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The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows

2025 · 1 season

A cozy underdog fantasy about a wronged healer quietly mending people in the shadows, mixing light comedy with mild intrigue.

Created by
Norihiro Kimura, Ryuta Nakano
Genres
Action & adventure, Animation, Comedy
Starring
Shogo Sakata, Miharu Hanai, Yoko Hikasa
Overview
Banished as "useless," Zenos, a self-taught healer from the slums, turns despair into defiance and opens a secret clinic in the city's shadows. With unlicensed, unmatched magic, he cures, comforts, and rights wrongs, quietly becoming a legend. But as his power grows, even the royal palace takes notice. Can he buck the odds and heal a world that cast him aside?

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Stream in the UK
  • Crunchyroll
More options Data from JustWatch
Created by
Norihiro Kimura, Ryuta Nakano
Genres
Action & adventure, Animation, Comedy
Starring
Shogo Sakata, Miharu Hanai, Yoko Hikasa
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • class
    • healing
    • justice
    • power
    • isolation
    Places
    • fantasy world
    • big city
    Era
    timeless
    Audience
    teen
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore mild
    • Language none
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action5
    Horror2
    Humour4
    Realism2
    Romance3
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Genres
    action & adventure, animation, comedy, sci-fi & fantasy
    Created by
    Norihiro Kimura, Ryuta Nakano, Kiseki Ota, Hiroto Miyagi, Tatsu Yamamoto, Yuri Hagiwara
    Written by
    Hiroto Miyagi
    Starring
    Shogo Sakata, Miharu Hanai, Yoko Hikasa, Mashiro Hitaka, Anna Nagase, Masaaki Mizunaka, Sayaka Kikuchi, Taku Yashiro
    Music
    Harumi Fuuki
    Cinematography
    Kohei Tanada
    Length
    1 seasons, 12 episodes, 24 min each
    Network
    TOKYO MX, BS11
    Country
    Japan
    Languages
    Japanese

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