‘The Apothecary Diaries’ Stars Break Down the Mystery, Romance, and Frog Between Jinshi and Maomao
Anime Expo might be in the rearview, but we’ve still got one more Apothecary Diaries cast interview. For folks outside of the loop, The Apothecary Diaries is an anime taking the zeitgeist by storm. In essence, the show is what if Columbo were a diminutive and precocious apothecary girl named Maomao, with a penchant for poisons, who winds up in the rear palace of an Emperor’s castle to attend to his concubines.
- ▪Anime Expo might be in the rearview, but we’ve still got one more Apothecary Diaries cast interview.
- ▪For folks outside of the loop, The Apothecary Diaries is an anime taking the zeitgeist by storm.
- ▪In essence, the show is what if Columbo were a diminutive and precocious apothecary girl named Maomao, with a penchant for poisons, who winds up in the rear palace of an Emperor’s castle to attend to his concubines.
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Anime Expo might be in the rearview, but we’ve still got one more Apothecary Diaries cast interview. Long story short, after finally being freed from the on-the-ground marathon of having to hoof it from the Peacock Theater to the Los Angeles Convention Center in under 10 minutes flat for two blockbuster shonen interviews I absolutely couldn’t miss—I was a sweaty mess, by the by—the folks at Crunchyroll assisted in getting one of the must-watch anime of the decade’s interview to see the light thanks to the communication boon that is email. Please clap. For folks outside of the loop, The Apothecary Diaries is an anime taking the zeitgeist by storm.
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