Season 2 Episode 18

Season 2
Episode 42
Japanese	鬼灯
Romaji	Hoozuki
Air Date (JP)	May 9, 2025 (11:00 PM)
English	Lantern Plant
Air Date (EN)	Subbed：May 9, 2025 Dubbed：May 23, 2025
Blu-ray	S2 Volume 3
Music
Opening Theme	Kusushiki
Ending Theme	Hitorigoto
Adapted From
Light Novel	Volume 4：Chapters 12
Manga	Main：Ch.74 (partial) - Ch.75 Notebook：Ch.63 (partial) - Ch.65 (partial)
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"Lantern Plant" is the 42nd overall episode and the 18th episode of the second season of The Apothecary Diaries anime adaptation.

Maomao has been missing for ten days now. Jinshi's investigations lead him to a forgotten graveyard.

Translated blurb from official anime website...

Ten days pass with no sign of Maomao's whereabouts. Empress Gyokuyou goes into labor, and Luomen is tasked with caring for her around the clock. Meanwhile, Jinshi hears that the eunuch who disappeared at the same time as Maomao was praying at the tomb to the north. This is the tomb of those who were betrothed to the former emperor and met their end in the harem. When he heads there in search of clues about Maomao, he finds a female attendant in front of the tomb. Jinshi also detects the same scent of alcohol that Maomao had and tries to get more information from her, but...

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Detailed summary

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Notable Characters

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Characters in italics debuted here.

• Jinshi
• Hongniang
• Luomen
• Guen
• Lady Gyokuyou
• Haku-u
• Maomao (imagined by Jinshi)
• Yinghua
• Guiyuan
• Koku-u
• Maomao, the Cat
• Gaoshun

• Tian (mentioned by Gaoshun)
• Shenlü
• Former Emperor
• Taihou (imagined by Jinshi & mentioned Basen)
• Shishou (imagined by Jinshi)
• Loulan (imagined by Jinshi)
• Renpu
• Lakan
• Onsou
• Basen
• Lahan
• Maomao

Music

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Changes

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Trivia

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Videos

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External Links

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• "Episode 18：Hoozuki" Summary - Official Anime Website (in Japanese)
• "Episode 18：Lantern Plant" with multi-language subtitles & dubs - Crunchyroll

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