Parallel World Pharmacy

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 a privilege affordable only to the wealthy. 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 (ファルマ・ド・メディシス, Faruma do Medishisu)

Voiced by: Aki Toyosaki (Japanese); Morgan Lea (English)

A 10-year-old boy who is the otherworldly reincarnation of Kanji Yakutani, a world-famous medical researcher at T University who created countless medical advances and medicines to counter any sickness. After losing his younger sister Chi to an incurable brain tumor during his childhood, Yakutani became obsessed with pharmaceutical research and development of new medicines, which he did exemplary. This drive caused him to die from heart attack due to overwork and fatigue at the age of 31, but he is reincarnated into a medieval world into the renowned de Médicis noble family in the San Fleuve Empire. When he awakens in his reincarnated self, he was told he was previously in a coma due to being struck by lightning and is now acting differently than how he used to be prior to the incident. The Divine Art bestowed upon him allows Farma to create water and, thanks to his knowledge in chemistry, other basic elements, and to perceive medical anomalies, but he was given Elementless ability, which is quite rare, unlike the original Farma who used only Water based spells and skills. He bears a scar on his shoulder as a visible sign of his blessing by Panactheos, and he no longer casts a shadow, which was solved when the Church's bishop gave him an artifact to produce a shadow, alongside the church's hidden staff that only usable by the person blessed and made Apostle by the Medicine God.

Eléonore "Ellen" Bonnefoi (エレオノール･ボヌフォワ, Ereonōru Bonufowa)

Voiced by: Reina Ueda (Japanese); Trisha Mellon (English)

Farma's personal tutor and a talented pharmacist who passed her first-grade exam at the age of fifteen. Has so many glasses to replace those she lost. She joins her student in building his dreams.

Charlotte "Lotte" Soller (シャルロット･ソレル, Sharurotto Soreru)

Voiced by: Kaede Hondo (Japanese); Lindsay Seidel (English)

Production

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

Media

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.

Reception

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