The Apothecary Diaries Episode 8 – Japanese 5ch Reactions & English Translation

Maomao investigating a poisoning in The Apothecary Diaries Episode 8 Reactions & Translations

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This article features selected Japanese reactions to Episode 8, “Wheat Stalks,” of The Apothecary Diaries, together with English translations. The translations aim to preserve the meaning and tone of the original posts while using terminology consistent with the official English subtitles wherever possible.

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432 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 00:58:55.44 ID:6oop/8eRd

後宮の后揃い踏みのシーンはプリキュアみたいだったな

The scene with all the rear-palace consorts assembled looked like Pretty Cure.

433 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 01:05:21.00 ID:nbVox2HY0

麦稈(ばっかん)ロールってこの時代はあったんだろうか

Did rolled wheat-stalk straws even exist in this period?

434 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 01:24:06.64 ID:7YShCETc0

娼館がグルになって事故に見せかけて豪商の息子を殺そうとしてたってこと?

So was the entire brothel working together to make it look like an accident and kill the wealthy merchant’s son?

435 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 01:24:36.62 ID:dsBPNZQn0

壬氏様、脳破壊

Jinshi-sama’s mind has been shattered.

438 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 01:29:27.85 ID:+gkfXbmfH

壬氏様の「氏」は名前の一部なの?
それとも敬称的なもの?

Is the “shi” in Jinshi-sama part of his name, or is it some kind of honorific?

443 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 01:33:34.19 ID:nRcZdwu80

>>438
じんしさまって呼ばれてなかったっけ?

Wasn’t he being called Jinshi-sama?

455 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:06:49.11 ID:mZ2pS2qL0

>>438
氏はおそらく女性名とのこと
中国版狐の嫁様のようなものに任氏というキャラがいたとか言っててよくわからんけど
任氏伝っていう楊貴妃をモデルにした作品を元にしてるのかな

Apparently, “shi” is probably part of a feminine name. I heard there was a character named Ren-shi in something like a Chinese fox-bride story, though I am not sure of the details. Maybe it comes from “The Tale of Ren,” a work said to have been modeled on Yang Guifei?

457 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:09:44.88 ID:mZ2pS2qL0

ってごめんちゃんとしっかり回答してたのもあった

13、壬氏
元はギャグ担当キャラ。
名前は任氏伝からで、それを元にした別作品の狐の妖怪からとった。

Sorry—there was a clear answer after all.

13. Jinshi
He was originally conceived as a comic-relief character.
His name comes from “The Tale of Ren,” specifically a fox spirit in another work based on it.

439 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 01:29:54.16 ID:meBOc3QE0

シリアスなミステリーだったのに最後5分で一気にギャグにw
猫猫の言い方じゃそりゃ壬氏ショック受けるわなw

It was a serious mystery, then suddenly turned into comedy in the last five minutes, lol.
With the way Maomao phrased it, no wonder Jinshi was shocked.

445 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 01:35:15.36 ID:SRotwSVv0

猫猫こんなとこで生きてたとか後宮にいた方が楽なんちゃうか

If Maomao grew up in a place like this, life in the rear palace might actually be easier.

459 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:24:20.14 ID:M952BGdH0

ポニテマオマオも新鮮な

Ponytailed Maomao looks fresh too.

460 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:25:39.20 ID:rU+/NOkI0

今回やたらと作画が良いんだがどうした?
園遊会より気合い入ってないか?
スッゲークオリティーだったなぁ

Why did the animation look unusually good this time?
Did they put even more effort into it than the garden party?
The quality was incredible.

461 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:31:18.54 ID:SRotwSVv0

・・・これはアンジャッシュのすれ違いコント!?
こんなもん見せられたらそらー玉葉妃笑うわ!後宮お抱え漫才師の誕生

Is this one of those comedy routines built on two people completely misunderstanding each other?
No wonder Gyokuyou laughed after seeing that. The rear palace has just gained its own comedy duo.

474 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 03:05:05.37 ID:gspFrCdk0

>>461
楽しそう
https://i.imgur.com/pBYya9X.gif

>>461
She looks like she is having fun.
https://i.imgur.com/pBYya9X.gif

462 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:33:02.05 ID:SIij0zFk0

上司の侍女は何で怒ってたんだ?

Why was the senior lady-in-waiting angry?

464 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:43:14.50 ID:5UGCcNS8d

猫猫が壬氏に天然ボケかまして李白と寝たと勘違いさせたから怒られた

Maomao innocently made Jinshi think that she had slept with Lihaku, so she got scolded.

465 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:43:39.09 ID:YS3JgwHe0

禿が客に惚れていて
嫉妬の余り心中に見せかけて毒を盛ったのかと早合点した

I jumped to the conclusion that the kamuro had fallen for the customer and, out of jealousy, poisoned them to make it look like a double suicide.

466 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:45:51.92 ID:Hlr0ZNz/0

今回クオリティすげぇ高く感じた
ポニテ猫猫かわいい

The quality felt incredibly high this episode.
Ponytailed Maomao is cute.

467 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:46:52.86 ID:SRotwSVv0

禿(かむろ)と禿(ハゲ)って漢字が全く同じだけど何か意味があるのですか?

Kamuro, meaning a young attendant, and hage, meaning bald, use exactly the same kanji 禿. Is there a reason?

468 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:49:58.65 ID:Xb7V8SD7d

>>467
髪の毛が生え揃ってない童女の頭のことを禿(かぶろ、かむろ)とよんだ
それが転じて髪の薄いものを禿(はげ)というようになった

>>467
The word kaburo or kamuro originally referred to the head of a young girl whose hair had not fully grown in.
From there, the same character came to be used for someone with thinning hair: hage.

475 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 03:05:26.76 ID:SRotwSVv0

>>468
禿にそんな語源があったとは

>>468
I had no idea the word for bald had that origin.

473 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 02:59:21.33 ID:zuIs6mDj0

名探偵猫猫かな
最後は玉葉妃と同じ反応になったわ

Detective Maomao, perhaps?
By the end, I reacted just like Gyokuyou.

476 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 03:12:03.26 ID:ZwXMJ21k0

禿の殺人未遂を猫猫が直接目撃をする!

こんなんばっかり

Maomao directly witnesses a kamuro’s attempted murder!

Things like this keep happening to her.

479 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 03:32:15.64 ID:paydwflW0

死ぬレベルでタバコエキスが染み出た酒を気づかずに飲むか?

Would someone really fail to notice wine infused with enough tobacco extract to be fatal?

483 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 03:43:17.43 ID:pDO4Oego0

>>479
ニコチンやタールに味あるから実際は違和感感じると思うぞ
喫煙しすぎでタバコの風味を気にしないまで慣れちゃってるならともかく

恐らく全員グルな時点で変に策を弄する必要も無いんだけどね

>>479
Nicotine and tar have flavors, so I think it would taste strange in reality—unless the person smoked so heavily that tobacco flavor no longer bothered them.

Since everyone was probably in on it, there was not much need for such an elaborate plan anyway.

485 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 03:44:15.20 ID:3WlY/pwSd

タバコは偽装じゃないんか

Wasn’t the tobacco just part of the disguise?

495 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 04:10:40.62 ID:gspFrCdk0

>>485
猫猫は毒は煙草だと考えてるね
https://i.imgur.com/JmyUOKu.jpg
葉をばら撒いたのは自分も飲んだと思わせるため


8話 無料
https://abema.tv/video/episode/19-174_s1_p8

>>485
Maomao believes the poison was tobacco.
https://i.imgur.com/JmyUOKu.jpg
The leaves were scattered around to make it look as though the courtesan had drunk it too.

Episode 8, free stream:
https://abema.tv/video/episode/19-174_s1_p8

484 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 03:43:42.48 ID:Vq7cQGdx0

脳破壊された壬氏様が何か可愛くてワロタ
あの場面が今回一番面白いな

Jinshi looking completely devastated was strangely cute, lol.
That was the funniest scene in the episode.

486 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 03:45:18.95 ID:SIij0zFk0

哀れな壬氏を笑えるのは立場的に玉葉妃だけなのか

Is Gyokuyou the only person whose position allows her to laugh at poor Jinshi?

491 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 03:59:06.96 ID:j0gSn/vE0

この娼館で死にそうになったのだから
助かっても男は娼館に文句いって来ない?

The man nearly died at this brothel.
Even if he recovers, would he not come back to complain?

492 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 04:01:55.35 ID:3WlY/pwSd

>>491
いいとこの坊っちゃんだから世間体考えて強くもでられない
そもそも全員が口裏合わせてるからへたすりゃ返り討ち

>>491
He is the son of a respectable family, so appearances would stop him from making too much trouble.
Besides, if everyone tells the same story, confronting them could easily backfire on him.

497 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 04:30:29.35 ID:M6NFZzoi0

ラストの壬氏様の顔で笑いが止まらないw

I cannot stop laughing at Jinshi’s face at the end.

498 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 04:31:21.81 ID:9R9ZDopD0

ジンシさま「マオマオ、お前、抱かれたのか?私以外の男に!」
マオマオ「(何言ってんだコイツ)」

Jinshi-sama: “Maomao, were you embraced by another man instead of me?!”
Maomao: “What is he talking about?”

499 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 04:36:16.72 ID:Gofmcu7J0

宦官を妓楼に連れ込んでも仕方なかろう

There would be little point in taking a eunuch to a brothel.

500 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 04:38:11.96 ID:Hlr0ZNz/0

まぁ猫猫に用意できる対価が花見だったし
壬氏に頼れないのは仕方ないんだよね

The only payment Maomao could offer was a visit with a courtesan, so she could not exactly ask Jinshi.

503 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 05:05:53.69 ID:Q64jgTjV0

同じ店で別の女を身請けしようとしただと?
というか、一度破断にした店に通い続ける時点でどうなんだ

He tried to buy out a different woman from the same house?
More importantly, why would he keep visiting after his first arrangement there fell through?

504 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 05:10:03.91 ID:SRotwSVv0

ニコチンは猛毒なのは知ってたけど少量を酒に溶かしこむ分には気づかれないもんなのかね?
ストローで酒を飲むと超酔っぱらうから絶対やっちゃダメな行為なので妓女がそんなことした時点で毒を疑うべきだった

I knew nicotine was highly poisonous, but could a small amount dissolved in alcohol really go unnoticed?
Drinking alcohol through a straw can make you intoxicated very quickly, so the moment the courtesan did that, they should have suspected poison.

507 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 05:20:52.10 ID:4zEZ1dgS0

>>504
ありました。
”ここの娼館では器に紅が映ることを嫌い、麦わらで茶を飲む習慣があるようだ”

>>504
There was an explanation: “This brothel apparently has a custom of drinking tea through wheat stalks so that lipstick does not mark the cups.”

509 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 05:28:16.39 ID:4zEZ1dgS0

猫猫視点で麦わら飲みが習慣化してるって感想だから、それっぽく見せるためにあの場ではそうして
推理の一つの娼館ぐるみって可能性もあるわけか

From Maomao’s point of view, drinking through wheat stalks was an established custom. Perhaps they did it there to make the scene look natural, which supports her theory that the whole brothel may have been involved.

510 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 05:33:00.98 ID:mszPlgcD0

禿が猫猫を連れて行ったのも”薬屋でも子供なら処置が出来ない”と
踏んでの事かの?予定外に猫猫が使えちゃった訳だがw

Did the kamuro bring Maomao because she assumed that even an apothecary could not help if that apothecary was only a child?
Maomao unexpectedly proved very capable, though, lol.

511 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 05:36:29.31 ID:iiHf55zWH

マオマオののうはかいこうげき
こうかはばつぐんだ!

Maomao’s mind-shattering attack!
It is super effective!

513 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 06:04:39.22 ID:v03SzsQqd

ジンシは純愛過激派

Jinshi is an extremist when it comes to pure love.

514 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 06:06:03.51 ID:/o8xxqp+H

ジンシさま大ショックでかわいそうw

Poor Jinshi-sama was completely shocked, lol.

520 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 06:57:20.71 ID:ZzaMbIJy0

壬氏が最後全部持って行ったなww

こんな古典的な勘違いオチでこれだけ笑わせるとはwww

Jinshi stole the entire episode at the end, lol.
I cannot believe such a classic misunderstanding gag made me laugh this much.

522 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 07:35:55.80 ID:meBOc3QE0

自分が気になってる女にほかの男に喜んでもらえるように頑張りましたと
ウッキウキで言われたらそりゃ壬氏様も壊れるわなw

If the woman you like cheerfully tells you how hard she worked to please another man, of course Jinshi-sama would break down.

524 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 07:50:28.62 ID:jcpYZxYh0

猫猫がチューしてビックリしたわ

I was surprised when Maomao performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

525 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 07:57:43.54 ID:feicMHxR0

タバコを灰皿がないからと半分空いたジュースの缶とかに灰を落としていて、気が付かずにまだ残っていると子供が飲んでしまった事故とか昭和の時代にはあったような気がする
ニコチンは水に溶けるんだね

In the Shōwa era, I think there were accidents where someone used a half-full juice can as an ashtray and a child later drank from it without noticing.
So nicotine dissolves in water.

526 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 08:02:11.94 ID:3h6Sjdzo0

連休暇だから観てみたけど普通に面白かったわ
中華風で少女漫画かと思ってたから興味なかったけど食わず嫌いはあかんね

I had free time over the holiday, so I tried watching it, and it was genuinely entertaining.
I had assumed it was just a Chinese-style shōjo story and was not interested, but judging it without watching was a mistake.

529 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 08:13:34.45 ID:4oiNpNq40

猫猫に助けられた高官と遊郭はその後、どうなるんだろ?
この話はここでおしまいなのかな?
壬氏のヤキモチなんかより大切なことと思うが
やり手ババアの報酬受け取ってチャラか?

What happened afterward to the official Maomao saved and to the brothel?
Does this story end here?
That seems more important than Jinshi’s jealousy. Did the payment from the madam settle everything?

528 風の谷の名無しさん@実況は実況板で
2023/11/26(日) 08:13:18.13 ID:o0ZvxZ9nd

玉葉妃が楽しそうで何よりw

I am just glad Gyokuyou was having such a good time, lol.


🔚 Overall Impressions

Episode 8 drew praise for its unusually polished animation and for returning the story to the pleasure district. Viewers enjoyed Maomao’s ponytail, the atmosphere of her old neighborhood, and the way another apparent accident quickly became a medical mystery.

Much of the discussion focused on the attempted double suicide: the use of tobacco as poison, the wheat-stalk drinking custom, the kamuro’s role, and the possibility that the entire brothel helped construct a convincing story. Several commenters questioned how easily the nicotine could be hidden, while others tried to reconstruct Maomao’s reasoning from the evidence shown.

The episode’s final misunderstanding was the clear comedy highlight. Maomao’s innocent explanation made Jinshi imagine the worst, Gyokuyou was free to enjoy his distress, and a serious mystery ended with one of the series’ most memorable reaction faces.

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