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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 lateâhe 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 purposeâto exact revenge upon those who have wronged him. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
7.5/10
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55%
Recommend It
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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. Itâs not for everyone, in fact itâs probably not for most people. Thatâs fine. It was for me. âYou only like Redo because of how edgy it isâ Well, youâre 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 weâre 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 doesnât give a fuck. Heâs 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 Keyaruâs desire to not hurt anyone who hasnât hurt him isnât 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. Heâs 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 youâd hope. I do think the OST was pretty weak, but thatâs 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 youâre just gonna have a meltdown about how edgy it is, just stay away. Kayari gets 10 heals out of 10.
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I havenât 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 itâs also hands down the most entertaining anime of Winter 2021! Iâm dead serious. So, exactly what kind of idiocy are we in for? In case you arenât aware, there is a certain sub-genre within the wide world of isekai. These are the isekai like Shield Hero thatwere 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 âconsentâ 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 donât 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 doesnât mean we should take the opposite extreme and try erase 100 percent of those movies! Everyone deserves a movie or show thatâs made for them. Sometimes we all want to feel comfort, acceptance, and recognition that we donât have to work for. So where does Redo of Healer fit into all this? HonestlyâŠIâm 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 heâs 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 doesnât 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 didnât care about the people. He decided to summon a giant bull and have it rape the killers to death in order to âavenge the foodâ. 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. Iâve 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 doesnât 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. âWhen you make a film in which a man dresses up in a bear suit and runs around punching women, youâve made a comedy.â Redo of Healer can only be classified as a comedy. Itâs not really a revenge porn because it isnât 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 donât think itâs 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 doesnât 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 donât need to be male to enjoy this show. You donât have to be straight. You donât need to be a virgin with rage. All you need to have a ball with Redo of Healer is a dark sense of humor. Iâm not going to spend much time covering the plot of this show, because the plot honestly doesnât 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. Hereâs why thatâs so stupid. Keyaru never exercises and isnât in good shape. He hasnât conditioned his body at all. Yet heâs 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 doesnât mean youâll be as fast as Usain Bolt! A doctor with poor hand eye coordination can know exactly how to perform a surgery and still wonât be able to do it! He also doesnât have an abnormally high level of mana, but can cast S tier spells because he knows the basics of how to do it. Keyaruâs 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 Iâve seen of the manâs interviews. However, Keyaruâs bullshit power has one amazing upside for the viewer. Every single spell in existence is activated by the incantation âHEAL!â This means that every single battle in the show is Keyaru just screaming âHEAL! HEAL! HEAL! HEAL!â ad infinitum. I canât describe how funny this becomes after a few episodes. All credit goes to Keyaruâs 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! Iâm a little sad I canât bring myself to rate it higher, but itâs 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. Reviewerâs 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-Twitterâd armor-plated exemplars who fervently admire this sort of stuffs. Anyhow, itâs 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 intelligencehowever you want, but whenever I watch this show, my attention span halves and my brain ceases to intellectually function (though confessedly I just donât really care about whatever was going on). But that didnât 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 thereâs anything I ought to be mindful of, it is that unlike Shield Hero, our protagonist healer hero isnât some midway morally ambiguous caitiff that weâre supposed to like. Ironically, that makes it all the better. Letâs get one thing straight first. The discourse on morality, sexual violence and (hate to even type this) âthematic depthâ regarding this show is all worthless to me, because for a torture porn to receive such a treatment is unthinkable. Itâs like saying âI watch Ruggero Deodatoâs movies for the plotâ. 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 audienceâs remorse. Essentially the classic âlook at how satisfying the rape revenge brought upon these scums of the earth isâ, 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 wouldnât 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 charactersâ suffering, superficially appealing to the instinctual human response. Of course whether youâre 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. âBut no one deserves to be tortured.â 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, isnât it? For whatever a psychopath does isnât 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 wouldnât 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 doesnât make it seem cool? Sure it works in favor of evil, but it isnât 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 peopleâs 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. Thereâs 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 heâs 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 itâs 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 isnât 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 doesnât pique my interest. Btw I didnât watch most of the Shield-Hero-esque trading/investigating/wandering shenanigans but I get the gist of it. Still letâs just say Redo of Healer does it better and thus is a wholly better show because we all know thatâs true. For the overall production quality, itâs aight like a mid-tier hentai I didnât 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 youâre welcome. Enough said, Shield Hero can go suck Healer Heroâs long shadow schlong. This is objectively the superior revenge tale.
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 thissubject, 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