Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi

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.

Redo of Healer is a satire of the generic fantasy and revenge plot. (I'm looking at you Shield Hero). It's also a "I can't believe it's not hentai" series. The show's story is as terribly beautiful as its premise. A broken man in a broken world is going to get his sword bloody.

This story is a neat break from generic fantasy stories that anime is known to have. It's different, and it can be disturbing to some audiences. However, it's honestly not the worst thing compared to what's in reach of a several keyboard strokes. For a hentai, I would say it's actually better. ... Seeing pixelated genitals has zero appeal, the trick is showing the face and body language, and Redo of Healer has boobs full of that. The author is setting a new standard for eroge, and I am here to bear his flag. God Bless this man and his accursed pen.

This anime features heavy themes, the most notable as of episode three are rape (from both men and women, the rape also has a place in the world-building since people gain some degree of power from the heroes if they take in their body fluids, it's not explained in-depth), torture, mindbreak, drug abuse.

The main theme of the story is revenge. The main character was abused by his old party and tangential secondary/tertiary characters. He's gone back in time after getting his hands on the philosophers stone, and is preparing his body for revenge (quite literally prepping his body).

The protagonist is a villain, it's debatable if he's an anti-villain, but the tag doesn't really matter. His motivations are clear cut and focused: taking revenge on the people that destroyed him (psychologically) in his previous life. Each character so far is a piece of shit. Everyone is a terrible human being, save for the Demon King (Queen?) who said something about protecting something, which is ironic. It's the humans that are the real demons. There's no deep meaning or anything, the main plot is just a backdrop for the protagonist to have sex with characters. Cool.

It's a bold story, as in: Redo of Healer is a hentai like how Game of Thrones is a time period piece porno. It's a good story, the protagonist is easy to emphasize with, he's extremely proactive, and he's scary competent. It seems inspired by Rising of the Shield Hero, taking on similar themes to that story but focusing in on the story rather than becoming silly after the introduction of the chicken character. Let's hope that it doesn't follow the same path. Shield Hero ended when the princess had justice brought down on her, and left the second half of the story floundering. I believe that the author of Redo of Healer is attempting to write his own version of that type of story archetype. There's only several characters so far that we know he has to take revenge against, and I can smell more to come.

I'm interested in what the rest of the show will bring, but its first four episodes have clearly set the rest of the tone of the story perfectly. I would expect more of it and perhaps even an escalation. I'm not expecting anything amazing, it's obviously a mediocre story, but hey, we're all in for the ride ;). The outrage this show is causing is giving it a lot more press than it could possibly generate through ads.

I would also like to note that rape, even as a tool for revenge, is NOT good. Though the majority of topics in your life will show degrees of nuance, rape veers heavily into black (don't be racist). Like video game violence, rape depicted in stories and porn does not encourage people into performing it. Weak, sociopathic, damaged, and sick human beings will rape other humans and try to make excuses. There are no excuses for rape. The protagonist of this show, if I haven't already pointed out, is psychologically damaged and is not in anyway being used as a role model by the author. He should be both reviled and a target for sympathy, because the author is attempting to make the viewer feel a mixture of emotions, which is the ultimate goal for any piece of media. The worst feeling to have while experiencing anything is boredom. Redo of Healer is anything but boring.

This is the best hentai of 2021. 10/10

As someone who already read the manga.you really should skip or drop this anime NOW if you're weak minded and can't handle sexual violence and gore.(minor spoiler ahead)

Call me edgy, Fetishist, Degenerate, Masochist, sexist or whatever the f*ck you wanted to call me, I'm just gonna say I'm in love with this "anime", What's make this "anime" a standout imo is how this anime adds so many flavours to it's bland plot and genre

Ok so the plot is your typical revenge story:"bad people do bad things to mc, mc don't like it, Mc mad, mc want some retribution "but the author decided to add some ... spice on it

Maybe the revenge part is what make this anime so controversial whether if the mc action is justified or not but I'm telling you it's neither, Right?

Put yourself on the mc shoes, imagine getting tortured,brainwashed,drugged and Raped EVERYDAY for YEARS what would you do?can you stay sane for YEARS of getting abused and raped? psychologically i think not

But still revenge is "bad" right? Maybe what's the right thing to do is to forgive and forget am i right? Well unfortunately not all people are Naruto Uzumaki. People don't forgive easily and also how they treated the mc it's like almost impossible for the mc to forgive them

But seriously though why do people think this anime is glorifying Rape and stuff like that like bruh it's not like people are going to rape someone after watching this, The anime doesn't genuinely tell you to rape someone or "rape is good if you've been through a lot" the watchers as an (assuming an adult) Actually nope, EVERY HUMAN BEING that lives on this earth should know that rape is never good and should have a mindset that we should never ever rape anyone, you're not going to rape someone after watching this right?good.

As you can see the mc went from innocent normal person to a deranged being who's hungry for vengeance and doesn't care about morals when he gets his revenge.this is what happens to someone when you do horrendous stuff to someone,It create a monster. if i happened to learned something from this anime,This anime taught me not to do bad things to anyone and never will be.

and also where's the concrete evidence that the author is a misogynistic? I'm not defending his action and actually kinda disgusted by his action. the mc raping the hero princess is out of hatred and thus he wants the princess to suffer the same as he was treated by the heroes and hence, revenge.

The characters....oh boy. The heroes is actually the bad guys(no sh*t).I despised them. Even the most hated anime villain is more likeable than these "Heroes" with their disgusting lust and two faced personality. They're not well written at all but the fact that these Heroes is like my most hated anime villain truly shows that they did a fine job with the antagonists

I find the mc to be pretty realistic imo. He's a broken man that doesn't care about morals once he gets his revenge, his situation is kinda like "either kill or be killed" if he didn't do anything against the heroes he just gonna live the same miserable life forever so he had to do it. He's neither a good guy or bad guy, He raped someone, So rape=bad but that doesn't mean he's fully bad, He doesn't roam the land raping random people.he helped other people. He even did some good deeds. Even though he's consumed by vengeance He still have a code

the OP, Sound and music is pretty mid but damn the animation is quite nice for an "anime" like this if I'm being honest


i checked the forum of this anime and apparently there's a lot of sjw came to this site and made an accounts and they ONLY have seen this show to attack this anime and show their bullshit agenda. I'm willing to bet that if the mc was a woman who wants revenge against her male abuser and rapist. I'm pretty sure the show would've been just fine and doesn't have that much controversy

Thing is Redo of healer already existed like 2 years ago but doesn't get as much attention as the anime. This actually shows how mainstream anime is and how the political people always starting to invade and spread their agenda to mainstream stuff.

I'm just gonna say this out of the blue no f*cks given, it's a f*ckin show, A fictional, An entertainment, it means this ain't real and you as an adult should know that an entertainment is meant to amuse the audience. you SHOULD know the difference between what's good and bad in a fiction and what you should or shouldn't do in reality. Look if you don't like it i get it i respect you as long as you're not being a F*CKIN C*NT to someone who enjoyed this show and also don't watch it and don't try to cancel this show and ruin people's day who enjoys this anime.


Now the the anime is finished it isn't as dark and fucked up as the manga, they cut few moments with the torture they somehow tone it down a bit because apparently this show was aired in some tv station in japan so there might be kids watchin the show(Hope not) but i still wouldn't recommend this show to those who has a weak mentality and sensitive people as the show is about to get worse

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!

I stayed up watching this anime a whole night and did not sleep, this is one of the greatest anime ever made. The mc of this anime is LITERALLY me.

Please watch this anime it's SO good, everyone who said they couldn't sleep after watching it is a troll. It's really funny and there's a cute demon girl so it's definitely worth a watch.

The story is so unbelievably unique, I wish there was more anime like this. All the characters are wonderful, the writing is perfect.

The reactions of each characters are unbelievably realistic, I can confirm that the way they reacted in those situations are 100% ... accurate to how people react to those situations in real life.

I think anyone would LOVE this anime, I highly recommend it for you and your uncle.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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 those 10/10 Ex-Arm reviews that pose 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, my attention span halves and my brain ceases to intellectually function (though confessedly I just don’t really care about whatever was going on). But that didn’t matter. In the end, 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 the characters over-the-top unhinged subhuman garbage with no redeeming quality? The answer is rather simple: they aren't supposed to deserve the audience’s remorse. Essentially the classic “look at how satisfying the rape revenge brought upon these scums of the earth is”, which is integral to how torture porn works. None of this is meant to help you understand more about rape and revenge, and since this is no meaningful writing in my book, I wouldn’t take it seriously either. We, the audience, are conditioned to feel absolute contempt and hatred for the abusers, for it's only natural, and rational, to despise humans who have shown zero human traits and committed countless evil deeds. So conveniently, the show justifies these comically malicious characters’ suffering, superficially appealing to the instinctual human response. Of course whether you’re content with the revenge or not is within your power, yet it's practically undeniable that such is the intent. So, nuancing something this openly farcical and exploitative, be it under positive or negative light, is just mindboggling.

“But no one deserves to be tortured.”
Ok save that for a serious talk. Because even more conveniently, a once sane, upright jack of a protagonist has become a psychopath beyond recognition, understandably after years of torment. Convenient, isn’t it? For whatever a psychopath does isn’t within the realm of morality. It matters not if you disagree with the dude's perspective on punishments, because the man is already as far from sanity as humanly possible. Better yet, the show is completely aware of this, 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 even better, this man also happens to be a literal god with the kind of power that can technically do anything in the name alchemy (time travel(??), altering people’s appearance, forceful erection, hentai mind-breaking, etc.). Yes it makes no sense, though this is all but 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 hysterically enjoyable to watch at times. Watching a comically-treated gloating, egomaniacal psychopath not giving a damn about anything even if he might appear otherwise at first, and how his hedonic schemes are equally as horrible as his victims, is all so hilarious for whatever reasons. I also couldn't 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).

Sadly, the formula gets worn out pretty quickly and soon enough, the show loses much of its entertainment (after 4 or maybe 5 episodes). Everything is repetitive, which is to be expected, ultimately becoming the greatest flaw. Sure there might be 1 or 2 funny things happen once in a while to tingle my mingle like the ferocious shadow schlong. But generally, there isn’t much to look forward to, because the formula is kept completely static. Our protagonist's path of vengeance won't see any alternatives for as long as this goes on, 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 making a meant-to-be-adored MC and revenge a complete pain in the ass to sit through) can only benefit it so much. In exploitation, enjoyment is everything. While it's rather amusing to take in the self-aware irony and hilarity, it isn't nearly enough to compensate the dreary repetitiveness and a direction that doesn’t pique my interest. Btw I didn’t watch most of the Shield-Hero-esque trading/investigating/wandering shenanigans 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 really care. The voice acting makes it pretty funny though, so I approve that. That said, it's whatever.

Now, onto the real questions. Does it make you a psychopath for enjoying how absurdly psychopathic the protagonist is? No. Does it make you a subhuman garbage who deserves no remorse for rooting 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.

To start with, lets get the immediate issue out of the way. I don't mind controversial scenes in anime. I don't mind rape/assault/traumatic incidents as a device to move the plot along. This is not what is here in Redo of Healer. If the main character had gotten his revenge for how he was treated with one of these methods and then it gave way for the actual story to unfold that would be fine. Instead, every single episode is just some conquest of this repulsive guy, with bits of his old life peppered in to remind you that he's actually supposed to be the ... victim.

I dropped after episode 4, in which a character who did nothing wrong to him and was supposed to also be a victim was deceived and defiled by Keyarga in the name of his revenge. She had nothing to do with it, no reason to be involved, and yet she was still added to his stockpile of sex slaves for no real reason. The rape scenes add nothing to the plot except a power fantasy that should be a red flag for anyone who identifies with them, and since the rape scenes are such a heavy part of the series that means the plot is basically nonexistent.

You could stand to waste your time watching anime with a better series than this, I certainly wont be giving it any more of my time.

At the risk of stating the obvious, it's clear that no one over at TNK put a lot of effort into this anime. But considering the fact that their top anime is Highschool DxD one shouldn't be all too surprised by this fact.

The largest problem with this anime is the story and the characters. They just aren't very fleshed out. One basic component of making a character is making them have reasons for doing things. This is extremely obvious. Why does the princess hate the MC enough to spend extreme amounts of effort abusing him over several years? Beats me. The anime never really ... goes in and explains these basic things about it's characters, and as a result investment in them becomes difficult. From a more meta perspective the reason is clear, of course. Because the writers need some sort of moral justification for the upcoming r*pe/torture scenes. But that's an out-of-universe explanation. There isn't really any in-universe explanation and that's a problem. It gives the viewer the feeling that the story was just an after-thought and that the sex-scenes is everything the creators cared about. Those priorities don't make for good anime, sure, they make for good hentai, but this anime clearly wants to at least pose as something more than fap-material.

Characters don't need to be deep, not all entertainment needs to be deep, but it should at least be entertaining. If i asked you to describe the MC of "kaiyari," what would you say? He's mean, he's angry, holds a grudge? He doesn't really have any notable traits that make for an entertaining viewing experince. He's just a blank slate with anger issues. What was his early life like before he became property of the princess? Did he have values, dreams goals? What were they? Does he have any funny or interesting quirks? If you saked me these questions about the MC of other fantasy-shows, even less "deep" ones like KonoSuba i could answer these questions. With Keyaru i can answer none. It seems like the protagonist was nothing more then an after-thought. This is bad, an anime is nothing wihtout a strong lead.

The anime also fails at basic world-building. How does magic work, why is the MC's magic so strong? What cheat has he discovered that allows him to do literally anything? No answers. There's a time-skip and after that the MC's powers are completely broken, what are the mechanics behind that? Even in some of the most generic shows such as "The Irregular at Magic High School," how magic functions is actually explained. It's not an after-thought and is as such way more engaging. This anime fails completely in this area as well. It is clear that everything except for the sex-scenes are a complete after-thought in this anime. I expect that kind of behaviour in hentai or pornos, not in a non-hentai anime from a major studio.

TL;DR:
This anime fails in basic character- and world-building, and as such i just can't take it seriously or be invested. As a result i don't see this show as "dark" or "too tough for normies" a dark show makes your stomach turn, it makes you feel bad. This show is too lazily written to do any of that for me. I guess it could work as fap-material for some people but it is certainly not a good show. Unless you're watching it with your d*ck in your hand you won't get any value at all out of it. You won't see me walking around pretending that this show is good or has anything going for it just so that i can "piss off the SJW's". I'm not that infantile.

I'm sure a lot of people stumble over Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi when they read through the overall discourse on various social media platforms. Violence on a new level is what apparently makes this anime stand out so much from others of its kind and yet it is rarely mentioned that it is far from being the first anime to do so - I remember the first episode of Mahou Shoujo Site turning many viewers down due to the extreme violence that Aya was subjected to by her brother.

If we look at how Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi (aka. Redo of Healer) portrays its characters we ... can clearly see that not a single part of this anime was ever thought through. Keyaru goes through a lot of pain in his first life, being tortured, drugged and raped by Flare and her companions. His life is skimmed through in the span of about a minute. Every other character is evil because the plot wants it that way. None of the characters has any sort of human trait but instead they are all designed to be an unlikable piece of trash. Maybe I'd feel something if the characters had any sort of personality to them but apparently they don't because that would require 2 braincells to write an actual good story.

At this point, this anime is just a glorified Hentai. There is no "story", no world to explore, all characters are utter garbage and the only redeeming quality of the entire anime is a nice character design and even that is highly subjective. Watching it bears no relative merit whatsoever past seeing fetishized sex (either consensual or not - mostly not). You might as well turn to your favorite hentai streaming website and looking through the Fantasy genre because torture, mind break, rape and similar things are quite popular in Hentai. It's much better than staring at a wall for 30 seconds before seeing a pitch black screen because 50% of the episode is censored.

It is laughable that this anime gets any sort of positive attention. I like new takes on the Dark Fantasy genre and pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable but if so it should be done within reason. Redo of Healer adds nothing to the genre and portrays itself as a Hentai. It's a genuinely bad anime. I don't see how anyone can watch this and get any sort of entertainment from it because clearly the only reason to watch it is if you want to see Keyaru toy with various girls. And that being the only reason, why would you watch an anime that is airing on TV, meaning that the good stuff is gonna be censored anyways? I don't get it.

Redo of Healer is bad and does not even fulfill basic quality standards. I don't usually rate an Anime with a 1 but after watching 4 episodes I'm sure that this is the worst TV anime I have ever seen, actually beating Mahou Shoujo Site which I never thought was possible.

1/10

I'd like to start this review by saying: People are seemingly bombarding the show with bad ratings because they are offended by it, so you should not base on it whether you want to watch it or not. If you think it sounds interesting then you are probably going to find it worth a watch. If you don't like dark stuff, get easily offended or are easily disturbed don't even bother as this is the exact opposite of rainbows and happiness. It's a very unique and dark story that got a ton of people offended within the first two episodes. This show is seemingly too ... much for the heroes of the internet, the holy knights of the keyboard. People nowadays just cannot seem to stay away from the stuff they don't like, they have to try and fight in hopes of cancelling it as the mighty war heroes they are!

--- This only contains very minor spoilers and everything included is shown within the first episode --
The story tells about a man called Keyaru who is the healing hero. His healing abilities are very op like but they come with a great cause, it causes him a great amount of pain. Keyaru is imprisoned, raped, tortured and drugged becoming addicted to this drug and losing his sense of self. He is continuously abused and forced to heal others, feeling the pain his healing causes. In the end, all these factors drive him crazy, making him strive for vengeance. He gains immunity to the drug and gets his senses back. He is later taken with a party to defeat the Demon King. Keyaru defeats the Demon King with ease and obtains the Philosopher's Stone. He reverses time back by four years and starts seeking his revenge.

The story follows an OP character. He is able to gain all of the skills and experience of the healed. With this, he can also transform people's looks including gender, absorb and copy levels of a person and modify things the way he wants in general. In other words, he can do pretty much anything.

I would recommend this anime to everyone who is not easily disturbed and wants a dark and refreshing take on storytelling. The animations are very solid and the characters have a lot behind them. Also, a piece of advice: Don't watch it censored, assuming you don't want to look at the walls and floor for 5 minutes an episode.

Well, this series is disturbing AF
An extreamly dark story which leaves nothing to the imagination, i would not recommend this to the faint hearted, but if you can stomach the gore and want to see a pretty damn realistic rendition of how abuse can mentally f**k someone up, then follow Keyaru's journey of revenge against a lot of horrible people who do horrible, despicable things

Maybe this is because it's coming from the point of view of a straight woman, but i could've done without the near hentai scenes (aka 50% of the series), i understand storywise why there is a sort of obsession around this ... subject, but i had no need for seeing these play out in graphic detail on screen, i would've rather the story focus more on the psychological aspect of things, which is the part of the show that kept me watching till the end, along with the revenge...
Yup, i'm one vendictive little b**ch

I refuse to except a show is bad merely because it offends the social sensibilities of polite society. I understand this is a nuanced debate, but if you think about it, there is quite a lot of hentai and live action adult videos that technically feature rape. However, the tone of these films aren’t as soul-crushing as it should be, because ultimately, the purpose of pornography is to arouse the audience, not depress them. Yes, if you peel back the layers of what you’re watching on a literal level, the moral atrocity being depicted is just as atrocious, but it isn’t conveyed in a manner ... you could call particularly realistic, so this way, you can still walk away from the experience—which you assumably jerked off to—still feeling like yourself and the rest of humanity deserves to continue existing on this planet. But, let’s say you weren’t just getting off to obviously fictitious, staged, and playfully produced pornography, and were instead watching content which aimed to look and feel as close to reality as actual first-degree rape does. Presuming you’re not at least a little bit of a sociopath, this uncomfortable, ugly experience would probably feel a lot like watching Redo of Healer, because while it itself surely stands as a piece of social commentary in a metatextual sense, its actual content is in no way thoughtful.

Given the infamy behind this show, you almost certainly know everything about it already, but there’s a reason as to why it’s more controversial than it is simply sensational. The main character Keyaru is a cleric in a generic fantasy world who is forced to be a healer in the party of a sadistic and psychopathic princess who physically and sexually abuses him as much as livingly possible until, through a series of convoluted light novel nonsense, he flips the script on her and gains the power to exact torturous revenge for his own personal pleasure, and the show takes great joy in portraying the single most debasing treatment of human beings that is able to be shown on Japanese television, because to satisfy the urges and angsts of the author about whom I dare not speculate, this world he created is just that bizarrely cruel. While the show quickly becomes a fairly standard harem anime, only one shameless enough to have the main character constantly fucking his waifus on screen, the show never fully escapes the unpleasant feeling it began with, not because of the silly gore or edgy plot threads it occasionally pursues, but because the original fetish became a permanent fixture of the plot when Keyaru lobotomizes the princess and keeps her amongst his ever-growing harem of manipulated, sometimes helpless, groomed young women.

The moral discourse fans of this series insist on entertaining is inherently reactionary because the only reason people started talking about this series to being with was how immaturely offended they were by its premise, and while I must stress I am not defending this show as a good anime, I do disagree with those claiming this anime is somehow a glorification or justification of rape, depicting it as if it can be used as a tool of justice, because if you ask me, this isn’t justice and isn’t trying to be at all. This is a barbarous show which I don’t see acting like a moral compass of any kind to anyone. You can try to have a discussion about whether Keyaru’s actions are right or wrong, but at the end of the day, it’s just softcore porn. Like, I’m sorry to undercut your image of this show as a socially provocative work of art—which is totally not just incel shit, guys, I promise—but that’s all it is. It’s for people who get off on the idea rape not as an action, but as a fetishized sexual encounter one can imagine for masturbation or (hopefully consensual) foreplay. It’s something titillating which you can’t have in real life with real women, because real women aren’t actually evil enough to deserve this kind of treatment, but you just have to indulge your frustrations somewhere, because I guess that’s how men blow off steam.

That is what’s so great about fiction, though. I’m not the kind of out-of-touch moron who thinks video games make kids violent or anything like that, but I still can’t help but feel somewhat relieved any average MGTOW can conjure up an over-the-top scenario such as this one to relieve some of the hatred they have for women without actually having to victimize anyone in real life. Don’t get me wrong. The people Keyaru takes revenge upon did equally heinous things to him first, and without sound justification, so if you expect me to shed even a single tear on behalf of their suffering, even the princess who he viciously raped, you’ve got another thing coming, but since not a single character is ultimately a good person, I still can’t agree with the alleged “fans” of this series who proclaim to actually enjoy watching it, because it’s just an uninviting chore to sit though. It has no goodness to offer, and the stark hatred it has for the world around it has nothing to say about anyone or anything. Keyaru isn’t against evil, he’s against these specific people. He doesn’t care about the countless injustices going on in the world around him, he just cares about bringing hell back to these people and making them alone pay not for their crimes against humanity, but for their crimes against him personally.

They were unquestionably evil to him, but now he too is a bad person who should not be celebrated by anyone, and while his story becomes a somewhat generic fantasy harem anime which is simply edgier than its contemporaries, the themes ultimately offer no moral contrast, hope, nor any meaning which could realistically be interpreted to imply anything more than the gross softcore hentai which it clearly is. There are other anime, grim masterpieces like Texhnolyze, Jin-roh, or Now & Then, Here & There, which are also about suffering and are purposefully miserable to watch, but those have a truly heavy subject matter and depict far darker aspects of humanity than this, and not only do they handle themselves with a deep, meditative, adult sense of maturity, but they’re also well-written and beautifully crafted. For some reason, Redo of Healer has one episode storyboarded by Koichi Ohata, director of Genocyber and MD Geist, and in this episode, he referenced Goya’s “The Third of May 1808” and Ilya Repin’s “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581” to frame certain shots, so the show isn’t entirely artless, but putting small auteur exceptions aside, the production quality is overwhelmingly ugly and uninspired, and its awful writing is without exception, so whether it has substantive ideas or not, don’t worry. You won’t have to find it morally reprehensible to see it as the awful anime it is.

Thank you for reading.

As a big fan of the manga and the art style of Shiokonbu, I had high expectation from this anime adaptation and it delivered.

I've read several manga with similar plot and I believe Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi is among the best of this "revenge fantasy" sub-genre. The art and music are awesome. The girl characters are attractive. The protagonist is likable. Watching it makes me want more anime like this one.

The first episode was kind of a rush and didn't explain much as to why the protagonist holds a big grudge on the other characters. People who didn't read the light novel and/or manga before ... would probably have some problem with this plot. The second episode would show more of the story and how terrible he went through.

Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi or Redo of Healer changed my life. Redo of Healer is has amazing animation. Redo of Healer has an amazing story. Redo of of Healer has an amazing sound track along with a great opening and ending. The characters are amazing as well especially Keyaru/Keyaruga/chad/legend/god. My enjoyment? MAN THAT WAS AWESOME. When I'm about to watch Redo of Healer, I make sure the door is locked, close the blinds, turn off my phone, make sure there is no interruptions btw I watch the uncensored version like anyone should. I get really really pumped with the opening starts playing then episode starts ... and man that I cry sometimes of how amazing this show is. I love when Keyaru gets revenge as I'm a big fan of revenge driven plots. However calling this revenge might be an understatement because this MAN GETS MORE THAN REVENGE, this man re shaping the fucked up world that fuck him up to begin with. What does Keyaru do? THIS MAN CUMS, HE CUMS AND KILLS. Uses an OP fucking power simply called Heal to heal the corrupted world he lives in.

*Justification on why Keyaruga-sama's action are right and not wrong.*

I think his methods are justified. After all hes been treated liked shit, he himself has been raped by multiple men and women, drugged and seduced by his party members. He could do nothing as he was weak. His corrupted mind could have been the main factor to constructing his revenge. He saw an opportunity to make a change and took it, if he had not then he mostly liked would have continued be treated horribly and raped till death. His revenge could actually help the corrupted world/kingdom, Keyaru his not the only one doing horrible things to others, example being the knights invading Setsunas home with intentions to in slave her kind. No dislikes with Keyaru as character. Revenge stories are my favorite so this is why I like Keyaru as a character. Also at the end of the day my man fucks his harem of cute waifu girls absolute CHAD.

I will now end this review with saying that this anime is amazing however I of course understand why someone would absolutely think this anime is lower than shit. I will look forward to reading it's light novel or manga. Overall this is an easy 10/10 and this review is pretty shit I know becauses it written by me, danksonic a person who has either GOD taste in anime or TRASH taste in anime. Thank you for reading and also Setsuna is best girl.

86, Akame Ga Kill, and Redo of Healer are the only anime I've watched more than once. I've watched each 3 times now. If that tells you anything.

If you get offended easily, this is certainly not for you, but you should still watch it.

And if you're not easily offended, especially if you are a child of the 90s when revenge movies were at their peak and we enjoyed edge to our entertainment, you will likely love this anime.

Braveheart, Gladiator, The Crow, Redo of Healer
*It's unlike Any other anime.

Do you ever get sick of anime where the girls are hyper romantically aggressive and the guys run ... away with nosebleeds because they must not have functioning $!+%s?
Well, Redo of Healer may just be for you.

How about when the protagonist is treated like absolute dogs%$#, but then forgives the bad-guys (and girls) no matter what. Then instantly the most awful characters become good through the power of friendship. Ever get sick of that?
Well, Redo of Healer may just be for you.

Do you think Frieren was boring af, and that the titular character was snooty and unlikeable? And that it has no right to be listed higher than Fullmetal Alchemist?

*Wait, does watching each version of FMA count as another anime I watched twice?
Anyway, Redo of Healer may just be for you.

Sadly, because we live in a perpetually offended society in the West, this did not and won't get a dub. The one negative thing about it.
Though I am excited that another season seems more likely than not.

The score of this anime just shows you can't trust the scoring system and should read reviews for any anime you find interesting.

Or better yet, what I like to do is give it two episodes and see for myself.

Honestly, I am more curious of the implications of his healing magic than I am of his revenge, because, well, his revenge is stupidly paced. His healing does its job by undoing what has been done. It reverts the body back in time from before the body sustained injuries. You ever watched the Tangled movie? It works like that, sort of. But in the course of the healing, the injuries and mental anguish suffered at the point of injury and in the aftermath of sustaining it is channelled into the healer, causing him to suffer mentally as well as feel “physical” pain without any physical ... injuries happening to him. Already the author could have made a story around that premise. He didn’t. The power just ended up becoming whatever thing the author wanted to do to setup his story. If you are here for an in-depth exploration of that, you are likely not to get one. Find another show.

So, with regards to pacing (segue, because, see, my pacing and transition was also messed up), at the very least, the Episode 2 revenge should have been at Episode 4. This leaves us enough time for build up and allows his revenge plan to progress as a thriller, not a sloppy shitty voice over done in what, less than 10 minutes of Episode 2. Imagine if they at least had dedicated a full episode to his escape, how he outwits the guards, navigated the castle, etc, all while the spectre of discovery and punishment hangs over him, ready to punish a mistake. But it’s a voice over. His final escape of the castle is also a voiceover; not one scene is dedicated to the escape. So let’s just go to his initial revenge as this anime was wont to go; and just as a disclaimer, I watched the uncensored version just to not be accused of missing something that might shed new light on how I view this show.

How is it framed? Outside of maybe the music, it is not framed as horrifying or tragic that this kid has been abused to the point where he can see no recourse but to experience the abuse again on the way to getting revenge on her, instead of just stabbing her dead the first chance he gets. The way colors are used to highlight her naked body and the flagrant shot of her ass with careful contouring and angle while she was begging leads me to believe this is meant to titillate; not helping with that impression are the boob shots and cheesy hentai lines being spouted while she is being violated. This is at odds with how we are supposed to feel at this situation, pitying the MC for the mostly uncontrollable circumstances that led to this point of his life. And also questioning the decisions I have made during the day I wrote this draft that led me to analyzing what is supposedly a torture scene, pausing every bit in between the scenes to write my thoughts down. After that, I went 50/50 on the music because it could be that that piece meant to highlight her desperation -not his descent into darkness- and then frame that desperation as titillating.

So, this has the pacing of a hentai, the framing of a hentai, and if they had wanted to, they could have just made this straight up a hentai. If you want a revenge story, I’m not really sure this will hold up. It rushes towards payoffs, not realizing that build ups are equally important. That is the same way it handles its harem: rushing towards payoff. And yes, this is going to be a harem. The context points towards that outcome. Would it leave its audience feeling like the show pulled the old switcharoo trap of baiting them with edge and then pulling a harem and staying a harem away from the edge where they are now trapped in watching a harem show waiting for the edge to show up again? Let’s find out. I for one think he could use some pleasant stroll through the countryside after what happened to him but that was before Episode 2 happened and the also before the second girl joined him. Because this harem he is building is messed up as well and I would love to talk about it but I already spoiled something that happened in Episode 2. I will not do you the disservice of spoiling further. This prelim is just for the people on the fence about this show, to give them an impression of what they can expect.

First things first this is my first review.
But I already can tell you this: If you're a soft ahh person, than this is not for you.
I can recommend Tate No Yuusha then.. maybe...

The MC is heavily abused and mistreated by his whole enviroment. He's literally living in hell.
But somehow he manage to heal the world so the time gets set back to a point he didn't experienced all the pain yet. So he decided to get back to all the people in the most painful way possible.

From what I've seen yet the animation style is A+
The synchronisation of the voices is done perfectly as well ... as the storytelling.
Music and etc. is good too. Everything is definetely very enjoyable. At least for me it was.

Finally we get an MC which is not a disappointment and gets his revenge in the same way back.

I really don't know if this for you but if you can handle graphic stuff this is for you.

Revenge... For many, something good, necessary, a measure that has to be taken, with the objective of improving their reputation and dignity after being betrayed, scolded, hurt. For others, something that should not consume a person's essence, nonsense, since when he takes revenge on someone, the victim becomes as repulsive as the aggressor. Well, 12 episodes were more than enough to decide what Keyaru has become: a boy who, at the beginning, wants to take revenge for maintaining a minimum of dignity, but who has absorbed a possession and an excessive addiction to rotten, horrible and sick.

Honestly, talking about Kaifuku will be difficult, since there ... is not much to discuss. We'll start with the protagonist, Keyaru. He is a young man, who has been blessed with an incalculable power throughout the universe of history: the ability to heal immense and even fatal damage from other heroes and warriors in the Kingdom of Jioral. However, Keyaru is constantly abused by the inhabitants who struggle to defend the place. The main group, Bullet, Blade and Flare, is the one that most abuses the protagonist, from cursing to sexual acts. "Keyaru is a young man who must not suffer, he has done nothing... He does not deserve this." Well, if Kaifuku was a show that, due to its proposal, was suited to the minimum qualities of positively developing the protagonist, I could accept this argument. However, everything, absolutely EVERYTHING is degraded as the episodes pass. Well, Keyaru finally gets a power that makes him go back to the past (parallel world? Possibly, but Kaifuku doesn't care about that) and can rebuild his life, taking revenge on his molesters.

And how to take revenge on horrendous people, with no humanity at heart? The answer is simple for Keyaru, ladies and gentlemen, treating him the same way he was abused. Here we already have a problem, perhaps the biggest problem for the entire show. The anime does not hide that the protagonist is sick and further intensifies it in order to treat what he does as something normal. Okay, it would be understandable if these acts were only used against those who molested him a second time, in this "second world", before Keyaru gained resistance to one of the drugs offered by our sweet and beloved Princesses Flare. But no, as much as Keyaru has this objective of only punishing those who deserve it, he is completely lost. After doing what he did to Flare, in addition to faking her death, Keyaru isolates himself in a suburban city, erasing Flare's memories, in addition to changing her name.

In addition to being completely edgy, Keyaru has a multitude of peculiarities that defy his own disturbing mentality. The protagonist ironically conflicts with the reasons why he is doing the evil actions. At the same time that he repudiates the violence of the Jioral warriors, who arrest the people of the village of Keyaru, he is saddened, as an appealing way of possessing some boast and decency. That's right! One action of a kingdom is enough, according to the anime, to soften, justify and trivialize the actions of our eternal protagonist. It is not as if this is not something socially "accepted". In fact, ancient peoples already used some legislation to punish and nullify crimes. The Hammurabi Code and the "Eye for an eye" law are two of the many instruments that founded the infinite rules of morals and ethics in our world. However, it is poorly used in Kaifuku. In these instruments of inspection of the order of society, the intervener is the leader of the kingdom or the city itself. However, Keyaru takes responsibility for himself, as a legitimate defense and being solely responsible for this "adequacy of society". Keyaru himself assumes himself as a good character, a reference, someone to follow, as if he were a God. This kind of mentality degrades not only him, but his actions. It is understandable to see him attempting his redemption in some way, but does it need to be the same as the warriors did? He reset the world, was chosen again to be a hero in Jioral, defied his own sanity and promoted his "victory". The show also tries to alternate the protagonist's thoughts and ideals, when the people of his native village are taken to the kingdom as a way of attracting Keyaru. Furthermore, the woman who took care of Keyaru, being like a mother to him, is (OF COURSE) raped.

If Kaifuku was decent, even a change of face would be easily accepted, but no... not in Kaifuku. What Keyaru does doesn’t change Flare’s look practically, and it already puts the entire anime in a state of meaningless garbage. How can Keyaru just change his name to "Keyaruga", Flare become "Freia" and say "It's okay, no one will notice."? Any idiot would easily realize that he had changed nothing, literally nothing, of the two. TNK Studio is not to blame, it comes from the manga, when he gave more accurate illustrations about the characters. It is not possible that nobody warned Souken Haga, the manga's illustrator, to change the look more radically. And that is one of the minimum problems. Kaifuku doesn't stop there...

What to talk about the development of the group that Keyaru builds over time? Well, Setsuna, Crylet and Eve Reese are the other girls in this disgusting harem. Each with its goals, of course, has no way for Keyaru to achieve its ambitions without them. Setsuna is an ice wolf, who wants to annihilate those who almost wiped out her race people; Crylet is a warrior from the Kingdom of Jioral who surrenders to Keyaru having recovered his arm after an incident, even at the beginning of the anime: Eve Reese is a demon who aims to become her People's Leader. All of them, in some way, have their reasons for relating to Keyaru, but the show leaves that aside. The anime wants to show sex... And more sex... And more sex... Yes, Kaifuku only knows how to identify this as a reason to continue his productions. In addition to having completely horrible flashbacks of Keyaru being raped and taking revenge on some characters, the group he finds himself in does not stop surrendering to the "best anime protagonist". The reason? Well, in most cases it is a daily routine to increase the maximum level ability in the fantasy world. Yes, they completely missed even that. And the power of Keyaru? Healer? Really? He has an ex-machina power, which does literally everything he wants??? Anything that could be a problem for Keyaru's goals is rendered useless from the moment he has the capacity to do literally EVERYTHING. The fanciful elements are already appealing when Keyaru speaks "Heal" constantly, even more so when the hero's "liquid" is something sacred in this world, a holy chalice. Urgh !! This is really despicable to think about.

"What if Kaifuku was a Hentai? Would it be a good anime for that genre?" ~ Being honest, I would already consider Kaifuku a Hentai, because in addition to designing content with explicit and excessive sex scenes, the show has a very common proposal in anime for adults. In many cases, hentais address topics such as rape, mind break, blackmail, threats, ahegao and other techniques of intensity, with the aim of promoting libidinous action to those who assist. Kaifuku has all these techniques mentioned, but it is very difficult to imagine that the theme of the show helps to even be a support for excitement, since it is mainly an anime that assumed to be a story of redemption for a character who suffered a lot. The show sells that idea, we buy it. Some do not like it and give up to continue... Others continue and want to see the level that the show can reach. Unfortunately, the same show that was wrong to be an anime with a good story, was wrong to have ecchi, in addition to making mistakes even if it was, by definition, a hentai. It is really sad, after just over a year, to see another show decaying the minimum quality that some ecchis have already brought. Anyone who remembers Ishuzoku Reviewers knows that his idea is something that makes it easier for the show to have a fun and innovative story. Kaifuku tried to be innovative and, at the same time, wanted to be more than he could. The manga is no different. I remember when I started reading Kaifuku and I remember that I already thought everything the chapters proposed was okay. But today, two years after reading this manga, I seriously rethink the reasons that made me accept such a chaotic evolution of history. The only thing I can positively extract from the entire franchise is just the fact that it was the first manga I read. Of course, I was unaware of how bad it was. I was just a 15/16 year old boy who looked at this and thought it was "cool". Today I just think it's rubbish. A quality that exists only in the synopsis.

And what about your huge production? Well, she is objectively bad. Kaifuku presents an acceptable animation, but absolutely generic (remember, the biggest culprit of this is the manga's illustrator), in addition to a very bad scene composition. The show's director should now rethink having chosen Kaifuku to do his job now. Of course, I think the show must have been turned down countless times and ended up in one of the worst studios today. TNK was never a great promoter of good and decent works (DxD and School Days are enough to exemplify this), now it's Kaifuku. The magnum opus of destruction, chaos misunderstood. A masterpiece from 2021? Maybe... Maybe even Ex-Arm doesn't get over this character deconstruction. Maybe we're crazy...

No more...

This anime does not know how to take advantage of the revenge concepts and is not limited to just narrating... Kaifuku wants to be a hentai in disguise. Well, he did it, now the show has two versions, censored and adult. And what do we have? A horrible adaptation of a manga that was already horrible, of a light novel that is possibly not good either... This is the disaster of 2021 ladies and gentlemen. And I really hope that they have some neurons to understand that, no matter how it gets transmitted. Even though Keyaru has his reasons (which is already stupid, as he might as well do other acts instead of rape rape rape), the show does not hide the hell it is to sit in a chair and watch another video of the week, with a new and disposable episode, as Kaifuku has always been.

It is not just because it is an anime that has different revenge that it is being judged wrongly. It's about reusing a story that seems to be a good one, but constantly misses the initial goals, the World building and the characters, in addition to bringing a disgusting staff. Today, Kaifuku is nothing more than an object of consumption to never be seen again. It is possibly the worst show I have ever seen and this is not an exaggeration on my part, it is a personal manifestation of how it shouldn't exist.Tolerance is something that the author should know, but it seems that he will not be silent in the face of controversies, since this profits his financial balance...

A definite offense... Just that...
Kaifuku must be overlooked.

The idea which Redo of a Healer most attempts to explore is not revenge or whether people are redeemable or not, but rather the idea that one's environment makes a person. The core premise of the series is that a kind/selfless kid was absolutely destroyed by his environment and turned into more or less a psychopathic monster. The story isn't questioning whether Keyaru can be "redeemed" or not, nor whether Flare/Blade/Norn/etc could possibly be "redeemed", but rather examining how their environments changed them and how different environments could make a difference.

Flare ended up the way she did because her father is a sociopath who never ... showed her any love, and throughout her childhood she was aggressively scorned by all those around her until eventually she became a Hero and thus got the upper hand on them. She had been hurt by people in positions of power for her whole life, and now it was her turn. Is she "redeemable"? Does the tragedy behind the way she grew up "justify" what she does? Healer as a story doesn't care about these questions. All it cares about is that Flare wasn't born this way - her environment shaped her, and when given a new environment by Keyaru, she changes in turn. It's important to note that although he does lock away her memories, her "nature" still shines through as Freiya, so it's not like he creates an entirely new identity for her. He observes that without her father's racist influence, she never ends up squashing her secret hope for all races (demons/humans/demihumans/etc) to join together and live in peace.

Now, all this doesn't translate directly into Keyaru trying to "redeem" everyone, nor does the series imply he should. That people are molded by their environment is just a fact of reality which sometimes has negative consequences; it's not something that frees people of responsibility for their actions, nor is it something that obligates Keyaru to try to create a perfect environment for everyone (no more so than you or I are obligated to). In the first place, to posit that a character needs to be "redeemed" or not relies on deeming them as inherently evil or inherently flawed, and this is not a judgment Healer attempts to make.

Reason being, it's pretty shallow to try to delineate people between between the archetypes of "good" and "evil", since this is ultimately just playing with language and arbitrarily marking some behaviors as "good" and others as "evil". It's the classic example of how stealing is bad when you do it frivolously but justifiable when you do it to help your family or survive; if you try to think about ethics in this black and white way then you end up spending millennia playing with language without solving any real problems, just like moral philosophers have been doing for quite some time. There's never any end to it and all conclusions are just labyrinth amalgams of senseless words rather than any meaningful analysis as to the nature of human beings.

Naturally, Redo of a Healer is far too mature of a story to be bogged down by such amateurish pitfalls. It's interested in looking at people, how they grow, how their environments shape them (as mentioned), and what they can do to change themselves (e.g. change their environment). These are practical discussions that actually are meaningful, as opposed to being arbitrary ethical constructs. Keyaru is not some shallow moral philosopher wanna-be defining whether people are evil or redeemable or not. He just looks at what they do, how it impacts him, and makes real-life decisions based on those factors. The whole point of the early story, even, is that Keyaruga only kills people who hurt him personally, hence all that stuff about philosophy of revenge (which admittedly is pretty dumb, but the point of all that is that he's deranged anyway).

Point being, it would be pretty infantile to approach Healer as a work of good/evil, redemption/corruption, etc. The characters are nuanced and grow like real humans do. They make their decisions based on their goals and interests. There are no battles of "good vs evil" here (fuck, even the Demon King is explicitly not a bad person). The only morally obsessed character in the series in Kureha and she gets exploited for it, rather than hailed a paragon of virtue.

One we have this established we can finally attempt to judge the show Redo of a Healer on more than a surface level. Discard from your mind all preconceptions of what you think the show is about based on surface-level evaluations: Is it about glorifying the satisfaction of revenge? Is it a simple power fantasy meant to titillate and nothing more? Is it about the author creating evil characters and reveling in creating a Hero that can give them what they deserve? No. At the end of the day, attempting to tie stories down to overarching themes and morals like this is a plague of post-modernisms that infects modern criticism. Redo of a Healer is a quintessential example of a story written with a pure heart, with the author hoping nothing more than to create a world and realistic characters behaving in understandable ways, without imposing any judgment on his own characters or attempting to exploit their struggles to push some theme. J. R. R. Tolkein once said that readers often mistook applicability of allegory, and to understand Healer we must understand the author is attempting to create a world with secondary belief here, not a thinly veiled allegory for real life.

Thus it would be most efficient to analyze Healer by starting with the protagonist, Keyaru. This character is far more profound than the average anime viewer seems to understand, as I hinted at earlier. I think that shallow media out there has given us the implicit understanding that insane characters are actually profoundly intelligent and rational on the inside - the Jokers of the world with their calculated plans and metaphor-laden speeches. Keyaru, however, is deranged. The four years of torture legitimately damaged his mind and deeply hurt his psyche to the point he felt forced to escape into an alternate identity, Keyaruga, for fear of continuing to be his "weak" self, since being himself led to his aforementioned torture. The psychosis and insanity he experiences is all too real, and everyone mocking his actions as stupid, irrational, self-centered, etc are missing the point - that's exactly what a mentally deranged person would do! They wouldn't have perfect rationale for all their actions. They wouldn't have iron-tight philosophies. They would be deranged, and Keyaru is very deranged indeed. Imagine, if you will, how you might imagine an innocent young 14 would react after four years of non-stop abuse and torture. I think it's not hard to imagine them having their mind shatter and being forced to clinging to shallow ideas of "revenge" just to keep themselves going.

Because indeed, he was morphed by his environment, and it was a bad environment indeed. I think people want the author to lambast Keyaru for being so fucked up. Other people want the story to double down and embrace his actions. However, both options involve judgments that aren't fair to make, and the author understands this. The work offers no judgment on Keyaru - it does not call him evil, much like it doesn't call the other characters evil, and it doesn't double-down on justifying his deranged behavior, either. For better or worse he is the product of his environment, and the author is not about to lambast a man for being shaped by his environment. With this in mind we can piece together how the other characters in the story parallel this - Flare, in the way I mentioned earlier; Norn, who did everything she could to earn attention after being ignored for so long, including adopting sadistic and cruel philosophers to prosper in the corrupted kingdom; Bullet, who experienced an unexplained tragedy 3 years prior to the start of the story so terrible that it is shocking that he even can speak or act human at all; Blade, who was raised in luxury and never experienced being chastised for her actions, etc. Are any of these characters determined to be evil? Irredeemable? Redeemable? No. They are simply human beings shaped by their environment, and the author does not choose to make any claims as to whether people hurt or misled by their environment are good nor evil, redeemable nor redeemable, etc. They are simply people, and their behavior in the story reflects this.

Thus begins Keyaruga's rampage. On a technical level, the story itself is a bit unremarkable. Standard fantasy tropes with stats, level caps, and basic adventure with a regular helping of sex to spice things up. However, I think it's far more competent than it's given credit for. Keyaruga's Heal is overpowered for sure, but in general it's most useful for practical applications like making tools/potions/disguises/etc, with the actual battling being best left to the superior fighters such as Kureha. This leads to numerous intriguing scenarios where Keyaruga wins through wits rather than brawn, although the flashy action scenes are definitely more memorable than the alternatives. It's also hard to deny that the revenge scenes aren't highly memorable and entertaining, despite being morally detestable, and being so memorable is truly an accomplishment. But revenge aside, Keyaruga adventuring with his harem is heartwarming and a positive environment for everyone, and despite the brainwashing and whatnot making things a bit more morally complex, the environment truly is positive.

Which ties this into the whole concept of "environments shaping the people". All things considered, Keyaruga's adventuring party is a positive environment for all those involved. It brings out the best in Freiya, Setsuna, Kureha, and Eve. It's a messy and complex situation for sure, but they all end up better people at the end of the adventure, including Keyaruga himself, who slowly find his heart healed as he spends his nights with those who love him. Are the characters good or evil? Are their actions good or evil? Are they redeemable or irredeemable? As I have said countless times, Healer cares not for these immature questions. It espouses a philosophy far more advanced and meaningful - that people are simply people, and attempting to apply grand ethical judgments to the things they do is spinning circles in a game of language. All talk about Healer being morally detestable, or Keyaru being evil, or anything like that is simply missing the point.

Healer is about environments and growth. It's about finding a reason to live and learning to trust other people. It's about life.

Read the LNs if you can. The story slows down a bit in Volumes 4-5 (with the anime ending on Volume 3), but it really goes places by the end, and the depth of the author's ideas become far more apparent when you can peer closer into Keyaru's deranged mind and see the torment tearing him apart.

(WHEW. Now that episode 4 is out, I can finally rewrite my review without it getting removed.)


A basic "dark-fantasy narrative" reduction stock. A couple dashes of "bad writer's power fantasy." Add in around 50 mL of "mc-with-machiavellian-revenge-plans." Top it off with 2 tablespoons' worth of sex scenes to make it all enjoyable. Behold! You have concocted Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi!

This show just comes off as a the some kind of suppressed power-trip gone wild. It simply lacks substance. But hey, it's got sex, and the mc dominates, so.....sins forgiven? I'm not going to be dishonest and tell you that I didn't enjoy watching this crap. ... I was thoroughly entertained. This show plastered a big smile across my face. I mean, c'mon! The story revolves around a man who creates himself a harem and uses said harem to pursue ultimate vengeance! Kinda comedic if you say it out loud? Yes. Unenjoyable? NOPE.

If you're looking for something with compelling writing and well constructed characters, you're better off watching something else. If you want to see a show that gives off the same aesthetic vibes as Goblin Slayer, whip off your pants right now and git ready to GET OFF TO THIS SHOW. Just kidding. Keep your pants on. Case in point, this show is enjoyable, and I will continue to watch it. However, it would be brutally dishonest to rate this shit anything above a 5.