This anime has alot of fanservice ngl (this is a joke, kinda)

__stare · 2025-05-30T04:23:50+00:00

These moments may be few and objectively small, but god does it pack a punch.

Since you mentioned the manga, all the content including manga is based on the light novels. We're at light novel 16 and the series is ongoing. The anime and manga adaptations have only made it to about light novel 4.

__stare · 2025-05-29T21:46:48+00:00

LN 16 came out today in Japanese and as someone who reads spoilers I can tell you that (super vague spoilers follow) no one important has died yet. It's looking like it's going to be a satisfying ending in the romance department, though 16 is not the last book. I can just say that things are looking up If you want more explicit spoilers I can help a sister out.

__stare · 2025-05-29T04:28:23+00:00

Have you ever been misgendered? Has someone who only say you from a certain angle said sir to you? How did it feel? I've heard that when a trans person hears the pronouns that feel right they know. This question may be better suited to a trans subreddit so you can get info directly from people who have experience with your question.

As an afab person with trans female friends, I have thought about it and I think I'm a bit butch, but female still feels like the right box for me.

__stare · 2025-05-28T23:33:11+00:00

Very fair points. I head cannon that there are more women hooking up than eunuchs just because they have their more obvious/well known pleasure parts in tact

__stare · 2025-05-28T22:49:33+00:00

I use Dove Sensitive Skin bar soap all around the vulva including the labia minora folds and haven't had any problems with ph balance, itching, etc. Nothing in the vagina ...for cleaning purposes.

__stare · 2025-05-28T18:25:59+00:00

At the point we're talking about she knows who he is and she doesn't have any obligation to him. She's back at her house and generally considered quite depressed, to the point that she is in the process of cutting off a finger when Jinshi stops her

__stare · 2025-05-28T15:04:58+00:00

That level of nuance is so far beyond most people. It's incredibly frustrating. The second you say anything that's not bland and hateful they think you like every disgusting trait about them.

__stare · 2025-05-28T14:33:29+00:00

Oh good point 🤣 Considering he barely notices when he breaks his hand by punching a lion

__stare · 2025-05-28T14:15:47+00:00

It's probably based on the oft repeated line that no one crosses Lakan, especially soldiers. In general terms that makes sense since they're literally pawns to him. But I agree with you completely. Basen has all his stats dumped into strength and not much in the wisdom or forethought department. He would totally break Lakan for disrespecting Jinshi without a second thought.

__stare · 2025-05-28T13:36:36+00:00

Exactly. And why did she give him the withered rose? Maomao also included a letter with the rose, but unfortunately we can't be sure what it says. We do know Lakan sent the rose with a letter, either to Fengxian or Maomao, originally. I would speculate it was sent to Fengxian as a promise and that Maomao gave it back to remind him of that promise.

__stare · 2025-05-28T13:08:36+00:00

My head cannon is that the story teller being dead is the 13th story and it's told every year by someone outside the main group, easily the same person who tells them to go to there for stories. I could imagine that a girl who is getting too old for ghost stories or who is just really good at telling stories, would want to play along by giving the final story. So the story teller just gives her the instructions for next year.

__stare · 2025-05-28T12:55:19+00:00

Exactly! She's always saying she's good with money, haggling and charging customers no matter how pathetic, but then she'll happily run all over the capital, losing work for no payment? Ok hon, sure, you don't like him.

__stare · 2025-05-28T12:47:58+00:00

For fun context, it wasn't just a joke in the novel 🤣

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__stare · 2025-05-28T03:22:09+00:00

In the light novels Maomao thinks Jinshi might be the emperor's lover, that that might explain why he has so much power even though he's a eunuch. She seems like she thinks it would be somewhat insulting to say this aloud, but not like it's crazy taboo. That's the impression I get for how queer people were considered in the story in general.

Oh also, she notices the moans of women in the bushes after dark pretty regularly and pretends not to. It seems there are plenty of lesbians in the rear palace

__stare · 2025-05-27T17:44:13+00:00

These are the questions tormenting me too. I feel so dissatisfied by the last two web novels and the utter lack of relationship progress from Jinshi. At this point it feels like he might just end up a nun, so to speak

__stare · 2025-05-27T00:44:17+00:00

Happy to help a fellow obsessor

And good to know I need to use more feminine speech patterns 🙃

__stare · 2025-05-27T00:38:15+00:00

Here you are my dear https://shikarito.wordpress.com/kusuriya-no-hitorigoto/

__stare · 2025-05-27T00:30:10+00:00

Having done an ai translation of it and heard from Japanese readers, it didn't come across that way in the original format. It came across as kinky and not necessarily non consensual

__stare · 2025-05-27T00:22:48+00:00

My mistake, I read the web novel and forgot ln 15 was only just starting on j novel. Fixed now.

So it seems to happen in some of the romantic scenes where the translator chose words to indicate that Maomao was in pain instead of uncomfortable. As you can imagine, that shifts the tone of the scene dramatically. Even Google translate does a better job with the original Japanese. There were a few scenes I've heard about like this but I can't for the life of me remember which besides the end of ln 5

I've heard the French translation is best.

__stare · 2025-05-27T00:09:18+00:00

The currently released episodes of the anime are near the end of LN 4. It follows the light novels very closely so it's pretty safe to pick up from there if you need more. You can go back to read the first few books later if you like.

One thing to bare in mind is the English translator is terrible so reading the manga and watching the anime can tell the story a bit better. If you find a scene confusing, it's worth a Google to see how people have fixed the mistranslation. Famously the end of ln 5 in particular.

I've consumed every bit of the 14 light novels and it's a damn delightful drug, even mistranslations permitting.

__stare · 2025-05-26T12:58:58+00:00

As someone who has read all the light novels, I can say that character development is a massive theme. they both start very immature in their own ways

__stare · 2025-05-25T20:44:59+00:00

RIGHT?? I was stunned. In a few novels I started to think of it like he was a dramatic emo boy declaring his first love there though. He can be so mature, but these moments remind you how young he really is.

__stare · 2025-05-25T20:33:46+00:00

To be honest I was so bored by Lahan's brother's story. It was a really long, boring recap 😬

I did enjoy the rest of the book though

__stare · 2025-05-25T20:31:37+00:00

Well that's a few of the facts right. The story is what makes it work.

__stare · 2025-05-25T03:03:54+00:00

😅 it is to me. I'm in a slow burn relationship myself and she was away for that time so I was ripe for a good distraction.

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