The Apothecary Diaries season 3 aired on NTV on Friday, October 16 at 11 p.m. and pulled a 3.6% rating in Japan's Kanto region that week, according to Video Research data. The series landed in the top ten anime broadcasts for October 12–18, ahead of other recent releases.

Dragon Ball Super: Beerus also charted during the same period, airing on Fuji TV on Sunday, October 18 at 11:15 p.m. and earning a 2.8% rating.

The rankings measure the percentage of surveyed households in the Kanto region watching each program and do not include recordings watched later. Long-running series like Sazae-san (8.2%), Detective Conan (6.2%), and Chibi Maruko-chan (5.5%) led the weekly rankings.