Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi (Redo of Healer)

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English: Redo of Healer

Synonyms: Kaiyari

Japanese: 回復術士のやり直し

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 13, 2021 to Mar 31, 2021

Premiered: Winter 2021

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 23:30 (JST)

Producers: Lantis, AT-X, Glovision, Docomo Anime Store, Kadokawa Media House, Kadokawa, Bandai Namco Arts

Licensors: Sentai Filmworks

Studios: TNK

Source: Light novel

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Ecchi

Theme: Harem

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: R+ - Mild Nudity

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Score: 6.31¹ (scored by 204,913 users)

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Ranked: #7161²

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Popularity: #402

Members: 404,526

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When Keyaru acquired his powers as a Hero who specialized in healing all injuries regardless of severity, it seemed that he would walk the path to a great future. But what awaited him instead was great agony; he was subjected to years of seemingly endless hellish torture and abuse. Keyaru's healing skills allowed him to secretly collect the memories and abilities of those he treated, gradually making him stronger than anyone else. But by the time he reached his full potential, it was far too late—he had already lost everything.

Determined to put his life back on track, Keyaru decided to unleash a powerful healing spell that rewound the entire world back to the time before he began to suffer his horrible fate. Equipped with the anguish of his past, he vows to redo everything in order to fulfill a new purpose—to exact revenge upon those who have wronged him.

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Adaptation:

Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi: Sokushi Mahou to Skill Copy no Chouetsu Heal

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Characters & Voice Actors

Keyaru

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Hozumi, Yuya
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Setsuna

Main

Ishigami, Shizuka
Japanese

Jioral, Flare Arlgrande

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Shibuya, Ayano
Japanese

Reese, Eve

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Takamori, Natsumi
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Crylet, Kureha

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Aikawa, Natsuki
Japanese

Jioral, Norn Clatalissa

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Tsuda, Minami
Japanese

Bullet

Supporting

Inada, Tetsu
Japanese

Blade

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Asaoka, Takuya

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Tsuchiya, Masaki

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Fudeyasu, Kazuyuki

Script, Series Composition

Kuribayashi, Minami

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Opening Theme

"Zankoku na Yume to Nemure (残酷な夢と眠れ)" by Minami Kuribayashi

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Ending Theme

"Yume de Sekai wo Kaeru nara (夢で世界を変えるなら")" by ARCANA PROJECT

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Mar 31, 2021

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 10

Marinate1016 (All reviews)

1671 people found this review helpful

Finally, after all these years, the definitive magnum opus of the Japanese anime industry is here. Eva who? Shingeki no what? Redo of healer is unironically one of the best shows in recent memory. It’s not for everyone, in fact it’s probably not for most people. That’s fine. It was for me.

“You only like Redo because of how edgy it is” Well, you’re not wrong. What makes Kayari so enjoyable is not its story, which is actually pretty good in its own right, but its unique take on the dark fantasy general and how it takes traditional preconceptions of what a MC has to be, and turns them on their head. We have all the same traditional set ups that we’re accustomed to with this genre. JRPG inspired world, OP MC surrounded by a harem of girls, setting out on a quest, etc, ect. Where the series sets itself apart from others is the MCs approach to revenge and life.

In traditional series like this, you have a MC who is afraid of hurting people, afraid of women and just a beta male in general. What I love about Keyaru is the fact that he just doesn’t give a fuck. He’s not afraid to tear people apart, literally and figuratively, and he reacts how a normal person in his situation would. I love that. What people often forget about when they write negative reviews and talk about the MCs use of rape as a weapon, is the emotional, physical and psychological abuse that he endured at the hands of the people he gets revenge on. Yes, rape is horrible, but in the context of Kayari it is totally understandable from a literary and logical standpoint why its used in the story.

One negative thing about the anime, is the fact that Keyaru’s desire to not hurt anyone who hasn’t hurt him isn’t emphasised. I think that caused a lot of people to hate him as an MC because of the cut monologues that provide context about his emotional state. While Keyaru is not a good guy in the traditional sense, he is not out to hurt people who have not abused him or hurt his companions. He’s not just out raping and killing people for the sake of it.

On the animation quality side of things, I think TNK did a better job than I was expecting. The fight scenes are surprisingly well done and the sex scenes are as fluid as you’d hope. I do think the OST was pretty weak, but that’s a rather minor complaint.

A story that makes you uncomfortable is not necessarily a bad story. Sometimes we need to have our views and ideas challenged, and I think Kayari can provide that for fans of dark fantasy anime/LNs. Again, you know damn well if this show is for you or not. If you’re just gonna have a meltdown about how edgy it is, just stay away.

Kayari gets 10 heals out of 10.

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Mar 31, 2021

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

abystoma2 (All reviews)

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Note: the review contains some spoilers, though not enough to ruin the experience (if the experience could hypothetically be ruined even more than it already is on its own).

Well, that was certainly a hot mess of a trainwreck. To an extent entertaining to observe how bad it can get, but still a trainwreck nonetheless. This isn’t another Interspecies Reviewers, this isn’t “nooo, you dislike it just because you’re prude and snowflake and cancel culture”. I have literally read guro with better plot than this. Multiple, in fact. And I mean that. This is just plain awful. Not because it’s explicit, but because low effort and low quality work. And no, it’s not “self-aware satire” either.

Redo of Healer is exactly what it sounds like – a self-insert overpowered wish-fulfilment protagonist with a harem of anime chicks on his dick and edge that could cut through diamonds. Just a bit more hard on the fanservice. Does the level nudity/sex scenes make it unique? No, it’s not the first borderline-h anime. Even in west there are widely popular series that feature nudity, sex scenes and rape – look no further than Game of Thrones. It is simply not something only Redo of Healer did. Does this fanservice make it good? Unless you value your entertainment purely on shock value, no it doesn’t.

While it is a ballsy move to disregard any shame and common sense and just write the most barebone revenge porn plot and try to sell it, and while it was in a way a marketing success, if you examine it beyond just “titties good, pp hard”, it just keeps getting worse and worse. Which is regrettable, because the concept of “corrupted healing ability” by itself sounds actually interesting. Too bad that approximately zero thoughts were put into this. Nothing is ever explained. The protagonist just has god-like ability that lets him not just heal people, but copy literally everything ever, making any other class obsolete. How did he acquire such powers? Probably through jihad or something idk. It is never explained. What is shown to us is that the MC can now shout “heal” and whatever ability that is currently useful to the plot comes out. Changing faces, that I could still take, it works with body modification – a corrupted healing process. But how is a sword technique “heal”? How can the healer easily overpowers combatants with extensive physical trainings and experience? The concept of corrupted healer is quickly exchanged for the protagonist being able to do literally anything. And not in entertaining way like for example Overlord does it. MC seems to be in trouble? Nope, it was just a ruse, there could never be any actual danger that could pose a thread to the rape jesus. The underuse/abolition of such potentially interesting concept as corrupted healing is criminal. A new concept we get instead is that his cum can make people stronger. Great plot device to shovel in sex scenes.

Following the usual harem tropes, the female characters have fallen for the protagonist because of extremely specific situations of their first meetings which made them falsely perceive the terrible and uninteresting guy as the greatest human who ever lived and the ideal mate. With the exception of the first one who just got brainwashed, which in this context is the one that makes the most sense. “Thirsty fangirls that are occasionally also used as combatants” is as far as their characters go. They are just materials for the obligatory at least one sex scene per episode.

Let me talk about the mc’s plan that is the core plotpoint too. It’s dumb. Like, really dumb. The series starts by the protagonist being physically and mentally abused to a breaking point. So, what does he do when given an opportunity to make a change for better? Willingly goes through months of same torture again, just this time for plot reasons it doesn’t destroy him mentally. Sure, he build up immunity towards drugs, but that was hardly the only abuse being applied to it. Revenge is cool and all, but watching a dude get willingly buttfucked in gachi dungeon for a possible opportunity to strike isn’t. Literally think of any other plan please, you have the power of future knowledge on your side.

Which gets us to the villains of Redo. They are… probably the worst part of this series, really. The antagonists are so unbearable cartoonishly evil. The protagonist might do shady shit, but he has at least some amount of motivation and reason to do it. The antagonists though? They do evil things because they are evil and like to see people suffer. That’s it. The whole lot of them are just extreme sadists. And somehow a kingdom where every royalty, nobles and soldiers seems to be just purely sadistic with disregard for lives and sane decisions hasn’t collapsed on itself yet. One would think that a place where every day any of the citizens could die because of someone’s whim with no repercussions wouldn’t be sustainable. Alas, the plot has to plot.

Another notably shitty part of the plot is the paradox that is created by adding the demon lord to the harem. Before going back in time, the protagonist meets here as a demon lord. But now in the new timeline, she isn’t a demon lord yet. The problem is, she gets added to the harem by Keyaru saving her life. To quote the man himself "If I weren't here you would be dead". Now, how exactly did she became a demon lord on her own if she would already be captured and killed had Keyaru not been there? No explanation at all, it seems like the author hasn’t thought of them in the least. Some minor specific another shitty parts are for example trying to picture a supposedly tragic scene with the mc’s monologue – a monologue that is being said during a threesome, the protagonist, himself being a rapist, being angry at people raping others and ripping off the claw weapon from DxD.

Now, to give credit when it’s due, the sex scenes themselves aren’t actually bad. They’re not like… great, but they might as well be the best part of the series. While you might get bored by their repetitiveness, that is still better than the feeling of wanting to stab yourself from the cringe overflow that rest of the series causes (this is how I legit felt, no hyperbole). In comparison to average hentai (which is sadly usually low budget) it has a least passable animation So, to not just critize without contributing anything, I do in fact have a solution as to how to make Redo a better anime. And it is not to get rid of the fanservice content, no. On the contrary, it is to get rid of the embarrassing attempt of storytelling and just make this actual hentai with focus on being hentai. Perhaps even sprinkle some kink to the sex scenes too to make it more interesting.

In conclusion, don’t watch this. And if you decide to do so, intoxicating substances are recommended to ease the mental pain the bad quality could cause. The worst this show has generated is the "fanbase", people that will ironically (and sometimes unironically) praise Redo as the best show ever just because others find it "offensive" (=think the show is poor taste). It is so tiring. I dare you to disprove me that anyone rating this high has either terrible taste or is trolling (or both).

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Mar 31, 2021

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

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I haven’t written many seasonal reviews this year. I slept on Mushoku. I slept on Promised Neverland Season 2. I slept on the glorious Ex-Arm! I will NOT sleep on Redo of Healer! This is one I absolutely had to review as soon as it finished! I gave this a 4 because Redo of Healer is dogshit, but it’s also hands down the most entertaining anime of Winter 2021! I’m dead serious.

So, exactly what kind of idiocy are we in for? In case you aren’t aware, there is a certain sub-genre within the wide world of isekai. These are the isekai like Shield Hero that were spawned from the massive success of Mushoku Tensei in 2012. Is Sword Art Online too feminist for you? Are you sick of progressive concepts like “consent” ending up in your anime? These are the anime for you! These are pure power fantasies for a market of angry, young, single men. These series absolutely revel in their level of political incorrectness even by Japanese standards. Mushoku is proud to be pro-pedophilia. Shield Hero is proud to be pro-slavery. To be honest, I don’t actually mind this at all. If these series serve as a healthy outlet for frustration and anger, then they are doing a good thing. I may not be the target audience, but not every piece of media is made for everyone. It is perfectly fine for media to sometimes be exclusive. I worked at a Walmart in Tennessee and sold easily about 500 Pureflix movies every month. I am not offended if a movie is made specifically for straight, white, Evangelical Christians and everyone else is going to have a bad time. Sure, it would of course be an issue if that were every movie, but that doesn’t mean we should take the opposite extreme and try erase 100 percent of those movies! Everyone deserves a movie or show that’s made for them. Sometimes we all want to feel comfort, acceptance, and recognition that we don’t have to work for.

So where does Redo of Healer fit into all this? Honestly…I’m not even sure. Redo of Healer takes this reactionary power fantasy SO far that it becomes an absolute joke. At certain points, I was entirely convinced I was watching a Juvenalian satire. In other words, a show that wanted to make fun of these types of isekai by exaggerating their faults. People genuinely like Naofumi from Shield Hero and Rudeus from Mushoku. Keyaru is completely unlikeable by design. There is no twisted worldview where he’s the good guy. He is a force of chaotic evil who happens to be torturing and killing lawful evil because they harmed him. We can laugh our asses off when he casts a spell on his dick to make himself iron hard and slaps a princess in the face. However, it is impossible to see Keyaru a decent person. Just in case the audience ever gets close to sympathizing with him, it gives him a maniacal laugh and clear-cut villain speech where he proves that he doesn’t care about saving anyone and solely cares about himself. He was fully willing to poison and massacre an entire city simply to gain a sex slave that he can manipulate and commit statutory rape against. When a villain tried to massacre a city to draw him out, he just sat there and watched the massacre happen. Only when a merchant he happened to sort of like was killed did he decide on a whim to save a few survivors. When his favorite restaurant was massacred, he didn’t care about the people. He decided to summon a giant bull and have it rape the killers to death in order to “avenge the food”. Keyaru is best described as 10 percent Lelouche, 20 percent Shield Hero, and 70 percent Kefka from Final Fantasy. He is a broken man that has been driven insane by years of torture, drugs, and rape. Now he exists solely to dole out hilariously over the top punishment on all those who wronged him.

I’ve argued with several friends on MAL over whether or not Redo was a satire. There are plenty that believe it is actually genuine and the original light novel author is simply that depraved. However, I would argue that Redo of Healer is so ridiculous that it doesn’t even matter if the original author intended it to be serious. The director of the 2006 Wicker Man remake intended it to be a serious and disturbing film that he made as a critique of modern feminism. Nicholas Cage said it best. “When you make a film in which a man dresses up in a bear suit and runs around punching women, you’ve made a comedy.” Redo of Healer can only be classified as a comedy. It’s not really a revenge porn because it isn’t erotic. The sadist who would be satisfied when Keyaru summons 3 ogres to rape and eat an evil lesbian to death will instantly lose his chub when Keyaru busts out a half rack of baby back ribs to munch on and tells her to spread her butthole more. I don’t think it’s clinically possible to get an erection watching this show. The tonal whiplash is simply too intense. Redo of Healer is a comedy just like Top Gun is a gay community cult classic and Dolemite is a comedy and not a serious kung fu film. At a certain point it doesn’t matter if it was entirely intentional or not. Interestingly, this makes Redo of Healer far more inclusive and broadly appealing than Shield Hero or Mushoku. You don’t need to be male to enjoy this show. You don’t have to be straight. You don’t need to be a virgin with rage. All you need to have a ball with Redo of Healer is a dark sense of humor.

I’m not going to spend much time covering the plot of this show, because the plot honestly doesn’t matter. Redo is about a sad little twerp who gets tortured for years by a team of evil knights who are bent on global conquest. However, this sad sack is actually an evil genius who is formulating a ridiculous revenge scheme. In the first episode, he uses a magic MacGuffin and goes back in time to take advantage of his absurdly OP powers and inflict suffering on all of his enemies. So how is he so powerful? Allow me to introduce you to the moronic magic system in this anime. Healing powers are considered a cursed gift because you must relive all the memories of whoever you heal. That means experiencing all their pain and suffering. This also means that Keyaru can duplicate the spells and abilities of anyone he has healed because he has their memories and knows how to do it. Here’s why that’s so stupid. Keyaru never exercises and isn’t in good shape. He hasn’t conditioned his body at all. Yet he’s able to run at superhuman speed and has superhuman strength simply by having the memories of great athletes. Just because you theoretically know how to run doesn’t mean you’ll be as fast as Usain Bolt! A doctor with poor hand eye coordination can know exactly how to perform a surgery and still won’t be able to do it! He also doesn’t have an abnormally high level of mana, but can cast S tier spells because he knows the basics of how to do it. Keyaru’s power is either intended to be a joke or the author of the LN is a complete moron. Honestly, it could be either from what I’ve seen of the man’s interviews.

However, Keyaru’s bullshit power has one amazing upside for the viewer. Every single spell in existence is activated by the incantation “HEAL!” This means that every single battle in the show is Keyaru just screaming “HEAL! HEAL! HEAL! HEAL!” ad infinitum. I can’t describe how funny this becomes after a few episodes. All credit goes to Keyaru’s amazing voice actor. If that man ever comes here to my town, he will never have to buy a drink! I will pay his bar tab for life!

Should you watch Redo of Healer? If you can appreciate dark comedy and want to laugh at something stupid, I absolutely recommend this one! I’m a little sad I can’t bring myself to rate it higher, but it’s also a pretty lousy show on an art and technical level. Definitely bring this title to your next bad movie night. You will be laughing until tears stream down your faces! Shame on Funimation for adapting the virgin Mushoku and not dubbing the Chad Redo of Healer. This should be seen and enjoyed by as many people as possible!

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Mar 31, 2021

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

Preachee (All reviews)

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Shield Hero is having an inferiority complex rn.

Ok hear me out, I really want to give this an ironic high rating, but it is literally beyond my capability to even do so. Like I want to be super quirky like other reviewers who rate ironically too :( you know like that one preliminary 10/10 Ex-Arm review that poses a threat to comedy, or perchance the voguish undaunted NTR-immune de-Twitter’d armor-plated exemplars who fervently admire this sort of stuffs.

Anyhow, it’s bad, because it kinda gets boring especially towards the end. But still not that bad.

After 12 episodes, I barely even know what happens. Comment on my intelligence however you want, but whenever I watch this show and specifically this show, my attention span halves and my brain ceases to intellectually function (though confessedly I just don’t really care about the show). But that didn’t matter. At the end of the day, what matters is that I was slightly amused by the show, sardonic or not, yet also got bored of it pretty quickly. And if there’s anything I ought to be mindful of, it is that unlike Shield Hero, our protagonist healer hero isn’t some midway morally ambiguous caitiff that we’re supposed to like. Ironically, that makes it all the better.

Let’s get one thing straight first. The discourse on morality, sexual violence and (hate to even type this) ‘thematic depth’ regarding this show is all worthless to me, because for a torture porn to receive such a treatment is unthinkable. It’s like saying “I watch Ruggero Deodato’s movies for the plot”. Now after finishing the show you might be wondering, why are most of the characters over-the-top unhinged subhuman garbage with not a single redeeming quality? The answer is pretty simple, they aren't supposed to deserve the audience’s remorse. This attributes to the “look at how satisfying the rape revenge brought upon these scums is”, which is essential to how torture porn works. None is meant for you to relate or understand more about rape and revenge, and this is no meaningful writing in my book so I wouldn’t take it seriously either. We, the audience, are conditioned to feel absolute contempt and hatred for the abusers, for it is merely a natural and rational response to despise humans who have shown zero human traits and committed countless heinous acts. So conveniently, the show justifies these unrealistic, comically malicious characters’ suffering, make them suffer for the sake of it to appeal to the instinctual human response. Of course, whether you’re content with the revenge or not is within your power, yet it is hardly deniable that that is the intent of the show. Though talking about nuance, even under a negative light, for something this straightforwardly farcical and exploitative is still mindboggling.

“But no one deserves to be tortured.”
Ok save that for a serious talk. Because even more conveniently, a once sane, upright protagonist has become a psychopath, reasonably after years of torment. Convenient, isn’t it? For whatever a psychopath does isn’t even within the realm of morality. It matters not if you believe the people who got involved in his revenge didn’t deserve their punishments, because the man is already as far from sanity as humanly possible. Better yet, the show is completely aware of what it’s doing, and acknowledges how evil the MC is. I wouldn’t consider laughing manically after bathing under the blood of the soldiers who just killed the people from your own village is very batman-like; at least from how I see it, the show doesn’t make it seem cool? Sure it works in favor of evil, but it isn’t deceptive nor does it shun its evilness. And not yet, there are still more plot conveniences to come. This man also happens to be a literal god with the kind of power that can technically do anything in the name flimsy alchemy (time travel(??), altering people’s appearance, forceful erection, hentai mind-breaking, etc.). Yes it makes no sense, but again, this is all just an excuse. It excuses his actions, his revenge, his methods, his fucking, his every misdeed simply because it needs to get to the point, the torture porn. There’s nothing deeper about it. In a way, this makes it sort of a hysterically enjoyable watch at times. Watching a comically-treated gloating, egomaniacal psychopath doesn’t give a damn about anything even if he might appear otherwise at first, and how his hedonic methods of revenge is equally as horrible as his victims, is all so hilarious for whatever reasons. I also could not care less about whatever happens to the mc because he’s a purely wicked guy himself. So to sum up the experience, it's like witnessing an inhuman villain slaughtering other inhuman villains while the whole thing is so absurdly comical, and it’s quite honestly not that bad (at first).

Inevitably, the formula is destined to be worn out and soon enough, I’m very easily bored (this became an issue after like 4 or 5 episodes I believe). Everything is repetitively patterned, which is to be expected, and that ultimately is its biggest flaw. Sure there might be 1 or 2 funny things happen once in a while to tingle my mingle like the shadow schlong episode. But generally, there isn’t much to look forward to, because the formula doesn’t change. Our protagonist's path of vengeance won't see any alternative for as long as this goes, and the outcome is predictably a 2-sides-of-the-coin. Whatever triumph lies ahead or catastrophe befalls the protagonist simply doesn't compel me, because I have no care for him in the first place. I take none of this seriously so it shouldn't come as a surprise that for a repetitive formula, nothing can be of interest for a 12-episode length. I guess avoiding the pitfall of Shield Hero – not make the MC someone meant to be liked and make revenge not a complete pain in the ass to sit through by not being serious – can only benefit it so much. For a bluntly exploitative series, enjoyment is everything. Make no mistake, the self-aware irony and hilarity don’t compensate its dreary repetitiveness and a direction that doesn’t pique my interest. By the way, I didn’t watch most of the Shield-Hero-esque trading/investigating/wandering shenanigans in this show but I get the gist of it. Still let’s just say Redo of Healer does it better and thus is a wholly better show because we all know that’s true.

For the overall production quality, it’s aight like a mid-tier hentai I didn’t pay much attention. The voice acting makes it pretty funny though, so I approve that. So, does it make you a psychopath if you enjoy watching how absurdly psychopathic the protagonist is? No. Does it make you a subhuman garbage that deserves no remorse if you root for the dude? Probably not (except if you actually take it seriously in some twisted way, but morality is shit-fest of a discussion anyway). And does it make you a man of virtue for feeling sick watching a torture porn? Fuck no. Also you have the carte blanche to jerk off to this, yeah I know you’re welcome. Enough said, Shield Hero can go suck Healer Hero’s long shadow schlong. This is objectively the superior revenge tale.

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