In a world where strength is measured in both muscle and heart, Becoming The Pharmacist I’ve Always Wanted To Be: Raka’s Steel! follows Raka Grundane, a granny forged by hardship whose life of rejection, cruelty, and survival hardened her into legend. Known as the “Steel Granny,” she spent decades proving herself in a world that dismissed her intelligence, her dreams, and her worth. Beneath her iron exterior lived a fragile, impossible hope: to become a pharmacist and give healing where despair once ruled.

Her journey leads her from isolation into the uncaring streets of Tokyo, where loneliness threatens to crush her anew. There she meets Akio, a young pharmacist scarred by failure, who sees her not as an oddity but as a person worth believing in. Through persistence, empathy, and quiet courage, Raka learns that hope endures, and that it is never too late to claim the life one was meant to live.