The Apothecary Diaries is a Japanese anime television series based on The Apothecary Diaries light novels. The first season premiered in October 2023 on Nippon TV and a second in January 2025.
A young maiden is kidnapped and sold into servitude at the emperor's palace, where she secretly employs her pharmacist skills with the help of the head eunuch to unravel medical mysteries in the inner court.
Victims[]
Season 1[]
Maomao[]
- Three of The Emperor's Children - Died of an unknown illness off-screen, mentioned.
- Lady Lihua's Son - Died of an unknown illness off-screen, mentioned.
- Unnamed Courtesan - Poisoned by white powder makeup off-screen, mentioned.
- Total - 5
Chilly Apothecary[]
- None
The Unsettling Matter of the Spirit[]
- None
The Threat[]
- Fish - Killed and cooked by unknown people off-screen, body shown.
- Crab - Killed and cooked by unknown people off-screen, body shown.
- Total - 2
Covert Operations[]
- None
The Garden Party[]
- None
Homecoming[]
- None
Wheat Stalks[]
- None
Suicide or Murder?[]
- Kounen - Died after his wine was spiked with a fatal amount of salt by an unknown person on the orders of Lady Suirei.
- Kounen's Wife - Died during an epidemic off-screen, mentioned.
- Kounen's Child - Died during an epidemic off-screen, mentioned.
- Unnamed Servant - Committed suicide by drowning herself with the aid of Fengming off-screen, body shown.
- Total - 4
Honey[]
- None
Reducing Two to One[]
- Unnamed Imperial Brother - Accidentally poisoned by Fengming using honey, shown in a flashback.
- Total - 1
The Eunuch and the Courtesan[]
- Fengming - Executed by unknown people off-screen, mentioned.
- Fish - Killed and cooked by unknown people off-screen, body shown.
- Unnamed Woman - Died in an unspecified manner off-screen, body shown.
- Total - 3
Serving in the Outer Court[]
- None
The New Pure Consort[]
- None
Raw Fish[]
- Unnamed Metalworker - Died in an unspecified manner off-screen, mentioned.
- Total - 1
Lead[]
- None
A Jaunt Around Town[]
- None
Lakan[]
- None
Chance or Something More[]
- None
Thornapple[]
- Unnamed Woman - Killed by an unknown person on the orders of Lady Suirei.
- Crab - Killed and cooked by unknown people off-screen, body shown.
- Fish - Killed and cooked by unknown people off-screen, body shown.
- Total - 3
How to Buy Out a Contract[]
- None
Blue Roses[]
- None
Balsam and Wood Sorrel[]
- None
Jinshi and Maomao[]
- None
Season 2[]
Maomao and Maomao[]
- None
Caravan[]
- None
Corpse Fungus[]
- Lady Jin - Beaten to death by Tao off-screen, body shown in a flashback.
- Tao - Poisoned by unknown ladies-in-waiting using a corpse fungus mushroom off-screen, body shown.
- Total - 2
Mirrors[]
- None
Moon Fairy[]
- None
The Crystal Pavilion, for the Third Time[]
- None
The Shrine of Choosing[]
- Two of The Former Emperor's Brothers - Died of an unspecified illness off-screen, mentioned.
- Total - 2
The Empress Dowager[]
- Unnamed Empress Regnant - Died in an unspecified manner off-screen, mentioned.
- Unnamed Former Emperor - Accidentally poisoned himself by using arsenic off-screen, body shown in a flashback.
- Total - 2
The Late Emperor[]
- None
A Ghost Story[]
- Squid - Killed and cooked by unknown people off-screen, body shown.
- Unnamed Woman - Died after eating moonlight mushrooms off-screen, body shown in a flashback.
- Unnamed Child - Died after eating moonlight mushrooms off-screen, body shown in a flashback.
- Unnamed Lady-In-Waiting - Died in an unspecified manner off-screen, mentioned.
- Total - 4
The Hunt[]
- Empress Wang Mu - Died in an unspecified manner off-screen, mentioned.
- Soft Shelled Turtle - Killed and cooked by unknown people off-screen, body shown.
- Total - 2
Ka Zuigetsu[]
- Seven Warthogs - Killed and cooked by unknown people off-screen, bodies shown.
- Total - 7
The Baths[]
- None
The Dancing Ghost[]
- Lishu's Mother - Died of an unknown illness off-screen, mentioned.
- Total - 1
Ice[]
- None
Festering Resentment[]
- None
The Fox Village[]
- None
Lantern Plant[]
- Five Unnamed Women - Died in an unspecified manner off-screen, graves shown.
- Total - 5
Festival[]
- 36 Grasshoppers - Killed and cooked by unknown people off-screen, bodies shown.
- Total - 36
The Stronghold[]
- Unnamed Man - Died in an unspecified manner off-screen, mentioned.
- Total - 1
Taibon[]
- Two Snakes - Butchered by Maomao with a hairpin off-screen, mentioned.
- Centipede - Butchered by Maomao with a hairpin off-screen, mentioned.
- Taihou - Died in an unspecified manner off-screen, mentioned.
- Total - 4
Royal Guard[]
- Two Unnamed Shenmei Henchmen - Shot by unknown members of the Forbidden Army using arrows.
- Unnamed Shenmei Henchman - Slashed by Basen with a sword.
- Unnamed Shenmei Henchman - Slashed by Lihaku with a sword.
- Unnamed Shenmei Henchman - Slashed by Lord Jinshi with a sword.
- Total - 5
The Shi Clan[]
- Prime Minister Shishou - Stabbed in the chest by unknown members of the Forbidden Army with swords.
- Shenmei - Shot in the face when her gun fired after it was sabotaged by Lady Loulan/Shisui.
- Lady Loulan/Shisui - Fell to her death after being shot by Basen with a pistol.
- Total - 3
The Beginning[]
- None
Season 3[]
- Coming Soon
Deaths[]
- Total - 93
- Season 1 - 19
- Season 2 - 74
- Season 3 - Coming Soon
Kill Counts[]
- Maomao - 3 (Alive)
- Shisui/Lady Suirei - 2 (Alive)
- Basen - 2 (Alive)
- Lord Jinshi - 1 (Alive)
- Lihaku - 1 (Alive)
- Lady Loulan/Shisui - 1 (Deceased)
- Fengming - 1 (Deceased)
- Tao - 1 (Deceased)