Did some spring cleaning. No more password shenanigans.

Now only arc 12+ left on the site.

A bit delayed since LN13 has been out for a while now, but arc 11 is now hidden behind a password. As usual, the password is in the same place as the arc 10 password.

I should also mention that 11.10 has the most views out of all the chapters on this blog. As of today, it has 51k views, when the other chapters get an average of 15k views… is it the power of frog?

Finally got around to cleaning up the site, so arc 11 has been taken down like I was supposed to ages ago lol (I’ll keep my portion of arc 10 up since Duchess’ chapters are still up)

LN12 is out in English, so I did my thing.

What’s the password? Find it in the discord server.

As is tradition when I take down chapters, the locked chapters have undergone a minor edit, polish, or rewrite depending on how much the original version bothered me. Chapters with major changes have an edited date on the top of the page. (I haven’t gone through all the chapters yet.)

I figured I should clarify this. The menu needs updating. The Kusuriya webnovel translation has not been dropped. Well, I did drop it three years ago (hence the dropped tag), and have only just resumed mid-September this year, so it hasn’t been long. I’ll get around to editing that drop down menu one of these days.

Anyway, arc 11 is finished, and I’m nearly done with arc 12. Arc 13 does not exist yet. Done with arc 12 as well, working on arc 13 now.

If you want notifications for whenever I upload a new chapter, come join us on the discord server. The link can be found a few posts below this one–to clarify, it’s not the Reddit one. Just note that there will be open spoilers for the latest chapter of the BG manga at least for the entire server (and for their respective channels, open spoilers for the latest LN volume/WN chapter, etc), so anime-only people, beware. Although, I doubt it’d be much of an issue if you guys are here for the webnovel anyway.

Why are the new chapters not posted on Novelupdates? Arc 10 isn’t finished yet, and I’d rather not deal with scrapers and stuff like I did in the past.

Also, arcs 1 to 8 have been taken down from creative novels since the LN equivalents have been published. Arc 9 is the last one left on that site, and will be nuked the moment LN11 is released.

For people wondering about arc 10, you can find it here. Duchess is translating that one. It’s not finished yet. She’s up to chapter 27 out of 35, but will be resuming soon enough. (I’m not counting the MTL’d chapters that had somehow found its way onto Novelupdates.)

People who are directly jumping in from the latest published LN translation (LN9), you can continue from arc 9, which is equivalent to LN10 and LN11. Arc 10 is LN12, Arc 11 is LN13, and Arc 12 is LN14. There will be some differences, of course–not as drastic as the earlier arcs, but there is notably less romance in the WN. LN scenes tend to be more fleshed out as well. (Also, I don’t have anyone editing my translations, so I apologise if it’s not as polished as the officials are.)

Hopefully, this clears up most of the questions people have been asking.

Edit: Wow, it’s been a while since I last made a post on this site.

Edit 2: I eat my words. Arc 13 begins.

Go and get it!

(also, a little notice that arc 2 has been nuked from creative novels, in case people are wondering why it’s gone :’D)

Way sooner than expected! And this should be roughly equivalent to the latter half of arc 9 of the webnovel version 🙂

There’s also a limited edition that comes bundled with another drama CD.
It comes with three tracks:

1) Jade Palace Girls Talk

Maomao is having afternoon tea with Jade Palace attendants Infa, Gui’en and Airan. Gui’en sparks a girls talk session by asking, “Was there anyone good at the garden party?”

2/3) The Mystery of the Sake Bottle

Maomao had been dismissed from being a palace lady at the inner palace and is now employed as Jinshi’s personal attendant. She heads to the pleasure district with Jinshi and Gaoshun in tow, going after the mystery of the broken sake bottle that had been left behind by an enigmatic person at the side of a well at dawn. And there, she comes across…?!

Cast:

Maomao: Yuuki Aoi
Jinshi: Takahiro Sakurai
Gaoshun: Tsuda Kenjirou
Rihaku: Takumi Yasuaki
Rahan: Kobayashi Chiaki
Quack Doctor: Ogata Mitsuru
Infa: Kamiyou Saeko
Gui’en: Moriya Kyouka
Airan: Kawano Mari
Suiren/Honnyan: Nitta Kyousuke
Owner of Kujaku Brothel: Nakano Taisuke
A kamuro: Tadano Akari

On a side note, yes, the webnovel has resumed. There are currently four chapters out as of today. It looks like we’ll be looking into who will be succeeding as the next leader of the western capital. Will it be Gyoku’ou’s second son or his third son? Shall we cast lots? What is the prodigal first son up to, anyways?

The continuation of the translation has been picked up by Duchess. You can find it here: https://knhtranslations.wordpress.com/ or on the kusuriya discord server.

…There’s actually a lot of things happening on discord, so do come visit when you can!

Also, if you’re wondering what I’m up to, I’m part of the scanlation team that working on the GX version of the manga. I’m still around, for better or worse hahahahaha

You can find it in pretty much at any place that sells ebooks of English translated light novels 😀

Technically it’s another eight hours or so from now due to timezone differences, but I’ve no time to do all this when it is actually released in the US, so now’s the time, I guess.

Well, this is it, guys.

The light novel version of Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (Apothecary diaries) has been licensed by J-novel Club, and so, with the release of the first volume today (February 14th 2021), the first volume/arc of this translation will be taken down today per J-novel club’s request.

It feels a bit bittersweet having worked on this project for so long, but it is what it is. The next volume will be taken down when the next official LN is published.  

Thanks for reading!

So, the author just revealed on twitter. Released end of January next year.

Such a beautiful cover. Maomao looks so cool (｡◕ˇдˇ​◕｡)/

I can’t wait.