The Apothecary Diaries Season 2's 'Final' Trailer Unveils Dai Hirai's Ending Song
TOHO animation started streaming the "final" trailer for the second anime season based on Natsu Hyūga and Touko Shino's The Apothecary Diaries (Kusuriya no Hitorigoto) light novel series on Sunday. The trailer announces and previews the new ending theme song "Shiawase no Recipe" (The Recipe for Happiness) by singer-songwriter Dai Hirai. The season will premiere on January 10 at 11:00 p.m. JST (9:00 a.m. EST) on Nippon TV's FRIDAY ANIME NIGHT programming block, and will air for two consecutive cours (quarters of a year). Crunchyroll will stream the second season.J-Novel Club publishes the novel series digitally, and it describes the story:The first season premiered in October 2023 with the first three episodes, and aired for two cours (quarters of a year). Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan and is also streaming an English dub.The second cours (quarter of a year) of the first season debuted on January 6. Norihiro Naganuma (The Ancient Magus' Bride season 1) directed the first season at TOHO animation and OLM, and Naganuma also supervised the scripts. Akinori Fudesaka was the assistant director. Yukiko Nakatani (Go! Princess Precure, Tropical-Rouge! Precure) designed the characters. Shōji Hata was the sound director. Satoru Kousaki (Vivy -Fluorite Eye's Song-), Kevin Penkin (Made in Abyss), and Arisa Okehazama (ONIMAI: I'm Now Your Sister!) all composed music for the anime. Hyūga began serializing the story on the "Shōsetsuka ni Narō" (Let's Become Novelists) website in October 2011. Shufunotomo began publishing the novels in print volume with illustrations by Shino in August 2014. Nekokurage launched an ongoing manga adaptation in Square Enix's Monthly Big Gangan magazine in May 2017. Square Enix Manga & Books is releasing the manga adaptation in English. The company also started publishing the novels in print, with the first volume released on May 14, and the fourth volume will release on February 4.Source: Comic Natalie
