Parallel World Pharmacy is a Japanese light novel series centered on Kanji Yakutani, a brilliant medical researcher who dies from overwork and is reborn as Farma de Médicis in a medieval parallel world where advanced medicine is an unaffordable luxury. Endowed with his retained modern medical knowledge and a divine blessing from Panactheos, the God of Medicine, Farma embarks on a mission to democratize healthcare, making effective treatments accessible and affordable for all common folk. This challenging quest leads him to establish a revolutionary pharmacy, where he solves various health crises and clashes with the era's outdated medical norms.
The popular series originated as a web novel in July 2015, later published as light novels by Media Factory from January 2016 to January 2024. It spawned a manga adaptation in November 2016, which began its English release in North America in May 2023, and an anime television series by Diomedéa that aired from July to September 2022. Farma's journey, supported by characters like his tutor Ellen and maid Lotte, showcases the exciting blend of modern science and magical abilities in a world desperate for medical innovation.