{"id":138455,"date":"2025-10-22T14:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138455\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:43:22","slug":"the-apothecary-diaries-anime-confirms-season-3-original-film-in-2026-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/138455\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apothecary Diaries Anime Confirms Season 3, Original Film in 2026 – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Season 3’s 1st part starts in October 2026, 2nd part in April 2027, with anime film in December 2026<\/p>\n

TOHO animation<\/a> started streaming a “2nd Anniversary Commemorative Trailer” for The Apothecary Diaries<\/a> anime with subtitles in English, German, Spanish (Latin America), French, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) on Wednesday. The video announces that a third television anime season will premiere in October 2026 for its first cours<\/a> (quarter of a year), and its second cours will premiere in April 2027. The video also announced that an anime film will open in December 2026. The film will feature a brand-new story by the original novel series’ author Natsu Hy\u016bga<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"maomao\"Image via The Apothecary Diaries anime’s website<\/a><\/p>\n

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Additionally, The Apothecary Diaries television anime’s exhibition will travel throughout Asia, starting with Hong Kong this November. It will also go to mainland China, Taipei, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, and other areas.<\/p>\n

\"TheImage via The Apothecary Diaries anime’s X\/Twitter account<\/a><\/p>\n

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The anime’s first season premiered in October 2023 with the first three episodes, and aired for two cours (quarters of a year). Crunchyroll<\/a> streamed<\/a>\u00a0the anime as it aired in Japan and is also streaming an English\u00a0dub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second anime season premiered on January 10 on\u00a0Nippon TV<\/a>‘s FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT programming block, and aired for two consecutive cours\u00a0until July 4.\u00a0Crunchyroll\u00a0streamed<\/a>\u00a0the second season as it aired, and it is also\u00a0streaming<\/a>\u00a0an English dub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

J-Novel Club<\/a> publishes the novel series digitally, and it describes the story:<\/p>\n

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\u2014until she was kidnapped and sold into service there.<\/p>\n

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 fa\u00e7ade 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!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hy\u016bga began\u00a0serializing<\/a>\u00a0the story on the “Sh\u014dsetsuka ni Nar\u014d” (Let’s Become Novelists) website in October 2011.\u00a0Shufunotomo<\/a> began publishing the novels in print volume with illustrations by Shino in August 2014. Nekokurage<\/a> launched<\/a>\u00a0an ongoing manga adaptation in\u00a0Square Enix<\/a>‘s Monthly Big Gangan<\/a>\u00a0magazine in May 2017.\u00a0Square Enix Manga & Books is releasing<\/a>\u00a0the manga adaptation in English. The company is also\u00a0publishing<\/a>\u00a0the novels in print.<\/p>\n

Sources: TOHO animation’s YouTube<\/a> channel<\/a>, Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Season 3’s 1st part starts in October 2026, 2nd part in April 2027, with anime film in December…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-138455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}