Parallel World Pharmacy


Parallel World Pharmacy is a Japanese light novel series written by Liz Takayama and illustrated by keepout. It was serialized online from July 2015 to September 2023 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was later acquired by Media Factory, who published ten volumes from January 2016 to January 2024 under their MF Books imprint. 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 volumes. One Peace Books licensed the manga adaption for English release in North America, with the first volume released in May 2023. An anime television series adaptation by Diomedéa aired from July to September 2022.

Synopsis

In his life-long obsession to develop new medicines to help people, Kanji Yakutani, a Japanese medical researcher, dies from overwork. To his immense surprise, he finds himself reborn in another world with a medieval culture, in which proper medical treatments are an affordable privilege to the wealthy only. In his new life as Farma de Médicis, he discovers that he has been granted a divine blessing from Panactheos, the God of Medicine. With his divine blessing and his retained knowledge of modern medicine, Farma decides to revolutionize the other world's medical advancements and make proper treatments affordable for the common folk. But as one medical emergency follows another, Farma also has to learn what it means to really live in his new life.

Characters

;Farma de Médicis
;Eléonore "Ellen" Bonnefoi
;Charlotte "Lotte" Soller
;Empress Elisabeth II
;Bruno de Médicis
;Blanche de Médicis
;Salomon
;Camus de Sade
;Veron

Production

Yūshi Kojima, who is a pharmacist, joined the production of the manga adaptation as a "pharmacy supervisor" in 2022.

Media

Light novels

Manga

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 series' scripts, Mayuko Matsumoto designing the characters, and Tatsuya Kato and Satoshi Hōno composing the music. It aired from July 10 to September 25, 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 streamed the series outside of Asia, with an English dub premiering on July 24, 2022. Muse Communication licensed the series in Taiwan, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

Episode list

Reception

The light novel and manga together has had over 2.3 million copies in circulation.