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The Apothecary Diaries (2023)

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.6
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Overview

Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries!


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Bias Dimensions

Political: Strong Left
Diversity: High

Overview

Maomao lived a peaceful life with her apothecary father. Until one day, she's sold as a lowly servant to the emperor's palace. But she wasn't meant for a compliant life among royalty. So when imperial heirs fall ill, she decides to step in and find a cure! This catches the eye of Jinshi, a handsome palace official who promotes her. Now, she's making a name for herself solving medical mysteries!


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Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Progressive

Primary

The film's central thesis explicitly promotes progressive ideology by critiquing patriarchal power structures and highlighting women's struggles for autonomy and agency within a male-dominated world.

The series features an inherently diverse cast due to its faux-historical East Asian setting. Its narrative strongly critiques social issues such as classism, oppression, and misogyny, focusing on the struggles and resilience of women and marginalized characters within a rigid societal structure.

Secondary

The Apothecary Diaries does not feature identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative centers on gender politics and social dynamics in a historical setting, with no noted emphasis on queer representation, resulting in an N/A rating for LGBTQ+ portrayal.

The Apothecary Diaries does not explicitly depict transsexual characters or a transsexual community. While the narrative explores gender nonconformity and challenges traditional gender roles through characters like Jinshi, this is distinct from explicit transsexual representation. The film focuses on broader gender and social dynamics within its historical setting, resulting in no identifiable transsexual themes.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The anime adaptation of "The Apothecary Diaries" faithfully portrays the genders of its characters as established in the original light novel and manga. There are no instances where a character canonically established as one gender is depicted as a different gender on screen.

Based on available information and the consistent portrayal of characters as East Asian in both the original light novel and the anime adaptation, no instances of race swapping have been identified.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.6

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

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8.6
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8.6

Critic Ratings

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N/A
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N/A

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