Pharmacy Diary: Who are the consecutive?

This article contains spoilers for Pharmacy The diaries – Most events from season 1, but some content already broadcast in season 2 is also mentioned.

Summary

  • The pharmacy diaries are loosely based on the Tang and Ming Dynasties in a fictional China.

  • The inner palace in the series reflects the imperial Chinese harem system with high, intermediate and low-ranked consorts.

  • The highly ranked consecutive varieties have unique titles, colors and live in large pavilions in the inner palace.

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Pharmacy The diariesOne of the successful anime of winter 2025 at Crunchyroll, is located in a fictional China, loosely based on both Tang (618-907) and Ming (1368-1644) dynasties, without intention to be 100% historical precisely there is a section there Maomao makes chocolate, but cocoa was not introduced to China until centuries after these dynasties.

A key element presented in Pharmacy The diaries is the inner palace, where most of the story takes place. The author Natsu Hyuga created his own version of the imperial Chinese harem system. Each Chinese dynasty had its own rules on the composition of the harem – the function of the harem is mostly the same: giving the emperor a large number of women (consecutive varieties or concubins) to produce heirs.

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The internal palace (or internal court) is where these concepts live. They must also be loyal to the emperor, and most of them are daughters to influential people in court – that's how politics works. Consorts are also expected to know how to write and read, which further reduces the number of potential consorts to a small group of elite women, as illiterate is the norm too common.

In the series they are divided according to their rank- it is high, medium and low ranked consecutive varieties.

The four highly ranked consecutive

Highly ranked consecutive varieties have unique titles and colors that identify their statusas follows:

  • Precious Consort: Red

  • Wise Consort: Blue

  • Pure consort: Black

  • Graceful Consort: White

They also have more ladies in waiting compared to the other consecutive varieties, including a poison tester. The emperor can only choose four consorts that highly ranked. Each of these consecutive varieties will have a different title and lives in one of the four large pavilions built in the inner palace.

There is no predetermined hierarchy between them. The perceived hierarchy varies depending on how often the emperor “visits” each of them at night, and also depending on their children's gender (male children are preferred in general).

As history develops there will be changes in the inner palace, so we will list the current highly ranked consecutive varieties under Apothecary Diaries Season 2.

The precious consortic

Gyokuyou Apothecary

That noble consort (honored consort in Square Enix's translation) lives in Jade pavilion – the current consortium is Gyokuyou. She is the most familiar consort to the public, as Maomao spends a lot of time working for her as a math tester.

She is presented as mild and careful. At the beginning of the story, she is perceived as the emperor's favorite consort and has given birth to Princess Lingli. The color of the valuable consort is red.

The wise consortic

Lihua apothecary-1

The wise consortic (worthy consort in Square Enix's translation) lives in Crystal pavilion – Lady Lihua currently have this position. While she may see strict from the outside, she actually cares for those around her.

For starters, she seems to have a nag with Gyokuyou – and this conflict is expanded to Maomao. But later, especially after Maomao helps her in season 1, she shows affection to the protagonist. Unfortunately, it cannot be said that the same can be said about her maid, which is often accidentally terrified by Maomao.

The pure consortic

The loulan is the current pure consort, which lives in Grenade pavilion. Previously, AH-duo held this position Prime Minister Shishou forced her out of it in favor of her own daughter.

The loulan is introduced as someone distant from those around her, but she has a secret. Because of her father, she has an influential position in the internal court, but does not seem to care about politics at all.

The virtuous consortic

lishu pharmacist

Lishu is currently the virtuous consort and lives in Diamond pavilion. She is the youngest consort, only 14 years old when she debuts in season 1 (but she married the emperor when she was 9). Since she is still a child, her ladies can easily manipulate her.

She is considered to be the least favorite of the high consecutive varieties, because the emperor hardly visits her, compared to the others (he only chats with her) – and she generally lacks power and influence.

Lishu is also very fond of Jinshi, and she was also linked to AH-duo, who has protected her (along with the current emperor) from the former emperor and from her own father, who only sees her as a doll to play politics with.

Intermediate and low-ranked consecutive

Fuyou pharmacist

The medium -sized consecutive varieties do not live in a pavilion, but they get a whole building for themselves, while the low -ranking is only given personal rooms. Low -ranked consecutive varieties can be dismissed, depending on their family status, when they cannot attract the emperor's interest.

The lowering a consort is ranked, the fewer maid assigned to themWith low ranked who only have two ladies waiting for their service.

Since the story focuses on politics mostly when it comes to highly ranked consecutive varieties, these consecutive varieties are not often mentioned. So far, Anime has introduced only two medium -sized consorts: Fuyou (Season 1 Section 3), which is now a previous consort, and the already deceased Jin (Season 2 section 3). Another character that will not yet be introduced in Season 2 will be a medium -sized consort later.

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Pharmacy The diaries

Pharmacy The diaries


Release date

October 22, 2023

Board members

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