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The hypocrisy of Jinshi and MaoMao

*light novel spoilers*

I just love how hypocritical MaoMao's nature is. She yells at Jinshi for being a 'Masochist' and yet we see that she's no different. Now, by definition Masochist is a person who drives sexual gratification from their own pain and humiliation, plus it relates to Jinshi's tendency to do self harm (like burning his skin with a brand)

And what is MaoMao's most favourite thing in this world?

POISON

She literally takes pleasure in consuming it and no one can convince me otherwise. Plus she uses dangerous plants and animals and snakes whatnot in the name of her so-called experiments. Her dad may call her a 'mad Scientist' but that is a direct indication of self harm.

And she calls Jinshi a Masochist.

I mean, think about it! The amount of anxiety she gives to Jinshi! She came prepared with a vomit inducing medicine but even she had no idea whether it would work or not. She was just hoping it would work in the salt chapter.

And the same goes for her hand, on which she has conducted countless experiments. One flower even burned her skin and its marks never left her skin. She said it was all for her hobby. What kind of weird hobby is that? Maybe, our little adorable mad scientist is just like that.

One brands his own skin, while the other takes heavenly pleasure in consuming poison.

So my point is, Jinshi and MaoMao are not that different as one might think they are and that's why their dynamic works so well.

Let's look at the excerpts from volume 5:

She didn’t know how long they sat that way. All she knew was that Jinshi was looking down at her with a faintly triumphant expression, as if he saw that the breath had reached every corner of her body now. He wiped away the tears that had sprung to her eyes as she struggled to breathe. It was then that Maomao felt a flash of intense anger. “I said that if you were going to kill me, you should do it with poison,” she told him. “I refuse to let you poison yourself,” Jinshi said, his fingers tracing her lips. “You can’t pretend you didn’t know that you were one of the candidates. As much as I’m sure you’d like to.” He wasn’t done, either: “Who was that man, anyway? I’m sure you’re not a dancer.” So he had been watching them! “I was just paying for my drink,” Maomao said. “It didn’t cost much.” She tried to look away, but with his hand on her head, she really couldn’t.

Jinshi just choked her and yet he refuses to let MaoMao poison herself. A lot of people misinterpret this scene, and don't like it all that much, saying it was just fanservice stuff but this is how I see it: Jinshi wasn't trying to kill MaoMao, he was just trying to make MaoMao submit to him for once (even if the way he did it was very wrong, but guess he's kinky like that). MaoMao is actively trying to harm herself and Jinshi loves MaoMao a lot, he cannot just let her kill herself.

It was more about him trying to exert his dominance in their weirdish - complicated relationship and that also backfires on him as we see in the next volume that MaoMao escapes Jinshi's grasps using Pairin's techniques.

And then they both continue to avoid each other in the entire next volume! Because they both realised that they have crossed boundaries.

They both are hypocrites.

And they both refuse to accept their feelings.

In one of the later volumes, she gives Jinshi a piece of her mind on how he should tell her everything clearly, unequivocally, what he feels, and he literally declares that "he will make her his wife", which is nice and all but look at the wording MaoMao used here....

Excerpts from LN Vol 7, chapter 19 called "A man and a woman play the game"

"You’re forever telling me I need to use my words, Master Jinshi, but are you in any position to criticize? Everything you say to me, everything you do, it’s like it’s calculated to save you from ever having to actually say what you mean! To make me figure it all out! You know, you remind me of someone. You act exactly like a man who used to come by our brothel all the time. He was in love with one of the girls, but he would never just come out and say it. He thought it should be obvious from the way he acted. He was so sure he had a good thing going with this woman that he never sent her so much as a letter. I remember how forlorn he looked when someone else swooped in and snatched her away! He kept coming to the brothel after that—to get drunk and whine to the ladies. Well, in my opinion, he could have avoided all that heartbreak if he’d told the woman how he felt. Clearly, unequivocally, so that she knew where they stood. It was the least he could have done!”

Everything came out in a torrent. She felt like she’d said it all in one breath. It was strange, she thought, to hear so many words come out of her own mouth. She was mystified. Jinshi was no less startled, but the shock soon left his face, replaced by something else. He got up off the bed and stared down at Maomao.

Shit. Now I’ve done it. She’d given him a piece of her mind, and he was about to give her one back.

“So I should be clear, should I? Unequivocal? I should say what I mean? If I did, would you actually listen to me? Is that what you’re telling me? I’m going to hold you to that! Right this minute. I’ll say it all. Don’t plug your ears—listen to me!” He grabbed her hands as she was in the process of trying to put her fingers in her ears. He took a breath. He was looking at Maomao, but somehow he seemed almost embarrassed. Finally he managed, “Now listen to me, y—I mean, Maomao! Listen close! I am going to make you my wife!”

It's one heck of a chapter and I suggest you give it a go! The title of the chapter says "A man and a woman play the game" as if to emphasize the very fact that both Jinshi and MaoMao are playing the game.

Jinshi has never confessed his true feelings before this chapter and only implied that he wanted to make MaoMao his wife.

The implications were heavy though on Jinshi's part, and as smart as MaoMao is, anyone would have guessed that MaoMao was one of the candidates for Jinshi's consort. Even the clothes she received (the ones she wore to the banquet) were also provided by Jinshi along with the hairpin. It is never stated outright but seeing as the hairpin was from Jinshi, the clothes are also implied to be the same.

More or less she's always deliberately ignoring the possibility of having anything to do with him, that is more than professional. Some may call it denial, I call it dense. Maybe, to some extent, she herself is not aware of her feelings because she never lets herself feel anything.

Even Suiren pointed it out pretty early in the manga, that maybe it's MaoMao's way of being reserved. We need to keep in mind that MaoMao is an unreliable narrator and it's more of what she does, rather than what she says that makes a difference.

Even in the chapter that I have quoted above, she had every reason to leave Jinshi, she wasn't working for him after all. But she stayed to make tea for him, even after the fact that she had a long day too. She was almost just as exhausted as Jinshi and yet she was there preparing medicinal tea, so that he could get a better sleep.

Maybe she herself is yet to realise just how deep her feelings run. Till vol 12 she seems to have accepted them, but she still is yet to acknowledge their depth. Maybe it's because of her childhood.

It's not a traumatic backstory but MaoMao had a sad childhood nonetheless....

She was raised by her grand uncle and her real father was eccentric, who scared her. Her mother must also appear to be kind of demonic to her, since she was desperate enough to cut MaoMao's Pinky finger and send it to Lahan. So it's safe to say that MaoMao never received proper parental affection. And adding to the fact that, a brothel is not exactly an ideal place for raising a child.... especially when the birth of MaoMao was the one thing that brought the brothel to its knees...even if being born wasn't her choice.

Plus MaoMao stated it herself that when she was a baby, no one would come to sooth her until their work was finished, implying that even if MaoMao and her brothel sisters are close, they are not that close. A mother's love is different and she never received it. No one can love you more than your mother and MaoMao was deprived of that. She soon realised that no one was coming. Life is hard and she has no choice but to face it!

So, she got interested in poison.

Maybe she doesn't love herself or her life as much as she says / pretends she does. She's always like "yeah, I would very much like my head to be with my body" and "if I stay low profile maybe I can survive here" etc but maybe deep down that's not the case. Maybe that's why she loves poison so much. The implications are crazy.

And to break MaoMao's shell, Jinshi has no choice but to be a bit more forceful at times? At least that's how I interpret that choking scene. Jinshi was angry at MaoMao because she deliberately suggested him to marry consort Rishu and danced with Rikuson.

Even if Jinshi never said it outright, he was giving hints the entire time.

But well the tables turned and MaoMao topped him instead, lol (vol 7) and later we even see that our little stray cat has accepted Jinshi and she's ready to be in a relationship with him (vol 12).

Plus she is intrigued by the process of birth (she wants to eat her baby's placenta, it's kind of uggghhh.... but anyways, that MaoMao we're talking about, she's just weird that way)

Maybe not after too long she'll realise that if she has to give birth, she can only have it with Jinshi and no one else.

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MHA Chapter 431 Part 2 spoilers translations

Rough/literal translations for the second part of the bonus chapter are under the cut.

1 お茶子ちゃんじゃあねまた明日 おちゃこちゃんじゃあねまたあした Ochako-chan jaa ne mata ashita "See you tomorrow, Ochako-chan!"

2 うん！おやすみー un! oyasumii "Yeah! Good night."

3-4 明日からまた頑張ろう あしたからまたばんがろう ashita kara mata ganbarou Let's do our best again tomorrow.

5 席離れててちゃんと話せんかったな せきはなれててちゃんとはなせんかったな seki hanaretete chanto hanasenkatta na Our seats were far away so we couldn't properly speak.

6 まァでも別に まァでもべつに maA demo betsu ni Well, it doesn't matter,

7 仕事でもよく会うし しごとでもよくあうし shigoto demo yoku au shi since we meet often at work.

1-2 僕のヒーローだ！ ぼくのヒーローだ！ boku no HIIROO da! You're my hero!

3 あの戦いを経て あのたたかいをへて ano tatakai wo hete After that battle,

4 私たちはやりたい事ーーやるべき事を見つけて わたしたちはやりたいことーーやるべきことをみつけて watashi-tachi wa yaritai koto--yaru beki koto wo mitsukete we found the things we wanted to do--the things we should do. (Note: She's clarifying that these things they wanted to do they found were things they felt they should do or that they needed to do.)

5 それぞれが選んだ道を それぞれがえらんだみちを sorezore ga eranda michi wo We each had our chosen paths

6 尊重して笑い合う そんちょうしてわらいあう sonchou shite warai au that we both respected, and we laughed together.

7-8 それはとても贅沢でーー それはとてもぜいたくでーー sore wa totemo zeitaku de-- That was more than enough-- (Note: Literally, she thinks "That's very luxurious--".)

9-10 ���れはしまっておくの kore wa shimatte oku no I'll put this [feeling] away.

11 でも demo But

12 そして緑谷出久を好きになってーーー そしてみどりやいずくをすきになってーーー soshite Midoriya Izuku wo suki ni natte--- And then I came to like Izuku Midoriya---

13 もっと… motto... more...

14 もう少し もうすこし mou sukoshi just a little

1 話したかったなーー はなしたかったなーー hanashitakatta na-- I wanted to talk--

2 よかった！ yokatta! "Thank goodness!"

3 いた！ ita! "You're here!"

4-5 お茶子ちゃん おちゃこちゃん Ochako-chan Ochako-chan

1 いいんだよ iinda yo It's okay.

2 あのっ ano "Uh,"

3 僕は ぼくは boku wa "I"

4 皆尊敬してて みんなそんけいしてて minna sonkei shitete "respect everyone"

5 皆特別で みんなとくべつで minna tokubetsu de "everyone is special [to me]"

6 好きなんだって すきなんだって suki nanda tte "and I love them."

7 ずっとそういうものだって思ってた ずっとそういうものだっておもってた zutto sou iu mono datte omotteta "I was always thinking something like that."

8 んだけど…！ ndakedo...! "But...!"

9 今日…なんか きょう…なんか kyou...nanka "today...I"

1-2 麗日さんともっと話したいって思った うららかさんともっとはなしたいっておもった Uraraka-san to motto hanashitai tte omotta "thought I want to talk more with Uraraka-san."

3 これからも kore kara mo "From now on,"

4 もっとーー motto-- "more--"

5 私は好きに生きたから わたしはすきにいきたから watashi wa suki ni ikita kara "Because I lived how I liked,"

1 私の大好きなお茶子ちゃんは わたしのだいすきなおちゃこちゃんは watashi no daisuki na Ochako-chan wa "Ochako-chan, who I loved," (Note: You could also read this as "my beloved Ochako-chan".)

2 もっと motto "more,"

3-4 もっと好きに生きてね！ もっとすきにいきてね！ motto suki ni ikite ne! "live more how you like!"

1 君とーー… きみとーー… kimi to--... "with you--..."

2 あ a "Ah--"

3 一か月くらい前って…あの日だ いっかげつくらいまえって…あのひだ ikkagetsu kurai mae tte...ano hi da About a month ago...it was that day.

4 デクくんと会う機会がもっと増えたあの日からーー デクくんとあうきかいがもっとふえたあのひからーー DEKU-kun to au kikai ga motto fueta ano hi kara-- Since that day when I had more opportunities to meet with Deku-kun--

5 どう dou "How"

6 かな ka na "about it?"

7 うへ uhe "Hehe,"

8 おお oo "ohh."

1 うんっ un "Yeah."

2 気が合うね！ きがあうね！ ki ga au ne! "We're of the same mind!" (Note: You can also read this as "We get along!")

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I'm finding soo many good kusuriya no hitorigoto blogs that it's inspiring me to write! ✍️ Wanna complete all my ln but there's just so much going on that I've no time for myself lately. There's so much I wanna write about MHA too but 😮‍💨.

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Words to Live by!

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Couldn't agree more!

Found family is such a huge theme in the Apothecary Diaries.

You have Luomen, raising Maomo from a young age, despite her being biologically his grandniece, but raising her anyway.

You have the Madame of the Verdigris House, who is Maomao’s maternal grandmother, but never tells her. She takes care of Maomao, helps raise her in the brothel the best she can, but tries not to show how fond she is of her.

You have Meimei, Joka, & Pairin, three famous courtesans at the Verdigris House who not only physically raised Maomao in her infancy (an imperfect process, as to be expected when one tries to collectively raise a baby in a brothel), but also breastfed her. These women staunchly refer to themselves as Maomao’s sisters, despite having been old enough to be her parents themselves.

You have Gyokuyou, who doesn’t have a good relationship with her own family, and actively distrusts them. She invests wholly in the women she instates as her ladies-in-waiting, treating them, instead, as her family, and as the only people she truly trusts. It’s for this reason that she asks for Maomao to return to her service over and over: because she trusts her, she loves her as a member of her own household. She shows defiance and even possessiveness when Jinshi’s involvement keeps Maomao from being her lady-in-waiting permanently, as truly trustworthy people are so hard to find, in her world.

You have Lakan, who adopted his nephew Lahan when Lahan’s own family rejected his genius and his potential for growth. Lakan, in general, tends to take in orphans and young children into his estate as servants, when he can tell they have specific talents that would be wasted when they grew older. One of his hobbies is fostering the talents of these strays he takes into his employ. Even if his motives are grey, he still drastically changes their lives for the better.

You have Chou-u, who Maomao indirectly adopted as her own (even though, age-wise, he’s closer to a brother figure for her). Since he’s lost his memories, Maomao is all he knows as a parental figure. She let him live with her, she tried teaching him medicine like Luomen did for her (even though it didn’t resonate with him). And when Maomao spends long stints away from the pleasure district, Chou-u experiences acute separation anxiety, though it slowly improves over time.

You have Ah-Duo, who acted as a surrogate mother to Lishu for both of Lishu’s tenures in the rear palace. Ah-Duo couldn’t have a normal relationship with her own child (Jinshi), so she doted on Lishu instead. This was a truly symbiotic relationship for them, as Lishu, for the longest time, had very few people she could trust or rely on as a friend when she was a consort.

And these are just the relationships I can think of at the moment!! The story has so many bonds like this. It’s one of my absolute favorite aspects of the series, and one that I think Natsu Hyuuga handles incredibly well.

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these three and their dynamic in a nutshell

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She's such a vibe

final batch of fave ochas EVERRR 😭😭

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Don't worry. I believe there will be a time when she'll be appreciated for who she was and what she stood for in future when people will look back and see her contributions to the story in a new light. Probably then people will understand her value and what she brings to the series.

The group of people who are angry that Ochaco and Deku are now together were literally praising her character months ago for creating the quirk counseling. You can tell that they don’t actually care about Uraraka because their praise for her is only because at that point of the story she wasn’t in a relationship.

Just because she’s in a happy and loving relationship with Deku from chapter 431 does not mean that the contributions she made to hero society are erased. Some of these people are acting that a female character can’t do both of falling in love and succeeding in their career

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Did Ochako and Hawk talk at the end of the manga ? I stopped reading bnha around the war arc?

Also I was wondering what’s your fave fairy tail Color Pages?

Sorry I've been so late to answer. Life is too hectic these days. No hawks and Ochako talk didn't happen, but something more unexpected happened yesterday as the final epilogue released.

*spoiler alert*

Deku and Ochako got together!

Yes this is not a drill or fanart! Look how gorgeous everyone looks 😍 beautiful art, amazing chapter!

Also, this is my all time fav from fairy tail...I know it's not super high quality but I love the way Lucy is drawn here along with all her friends and spirits!

Thank you for reading✨

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It looks like a light novel ngl.

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Wow, this is ethereal.

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They're canon.

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New Apothecary Diaries key visual

The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 starts airing on January 10, 2025 with two consecutive cores!

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The doomed yuri

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"CUTEST IN THE WHOLE WORLD"