Brilliant healer anime
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So the PV is out for this one and its release has been announced for April of 2025. Really looking forward to this one!
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First episode may be the biggest letdown in an anime ever! They started in the middle instead of the beginning. So you never learn how he met any of the characters, you didn’t learn why he choose to become a shadow healer, and without the background unless you already knew who the characters were I’m sure the viewers are going to be confused.
On top of that the episode was so dull. When new anime’s come out you always want that first episode to grab you, this one failed big time. It would have been much better if it actually started at the beginning and introduce the characters as Zenos met them like in the LN. Such a disappointment!
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@Segoth Agreed. About the the only thing they got right was the names of the main characters. What a let down since this is one of my favorite LNs.
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@Segoth said in Brilliant healer anime:
without the background unless you already knew who the characters were I’m sure the viewers are going to be confused.
Why? When going into any media blind, it's not possible to know who the characters are anyway. I mean sure there are (written) series that do pages of expository dump giving out all the character/world details on introduction, but that's more an exception not the rule. And is usually a sign the author spent too much time designing their characters/world, not enough time on how their characters live in their world, and will proceed to then write a narrative that stays within the initial rules of their design but is otherwise lucky if the narrative itself remains consistent with itself.
As for the episode, I honestly found the introduction refreshing. It's different from the standard debut queue of new episode new character that makes for the typical make-things-up-as-I-go-along narrative fare. It gives a clear reference point of here's what to expect, now lets see how we get there.
That said, I'm also of the "give me something to look forward to" persuasion such that in medias res typically affords a better idea of whether or not I'll enjoy a series long-term. The start-from-nothing-and-slowly-build-up-to-some-random-conclusion means that a series can easily veer off into a swamp and proceed to get itself lost in it and I would have no clue. Relatedly, the anti-spoiler mindset that pervades the anime/light novel communities essentially promotes the latter and makes it harder for me find things that would otherwise be enjoyable to me. Heck even JNC moving the color images to the back of the epubs has meant that when I start reading, I don't have anything to look forward to/get excited to read about when I read through the story.
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I agree that it was a disappointing start. It may give the background of the characters in a following episode, but even then it takes away from the original story. Even if I had no knowledge of the original story, I could tell something was missing.
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@Segoth said in Brilliant healer anime:
On top of that the episode was so dull.
This! so much this! I gave up after ten mins because we just saw the three gang leaders fighting over food that Lily made for too long. Well actually 3 demi-humans because those who are first seeing the anime dont know them... I got bored.
It didn't hook me. The LN did a good job at that.
If you had to choose any random scene to start with, why would you start with a boring domestic scene. It seems to give the impression that the anime is more about the harem than anything else.I think I wasted enough time with Dahlia anime and I had to re-read the LNs to get the real thing back in my head and erase the abomination that the anime was. I don't think I will stick around for this.
The quality of the animation wasn't as bad though.
