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Parallel World Pharmacy (異世界薬局, Isekai Yakkyoku) is a Japanese light novel written 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.
List of Published Books[]
Light Novels[]
written by Liz Takayama and illustrated by keepout. It began serialization online in July 2015 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was later acquired by Media Factory, who have published eight volumes since January 2016 under their MF Books imprint.
| No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | January 25, 2016 | 978-4-04-068047-7 | — | — |
| 2 | May 25, 2016 | 978-4-04-068320-1 | — | — |
| 3 | October 25, 2016 | 978-4-04-068672-1 | — | — |
| 4 | March 25, 2017 | 978-4-04-069088-9 | — | — |
| 5 | August 25, 2017 | 978-4-04-069409-2 | — | — |
| 6 | March 24, 2018 | 978-4-04-069806-9 | — | — |
| 7 | July 25, 2019 | 978-4-04-065838-4 | — | — |
| 8 | July 21, 2021 | 978-4-04-064268-0 | — | — |
| 9 | December 23, 2022 | 978-4-04-682021-1 | — | — |
| 10 | January 25, 2024 | 978-4-04-683252-8 |
Manga[]
A manga adaptation with art by Sei Takano has been serialized online via Kadokawa Shoten's ComicWalker website since November 2016. It has been collected in eight tankōbon volumes. One Peace Books licensed the manga adaption for English release in North America, with the first volume released in May 2023.
| No. | Japanese release date | Japanese ISBN | English release date | English ISBN |
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| 1 | March 23, 2017 | 978-4-04-069116-9 | May 30, 2023 | 978-1-64-273244-3 |
| 2 | September 23, 2017 | 978-4-04-069419-1 | November 21, 2023 | 978-1-64-273289-4 |
| 3 | May 23, 2018 | 978-4-04-069836-6 | December 19, 2023 | 978-1-64-273290-0 |
| 4 | February 22, 2019 | 978-4-04-065350-1 | April 23, 2024 | 978-1-64-273345-7 |
| 5 | October 21, 2019 | 978-4-04-064070-9 | September 24, 2024 | 978-1-64-273397-6 |
| 6 | September 23, 2020 | 978-4-04-064768-5 | November 19, 2024 | 978-1-64-273398-3 |
| 7 | July 21, 2021 | 978-4-04-680506-5 | — | — |
| 8 | March 22, 2022 | 978-4-04-681251-3 | — | — |
| 9 | January 23, 2023 | 978-4-04-682167-6 | — | — |
| 10 | December 21, 2023 | 978-4-04-683105-7 | — | — |
Character[]
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.
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At the end (Web Novel Chapter 9, Episode 11) of the series, Falma sacrifices his Divine Art to save the San Fleuve Empire from the Dark eclipse created by Melina, Falma creates a barrier to able to protect all citizens. He unleashed a barrier underneath the basement of the church, but after the dark eclipse had passed the church walls from the basement crumbled and Falma borrowed underneath the church. With the help of the team from the Sun Fluve Empire, and the Holy Kingdom was launched. Salomon and other priests using earth-attribute divine arts made their way into the interior of the triple barrier, the central part of the gear of the hook disappeared, leaving behind a large hole.
Falma was saved by Eleonore from the ruins, but his condition of him is "no good". With the knowledge of Falma's textbook, Ellen and the other staff of the pharmacy save Falma from crush syndrome. In the end, to story is reset from the beginning Kanji Yakutani never died and woke up from the research lab, and Falma de Médicis came back to his true personality and became a normal person, the story continues, but the knowledge that Falma (Kanji Yakutani) gives to the world never exist anymore. But the true Falma who became a pharmacist and saved a remote village in the San Fleuve Republic was struck by a mysterious infectious disease and continued to save people and also changed the name of the pharmacy that was called "World Pharmacy (PHARMACIES MUNDI)".
─ THEME SONG (Gratitude (異世界での感謝) by Tatsuya Kato)
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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
As a 10-year-old, Farma is considered a Child Prodigy by the rest of the world for bringing miraculous advances in medicine. In truth, Farma has the mindset of a 31-year-old man. Farma acknowledges this as his Fatal Flaw, especially because it killed him in his past life. He is now trying to break the habit but it's not being easy for him.
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─ 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 other worlds are equivalent to Japanese surgeons and dentists. By the way, read "Yakushi" instead of "Kusushi". The number of registered people is the number when Falma has just reincarnated.
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At the WN chapter 10: Rideaux 1 PHARMACIES MUNDI INFINITUS (EP4.1), After the reset of everything, and the true personality of Falma come back to his body. The personality of the otherworldly man Yakatani and Falma's original personality overlap at the same time. He said that existence is split using quantum technology from another world, and that beings exist in both this world and the other world simultaneously. So he can seamlessly maintain understanding no matter what timeline a story is about.
Things from his childhood, from the aftermath of the lightning strike to the solar eclipse, and even current and future events. The original Falma had perfect memories, so after his sojourn in the other world, he absorbed the knowledge of that world and returned home. To put it simply, he is in a state similar to that of a child who has returned home from a trip abroad. The original Pharma's knowledge was wide-ranging, far surpassing that of his counterpart in the other world who was limited to the field of pharmacology, and although he could not use divine arts, his potential was immeasurable.
"A beneficial knowledge should be spread to everyone. That's the path towards new discovery."
― Falma de Médicis
In his previous life, Farma was a genius pharmacist responsible for curing numerous illnesses thought completely untreatable. He's also able to apply his knowledge of organic and biochemistry to create candy and cosmetics, as well as having enough knowledge of engineering and manufacturing processes to construct a primitive telescope as well as mass produce personal-protection equipment like surgical masks and hazmat suits. He can even perform simple surgeries, albeit he doesn't feel qualified for it and only performed it as a last resort to save Salomon's life from a potentially lethal fracture.
Farma is a doctor first and a magician second. He never starts fights, only finishes them, and despite the strength of his magic he always makes sure the pacification is non-lethal, even going as far as treating wounds he himself inflicted. Only once has he ever violated this rule, and in that edge case, it was against a man who had become a literal embodiment of the bubonic plague.
Establishment[]
The Holy Sanctuary Pharmacy 「DIVERSIS MUNDI OF PHARMACY」 / The Pharmacy from Another World 「Parallel World Pharmacy」
Dispensing Pharmacy Guild
    Parallel World Pharmacy  Marseille Pharmaceutical Factory |
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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.
- 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
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.
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Storyboarded by | Original air date |
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| 1 | "A Reincarnated Pharmacologist and a Parallel World" Transcription: "Tensei Yakugakusha to Isekai" (Japanese: 転生薬学者と異世界) |
Keizō Kusakawa | Wataru Watari | Keizō Kusakawa | July 10, 2022 |
| Kanji Yukatani works obsessively as a pharmacist, creating cures for diseases in memory of his sister who died from a tumor. He dies in his sleep from overwork but abruptly awakens in an alternate world as a boy named Pharma de Medicis whose family, the de Medicis, serve the royal family as doctors. Pharma is shocked to learn magic known as Divine Arts exist, and upon testing his powers, finds that he can summon all the elements of the periodic table using his knowledge of chemistry. Playing on the idea he has amnesia, he convinces his father Bruno to let him return to studying with his tutor Eleonore. He learns Divine Arts encompass Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and None, but None is extinct. He also learns no one can summon all the elements, and someone who can be judged unnatural, so he keeps his skill hidden. Eleonore discovers that next to his odd change in his personality, Pharma's magical capacity has increased almost to infinity, he possesses the Divine Eye that can detect all illness and injury, and his body no longer casts a shadow. Eleonore flees, believing him to be a monster. | |||||
| 2 | "Master and Apprentice" Transcription: "Shishō to Deshi" (Japanese: 師匠と弟子) |
Shōta Ihata | Sō Sagara | Shōta Ihata | July 17, 2022 |
| Pharma visits Eleonore at her home but finds her terrified as she believes him to be one of the Panactheos, the Gods who rule Divine Arts. Pharma asks her to return to being his tutor, as he is still a novice but will leave her alone if she wishes. Eleonore remembers the Panactheos are benevolent beings, so she stops being scared. Practicing with the Divine Eye, Pharma begins diagnosing and creating treatments for the household's servants, but after Charlotte explains that de Medici only serves royalty and medicines from commoner doctors are expensive, he decides to make medicine available for all social classes. Pharma’s sister Blanche contracts chickenpox; Pharma creates treatments using techniques from Earth, but as no one in this world knows of these treatments, he makes Blanche promise to keep it secret. Bruno is surprised at Blanche’s quick recovery but doesn’t seem suspicious. To better use his Divine Eye, Pharma creates a pocket-sized Leeuwenhoek microscope. Bruno summons Pharma to join him in providing treatment to the Empress herself. | |||||
| 3 | "The Chief Royal Pharmacian and the Reincarnated Pharmacologist" Transcription: "Hittō Kyūtei Kusushi to Tensei Yakugakusha" (Japanese: 筆頭宮廷薬師と転生薬学者) |
Shingo Tamaki | Wataru Watari | Shingo Tamaki | July 24, 2022 |
| Pharma and Bruno visit Empress Elisabeth, and Bruno concludes Elisabeth’s condition will soon be fatal. Pharma secretly uses Divine Eye and diagnoses her with White Death, so he claims to Elizabeth before all her physicians that he can save her. Bruno angrily claims no cure for White Death exists, so Pharma reveals Bruno is also suffering from White Death in its early stages. Bruno attacks Pharma, but Pharma stops him with an ice wall, revealing his powers. Bruno realizes Pharma is not the son he once knew and is convinced the Panactheos sent Pharma medicinal revelations. Using his pocket microscope, Pharma proves to the physicians that Elisabeth has tiny creatures in her lungs and explains the existence of bacteria. Convinced, Elisabeth agrees to take Pharma’s medicine for the six months required. Returning home, Bruno re-examines his own approach to medicine as well as his failings as a parent. Pharma asks Bruno to continue teaching him, as despite his powers he must still learn to be a doctor. Surprised, Bruno agrees, accepts Pharma is still his son, and takes the medicine to cure his own tuberculosis. | |||||
| 4 | "The Empress and an Imperial Charter" Transcription: "Kōtei Heika to Sōgyō Chokkyo" (Japanese: 皇帝陛下と創業勅許) |
Keizō Kusakawa & Yoshino Honda | Wataru Watari | Yoshino Honda | July 31, 2022 |
| Pharma’s treatment of Elisabeth is hailed as a miracle, but Bruno warns his knowledge could be seen as heresy and that someone may have infected Elisabeth on purpose. Noah, a page in Elisabeth’s court, informs Pharma that Elisabeth intends to reward him, and Pharma decides he wants to open a pharmacy that treats nobles and commoners. Elisabeth worries she is unfit to rule until Pharma convinces her she is still needed. Months later, with Elisabeth completely recovered; Bruno is awarded new lands, and Pharma is promoted to Royal Pharmacist and allowed to open a pharmacy in the capital. Pharma designs his ideal pharmacy, but due to talking to himself and other miscommunications, the pharmacy is accidentally named Parallel World Pharmacy. Almost immediately, Veron, head of the Saint Fleuve Pharmaceutist Guild, attempts to undermine Pharma and is furious his medicines will be cheap enough for commoners, but he is scared away by Eleonore before he can cause trouble. Pharma hires Charlotte as errand-girl but still requires someone to manage accounts and paperwork. Coincidentally, Bruno retires his own accountant Cedric due to his failing ability to walk, so Pharma hires Cedric while promising to treat his legs. Bruno gives Pharma a fortune in gold to help get the pharmacy going. Pharma correctly deduces Bruno deliberately retired Cedric to allow Pharma to hire him, and is grateful. | |||||
| 5 | "Daily Life at Parallel World Pharmacy and Cosmetics" Transcription: "Isekai Yakkyoku no Nichijō to Keshōhin" (Japanese: 異世界薬局の日常と化粧品) |
Ageha Kochōran | Jakuson Ō | Sorato Shimizu | August 7, 2022 |
| In his first month Pharma has only one customer, a sailor named Jean who buys sweets made to cure scurvy. Bruno and Pharma’s mother Beatrice visit, and Beatrice suggests selling cosmetics, but Bruno adamantly opposes face powder as ladies who use it invariably die young. Pharma is impressed Bruno noticed, since primitive makeup often contains lead, toxic when applied to the skin. Pharma suddenly receives a customer, the noble Chloe de Chatillon. He diagnoses her with anemia caused by bloodletting, a primitive procedure to make skin paler. Pharma creates a non-toxic makeup that moisturizes and prevents sunburn, with which Chloe is thrilled. Pharma is soon swamped by customers desperate for the makeup of noble quality that is affordable. Chloe is so thankful, she offers to finance a separate shop focused solely on cosmetics, with Pharma as manager and staffed by young female pharmacists who all lost jobs due to having children. Pharma institutes policies of maternity leave, which earns him the ladies' instant loyalty. Elizabeth is entranced by the new makeup, especially lip gloss, and passes a law to ban the selling of lead-based makeup. She also advises selling his makeup recipes to the noble shops her new law will put out of business, and to slightly raise the price of his medicines so as not to put commoner pharmacists out of business by mistake, both pieces of advice Pharma realizes he should have thought of himself. | |||||
| 6 | "Siblings and the Sea" Transcription: "Kyōdai to Umi" (Japanese: 兄妹と海) |
Shōta Amano | Sō Sagara | Keizō Kusakawa | August 14, 2022 |
| Pharma and his family visit Bruno’s new lands, the Duchy of Marseirre’s, which includes ports and farmland. At the beach, Pharma reminisces about visiting the beach in Japan with his sister Chi. Blanche is suddenly swept away by a rip tide. Pharma swims after her and in his desperation, activates power that splits the ocean and allows him to carry Blanche to safety along the ocean floor. Eleonore is shocked as Pharma’s power was clearly a Negative-Attribute divine art; he didn’t move the water, he deleted it from existence, which is impossible. Unfortunately, a witness informs the Holy Diocese, and orders are sent to every temple to locate the boy with no shadow and assassinate him for heresy. Pharma returns to his pharmacy where two priests watch him. The next morning a horse and carriage breaks into the pharmacy, destroys their medicines and fills the shop with deep mud. Bruno suspects someone is targeting the de Medici family. Pharma is touched when Jean and his crew, grateful for his anti-scurvy sweets, arrive to help clean up along with other shop owners who volunteer as good neighbours. A woman suddenly arrives claiming her father is unwell. Pharma leaves to treat him, but is lured to a deserted field, where he is confronted by a Diocese Inquisitor. | |||||
| 7 | "The Boy with No Shadow and the Inquisitors" Transcription: "Kage no Nai Shōnen to Itanjinmonkan" (Japanese: 影のない少年と異端審問官) |
Shōta Ihata | Sō Sagara | Shōta Ihata | August 21, 2022 |
| Grand Inquisitor Salomon and his fellow priests attack Pharma, believing him to be an evil spirit in human guise, but Pharma easily wards off their magical assaults while pleading to them that he means no harm to anyone. Once they see the mark of Panactheos on him, they interpret him as an incarnation of their own deity and desist. Pharma prevents Salomon from committing suicide to atone for his "sin" and performs emergency surgery to mend the Inquisitor's leg, which was severely broken during the attack. Months later, Salomon, fully recovered and promoted to bishop, visits Pharma and takes a tour of the pharmacy, assuring Pharma that he will keep his existence secret from the Diocese in gratitude for saving his life. He also brings several gifts, including a set of pastries, a divine staff named the Panac-Rabdos, and a talisman which suppresses Pharma's Divine Art aura, allowing him to cast a shadow. With the threat by the Diocese gone, but with Saint Fleuve refusing to grant him the right to publicly sell his treatments, Pharma decides to found a new guild with other medicine stores. The same night, Marie, daughter of Pierre, a young pharmacy store owner and member of Saint Fleuve Guild, falls gravely ill. | |||||
| 8 | "Influenza and the Dawn of a Pharmacy" Transcription: "Infuruenza to Yakkyoku no Yoake" (Japanese: インフルエンザと薬局の夜明け) |
Shingo Tamaki | Wataru Watari | Shingo Tamaki | August 28, 2022 |
| Enraged that his efforts to ruin Pharma have failed, Veron forbids his guildmembers from having anything to do with the shop. Pierre fails to find a doctor who will help Marie, until Pharma invites them to his pharmacy and gives Marie, who has contracted influenza, excellent care and affordable prices despite their lower class. Returning home, Pierre realises Pharma is the pinnacle of what a pharmacist should be, but he is stuck obeying the guild for the sake of his family. Veron is further enraged with the news that Pharma is protected by Elizabeth and Salomon. Pierre admits he took Marie to Pharma and that Saint Fleuve should be learning from him, not despising him. Veron reveals one of his children died because a noble doctor refused to treat him, so he will never trust Pharma. Pierre is expelled from the guild, his pharmacist licence revoked and his shop destroyed. Upon learning this, Pharma invites Pierre to join the Compounding Pharmacy Guild he recently set up with Elizabeth’s permission, allowing Pierre to continue working as a pharmacist. With the support of his wife and daughter, Pierre learns Pharma’s diagnostic techniques and stocks only Pharma’s advanced medicines before opening his new shop, the Dawn Pharmacy. | |||||
| 9 | "The Story of a Certain Wicked Man" Transcription: "Aru Jaaku na Otoko no Hanashi" (Japanese: ある邪悪な男の話) |
Yoshino Honda | Sō Sagara | Yoshino Honda | September 4, 2022 |
| Empress Elisabeth reviews the positive impacts of Parallel World Pharmacy on public health and therefore the Empire's prosperity, and decides to continue assisting Pharma's endeavors. Bruno de Médicis is painfully reminded of Camus, his former peer and friend who became a twisted mass murderer in the name of medicine. He receives a letter from his older son Palle announcing the appearance of a strange, deadly epidemic originating from Pante Island, from which wares are imported that may contaminate the upcoming annual Saint Fleuve Fair at the Imperial capital. Bruno asks Pharma to investigate, and from the available descriptions, Pharma identifies the disease as the Black Death. Pharma, Bruno and Elizabeth immediately initiate quarantine and medical precautions with the help of their fellow students and pharmacists, before Pharma and Eléonore depart for Marseirre, where the wares from Pante are supposed to arrive. But meanwhile, Camus escapes from his confinement by the Diocese, cloaked in an ominous dark aura. | |||||
| 10 | "The Black Death" Transcription: "Kokushibyō" (Japanese: 黒死病) |
Ageha Kochōran | Jakuson Ō | Sorato Shimizu | September 11, 2022 |
| Upon their arrival in Marseirre, Pharma and Eléonore begin inspecting the merchant ships that are impatiently waiting to make landfall, assisted by Saint Fleuve's naval forces, whose leader is Commodore Jean Alain Gabain, Pharma's old regular for scurvy cure. While no outbreaks have occured in the port itself, Pharma receives news that a village named L'Estacque was struck by the plaque after a ship had illegally docked there to avoid the quarantine. Riding the Panac-Rabdos, Pharma departs for L'Estacque alone and arrives just in time to prevent some desperate villagers from leaving and thus spreading the infection. With his rank as a Royal Pharmacist, he rallies the survivors and organizes treatment measures in the town, and after initial preparations are completed, he enters the section in which the most critical cases have been isolated. Commodore Gabin sinks the renegade ship after it is found with all hands dead. | |||||
| 11 | "The Miracle at L'Estacque" Transcription: "Resutāku Mura no Kiseki" (Japanese: レスターク村の奇跡) |
Shōta Ihata | Wataru Watari | Shōta Ihata | September 18, 2022 |
| Pharma's team, with the aid of several Diocese members, works hard in preventing an outbreak of the Black Death, but realizes that they will need more assistance. Professor Casper, a specialist for the taxodomy of fungi and microorganisms at the Imperial School of Pharmacy, is nearing her mandatory retirement when Bruno asks her to assist Pharma in developing antibiotics which can be produced without the need for a Divine Art. The Diocese intercepts several crew members from the rogue ship who have made landfall with some of their cargo, and Pharma learns that not only did they bring some rare white squirrels from Pante which would act as plague-carriers, but also five Holy Knights who boarded in the midst of the ship's voyage. Connecting the dots to Elisabeth's illness, Pharma and Bruno conclude that someone is plotting to eradicate the Saint Fleuve Empire using virulent diseases. This theory is validated the next morning when a knight suddenly breaches the capital's gates and releases a huge number of white squirrels into the city. | |||||
| 12 | "Those He Couldn't Cure" Transcription: "Kare ga Naosenakatta Mono" (Japanese: 彼が治せなかったもの) |
Keizō Kusakawa | Wataru Watari | Keizō Kusakawa & Sorato Shimizu | September 25, 2022 |
| As Bruno and Elisabeth discuss the crisis, they suspect that Camus has his hands in the outbreak by killing the king of Nederland and using the nation's resources to take revenge on Saint Fleuve for his banishment. Bishop Salomon stops the enemy knights, who confirm Camus' involvement, but the infection has spread quickly all over the city because the squirrels carrying the plague can fly. Pharma returns to the capital and reunites with his father, but Camus infiltrates Parallel World Pharmacy and stabs Cedric and Lotte with a poisoned dagger. Pharma and Bruno arrive, and while Bruno fights Camus, Pharma purges the poison from his friends. When Camus overcomes Bruno, Pharma fights back and employs his Divine Art and the Panac-Rabdos' power to destroy Camus and the demonic power which possessed him. Following this, the outbreak is swiftly quelled, and Pharma's successes inspire a rapid advancement in medical research. The Saint Fleuve Festival proceeds as planned, and Parallel World Pharmacy once again opens for business. | |||||
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Reception[]
The light novel and manga together have over 2,300,000 copies in print.
External Links[]
- Parallel World Pharmacy ─ Web novel at Shōsetsuka ni Narō (in Japanese)
- Parallel World Pharmacy ─ Light Novel Official Website (in Japanese)
- Parallel World Pharmacy ─ Official Manga Website (in Japanese)
- TV anime "Parallel World Pharmacy" Official Website (in Japanese)
- TV Anime "Isekai Yakkyoku" Official (@isekai_yakkyoku) - Twitter
- Parallel World Pharmacy ─ Wikipedia (JP)
- Parallel World Pharmacy ─ Wikipedia (EN)
See Also[]
- Chichi wa Eiyuu, Haha wa Seirei, Musume no Watashi wa Tenseisha., Another light novel series with the same illustrator.
- Shirobuta Kizoku desu ga Zense no Kioku ga Haeta node Hiyoko na Otouto Sodatemasu, Another light novel series with the same illustrator.
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.