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(4.52/5)December 14, 2025
November 14, 2023
Story: If you've seen the anime, volume 1 is basically identical. (If you haven't seen the anime, I highly recommend it!!). 猫猫（マオマオ）is one of the most refreshing MCs I've run into in a long while. She's simultaneously very shrewd, matter of fact about her circumstances, and self-confident, while also having a wide-eyed with wonder childish side when it comes to anything apothecary related (or as a friend put it, 夢中すぎて周りを全然気づいていない)... all while
December 23, 2023
I mostly concur with 暁のルナ's earlier review. I will say I found 薬屋 not easy, but at least surprisingly straightforward (having viewed the anime); most of the difficulty lies with the unfamiliar vocabulary, with the grammar being mostly recognisable apart from some more archiac forms of expression. Furigana helps greatly here, though I did notice a bit more of a habit of using ruby/furigana text to 'hide' modern meanings in more archiac terminology, etc. An extremely enjoyable challenge for my cur
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Manga format makes it more approachable
Having never watched the anime or read the light novel, and approaching this knowing nothing about the story in advance, the manga felt like a good way for learners to be introduced to the series. The only things I felt were outright challenging were not related to the language level of the writing, which while it uses its share of formal and archaic forms, was mostly very clear and uncomplicated to parse. I don't consider this manga particularly good for learning with, just because the nature o