‘The Apothecary Diaries’ Trailer Hints at Murder, Mystery and Even a Little Mayhem

Earlier this year I wrote about the manga adaptation of The Apothecary Diaries that I was recommending to everyone and anyone that would listen. Originally based on superb light novels, the manga adaptation served up a fierce, multi-layered yet engaging narrative about a young woman using her talents to weed out corruption and better the lives of others. The Apothecary Diaries follows Maomao, a girl from the slums in Imperial China who’s kidnapped and forced to work as a servant in the Imperial Palace.  Yet, the series truly took me by surprise with a cast of characters, major and minor, that populated a story that gave me mysteries being solved and people’s lives being impacted with lots of laughs along the way. Now that we’ve got an anime on the way, I am so pleased to see what makes it into this adaptation. Even from the trailer, it seems to be bringing all the flair and drama that I loved from the light novels and the manga versions.

It All Starts With A Mystery! The Apothecary Diaries centers around the life of one young woman named Maomao, who lives in the East in a land ruled by the emperor; whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling palace. She’s a seemingly plain girl who doesn’t raise many eyebrows and just tries to keep her head down as she completed her time of servitude in the palace as a maid. She finds this easier as she was recently kidnapped and sold off to this place as a servant. She’s actually the daughter of an apothecary father who serves…