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Apothecary Diaries | Season 1 Episodes 17-20 | Unedited Reaction (Patreon)

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2026-09-08 01:43:40
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2026-09-08 01:44:02
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It's late so I'll summarize my thoughts/feelings in emojis LOL🤔🍼🔄👀👑❓😳 .... 🧩🤯Enjoy! See you all for the finale THIS WEEKENDThank you for your support on Patreon!Relax and enjoy 🍿🌿SYNC ALONG LINK: https://youtu.be/_xgnOxVCzoMI watched this on Crunchyroll

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Joe

Apothecary Diaries has been my favorite of my first-time watch-alongs with you (I’m mostly new to anime too.) Looking forward to this one. Speaking of watch-alongs, I totally get how this show lends itself to pausing and you should do whatever method works for you. But could you please say when you pause and start again? That would make all the difference. So many times you mention a thought and I look down and notice I am way ahead of you. It is not always obvious when you are also watching the show. Then I try to catch up and you start again and I’m lost. However if you mentioned you were pausing and then let us know when you start again or a time stamp or something, then we could be right there with you. You have said how you appreciate people are discovering the show with you and I like that too. I like the watch-alongs because I don’t want my first time seeing this beautiful show to be in a small corner of my phone screen. Sorry if this sounds like complaining, just you had mentioned being conscious of people watching along and this would help tremendously. The reactions and show are great. Keep pausing if that works for you, just make it clearer, if you can. Thank you!

James Park

It's all good Kali we know you're busy and youtube are off their heads we all appreciate you and your hard work

Khepri Sun

It's easy to miss, but at the end of episode 10, when Maomao is going through the records and finds out that Luomen was expelled, she mentions that he's a eunuch, which alludes to the fact that he's probably not her biological father.

rubberkidney

kaliwali, you have a way with emoticons that just speaks right to my heart and soul. Your detective skills are already at an absolutely atomic razor edge. The world can't handle more detective power from you, Kali. Sorry.

Howie

Great reaction, Kali! Yeah, episodes 17 and 18 are huge info drops. I could almost see the gears in your brain turning, and we all went through the same thing and asked all the same questions when we first watched this great anime. Since you are probably not familiar with Asian history, the headwear that Jinshi worn with the many beads hanging over his face at the ceremony is known as a mianguan. Since I watch many Asian period dramas, that headwear is almost always worn by royalty (not just any nobility). And yes, everyone was bowing. So episode 19 is actually Jinshi's identity reveal. So the medicine suppressing his "manhood (testosterone)" makes him and Gaoshun seem like eunuchs (not really castrated). So... you already figured it out 🍼🔄👀👑 👍🏻

IFoundTheLight

Pretty crazy they sent a copyright strieke notice to a software company called bleachbit because it had the word bleach in it. Lol what they are doing is f'ed up and I'm sorry you all are going through it but your not in the wrong.

able16

You could obfuscate the anime names your titles e.g. Áрοtḣесаrу Ꭰіаrіеѕ

20 16

Just a little of a correction. A high ranking courteasan doesn't always mean she is so called pure . Just that she is so expensive to have in bed that the chances of her being a virgin is much higher .

Holy Arathi

I love and hate how they expo dumped the last few episodes. They gave us a ridiculous amount of info to parse through without any elaboration, which I hate. But at least they didn’t spend the whole episode dumping info on us…. Which I love. But man!!! It’s just so much information and they just breeze right past it like it’s nothing.

Holy Arathi

“Suppressing his manhood” I think is code for chemical castration. Just not as severe as we have now a days. Which is why he isn’t impotent already.

charlie

please never hesitate to pause to talk or rewind to re read something it can be very helpful for a show like this

PG Modehouse

If you go the re-title route like other reactors, I would like to submit Rx Journal, or Pharmacy Log as two possible options lol

Sankis

I don't think it's that the courtesans necessarily keep their chastity. Pairin, I think, has said things that make it seem like she enjoys having sex with the more attractive clients and it wasn't anything she tried to hide. I imagine they would just try to prevent pregnancy as best they're able whether through natural means or whatever else. Maomao's knowledge of abortifacients suggests they're probably pretty common in the pleasure district, too. Though I also think sex isn't necessarily the only draw with a courtesan. If that's all you want there plenty of cheaper options. The companionship aspect would be pretty big thing too, I think. Clients are going to be visiting not just for bedroom fun but for conversation, being entertained with music, having tea, playing games, etc. The point is to drain them of money over a long period of time, after all. This is just my read from what's mentioned in the series, though, and from a very limited understanding of other media. I could be wrong!

PG Modehouse

Ah, yeah....Earlier in episode 11, when they mentioned Luomen having worked in the rear palace, that's when we as the audience are meant to kind of put it together that he's not Maomao's biological parent. In order for Luomen to work as a doctor in the rear palace, closely with the Royal Concubines and the Empress Dowager, he NEEDS to be a eunuch by imperial decree. All males in the Rear Palace lose their genitals (well, except for Jinshi and Gaoshun, as you found out). That was also the episode where after Ah Duo lost her uterus, due to Luomen being pulled away to help the Emp Dowager, he was punished by the former emperor and he lost his kneecap, requiring him to use a cane. Outer palace is where the scholars/military folks like Lihaku and Basen work and get to keep their dangly bits. Tangentially, that's also where Jinshi's home and office are, so having to review bills in the administrative area where he's located checks out. The rear palace duties for Jinshi appear to be additional work.

mitchhamilton64

good lord, that whole copyright thing cant be easy. it sounds insane. i like how the show mixes humor in while still dealing with the heavy stuff. theres another show that i wont mention where it deals with some absolute heavy stuff like families being ripped to shreds while still alive one moment and then a screaming idiot will come in to bring in some "comic relief" to completely ruin any tone the show was going for but this does a great job in knowing how to keep the two separate. btw, lakan doesnt suddenly want maomao, he explained in that scene that he had been trying to buy her from house verdigris for over a decade.

MaxZR

YouTube’s copyright strike system is so atrociously stupid. It violates the principle of “in dubio pro reo” in such absurd ways that it makes me question the sanity of the people who created this process.

FinalMasterM

Going down the list of reaction channels I watch, theres AliAnimus, Cara & Prez, FlexieJay, G.O.T Games, Haylo & Kiss, and you. They're all wonderful people as well and if they're not part of your friends, I would reach out to them.

Kal

I mean, the golden dragon and phoenix on his ceremonial robes give it away more explicitly (granted, you need to know the imagery significance), also, the Dragon has 5 claws (but that might be me reading more into it rather than the artist purpose).

Kal

Holy info drop Batman! I thought, in typical anime fashion they would milk the reveals for much longer.(you mean... THAT man? Iykyk). But was very pleasantly surprised to have most my suspicions validated. Something you probably haven't been exposed to yet but often, in anime, they use eye or hair color as a hint to parentage, so the minute you see a courtesan with the same hair color as our girl, your brain is supposed to jump on in, although it's also often used as a red herring. As for Jinshi, the biggest thing they show is his ceremonial garb, a golden Dragon (Long, representing the emperor) and Phoenix (Fenghuang, representing the empress) points to direct imperial line, not just any noble or high ranking official, now it could be both the emperor's brother or son (if he hadn't died... ) as for the medicine he's taking, I'm guessing it's a libido suppressant so there's no risk of a suspicious bulge happening.

Robert da Spruce

Wow! Didn’t know the situation was that bad with the copyright strikes. And this one guy causing the majority of the trouble sounds like a real pice of work My guess is that it’s hitting the anime space especially hard because the anime studios are located in Japan. And this guy markets himself as knowing the laws here in US better. And the studios take him up on it I really hope all the affected creators can get those strikes reversed and this guy gets reigned in a little

kaliwali

Hey Joe! I'll try to brainstorm a way to make the sync along version a bit more noticeable when I stop the video. Maybe I can make the bottom bar a little more visible so that when I do pause it'll show the timestamp and the bar so that it can be easier to sync back up and also notice when I pause! I'll mess around with this going forward and see how it goes! Ty for the input :) I've really enjoyed pausing when a thought forms instead of saving it for the outro, so I'm glad everyone really seems to be enjoying that lately since I've started doing it last week. I was always too hesitant to pause in the past for your exact issue though. I know it can be hard for sync along peeps to keep up with the pauses. I appreciate your kind way of putting it tho!

kaliwali

LOL I love these ideas! I've thought about the whole renaming thing.. Might consider it going forward especially for Viz Media stuff if I watch that

kaliwali

They are all in the Discord I'm in and YES! They are wonderful people! I'm so glad I got in touch with the anime community. It's been such a huge stress relief and I feel way less alone in this space. The anime reactors are all incredibly kind. It's so refreshing 🤍

Brian Gavorski

Amazing reaction as always, and we will continue supporting you and any other patrons that we follow. Just try to stay positive and keep moving forward and hopefully everything will dial down not being as serious.

Nelson CHen

The DMCA definitely needs revision, adjustment, a whole lot more specificity. And Alphabet should sack up FOR ONCE and protect its users. Wouldn’t it be nice for a megacorporation to actually side with its userbase or protect them.

Charles Masten

I'm not certain how true it is, but in boot camp, we used to hear they used saltpeter in our food to repress "hormonal urges." I would assume it's something like that, where if you stop, you'd return to normal.

Jason

So bezoars were thought to be effective antidotes against any kind of poison. Some cultures even thought they were good for curing various diseases and such. In truth they are good at absorbing arsenic which would have been a "common" poison of the times, but they're not effective against anything else.

Sean Dame

Lol, love watching the wheels turn as you figure it out, then second yourself, and then the surprise, the surprise when it's true! LOL but that's the secret of this show and how it leads you down that path.

FinalMasterM

Really awesome, I'm glad you've found a welcoming community within the anime fandom!

DreadPirateRob

I will stick with my original thoughts on Jinshi. If he was one of the two babies born on that day, then he is either the younger brother of the emperor or his first son. I will refine it somewhat with the additional information we have now. The babies were swapped and everyone THINKS it was Ah-Duo's son (the firstborn son) that died but in reality, it was the Emperors brother that died. However, everyone thinks the young brother survived. So, Jinshi is the son of the emperor who is pretending to be the brother instead. All of the court thinks he is the brother of the emperor, thus all the nobles bowing and the important duties he has. (Maybe the emperor does not even know? I think he does though). It would make perfect sense to make the younger brother into a Eunoch and put him to work in the palace. Keeps the current emperor in power and removes any risk to the throne for the emperors future sons.

DreadPirateRob

Interesting to note that if Jinshi is 19 and he started taking whatever drug that is when the emperor ascended to the throne and that was 5 years ago, then Jinshi started suppressing his "manhood" at 14. This probably has slowed his puberty a bit so no wonder he is such a pretty boy. :)

DreadPirateRob

Lakan has a plan. Remember he is a master strategist, right? He is playing a game of imperial Go. We know Maomao is his daughter and he knows it. He also knows Jinshi is part of the Imperial family, son or brother.. he probably doesn't know which. He also knows Jinshi values Maomao. So, he likely wants some leverage with Jinshi and therefore gain some leverage or at least the ear of the emperor. If Lakan acknowledges Maomao, then she becomes a noble woman (Oh boy.. that should be interesting). What I don't get though is why Lakan did not follow through on his plan with Maomao's mother? He devalued her but then didn't buy her as one of his consorts.

Ian YY

Hey Kali, I am so glad that you joined the big anime content creator community and are getting along so well with everyone. I feel like this is what a community should be like, helping and supporting each other and getting through things together. I was in Flexiejayanime before I found this amazing Kali community, by the way. Although there are creators out there that I do not really like that much for whatever reason, it is still super nice to see them becoming a huge community together. Anime fans are not always very nice; there are a lot of toxic fans out there. So, I think joining the community can also help with feeling less stressed when something happens. I know you are going to watch Chainsaw Man soon; I haven't watched it yet and am definitely going to watch it here. The fandom rivalry between Chainsaw Man and Demon Slayer was intense last year, and it is really sad. I am just trying to say that I hope you can ENJOY your time with anime in any way possible. Also, The Apothecary Diaries fans are being fed lately! A new season and movie are coming out, a new Switch game is coming soon, and a live-action adaptation has been confirmed (though I am not sure if that is a good or a bad thing), but I hope for the best for this franchise!

Alma

Hi Kali, I'd second Joe. An audible cue like "Let's go back a bit to catch that in more detail" or "Let's stop here to think it over" would be a huge help for the sync along watchers. Then we just have to pause our original copy until you watch the previous part again or finish your analysis. After that we can resume and be in sync again. Thanks!

Joe

Yes exactly. Simple verbal queues would probably be easier and even more helpful.

Usagi

A”salt”ed was good lmao

Paul Wright

Seriously amazing analytical skills you have, Kali. You might give Batman a run for his money as the World's Greatest Detective. Would love to see a reaction to the Arkham games someday, but other than that, I'm absolutely loving this show and your reaction.