Title: The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic Other Titles: Author: Reki Kugayama, Kei Kurokata
Main Character: Usato Ken Gender: Male Cheat: Healing Magic Aptitude Transport: Summoned
Summary: One rainy day, average student Usato Ken ends up having a run in with the popular council president Inukami Suzune and vice president Ryuusen Kazuki, both of them attractive and skilled. This ends up changing his life... as the summons of another world pull the two to fulfill the request of being heroes. However, Usato never heard the bell. He's only a bystander... at least until he checks his magical aptitude on a lark and realizes he's a healer. That gets the sharp attention of the woman in charge of "Kingdom Rescue Squad", infamous for turning the idea of weak delicate healers on its head.
Pros: Isekai Reflection, Creative Use of Healing Magic, Fun Deutoagonists, Badass Healing Teacher
It's basic video game logic, whether in a fantasy RPG or a multiplayer like Overwatch, that you want to take out the healer first before anyone else. In exchange for their healing abilities, they're commonly made weaker when it comes to things like offense and defense. They're certainly valuable, but not powerful. However...
What if your healer character could just... self buff constantly? What if they could use their powers to keep on training, keep their endurance higher, self-heal from any injury almost instantaneously? What if they could just... dodge any attack headed their way, all while stealing away the heavily injured so that they can be sent back into the fray at tip-top shape?
That is the idea behind this series. And frankly? It's really fun.
I really adore series that think of creative ways in which to use established magical abilities or powers, and this one is a prime example of that. It even acknowledges, in-universe, how healers are seen as weak and not suitable for battle. Yet it only takes turning powers inwards instead of out to change the scene completely. Not only does this change how a healer can be themself, but also even how they can deal with combat... Not that they should, of course. Despite the way healing magic is taught, it's also reminded of a healer's first and most important job: to heal others. A healer can turn the tides, can save lives, but that can't happen if they die themselves.
Of course, the kind of person who would think up this kind of healing outlook has to be one hell of a person. For those who are fans of Fullmetal Alchemist and the heartwarming but tough Izumi Curtis, they might find themselves quite liking the woman who ends up taking the MC under her wing. She's that same kind of hilariously badass, now in Combat Medic form, with unbelievably ruthless training and an infamous reputation. She carelessly shows off incredibly badass abilities while also bringing in some great humor because of how absurd her training demands can be. Yet at her heart, you can also tell that she's truly a person who wants to see other people survive, and there's a depth to her that makes her more than a simple humorously vicious mentor. It really adds something to the MC's training, and the reader's view of what healing magic is both capable of and truly meant for.
With the MC and his teacher alone, this story could probably carry itself pretty well. However, remember: the MC isn't even supposed to be a part of this isekai tale. He just got dragged along for the ride because he was too close to the actual summoned heroes. While they don't get nearly as much attention paid to them at the beginning, since the MC is separate from them in his medic training, they both still show plenty of personality and solid moments which I imagine can only improve as the story progresses. They're both quite different people, with one bringing in a lightheartedness to the series and the other being an almost grounding influence.
This is displayed excellently right in the first chapter, when they're all told of the reason they were summoned to another world in the first place. One of the two immediately snaps out at the king and his whole court, calling "Bullshit!" and pointing out that they all had lives and families that they were just pulled away from without any say in the matter. He manages to back down a little after some more conversation and a humble display, but it's a good grounding hint of how this series can occasionally touch in deeper. For some, this kind of scenario might be a good thing with that it can give them a better place to belong or give them a goal they didn't otherwise have... but for others, this is just tearing them away from all they know. Moments like that really help one care for all three teenagers who've been dragged into this, even if they're going along with everything for right now.
Cons: None
This series is really fun for me, and I'm always left hungering for the next chapter with minimal to no complaints.
General Warnings: fantasy racism, bullying
Slavery: Yes, referenced Fanservice: 2 - There's an occasional glimpse of a not really practice shirt over in the demon army side of things, but, otherwise, everything is fairly decent, even if not always practical. Harem: No
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Title: The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Other Titles:
Author: Reki Kugayama, Kei Kurokata
Main Character: Usato Ken
Gender: Male
Cheat: Healing Magic Aptitude
Transport: Summoned
Summary: One rainy day, average student Usato Ken ends up having a run in with the popular council president Inukami Suzune and vice president Ryuusen Kazuki, both of them attractive and skilled. This ends up changing his life... as the summons of another world pull the two to fulfill the request of being heroes. However, Usato never heard the bell. He's only a bystander... at least until he checks his magical aptitude on a lark and realizes he's a healer. That gets the sharp attention of the woman in charge of "Kingdom Rescue Squad", infamous for turning the idea of weak delicate healers on its head.
Pros: Isekai Reflection, Creative Use of Healing Magic, Fun Deutoagonists, Badass Healing Teacher
It's basic video game logic, whether in a fantasy RPG or a multiplayer like Overwatch, that you want to take out the healer first before anyone else. In exchange for their healing abilities, they're commonly made weaker when it comes to things like offense and defense. They're certainly valuable, but not powerful. However...
What if your healer character could just... self buff constantly? What if they could use their powers to keep on training, keep their endurance higher, self-heal from any injury almost instantaneously? What if they could just... dodge any attack headed their way, all while stealing away the heavily injured so that they can be sent back into the fray at tip-top shape?
That is the idea behind this series. And frankly? It's really fun.
I really adore series that think of creative ways in which to use established magical abilities or powers, and this one is a prime example of that. It even acknowledges, in-universe, how healers are seen as weak and not suitable for battle. Yet it only takes turning powers inwards instead of out to change the scene completely. Not only does this change how a healer can be themself, but also even how they can deal with combat... Not that they should, of course. Despite the way healing magic is taught, it's also reminded of a healer's first and most important job: to heal others. A healer can turn the tides, can save lives, but that can't happen if they die themselves.
Of course, the kind of person who would think up this kind of healing outlook has to be one hell of a person. For those who are fans of Fullmetal Alchemist and the heartwarming but tough Izumi Curtis, they might find themselves quite liking the woman who ends up taking the MC under her wing. She's that same kind of hilariously badass, now in Combat Medic form, with unbelievably ruthless training and an infamous reputation. She carelessly shows off incredibly badass abilities while also bringing in some great humor because of how absurd her training demands can be. Yet at her heart, you can also tell that she's truly a person who wants to see other people survive, and there's a depth to her that makes her more than a simple humorously vicious mentor. It really adds something to the MC's training, and the reader's view of what healing magic is both capable of and truly meant for.
With the MC and his teacher alone, this story could probably carry itself pretty well. However, remember: the MC isn't even supposed to be a part of this isekai tale. He just got dragged along for the ride because he was too close to the actual summoned heroes. While they don't get nearly as much attention paid to them at the beginning, since the MC is separate from them in his medic training, they both still show plenty of personality and solid moments which I imagine can only improve as the story progresses. They're both quite different people, with one bringing in a lightheartedness to the series and the other being an almost grounding influence.
This is displayed excellently right in the first chapter, when they're all told of the reason they were summoned to another world in the first place. One of the two immediately snaps out at the king and his whole court, calling "Bullshit!" and pointing out that they all had lives and families that they were just pulled away from without any say in the matter. He manages to back down a little after some more conversation and a humble display, but it's a good grounding hint of how this series can occasionally touch in deeper. For some, this kind of scenario might be a good thing with that it can give them a better place to belong or give them a goal they didn't otherwise have... but for others, this is just tearing them away from all they know. Moments like that really help one care for all three teenagers who've been dragged into this, even if they're going along with everything for right now.
Cons: None
This series is really fun for me, and I'm always left hungering for the next chapter with minimal to no complaints.
General Warnings: fantasy racism, bullying
Slavery: Yes, referenced
Fanservice: 2 - There's an occasional glimpse of a not really practice shirt over in the demon army side of things, but, otherwise, everything is fairly decent, even if not always practical.
Harem: No