{"id":10210,"date":"2023-02-04T15:33:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T15:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=10210"},"modified":"2023-02-13T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:35:19","slug":"fushi-no-kami-7-the-apothecary-diaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/fushi-no-kami-7-the-apothecary-diaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Fushi no Kami #7 & The Apothecary Diaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

To my great surprise, the seventh Fushi no Kami novel<\/a> turned out to be the series’<\/a> conclusion.<\/p>\n

This was surprising mainly because half is devoted to talking in circles, a quarter is devoted to creating a hamfisted solution to the love triangle issue, and then the actual conclusion is handled by two abrupt 2-year time skips. Like… nothing<\/em> gets resolved. The only potential silver-lining (if it can even be called that) is that I definitely would’ve dropped it here. Meaning I now don’t have to worry about missing anything or it potentially getting better.<\/p>\n

Kusuriya no Hitorigoto<\/em> starts out with<\/a> what could be seen as a self-contained novel. It’s got an established beginning, end, and plenty of development in-between. Sure it sometimes comes across more like a collection of short stories, but that’s not necessarily a negative. Honestly, it’s everything I had hoped the Koukyuu no Karasu<\/a> Anime would’ve been like.<\/p>\n

That said… I’m conflicted on whether or not to continue. I enjoyed it, yet honestly can’t see it ending up anywhere good if the additional volume summaries are to be believed. Guess I’ll take a ‘wait and see’ approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To my great surprise, the seventh Fushi no Kami novel turned out to be the series’ conclusion. This was surprising mainly because half is devoted to talking in circles, a quarter is devoted to creating a hamfisted solution to the love triangle issue, and then the actual conclusion is handled by two abrupt 2-year time skips. Like… nothing gets resolved. The only potential silver-lining (if it can even be called that) is that I definitely would’ve dropped it here. Meaning I now don’t have to worry about missing anything or it potentially getting better. Kusuriya no Hitorigoto starts out with what could be seen as a self-contained novel. It’s got an established beginning, end, and plenty of development in-between. Sure it sometimes comes across more like a collection of short stories, but that’s not necessarily a negative. Honestly, it’s everything I had hoped the Koukyuu no Karasu Anime would’ve been like. That said… I’m conflicted on whether or not to continue. I enjoyed it, yet honestly can’t see it ending up anywhere good if the additional volume summaries are to be believed. Guess I’ll take a ‘wait and see’ approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[592,234,641,593,240,642,64,62,510],"class_list":["post-10210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-fushi-no-kami","tag-history","tag-kusuriya-no-hitorigoto","tag-mizuumi-amakawa","tag-mystery","tag-natsu-hyuuga","tag-romance","tag-science-fiction","tag-young-adult-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}