Season 1 Episode 14

Season 1

Episode 14

Japanese

新しい淑妃

Romaji

Atarashī Shuku-hi

Air Date (JP)

January 14, 2024 (1:05 AM)

English

The New Pure Consort

Air Date (EN)

Subbed：January 13, 2024

Blu-ray

Volume 3

Music

Opening Theme

Ambivalent

Ending Theme

Ai wa Kusuri

Staff

Scriptwriter

Hitomi Ogawa

Storyboard

Norihiro Naganuma

Director

Akira Shimizu

Animation dir.

Shinya Nogami, Keiko Yamamoto, Lin Gui Du, Kanari Yamada, Yuji Ikeda

Adapted From

Web Novel

Chapter ??

Light Novel

Volume 2：Chapter 2-3

Manga

Main：Ch.23-Ch.24 (Part)
Notebook：Ch.16-Ch.17

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"The New Pure Consort" is the 14th episode of the The Apothecary Diaries anime adaptation.

Ah-Duo's replacement has arrived in the rear palace, and Maomao is assigned to give a certain lecture to all four high concubines. Later, Maomao helps Lihaku investigate a warehouse explosion.

Translated blurb from official anime website...

Including Lady Loulan, who has recently entered the harem, the senior concubines are to begin their training. After failing the official exam and becoming a maid in Jinshi's rooms, Maomao is asked to be a tutor, with the recommendation of Lady Gyokuyou and Lady Lihua. She orders teaching materials from the Verdigris House and teaches them secret techniques in the bedroom. That night, as Maomao is resting after finishing her lesson, she hears a suspicious sound outside, which piques her curiosity...^[1]

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Characters in Focus[]

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Soundtrack[]

All the music featured in this episode, in order.

Changes[]

Loulan is shown entering the rear palace with her ladies-in-waiting and into the Garnet Pavilion, where she carelessly takes off the Pure Consort's tiara.
Maomao is shown planting some herbs in the outer court, while commenting on its lack of herbs. Suiren then interrupts to remind her to clean the office.
The Madam is shown smirking while increasing the price of the teaching materials in Maomao's memory.
Maomao recognizes the lady-in-waiting in charge of makeup from her time taking care of Lihua.
At night, Loulan is shown slightly narrowing her eyes while sitting on her couch at the Garnet Pavilion.
Maomao goes to sleep while getting excited over her reward from Jinshi. She wakes to an explosion then occurs somewhere in the Imperial Palace, with soldiers rushing toward it. Though Maomao sits up, she thinks of Suiren and goes back to sleep.
At the explosion site, Rikuson makes an early appearance searching for Lakan, whom he finds inside the burnt warehouse inspecting a white powder. A smoking pipe is also shown on the ground.
The next day, Maomao wonders what the sound last night was. She confirms later that it was the explosion.
Maomao makes a rectangular hole from the corner of the board, instead of a circular hole in the middle.
A man is shown smashing a jug and crying over his failures in a restaurant, while another man looks on.