Isekai Yakkyoku

[Kraco]

Parallel World Pharmacy

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


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One of the above average isekai. It's probably because this does have the element of medicine included, so it's not just adventuring, power leveling, gathering a harem, beating evil nobles/church, exploiting a game system, and the other jazz, which describes 99% of isekai series out there. Here the MC is originally a university researcher, and even after he's isekaied, he will still continue to do what he did previously, with different methods but with the same purpose. The story is decently solid, the production values are quite standard, better than I expected, even if nothing extraordinary.

I think I'll keep watching this.

[DarthEnderX]

Bookworm, but with medicine instead of books?

[Kraco]

Bookworm, but with medicine instead of books?

I'd say with less struggle since the dude was reborn into a noble family, not a commoner family. It's like this show can skip a couple of seasons of content!

[MFauli]

Enjoyable first episode, even though I hate that the main character was an adult and OF COURSE was reborn into a kawaii shouta body, sigh.

One really weak, plothole-y thing, tough: "You have no shadow". Yeah. Except for all the shadows on himself. That's kinda dumb. I know it's because he would look bad artistically if all shadows were removed, but .... think about that before you make it a thing, dear author.

[neflight86]

**Oops. Just realised this is a Dup* Mods, please merge when able!

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"* Based on an isekai fantasy light novel series written by Takayama Rizu and illustrated by keepout.

A young pharmacologist and researcher in Japan died from overworking, and was reincarnated in a Medieval Parallel Europe. He was reincarnated as a 10-year-old apprentice to a famous Royal Court pharmacist, had attained an inhuman skills of ability to see through disease, material creation, and material destruction. In a society in which dubious medical practice are rampant, price gouging thru the monopoly of the pharmacist guild, and good medicine aren't available to the commoners. He was recognized by the Emperor at that time and opened a Pharmacy at the corner of the town.

He will wipe out the fraud that has 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.

Source: M-U"

Genre(s): Isekai, Medicine, drama

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At this point, it's easier to tell you what is non-standard about this reincarnation story. Not much. Self-unbeknownst OP protagonist pharmacist dies from glorious Japanese overwork and is gifted another (noble) life where he advances medicine in a fantasy world that has magic he can use to... summon basic pharmaceutical ingredients. Wouldn't want to waste an arc procuring raw materials, the kids would get bored.

The current tension resides in him not having a shadow? That means he is different, and the light novel default mindset is different = bad, so he must hide this from all but his waifu candidates. As usual, nobles are portrayed as callous and don't even look after their own staff to the point of making the base level kindness of supplying pain medication causing teary eyed reverence. Also, the protagonist has magic eyes that can spot infirmities and tell him if his own treatment will be effective. Strange wish fulfillment. I mean, who's wish could this be?

Not much to see here that you haven't seen dozens of times before.

[shinta|hikari]

The magic eyes are pretty shitty as a writing device. Would've been better if he actually had to struggle to figure out illnesses, and more educational too.

[neflight86]

Agreed. No one watching this within the intended demographic understands anything about medicine, so they might as well have gone whole hog and really geeked out with the medical stuff, like Cells at Work, and have made a play to be something special.

[Kraco]

This is a stock isekai series, so he's obviously going to have the usual cheat powers. I said as much in the Overlord thread, but quite often the only struggle is in (demi-)human relationships in these series. I suppose it's some kind of ultimate escapism. This series at least has a little bit more going for it due to the medical stuff. The author had to do that much research. However, this is still an average isekai series, at the end of the day, so it might not fly it tried to be two things at the same time, by going as in-depth as Cells at Work.

He can produce full molecules if he remembers the chemical structure. That's quite a tall step, though. If he could only produce raw materials, he would be often out of luck because more complicated molecules are no joke to produce. It takes more than a few test tubes. In fact, I doubt he would even know how to make them, most of the time. It wouldn't have been really necessary for him in his first life.

[shinta|hikari]

Producing the chemicals is fine. Recreating that from scratch is too complicated and difficult given his circumstances, but diagnosing illnesses is something doctors do all the time. He could've been given X-Ray or MRI vision which helped diagnoses, not some weird power that even tells him if his guess is correct. That just makes no sense.

Since the power can tell him if his diagnosis is correct, then the power ALREADY knows what the disease is. It could've just skipped that step and told him directly what the illness was, instead of playing this pointless guessing game.

[DarthEnderX]

The magic eyes are pretty shitty as a writing device. Would've been better if he actually had to struggle to figure out illnesses, and more educational too.

To be fair, the eyes don't tell him anything besides location, and if he's right.

They'd be useless if he didn't know anything about medicine.

[David75]

He is a god incarnation, or a little different: his body is that of a God and he reincarnated into that body with all of his knowledge.
Now he just needs to explore his powers to own that world.

[Kraco]

To be fair, the eyes don't tell him anything besides location, and if he's right.

They'd be useless if he didn't know anything about medicine.

Yeah, it actually is quite a downgrade from the usual appraisal cheat power in isekai. Although he does compensate for a lot with his knowledge, so in his hands it's more powerful than in any random person's.

[shinta|hikari]

That is actually my problem with it. If the skill can tell if his diagnosis is right, that means the skill itself already knows the correct answer. If that is the case, his eye should just straight out TELL HIM what the disease and cure is. The current skill and implementation is extremely convenient for his existing skillset and knowledge as a medical researcher and feels very contrived.

[neflight86]

Agreed. The mechanics of the skill, as we understand it, make a glorified medical guessing game unless there is some limitation to its use. It may as well save the steps of guessing until correct unless the point is that this skill would be useless unless its owner were a medical professional, an unfortunate idea that mixes supernatural wisdom and contemporary Japanese medicine into a frankenskill that is ridiculous under any scrutiny.

[Kraco]

That's a good point. It would have been more interesting if the view changed simply when he made a decision (diagnosis), even if it was the wrong one. So, he would really need to know. It would still be the uber convenient x-ray vision recognising abnormalities, but there would be no exact precognition beyond that, it would just be like ctrl-clicking items in Windows for selection, in case someone had multiple problems. It is dumb that the skill already knows the disease, but he still needs to name it. It's like some training software for med students.

[shinta|hikari]

What the heck, 3 straight replies of agreement from 3 different users in Gotwoot about a criticism.

Now I've seen everything.

[DarthEnderX]

I think the power is the coolest and totally sensical and also ur dumb.

[David75]

Reviving the flame pit ?

[shinta|hikari]

I was satisfied with 3 hits, so a combo breaker is fine.

[KrayZ33]

I was satisfied with 3 hits, so a combo breaker is fine.

If you would've waited a little bit with your replies I'd have gathered 3 people to agree with Darth. That's basically the same thing then, is it not? I think agreeing on anything is a feat.