Review of Redo of Healer

So, let's talk about Redo of Healer. You know, that anime that basically functions as the internet's favorite edgy talking point. It's a weird one, because it can't seem to figure out what it wants to be. On one hand, you've got the setup of a standard dark fantasy revenge story. The main guy, a healer, gets horribly abused, gains the power to rewind time, and decides to take revenge on everyone who wronged him. It's a power fantasy, plain and simple. But then the show decides that "revenge" doesn't just mean outsmarting or killing his enemies. Oh no. It means meticulously re-enacting the same kindsof sexual violence he suffered, but now he's in charge. The story seems to think this is a really deep and compelling character motivation, when it mostly just comes off as the writer working out some serious issues.

And that's where the identity crisis kicks in. This show is stuck in a really awkward spot. It's way too focused on sexual violence to be a traditional anime, but it's also too hung up on its own lame plot and world-building to just be a full blown hentai. It's like it wants to be taken seriously as a gritty story, but its main tool for storytelling is just making you watch horrible things happen, over and over.

The result is this strangely shallow experience. The main character's "development" is just him becoming a more efficient monster. The women around him either exist to be brutalized or, in a truly bizarre twist, become his brainwashed followers who adore him after he's violated them. They're not characters; they're props in his gross power trip.

In the end, Redo of Healer isn't smart or profound. It's just nasty. It’s the kind of show that mistakes being as edgy and brutal as possible for having something important to say. It's a revenge fantasy that forgets to be fun or even interesting, leaving you with nothing but a bad taste in your mouth.