Parallel World Pharmacy

### Producer

Frontier Works, Pony Canyon, AT-X, Kansai Telecasting, BS NTV, Kadokawa, Bit grooove promotion

### License

Crunchyroll
Muse Communication (SA/SEA)

## Fandom

***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.

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### *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.

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## Falma de Médicis

### Aliases:

* Doctor Falma
* Great Doctor
* The Founder
* Doctor of The Imperial Capital

### Nickname:

* Kanji Yakutani
* Farma/Falma-sama (by Charlotte)

### Affiliation:

* Another world pharmacy
* Medique Shop
* Dispensing Pharmacy Guild
* Holy State *(Church)*
* Saint Fluve Imperial College of Medicine
* Marseille Pharmaceutical Factory

### Allied:

* Empress Elisabeth II
* Jehan Alain Gavan
* Chloe de Chatillion (Business Partner)
* Salomon (Priest)
* Zoe de Dunois (Secretary)
* Pierre
* Mélodie Le Roux
* Sophie Bonufois
* Clara Krue
* Admiral Jean-Alan

### Blessing:

Creation and Destruction *(create/erase)*

## 「Biographical Information」

### Traits:

Reincarnated, Pseudo-Vessel, Apothecary, Revolutionary, Savior

### Relatives:

**Kanji Yakutani**:* Unnamed Father †
* Unnamed Mother †
* Chiyu Yakutani (Younger Sister, †)

**Falma**:

* De Medicis, Bruno *(Father)*
* De Medicis, Beatrice *(Mother)*
* De Medicis, Palle *(Brother)*
* De Medicis, Blanche *(Sister)*
* Eléonore Bonnefoi *(Teacher/Friend)*
* Charlotte Soller *(Personal Maid/Friend)*

### Occupation:

* Pharmacologist *(DIVERSIS MUNDI OF PHARMACY)*
* Imperial Court Doctor
* Factory Founder
* Professor *(Side Job)*
* God of Medicine *(Church)*

### Hobby:

Cooking and researching for the new medicine

### Residence:

* San Fleuve Empire
* De Médicis Family

## 「Physical Description」

### Species:

* Human *(Former)*
* Apostle *(Pseudo-Vessel)*

## 「Voice Actor」

### Japan VA:

* Natsuki Hanae *(Yakutani)*
* Toyosaki, Aki *(Falma)*

### English VA:

* Allen Jr., Mark *(Yakutani)*
* Lea, Morgan *(Falma)*

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

≪**Spoiler...**≫

The end (Web Novel Chapter 9, Episode 11) of the series, Falma sacrifice his Divine Art to save San Fleuve Empire from Dark eclipse created by Melina, Falma create a barrier to able to protect all citizen. Falma unleashed a barrier underneath the basement of the church, but after the dark eclipse has pass the church walls from the basement crumble and falma borrowed underneath the church. By the help of 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 literally disappeared, leaving behind a large hole.

Falma was save by Eleonore form the ruins, but the condition of him is "no good". By the knowledge of the Falma's textbook, Ellen and the other staff of the pharmacy to save Falma from crush syndrome. In the end to story was reset from the beginning Kanji Yakutani never died and woke up from the research lab, and Falma de Médicis never struck by lightning and the stories continues, but the knowledge that Falma (Kanji Yakutani) given to the world never exist anymore. But the true Falma who became a pharmacist and save a remote village in the San Fleuve Republic was struck by a mysterious infectious disease and continues to save people and also create a pharmacy that was called "*World Pharmacy* (PHARMACIES MUNDI)".

### 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"*"
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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.
* **Court pharmacist** / **Imperial Court pharmacist**: A prestigious aristocratic pharmacist. Prescribe medicines to Empress and royalty aristocrats. The court pharmacist is given the title of "*uke*", which is higher than the Duke in the aristocratic class. Only three people were registered in the empire, but a new Falma is recognized. While nobody knows about Falma's reincarnation, Bruno, Ellen, Salomon and the Empress know about his Medicine God powers.
* 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.

 ─ The ability that can be used in the reincarnated world. The attributes of the guardian deity are determined by nature. 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 the commoners immediately drop those who are not blessed and cannot open their divine veins.─ The amount of divine power required to use the divine technique (*the technique of divine/God's art*) is fixed by nature and does not increase by training. It has five attributes: fire, water, wind, soil, and light/dark, and is further divided into positive (*generated/create/increased*) and negative (*eliminate/erased/decreased*). In particular, non-attribute is a rare attribute, and some of them have the power to be called "non-standard" and 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.

― **Falma de Médicis**

《**God Of Medicine**》: Falma granted that his body is host to the guardian deity of medicine giving in his right shoulder of *Lichtenberg figure* shape burns line (*Holy Mark of Medicine God*) and no shadow as such of giving him a Chantless and Limitless amount of magical energy that he can produce in his body. "Downside of this power is the user over-limits his/her capacity the body of the user became transparent."
* **Divine Pulse 「***Law Manipulation***」**: A part of the blessing that gives after the baptism ceremony given by the guardian deity that allows their body will open, allowing them to use their *God's art*, which enables the manipulation of the laws of the world from either magical or scientifical perspective. How effective it is used depends on the user's abilities. If the user is not in possession of sufficient affinity for the respective laws or not in possession of enough knowledge about the scientific or magical laws and the way they operate, they will not be able to fully bring out their power.
* **Conjuration** **「***Mythical God's Art - Colorless Element***」**: Falma has been granted the mythical divine arts of *Matter Creation* (Left Arm) and *Matter Erasure* (Right Arm) as long as he knew the chemical formula.
* **Divine Sight**: Special abilities given to reincarnated Falma. Only the ability of the left hand is called "eye examination" in the work, but this section also describes the ability of the right hand.
	+ ***Description***: The procedure to see the injury is by making finger gestures creating a v shape or circle shape near of eye, it grants a vision the affected part will glow blue. When the user thinks of the correct symptoms it turns white and when the symptoms are incorrect it glows red until it is a deeper red. When they are counter-measured therapy, the light will become thin instead of disappearing.
		- ***Left Hand:*** if you look into a person from a ring made with your fingers (later changed to a shape that sandwiches your eyes with your index and middle fingers), if there is a lesion on the other person's body, that part will appear to shine. However, you can only know "whether there is a lesion", and unlike X-rays and CT scans, the appearance does not differ depending on the disease, so you have to guess what kind of disease it is. The light is initially blue, turns white if the name of the disease can be identified, and turns red if it cannot be treated with Falma's technique (excluding mythology and abilities It disappears if you take a curable prescription, and if you can only treat symptomatic treatment, it just dilutes and does not disappear. In addition, when a therapy that depends on the skill of the practitioner, such as surgical therapy instead of medication, is required, it cannot be determined by this ability.
		- ***Right Hand:*** You can enlarge the affected area. Although there is a limit to the magnification, it is possible to see the gene sequence by using another magnifying glass such as a microscope.
* **Prayers 「***Faith***」**: A solemn request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God or a place (*Temple or Churches*) for worship. For God's vessel, this *prayer acts as fuel* or ***energy that nourishment*** and flows to the body giving them divine power.
* **Divine Presence 「***Sanctuary***」**: The user emits a transcendent presence that has supernatural effects related to their divine aspect and their relative disposition, Causing beneficial effects on the user's surroundings. This affects the evil being not lingering in the area. When the divine power is released by the vessel of the god in the vicinity of a certain place, it will change the place giving the effect of a relaxed feeling to those who will visit the place.

* ***Description**:*
	+ In this Divine staff the inserted crystal stone store and amplify divine power and when the stone becomes clear it will become exponentially stronger when the stone becomes completely transparent, the user power will be multiplied fivefold.
	+ The medical God's staff is the guardian deity's sacred treasure of the church. ***It cannot be touched by human hands***. According to the ancient texts, this Staff is not of this world, the reason beings only the guardian deity himself can hold it.
	+ The staff contains buoyancy that reduces the gravitational pull being reduced which makes the staff become the material lightly. There is a legend if your divine power into ***the staff it will output something that humans cannot do***... (Floating & Flying!)
	+ The medical God's Staff can change the size to small or large, upon the user's choice. The owner who possesses or holds the staff is able to manifest intangible power. The Staff has also the ability to allow the user to become intangible.
	+ 「Ability」 **Purification:** The user can remove the darkness or evil from a person or objects, often including demons possessing it or mind control affecting it. The Medical God's staff helps bolster the abilities of many who hold the most powerful is the "Purification". According to the archives, the Medical God used this staff to perform miracles. For ex; annihilating the evil spirit spreading miasma and suppressing an epidemic.
	+ **「**Ability**」** **Relief of Origin** (*Secours D' Origine*): an ability that releases the Lichtenberg figure and the effect is to increase the patient's life force.
	+ **「**Ability**」** **Epidemic Destroying Sanctuary**: A High-tier Holy magic that releases a bright light that removes miasma and suppresses an epidemic in the vicinity.
	+ **「**Ability**」** **Rain of Purification**: A High tier of Holy magic that releases bright light in the vicinity upon casting this Ability, it creates the rain that acts as purification water that cleanses removes miasma, and suppresses all epidemics.
     《**Amulet**》: An Amulet that can harness God's power, If it is worn, those who do not have a shadow, do not have to worry about such a troublesome situation. A Divine tool created for Falma for his situation being without a shadow. This tool was made to harness god's power."*I wanted to walk under the same sun, the same way as they are.*"
― **Falma de Médicis**
 《**God Wand**/**Royal Wand**》: A wand that is used when using god art and has the effect of amplifying god art. The royal aristocrats who can use god art are always in possession, and Ellen says, "Aristocrats always wear a god wand" and "the second most important thing after the aristocrat's life." Normally, each person has one, but in some cases, Ellen's example is used as a collection, and Melody's example is used to use multiple books depending on the purpose. Some god wands are fitted with crystal stones and are often used as a "divine power meter" to store and release divine power, but the god wand possessed by Melody is a crystal stone. May be used instead of a diamond cutter (glass cutter).

"*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.

## Production

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

## Ending Theme

### ED Audio:

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.

## 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)

## 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.