, we know what happened to him but the other characters don't. To Maomao he was a deadbeat dad that ran off after impregnating her mother.
I feel like so bad for prejudging Lakan so hard,what a tragic character…both him and Fengxian,if the circumstances were a bit different they would be a happy family with Maomao…
Eu já esperava um pouco de tragédia. Romance de cortesã sempre é sofrido
Yeah... But you know: " What's done is never undone" 😔
@@turinmormegil7715 Si, es verdad. Lo siento, espanol no es mi lengua primeria.
@@AlaReDuS don't worry, tampoco es mi lengua
At first i blamed Lakan for most of the problems but now i feel bad for doing that, now i know why someone wise once said
"Never judge someone without knowing the whole story. You may think you understand but you don't"
Well that’s CERTAINLY one way to describe this scene.
Could have also just said, "MaoMao's father is a great shot" To paraphrase her 😂
@@chriswihuluthat's what my father's colleagues said about him having twins: that he was a crackshot and had a helluva aim
Straight to the point....just like their Night hehehe.
Now Im wondering if Maomao also inherited her mother's singing voice along with her beauty
Actually, MaoMao sings a lullaby to Jinshi in the novel.
So, yes?
@@sarvieeWhere can I read that? I need to see that scene must be adorable
Maomao's parents attracted each other with power of mind, which cumullated on their daughter. Sad story in deed.
Minor detail, but it is interesting that for Fenxian they hired the same VA that voiced the MC in another famous Chinese themed fiction - Saiyunkoku Monogatary.
Also, if anyone have not caught it. The scene with nail polisher that continues MaoMaos explanation about it from the previous episode:
1. Nail polisher courtesans use has two main components: essences of balsam and woodsorrel.
2. "Fenxian" means "balsam".
3. "MaoMao" means "little cat" and woodsorrel is called "cats paw/foot" in some asian countries.
4. Her mother choose this name delibertately considering that Lakan was fascinated by it.
I like how both MaoMao and Jinshi, throughout the whole Second Cour, end up bordering unreliable narrator territory with their demeanor towards Lakan portraying him as the most awful person. But all you needed was a flip of perspective, or rather, just a neutral one:
When Lakan insinuated, while grinning maliciously, that he did something deplorable to lower Fengxian's price, it wasn't him bragging about a coldly and methodically premeditated plan. It's his Guilt speaking, dressed in nihilism and self-deprecating/sardonic coping.
He wasn't grinning out of Pride. But out of misery and self loathing.
Maomao inherited her mother's serene beauty and her father's intellect (as well as his eccentric behaviour😂).
Spoilers:
More like the La Clan’s eccentric behavior. Members of their family almost all display some form of abnormal traits.
Her mother's intellect and cunning too. Let's not forget she could beat Lakan.
I will say her intelligence is a mixture of both. Got her critical analysis from him with a hint of cunning and sharpness from the mother.
For all his intelligence, he wasn't very clever
@@jessiesargent7212 difference between intellect and wisdom, the latter of which can only improve with experience.
It isn't everyday you get to see the consequences of handholding unfold.
All the memes about this shocking, morally questionable act make sense now ;D
Excellent way of subverting expectations. I hated the guy as soon as he showed up purely based on a one-sided observation, now I kinda feel sorry for him.
Hoping for a season 2.
Announced and will come in 2025❤
I wonder what Maomao would be like if she had both her parents from the start 🤔
If she had taught by Luomen, who is her father's uncle and who respects him, she probably wouldn't be much different. She would be happier, she would know fewer brothel tricks (although she would still know some of them from her mother) and she would have a better base for experiment, and if she was lucky, maybe she wouldn't have to get married, because her father doesn't seem to particularly accept conventions.
Probably even more weird tho less jaded and betted at feeling certain emotions
@@landark7666One thing that would be important if Lakan followed the same path that he did is that, despite his father's wishes, Lakan still became head of his clan. And he's a very high ranking official, just like concubine Loulan's father. That would mean that socially, Maomao would be on the same level as the high ranking concubines (at least before they became concubines).
She still could be, if she was officially acknowledged as Lakan's daughter.
@@bradgaines5091good news for those who read the light novels, then.
She wouldn't be an apothecary 😂 Remember that her adoptive father taught her how to do so
I never saw anything wrong with what he did. He never forced her to be his daughter and he never crossed the line. He got angry when Maomao was punched and he was traumatized when she almost died.
The fact that he wanted to lower the price of the courtesan seemed strange to me from the beginning, because why didn't he buy her if he wanted to lower her price? There were too many strange things that I didn't understand from the beginning, now it all makes sense.
Might be the most shocking twist of 2024. Credit to the mangaka for playing on our biases.
Agree
I see our little editor is getting bold
* LIGHT SPOILERS*
I remember reading this and just being do devastated for these two. Like yeah Lakan ain't a GREAT person, but they actually wanted to be with one another and everything just ended up in tragedy. I'm happy with how their story ends though.
It’s still sad though. Like even their ending is sad.
How does there story end? Do they finally end up together?
@@FaustV1 *Full Spoilers*
Basically Mao Mao beats him at a chess match (sort of) and the wager was that if she won he would buy a girl from the verdigris house. So he loses and buys out Fengxian (MaoMao's mom) after all these years. And though Syphilis ravaged her body and mind he still sees the beautiful woman he fell in love with all those years ago. I haven't read past vol.. 10 I think so idk if anything happens after that.
@@bailey1368I like this end for them ngl. At least they got to be together in the end.
@@FaustV1 the story hasn’t ended yet. It’s still ongoing
Fengxian's lullaby is so cute and sad because reflects what will happen with her and Lakan in the future 😭
MAOMAO INHERITED HER MOTHER’S BEAUTY AND INTELLECT.
She got both of her parent's intellect. It is pretty clear she has traits from both.
When you think about it laklan choose Go after mentioning he had a nasty thought but pretty sure maomao mother is stronger in that game so shows he had a slight hint but didn't want to go through with it until she forced the hint. Like look at the conditions she gave and even gave him the option to choose. It was clear as day as he also knew her price was getting hiked but he was just naive.
This is what's wrong with women. Instead of being straighforward they gotts give out these extremely convoluted hints.
This is why communication is key.
To put an often misunderstood line into context. You have to remember that Fengxian always wins at go, and Lakan always wins at chess. SO when they said they want to play go and chess in bed, they were talking about who should be the top in the relationship.
its actually a reference to whether they wanted a boy or girl, because iirc the characters in chinese r vaguely similar. Fengxian wanted a girl, while Lakan wanted a boy.
Yeah, their story was absolutely tragic. What Mao Mao did was selfless though, and the way she kept hammering about how Luomen played a major role in shaping her life really goes to show how much she treasures the guy. What a show.
Her doing this extremely risky plan whilst not even telling him her plan was very dumb.I'm tired of seeing how they make it seem like it was his fault for not catching on.
So that’s how Maomao was born….
This was freakin gorgeous and I hope JinMao gets a scene like this in the future without the tragedy
I just finished this episode. I feel sad for the whole family 😭
Which Episode. please
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This whole episode was such a crazy subversion.
Like you're really gonna tell me that this shady AF guy who literally sees other people as chess pieces, and who insinuated that he sexually assaulted Maomao's mother, is at worst just a coward with bad communication skills?
Now that I think about it, I'm willing to bet that him seeing other people as chees pieces is just some metaphor for how isolated he feels from others.
Would certainly explain why he could "see" Maomao's mother and Maomao herself.
So that’s what happens when we hold hands.
Ooof the singing man.
So thats how kenjaku made curses.
This messed me up. I’m never trusting authors ever again and their red flags. And I thought I good at discerning intentions on stories.
This anime has amazimg animation. So subtle and beautiful frames that flow. I love it so much that when I saw it was renewed for season 2 I screamed 😅
Also, wow, what a lovely title. Couldn't be more tactful and subtle if I tried...
That is, if I aimed to replicate the dexterity of a rampaging Elephant through a whole Glassware aisle
A wonderful series keeps getting better and better
Its tragic what happened. I dont even know who to blame now😢
Bad luck, fate, circumstances.
Take your pick.
Theories build on Conjecture, that is why Loumen tries so hard to teach her that lesson, because both her parents fell into that mindset.
You know, this story is similar to the ep 3 love story but, only here they do not achieve to be together as that couple, a happy ending. So yeah, bad luck
the father of lakan was the one who send him away and he didnt send her card to lakan
Lakan’s family, specifically his father.
Tragic backstory 😢
I find so ridiculous how blind some women of the court are, always sh!tting on maomao’s looks when she her drawn on freckles barely manage to make her less attractive. her mom was a knockout, OFC maomao is a beauty too. It irritates me how random jealous maids fail to see that
And all the issues, because noone was aware that Lakan was in autism spectrum. Noone except Lakan's uncle and Maomao's granduncle, (and adopitve das) Luomen. Out of love to nephew, he took care ofvhis daughter.
She got her good looks from her mother. Wonder if she also got her singing voice
Lankan’s story has one of the best plot twists ngl
Just amazing writing
Playing games to see who tops that time, that's actually kinda cute
Sleeping to beautiful singing is heaven.
1:08 her thumb and index finger being like that stood out to me when I was watching the anime.
Why?
@friendchannel5382 I'm used to inter laced fingers being... spaced out. instead, her thumb and index are connected, as opposed to her thumb being over his thumb...
The tragedy is that if she’d bothered to tell him her plan, a lot of grief and pain might have been prevented
It looks like a night of somewhat passion. 🎉
Just the way their hands came together made it look like while they're both bad at verbal communication, there was a lot of physical attraction happening. The clothes chucked every which way on the floor also suggested they got, um, heated :D
Not gonna lie, i think i liked him from the scene of him cleaning his fingers of a officers hat, i still didnt trust him but i liked him, realizing he wasn't a... Ya know, was a big boon
I can’t describe how awful I felt when I saw this episode
The old lady was the villain they could have been together 17 years sooner
I assumed from Lakans conversations with Jinshi that MaoMao was potneitally a product of r*** and that is what forced her mother to take on customers and caused MaoMaos resentment of him. This gives a more intersting depth to Lakans character though.
it can actually be read as self projection, that he tried to make himself out to be a monster, both in his and others eyes, cause that is how he feels about himself.
@@chriswihuluI like that idea. He chose not to object to his father forcing him to sgo abroad, and then stayed away longer than expected and now he has tremendous feelings of guilt. Could be read both as life taking an unfortunate path for both of them but also that he in the end chose to go and ultimatly stay away even if he now regrets it.
@@Alexander-kc8oq
Well, he didn’t really study abroad. Anime misinterpreted the events. What really happened was that his father, who was his superior, told him to go on a military campaign. And we all know what happens if a military officer disobeys direct orders from the higher ups. So really, he had no choice in the matter.
The thing is that the source material included a lot of subtle hints that it is effectively impossible for a courtesan to be either assaulted or to become pregnant against her wishes at a high ranking brothel. There are security systems in place against both. The anime cut a good part of these to keep up the pacing which means that you have to really pay attention to get the hints that remain that things were not what they seemed.
@@kziila0244Thats a really weird thing to manage to misrepresent.
Tragedy. Another element of great storytelling. I love this anime. Season 2!!
Awesome The Apothecary Diaries Video.
I don't get why didn't Lakan buy out Fengxian after he returned 3 years later
Spoiler answer
Because the granny did not want him seeing her .
She kept him away from her .
She didn’t trust him because her pregnancy almost destroyed her business.
& left with no word from him , so she thought he knocked her up and abandoned her.
He does not even know that she is alive. The anime cut a few things in its explanation and the translation did not help either.
It was also Fengxian's request To granny that he should not see her.
1:28 Call me immature but I just can’t get over both of them being like “I want to play Go/Chess.” Like was it THAT bad or are they just that obsessed. Either way I’m petty and laughed.
Edit = spelling mistake. I wrote “I’m PRETTY and laughed” instead of “I’m PETTY and laughed.”
The writers were good, make me think Lakan was evil, and a crazy villain..🤦🏽♀️they did a really good job😂😅
Does anyone know the name of that lullaby? I love listening to it.
It isn't in this scene, but could anyone explain what the fingers that Lakan received meant? Was that her announcing her sickness? Or pregnancy, since she sent Maomao's too? I get the general feeling but I was wondering about the exact signification. There was so much information to be read between the lines in this episode, I feel like I couldn't follow it all😭 Absolutely loved the episode though!!!
In extreme measures, courtesans would cut off their fingers as an act of love. Some would even commit suicide with their lovers if they can't be together.
You know how people would make promises to each other through a pinkie swear? I think there’s also the tradition of lovers pinkies being connected by a red string of fate. The night they slept together, they made a promise.
although he didn’t get the hint that she wanted to lower her price for him and was pregnant and waiting for him to buy her out.
Basically, by sending him her severed pinkie finger, she was cursing him for breaking their promise to be together. It also alludes to a lovers suicide.
@@g.d.2059 @samspotz8r8s Wow I had no idea, thank you for explaining! I understand everyone's reactions much better now
If this took place in modern times
Fengxian: I want to play Nintendo
Lakan: I was thinking of playing Sega
She took a gamble and didn't communicate and ended up paying the price
Now my only goal is to ruin my lover's life then run away and regret it all my life
Fantastic series with good story.
And that how her parents met and were she was convinced
Me, discovering Lakan wasn’t a grapeist s**tbag after all: “Perhaps I treated you too harshly.”
The Alternative title for this is "How I met your Mother"
Those who knows the plot-😢
Those seeing first time - 👀😏
So glad this didn't turn out how they were making it at first! Still bittersweet but at least it wasn't THAT!
This backstory is so sad…
what I dont understand is, why did lakan said that she made her price go down?
Because she wanted Lakan to buy her out because she loved him.
Therefore sleeping with him.
So Maomao inherited her Mother's beauty and her father's smarts.
Dunno why people keep saying this like her mother was a half-wit only good for her looks. Did people already forget she kept beating Lakan in games?
More like her mother looks and her fathers eyes. Both of her parents were intelligent
@@sapphyrusBoth are smart. She beat him in Go while he beat her chess.
honestly she got both from both. She has her mother's beauty with her father's cat (or fox) like behaviour, and she got her mother's cunning with her father's analytical mind.
I just want them to be happy 😭
Can someone explain everything ?? I tried to undersand where it did go wrong 😭😭(also its because my englsih isn't very good ;-;)
What is on that maid's head?
morale of the story, don't take advice from someone who looks like a boardgame piece
I love Anime
I’m way behind on new anime again
Okay, but who won that game of Go?
She did. Lakan never wins at Go
Idk what’s happening but is that a lady with a sign for a head?
The guy telling the story can’t recognize faces so he sees everyone as shogi/go pieces, until he met this woman who he can recognize
Ngl black was gonna win in the GO game I saw his gameplay😂
Edit:I am actually talking about the gameplay no joke I wasn't talking about bro rizzing her up with his game he won the game of GO and you could also say he won her heart also........my nerdiness kicked in that why I'm probably still single😂
buddy, I don't think a single person in this world asked... I'm with you on that though, I know only the basics and yes, I too, am single.
this is also how I was conceived
Gee i wonder 🤔
I wanna know the lubally nameeee
An actual tragedy.
Superhero origin story
I may have missed this, but what was Fengxian's illness? Was this explained in the episode?
Syphilis (caught after this scene, when she had to start taking dubious customers to make enough money to survive)
Anyone going to ask why meimei has a lollipop head?
It makes sense in the episode. Lakan has face blindness and later in life he started viewing people as game pieces he can use in his plans. It does kinda look goofy though
With people that aren't important to him, he is able to distinguish between men and women, by seeing them as Black and White Go stones, respectively.
Where Luffy tho ?
Nice🎉🎉🎉
They skipped the good part
The show literlly gaslights you into hating him. And it makes some scense notnmake sense. Like why does Maomao seem to fear him the whole show and hide from him if he is actully a chill dude
Will be explained next episode, I think.
OK I take back the very bad things I said earlier about Lakan like traitor should be poisoned. I was mislead by his cutscenes where he appeared cold blooded, and Maomao’s death gazes whatever. 💀 He is an autistic savant, but he’s also a fool, a self centered dead beat Dad who abandoned Fengxian for 3 years, never answered her mail or attempted to contact her; she lost her favored status because she bore his child, was abused, got the clap, and went insane; Maomao lost her mom, and lived a life of hardship.
Aban-he was literally sent off for military duties by his father, who was his superior _and_ someone who hated him. Do you know what happens if you don’t answer a summon for military duties?
I mean, it looks more like his only mistake was conceiving Maomao; everything else was just bad circumstances. Lakan didn't want to be gone as long as he was - didn't even want to go in the first place, and the letters Fengxian sent him don't appear to have been forwarded. So to the brothel staff it looked like he just ruined her and then walked away. I wonder if he even knows Fengxian is still alive... all we were shown in that he got sent her fingers. It'd be even more tragic if he assumed she was dead and that's why he never bought her out after returning. Meanwhile Maomao was raised on the narrative that he's the worst and was actively kept from him. I have to wonder why Luomen didn't sort that mess out.
@@Narifamen
It will probably be explained in the next episode. The tale of this couple actually ends in a bittersweet note in the LN.
@@Narifamenhonestly I still wonder why luomen didn't try to build up a relationship between maomao and her father unless he was of the opinion that being raised by himself was the better option
@@Moocow2003he probably didn't want her to be used and wanted Mao Mao to grow up independent. Her mom was used as a courtesan with no actual self autonomy. Lakan is part of an Imperial system, and he would have raised Mao Mao to play politics or even enter the rear palace as a courtesan.
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😢😢😢 sad past
How bad does the guy have to be if she only thinks about playing Go?
Considering that his only form of entertainment and his passion at the time was playing go and shogi…they bonded over interests. That’s a pretty common way how love starts.
@@kziila0244
I swear, people in the Apothecary discussions can't understand a joke. And I am not even sure why. The series is full of jokes.
@@Modie
It wasn’t a criticism towards you.
@@kziila0244
It wasn't taken as criticism, but why do you feel the need to "explain" their love to an obvious joke? Again, this is my experience in the discussion around this show. No matter what, people feel the need to come in and "explain" or "correct" people. Even if it's a joke. Even if the people barely know more than the basics of the stuff they are discussing. It's weird, because I have not seen it anywhere else.
Considering the "bet" that was made at the beginning, her saying she wants to play another game of Go, which she was better than him at, was another way of saying she wanted some more of that joystick
Unrelated but can somebody explain how Paul who at first avoids heading south because of his vision where there are lots of people suffering and dying after he gains control immediately went full Lisan al gaib and go on war for revenge and control? Like i get that he drinks the water of life and realize that he is a Harkonnen but don't understand why it changes his personality to such extreme dark turns.
It's supposed to happen over a longer period but after drinking the water of life he sees all possible paths and realizes him being the chosen one was the best path. He couldn't be reluctant anymore and had to embrace the role.
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