man i need to get some sleep my stomach just won't leave me alone though
it might have been that type of well that ate or maybe it was the takis
well since i'm up i might as well watch some anime all right what am i in the mood for
let's see dragon ball nah nah i ain't trying to see some hands right now dr stone kind of but
i've already seen it oh maybe i should watch a new anime black summoner
i'll save that one for later isekai harem labyrinth nah that man spends more time clapping
furry cheeks than exploring the dungeon for meal gold i can save the mommy milkers for later i
think ah i know i'll watch parallel world pharmacy now this show is one of those isekai titles that
just bows out of the attack style over the top fantasy worlds ultimately not wanting to challenge
for the top spot of isekai but i think my early pre-existing opinions of the show was wrong
parallel world pharmacy is a novel series started back in july of 2015 by liz takayama you know that
small city in japan called takayama the city that's usually part of all those cool looking
videos of walking in royal japan giving you that feudal japan five yeah that's how you spell the
name anyways the story is about a world-class medical researcher losing his sister to a
brain tumor due to ineffective treatments so in honor from memory he spent his life dedicated
to researching and developing new medicines but he dies from overworking yeah so ouch
the question i always wanted to know was was he able to like cure cancer was he able to like stop
the tumors like or not because if not that kind of just sucks because you know you spent your
entire life trying to do that one thing but you never got to try and finish that one thing kind
of unfortunate on the bright side this 31 year old man finds himself in the body of a 10 year old boy
named fama d medicis get it for medicine son of an esteemed aristocrat who happens to be a royal
physician farmer is marked with the deity's divine blessing so you know he has unparalleled magical
abilities get it allowing him to create and reduce any substance with knowledge of its chemical
properties with also having x-ray vision in one of his eyes that'd have a zoom in feature but
did anyone else find it kind of weird in order to access this god-like power he has to do this like
the weird thing with his fingers i feel like you really don't need that but who am i to question
the gods after reading through some of the pharmacology books falmouth recognizes that this
world is operating on the same medical practices as they were in ancient times he also learns that
medicine's an exclusive privilege to the nobility the private commoners of proper medical care but
them instead relying on superstition and the war of the gods using the knowledge from his past life
and the divine abilities granted to him fama uses his resolve to make medicine available
to everyone irrespective of any class i like what the show is trying to do for the most part
the show isn't trying to be overly dramatic with having high stakes and sure the characters
actually can have great action scenes but they choose not to use them all too much but it would
rather portray the few characters that they do introduce into the show and try to make them feel
like actual people giving them their own sense of belief system giving them proper emotions letting
them be able to show themselves when they're scared happy sad or angry and show the different
personalities of each of them while the story is progressing the way the characters interact with
each other appears just very naturally and gives you a good enough impression of who they are and
what type of character archetype they're trying to represent like for example the studio's stern
father that can come across as someone who is very close-minded who in the past would treat his son
rather harshly you would assume the father would be the my way or the highway type of character but
he has the humility to admit if he's wrong and it lets someone more qualified than him take control
who takes pride in being a caring doctor who's always looking out for the best interest of his
patients in general the other characters alongside him are likable people who are just working hard
and willing to lend a helping hand to pharma but this being because the boy first helped them
when they weren't asking for it when they were feeling pain and they didn't tell anyone until
farmer showed up and was able to fix their problem without having to make a scene for it the trust
the characters have in this anime is earned so it makes what i'm about to say next a little odd
but i really do mean it i hope you understand what i mean when i say it the show feels fast and you
can decide for yourself how you feel about the pacing of the show and i think it comes
really more down to the actual writing of the show and not because it's being sped up like when i'm
watching the anime it doesn't go fast because the characters are just aging but it feels like pharma
was given things rather quickly and i don't mean the trust like i said earlier i mean i mean after
treating the queen he receives a medal rightfully so though he's then given our pharmaceutical shop
the one he's always wanted that shop next becomes of course the best shop around when the threat of
the church comes or the inquisition comes to try to arrest him or put him to death he deals with
him rather quickly almost instantly and they just happily become his followers they even
give him a staff fit for god the next chapter of the story he's going to be able to cure the
black deaf even afterwards and then he beats an antagonist of another nation who's been hated for
years by this country and then he becomes the head professor at a college with ellen his once teacher
i guess i feel like he is being handed things just too much they don't get me wrong like i said like
he he has amazing abilities and he did earn the trust to get to some point with the people but
to be just handed literally everything afterwards and there not to be any struggle or really any
challenges it makes the show a little harder to really believe and to really watch i think
people will come back to see the fantasy world in general but i would personally like to see more
challenges that he would have to face that would take more than just one episode to just explain or
to write off as he won you know to be honest while watching parallel world pharmacy i feel
like i'm watching six different isa guys rolled into one i feel like i'm watching the saints
magic power it's omnipotent which is a vastly underwatched show by the mainstream audience but
is one that is loved by its target demographic women from a western point of view both leads
have worked themselves to the point of self-harm in their past life finding themselves stuck in a
new world their goal ultimately is to help as many people as they possibly can using their power but
them both having an extremely kind nature both happen to be pharmacists but to be honest the
romance in saints magic was too much for me i was practically barfing that at some points like i
legit thought i was watching a disney princess movie which i can't watch more than one like i
can't do it and definitely like that alone it also feels a little bit like dr stone a show that most
izakaya fans know the show is teaching us sciency things while trying to make it a journey to get to
every little ingredient along the way it makes you think and remember how far as a society we've come
by reminding us that a product wasn't solely made by one person but each individual item had its
own history or person that made it a lot of trial and errors had to be done to get to that point it
wasn't just overnight success it wasn't just one time it didn't take one try to get it right and
that's the point i think parallel world is missing parallel world pharmacy is in collaboration with
the official japanese pharmaceutical association but it doesn't show the full process or really
go past the simple terms of the examinations and the treatments plus like i said pharma just got
everything handed to him like a spoiled rich kid you would think with the kind of backing he was
given it would go a little bit more into detail maybe it should have been called a half 24 episode
instead of 12 all i'm saying is i don't have the same level of satisfaction when watching the
show it's like when senkou is literally putting his life on the line to get simply one piece of
a puzzle and then this guy over here just waves his hand around and just magically just makes it
going this route doesn't make me feel like the show can last very long he's already done like
everything like what is there going to be left to accomplish when he's 17 he's 30 like what's the
end goal with these type of shows how much world is there actually to the show like dr stone feels
like he's in university while parallel world feels like they're in high school or junior college you
know that's just kind of the difference by the grace of the gods both are 10 year olds
that have unmatched fighting potential but would rather live boring lives oh i mean wholesome lives
making it more feel like a slice of life anime basically opie for no reason the world's finest
assassin gets incarnated into another world the animation is similarly pretty good both using
what they were previously best at in their next life as a profession characters seem to be likable
they both seem to be understandable given their circumstances but also very similar social classes
drugstore another world the slow life of a chief pharmacist now i hope world pharmacy doesn't come
close to this anime with this being because it's too generic there's no hurdles mainly spending
more of his time doing montage dances when he's mixing up his [ __ ] animation feels wacky if not
low budget and the medicine itself feels pre-made like the show i'm not learning how we got to this
point but the viewers being accustomed to this idea by the end of it there's no sciency thing
about the anime it's like sweet tea without the sweet part but the audience telling the
waiter to add some damn sugar to the tea but he says oh we're all out both characters roughly
acquire their dream job rather quickly but at least in parallel world he still has to convince
nobility and commoners to simply [ __ ] with each other without the aid of the empress now the last
comparison i would make is a synonym of a bookworm which is an incredible pace show with interesting
characters with a secret plot that people are not paying attention to and won't know until a little
bit later now this is what i would like the show to simply become another version of bookworm which
is arguably one of the best izakai's when you actually finish it both have adults in the body
of children who have knowledge that would alter the way people would think and act in that world
both are aiming to make something more accessible to all people the problem that i highlight is that
bookworm is slowly nudging the audience along the journey making small almost non-existing
steps until you're able to navigate freely with parallel world it isn't rushing but it does feel
like it is skipping along first i'm learning magic as an apprentice to then treating the
emphasis of disease i then earn my own pharmacist shop that i own at the age of 10 while also trying
to implement affordable health care you see what i'm saying here if that's not a hint
to what i'm about to say next i don't know what is parallel world is not bad right but it tries to do
way too much way too soon i'd argue it has a lot of good qualities and directions since it
laid out a worthy but difficult goal mentioning a pretty interesting lore but without diving
too far into it like we haven't touched really into magic like that with memorable albeit brief
character introductions kizo kusukawa is the main director who's also done khan collection magical
girl clear konanua ahiru nosora dog days and sekire which for reference points is completely
different from what he's trying to make right now not to say those are bad animes it's just the tone
of those said animes are completely different and if you watch them you understand what i mean
with parallel world pharmacy arguably being his best work you can you can argue that in
the comment section this is probably his best work mataru batari is in charge of the scripting which
i would say is where i'll be giving most of the production credit behind with him happening to
be the author of snafu one of the best rom-coms of this decade and girlish numbers a show i have no
idea is about but i'm sure it's fine and i lastly just want to do a shout out in terms of production
to the author with this happening to be her first anime her first manga like novel series with no
prior experience beforehand or no introduction order title to properly compare it to that
already having sold over 2.3 million copies at the moment i think my favorite chapter so far has to
be when falmouth's older brother comes back and he takes the boy out for a normal duel that the two
brothers would normally do and what happens next is actually kind of awesome of course pharma wins
knocking out his brother and you would think this rich older brother would be stereotypically an
[ __ ] who would be spiteful and be plodding against his brother do some other craziness
like that but no he wakes up and congratulates his brother like a true sport he's like yeah i
got my ass beat but good [ __ ] that part's funny to me but like i said i like how they don't pitch
and hold the older brother they make sure to almost highlight his womanizing behavior and
show his territorial and really just atrocious pharmaceutical practices that make him look
incredibly bad tempered but still seem to stay in line with their father's beliefs making a
character that's able to toe this line that to me shows how great the author can be at times simply
put i'm going to enjoy when they add in the big bad of the series for right now that both pharma's
dad and the empress hate i like how farmers gonna be able to cure this next big disease but i would
also like for them like i said to reduce the freaking power scaling a bit i think this show
actually has the potential to be a better isa guy but they're already one of the top animes of the
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