The Apothecary Diaries (2023)
薬屋のひとりごと
AnimationMysteryPhim Chính Kịch
Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries!
Seasons
Specials 50 episodes
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The Maomao Diaries: White Face Powder
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 1, "Maomao". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Chocolate
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 2, "Chilly Apothecary". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Fuyou
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 3, "The Unsettling Matter of the Spirit". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Steam Bath
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 4, "The Threat". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Ginger and Orange Candy
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 5, "Covert Operations". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Things a Person Cannot Eat
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 6, "The Garden Party". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: A Cure for Drowsiness???
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 7, "Homecoming". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Charcoal
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 8, "Wheat Stalks". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Heavenly Bamboo
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 9, "Suicide or Murder?". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Aconite Flower and Syrup
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 10, "Honey". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Azalea
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 11, "Reducing Two to One". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Caterpillar Fungus
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 12, "The Eunuch and the Courtesan". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Pheromones
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 13, "Serving in the Outer Court". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Wheat Flour
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 14, "The New Pure Consort". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Seaweed
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 15, "Raw Fish". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Lead
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 16, "Lead". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Delusion
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 17, "A Jaunt Around Town". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Herbs
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 18, "Lakan". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Ox Bezoar
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 19, "Chance or Something More". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Potatoes
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 20, "Thornapple". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Plum
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 21, "How to Buy Out a Contract". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Blue Rose
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 22, "Blue Roses". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Balsam and Woodsorrel
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 23, "Balsam and Woodworrel". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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The Maomao Diaries: Rumors
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 24, "Jinshi and Maomao". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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Maomao's Soliloquy: Calico Cat
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 25, "Maomao and Maomao". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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Maomao's Soliloquy: Datura Metel
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 26, "Caravan". Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode. Xiaolan comes to warn Maomao that a perverted maid got into the Inner Palace.
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Jinshi's Soliloquy: Mushroom
Jinshi monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 27, "Corpse Fungus". Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode, though she doesn't seem quite herself.
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Gaoshun's Soliloquy: Bear Gallbladder
Gaoshun gives Jinshi a report about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 28, "Mirror". Jinshi presses him for more details about Maomao's reaction. Gaoshun shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
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Maomao's Soliloquy: Moths
Maomao monologues about the events that occurred in Season 1 Episode 29, "The Moon Fairy". Jinshi contributes. Maomao shares a piece of apothecarial trivia related to the episode.
Season 1 60 episodes
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Maomao
After being kidnapped and forced to work as a servant in the rear palace, former apothecary Maomao inadvertently draws the attention of the higher ranks when she investigates what's causing the emperor's infant heirs to fall mysteriously ill.
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Chilly Apothecary
Maomao tries to settle into her promotion to lady-in-waiting and food taster, but struggles to fend off both boredom and the overly-familiar Jinshi. That is, until she gets an assignment of her dreams: to concoct an aphrodisiac.
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The Unsettling Matter of the Spirit
Tasked with investigating a ghostly woman dancing nightly on the palace walls, Maomao finds a sleepwalking Concubine Fuyou. But with no medicinal cure for sleepwalking, she's forced to dig deeper to find the real reason behind Fuyou's affliction.
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The Threat
Under direct orders from the emperor himself, Maomao tries to care for an ailing Concubine Lihua, but finds her work impeded by Lihua's own ladies-in-waiting.
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Covert Operations
A eunuch stricken by a curse comes begging for aid. Meanwhile, the rear palace buzzes with excitement as everyone prepares for the upcoming garden party, and Gyokuyou's ladies-in-waiting aren't about to let Maomao get away without dressing her up.
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The Garden Party
Maomao does her best to navigate the complex social situations at the garden party, including meeting the other Upper First rank concubines. But once she settles down to do her work as a food-taster, she discovers a surprise in a bowl of soup.
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Homecoming
Gaoshun goes to Maomao to get her help in resolving the events of the garden party. Later, Xiaolan explains the purpose of the hairpins Maomao was gifted, and Maomao makes a deal with Lihaku in order to finally visit home.
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Wheat Stalks
Maomao's peaceful morning at home is interrupted when she's called in to investigate an apparent double suicide at one of the local brothels.
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Suicide or Murder?
An older acquaintance of Jinshi's dies while drinking at a party. A servant's body turns up in a moat. Both deaths are written off as self-inflicted, but Maomao's keen observations tell her that there's more to both stories.
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Honey
A tea party hosted by Lady Gyokuyou puts the politics of the rear palace at the forefront, and Maomao learns something new about Lady Lishu. His true intentions unclear, Jinshi sends Maomao to work for Lady Ah-Duo.
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Reducing Two to One
Maomao confronts Fengming about the dark secret she's been hiding from her noble Lady Ah-Duo.
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The Eunuch and the Courtesan
Discovering that Maomao's kidnappers were connected to Fengming's family, Jinshi is faced with a choice between keeping Maomao in the rear palace where he can be near her or releasing her from her service.
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Serving in the Outer Court
To Maomao's surprise, Jinshi brings her directly to his house instead of taking her back to the rear palace, and tells her she's to work in the outer court. Not only is there much to learn, it seems there's many eyes on her as the new hire.
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The New Pure Consort
Ah-Duo's replacement has arrived in the rear palace, and Maomao is assigned to give a certain lecture to all four high concubines. Later, Maomao helps Lihaku investigate a warehouse explosion.
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Raw Fish
Gaoshun requests Maomao's help in solving an apparent poisoning case. Meanwhile, Jinshi deals with an unwelcome visitor who's taken to lingering in his office.
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Lead
A shack, a chest of drawers, and a fishbowl are all that a talented metalworker leaves to his three sons upon his death. Maomao is assigned to investigate how these strange inheritances all fit together.
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A Jaunt Around Town
Covering up Jinshi's otherworldly beauty is no easy task, but after Maomao takes the challenge head-on, she's surprised when she's also asked to don the disguise of a noblewoman and escort "Jinka" outside the palace.
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Lakan
Back at home, Maomao visits an annex building at the Verdigris House that hides one of the brothel's secrets. Lakan continues to antagonize Jinshi as his connection to Maomao becomes clear.
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Chance or Something More
A discussion with Lihaku about recent events leads Maomao to realize that the mysteries she's helped to solve are connected. As the final piece of the puzzle falls into place, she rushes to stop impending disaster.
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Thornapple
Maomao was able to stop the assassination attempt, but was heavily injured in the process. However, the injuries aren't enough to stop her curiosity, driving her to confront the culprit behind the incident.
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How to Buy Out a Contract
Back to work at the rear palace, Maomao listens to Guen talk about his family's business. Meanwhile, Lihaku hears a rumor that whips him into action.
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Blue Roses
Lakan challenges Jinshi to produce blue roses to present at the upcoming garden party, forcing Jinshi to turn once again to Maomao for her help.
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Balsam and Woodsorrel
No longer willing to keep running away from Lakan, Maomao decides to face off against him. She challenges him on his own turf, in a chess match.
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Jinshi and Maomao
Lakan must now choose a courtesan to buy out. As a high-ranking military official, he can afford to freely choose, even from one of the Three Princesses. Who will he choose? Who does Maomao really want him to choose?
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Maomao and Maomao
The spring garden party concludes without incident. Maomao returns to her regular life as Concubine Gyokuyou’s taster. Meanwhile, novels become popular in the rear palace. Maomao wonders how this came to be, as novels were typically considered low-class. But behind the scenes lies Jinshi and his goals as manager of the rear palace.
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Caravan
The caravan stirs up excitement in the inner palace. The merchants bring all kinds of goods. However, something gives Maomao a bad feeling.
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Corpse Fungus
A concubine passes away, and a woman goes missing. Jinshi sends Maomao to investigate - not these incidents, but mushrooms growing in the rear palace.
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Mirror
The special envoy from a foreign land gifts mirrors - a rarity in this country - to the high concubines. However, they bring mysteries as well.
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The Moon Fairy
In order to realize the seemingly impossible request from the foreign envoy, Maomao speaks to the “Moon Fairy” herself.
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The Crystal Pavilion, for the Third Time
The woman from the clinic finds out that Maomao knows a thing or two about medicine, and asks for her help.
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The Shrine of Choosing
Maomao directs her curiosity towards an old, oddly-shaped building.
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The Empress Dowager
Maomao's reputation for resolving conflicts reaches the empress dowager, who will ask for her help to unravel a mystery that won't leave her mind.
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The Late Emperor
Maomao's investigation of the "curse" reveals more about the late emperor than anticipated.
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A Ghost Story
Maomao joins some women exchanging scary stories on a hot summer night to provide chills.
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The Hunt
Jinshi goes on a hunting trip, and brings Maomao along. He seems ready to share his secret with her.
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Ka Zuigetsu
Maomao discovers Jinshi's secret. She wants nothing to do with whatever the politics behind it is.
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The Baths
Xiaolan's term of service is almost up, so she must find a new job. Maomao and Shisui decide to help.
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The Dancing Ghost
Concubine Lishu reports sightings of a ghost in the baths in her pavilion. Maomao goes to investigate.
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Ice
Xiaolan accidentally ruins an expensive block of ice. Maomao comes up with a delicious backup plan.
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Festering Resentment
Luomen returns to the rear palace. His observations trigger Maomao's curiosity.
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The Fox Village
Suirei smuggles Maomao and Shisui out of the rear palace. Jinshi begins to search for Maomao.
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Lantern Plant
Maomao has been missing for ten days now. Jinshi's investigations lead him to a forgotten graveyard.
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Festival
The village holds a festival. Maomao attends, and Shisui introduces some of the village's history to her.
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The Stronghold
Maomao is taken to a mountain stronghold, where many of the secrets of the Shi clan are revealed to her.
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Taibon
Maomao is accused of attempting to escape, and is tossed into an ancient method of torture and execution.
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Royal Guard
The royal guard, led by Jinshi, arrives, sealing the Shi clan's fate. Maomao wants to save her friend, Shisui.
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The Shi Clan
Jinshi and his forces infiltrate the stronghold, cornering the remaining Shi clan members.
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The Beginning
After the war, Jinshi's work piles up and Maomao returns to the pleasure district.