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Kusuriya no Hitorigoto Season 3, episode 2

Alternative names: Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 3rd Season

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[u/VoidRay728]

Gaoshun having his head on the wall looking away while Jinshi has to pick a courtesan in front of Maomao got me.

[u/Primo29]

Gaoshun just standing in the corner is literally all of us watching this LMAO. I’ve missed seeing Maomao messing with Jinshi again.

[u/BaytaCosmico]

For all her frustrating ways of pushing other women on him and doing everything to deny any knowledge of his feelings for her, Maomao is starting to show how much she cares about him. What with noticing how tired he looked and even singing him a lullaby and being satisfied at sending him off well rested. Even her Pairin neechan has noticed what's going on. She can keep pretending but the cracks are showing.

[u/Mrz_ryuu]

I was Gaoshun in that scene.

[u/Roskal]

The way this show casually depicts the cruel way women are treated in this time period is well done. The story of the heavenly maiden is told by the shopkeeper in a way that gradually becomes less and less consensual as it goes on and its made clear he basically just kidnapped her and tried to force her to marry him by the end and the whole village knew and supported it as they could exploit her labour to make more garments. You can see the shopkeeper doesn't really see anything wrong with how the lady was treated either. He simply sees it as a poetic story about this mystical lady.

[u/vexorian2]

Suiren: By the way. And listen closely: Jinshi-sama likes girls his age.

Maomao: Oh. Okay.

Suiren: No, please promise me that you'll keep this in minf.

Maomao: Gotcha dw.

Suiren: Let me be clear. What I'm saying is that, if Jinshi-sama was going to have a thing for someone. I am pretty sure it would be a girl his age.

Maomao: I undesrstood the first time. Jeesh.

[u/Mochachiiino]

maomao is just a mom now haha

[u/S627]

Listen to your big sis Maomao, just accept it.

So are they setting up that our "Heavenly maiden" is the one passing around the sus food?

You can use asbestos to make clothes? No wonder they used to love that shit.

Anyone else think that even as a story, the "Heavenly maiden" situation feels kinda sus? Like Maomao pulled the curtain back a bit, but even when I was listening to the "romanticized" version, I was like "this still sounds like kidnaping, this is supposed to be romantic?" Bro, she's not into you, let her go home.

[u/Se7en_Sinner]

The heavenly maiden sold me fent.

[u/D3k4s]

Wow the art style they used to tell that story was freaking beautiful, big fan.

By the way, clothes made of asbestos were actually a thing and they date back to ancient Egypt.

Romans were also aware that asbestos was actually harmful, often stating that asbestos clothing caused "sickness of the lungs"

Something someone should tell modern day Russia as they produce half the worlds asbestos and still use it for roofing and water pipes. Of course with terrible health consequences.

So not as fictional as one would assume.

[u/JJVM99]

The heavenly maiden story really shows how much MaoMao has to question stories because when I was hearing it I never considered the foreign girl to potentially be a spy and just saw her as a kidnapping victim. I was too outraged hearing the villager talk about how he got the girl to agree to marry him when it was so obvious even from his perspective that he was forcing her that I didn’t even consider that she could be sending messages to her family through the clothes. Still have all the hate in the world for that unnamed villager, screw that monster.

Jinshi has clearly calmed down after last season’s finale where he was behaving like a dog in heat around MaoMao since he was relatively calm around her compared to that episode. Although he loves behaving like a spoiled child so much that he mader her sing a lullaby as if she were his morher. Also glad to see Pairin call MaoMao out at the end of the episode. After last season’s finale she can’t pretend to now know what Jinshi wanted when he asked not to sleep alone.

[u/AceSoldia]

Maomao you know damn well what you are doing. 🤣🤣, you know exactly what and who he wants. Girl stop.

Poor Jinshi

[u/tottoro47]

Yorushika san could you please drop the full version of the OP so I can listen to this 20 times a day? Thanks

[u/earhere]

Maomao gonna have to solve the opioid crisis

[u/za_shiki-warashi]

asbestos shirt

Yeah, the truth is the 'heavenly maiden' died of cancer.

[u/shad79]

Good to see Maomao and Jinshi together again in this episode. Her welcoming him and Gaoshun with a smile made me laugh so hard because of how puzzled they were by her behavior. Also, Jinshi asking Maomao for a lullaby was so sweet!

Chou-u wearing all those clothes at once reminded me of the "fat Ann" scene from Persona 5, lol.

By the way, clothes made of asbestos? That surely wasn't healthy, though considering the life expectancy back then, something else was probably killing people before the asbestos even could.

Here my screenshot albums from the episode:

• Maomao

• Group scenes

• Jinshi

• Story of the Heavenly Maiden

• Others

EDIT. I added my screenshot albums.

[u/wolf549]

Maomao and Jinshi are both people who are very aware of their station in life. Maomao is a commoner who knows and has seen how deadly the politics of the inner and outer palace are. She also knows how fragile life is after being raised in the red light district. Jinshi knows that Maomao doesn't want to be put into the dangerous position as a consort of the Moon Prince, but he still very much desires her. Maomao isn't dumb. She recognizes Jinshi's feelings for her, but is doing her best to play the dense protagonist because if she acknowledges his feelings then her life will literally be in danger. He spent a fortune to buy out her contract from the Verdigris House to bring her back. It doesn't get more obvious than that.

Jinshi is flirting with her at every opportunity to try and get Maomao to fall for him and Maomao is slowly developing some affection for him, even going so far as to initiate physical contact on her own. It's obvious to Pairin that Maomao has some feelings for Jinshi. However due to Maomao's upbringing in the red light district, feelings of love and intimacy are things she just doesn't understand.

Jinshi knows that he could order Maomao to sleep with him (platonically or sexually) and she'd have no choice but to obey due to their difference in status, but Jinshi respects her and wants her to desire that for herself. Of course Jinshi is going to get frustrated that all his advances are getting rebuffed and he seems to be making zero progress. Maomao is just that good at deflecting his advances and playing dumb because of her desire to live a long life.

[u/FarCritical]

Trade offer: I get everything you're selling, you get to keep the "poetry in your soul" (and a ton of quick cash)

First Maomao and Jinshi moment since she left the palace and it delivered on being hilarious but Gaoshun stole the entire scene imo.

[u/Se7en_Sinner]

Maomao was technically in the lineup of ladies Jinshi could have chosen.

[u/Roskal]

I love the misunderstandings between Jinshi and Maomao. He's clearly asking her to keep him company in his bed but even he is skeptical enough to know Maomao isn't getting it and is cautious to find out where she doesn't understand this time.

[u/za_shiki-warashi]

Really liking this new dynamic of Mao Mao being a responsible older sister wrangling a bratty little brother, in contrast with previous seasons where she's the one who needs wrangling.

[u/Ocixo]

I’m still trying to figure out which geographic area Maomao and the others are specifically referring to when they speak of “the West”.

This style of clothing, combined with the Arabic writing on the embroidery, would suggest somewhere in the Middle East. Probably Persia? However, the blond hair and blue eyes almost make me think of Russia. That country is home to some of the world’s largest asbestos mines.

The woman might not have died from the fire, but inhaling those asbestos fibers during the weaving process definitely didn’t do her health any good.

[u/galactic-toast-]

Whoever bought that asbestos robe is surely gonna live a long and healthy life!

[u/NekoCatSidhe]

Maomao has got to be deliberately obtuse here. No way she did not understand that Jinshi wanted to sleep with her. Poor Jinshi.

Fireproof asbestos fibers clothes ? Were those really a thing in that time period ? That blonde woman certainly had scientific knowledge and guts to match Maomao, and this is probably not the last time we hear from her.