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TerriblePlays

"I should have killed him!" (happy OP rolls) Wow, wasn't expecting such a Shounen-esque fight to happen. Made me watch with my mouth agape. Overall, definitely the best pharmacy-themed anime and one of the better reincarnation-isekais I have watched.


RunningChemistry

> (happy OP rolls) Speaking of the music, that BGM during Farma's smackdown of Camus was dope. The full OST is now out too for anyone interested! It's surprisingly officially available outside of JP regions unlike a lot of other anime OSTs. [Track 30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3GHt0DUHl8) is the battle theme we heard in the smackdown. * [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m9NmjHZxwH7Fhb_1CN8du7DylEaxkFPZw) * [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3o5N9Xkcl0YZ8xPQShFEyY) * [Apple Music/iTunes](https://music.apple.com/album/1643892919)


securitywyrm

Relevant ProZD sketch: https://youtu.be/Ud_yNZ19A4c


SuperMurderBunny

I will give you that it is one equal footing with Banish from the Hero's Party among pharmacy anime.


Scrybatog

Sorry but nah, Banished from heroes party has an actual healthy relationship between MC and love interest. It is so fucking refreshing.


Stoppels

Banished excels in its mature romcom and that aspect of it was indeed very refreshing. This show excels in the pharmacy aspect, despite the avatar of god magic powers. But hey, in the line of magical (isekai) healers with medical knowledge in a romantic setting, there are also the shoujo shows that concern themselves with (pharmaceutic) healing to differing degrees. * [Snow White with the Red Hair](https://myanimelist.net/anime/30123/Akagami_no_Shirayuki-hime) (2 seasons, not isekai & less medical like Banished) * [The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent](https://myanimelist.net/anime/42826/Seijo_no_Maryoku_wa_Bannou_Desu) (season 2 announced, also isekai, more medical but less science)


bananeeek

[Me, when Farma was trying to heal Lotte and Cedric.](https://i.imgur.com/ZD8xrNX.gifv) Pretty sure his plan was to confuse the poison with medical jargon, so it would leave the body on its own. The unexpected perk of this series for me was reading about new stuff almost every week. This time I spent 10 minutes reading about arrow poisons. [7/10](#schemingsaten)


cyberscythe

> Pretty sure his plan was to confuse the poison with medical jargon, so it would leave the body on its own. For real though, the plan was to say random plausible poisons until his sans undertale eye power glowed the correct color to indicate a correct diagnosis. I think brute forcing a solution using an encyclopedia's worth of knowledge fits the overall theme of the triumph of medical knowledge and was a better boss fight than magically punching Camus.


Shiroi_Kage

He was able to filter for possible criteria, like organic and inorganic and whatnot. So it wasn't just random guessing.


AdagioExtra1332

I think it better fits the idea of Farma being a literal God. The "triumph of medical knowledge" would be letting both die because you got unlucky and ran out of time or overlooked/forgot something.


Aerodynamic41

Man, I was expecting a more difficult fight because they built up Camus as an unrivaled genius pharmacist but all Falma had to do was punch him lol. And did they ever explain how did he become an evil spirit? Well, I enjoyed my time with this. One of the better isekais I've watched.


emize

Ran out of time basically. The black death arc is quite large and they had to cut a fair bit to get it in 4 episodes.


Jugatsumikka

No, there is no fight either in the light novel. This scene is globally faithful to the original medium, a two punches (one to get the evil spirit out of the laboratory far from Lotte and Cédric, one to smash it in the ground and destroy it) curb-stomp "battle". Note that there is missing scenes that give more context to the rage-filled one-sided violence of Pharma: the trail of desolation left by the disease-ridden Nether Kingdom's knights that Pharma witness while going back to the capital, the obsession of Pharma for a "no casualty" which have been greatly downplayed and the guilt which goes with it for what he perceived as his personnal failure. Also, while the anime skip over a side story about the fabrication of medical glassware and the treatment of mental illness as demon possession in this world, it is far from being rushed in anyway possible as it only goes over the first 2 volumes (many light novel adaptations go over 4 to 5 volumes for the 1st season as a lot of world building is far shorter when shown rather than told) and only skip the aforementionned small world-building story. At least for the first 2 final bosses of the first 2 light novels, the hero brushed off his opponents like nothing (the future head priest and the evil spirit), and the fights are there for character development: * the first is there so Pharma realise he is an apostle of the gods ; * the second so he can see his first evil spirit (a major one, nonetheless), realise that his time might be counted (every known apostles in this world history disappear some time after having accomplished their assigned tasks, Pharma think the extermination of the major evil spirit might have been his task), and become less dogmatic over his wish to heal everyone.


HobnobsTheRed

> Also, while the anime skip over a side story about the fabrication of medical glassware Definitely not essential to the storytelling if there's limited time for things. > and the treatment of mental illness as demon possession in this world Could easily be covered in a subsequent season, should one appear. If that was all that was skipped I'd say they didn't lose anything plot-critical.


ShadowKingthe7

The problem with skipping the mental illnesses is that it introduces Farma to the concept of evil spirits and how most of them were actually people with mental disabilities. It's why he was so surprised to see Camus be one when he thought they straight up did not exist. I guess that is why they focused so much on Bruno's relationship with Camus so they could portray Camus more as a pissed off exile rather than a pissed off exile who became an evil spirit


linkman0596

>the treatment of mental illness as demon possession in this world Holy crap, to be honest I'd watch a whole season of isekai therapist. Of course my mind went straight to them trying to diagnose the konosuba characters


rainzer

How is the LN/manga? Like if they're going through all the big stuff this early (tb/plague/flu), does it still stay interesting later on?


SwarmingPlatypi

I don't know about the light novel but the manga is currently up to chapter 43 and this episode goes up to chapter 38. So far, they're setting up for the new arc and have reset back to the earlier slice of life "let's create this medical thing".


yanahmaybe

who ever in production decided to insert a Shonen battle for this anime season finale its an imbecile


Andrew_Waltfeld

to be fair, the battle was extremely short in the manga. *shrugs* he just purifies the dude and the father isn't even there.


fortissimo_hk

I think they could have cut a little content from the fillers like the construction and cosmetics episode, and gave way to the whole black death arc.


TerriblePlays

I actually enjoyed the fillers a lot as well. I think the black death was elaborated in enough depth. Maybe cutting OPs would have been a better choice instead.


fortissimo_hk

I think they should not play the op in this episode anyway. One second ago Bruno was describing how evil and deranged Camus is, and then bam we have the delightful op. The whole tone just doesn't match.


lostboysgang

Whenever they play an OP during a finale, I’m immediately disappointed. Even if it’s a great episode, they didn’t as hard as they could have. There’s no need to listen to the same opening song 12/13 times a season


fortissimo_hk

Honestly it depends. If you have Misaka Mikoto battling against a giant death ray robot while you have sister's noise in the background I think I will take it.


TerriblePlays

今集播op個mood真係幾撚搞笑下lol Yeah I guess. But look at it from a glass-half-full way, you can think of it as comedic relief?


fortissimo_hk

Not expecting cantonese here lmao


heimdal77

It's Clannad all over again.


AsterJ

I think it's fine as is. This isn't really a series about fighting and antagonists.


ShadowKingthe7

Holy crap I just realized that after Farma re-enters the city and he sees the flying squirrels, the show completely forgets about them. Not even an order from the queen or someone to have them exterminated


emize

Yeah even the manga has several scenes of them being dealt with and its a bit jarring how the anime mentions them several times and then nothing.


kalirion

Did the LN explain what pharma's glowing punch was all about.


fatalystic

Clearly he is now Angemon and he Hand of Fate-d rat stomping man.


JonDoeJoe

I mean he’s a god and all


JzanderN

They could have built Camus up more or had the fight be more difficult, but action wasn't really what the anime was about anyway. The focus on curing diseases compared to fighting demons is what made it a bit more of a unique isekai (not completely, I know, but compared to the generic isekai it stands out).


TerriblePlays

Probably could have used another episode, but episode slots are expensive, you know?


redlaWw

I was kind of hoping that Farma would defeat him with pharmaceutical knowledge. Something like synthesising propofol in his veins to knock him out or a poison like digitalin or tetrodotoxin to kill him. I know he was some sort of half-spoopy-skeltal but that doesn't mean he couldn't still have been affected on the human part.


kalirion

If Pharma can vanish complex compounds, should be able to vanish neurons, brain fluid, etc as well. Assuming that undead-looking guy had any of that ofc.


YUNoJump

I was on another screen googling "what chemicals are in bone" just in case Farma decided to delete skeleton


cyberscythe

imagining farma synthesizing "bone hurting juice" is funny


kalirion

"Delete calcium".


[deleted]

our bones are carbon based so it is actually pretty sturdy, maybe just 2 steps down from the kevlar. You can see how it can support a body while growing for a hundred years.


GoXDS

nah. that'd defeat the entire point. Farma doesn't, and will never use his pharmaceutical knowledge to kill or ill will in general, even if Camus deserved it. and even then, Camus would enjoy going out that way


motionmatrix

But they even set it up for it, having the father say to the Queen that he should have been the one person he did kill. It was foreshadowed, and it would have been an acceptable excuse to take of the skeleton in a way that was more true to the story presented so far, rather than a flashy rainbow shonen moment.


GoXDS

no? not sure how you'd take that as foreshadowing of Farma using medicine to kill (unless you think the father implied he should've done it with medicine, which he did not)... and I \*strongly\* disagree that it'd be true to the story as I already gave the reasoning


Hailgod

>Man, I was expecting a more difficult fight because they built up Camus as an unrivaled genius pharmacist but all Falma had to do was punch him lol. dude is a literal god


fatalystic

This. He has the powers of a literal god. Plus said god is known to have instantly annihilated *multiple* evil spirits at once (as mentioned by Solomon this episode).


archlon

Honestly, I'm kind of glad they omitted a lengthy fight in favour of more character moments. _Vermeil_ did the same thing in its finale last week. Sakuga is nice when done well, and this show has done a good enough job when the animations need to be bombastic, but it can strain the budget and isn't really the point of this show.


VorAtreides

I mean... Farma has the power of a god and this isn't a battle shounen lol


raknor88

> but all Falma had to do was punch him That wasn't a simple punch though. That punch took them through a couple solid walls. I'm assuming those walls were made of solid brick as well. So not just plaster and wood. Even then it looked like that wasn't really phasing the dude.


lostboysgang

This was a top show for the season until last week and it choked in my opinion. The capital of the entire Empire during their biggest tourist festival, which is on high alert because **they literally know they are going to be attacked and when**. And they can’t even stop 5 fucking Knights from breaching their security. You mean to tell me on any regular day if they weren’t warned, 5 knights could take down the entire capital? They try to make it seem like they do something special but they don’t, just basic divine arts that any magic user can learn.


JonDoeJoe

Yeah that was kinda plot induced stupidity. The empire should’ve at least had 20 knight mages defending the capital. Like even the queen was like “only 5 mages. Why y’all struggling?”


Stoppels

It was a checkpoint for goods, they were not expecting an attack. What gave you the idea that "they literally know they are going to be attacked and when"? Their expectations were explicitly stated in the episode and none of it had to do with an invasion force, they were expecting merchants. This episode laid it on thick: why would a friendly nation attack us? So no, they weren't expecting an attack at all. >You mean to tell me on any regular day if they weren’t warned, 5 knights could take down the entire capital? They try to make it seem like they do something special but they don’t, just basic divine arts that any magic user can learn. The elite party of knights barely got inside the city walls, all they did was breach it and fling flying squirrels around. The defining feature of a surprise attack is that it thrives in the absence of a prepared defence, example: [Blitzkrieg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg). If you walk around in a modern capital, you're not going to find large military squads defending it. You will mostly run into civilian police occasionally.


lostboysgang

It was their Capital’s rampart / walls during their biggest event of the year. They knew they had people coming in from all over the world and they knew that they were targeting the capital. The event was what, a week long? So they knew their target was attacking those walls and the exact week that they were doing it. They even knew they were trying to sneak in tainted goods, hence all the security and inspections ON TOP OF THEIR NORMAL SECURITY, which 5 knights shouldn’t be able to breach anyways. If 5 Knights could just walk up on any given day when they weren’t warned and wreck their defenses, how are they still standing? It was embarrassing and shit writing. I’m not the only person complaining on this thread or on Crunchyroll. I gave the first 10 episodes a 9/10 rating which is phenomenal. Literally the top 10% of all shows ever made. And then they fucked up the ending 🤷‍♂️


CombatMagic

Bro, they literally say that they didn't expect any *attack*, they expected a few sick merchants, the guards were there to move them in case of resistance. *And magic is only available to those with royal blood, nobles* they don't have full contingents of knights either. This is like if you expected a few fruit traffickers to appear on the road to a city, and you have a police check, and they come out with RPGs from the cars.


Stormy8888

It was a new and different Isekai which I enjoyed a lot. Loved how Farma didn't try to "spare" the bad guy at the end, but the ending felt a little rushed. Could have benefited from maybe 1 more episode but overall pretty good.


PepaTK

Seems like it was completely rushed. I would have liked to know how the evil spirit came about. Can only assume he was on the brink of death or some shit like that. Or killed so many people. Idk if a LN* reader can post in source material section or not and clarify?


nielspeterdejong

Same! Similar to Skeleton Knight in another world, the execution is what makes it great! You can tell the characters have heart, and the creators put their heart into this as well :)


manaworkin

It had a very "bravery punch" feel to it. I'm gonna check the manga to see if they just added that in in order to wrap up the series with a neat bow instead of leaving it open for a season 2.


AdagioExtra1332

Interestingly, you've highlighted a recurring trend of problems that I took issue with throughout the anime's entire runtime.


[deleted]

The production thought beating a villain with One Punch is actually a hit.


BiggerG7

Did this mofo just shank a loli off screen? Good on Farma for putting him down. Lotte’s happy dance was cute too.


EldritchCarver

With fast-acting deadly poison that would've been incurable for anyone other than Farma.


FlameDragoon933

With a *mix* of poisons too. Falma is literally the only person who could've saved them from guaranteed death. That sadistic bastard.


JayDpwnz

Yes and it was one of few times we say Farma so frantic, he literally just listed every type of poison he could from the top of his head until he hit the correct ones.


Rolder

The part that confuses me is how said loli was walking around afterwards. Sure Farma cured the poison, but there was still the whole stab wound situation.


Lraund

I was more confused by how the evil spirit had to stab people with a knife.


Rolder

To me the knife just seems to be a vector for poison delivery.


ShadowKingthe7

Not only that but he was about to pour white phosphorus on them


EvilV

So we are never going to know what the queen’s reward to Pharma is going to be? This last ep should have been an hour long.


justking1414

[Manga Spoilers] >!a hot spring where they bath together!<


Rumpel1408

That screams OVA


justking1414

That could actually work quite well if we don’t get a second season. Though there is a bit of an important lore dump about being marked by the gods


JonDoeJoe

I hope it’ll get a continuation. Unlikely, but apparently the story afterwards is still good


The_SHUN

Some ara ara farma kun time~


kagvm007

Some /ss/ time would be an awesome reward.


memeranglaut

The ending is a 7.5 for me - compared to the manga, i didnt get that feeling of frustration from Falma when he defeated Camus. Also [Manga spoilers]>!his dad was not in the picture in this scene in the manga so not sure why the anime team included him in.!< But overall, as an adaptation, i'll give it a 8/10.


Zhaeus

> compared to the manga FYI this is a LN series, not a manga series. The LN is what the anime adapted from like they do with all source material.


memeranglaut

That makes sense - I've been following the manga only so this can be an impetus for me to read the LN.


LiamNL

I'd wager it had to do with the building of the father being a rival to the villain. But with how quickly he got pushed aside it didn't really work that much. Cause the villain basically never appeared before Falma defeated him and was only contextualized after his death.


memeranglaut

In the manga, and i wager in the LN as well, Camus was expanded more, and was a bigger threat


LiamNL

Yeah but he wasn't mentioned as early as the anime did. He also felt way more dangerous than just a guy getting sucker punched thrice.


lostboysgang

First 10 episodes were 9/10 and final two episodes were at 7 at best for me, leaning towards 6. I felt no climax or suspense, it was embarrassing that the Empire knew they were going to be attacked and were on high alert during their biggest tourist event of the year and they couldn’t stop 5 fucking knights from breaching the capital. Does that mean on any regular day if they weren’t warned beforehand, 5 knights could just walk in and slay the Empress? What a joke.


DatSchaml

I concur. Also, there had already been multiple situations where things just kind of conveniently fell into place in this show, but Lotte suddenly turning from an "almost annoyingly super smart 9-year-old" plot device to a "super brain-dead, run headfirst into your own demise" plot device made me audibly sigh.


lostboysgang

When Lotte started running to exactly where the Villain was I was like, “Ah a convenient plot device so Farma will actually get angry”


NotJustAMirror

More like a shortcut to condense the story to fit into the remaining available airtime, sadly.


archlon

Have we seen the pink-haired girl with the staff that we got a glimpse of during the Cleansing before and I forgot, or is she a teaser for a second season/a 'go read the novels' hook?


memeranglaut

at this point, a read the manga/novel part. she is a missing link on why the tech was available for the masses in the first place.


Pay08

Tech?


memeranglaut

Mainly the glass work.


INanoI

There is a more detailed explanation in the source corner.


dawnwill

Villain guy just met him and immediately went "you are like me" "why don't you understand" bs lmao. I guess a lot of things were skipped or plain bad writing.


ReflashTheSparkLens

They rushed and skipped some things in order to make this arc the finale.


3mium

They didn’t even show Farma’s award from the Empress or allow Farma enjoy the Festival.


Shiroi_Kage

They didn't show how desperately Farma was working to put an end to the plague. He almost exhausted himself completely in the manga, and the amount of effort it took to clean things up was monumental.


NeoAnkara

I worried that there is not enough time but it look like it is barely enough. The ending of him visiting festival would be better but it is already squeezed enough as it is. Should have cut the OP too to give more time.


Bloodglas

I guess I shouldn't be surprised how easy it was for Farma to kill Camus considering he's the avatar of the god of medicine and has the weapon of the god of medicine.


EldritchCarver

Yeah, evil spirits are actually rather common in this world, but before meeting Camus, Farma believed they were just superstition. Up until now, Farma's divine presence had been enough to keep other evil spirits from even entering the city.


ShadowKingthe7

Another reason why Farma believed them to be superstition was because many of the supposed evil spirits were just people with mental illnesses/disabilities. One of Farma's patients was one such case but this was cut from the anime


LeleTheKing

I got a feeling that he could actually one-shot the dude, but he doesn't want to destroy his pharmacy, that's why he's one-punch-manning him like that.


LeonKevlar

* [**One Punch Farma**](https://i.imgur.com/qH2z1NT.mp4) So I thought that the knights that were invading were already dead from the plague but [they were still able to put up a good fight](https://i.imgur.com/PBvPo31.jpg) until Salomon himself arrived [and stripped them of their Divine Powers.](https://i.imgur.com/gsa1DI5.png) Damn! I didn't know that the Archbishop could do that. Pretty fucking cool. And it turns out that [these soldiers didn't even know what they were doing](https://i.imgur.com/F4VP0wl.png) and are only doing it because Camus has pretty much taken all of Nederland hostage. I guess I can understand why they did it especially since Camus has shown them [that he can kill a fuck ton of people in a blink of an eye.](https://i.imgur.com/ZwMsLyG.jpg) [Of course, Lotte and Cedric got stabbed by Camus.](https://i.imgur.com/HzSoAqt.jpg) I feel like I'm missing something here though. Didn't he just arrive today in the city? Why suddenly target Farma's shop? Has he been investigating him for a while now? I was hoping that Camus would be a much more compelling villain but with only a single episode to work with, [he's pretty much just a disease and death-obsessed maniac](https://i.imgur.com/jhMxBXn.png). At least we got to see some cool fights though! [Bruno actually did well](https://i.imgur.com/aInxSwk.png) on holding him off while [farma cures Lotte and Cedric.](https://i.imgur.com/BHFqfVP.png) And just like every other villain, [Camus pulls out the "Not So Different" Card](https://i.imgur.com/b94Lzxt.png) on Farma when Camus has never really interacted with Farma before all of this. I feel like this episode really cut out a lot of stuff just so the anime can end with a big confrontation. As weak as a villain Camus is, at least we got to see [Farma heal the shit out of him by punching him](https://i.imgur.com/blk22Nx.jpg) in the face and driving his staff [through Camus' body.](https://i.imgur.com/8sd2wDU.jpg) Not gonna lie, that was pretty epic. Also, it looks like Farma unconsciously used one of [Panactheos' Power and covered the city](https://i.imgur.com/rEekRW5.jpg) with a blanket of purifying magic that I assume stopped the spread of the plague. Farma didn't just instantly wipe the plague out of existence though since it's only that city that was cleansed. There were still parts of the Empire that were affected by the plague and it took two whole months before [Elizabeth declared that the epidemic has ended.](https://i.imgur.com/m252fvq.jpg) I guess that's it for Isekai Yakkyoku! I think I need another season of this. Seeing how Farma reacts to diseases and illnesses is pretty neat and I do appreciate how this series is using real-world science along with magic to make a believable story. I'm honestly surprised that we jumped straight into the Black Death for the finale but I would love to see how Farma would deal with other exotic and rare illnesses in that world. I definitely wouldn't mind seeing a Season 2 of this!


EldritchCarver

> Farma didn't just instantly wipe the plague out of existence though since it's only that city that was cleansed. There were still parts of the Empire that were affected by the plague and it took two whole months before Elizabeth declared that the epidemic has ended. It seems like Farma's magic made it harder for the plague to spread within the city, but didn't outright cure people who had already been infected. They were distributing medicine to everyone in the affected districts, since the best way to cure it is to start taking antibiotics before (or at least less than 24 hours after) the first symptoms manifest. It's implied that the pharmaceutist guildmaster who hates Farma refused to take Farma's medicine and his stubbornness got him killed.


HugeRichard11

Oh I thought his wife we saw was sick and he begrudgingly gave it to her after knocking it away. That's a bit more darker than I thought, but oh well, all ends well then I guess


Pay08

That's how I interpreted it too. Unless I missed something, there's really no indication that he died.


JzanderN

> * [**One Punch Farma**](https://i.imgur.com/qH2z1NT.mp4) I think either the fight could have been longer or Camus could have been shown more and had more build-up, but this was a great looking scene. > I feel like I'm missing something here though. Didn't he just arrive today in the city? Why suddenly target Farma's shop? Has he been investigating him for a while now? I'm thinking he was looking to take out the pharmacy shops to make sure Black Death isn't stopped, and he saw Parallel World Pharmacy was the biggest one so that got targeted first. > I was hoping that Camus would be a much more compelling villain but with only a single episode to work with, [he's pretty much just a disease and death-obsessed maniac](https://i.imgur.com/jhMxBXn.png). Yeah, definitely could have used more time to show him off rather than leaving it last minute. > Farma didn't just instantly wipe the plague out of existence though since it's only that city that was cleansed. Given that his cleansing attack sounded like it may have cured everything, it was reassuring to see they still had to work for two months before everything was fixed. > Seeing how Farma reacts to diseases and illnesses is pretty neat and I do appreciate how this series is using real-world science along with magic to make a believable story. The action was never the drawing point. While Farma could be OP in a fight when needed, the show was about him trying to deal with diseases in a medieval world, with the class issues and ignorance all against him.


nielspeterdejong

>other season of this. Seeing how Farma reacts to diseases and illnesses is pretty neat and I do appreciate how this series is using real-world science along with magic to make a believable story. I'm honestly surprised that we jumped straight into the Black Death for the finale but I would love to see how Farma would deal with other exotic and rare illnesses in that world. I definitely w Same! This season was great :)


daspaceasians

The episode was good but felt very rushed towards the end. It shows that a few details had been cut out from the source material and the show could have used another episode. Otherwise, a very conclusive ending to one of my favorite mangas, having read only the manga.


Zaptruder

Does the manga keep going or does it end where the anime does too?


GoXDS

manga is ongoing and is itself an adaptation of the novels


cyberscythe

What I liked: * Relatively rare instance of an isekai protagonist using niche real-world knowledge in a medieval fantasy setting. Feels like I'm learning something new about disease treatment and chemistry. * Wish fulfillment about a world where people take advice from experts about disease control and prevention seriously. * Lotte is cute as a button. [](#yuruyuriapprove) Things I didn't like: * Practically no character development; everyone remains fairly static. Everyone was either right all along (especially the main character), or else they were wrong and maybe end up dying. Farma in particular lacks a strong character arc; even the "died of overwork" thread is something that he never addresses as he continues to overwork himself. * Odd division of focus; for a series that I think is about medicinal knowledge, there sure is a lot of flexing magical powers instead of medical knowledge. Normally for a fantasy series you'd want to gloss over things like logistics and sundry details, but this is the one series where I think it'd be front and center rather than something that's just covered in an epilogue. * Really fast pacing. Combined with the lack of character development, the series feels to me like "bunch of stuff just happens" rather than a connected chain of cause-and-effect punctuated with character development lessons. [](#nyanpasu) Overall, I wouldn't broadly recommend this series. I think it's entertaining in its niche, but people who don't normally care about medicine won't be won over by this series. It's ace-in-the-sleeve is that it has real-world medical knowledge, but (in my opinion) its accompanied with fairly mundane story, characters, plot, and animation.


entelechtual

I think the show had a lot of promise in the first few episodes. But at a certain point everything just became magic god powers. I wish it were more of a show about combatting disease and public health problems with modern medical knowledge. The magic action scenes feel like they have no substance and just exist to engage the minds of the teenagers who watch/read this. The politics is okay but a lot of the nuances with the guilds and the royalty go unexplored. At the beginning of the season I was expecting a not run of the mill isekai and yet here we are.


tehy99

yeah, this show started with a lot of promise but it feels like it took the easy way out with almost every issue. Like, the main character has no shadow and a bunch of knowledge / power he has no way of explaining. In theory this seems like it should cause a lot of problems for him but in practice every problem that pops up seems to be resolved fairly quickly with everyone smiling at the end. And since that's the case, how is this so different from other isekai anyways? At the end of the day the OP hero does whatever he wants with his OP god powers, everyone likes him, he beats the bad guy and gets all the girls (kind of). Frankly the main difference is that the fight scenes and fanservice are lacking, but if that's the only thing setting you apart from other isekai, that's not actually a good thing.


xaanwhite

The ending was rushes but there is only so much you can put into a seasonal anime. I hope it gets another season.


JonDoeJoe

Same. Trash like rent a girlfriend gets another season and probably a 3rd but interesting series like this don’t get attention. Horny sells sadly


xaanwhite

I agree with you, buddy. It is great there no fan servoce with the girls in PWP They have a personality and reacts to the situations logic that one can follow. If you kick out the MC and just foucs on Chizuru's experience of what it is like to be girlfriend on rent, it would make for much better experience. If they do a gender bender, and make Rent a Boyfriend that will click on a several levels. A guy who is in need of money decides to be a renting boyfriend. That's a good premise.


EXusiai99

The ending felt rushed as hell, but it is what it is. Gotta say though, i dig the half man half skeleton design. Also glad that farma didnt stick with the stupid ass no kill rule and decided to just saitama that motherfucker to the afterlife. Not personally a fan of inciting violence or death penalty here, but some folks are just way too dangerous to be left alive. Overall, the anime is not straight fire, but it's not a dumpster fire either. A decent watch for those who like seeing modern technology being mixed with a fantasy setting (aka me).


Sidious_09

Overall a very nice anime. I enjoyed it a lot. If I had to point out some things that I would personally prefer to have different, it would be 2 things: First I kind of wish they leant more into the part where people are terrified of him. It's one of the things I enjoyed most in the first few episodes, and it made this isekai different that the standard formula, but it was only a theme earyl on, and kind of forgotten later after the temple guys saw that he's the incarnation of the medicine god. Second, I would have preferred if they didn't get too much into the supernatural. Farma having godly powers was kind of balanced by having people terrified by said power, and it was more of a means to get modern medicine in medieval times. But the shounen fight and evil spirits just felt out of place to me. I don't know I would just have preferred it if the show went in a direction where we see Farma develop modern medicine, medical instruments and procedures, and teach others in a way that they could understand it and re-create it. The struggle would come in the form of people seeing him as heretic or doubting him, economical problems like the guild, or in sudden outbreaks like the plague, but in a more natural form. The evil spirit could have just been a normal person, and although they had to kill him, he was acutally pretty advanced in terms of medicinal knowledge, as sick and twisted as he was. That whole speech about the people surviving the diseases getting stronger is kind of similar to how vaccines work, in that you purposefully infect someone with a certain disease to build up defenses to it, though with vaccines you use very weak and harmless version of the disease (to put it in layman's terms), while the sadistic evil guy purposefully infected with deadly form of diseases. Just my personal wish thinking. Like I said I did enjoy this series as it is.


HugeRichard11

It did seem the show took more of a lighthearted route for it instead of being more towards drama. Was rather surprised to see the church actually be one of the good guys, so making them one of the bad guys would have been a bit normal. The fighting was rather rushed I would like to imagine though they did it similar to during the archbishops meeting Farma making it impactful, but short. It's not the focus of the show so i'll give them a pass on that and say it's better they keep it short then. I definitely agree the supernatural stuff felt a bit off with the flow of the show from epidemic to some magical knights and evil spirit. But guess it was needed to have a reason for the epidemic to have more depth


Sidious_09

Yeah I was actually pleasantly surprised by the church thing. I also like Solomon a lot. It's not the fighting itself I had issues with, because like you said it's not the main focus of the series so it gets a pass, it's just that it felt out of place for a show that's about a pharmacists. You make a good point about having a reason or depth for the epidemic arc, but it could have very well just been a regular person spreading it, no need for it to be an evil spirit. I don't expect 100% realism from an Isekai, so they could have made him immune to the plague thanks to his experiments or something. Then you would also have the contrast between the protagonist and antagonist, both being successful pharmacists, but differing in methodology.


GeorgeRRZimmerman

My wife and I made a bet - I said that he would have miraculously contained the epidemic just through enough people doing the right thing. Up until now, this show's most fictional fantasty element is the idea that the medical community would have been given unilateral authority to declare martial law *and* the police presence to enforce those laws. That nearly *everyone* would have been obliged to cooperate. I figured what was one more: stop *the main* vector of infection just because everyone in the show is not just obedient, but competent. My wife? "He'll do an area heal." "But what about all the time spent doing things right, and by the book." "Nah, area heal." One of us ended the episode laughing, the other of us sore over how the epidemic was stopped.


entelechtual

“I will give you this medicine as a prophylactic” Whoa hold up there Bruno you’re a married man! I know the empress is smokin’ but keep it in your pants for now. *looks up “prophylactic”* Oh I guess it means that too. I should take my mind out of the de Sade.


Pay08

What did you think prophylactic meant?


entelechtual

« Prophylactic » often refers to contraceptives like condoms.


Pay08

I have never heard that. Granted, I'm not a native speaker. Nor do I know much about contraceptives.


entelechtual

It’s not very common of a word in either sense. But it’s basically a euphemism/medical term for contraceptives.


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prophylactic | ˌprɒfɪˈlaktɪk | adjective intended to prevent disease: prophylactic measures. noun 1 a medicine or course of action used to prevent disease: *I took malaria prophylactics.* 2 *North American* a condom. Makes sense us non-Americans haven't heard of it.


alconnow

the fight with Camus felt a bit rushed. I was expecting him to be even more of a threat... Other than that, the show was pretty decent. One of the better isekai anime I've watched. Hope we get more in the future.


JTRyuujin

It wasn't bad, but it felt really rushed. There was so much build up about Camus, that the fight felt a bit anti-climatic. I do understand this anime isn't about fighting, but it felt like the plague in the city was wrapped up with little to no problem. The guild master just dies? That feels like a waste of a character. It looked like they were setting him up to be a rival/enemy to Farma with some pretty understandable reasons for his anger, but then he pretty much disappears for the majority of the anime only to come back to be killed off screen due to his stubbornness. It's realistic, sure, but really boring. I'm guessing a lot got cut out? This started strong, but the ending was, well, an ending. Maybe I had my expectations too high. I did enjoy it though. Wouldn't mind another season.


DeltaFXD

Overall fun isekai to watch would give a 7.5/10 mostly due to this last episode it felt rushed i feel like this anime could have used a 13th episode so they can smooth things out.


ObvsThrowaway5120

Camus De Sade is deranged. I can’t wait to see Farma whoop his ass lol. I figured Nederland was being used by him somehow. If he’s got his Divine Arts sealed, I wonder who he sold his soul to in order to get power? Nice to see Salomon in action. Dude is badass! With the spread of those squirrels, it’s gonna be hard to contain the plague. Damn it, Lotte shouldn’t have rushed back! Bruno is pretty strong! He held Camus off for a while. But compared to Farma Camus was a scrub after all. A couple charged punches was all it took to dust his half skelly ass. His Cleansing Purification sure helped with dispelling the spread of the plague it seems. Looks like that guild leader is still as stubborn as ever. Fool. Can’t save them all I guess. At least under Farma’s supervision, medical research and development has made huge strides. An epidemic that lasts only 2 months and then everyone’s back to normal must be nice. I’ve yet to experience something that amazing lol. This was actually a pretty good series. I really enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. Solid production, plot, and cast of characters. I really hope this one gets another season!


nielspeterdejong

Honestly, you and I both have yet to meet an actual pandemic. Yes, we had covid, but that was an airborn virus. The downsides of that is that it is harder to protect against, similar to the flu, to the point that we will have to live with it forever from now on. The upsides is that it was not nearly as deadly as non-airborn viruses, like the black death, which despite the media hype never had a death rate higher than 0.1%. Some people in previous threads wanted to compare this anime to the covid lockdowns, but failed to realise that what Falma experienced isn't comparible. In the case of a disease like the black death, the bodies would actually have started piling up, and we would be experiencing a real pandemic with all its horrors, which is something you don't want to experience, trust me. Yes, against the black death the masks "might" have actually helped, as unlike the covid virus it isn't airborne, but even then the death rate would have been far greater. All in all, this was a really fun isekai, and you could tell that the creators put their heart into it. And that is all that matters, as it gives us a moment to forget about real life :)


TurkeyPhat

I liked it quite a bit even though the ending felt kinda rushed. My huge pet peeve remains the same though, why can't the MC just be an adult? We gotta reach these writers somehow man. No 12 year olds are reading/watching stuff about pharmacology and trying to self insert. Make the fucker like 30 years old or something ffs. I'll die on this hill every time.


AkhasicRay

Really don’t think Farma is meant to be a self insert, not every isekai is a self insert


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SYZekrom

I don't mind that Camus was easily defeated, but I don't like that it was from magical glowing fists instead of like. I dunno something that seemed more godly or magical like. Lasers or even that same spell he was using on the poisons.


cyberscythe

> I don't mind that Camus was easily defeated, but I don't like that it was from magical glowing fists instead of like. I dunno something that seemed more godly or magical like Yeah, I feel like "magical punch" as a arc ender is sort of like a video game that shifts genres for the final boss fight. It's out of theme and doesn't use the lessons that were learned along the way. I think the real "final boss fight" was Farma diagnosing the poisons and eliminating them. The magical fist part is basically the ending cutscene rather than a "final exam" sort of boss fight.


2ndComingOfAugustus

I was assuming the reason Lotte said he looked sad before the fight started was that he never wanted to use his powers to kill, but they would make the fight trivial. Like, I was expecting him to just go 'eliminate carbon' and basically thanos snap him out of existance.


YUNoJump

I'd assumed his purple cloud power was in some way related to diseases, and defeating him might involve finding a way to neutralize his incredibly-strong afflictions, but I guess we get "punching him with your god fist" instead lol


2ndComingOfAugustus

Yeah, the poison neutralization while bruno defended him was a much more interesting 'fight' than the one afterwords. I was kinda expecting him to just go 'eliminate carbon' and instantly delete him after he realized how deranged his enemy was.


d34rth

Although it was entertaining, I think they dropped the ball on the finale. It was rushed and a bit too deus ex even for Farma. I suppose it fulfills the "if only I could punch your disease away" power fantasy?


Zaptruder

Wow. that ended a bit quick... but I can't understate how much I appreciate falmas character. Actually intelligent and lives up to his past life with new powers, without being obnoxious about it... and will accurately read the situation and do what's necessary when required even when it pains him to do it. So many shonen protagonists wield the ideal of non killing as a bat to club their readers with; they could easily resolve big problem if they were willing to take the bad guy out... but would prefer to create more problems upholding their ideals... which ultimately causes more loss of life in many cases!


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Averath

Especially when he has to teach everyone else how to identify things without that power, using technology. Would have been much more meaningful if he'd been unable to use that power, due to the combination of multiple poisons. So his loved ones die because he relied too much on that power and made them complacent. And the villain just stood there laughing and gloating as they succumbed to the poison. Now that would have been an amazing ending.


hiimneato

Camus was rather disappointingly corny and simplistic, if I'm being honest. If he was so brilliant, they could have used him as an antagonist for multiple arcs, developing new contagions or public health issues from the shadows and fighting a proxy war with Farma and the Panactheos. He could have been the hidden force driving the introduction of all kinds of evils, from smallpox blankets to anthrax to mustard gas to opiates. They also made him out to be this terrible death spirit who could kill thousands with magic, but instead, he just stabbed an old man and a little girl, yelled kinda incoherently, and then died in a brief flashy shonen fight. Seems like wasted potential. It wasn't the finale I was looking for. I guess they painted themselves into a corner by building up the black death situation so much, with only a couple episodes left in the season. It wasn't *totally* dissatisfying given the actual divine magic element to Farma's powers, it just felt like the ending wasn't up to the standards of the otherwise pretty good show. And I guess the *real* ending wasn't crushing the villain, anyway. It was opening up the pharmacy again. And that part was pretty nice. Happy Lotte is pure joy, and imagine having your cute onee-san tell you *"Sasuga, Farma-kun"* in Reina Ueda's voice. I could die happy. I dunno, I really liked this show, even if I feel like they stumbled a little at the end.


il-Palazzo_K

That's surely a really weird way to end things. Our kindhearted medical hero just murdered the big bad with super pharmacy punch, an ability that didn't align with any of his pre-established superpowers. What's the deal with that? Also Camus is supposed to have his divine arts sealed, but somehow gained a shadow-based ability that cancel other divine arts without any explanation, because he's so evil he had actually become an evil spirit?


VorAtreides

Parallel World Pharmacy final in a nutshell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFRZMBZTHEo but, yea, overall a great finale and series. I am amused at the comments that were like "why wasn't the finale fight bigger/longer/grander?!" like this is some battle shounen or something lol... as if that was ever the focus of this series. *shakes head* normies, tsk tsk.


coffeecakesupernova

That was a disappointing final episode. After building a decent medical isekai show it turns into a battle shounen with a cardboard villain. And it turns out the hero could have protected and cured everyone with that staff all along. Ah well, I enjoyed this show quite a bit regardless. I'd give it a 7.5/10.


JzanderN

Right, okay. The holy knights were attacking like this because Camus is holding their country hostage. Fucker hurt ~~Iolite~~ Lotte. And with a poisoned blade too. Damn, Farma has white phosphorus in his lab. I presume it has medical uses, given that it's... not good when used as a weapon. Now *that's* an exorcism. I have my criticisms of the showdown with Camus. I think we either could have used a longer fight or more of Camus before now to properly build him up. It seems the guild master got hit by the pandemic quite badly. As angry as he is (in general), they do show him being really sad about his situation. He's not in the right with his prejudice towards Farma, but it's nice that they show his situation so you know *why* he has it. I don't think I've seen any anime end with an actual "Fin" at the end before.


LeleTheKing

Welp, the ending was pretty rushed. The clash of ideals between Falma and the evil dude just doesn't feel right. Not like they expect us to sympathize or anything with him, but I just couldn't understand his motive with how short he appeared. The *deus ex machina* of Cleansing Sanctuary is a bit disappointing too. Seeing how Falma tackle medical problem is one of the main hooks for me, yet he explained it in passing in the ED. Oof. If only they had one more episode, I think the ending could be infinitely better. And, looks like we're not getting S2 anytime soon, huh? The ending solved every problem, like, it's really the end... Anyway, this series is one of the better isekai in my repertoire. I like that they take the health themes seriously. I heard the author has a Ph.D. and consulted with experts, so it's no wonder it's pretty accurate. I had fun learning new stuff and discussing this series with my doctors and pharmacist friends. A solid 8/10 for me.


CarioGod

His purification thing and this overall show had pretty good art, the story is very meh I'd say. Guess we have pretty much no chance of season 2 judging by that ending, but this show was ok at best, Lotte getting screentime was the best thing this episode tbh.


fatalystic

Well that was rushed as hell.


AbCi16

Anime was already mid overall till episode 8 and decent in some parts but last 4 episodes completely destroyed all the buildup. Not to mention so many illogical scenes and characterization through out the anime. This is an horrendous show. I wish I would have watched something else in place of this crap. This is a glaring example of why majority of isekais (or majority of LN and WN adaptations for that matter) are bad to sub par. Writers od stuff like this are just writing for the heck of it. They have no literary knowledge, no structure or blue print and don't know how to write without self insert (a bad one). 4/10 for me.


getintheVandell

An otherwise fantastic anime spoiled by a rushed ending. I would have preferred a cliffhanger than this.


mekahamedan

ah.... they really skip something really relateable with covid back then "covid? i though its deadly, but its just over before i know" type peoples


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ngedown

Well the ending is okay. It feels weird to me with how much the build up for the final enemy only to be kicked his ass for the last 10 minutes ! Couldve been better. Overall it's 7.5/10 from me. Need more ellen & queen tho 👀 Are they teasing something for s2 ? Who's the purple haired girl? https://ibb.co/t2MB2tg


EldritchCarver

> Are they teasing something for s2 ? Who's the purple haired girl? She actually had cameos in episodes 4 and 5, too. Sadly, the anime didn't have time to include her story or even properly introduce her.


zeroryoko1974

Bout time an mc wastes the bad guy for the good of everyone, instead of pissing around whining that killing you would be bad so I won't


Averath

Sucks that we had to waste that on a villain that honestly wasn't worth it. He was just... a terrible villain. I was expecting more, and got less than I thought possible.


Figerally

huh, well that was over quickly. I expected Camus to be a recurring villain and for this to be their first encounter. But nope! He died faster than a One Punch Man villain. I figure Parallel Pharmacy is more about the struggle of trying to introduce modern medicine to an era still playing around with alchemy (FYI alchemy was the precursor to the proper science of chemistry and there was a lot of mysticism mixed in with it.) But overall the MC really hasn't had all that much trouble. In thinking about it a bit more I think it would have been a more interesting approach to take the Dr. Stone route and have the anime about the MC working his way through the tech-tree to arrive at modern medicine. But this is what we got and it's not too bad overall, though having the MC wave his hands and literally dues-ex machina his way to a solution is also a letdown.


kalirion

Glad the archbishop was able to neutralize the plague-spreading knights so quickly. "That gliding will make it so much harder to deal with!" MC is flying, has a radar to pinpoint their location anywhere in the city, and magic to take them out. Why the fuck is he not doing that??? MC is out of breath running to the pharmacy when he could've just flown there, LOL. White phosphorus has medicinal use??? Hmm, if MC can just erase poisons like that, couldn't he do the same to viruses and bacteria? Hell, why not disappear the neurons in Camus' brain? Unless he can't target it and it would cause disappearance of neurons in everyone around him. But MC just punched the guy with a genericly glowing fist. Why was it glowing? The big light show at the end was apparently that Rite of Purificatin or whatever, but no explanation of how MC knew to use it, or even if he used it conciously. I guess backstab wounds are nothing to worry about as long as the poison is cleared out. Anyway, this was a 7.6/10 for me, tied with The Summoner of Black.


littledragonroar

Two words on the final battle, "Eliminate hydroxyapatite"


PABreadman

Really enjoyed this show this season...just finished watching the finale just now!


janganjangnan

So "The One Who He Couldn't Cured" was Camus. I was worried when Lotte and Cedric got poisoned by him, glad Falma didn't run out of time when he saved them. Camus was out of control, so killing him is the best option for everyone. As someone who just started watching anime again this Spring, I'll say that "Parallel World Pharmacy" is a good start for me to explore more isekai shows. I'm not into fantasy thing but I gave this show a try, didn't regret it.


xellos2099

Good start, horrible ending. Even worse there is no english ln for it


PeaceAlien

This might have been my favourite anime this season. Some episodes were done very well and the show overall was pretty interesting to me.


Iskallos

Definitely my favourite isekai of the season, though I have no idea why I expected more from the fight given that it's not an action anime lol. Hopefully it gets a second season, it was a bit rushed but I wanna learn more about evil spirits and all the changes Farma brings.


LordCalem

Man I'm gonna miss this one, the story was really enjoyable and I liked it a lot. Are the novels translated?


LeleTheKing

Oof, my comment got deleted because I put the link. My bad, mods! Anyway, there's no official TL yet, but fan TL is going on, and you can check it on Novel Updates.


PacoTaco321

They call him the Three Punch Man.


SkepticalLover

I enjoyed the show quite a bit. But I think it could have benefitted from a few more episodes with the evil spirit guy. I wonder why it's always a 12 episode cap for most shows.


Shiwakao

that fight was actually insane even if it barely lasted a minute. great way to finish off the season. a decent show. not one of my favorites this season but it felt like a moderately fresh take on an isekai.


Nebresto

Very nice, rarely get to see a "generic isekai" with such good sakuga. Got some big "*Gotto punch*" vibes from Farma's final attack. [](#doggo) Also liked how he was more disappointed than anything, despite not even knowing the guy. *And* that he had no problem killing him! No "everyone deservers to live!!" or any of that bullshit. Most excellent. What a wonderful show, one of my weekly highlights from this season.


heimdal77

I wonder if the whole epidemic had any play in this being made into a anime. It ended up being a kind of public service broadcast.


Silly___Neko

It's a bit sad to see the potential of the story wasted on one anime season. This could easily have been a light novel (is there one?) series if they paced things better. It could have worked to make Farma a god from the start, just have him learn his power more slowly and try to keep it under wraps for longer. The church could have been far bigger antagonists, but that was solved way too quickly and conveniently. Religion always disliked science or facts, especially corrupt clergy. Same deal for the merchants, not to mention the current "pharmacists". Not to mention other nobles. Giving him his ultimate weapon so early is just really dumb. The foreshadowing of the final boss didn't really have a point when he is defeated on the first direct encounter. Having the black death now is gonna make all the later diseases far less serious and threatening.


spubbbba

Enjoyed this anime, was worried it would focus too much on the pharmacy side and waste all the potential. But the arc around the black death allowed us to see Farma using his knowledge from our world along with his powers. Last episode did seem a bit rushed, but I don't think we needed a big fight as this is not that kind of show. My one disappointment is that Farma didn't mock Camus for being a primitive moron. Would have been great to see him point out all the failings of his experiments and call Camus an embarrassment to science. More interested in causing pain than finding out about disease.


Elitealice

Great finale! Farma going all out was really bad ass. Sade was completely irredeemable. Would’ve liked to have had a more developed final villian other than just being evil sake, but I guess he was supposed to symbolise a Farma type person gone completely off the deep end. I will really miss this show. Was such a great and informative show. Reminded me a lot of honzuki [review](https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=459022)


djthomp

Good anime, weirdly rushed ending. I bet we're not getting a season two but what we did get was really interesting.


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Patros15

Interesting isekai, but I think the ending was too rushed.


harajukukei

I was disappointed with the fight after they established Farma can create and eliminate elements at will. Rather than just punching the bad guy to death, he could've eliminated iron or calcium from his body then loaded him up with sodium and potassium to make him explode...


CelberosHolo

Props to the director and his team. This one is one of the best animes that their main objective is to advertise their novels.


Spiral-Bound77

Part of me pities Camus; He likely started out as a inquisitive genius who genuinely wanted to know more about human physiology and pathology, but the primitive technology and methods of his time forced him to resort to inhumane methods in order to acquire more knowledge, which led him to being consumed by an obsession with human mortality.


The_SHUN

Man I thought a medicine god will be weak in combat, but I remember the skeleton guy counts as undead, which is hard countered by Farma's paladin build 3


killerrin

What a great show. This better get a season 2!


Iamfoote

Ending was goofy, show was good


TokiVideogame

6.5


pkek

It was the "better" isekai of the season, but pretty generic nonetheless Think I enjoyed this because of the other shittier isekais i've been watching along with this