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Continuing. Apothecary Prince I've found harder to get into. I think I might have said in another thread that the MC practices quack medicine and his whole thing is based around herb soups and acupuncture working on Korean chakra zones for realsies in the fantasy novel world. It's rough to start with because he monologues like it totally worked IRL before he got isekai'd, people just didn't believe his wisdom, etc. After getting further in he's using the Asrahan Core Technique to do silly shit with his skills and you do suspend your disbelief because whatever the fuck, it's magic, he can eat the red sunflower seeds, sure. There is such a focus on treating people and getting his extra life points out of extending theirs that he doesn't approach other characters very honestly. He's pretty detached. I know Lloyd was all about the money and it's a subversion on that, but something feels especially impersonal about this guy at times, and his male companion, a swordsman who could awaken into a world destroying monster if he doesn't play things right, is Lloyd-minded and only ever talks cash. There's small hints that he does care more than the wages the prince pays him, but I'm not feeling much. The Prince like-wise, has a smidgen of sentimentality about his relationship with the King, but not like Lloyd and his new parents.

The last arc of the comic's first season though? MC disguises himself as a chubby fuck and gets himself kidnapped by the forceful leader of a rebellion who has terrible migraines. The gay fucking spikes tremendously. In a very stupid gag manner, but it was the most fun I'd had with the series and definitely speaks of a trend in BK Moon's writing. I'd recommend it for that if you can endure past fake engaging a Princess (she needs treatment).

All this long-windedness to say that nothing can compare to what Lloyd and Javier had so far, but the possibility of a good ship in each isn't zero.