Joseph Luster
October 22, 2024 
TOHO’s official YouTube channel hosted a first anniversary livestream for The Apothecary Diaries anime, serving up the perfect opportunity to announce the timing for the next season. The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 is now lined up to hit the airwaves in Japan on January 10, 2025, with Crunchyoll already planning to simulcast the new season as it airs.
The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 Trailer
There’s also a new key visual:
The anime is being made at TOHO and OLM, with Norihiro Naganuma, who worked on the first season of The Ancient Magus’ Bride, helming the project as director as well as taking on the scripts. Three different people are composing the music: Satoru Kousaki of Vivy -Fluorite Eye’s Song-, Kevin Penkin of Made in Abyss, and finally Arisa Okehazama of ONIMAI: I’m Now Your Sister! Credit for character design goes to Yukiko Nakatani, who has worked on Go! Princess Precure, Tropical-Rouge! Precure.
The series started out as a light novel by Natsu Hyūga and Touko Shino, which is published digitally in America by J-Novel Club. The publisher gave this description for the story:
The Apothecary Diaries Plot
“In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an unassuming town by her apothecary father, never imagined the rear palace would have anything to do with her—until she was kidnapped and sold into service there.
Though she looks ordinary, Maomao has a quick wit, a sharp mind, and an extensive knowledge of medicine. That’s her secret, until she encounters a resident of the palace at least as perceptive as she is: the head eunuch, Jinshi. He sees through Maomao’s façade and makes her a lady-in-waiting to none other than the Emperor’s favorite consort… so she can taste the lady’s food for poison!”
Besides an anime adaptation, the series also has an ongoing manga adaptation. This is being published in America by Square Enix Manga & Books.
Source: Comic Natalie
