The Best Episodes Written By Misuzu Chiba

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.1/10(7 votes)

   #1 - The Moon Fairy

   S1:E292/7/2025

   In order to realize the seemingly impossible request from the foreign envoy, Maomao speaks to the “Moon Fairy” herself.

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   8.6/10(5 votes)

   #2 - Caravan

   S1:E261/17/2025

   The caravan stirs up excitement in the inner palace. The merchants bring all kinds of goods. However, something gives Maomao a bad feeling.

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   8.5/10(12 votes)

   #3 - Thornapple

   S1:E202/25/2024

   Maomao was able to stop the assassination attempt, but was heavily injured in the process. However, the injuries aren't enough to stop her curiosity, driving her to confront the culprit behind the incident.

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   8.5/10(11 votes)

   #4 - Balsam and Woodsorrel

   S1:E233/17/2024

   No longer willing to keep running away from Lakan, Maomao decides to face off against him. She challenges him on his own turf, in a chess match.

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   8.5/10(6 votes)

   #5 - The Dancing Ghost

   S1:E384/11/2025

   Concubine Lishu reports sightings of a ghost in the baths in her pavilion. Maomao goes to investigate.

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   8.5/10(4 votes)

   #6 - I'm a Guild Receptionist, so I Want a Peaceful Life

   S1:E11/11/2025

   Alina became a guild receptionist because she thought it'd be an easy, safe, secure job. However, in reality, she's so swamped with work that she's stuck pulling overtime day after day... and she's had enough!

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   8.4/10(7 votes)

   #7 - The Hunt

   S1:E353/21/2025

   Jinshi goes on a hunting trip, and brings Maomao along. He seems ready to share his secret with her.

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   8.3/10(7 votes)

   #8 - The Empress Dowager

   S1:E322/28/2025

   Maomao's reputation for resolving conflicts reaches the empress dowager, who will ask for her help to unravel a mystery that won't leave her mind.

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   8.3/10(6 votes)

   #9 - The Fox Village

   S1:E415/2/2025

   Suirei smuggles Maomao and Shisui out of the rear palace. Jinshi begins to search for Maomao.

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10. 

    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Hangout Spot Kuragefuu

    S1:E1710/29/2021

    It’s been a while since Kukuru and Fuuka had the same day off, so they host a get-together with their coworkers.

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    8.2/10(5 votes)

    #11 - The Stronghold

    S1:E445/30/2025

    Maomao is taken to a mountain stronghold, where many of the secrets of the Shi clan are revealed to her.

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12. 

    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #12 - Lead

    S1:E161/28/2024

    A shack, a chest of drawers, and a fishbowl are all that a talented metalworker leaves to his three sons upon his death. Maomao is assigned to investigate how these strange inheritances all fit together.

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    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #13 - The Shi Clan

    S1:E476/27/2025

    Jinshi and his forces infiltrate the stronghold, cornering the remaining Shi clan members.

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    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Tropical Fish in Boots

    S1:E47/30/2021

    The touch pool, where people are invited to touch sea creatures with their own hands, is the biggest event of the summer at Gama Gama Aquarium. Kukuru, Kai, Kuuya and Fuuka are hard at work to prepare.

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    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - At the End of the Siege

    S1:E119/17/2021

    A typhoon approaches as Kukuru locks herself inside Gama Gama to protest its closure.

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16. 

    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - The Great Sea Slug Debate

    S1:E1510/15/2021

    Kukuru is tasked with coming up with ideas for an event, but her proposal comes with some serious challenges.

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17. 

    7.8/10(15 votes)

    #17 - Suicide or Murder?

    S1:E912/3/2023

    An older acquaintance of Jinshi's dies while drinking at a party. A servant's body turns up in a moat. Both deaths are written off as self-inflicted, but Maomao's keen observations tell her that there's more to both stories.

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    7.8/10(18 votes)

    #18 - Covert Operations

    S1:E511/5/2023

    A eunuch stricken by a curse comes begging for aid. Meanwhile, the rear palace buzzes with excitement as everyone prepares for the upcoming garden party, and Gyokuyou's ladies-in-waiting aren't about to let Maomao get away without dressing her up.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Sweets Rhapsody

    S1:E68/13/2021

    Kukuru and the crew brainstorm for ways to attract more visitors to Gama Gama Aquarium. They decide to try selling some sweets.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #20 - crab crisis

    S1:E88/27/2021

    Karin finds a venue for a traveling aquarium at the pediatrics ward of the local clinic. The head nurse there has a fear of crabs.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Ready to Return

    S1:E2212/3/2021

    Having watched the sea turtle hatchlings, Kukuru returns to Tingarla with a renewed sense of purpose, and resumes work on the wedding venue project.

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    7.3/10(18 votes)

    #22 - Chilly Apothecary

    S1:E210/22/2023

    Maomao tries to settle into her promotion to lady-in-waiting and food taster, but struggles to fend off both boredom and the overly-familiar Jinshi. That is, until she gets an assignment of her dreams: to concoct an aphrodisiac.

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    7.3/10(16 votes)

    #23 - The Eunuch and the Courtesan

    S1:E1212/24/2023

    Discovering that Maomao's kidnappers were connected to Fengming's family, Jinshi is faced with a choice between keeping Maomao in the rear palace where he can be near her or releasing her from her service.

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    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Cultural Festival II

    S1:E86/5/2022

    During the cultural festival, Izumi-kun and Kamiya-san have a good time chatting as they share library duty. Then Nekozaki suddenly comes along and takes Kamiya-san away to see Shikimori-san. When Kamiya-san hears what Shikimori-san wants from her, she readily agrees. Later, when Kamiya-san returns to her classroom to help with her class's festival project, her elegant look draws a crowd of classmates and guests around her. As she drowns in all the noise, a certain someone suddenly comes to mind, and she breaks away from the classroom.

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    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #25 - Cultural Festival I

    S1:E75/29/2022

    Izumi-kun and his friends are busy getting ready for the school's cultural festival. Izumi-kun is working with the group in charge of making costumes for their class's display, and Shikimori-san is in the group working on decorations. They don't get many chances to talk, and when they each see the other having fun chatting with their groupmates... And then the festival begins at last. Izumi-kun is so busy his head is spinning, and this causes his unlucky nature to awaken yet again. On top of that, he's on duty in the library the next morning. The one on duty with him is Kamiya-san, whom he first met the previous year through the library committee. But she's acting a bit different today...

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