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 " Let's become a novelist, " 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. n addition, the time lag that occurs between the original novel version and the manga version produced later causes changes in evidence and scientific evidence during that time, resulting in differences in content between the novel version and the manga version. There is a thing.

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 Medisus, 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 has 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 , 8 volumes already published (as of July 21, 2021) Become a Novelist

Manga:
Koya Hijiri (Author), Liz Takayama (Original), keepout (Character Draft) "Different World Pharmacy" KADOKAWA , 7 volumes already published (as of July 21, 2021)

Anime:
An anime television series adaptation was announced on July 15, 2021. Production was announced in July 2021  and will be broadcast from 2022  .

Staff:

 * Original-Liz Takayama
 * Character draft --keepout
 * Director- Keizo Kusakawa
 * Series composition- travel
 * Character design-Mayuko Matsumoto
 * Animation production- Diomedia

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

Character
 ''This article have still lack of information. You can help  by [ expanding it].'' 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 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/Pharma" means "pharmaceutical". 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 feeling)". When he was young, he lost his 4-year-old sister who suffered from a brain tumor after two years of fighting against illness. do. However, due to extreme overwork, he develops acute myocardial infarction and dies from overwork in the middle of 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 Emperor Elizabeth II from the 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 " (Lichtenberg figure). Although he denies it, the mythology changes from water attribute to non-attributed 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 soaked in the outside world, such as no shadows and no shadows.

From his background, 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:
Another world pharmacy [DIVERSIS MUNDI OF PHARMACY] Dispensing pharmacy guild
 * 《Yakushi》In a different world, it is roughly classified into three categories. Unlike Japanese pharmacists, he has an independent prescription right, can prescribe medicines based on his own diagnosis, and treats patients, effectively playing the role of a physician . Doctors in another world are equivalent to Japanese surgeons and dentists . By the way, read "Yakushi" instead of "Kusushi". The number of registered people is the number when Pharma has just reincarnated.
 * Court pharmacist /Imperial Court pharmacist: A prestigious aristocratic pharmacist. Prescribe medicines to emperors and royalty aristocrats. The court pharmacist is given the title of "Duke", which is higher than the Duke in the aristocratic class. Only three people were registered in the empire, but a new Pharma is recognized.
 * 《Myth》: Ability that can be used in the reincarnated world. The attributes of the guardian deity are determined by nature, and when the guardian deity is appraised and blessed at the time of the temple's etiquette, a divine vein opens in the body and the magic can be used. The minimum requirement for aristocrats is to be able to use mythology, and those who are not blessed and cannot open their divine veins are immediately dropped by the commoners. The amount of divine power required to use the divine technique (the technique of divine art) is fixed by nature and does not increase by training. It has five attributes: fire, water, wind, soil, and nothing, and is further divided into raw (generated) and negative (decreased). In particular, non-attribute is a rare attribute, and some of them have the power to be called "non-standard", and they are treated in the same way as God. There are more than 100 guardian gods in the world, and in addition to the common sun gods, moon gods, and earth mother gods, there are also professional gods such as medicine gods and medical gods.
 * A royal charter shop given by Pharma as a reward for treating the emperor's white death . A place to realize his ideal idea 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 sales 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.
 * A new guild launched by Pharma to bring in third-class pharmacists . There is no membership fee and you can withdraw freely. At first, Pharma was the chief, but later Pierre, the owner of the first member store, the Sunbeams Pharmacy , became the chief.

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