Redo of Healer
回復術士のやり直し (Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi)
- Action
- Erotica
- Fantasy
- Gore
- Harem
- Time Travel
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 24 min per ep
- Aired
- Jan 13, 2021 to Mar 31, 2021
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Keyaru awakens as a Hero gifted with extraordinary healing—able to mend even the most severe wounds—and initially seems destined for a celebrated future. Instead, he endures years of brutal exploitation and torment. While forced to use his powers, he quietly amasses strength by absorbing the memories and abilities of those he heals, eventually surpassing everyone around him, though only after he’s already been stripped of nearly everything.
Refusing to accept that fate, Keyaru casts a healing spell powerful enough to rewind the world to a point before his suffering began. Carrying the pain and knowledge of what was done to him, he sets out to redo his life from the beginning—this time with revenge as his guiding purpose.
Otaku Consensus
Redo of Healer is most successful when Takuya Asaoka’s blunt direction and Kazuyuki Fudeyasu’s no-detour series composition turn Rui Tsukiyo’s material into a fast, nasty exploitation machine rather than a conventional fantasy quest. TNK’s adaptation preserves the source’s adult content and Siokonbu-derived character appeal closely enough that fans praise the art, music, attractive cast designs, and early revenge escalation, but that same fidelity is also the dividing line. The dominant criticism is not weak pacing; it is that the sexual violence, torture, and harem wish-fulfillment overwhelm the fantasy setting and leave little room for moral complexity.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Redo of Healer only if you want revenge anime treated as grindhouse fantasy rather than moral drama: graphic payback, harem power dynamics, medieval magic, and content-warning material pushed to the front. It scratches the same itch as Goblin Slayer’s hard-R dark-fantasy shock value and The Rising of the Shield Hero’s grievance-driven power fantasy, but without the comforting heroic framing. The appeal is its refusal to sand down the source’s uglier ingredients: TNK gives the violence and eroticism equal narrative weight, while the 12-episode run keeps the escalation blunt and fast. Viewers who like anti-heroes, punishment loops, and “how far will this go?” viewing will understand its cult pull; viewers needing catharsis without sexual violence should skip it.
Key Characters
- KKeyaru(VA: Yuya Hozumi)
Keyaru is discussed less as a heroic lead than as an anti-hero stress test, with the show asking whether viewers can follow a protagonist whose appeal is tied to retaliation rather than redemption.
- FFreia(VA: Ayano Shibuya)
Freia sits at the center of the series’ most divisive debates about identity, coercion, and fanservice, making her one of the reasons the adaptation became so widely argued over.
- SSetsuna(VA: Shizuka Ishigami)
Setsuna gives the harem structure a colder survival-fantasy edge, standing out to fans who prefer the show when it leans into party-building rather than royal intrigue.
- KKureha Crylet(VA: Natsuki Aikawa)
Kureha brings a more traditional swordswoman archetype into a series built to corrode traditional heroism, making her a useful contrast to Keyaru’s anti-hero framing.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
The TV anime was produced by TNK as a 12-episode Winter 2021 adaptation, airing from January 13 to March 31, 2021. Its compact run contributes to the show’s reputation for rapid escalation rather than slow fantasy world-building.
- 2
The adaptation keeps the adult material central instead of treating it as background flavor, matching AniList tag weights such as Revenge at 94%, Rape at 90%, Nudity at 88%, Torture at 85%, Gore at 77%, and Slavery at 76%.
- 3
Director Takuya Asaoka and series composer Kazuyuki Fudeyasu structure the anime around continuous reprisal beats, which is why even negative viewers often criticize its content more than its momentum.
- 4
The production separates original character design and anime character design: Siokonbu is credited for the original designs, while Junji Gotou translates them for animation. That pipeline helps explain why viewer praise often singles out the female character designs even when criticizing the writing.
- 5
Its reception profile is unusually split for a TV fantasy title: it has a 6.31 MAL score from 371,314 votes, a 58/100 AniList score, and 3,303 AniList favourites, showing that the show’s notoriety translated into both rejection and dedicated fandom.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Redo of Healer’s source credit belongs to Rui Tsukiyo, while the anime’s visual identity draws from Siokonbu’s original character designs and Junji Gotou’s animation-ready designs.
- Fun fact 2
- The staff list includes Yutaka Miya on prop design, Masatoshi Kai as art director, Satoru Hirayanagi and Tomoyasu Fujise on art design, and Aiko Matsuyama on color design, a notable amount of credited visual specialization for a 12-episode exploitation-fantasy adaptation.
- Fun fact 3
- Kazuyuki Fudeyasu handled series composition, a key role for a show whose reception depends heavily on how quickly it moves between revenge, erotic content, and fantasy conflict.
- Fun fact 4
- The anime is officially categorized with Action, Erotica, and Fantasy genres, while its theme labels include Gore, Harem, and Time Travel, making it far more explicit in database taxonomy than the average dark-fantasy TV entry.
- Fun fact 5
- Its popularity outpaces its average score: despite sitting at 6.31/10 on MAL, it reached MAL Popularity rank #384, reflecting how controversy helped make it one of the most recognized anime of its season.
Studios
- TNK
