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 **I have non-spoiler reviews of [[https://anidb.net/anime/17870/review/11441|season 1]] and [[https://anidb.net/anime/18562/review/11443|season 2]] on AniDB. Please check those if you don't want spoilers.** This is about the anime, not other forms of the show. **I have non-spoiler reviews of [[https://anidb.net/anime/17870/review/11441|season 1]] and [[https://anidb.net/anime/18562/review/11443|season 2]] on AniDB. Please check those if you don't want spoilers.** This is about the anime, not other forms of the show.
  
-==== Mystery & general thoughts in seasons 1 and 2 ====+===== Mystery & general thoughts in seasons 1 and 2 =====
  
 In a sense, all shows are mystery shows. You watch the show and you learn a story, and at the same time, you're free to speculate and project forward what the story is. It is difficult to say something like "this is a mystery show" when all shows have these elements. Calling Kusuriya as a mystery show is easy, but it doesn't really accurately describe what it is. I call it something like "intellectual candy". You can notice things that characters haven't noticed yet, and you can speculate about the future, but you don't really have any role in solving the mystery. A key focus we see in the show is Maomao "thinking". In her thinking sequences, we see flashbacks and she creates the narrative that she predicts based on what has happened, but many of the conclusions she jumps to aren't "wholly independently reproducible with information available to the audience." In other words, I find fault with calling a show a mystery show unless the audience can independently come to the same deductions as the characters in the show. In a sense, all shows are mystery shows. You watch the show and you learn a story, and at the same time, you're free to speculate and project forward what the story is. It is difficult to say something like "this is a mystery show" when all shows have these elements. Calling Kusuriya as a mystery show is easy, but it doesn't really accurately describe what it is. I call it something like "intellectual candy". You can notice things that characters haven't noticed yet, and you can speculate about the future, but you don't really have any role in solving the mystery. A key focus we see in the show is Maomao "thinking". In her thinking sequences, we see flashbacks and she creates the narrative that she predicts based on what has happened, but many of the conclusions she jumps to aren't "wholly independently reproducible with information available to the audience." In other words, I find fault with calling a show a mystery show unless the audience can independently come to the same deductions as the characters in the show.
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 I feel like the ending had potential to be potent and emotional, but by the time I saw Shisui dancing, I considered her quite low in my mind as is. I feel like the ending had potential to be potent and emotional, but by the time I saw Shisui dancing, I considered her quite low in my mind as is.
  
-==== Maomao & Jinshi in seasons 1 an 2 ====+===== Maomao & Jinshi in seasons 1 an 2 =====
  
 Okay, so Maomao and Jinshi are definitely going to be together at the end, right? Or, at some point at least. I think this is a given. Okay, so Maomao and Jinshi are definitely going to be together at the end, right? Or, at some point at least. I think this is a given.
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 Come on Maomao you gave Shisui Jinshi's hairpin? How amazing would it have been for you to be wearing the hair pin instead of giving it to Shisui? Come on. Come on Maomao you gave Shisui Jinshi's hairpin? How amazing would it have been for you to be wearing the hair pin instead of giving it to Shisui? Come on.
  
-==== Summary of thoughts on season 1 and 2 ====+===== Summary of thoughts on season 1 and 2 =====
  
 Given all of what I've said, I feel like Kusuriya is still my new favorite show/series. I'm going to have to caveat that with the fact that Maomao and Jinshi have to end up in a relationship or I'm going to call this fraud and retroactively deduct points. I can give a pass to the show for not necessarily having all ducks in a row by the conclusion of season 2. But I cannot give a pass if this never happens -- because it will be a giant plot point opened and never closed. Given all of what I've said, I feel like Kusuriya is still my new favorite show/series. I'm going to have to caveat that with the fact that Maomao and Jinshi have to end up in a relationship or I'm going to call this fraud and retroactively deduct points. I can give a pass to the show for not necessarily having all ducks in a row by the conclusion of season 2. But I cannot give a pass if this never happens -- because it will be a giant plot point opened and never closed.
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 Also, generally: it's not isekai, it's not videogame world / simulation, etc. It's just a normal show, and that is so refreshing. Also, generally: it's not isekai, it's not videogame world / simulation, etc. It's just a normal show, and that is so refreshing.
  
-=== With respect to 無職転生 〜異世界行ったら本気だす〜 ===+==== With respect to 無職転生 〜異世界行ったら本気だす〜 ====
  
 **Spoilers for 無職転生 〜異世界行ったら本気だす〜 up through the end of season 2.** **Spoilers for 無職転生 〜異世界行ったら本気だす〜 up through the end of season 2.**
  
-無職転生 is the last major property I watched. I want to bring it up because in terms of feelings, I feel very similarly to this show, but different in many respects. It is entirely more wholesome and genuinely so much better to have Maomao be emotionally deficient but also more naturally falling in love than e.g., Rudeus and Roxie.+無職転生 is the last major property I watched. I want to bring it up because in terms of feelings, I feel very similarly to this show, but different in many respects. It is entirely more wholesome and genuinely so much better to have Maomao be emotionally deficient but also more naturally falling in love than e.g., Rudeus and Roxy.
  
 I think that if you subtracted the whole "cheating on his pregnant wife" thing, though, I would say that Sylphie and Rudy are a lovely couple that break the trope of teasing that Kusuriya has. It's terrible that a show that introduces infidelity and tries to write it off as a Sylphie consenting has better love and romance mechanics through Sylphie and Rudy than a show that has an obvious couple in Jinshi and Maomao. I think that if you subtracted the whole "cheating on his pregnant wife" thing, though, I would say that Sylphie and Rudy are a lovely couple that break the trope of teasing that Kusuriya has. It's terrible that a show that introduces infidelity and tries to write it off as a Sylphie consenting has better love and romance mechanics through Sylphie and Rudy than a show that has an obvious couple in Jinshi and Maomao.
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