The Apothecary Diaries Season 2 To Start Airing On January 10, 2025

Wed Oct 23 15:18:23 IST 2024

The official website of The Apothecary Diaries announced that the second season of the anime will start airing on Jan 10, 2025, and will run for two consecutive cours.

Accompanying the announcement is a PV and key visual.

The season will be directed by Akinori Fudesaka, who had served as an assistant director for the first season of the anime. Norihiro Naganuma is in charge of series composition.

The Apothecary Diaries season 1 aired from Oct 22, 2023, to March 24, 2024.

The anime is produced by Toho Animation Studio and OLM. Norihiro Naganuma directed the first season and supervised the scripts, and Akinori Fudesaka served as assistant director. Yukiko Nakatani designed the characters, and Satoru Kōsaki, Kevin Penkin, and Alisa Okehazama composed the music.

The Apothecary Diaries is a Japanese light novel series written by Natsu Hyuga and illustrated by Touko Shino. It was serialized online since 2011 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shosetsuka ni Naro. In the following year, it was acquired by Shufunotomo, who initially published the series as a novel with a single volume in 2012, and then as a light novel series in 2014.

It has been adapted into two manga series in 2017, with one published by Square Enix in Monthly Big Gangan, and another one published by Shogakukan in Monthly Sunday Gene-X.

The light novel is licensed in North America by J-Novel Club, and the manga illustrated by Nekokurage is licensed by Square Enix.

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