Sit back, relax and if you have been watching the censored version, you’ve been watching it wrong as I present to you the anime review for Redo of Healer. Let’s begin.
Story: 1/10
The story story follows a villager by the name of Keyaru who has just acquired the special powers of a hero who has the ability to heal all wounds and gain their strengths. Greeted and taken to a kingdom by Princess Flare, life seemingly would pose a great future for him. However it would soon turn to tragedy as he would get tortured and sexually assaulted for nearly two years, with them not realising that he was slowly getting much stronger than all of them. To get his life back, he casts a powerful spell that resets the world back to when he got the power of the hero to set things right and with one goal on his mind. REVENGE.
Revenge is the common word that is used throughout this show and they will make sure that you know that Keyaru wants his revenge. The entire season is all about Keyaru getting his revenge on the people that wronged him. But that’s really the extent of the plot. Sure, there’s finding out how the daemon lord came to be but we know what this show is really about. It’s about Keyaru treating the people he wronged the same way they treated him. It’s rather single minded in that regard and the way he goes about it is...interesting but doesn’t diverge much. It is a very linear revenge story and kind of blows its load (in more ways than one) early on when dealing with the main culprit narratively speaking. Also things just kind of happen with little explanation as to how as I think it is only used as plot devices with little reasoning behind just so we can have the revenge plot and...other stuff. Like how does Keyaru have the ability to “reset the world to get his revenge.” It doesn’t get explained but it’s convenient. But that just sums it up. Things are convenient just so Keyaru can get his revenge.
But I know we ain’t watching it for the bare bones plot. No, what we are really watching it for is for the show’s explicit scenes, the spicy bits, the reason why we watch hentai in the first place. It does do some very heavy stuff like sexual assault and doesn’t imply it, it very much does it. Let me put it this way, if you can’t handle episode two, then don’t watch the rest of this series. If you can, then you will be fine because you will only be watching this for the sex. But that does make the whole story very shallow because the only thing we are watching this show for is the sex scenes. Granted, the sex scenes are absurdly hilarious because it is simply over the top with what’s on display. It wants to be an above average hentai plot rolls with it with some hentai logic thrown in there as well. While that is amusing, it doesn’t change the fact the story is a basic plot and is only as a base point for those sex scenes to happen.
Characters: 1/10
Keyaru is not a good protagonist both in a critical sense and in a morality sense. He has no remorse for his actions and simply wants to get his revenge by any means necessary. Granted, being tortured and sexually assaulted for two and a half years would’ve changed anyone’s psyche regardless and he does have a code of not harming anyone who has not wronged him. Yet growth or development is not there at all. He’s the same character from start to finish being an overpowered edgelord that thankfully, doesn’t mope like 90% of edgelord protagonists, yet wants to have sex with every women that comes close to him. He treats the world as his playground to have fun with and do what he wants. But he doesn’t come across as likeable because his actions are just something I cannot agree with. The only reason the show tries to justify his actions is to make the villains of the show even worse than him. But that’s not really a valid reason, that’s just a compromise to justify Keayru’s actions. But it doesn’t really matter because he stoops down to their level anyway when he gets his revenge on them. The villains themselves are so comical that they don’t try to hide the fact they are just simply d**kheads. It does make their eventual demise kind of satisfying though that they are getting what’s coming to them.
Now, Keyaru is not alone in his travels as he does have some companions with him. First, you have Freiya who is nothing more than Keyaru’s sex object. Now it does make sense narratively but doesn’t change the fact that she is only a sex object and doesn’t grow out of that. She’s just there and is mainly used to make sure the annual sex quota in each episode is fulfilled. Then there’s Setsuna (Who I hope to god is not underage) who does haver her own mini arc of getting revenge for her village but that gets resolved within an episode and is also treated as a sex object. You also have Kureha and Eve along the way but you know where I’m going with this. All women that have a name in this series are treated as nothing but sex objects and for the use of fan service. They have very small personalties besides the odd Tsundere and don’t have much of a say in Keyaru’s plans. They are there to be f**kable and that’s all they’re there for.
Animation: 6/10
TNK is the studio behind this and they do know a thing or two about jiggily t**s and other types of fan service. This is the same studio that made the first three seasons of Highschool DxD after all. To their credit though, the animation is alright. The fights are solid in their animation quality and the buoyancy of it all is done pretty well all things considered. Considering that the show’s main draw is the sex scenes, you might as well make it look good and they kind of do, especially when you got some moody lighting to go along with. But the character designs are a bit bland. They just look rather uninspired and a bit cliched for their characters. It makes them look identifiable with what they are all about but doesn’t go any further to make them look unique with maybe the exception of Setsuna who does rock the ice wolf look.
Sound: 4.5/10
There’s probably only two soundtracks I remember and it’s the ones normally played in the show’s sex scenes, mostly in the ones where Keyaru gets his revenge because despite the scenes nature, it is thematically appropriate for what is on display and to make it more dramatic which just adds to the hilarity factor. It’s the only ones that stand out because the rest of the soundtrack is forgettable honestly. Rather typical fantasy music, but unlike the ones played in the sex scenes, isn’t as memorable for it to stand out or to enhance a scene. Much like the show as a whole, I will only remember it for the sex scenes.
The opening is decent at least. “Zankoku na Yume to Nemure" by Minami Kuribayashi is an opening I did not skip that does show what kind of the things you will be seeing as a sort of expectation for what is to come (even though it doesn’t show what is ACTUALLY going to go down). The ending though is better than the ED in my opinion. "Yume de Sekai wo Kaeru nara" by ARCANA PROJECT has a nice calming song, solid visuals and girls in their night clothing. Nothing really to complain here. Well maybe except the animation could be better instead of a third of just showing the female characters while rotating in the circle. They are both solid but nothing special in any way.
Conclusion
Listen, telling you that Redo of Healer is trash is like telling you that the Anakin and Padmé relationship in Attack of the Clones was trash. I mean yeah, it’s obvious, but it’s still hilarious that it exists. You know what you are getting into with the first episode and it doesn’t deny it. The show only embraces the trash it becomes and you know what, I enjoy watching trash anime at times. I enjoy watching something so bad and ridiculous that it’s hilarious. My jaw dropped at the scenes whenever Keyaru got his revenge and just couldn’t stop laughing because the fact that something like this exists in such a ridiculous way is seen to be believed. I haven’t enjoyed something so hilariously bad since Arifureta and that was a steaming pile of crap that somehow managed to get an approved sequel.
Don’t get me wrong, this show ain’t good. It’s such a barebones revenge story with plenty of stupid conveniences, unlikeable characters and decent production values. But I know you ain’t watching this for the plot or its characters. No, you’re watching it to see how far this show will go and it does go pretty far. Watching for the story and characters is like watching hentai for the plot. WHY? We all watch hentai for the sex and this is no different. You watching it to see a mentally damaged edgelord get his revenge on a b**ch of a princess, c**kslapping her and asking her if she wants a hot iron rod or his throbbing rod. That’s the kind of show you are watching and it has no shame of doing so. It’s so bad, it’s hilarious that it simply exists.
How to recommend this show is difficult because it all depends on how you perceive the show going into it. If you want to watch something so bad it’s hilarious, then check it out because this is certainly something you are looking for. If not, then stay the f**k away and move on. Go watch something like Shield Hero that shares similar aspects to this show but does it better in every single category.
My Personal Enjoyment: 5/10
Overall score: 3.5/10 Recommendation: Consider it (If you are looking for something trashy to watch)
Don’t f**king bother (If you are not)
