why do you like this anime? i don't get it. what am i missing?

>>280149776 (OP)
It's just anime version of Chinese palace drama. If you're not into that kind of thing in first place then you probably won't enjoy it.

>>280149776 (OP)
if you don't care about the palace drama just watch the first season and treat it like a mystery show

it's usually poison

>>280149776 (OP)
get rid of your zoomer fomo mindset and just watch stuff you enjoy

>>280149776 (OP)
Testosterone

>>280149776 (OP)
When they make MC OP but she insists on larping as servant/living a quiet life, the show becomes a low stake slop.
Also no relevant characters die/get exiled in Chinese court drama

>>280149776 (OP)
How many episodes does the second season have?

>>280152738
about as many as the first

>>280150105
>>280150738
>palace drama

so there's a whole genre of this stuff?

>>280152869
i recommend Mr Queen

>>280152869
So my mom says.

>>280149776 (OP)
A soul.

>>280152869
East and West alike. See stuff like The Tudors and series based on young adult female oriented historical fiction with headless ladies on the covers

>>280149776 (OP)
maomao a cute

>>280149776 (OP)
she's literally me frfr

>>280149776 (OP)
It's an anime that actually has a good protagonist.

>>280152869
Yep. It's a very popular genre within the Sinosphere.

>>280149776 (OP)
jinshi is hot

>>280149776 (OP)
Is just HOUSE MD but with prostitutes

>>280149776 (OP)
I don't get it either. I watch it with my friends and they really love but they are women so...

>>280154064
what makes her a good protagonist?

>>280154471
>She is an independent woman in imperial China where women all are concubines and servants.
>She is smarter than 99% of the show, born of noble blood, loved by a prince, acquainted with all important people
Its really a shoujo slop

>>280149776 (OP)
It just female power fantasy.

Female lead is good looking, but only to the ultra hot guy that can see thou her makeup

Smarter then everybody else, despite only have a very limited field of knowledge.

Female lead has loads of females friends but none of the assassinations, backstabbing, infighting and social sniping, that actual women relationships have.

>>280155324
this

>>280149776 (OP)
chromosomes

>>280155324
>Female lead is good looking, but only to the ultra hot guy that can see thou her makeup
Ding ding ding ding
Biggest giveaway of this is Jinshi being a comically, ridiculously beautiful man with hair that makes women weep. Shonen men are JJBA or Baki muscle fridges, shoujo men are Jinshi. Very interdasting

>>280155324
it's almost as if it's written by a woman

>>280155324
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
JINSHI LOVES MAOMAO CUZ SHE DONT LOVE HIM SHE DONT FIND HIM ATTRACTIVE OR ANYTHING !!!! AND HES FIXATED ABOUT HER THATS hot (and hes hot), everygirlwant to be like maomao to jinshi!!!!!! cuz jinshi can have anyone !!! BT=UT NO!!! HE WANT MID-LOOKING `9(in anime ofc`0) maomao the human !!!! jinshi hot, by look and by his behaviur @!!!!

>>280149776 (OP)
cute and funny main character
very hooked
good drama
imperial china

>>280149776 (OP)
Everything about it just clicks with me. The setting, the characters, the plot, the visuals, the vibe, the MC. Everything.

I can't wait for the next not-china series. This one is more fantasy but I love it. Even more than Kusuriya.

>>280149776 (OP)
Do 'men' on this board really watch this?? It's like Bridgerton for Asian women

>>280149776 (OP)
we dont

>>280154678
>>She is an independent woman
She a fucking slave anon

>>280149776 (OP)
Its pretty unique for a "mystery" series. Characters are likeable. Setting being mostly the rear palace is something new. The individual stories in most episodes are pretty good too as well as the over arching plot in each season. Maomao is fun and cute, She uses logic and reasoning to solve shit. I could go on.

>>280159394
Please tell me one of them actually has boobs, Maomao and Jusetsu being flat are huge turnoffs

>>280158408
They look like they could be father and daughter

>>280149776 (OP)
>what am i missing?

>>280149776 (OP)
Because freckles are cute and the author has unlimited shit taste.

>>280152869
It's like a 500 year old genre mate

>>280159394
Read this and didn't really love it, felt like the author had one book's worth of material and then had to come up with new ideas on the spot.

Also way too easy for the heroine.

>>280149776 (OP)
none of your business. just accept that its not for you and stop being a slave to FOMO

>>280163428
Yet another insight into the female mind, kek

>>280163428
Hey consider this: don't. Hate it when this kinda stuff happens in one-sided relationships. It always feels so icky.
I KNOW she isn't THAT young, but the fact she really looks like a little girl gets me. Low key looks like hes making a move on a kid even though I know it isn't the case.

Im a sucker for any period show, especially if I don't know much about it. I'd kill for a Young Bride's Story anime but it would need a good budget and studio to do it justice.

>>280154471
I liked her more in the beginning than I do now, but she's still "a good protagonist".
>off-beat personality and worldview make her interesting to follow as the POV character
>primarily selfish and cold, but frequently experiences heartfelt concern and warmth for others, so she's not a I GOTTA HELP MY FRIENDS moralfag but neither is she a bad person
>smart in an analytical detail-oriented sherlock holmes sort of way, but retarded in a socially dense, slow, autistic sort of way, creating friction and problems for herself with others
>responsible, hard-working, takes accountability and puts on the adult pants when no one else in the room will, but bows her head and apologizes when she's in the wrong, basically a decent role model for viewers in that sense
>is average in looks but cleans up to an easy 9/10 which is fun when it happens
>isn't a fool with no knowledge experiencing the real world for the first time, but a cynical and highly educated person navigating tricky situations knowing full well the consequences of failure
idk, that's all i got for now.

i like maomao's voice actress, she's great

>>280162155
>Larping as servant
You must have stopped at chapter 10. Maomao is now be loved by the highest authority in her workplace, and by upper management.
Did I tell you she is the daughter of the most powerful outside director?

>>280154305
This vexes me

>>280164128
hey man at least Jinshi isn't like the previous emperor haha

>>280149776 (OP)
I like this anime because I love BIG TITTIED PROSTITUTES

>>280159394
That series doesn't have Jinshi-sama it will flop hard trust.

>>280166436
>I like this anime because I love BIG TITTIED PROSTITUTES
This is the correct answer

>>280153556
We need historical battle manime in the vein of Sharpe

>>280164464
this is a good answer. i might actually give the show another chance because of this.

>>280165875
You are a black man

>>280165988
sexo

>>280165988
I heard the emperor originally planned on getting Lishu married off to Jinshi.

>>280152869
In the west, in the past, there were shows like Grey's Anatomy and Ally McBeal that filled the same niche.

>>280154471
She was written to be an old woman in her 30's or 40's with three children and the author made her into a teenager, for sales I guess.
>calm
>old soul
>a complete tease
She's basically Holo, if Holo cared about poisons and medicine instead of economics and apples.

>>280154305
>Maomao as House
>Jinshi as Cuddy
Kek

>>280162270
Maomao is NOT flat

>>280154305
noone has sex in that edgeless slop except Maomao's mom who contracted AIDS like this and some pedo emperor 50 years ago that is treated as the main root of problems in the anime

>>280163495
>the only romance scene in the entiety of 2nd season

>>280172181
If you call his almost one-sided possessive feelings romance

i love confident and competent characters
don't want to watch whinging little useless pricks like Subaru

>>280149776 (OP)
Maomao's autism is cute.

>>280168167
This series is heavily carried by Maomao.
She's much more popular than Jinshi

too bad the anime team are hacks who can't do anything right without a manga to copy

>>280172132
Do you think current emperor is making all those babies through magic? Dude fucks at least every other day.

>>280172315
>i love confident and competent characters

speaking of genres: competence porn is what you're describing here.

>>280164464
Different anon, but to add to this, she's also nice to follow because while she does have some shoujoisms, they're sensible for her character and circumstances. She's the illegitimate daughter of a high-ranking noble, but the circumstances behind her birth and properly defined traumatic moments (i.e., her mother hacking off her pinky as a baby which she interpreted as trying to kill her, that incident with Lakan as a child she had to unravel like 3 layers of misunderstanding with, etc.). She's disinterested in turbo-bishounen Jinshi, but it stems from significant and surprisingly reasonable hangups wrt social status due to her upbringing, ancient Chinese environment, and especially the situation surrounding Lakan and much of her supposed disinterest is just heavy repression of her attraction to him. She's intelligent and has a lot of esoteric knowledge that shouldn't be possible for a girl of her standing, but she's not infallible and fucking sucks at anything other than the sciences and deductive reasoning and what she does know explicitly comes from Luomen aka the scholar who made Lakan great and has gathered all kinds of knowledge from abroad. She's a quirky medicine autist but at its root is a goal she's dedicated her life to (creating a panacea). I could go on. For all of KnH's flaws, the early portions and Maomao's character are really well thought out. She feels complete in a way a lot of other female LN protagonists, and LN protagonists in general desu, don't.

>>280173482
Of course it's the obv Lahan/Rikuson poster, it really explains your shit taste.

>>280174369
I think making Maomao the grand strategist’s daughter was a mistake. It lowers the stakes because she’s not actually just “a lowly servant who could be killed off at any time.” Even if Jinshi likes her, he’s very straight-laced and already showed that he was willing punish her if she truly crossed the line. But Lakan is different, he’s such a doting father that he would never let her come to harm under any circumstance. She's just become too powerful.

I love maomao s1. I doknow about maomao S2 though.
She's kinda obnoxious, arrogant, and She would do as she pleases.

>>280159394
I really love them and Reirin's brothers.
The MLs are boring.

>>280175054
how does she change in s02?

>>280149776 (OP)
attention span