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Volume 17 of the hit manga The Pharmacist's Notebook, arriving at Ki-oon on November 19, gets an elaborate collector's box at 34.90 euros (26.95 euros above standard), including the volume with an exclusive reversible alternate cover, an original shikishi illustration board, a finely decorated fan, a swinging standee, two teacups, a wooden incense holder, and a notebook themed around heroine Mao Mao. The series follows 17-year-old Mao Mao, trained young as an apothecary in the pleasure district before being kidnapped and sold as a servant in the emperor's inner palace, whose passion for poisons draws the attention of the calculating official Jinshi after she solves a string of suspicious infant deaths at court.