Japan really hates freckles, huh?
Impressions:
We FINALLY reach the final new reincarnation show of the season, and a villainess one at that. Technically transmigration, but I’m counting it. And boy, was it dumb. The kind of show where it declares that she’s infirm and sickly. See, she coughed. That’s it. That’s her entire sickness. Not emaciated. Not infirm. She coughed. Once. And people keep saying how sick and frail she is. But now she’s in this horribly ugly body. How is it ugly? She has freckles. Ew. Gross. People with freckles are basically rats. But I think the crowning moment was her big triumph when they sic’ed a lion on her. She had used the poison that was given to her to kill herself to instead kill a rat, which she hid in her sleeve, and when the lion bit her sleeve, it instantly died mid-pounce from touching the poisoned rat. Yes. That’s exactly how that works. That’s exactly how everything works. Everything is so damn half-assed it’s almost parody.
But don’t let that make you think that the script isn’t horrible on a moment to moment level either. One of its ‘jokes’, and the moment I went from exasperated to entirely done with this, is that when she’s accused of being an evil villainess, she yells back “Oh no! I’m an evil villainess!” Believe it or not, that’s not the joke. The joke is that she then overreacts to her overreaction and yells a second time, “Oh no! I just agreed with her and said that I’m an evil villainess!” Yes. Three lines in a row declaring the premise, each yelled more than the last. It would also end the episode on a title drop, just in case you’ve forgotten what it was in the minute or two since someone last announced the premise. If all you want is the Apothecary Diaries aesthetic with even worse writing, then eat up.
