Review of Redo of Healer

Redo of Healer is in the case of being very good in its own way, and very bad in it's own way as well. It's an anime that is highly unappealing for its highly taboo and explicit content which goes to show that it's very bad, but it really fulfills its concept of: "I have to do bad things in order to get rid of everything that is bad in this world." Despite being unappealing for its content, it's one of those anime that has a very dark story that is progressive from start to finish which goes to show that it's also very goodand that it achieves its identity as a dark anime from an objective standpoint.

Note: I am in NO WAY going to be defending Redo of Healer because of how it is, BUT I will try to be anthropological and fair in reviewing this anime.

Story: 7.5/10 (Constructive/Objective Standpoint), 3/10 (Based on Appeal)
Characters: 5.5/10
Art & Animation: 7.5/10
Sound: 6.5/10
OP Song: 6.5/10
ED Song: 7.5/10
Enjoyment: 3/10 ==> 5/10 ==> 7/10

Story Review:

In this paragraph, it will just be about why and how Redo of Healer's story is highly unappealing. Revenge is not really a bad thing to do, it's something you have to think about thoroughly. Redo of Healer's plot is revenge, and the story is about revenge in an extreme manner all for a good intention and purpose of fixing the world. It has a concept of "I have do to very bad things in order to get rid of what's bad in this world" and it's not bad but that kind of concept really just got overshadowed because of the content of the anime. The issue behind the story were the very sexual and very taboo desires and doings of all the characters in either the form revenge or self-satisfactory and that the anime was not categorized as "Hentai." Throughout the story, we get to see so much explicit content all to just fulfill the concept and give more emphasis to its story. It uses extreme suffering, taboo doings, and horrid experiences as plot devices for its story, and these would be what contributes to its content being a highly unappealing one. These include torture, killing, rape, lies, deceit, and anything that would count as suffering and taboo, and these tools were used to give more detail into its story and supports the plot even more. It is understandable that this is wrong especially with rape as it should not be used in mainstream entertainment because it goes against morality and ethics. To simply say, what makes the story bad is that it went over the line or too much when it comes to delivering explicit content, and it got controversial because it was on mainstream platforms.

In this paragraph, I'll be reviewing the story as objective as I could. Revenge, again, is not really a bad thing to do, it's something you have to think about thoroughly. This anime has the one of the best dark stories I have ever watched so far. From an unbiased perspective, the story includes a lot of what you would want from a dark story. The anime tries to find the balance in delivering the story of revenge by trying to equalize "everything that was done to Keyaru" to "everything that Keyaru will do." Given of what Keyaru has been through (it was more than hell), I'd say he has earned the right to give back all the suffering of what was done to him. The most cliche scenarios of revenge stories is pretty much direct murder, but in Redo of Healer's case, it doesn't take the cliche route and instead, would go for a route about extreme suffering that would be too much to handle for viewers who have never watched anything extreme. I'm can handle watching that kind of content. The plot devices used, as I observed, were extreme sufferings, highly taboo doings, and horrid experiences, and what impressed me is how these plot devices actually progressed the story despite being unappealing. It does so by using these plot devices to drive the story forward by giving more emphasis and detail to the progress of Keyaru's revenge, desires, and ideals which helped support the plot even more.

Apart from all that, the story tends to be rushed. It narrows down to revenge specifically, to what Keyaru will just do. Although we get to see flashbacks just to give more background to the characters and spice up the story further, we don't get to see everything behind of what Keyaru does in greater detail, but just a part of it. Think of it as when someone shows you a recipe of a dish, but never told you the steps in doing so and you can kind of guess how you can make the dish. Pretty much, the delivery of the story was just direct and it's not bad at all if that's how it is going to be, since the anime manages to have a progressive story. The biggest downside of the story would have to be the inconsistent timing and excessive use of explicit content. It's like there would be a sex scene that brings a substance to the story, and then there will be another sex scene that really has no substance or participation to the story at all and you can just say that it was unnecessary and had no value even if it was a character's desire. The unnecessary explicit content might just be for fanservice I think which is often the case for most hentai anime out there even though Redo of Healer was not classified as hentai.

Characters Review:

Keyaru basically takes the spotlight out of all the characters. Everything of this series has revolved around him. Keyaru is one of those characters that really fulfilled the objective of doing everything that is bad just to get rid of what is bad in this world. He is very smart in what he does as he already has a lot of experience in dealing with life in the anime. He is the main reason why the anime has such a good dark story and also the reason why the anime is highly unappealing and controversial. He is also the downside of the anime as he is a character that likes to create explicit scenes for unnecessary reasons. We also have Freia, Setsuna, Kureha, and Eve who are just basically Keyaru's tools and had a mere substance and participation to the story. There was really not much character build-up to these girls which makes them kind of bland. Despite that, they are still useful characters that contribute to the progression of the story. Keyaru's enemies actually had more substance throughout as the relationship of Keyaru and his enemies gave life to the story.

Art and Animation Review:

The character designs were good-looking and impressive for an anime that lacked greater detail in art. Despite lacking greater detail, it was still pretty good as it's just clean and simple. The animation too was pretty good. The fight scenes though lacked a little bit more in detail and delivery, but it was still pretty good. The only improvement that TNK must do is to add more detail in everything and make the fight scenes flashier, immersive, and appealing.

Sounds Review:

The voice acting was kind of good. The seiyuus weren't that bad, but I wish they would be more emotional and less stiff with the characters they're voicing. There is still room for improvement within the voice acting. Other than that, the voice acting was reflective on the characters' personality and it suited them really well. It just needs more exaggeration and I hope the seiyuus find a really good form in the voice acting of the characters.

My Thoughts:

The nature of judging anime that contains a dark story is that it will come to controversial situation and will be bombarded with low ratings. In my opinion, just because it's controversial, it doesn't mean that it's already a "bad anime" to begin with, it could mean that it doesn't appeal to you. There is a difference between what is bad and what is unappealing.

What I would like to say in this review is that I talked about it in two standpoints. An objective standpoint and the standpoint of appeal. Each standpoint has its own reasons, and it opposes each other. I try to mix in both standpoints but just couldn't do so. I figure if taboo and explicit content is on the same level of acceptance as lies, deceit, torture, death, and killings in the aspect of mainstream entertainment, I'd be able to mix both standpoints in (I'm not saying it should be accepted). There are people who would enjoy these types of stories and there are people who wouldn't.

I personally think these kinds of entertainment shouldn't be normalized. If this was kept hidden underground, I wouldn't mind of its existence. Would I watch more of Redo of Healer? If the story is still progressive, I would. Would I want a season 2? I don't mind if it gets a 2nd season. Would I recommend this to others? No and I highly discourage to recommend this directly to people.... unless it's for the memes and lols.