Monthly Big Gangan magazine revealed on Wednesday that Itsuki Nanao and Nekokurage’s manga of Natsu Hyūga’s Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The Apothecary Diaries) novel series is going on a hiatus for “various reasons.”
Minoji Kurata launched the spinoff manga Kusuriya no Hitorigoto ~Mao Mao no Kōkyū Nazotoki Techō~ (The Apothecary Diaries ~The Palace Cloister Mystery-Solving Notebook of Mao Mao~) in Shogakukan’s Monthly Sunday GX magazine in August 2017.
The story follows Maomao, a pharmacist from the pleasure district who finds herself working as a servant in the palace of the emperor.
The manga will return in the magazine’s next issue.