Review of Drug Store in Another World: The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist

“Drug Store in Another World” is what happens when You have a fever dream from watching too much isekai topped with a (un)healthy dose of “Humanity Has Declined”. The show doesn’t have an overarching plot, it’s episodic in nature, every episode is divided into 2-3 short stories in which our main hero pulls out a “medicine” (or a biological weapon in at least one case) out of his ass and solves someone's problem. That’s it. That’s the plot. Not one of them has any real sense of tension or drama. They are all structured the same and even rely heavily on the same type of humour:loud, obnoxious slapstick.

Normally I would go over the main cast but… I can’t here. All of them are one trick ponies that have one trait written as if it was personality.
Reiji - a plot device for creating “medicine”... seriously those are just magical macguffins that solve problems.
Mina - the most mature of the cast… still a moron in many ways.
Noëla - loud, energetic, grade A calamity in loli form.
That’s it. There is absolutely nothing to those characters. Mina has a semi-tragic backstory but it’s nothing special.

To be fair I have no idea on what the show wants to rely on, on its comedy, simple plots or the relationships between characters because all of them (ok… the relationships between the main cast a little less) are written so poorly that it makes “Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter '' look competent. I guess that is a sort of achievement. There is very, VERY little original thought in all 12 episodes. It’s like watching someone play an RPG and only do meaningless side quests. The comedy get stale very fast and the overall “problems” that Reiji solves are mostly boring. I would get it at least his method of solving them was entertaining, I don’t know… some kind of Rube Goldberg shenanigans. But no, he just pulls out a perfect “medicine” out of his ass every, damn time. After the fourth episode I wanted to quit but my OCD kept me going.
To be fair not everything is rock bottom. Some of the side characters and their interactions with Reiji are solid. Mediocre but solid.

Would I recommend this?
Sure, if I wanted to prank You after You pissed me off.