Otherworldy Pharmacy

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 premiere was solid.

Do you guys recommend it?

It was quite solid of an adaption of the manga. One issue that only slightly bugged me was that they cut some of his internal monologues, but that's a very minor nitpick. Overall, yeah looks like it's gonna be a solid adaption.

My nitpick, having now started reading the manga, is they dramatically altered Falma's Divine Crest. Its such a piddly looking thing in the anime (although now its easier to see why he mistook it for Lichtenberg Figures). In the manga his divine crests are detailed and intricate. They cover his entire upper arm on both sides. They're also smoother looking so they might have changed them because there's no way you could mistake them as Lichtenberg Figures with how they looked in the manga.

Possibly. My only real nitpick is that they cut out the part where his assistant chastises him for staying up late and not taking care of himself as well as his internal monologue about the absurdity of the salve Bruno used on him.

Oh, and he was really unsteady when answering the pop quiz in the anime when in the manga he rattles it off easily.

I am fully caught up now as far as the manga goes.

I;m not a source reader of te Manga or the LN

but I do find it interesting that this 'Overpowered Main Character Isekai' - as rote as that is - but with powers of healing instead of combat power (though it looks like he's no slouch there either), is coming right on the heels of Healer Girl which was inspired by Macross and Symphogear, but using music to help and heal people instead of for combat. Seems we have a bit ofa theme of 'heal rather than fight' developing in anime.

(Its also a shame we never had a page set up for Healer Girl — its probably the best anime from 2022 no one watched

He can, and does, also fight but they're rather brief.

He also gets solid proof that he's actually the Medicine God descended to the world and gets debased of his modern notions of what is, and isn't, superstition constantly. Which is good because he learns to combine his divine arts with medicine to do things modern medicine couldn't do on their own. Like curing incurable afflictions like silver poisoning.

Edited by Silentedge89 on Jul 14th 2022 at 1:57:31 PM

Healer Girl got discussed a lot and was VERY well liked in a lot of my other haunts. The series is also from 2015(Web Novel) so it's been around, but the point does still stand that we're seeing an upsurge in these shows.

I like that and I think he got that from Bruno when he treated the Queen. The whole weird astrology ritual thing he did actually DID work in telling how the symptoms of TB had advanced.

Edited by doomrider7 on Jul 14th 2022 at 4:26:14 AM

Big old fucking spoilers here incoming in response to so anyone just coming in from the anime don't click to see what I'm about to say.

That's just the start. There's also him actually being nourished by his brother's prayers to the medicine god. The fact the floor of the church lights up when he steps foot into it. Him learning he can remove foreign substances from a person's body to cure silver poisoning. The list goes on. He's constantly made to confront that while his medical knowledge from his previous life will take him far its not enough and he has to adapt to the world he lives in now by truly putting to use all the tools he has. Which includes his masterful use of creation/destruction divine arts and the powerful divine arts of the medicine god to eradicated sickness and banish evil spirits.

Edited by Silentedge89 on Jul 14th 2022 at 5:03:12 AM

Manga spoilers: Yeah, him using destruction magic to cure silver poisoning was pretty cool. And in general I like that his magical powers does mean he’s not restricted to modern-day medical methods.

The anime for this just continues to be stellar. There was a lot of good minor changes this week that I think worked. Also helps the anime is really well animated.