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Jan 28, 3:15 PM
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Why does Maomao not wear the same Uniform an the other Ladys in waiting??
I have wondered this since season 1, all Lady in waiting for the concubines wear a Uniform that goes with clothes of the concubines, only Maomao wears something different.
Why????
Jan 28, 3:25 PM
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Because she's not really a lady in waiting. She didn't pass the exam

Also, she's main character xd
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Because she's not really a lady in waiting. She didn't pass the exam

Also, she's main character xd

I was just going to say she is the main character also. I couldn't think of any other reason.
Jan 28, 4:09 PM
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Read the title of the show again. Slowly.
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Moppit said:
DarkBasilisc said:
Because she's not really a lady in waiting. She didn't pass the exam

Also, she's main character xd

I was just going to say she is the main character also. I couldn't think of any other reason.

Yeah, but not passing a lady in waiting exam is a probable reason too.

In real world there are also situations, when you have to become a proper member of a community or a ceritfied specialist to gain the right to wear some kind of uniform. And MaoMao didn't pass (if I remember right it was because she didn't really care about it).

The thing that make this reason more valid is the fact, that in a first/first few episodes of first season she wears a "uniform" of laundry servants(or just servants) and she begin to wear her characteristic clothes after she goes info the palace, because she's neither laundry servant or lady in waiting.

And when you are in place as large as that, the "uniform" help with understanding who is who, so you have to have people wear the right clothes.
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Read the title of the show again. Slowly.

Yeah, but she's not an official palace apothecary, so that's not really a reason
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YumiChan86 said:
Why does Maomao not wear the same Uniform an the other Ladys in waiting??
I have wondered this since season 1, all Lady in waiting for the concubines wear a Uniform that goes with clothes of the concubines, only Maomao wears something different.
Why????

maomao is the most breedable no matter her outfit so it doesn't matter
Jan 28, 7:40 PM
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DarkBasilisc said:
Because she's not really a lady in waiting. She didn't pass the exam

Also, she's main character xd

The exam was for court lady, not lady in waiting.
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If I remember correctly the exam she didn't pass was for a court clerk-like position to work in the outer palace with Master Jinshi, not the inner palace, cause they called her a lady in waiting when she transferred to the Jade pavilion in season 1 from the laundry department
I would also say since she works as an apothecary the work clothes are more suited for that role rather then fancy clothes like she wore at the Garden Party So I would say they are role-based on the situation least that's my take on it
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DarkBasilisc said:
Piromysl said:
Read the title of the show again. Slowly.

Yeah, but she's not an official palace apothecary, so that's not really a reason

True but its clear her skills are recognized by the emperor and the concubines as well as Jinshi and the Quack doctor so that definitely counts as something
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DarkBasilisc said:
Piromysl said:
Read the title of the show again. Slowly.

Yeah, but she's not an official palace apothecary, so that's not really a reason

She is the food tester for one of the main concubines so maybe that's her uniform
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I always thought it to be odd that Maomao is wearing the same green clothes that nobody else is wearing ever since she started serving Gyokuyou in season 1. Maybe there is some deeper meaning in it that's explained in the books, but to me it feels like bad etiquette for the concubines if one of their ladies in waiting isn't wearing uniform.

Ever since Maomao has become Jinshi's servant in the second half of season 1 she has a more unique role inside the palace which makes the different clothing more excusable. But still, I wish that when Maomao is send off to assist Gyokuyou she would change her clothes.
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YumiChan86 said:
Why does Maomao not wear the same Uniform an the other Ladys in waiting??
I have wondered this since season 1, all Lady in waiting for the concubines wear a Uniform that goes with clothes of the concubines, only Maomao wears something different.
Why????

i think it's because she is not officially a lady in waiting and she is still an apothecary
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cause she is the mc
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She has to stand out in comparsion.
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Well, She isn't officially a lady-in-waiting. jinshi sama put maomao in work because of her extra ordinary skills and so she didn't had to pass the lady-in-waiting exam also she is a food tester that's why she has a diff outfit ig
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I always wondered that to.

Some of the answers here doesn't add up. She failed the test for bureaucrat lady. There wasn't any test for lady in waiting the concubine chose them. In S1 Gyokuyou selected her so she should have worn orange like other ones. She was never officially Apothecary and even before she met emperor and he approved her "antics" she was mainly lady in waiting in Jade palace.

Only after Jinshi brought her back she has more flexible roles first in outer court and later assigned to Gyokuyou. So it is acceptable now.

Looks like plot armour to make mc-chan stand out more.
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For the servant who wash clothes there is no uniform. She is just wearing what she already had. She does use an outfit provided by her Lady for ceremonies.

She does say the sleeves on the lady in waiting clothes limit arm movements.
If you saved my baby daughter, I would let you have a free pass away from the uniform.

There is also the part that the lady in waiting buy a ton of special clothes, where do they use them?

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@DarkBasilisc Could also be in the majority of shows I watched. The main character never changes their clothes either for the most part. Like in a lot of isekais, they almost never depart from their school uniform ever no matter how long they are in another world.
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literallyeurope said:
YumiChan86 said:
Why does Maomao not wear the same Uniform an the other Ladys in waiting??
I have wondered this since season 1, all Lady in waiting for the concubines wear a Uniform that goes with clothes of the concubines, only Maomao wears something different.
Why????

maomao is the most breedable no matter her outfit so it doesn't matter

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Jan 29, 7:35 PM
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YumiChan86 said:
Why does Maomao not wear the same Uniform an the other Ladys in waiting??
I have wondered this since season 1, all Lady in waiting for the concubines wear a Uniform that goes with clothes of the concubines, only Maomao wears something different.
Why????

maomao is the most breedable no matter her outfit so it doesn't matter

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Well I think that now that she works for jinshi she doesn’t have a uniform.
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DarkBasilisc said:
Piromysl said:
Read the title of the show again. Slowly.

Yeah, but she's not an official palace apothecary, so that's not really a reason

She is the food tester for one of the main concubines so maybe that's her uniform
@Urrrk The other food testers wear standard lady-in-waiting uniforms though
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YumiChan86 said:
Why does Maomao not wear the same Uniform an the other Ladys in waiting??
I have wondered this since season 1, all Lady in waiting for the concubines wear a Uniform that goes with clothes of the concubines, only Maomao wears something different.
Why????

maomao is the most breedable no matter her outfit so it doesn't matter

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If I remember correctly the exam she didn't pass was for a court clerk-like position to work in the outer palace with Master Jinshi, not the inner palace, cause they called her a lady in waiting when she transferred to the Jade pavilion in season 1 from the laundry department
I would also say since she works as an apothecary the work clothes are more suited for that role rather then fancy clothes like she wore at the Garden Party So I would say they are role-based on the situation least that's my take on it
@Jmr2450 I think this one makes sense. Lady Gyokuyou and co seem perfectly aware that Maomao is a commoner and lacks the etiquette and class to be a proper lady-in-waiting, so she's basically kept behind the scenes outside of specific events like the Garden Party where they make her look presentable. Since she's not usually a part of the Lady's visible retinue (and indeed is often doing stuff that would not reflect well on the Jade Pavilion if she was caught in their uniform) it's probably for the best that she be given a different set of clothes.

One other thought I have is that perhaps the Green uniform Maomao wears is a kind of lower-ranking uniform for the Jade Pavilion, considering that it is Jade-colored. Most of the other concubines have many more personal attendants, so perhaps there is a level of stratification within them with higher level ladies-in-waiting wearing the fancier uniforms and the lower level ones having simpler uniforms. There wouldn't be any other servants wearing her uniform at the Jade Pavilion, though because Lady Gyokuyou has so few servants in the first place.

Edit: I actually found some good evidence for this. In Episode 10, Maomao gets sent to help at Lady Ah Duo's residence. The head lady-in-waiting there actually has a different, more elaborate uniform than the rest of the servants. Also in a previous scene, Maomao wears the proper Jade Pavilion uniform when entertaining Lady Lishu
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For the servant who wash clothes there is no uniform. She is just wearing what she already had. She does use an outfit provided by her Lady for ceremonies.

She does say the sleeves on the lady in waiting clothes limit arm movements.
If you saved my baby daughter, I would let you have a free pass away from the uniform.

There is also the part that the lady in waiting buy a ton of special clothes, where do they use them?
@Sasori56483 This is not true, the laundresses had uniforms typical of all maids in charge of dressing the concubines.
And, of course, the main character has a ceremonial lady in waiting uniform, which she puts on for special occasions, by special order of concubine. At other times, she wears her usual attire, which does not interfere with her immediate duties.
The clothes that the ladies in waiting bought from the caravan merchants, they also wear in their free time and on special occasions.
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bcz she is the mc,duh
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@Sasori56483 This is not true, the laundresses had uniforms typical of all maids in charge of dressing the concubines.
And, of course, the main character has a ceremonial lady in waiting uniform, which she puts on for special occasions, by special order of concubine. At other times, she wears her usual attire, which does not interfere with her immediate duties.
The clothes that the ladies in waiting bought from the caravan merchants, they also wear in their free time and on special occasions.
@Tobimaroo The laundry girls are the ones in the outskirts, they are not directly in charge of any concubine. It is the first role Maomao gets in the court and the first one that should change her outfit.
Since nobody seems to care about what she wears there. It means there is no uniform there, it is just the fit you get when you ask for clothes.

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@Tobimaroo The laundry girls are the ones in the outskirts, they are not directly in charge of any concubine. It is the first role Maomao gets in the court and the first one that should change her outfit.
Since nobody seems to care about what she wears there. It means there is no uniform there, it is just the fit you get when you ask for clothes.
@Sasori56483
I'm not sure what you mean. When Maomao first starts in the inner palace she gets to wear the same yellow uniform (they do have a uniform) as the other girls that work on laundry.
She only changes into her green outfit after Gokuyou tells her to work as her maid-in-waiting.

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DarkBasilisc said:
Because she's not really a lady in waiting. She didn't pass the exam

Also, she's main character xd

But she IS a lady in waiting, the exam was for the court ladies more intellectual stuff... when there's an occasion she dresses just like the ladies in the same castle.

My only guess is just that she works at the clinic & ofc MC previlige
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@Sasori56483
I'm not sure what you mean. When Maomao first starts in the inner palace she gets to wear the same yellow uniform (they do have a uniform) as the other girls that work on laundry.
She only changes into her green outfit after Gokuyou tells her to work as her maid-in-waiting.

@Vaturna Didn`t remember the anime scene.
In one of the two manga publications, she does get any new outfit before the Garden Party, the one with the hair ornaments, on volume 2.

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@Vaturna Didn`t remember the anime scene.
In one of the two manga publications, she does get any new outfit before the Garden Party, the one with the hair ornaments, on volume 2.
@Sasori56483 Ah, I see. The manga seems to be a little different in the way that she's wearing her distinct outfit right from the beginning 🤙
(For the anime she's wearing laundry uniform throughout the first episode)
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@Sasori56483 Ah, I see. The manga seems to be a little different in the way that she's wearing her distinct outfit right from the beginning 🤙
(For the anime she's wearing laundry uniform throughout the first episode)
@Vaturna Well, those still clear all the problems with OP question, right? She being uniformized as laundry girl. Go work as a temp hire in Hisui. Then she goes Blue, but Blue maids hated her so no clothes. Returns, Honyan hiring her as poison tester and the other Gokuyou maids giving her clothes to MIW finally before garden party. She hating the sleeves and being allowed to use normal clothes.

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@ricardopetrere you have gomg in your favorites don't eyebrow raise my degeneracy

That is art, peak anime, it's different hahahahhahaahhhah
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Urrrk said:
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Yeah, but she's not an official palace apothecary, so that's not really a reason

She is the food tester for one of the main concubines so maybe that's her uniform

Yeah but the other food tasters still wear the colours of the concubine they serve. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't have an in lore explanation and is just because she is the main character, it doesn't really have to be deep.
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@Tobimaroo The laundry girls are the ones in the outskirts, they are not directly in charge of any concubine. It is the first role Maomao gets in the court and the first one that should change her outfit.
Since nobody seems to care about what she wears there. It means there is no uniform there, it is just the fit you get when you ask for clothes.
@Sasori56483 In the first episode, it is Jinshi who draws our attention to the fact that Maomao has the typical uniform of an inferior maid who is in charge of clothing the mostly low-ranking concubines.



Also, just a reminder that the anime is based on LN.
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WaterMage said:
I always wondered that to.

Some of the answers here doesn't add up. She failed the test for bureaucrat lady. There wasn't any test for lady in waiting the concubine chose them. In S1 Gyokuyou selected her so she should have worn orange like other ones. She was never officially Apothecary and even before she met emperor and he approved her "antics" she was mainly lady in waiting in Jade palace.

Only after Jinshi brought her back she has more flexible roles first in outer court and later assigned to Gyokuyou. So it is acceptable now.

Looks like plot armour to make mc-chan stand out more.

Her day-to-day clothes aint exactly plot relevant though lol.

On topic as far as I remember, Jinshi "promoted" (quotes because unofficial) her back in like the first episode and thats when she changed her clothes. So if anything, the reason why she wears the clothing is just because Jinshi wants to spot her easier.
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Because she's not really a lady in waiting. She didn't pass the exam

Also, she's main character xd
@DarkBasilisc To be fair the exam was not to be a lady in waiting but to work on the palace, in areas outside the harem itself (like Jinshi's residence). The ladies in waiting for the important consorts just move in with them, no exams needed.
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She's like a consultant anyway.
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I always wondered that to.

Some of the answers here doesn't add up. She failed the test for bureaucrat lady. There wasn't any test for lady in waiting the concubine chose them. In S1 Gyokuyou selected her so she should have worn orange like other ones. She was never officially Apothecary and even before she met emperor and he approved her "antics" she was mainly lady in waiting in Jade palace.

Only after Jinshi brought her back she has more flexible roles first in outer court and later assigned to Gyokuyou. So it is acceptable now.

Looks like plot armour to make mc-chan stand out more.
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Looks like plot armour to make mc-chan stand out more.


Don't mean to be confrontational, but plot armor is when you protect a character from a danger that should have hurt or killed it for plot reasons. In this case we see a technical choice, it is easy to draw the character when it is using always the same clothes and it also makes the character more recognizable like you said.
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WaterMage said:
Looks like plot armour to make mc-chan stand out more.


Don't mean to be confrontational, but plot armor is when you protect a character from a danger that should have hurt or killed it for plot reasons. In this case we see a technical choice, it is easy to draw the character when it is using always the same clothes and it also makes the character more recognizable like you said.
@DiegoNC yes ik Plot armour is not the right word. But you get what I tried to mean.
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@ricardopetrere you have gomg in your favorites don't eyebrow raise my degeneracy

That is art, peak anime, it's different hahahahhahaahhhah
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