{"id":594266,"date":"2026-08-15T17:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594266\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:46:09","slug":"the-apothecary-diaries-season-3s-trailer-unveils-october-2-debut-more-cast-opening-song-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/594266\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apothecary Diaries Season 3’s Trailer Unveils October 2 Debut, More Cast, Opening Song – News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The staff for the anime based<\/a> on Natsu Hy\u016bga<\/a> and Touko Shino<\/a>‘s The Apothecary Diaries<\/a> (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto<\/a>) light novel series revealed during a special event for the series on Saturday the October 2 premiere for the anime’s third season<\/a>, a new trailer, a new key visual, a new cast member, character visuals, and the opening theme song.<\/p>\n

The trailer previews the opening “Kumo o Nukekazashimo e Watashidake” (I Am Alone, Breaking Through the Clouds Downwind) by yorushika<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Reina Ueda<\/a> plays Bai Niangniang, a pale and mysterious nymph.\n<\/p>\n

\"CharacterImage via Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

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\nThe same event also revealed character visuals for the cast of the upcoming\u00a0Kusuriya no Hitorigoto: B\u043e\u0304hi no Hih\u043e\u0304<\/a> (The Apothecary Diaries: The Deceased Empress’ Treasure)\u00a0film<\/a>, including the original characters.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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The third season will air on October 2 at 11:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. EDT) in the “Friday Anime Night” programming block on NTV and 29 affiliated channels for its first cours<\/a>\u00a0(quarter of a year), and its second cours will premiere in April 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nThe film will open<\/a> in theaters on December 11 and feature a\u00a0brand-new story by the original novel series’ author Natsu Hy\u016bga.<\/p>\n

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> the anime as it aired in Japan and is also streaming an English dub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The second anime season premiered in January 2025 on Nippon TV<\/a>‘s FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT programming block, and aired for two consecutive cours. Crunchyroll is streaming<\/a> the second season, and it is also streaming<\/a> an English dub<\/a>.<\/p>\n

J-Novel Club<\/a> publishes<\/a> 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

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

Sources:\u00a0The Apothecary Diaries anime’s website<\/a>,\u00a0Comic Natalie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The staff for the anime based on Natsu Hy\u016bga and Touko Shino‘s The Apothecary Diaries (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-594266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}