The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 Releases Creditless Opening Ahead of Today’s Premiere

The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 has released its creditless opening sequence featuring Yorushika’s new song “Beyond the Clouds, Only Me Downwind” (Kumo wo Nuke Kazashimo e Watashi Dake). The anime will lead up to the upcoming movie, which will premiere in Japan on December 11 with an original story by the author Natsu Hyuuga. The second cour of Season 3 is scheduled for April 2027.

Studio OLM is back to handle the animation production, while TOHO animation STUDIO is notably absent from the staff credits list. The new song was written, composed and arranged by n-buna. The opening animation was storyboarded and directed by Ayaka Nakata, with Yukiko Nakatani serving as chief animation director and Kaori Saito of Wish credited as animation director.

You can watch the new opening below.

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The main staff was also previously revealed and includes:

• Director: Akinori Fudesaka
• Assistant Director: Wataru Nakagawa
• Series Composition: Norihiro Naganuma
• Scripts: Yuko Kakihara, Misuzu Chiba, Hitomi Ogawa
• Character Design: Yukiko Nakatani
• Art Director: Katsumi Takao
• Color Design: Misato Aida, Nanako Okazaki
• CGI Director: Tamotsu Nagai
• Director of Photography: Mayo Suzuki
• Editing: Daisuke Imai
• Sound Director: Shoji Hata
• Music: Satoru Kosaki, Kevin Penkin, Arisa Okehazama
• Animation Production: OLM

You can also see the key visual:

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Natsu Hyuga writes the The Apothecary Diaries light novel, with illustrations by Toko Shino. The series is serialized by Shunfunotomo. The series has 2 manga adaptations, one written by Itsuki Nanao and illustrated by Nekokurage, and one written and illustrated by Minoji Kurata.

J-Novel Club is publishing the novel in English, while Squre Enix is publishing the manga. The story follows Maomao, a young apothecary who ends up getting sold to the emperor’s palace as a lowly servant. She’s not the type of character who can just stay obedient, so she ends up helping Jinshi, the handsome official at the palace.

The franchise recently also announced its first live-action series adaptation, as well as the first console game. The Failure at God School, a manga with story written by Natsu Hyuga, also recently announced an anime adaptation.

Source: TOHO Animation Official YouTube
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