Redo of Healer



Redo of Healer is a Japanese light novel series written by Rui Tsukiyo and illustrated by Shiokonbu that began serialization in December 29, 2016 from the Shosetsuka Ni Naro website and published by Kadokawa Shoten's Sneaker Bunko imprint. The story follows Keyaru, chosen to be a hero of the lowest class, Healer, only to be exploited and tortured for four years. Using the power of a demon stone, he rewinds time four years and seeks vengeance on his torturers. The series also received an anime adaptation by studio TNK that was banned or censored in several countries for it's controversial content.

Why It Cannot Redo to Heal
Note:This series is possibly meant to be bad
 * 1) The main character, Keyaru/Keyarga, is INCREDIBLY unlikeable, unheroic, and unrelatable. Instead of just killing the people who tortured him, he chooses to RAPE them, which is far worse in every way and makes him both hypocritical and worse than the actual villains. Even when he's not doing these horrible things, his personality is very grating, considering how he acts like it's acceptable and is far too overpowered the whole time, never once facing consequences for his actions.
 * 2) * Keyaru also kills a lot of innocent people for little to no reason, which, once again, makes him more villainous than the actual villains.
 * 3) * You could say that he's supposed to be an anti-hero (not that that justifies anything), but even anti-heroes have a set of morals and don't just do a bunch of repugnant stuff. This effectively makes Keyaru even worse than the original Kratos from first 3 God of War games in pretty much every way, as he has no charm or relatability at all.
 * 4) Flare Earlgrande Giorial is a more dreadful rip off of Malty Malromarc from The Rising of a Shield Hero who is the sole reason for Keyaru's sadistic nature when she took him as a tortured slave.
 * 5) Shiokonbu's art style and angles are inconsistent and makes reading it confusing at times. It often seems like they're trying to sort of "censor" the explicit imagery, but often looks bad because of it. For example, nipples, male or female, are always completely whited out or undrawn, which looks kind of bad.
 * 6) Grossly exploitative. It doesn't help the fact that Keyaru's first victim is a woman. Sure, she might've gotten him addicted to drugs and made him a sex slave to her soldiers, but she herself never raped him, which makes him seem even more villainous.
 * 7) On that note, not only does he threaten to rape her with hot metal before she desperately begs for the less painful (but still just as vile) version, he then erases her memory and makes her his amnesiac sex slave. She becomes a good person after the memory wipe, but he still sees it as a way to give her further pain.
 * 8) The whole plot is just another generic revenge story, only it's far more mean about it and disgusting due to the actions of the main character.
 * 9) Renard is another cruel brutish knight with a sadistic behavior just like Keyaru (until he gets his comeuppance into becoming a girl and is killed getting tortured by Keyaru's brainwashed men).
 * 10) Most of the female characters in the series are either sexually attracted to Keyaru, sadomasochistic, or both, which is a way to make them unremarkable and a rather sexist representation thereof. Sex wouldn't be mentioned so much if it wasn't so overly prominent in the series. This also makes the story feel incredibly dated considering how many manga and just media in general have strong female characters who aren't sex obsessed like these ones. Not to mention that Keyaru often touches them inappropriately WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT.
 * 11) Constant sex scenes with buildup that feels very much like a porn movie with the dialogue and the way they're drawn.
 * 12) Bullet and Blade are EXCEEDINGLY poor representations of LGBT characters. Not only are both rapists (because why wouldn't they be in this series?), but they both clearly have no idea how a homosexual relationship works. Blade says she can't pleasure Flare, which is just a bad line of dialogue that pretty much just says "I'm a woman too, I'll never be in a relationship.". There have even been some anime and manga that represent them well (though few and far between, unfortunately), which makes this especially inexcusable.
 * 13) *Speaking of which Bullet is a highly offensive African-American gay man.
 * 14) Terrible worldbuilding. It's got the JRPG aesthetic of another light novel series, The Rising of the Shield Hero, only this one makes no sense at all, since Keyaru is able to easily gain powerful abilities like poison and drug resistance through doing them constantly. Wouldn't he be more likely to die first if he does it so much? That's how an RPG works. It also has objects stolen directly from other RPG series like the Scroll of Identify from Diablo. This whole thing just feels really out of place, considering the series ISN'T an Isekai.
 * 15) Apparently, people in the world can increase their level cap by taking semen from a hero. That, once again, is a disgusting sentence in of itself, and also only serves as an excuse to have Keyaru become a sex object early on, and to have him have sex with the female characters on a regular basis. It also doesn't make any sense, since the world could not possibly be protected by just a handful of gifted people. It would be far more interesting if this part was taken out.
 * 16) It makes no sense why the other heroes were so villainous. Literally, there's no reason for them to be that way. They very suddenly change to the super generic "We're rich and powerful, so let's abuse everyone below us" kind of villains.
 * 17) It somehow managed to get an anime adaptation that often has an amount of censorship. Which give the studio, TNK, and their lead artist, Junji Goto, a bad reputation.
 * 18) The series is a ripoff of the Rance RPG series from Alicesoft.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The art style is pretty decent for the most part, even if angles sometimes make it confusing.
 * 2) At least Keyaru was not a generic "reincarnated" protagonist and has a reason for his actions and it tried to make him sympathetic at first, even if it in no way justifies or excuses them.
 * 3) Some likeable characters, like Setsuna, Freya (the new identity of Flare), and Kureha, even if they're all still unnecessarily sex-obsessed.