Parallel World Pharmacy

Parallel World Pharmacy (異世界薬局, Isekai Yakkyoku) is a Japanese light novel by Liz Takayama. Keepout is in charge of the illustration. Published by MF Books (KADOKAWA Media Factory) from January 2016.

The serialization began on July 1, 2015, on the novel posting site "Shōsetsuka ni Narō," and was revised and revised in January 2016 to become a book from MF Books. In addition, a comicalized version based on this work has been serialized in "ComicWalker" and "Nico Nico Seiga" since November 2016 and has been made into a book by KADOKAWA. As of July 2021, the cumulative circulation of the comicalized version has exceeded 1.2 million (including the electronic version), and the cumulative circulation of the series has exceeded 2.3 million.

It is written under the guidance of specialists and healthcare professionals because it deals with real medicines and diseases. In addition, the time lag that occurs between the original novel version and the manga version produced later causes changes in scientific evidence during that time, resulting in differences in content between the novel version and the manga version.

Synopsis
A young pharmacologist and researcher in Japan named Yakutani Kanji died from overworking and was reincarnated in a parallel world looking like a fantasy medieval Europe.

He was reincarnated as Falma de Médiciss, a 10-year old apprentice to a famous Royal Court pharmacist, who had attained inhuman skills ability to see through disease, material creation, and material destruction.

In a society in which dubious medical practices are rampant, price gouging through the monopoly of the pharmacist guild and good medicine isn’t available to the commoners he decided to use his knowledge to change the world. He was recognized by the Empress of the time and got permission to open a Pharmacy at the corner of the town.

He decided to wipe out the fraud that swept the world and deliver to the commoners a truly effective medicine that was developed using present-day pharmacology.

Thus, the boy pharmacist will cheat by using his previous knowledge to create innovative medicines while helping the people of the parallel world, a story about living his new life to the fullest this time.

Light Novels
Liz Takayama (Author), keepout (Illustration) "Isekai Yakkyoku" KADOKAWA , 9+ volumes already published (as of July 21, 2021)

Manga
Koya Hijiri (Author), Liz Takayama (Original), keepout (Character Draft) "Different World Pharmacy" KADOKAWA , 9+ volumes already published (as of July 21, 2021)

Character
"A beneficial knowledge should be spread to everyone. That's the path towards new discovery."

- Falma de Médicis After losing his little sister to an incurable disease, world-famous medical researcher Kanji Yakutani gave it his all to cure patients by dedicating his life to inventing new medicines. After working himself to death at the age of 31, the former pharmacist wakes up as a 10-year-old child whose body has been struck by lightning. He discovers that he has been reincarnated into a medieval world as Falma, a child of the respected De Médicis family.

In a world where divine arts—magic granted through blessings from guardian deities—exist, Falma realizes that his body is host to the guardian deity of medicine. The boy has been granted the mythical divine arts of creation and reduction as well as the ability to instantly diagnose illnesses in people's bodies.

He soon discovers the terrible state of medicine in this world: only nobles are able to afford medical care, which is ineffective at best and detrimental at worst. Using modern knowledge and his divine powers, Falma gradually makes a name for himself as a pharmacist despite his young age, even earning the recognition of the imperial court. When he finally acquires a proper pharmacy of his own, he sets out to pursue his goal of improving healthcare in the San Fleuve Empire and making it accessible to all.

The second son of the de Medicis family, a well-known court pharmacist. Blonde blue-eyed boy. 10 years old. The name "Falma/Farma" means "pharmaceutical", it came from Old French (farmacie) and any other languages where phonetical spelling use f instead of ph such as in Finnish with farmaseutti. Prior to reincarnation, he was a 31-year-old pharmacist who was an associate professor at the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, National University of T, Japan. The name "Kanji Kusuritani (Yakutani)".

When he was young, he lost his 4-year-old sister who suffered from a brain tumor after two years of fighting against an illness too. However, due to extreme overwork, he develops an acute myocardial infarction and dies from overwork in the middle of the night and his career. After that, he reincarnated in another world and was reborn as Falma de Medicis, an apprentice of a court pharmacist.

“At first, I was confused by reincarnation, but I witnessed a different world where wrong treatment methods are widespread (medieval level on the earth), and I used my knowledge of pharmacy in my lifetime to correct the treatment methods in another world. And decide to save a large number of people.” He was recognized as a court pharmacist by saving Empress Elizabeth II from an incurable white death, and later passing an unannounced test. Opened "DIVERSIS MUNDI OF PHARMACY".

When the pre-incarnation Falma was struck by lightning, there were scratches on both arms in the shape of the "Lichtenberg figure". Although he denies it, the mythology changes from water attribute to non-attributes and can generate or erase all kinds of substances (but only those that can accurately image the molecular structure), without using any divine power. There are changes that are shown in the outside world, such as no shadows.

From his background/backstory, he seems to be completely uninterested in pharmacy, but he has a lot of hobbies, such as knowing the words "moe" and "shotacon" and being happy to hear that football has been introduced.

Abilities
"But in the end, there's only one fact. People are definitely going to experience "Death". But, her majesty who near-death experience will live the "Second Life" better than those who never have. I too thought that the next life would be better, value every single of your life""

- Falma de Médicis

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Establishment
"Anyway, I would like to spread and serve medicines to the people of this world"

- Falma de Médicis The Holy Sanctuary Pharmacy 「DIVERSIS MUNDI OF PHARMACY」 / The Pharmacy from Another World 「Parallel World Pharmacy」
 * A royal charter shop was given by Falma as a reward for treating the Empress's white death. A place to realize his ideal of ​​"safe, secure, inexpensive, and truly effective medicines for all". It was opened mainly for commoners, but initially, it was not popular because it was run by an aristocrat and the store manager was a child. However, the sale of epoch-making cosmetics that are harmless and different from the conventional white powder has increased the s explosively, and it has become accepted due to the effects of the prescribed medicines and careful and friendly medical examinations. Currently, in addition to the first store, the Isekai Yakkyoku, there is a second cosmetics brand store, "MEDIQUE," and a third store specializing in oral care, "8020".

Dispensing Pharmacy Guild
 * A new guild was launched by Falma to bring in third-class pharmacists. There is no membership fee and you can withdraw freely. At first, Falma was the chief, but later Pierre, the owner of the first member store, the Sunbeams Pharmacy, became the chief.


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Production
Yūshi Kojima, who is a pharmacist, joins the production of the manga adaptation as a "pharmacy supervisor"

TV Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on July 15, 2021. The series is produced by Diomedéa and directed by Keizō Kusakawa, with Wataru Watari in charge of the series' scripts, Mayuko Matsumoto designing the characters, and Tatsuya Kato and Satoshi Hōno composing the music. It premiered on July 10, 2022, on AT-X, Tokyo MX, Kansai TV, and BS NTV. The opening theme song is "Musō-teki Chronicle" by Kaori Ishihara, while the ending theme song is "Haku'u" by Little Black Dress.

Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia and has also begun streaming an English dub starting on July 24, 2022. Muse Communication licensed the series in Taiwan, South and Southeast Asia. The series was released on Blu-ray and DVD in Japan from September 28, 2022 to November 25, 2022.
 * Staff:
 * Original Author - Rizu Takayama
 * Character Draft - keepout
 * Director - Keizo Kusakawa
 * Series composition - travel
 * Character Design - Mayuko Matsumoto
 * Sub-character design - Kyosuke Maeda
 * Image board - Kenji Masuda
 * Main animators - Kota Moroishi, & Ken Kato
 * Art director - Tomoyasu Hosoi
 * Art setting - Katsuhisa Takiguchi
 * Color design - Yuki Hayashi
 * Cinematographer - Yasuyuki Ito
 * Offline editing - Toshihiko Kojima
 * Acoustic Director - Yayoi Tateishi
 * Music - Tatsuya Kato, & Satoshi Takarano
 * Music Production - Pony Canyon
 * Producers - Toshinori Fujiwara, Koji Sawahata, Masashi Hirayama, Hisashi Matsumura, & So Maruyama
 * Animation Producer - Shota Amano
 * Animation Production - diomedia
 * Production - "Different World Pharmacy" Production Committee

Reception
The light novel and manga together have over 2,300,000 copies in print.

Trivia

 * The author, Liz Takayama is an actual pharmacist in real life.
 * In collaboration with the Japan Pharmaceutical Association, Isekai Yakkyoku was a part of a campaign to bring awareness to the professions and practices of the pharmaceutical field.

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