The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 Episode 2 Sets Oct. 9 Debut
The season's second episode shifts the camera from the court to a market stall, and the garment's legend is the hook the official synopsis gives for the next round of mysteries.
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The Apothecary Diaries Season 3 Episode 2, titled "The Fire-Rat Cloak," airs Oct. 9. Maomao visits a main street market to buy a padded cotton garment for Chou-u, who notices a white robe with vine-like embroidery on its sleeves. The shopkeeper calls it the "Robe of the Fire Rat" and tells the legend of a celestial maiden who vanished into a lake. Crunchyroll streams the episode at 8 a.m. PT; Netflix also carries the season.
The episode lands Oct. 9, 2026, airing at 11:00 p.m. JST in Japan on Nippon TV's Friday Anime Night block. Crunchyroll streams it at 8 a.m. PT across North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, the CIS, and the Indian Subcontinent, and Netflix also carries the season. Toho Animation Studio and OLM produce, with Akinori Fudesaka directing and Aoi Yuki and Takeo Otsuka leading the cast as Maomao and Jinshi.
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