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Frontier Magic Pharmacist
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1232 Chapters (Completed)
3 LN Volumes (Ongoing)
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Weekly Rank: #660
Monthly Rank: #476
All Time Rank: #2098
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On 1316 Reading Lists
Monthly Rank: #869
All Time Rank: #7037

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God asked me to develop the magic medicine in my world, and when I was reincarnated, there were magic medicines with three sets of “lowest quality”, “completely disgusting”, and “no longer poison” waiting for me.

Even though he thought that he had to do something about the magic potion, the spirit of a child who loves making things that he originally possessed stood in the way of Julius!　

The story of Julius, who was born as the third son of the Margrave, gradually develops magic potions while making magic tools and stuffed animals.

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Henkyou no Mahou Kusushi ~Jiyuu Kimama na Isekai Mono Zukuri Nikki~
Henkyou no Mahou Yakushi
辺境の魔法薬師
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Recommendations
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05/19/25 The Kay’s rookie... c393
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05/09/25 The Kay’s rookie... c387
05/08/25 The Kay’s rookie... c386
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05/02/25 The Kay’s rookie... c384
05/02/25 The Kay’s rookie... c383
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04/27/25 The Kay’s rookie... c381
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Review
13 Reviews


bozakir
bozakir
May 05, 2023
Status: c42
I enjoyed this novel at the start. This dude got reincarnated into this world to improve potion making. There was something wrong with the potion making system of the world. So you have your hook, your mystery and your world building.

Then I guess author got sidetracked and completely forgot what this novel was supposed to be about. For the last couple of chapters, he is just making stuffed animals for various people. 90% of the story is now weird side mission stuff.

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He does improve his territory by suggesting a race track and related horse industry. He is cleaning up monsters because he is good magician. You have your relationship "funny" parts about his siblings and their visiting girlfriends. He makes card games children can enjoy. He makes magic tools for her sister.

And I am here like, sir you are a pharmacist.

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Songokusu
Songokusu
Jun 06, 2024
Status: c246
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This is a slice of life about a guy who really wants to make, and is told to make, the world's alchemy skills better Unfortunately he gets sidetracked by getting born in a noble's house and spends too much time trying to be filial or doing noble shite (as a TLDR summary)

It's an entertaining read to... more>> be fair. What loses a star for me is they spend so much time making a big deal out of his talent and saying it'll cause problems or some crap. Like he'd somehow become the heir of his family or some political opponent against his will? It's never fully explained what kind of problems him being so talented would cause but man is that horse beaten beyond death. I think his family believes a noble's job is to sit down at a table drinking tea and eating scones while wooing influential ladies. If not doing that you should stare blankly at a wall and watch paint dry cause our MC will get lectured if he does anything proactive.

Save someone? Lecture. Make a potion? Lecture. Make a magic item? Lecture. Be nice to someone and accidently woo them? Lecture. What are the contents of these lectures and why are they given? Who knows, it's just a running gag that's being overused <<less
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Wyntile
Wyntile
Dec 22, 2023
Status: c162
This novel is refreshing to read, a good break to the streak of some heavy noble family isekai stories I've been on the past few months.

Normally in the past I've ended up dropping other isekai novels that are dubbed as "slice-of-life" like flies. But surprisingly not with this one, as one can tell I'm fully caught up with this novel at the time of writing this review.

For in other slice-of-life light novels, while reading about each new slice-of-life short story moment that starts from a new chapter, I always felt... more>> as if the overall plot of the novel wasn't actually getting anywhere. Remaining stagnant. Not to mention that the various slice-of-life mini story moments weren't even connecting to each other in any way.

Frontier Magic Pharmacist on the other hand, doesn't follow the standard slice-of-life genre procedure (in which I know of). While at the start of a new chapter it features the Protagonist working on a new project of that chapter, time actually progresses in this novel at a steady pace. And the different "slice-of-life" story arcs actually connects to the overall plot and world of the novel. So albeit while the focus is on the Protagonist himself, there is some good world building in this story. I love how level headed the Protagonist is, how realistic the world in the story is.

So overall, for me this novel is a refreshing take on the slice-of-life isekai genre. Where due to how the mini story arcs connect to each other, I don't find myself getting bored of anything in this novel so far. The slice-of-life moments itself isn't grindy to read at all, so I end up reading every single word of this novel smoothly.

Like I'm sorry, novels like [Tondemo Skill de Isekai Hourou Meshi], and even [Tensei Reijou wa Shomin no Aji ni Uete Iru]. I can't stand having every other sentence of your chapters focus on either the entire cooking process or you detailing your mofumofu/treats eating life. Stop, you guys are too grindy! Anyways... <<less
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Fuxy
Fuxy
Apr 21, 2024
Status: c85
Disappointing... story was good for a while until we learned the MC is limp d without a bone in his body being push around by a bunch of 6 year olds.

This is basically a warning to everyone who lead their lives without a spine and what would happen to their life goals.

He is basically spending his life getting nowhere doing things he doesn't necessarily like just because he is told to... absolutely infuriating and I am very close to dropping this garbage.

I was expecting potion making and a well adjusted... more>> protagonist that is capable of saying no, not this. <<less
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kenjitamurako
kenjitamurak
Mar 30, 2024
Status: c607
Not a harem but that's not the reason I'm writing a below average review

So I want to start by pointing out this novel had a harem vibe for about 50 chapters and early in the series. It looks like the author intended to go that route and then backtracked. The first girl the novel introduces his age, Fabienne, is the one he chose and stuck with. Early in the novel he was being aggressively pursued by one of the princesses and another noble girl Caro. The princess is used in... more>> a political marriage with a foreign country and disappears entirely from the story and Caro hooks up with a friend he made later in the story. There's no reference of polygamy in the series at all. It's not something that seems to be practiced in that world and the MC never entertains the thought.

But that's not the reason for the low rating. It is because to be honest I was distracted by the "Action" and "Adventure" tags on this series thinking even if there are slice of life elements it wouldn't be too slow. I was very mistaken. This story is 0.1% action and 0.01% adventure and slice of life is the other 98%.

Even the romance is slice of life. The relationship build up with his fiancee is so slow that hundreds of chapters into their engagement the most you see are still "hold hand and blush" scenes.

Also, someone added the "death of a loved one" tag but that is also mistaken. Neither the main character or the author loved his grandmother or grandfather. The author and the MC's only relationship with the woman is that she serves as a plot device for his inheritance. In his case he inherits an excuse that he uses to try and poorly blame his otherworld cheat on the grandmother.

"I inherited a book from my grandmother that only I'm allowed to read because potion makers are incredibly secretive and it has all of these game cheats in it that for some reason the old woman never utilized in the slightest even though they would have saved her and her husbands life" <<less
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Snooty
Snooty
Jan 22, 2024
Status: c178
This is a weird one to rate. It's a decent and comfy slice of life, but it's also got a lot of glaring issues. The issues don't exactly completely ruin the story but it does make you scratch your head when you think about it later.

Rant/Issues

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The MC's family's attitude towards him is really weird. His eldest brother (a playboy) has the nerve to tell the MC to stop causing so much "trouble" (almost every chapter). While the MC is just teaching people how to brew potions... you know, to save lives. I don't know if it's a failed attempt at comedy, or a way to keep the MC grounded. But it just doesn't work for me when the MC is morally a hundred times better than the people scolding him.

Another really weird thing is that there was one girl who liked the MC at the beginning. They had good chemistry, with her being really sweet and the MC giving her presents and such. She eventually gets forced into getting a fiancé 100 chapters in and the MC straight up ghosts her (like she's never mentioned again after ch 170?-> 905 somebody correct me if I'm wrong). This was really off-putting because they were good friends without any romantic implications and he was really concerned about her well-being. But the moment she got a fiancé? Completely cut out of his life. Like the MC didn't feel sad in the slightest... It was more of a "Oh I can't marry her? ok Bye."

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I'll be honest, the vibes of this story is just very inconsistent. On one hand, the MC is breaking a lot of centuries old traditions to revolutionize the potions and magical tools industry. On the other hand, he goes "oh noo, I have to strictly follow these traditions of nobles" when it comes to relationships/marriage. Even his own family didn't really care that much about them. He's randomly nice to some people without expectation (but of course they end up paying him back tenfold), and he's weirdly cold and calculating towards people that should be his friends. <<less
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snevos
snevos
Oct 21, 2024
Status: c286
Ok, I'm dropping it. I don't know what's going on with the author and there's more enjoyable things to read.

The story pacing isn't good, with short chapters and feels like it takes ages to make any progress on the story. But that's not what I think is the worst part. The MC is. The best way to describe him is '10yo spoiled brat with memories of technologies of our world'. Forget he being someone that reincarnated and being a pharmacist, he just spends most the time making anything he thinks... more>> of (usually magic-tools) and being selfish, dropping anything he finds to be troublesome onto his family or other people close to him, and wonder why is treated as a nuisance or troublemaker.

Can't recommend to anyone. Well, maybe to people like the MC so they realize how bad their behavior is.

Spoiler

As other people said, at first the novel is quite enjoyable. MC reincarnates in another word and it's goal is to become a pharmacist. He has the ability and, being the son of a noble, also has fund to do many things. As the story progresses he makes many kinds of potions that help. He also makes a few magic tools that either helps with things related to potion-making (like a sprinkler or improve the greenhouse) or that improves the lifestyle (such as a shower or heater).

Sure he end's up making things like stuffed animals for every girl that shows up, but that's not the worst part, not even the fact that he spends way more time making magic-tools than potions. The worst part is his behavior.

He's always doing things that he wants to do but unwilling to take responsibility for the outcome. He'll make anything that pops in his head, be it a game, toy, potion, magic-tool or magic. BUT will always throw the responsibility on others. The potions? Oh, just found on his grandma's book. Toys and magic-tools? His parent or his brothers will deal with the troublesome part of selling, licensing and anything else.

And the painful part is that he KNOWS he's being a troublemaker for everyone around him, but refuses to tone down a bit. And I just had enough at chap 286. At chapter 273 he thinks of making a pen because using a quill is hard and, although fountain pen exists, those aren't of good quality. But making a fountain pen would be too much and he'd be taking away the work of craftsmen, so he decides on making a glass pen. Then at chap 286 he just makes a fountain pen out of nowhere, just cuz he can and is bored or whatever. Even his sister-in-law that adores him is starting to show signs of thinking he's trouble.

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Dragomon2
Dragomon2
Apr 06, 2024
Status: c220
This novel is interesting. It takes Slice of Life and turns it into a dabble of potions, engineer, fighting, and a few others. The MC geta a pet dragon, he constantly develop new things like a hair dryer that turns into an A/C, the goddess asks him to create potions from the game to revitalize the world, etc etc. Seeing some of the reviews, I would say that it felt like they were blaming random things to be honest. The MC deflecting his intelligence to his grandma is kinda annoying... more>> but let's be real. That versus "oh yea im a reincarnated person." How is a 8 yr old child going to explain that he developed ground breaking 'ancient' technology one after another. And the grandma situation is only for potions, he has to make excuses for others.

Translation quality:

Well... I can assure you it is not MTL. However, I wish the TL would try to get a volunteer to help with PR at least. There are too many glaring mistakes that turn it into "slightly better than MTL." <<less
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wdewolde
wdewolde
Jan 02, 2024
Status: c168
It starts off as a good isekai story where the main character is obsessed with potion making and all his other skills and ideas are basically there just to facilitate his desire to make potions.

The MC is powerful to the standards of the world as he was brought over with the stats and abilities of his game characters but while there are a couple of fights and the occasional training chapters they are not really focused on as all he cares about is production skills.

There are a couple of things... more>> that are slightly annoying but not necessarily bad at least not yet. Despite being from modern day Earth he very much has they thought process of an aristocrat from that world where he's very happy for friends and family relationship to be all politically motivated and throws away relationships when they are no longer convenient. And then there is a sort of weird thing where despite him being the person who has revitalized their Territory and helped dealt with major problems, his family seems to treat him like a troublemaker.

Most of the more negative aspects have popped up in the lastest story arc so hopefully it gets brought back a bit and it continues to be a fun isekai <<less
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88898
88898
Nov 25, 2023
Status: c142
A good slice of life plus isekai one can read. The much debated title of the novel can be deceiving since at the beginning of the novel, the protagonist was a crafter that focus on magic medicine, so he can do crafting of all sorts, but his passion lies in magic medicine.

even in game, game that you need to build more tool or even build your own workshop even you are a job that shouldn’t able to are not that rare.

for the story, the protagonist got typical Japanese protag behavior... more>> but with focus type mix in. He’s a pushover by female but he smart enough to divert them sometime, since he was a bit aged before the transfer. It doesn’t come out like it, since all the monologue look like he said “it can’t be help” but in reality, he just think it isn’t that a hassle, but he just want to use his time for something else. If the writing came out like everything he did calculated, he will turn into another type of character, so nothing wrong with currying favors with a plushies.

for the grandparents issue, I think the author write them in case of “they’re good grandparents, but I rarely seen them, so I feel kind of distant.” Story said like they had annex in the house where grandparents spend their time in, but most of the time they show themselves is just the dinner. Protagonist do interact with grandma in the beginning and since he found the their principal are different, he stay away from her. He understands why she do it, but he didn’t approved it. So when they die in dubious manner, the protag focus on the conspiracy more than the facts they die. It do seem cold he didn’t react much, but they’re a characters the author write in way that they die in mysterious way, just another pointers to another quest, so a deduct point from author.

the translation need a bit of polish, but readable 80% most of the time. Still the case of using “he” and “I” swapped, or the wrong gender usage, but I have seen worse. Keep up the good work. <<less
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Neomenia
Neomenia
Nov 08, 2023
Status: c72
Good translation

Now for the story its almost a relax slow pace slice of life where the MC invent some stuff that help his family especially his little sister and then spread it to other territory

Now the rant

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the character seems to be heartless at a time, for example in the story his grandparent got poisoned and died he didnt show any sadness or shock, I understand if the grandparent are evil, but they are nice, they didnt show up much in the story but it established they care about the family, the grandma even left some stuff for the MC and the moment MC got the inheritance on the same day he found out his grandparent died all he care is the knowledge he's been passed by and as I quote "feeling excited", only at the end of the chapter he suddenly said yeah I guess I am sad but didnt show any remorse at all.

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at the grandparent funeral they act nonchalant, heck I ve seen someone pet hamster funeral that have more emotion than the one describe here, So yeah it just a bit weird because they didnt established the MC as heartless but the story just tried to make the grandparent death just like a passing wind

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Gwendall
Gwendall
Feb 14, 2025
Status: c344
It’s not a bad series by any stretch. Fluffy slice of lifey. But as another reviewer said the author forgets things and loses their place in what should be going on. He has forgotten his mission multiple times and whole plot threads will hit dead ends for hundreds of chapters (not joking here) with only lip service paid when they do get back to it. I am not sure if I’m enjoying it or just hanging onto sunk cost and just doubling down.
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Thraximus
Thraximus
Apr 07, 2024
Status: --
I'm writing this review, half in part due to this novel, but half because it connects to the trend in novelupdates as a whole.

Like most novels that are being translated right now, its an obvious MTL, in all fairness, its one of the better ones, at least some effort was put into it, but there are constant telltale signs of MTL multiple times a chapter. And for me it's really starting to take the joy out of reading. I mean translators, at least find someone who will go through your... more>> MTL slop and make it actually read normally. 90% of the mistakes can be solved by 1 semi competent proofreader. There are places where text is repeated (something AI's do sometimes), sometimes it doesnt understand who is speaking so it f*cks up the genders etc. Everything that can be fixed by someone paying attention.

The story itself, while not bad is kind of bland, it doesn't really incite me to read more, which in combination with the MTL is gonna make me drop it. If you don't mind the MTL stuff its a decent enough isekai story, though with a lot of unimportant fluff happening between anything important. <<less
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