Cheat Kusushi no Slow Life: Isekai ni Tsukurou Drugstore

A real cute anime about a pharmicist who gets isekai-ed into a fantasy world with magic logic. He uses his knowledge of medicines and modern products to create a thriving producs by making an analogue with magic and potions. He basically pretends like the ideas are all his own and makes a hefty profit by selling them at lower than people ask, but at a high volume and low production cost of gathering materials.

Overall it's a nice little anime to watch when you're in the mood to feel cozy. Highly reccomend watching this while doing something like being bundled up with a cup of ... coco over the winter.

Watched with Subtitles.
Source Material : Unread

Drug Store in Another World: The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist is a superficial isekai fantasy. It's a crude attempt at disguising an average fantasy under the isekai banner to garner the coalesced viewership.

The fleeting references of MC's previous world and life are dreary and unexciting. The plot does not have anything unique to offer, anything to provide this title a base of it's own. The main and recurring character's have very little to no development throughout the series, while supporting characters are better in this regard. One theme running across the whole twelve episodes is the change ... in mannerisms of various obnoxious characters thanks to the earthly wisdom of reincarnated MC, which feels overused after a couple of episodes. MC's interaction with an isekai world is also missing. Lot of unexplained material in the plot, which may leave the viewer hanging.
Animation style is not praise-worthy either. Each frame seems bland, lacks depth, and the colours don't contribute to bringing the scene and characters to life and light. The characters animations lack variability of expression, which further moves interest from the happenings of the plot.
Constraint for this does not seem to have been a budget issue, but more of a lack of interest of the creators.

Overall, it seems as though it's a filler title, or something targeted at the youngest of the shounen demographics. As, that alone can be the reason to compromise on every element which contributes and constitutes to an anime.

Does this anime deserve a try? Sure, if you are ~09~13 years of age, or if you are older but can watch with the perspective of your youngest self. The only other time I would recommend this anime to be given a chance is if you have nothing else to watch and won't mind a bleak fantasy to keep the much needed anime drug to live on. Not un-watchable, but last on rear end of the priority list.

Even after watching everything, I still don't understand the purpose of this anime; it's EMPTY, with no objective, no explanations, no context. We are vaguely told that Reiji, the main character, comes from another world, and we are supposedly watching an Isekai, but it doesn't matter at all. This information is presented without any significance, and the animation is flat, lifeless, as are the backgrounds and characters. Personally, I found the character design visually appalling.

The work focuses on Reiji's alchemist talents, so I would have found it relevant to show us in detail how he obtains the resources necessary for making his potions, demonstrate how ... he prepares the potions, the use of ingredients, the techniques he employs, etc. BUT NO, even the central element of the work is rushed. Instead of all that, we are given a short sequence lasting a few seconds EVERY TIME, which is recycled on each occasion.

Even the humor is quite mediocre, typical of a poorly executed Isekai. In this work, Noela fulfills this function perfectly with her long tail; brace yourself for the most cliché jokes possible!

The work is completely disorganized, with no objective, and the core of the work is poorly exploited. The animation and backgrounds are not terrible, they are not very pleasant to watch; I found them devoid of emotion.

Musically, the opening and ending are not incredible but not bad either; I found them decent. However, there are no notable OSTs.

I do not recommend this anime. I went through it all because I don't like starting a work and not finishing it. I prefer to have seen everything to form an opinion. Although very few moments may have mildly captivated me, in my view, aside from the jokes about Noela, this anime is primarily aimed at a child audience that is not looking for depth, doesn't care about details or logic, but is content to be captivated by flashy colors and cute characters.