Healer Girl

An established discipline on par with conventional medical approaches, "vocal medicine" is the practice of using songs to treat health conditions and injuries. Young people around the world strive to master the art and become "healers" to help people through the power of their voices.

Among the many healers in training is Kana Fujii, a naturally talented singer who was inspired to pursue the profession after a life-changing experience. Along with the driven Reimi Itsushiro and the easygoing Hibiki Morishima, Kana trains at Karasuma Phoniatric Clinic under the stern yet kind mentorship of Ria Karasuma.

As they endeavor to achieve their dreams, Kana and her friends meet various colorful healers along the way, discovering that there is much more to vocal medicine than just diligent studying!

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Itsushiro, Reimi Main

Horiuchi, Marina Japanese

Fujii, Kana Main

Isobe, Karin Japanese

Morishima, Hibiki Main

Kumada, Akane Japanese

Karasuma, Ria ing

Takagaki, Ayahi Japanese

Yanagi, Sonia ing

Yoshitake, Chihaya Japanese

Honosaka, Shinobu ing

Takagi, Miyu Japanese

Nagisa, Shouko ing

Toujou, Hisako Japanese

Morishima, Yoshinori ing

Tanaka, Minami Japanese

Shinobu's Grandmother ing

Doi, Mika Japanese

Kitasato, Shirou ing

Sakuma, Motoki Japanese

Irie, Yasuhiro Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

Kamitsubo, Ryouki Episode Director

Nakanishi, Motoki Episode Director

Iida, Shigehisa Episode Director

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Dec 27, 2024

MidniteAndBeyond

Recommended

I stinkin love anime, y'all! I love it so stinkin much! I love discovering new shows, good and bad. Trying something out because SOMETHING speaks to me at a first glance. Even if it doesn't turn out great, its fun to just discover and experience new things. And when you're actively searching new shows from years past instead of just following along with whats current and trendy like everyone else, you end up finding some truly magical shows that you'll never forget. LIKE THIS ONE, FOR EXAMPLE!

There's no shortage of idol anime, we all know that. But there aren't really a whole lot of anime ... musicals. This one treads the line between musical and music show, and I truly can't think of any other anime like it. ITS SO. STINKIN. GOOD. The animation is to DIE for! Its so stinkin bright and colorful and vibrant and expressive! The characters are all really lovable and fun to be around. With the main cast being voiced by relatively unknown seiyuu, which was EXTREMELY impressive! And there's new songs EVERY. SINGLE. EPISODE! Sometimes through the characters singing their dialogue and sometimes through full on musical numbers. There's never a dull moment and this show's signature style is sprinkled all throughout, from beginning to end. If I had ONE complaint, I kinda wish they went a bit further with the subtitles during the songs being fit to match the syllables of the lyrics, rather than being direct translations. I know songs typically aren't translated that way because it'd be SOOOO much extra work. But for this show being all about music, I feel like its kinda warranted and would've only amplified my enjoyment since I'm singing the lines in my head as I read, regardless. This show was so special and its a crime that its only 12 episodes long. I'd give anything for a sequel or another show in this style. If you take only one recommendation from me this year, let it be this.

10/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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May 23, 2025

Haruhiko_MatsuO

Mixed Feelings

Personal Opinion

You don’t really see anime musicals like this coming out of Japan that often.
I really liked the concept
it kinda feels like they took elements of music therapy and Transfer them down into something more approachable.

That said, the trade-off is that the story plays out pretty flat.
and the Character Dev a little bit Static but it Okay
Thankfully, the musical numbers help carry it.
The obstacles the characters face felt a bit too weak though.
...
Visually? There were some rough spots scene,
but overall it looked decent.

In the end, it’s a chill watch and pretty fun.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 20, 2022

Zerity

Not Recommended

I hated everything about this show, from the first minute of this show I already hated it. There will be spoilers for a few things so bare that in mind and everything I write about will be extremely personal and subjective as to why I hate it. If I wanted to go into extreme detail, outlining everything I disliked about it would be to long and take to much time but I will go over a few things.

Firstly I hate the interactions of every character. Every interaction between them feel superficial and bland. An example, in the last episode when the red hair girl goes ... to America her friends get worried because she is not messaging them and then they go to America to visit with a dumb music montage and low and behold her phone is dead and other is out of range and she has this wow omg what a surprise and then explains why afterword and her blond hair friend is like wow this is dumb. The reason I hate this and every single interaction in this show is pretty simple. Firstly its generic, you can see how everything is going to play out from start to end which isn't always a bad thing but it's so stale and adds nothing new for me. Secondly how they act, in that example their so fucking loud and hyper, talking at mach 10 speed. Something about that really annoys me and irritates me plus added bonus with the dumb sound affects added to the surprise and realization annoy me as well. Last part of it is their voices, I hate their vocal characteristics. Their tone, pitch, volume, pronunciation, rhythm, and the pace at which they speak annoy me to no end. This is just one example of a long list of many but it's time to move on.

Another thing I heavily dislike is the music. I do enjoy musicals, Sound of Music is a great movie and most Disney movies are okay but every time they break out into song in this series it makes me wanna die. I know it's their job to sing and be a "Healer Girl" but I hate it. When they were singing not once but twice during 2 separate surgeries I just died of cringe and not even a funny type of cringe just pure and utter cringe. I know some people enjoy their songs and voices but I hated it, didn't enjoy the songs, they are good singers but I didn't like their voices and having to hear it multiple times an episode in the most cringy ways made me actually wanna shove pencils into my ears.

I obviously don't like the characters either. They feel so fake like their made of plastic. Nothing original about their decisions, personalities, behaviors, or their dialogue. To me everything about them was annoying and bland. Let me explain this with my least favorite episode of the entire series, episode 11. Their angry because they are failing at their singing and throughout the entire episode their depressed and get mad at each other. Red hair girl thinks she's the issue and says they are better then her and should do it without her which annoys me. Blond hair girl doesn't understand and disagrees and lashes back which causes a riff in their relationship for the rest of the episode until they have just the worst back and forth I had to listen to. They all talk about how the other is better then the other, how wow your so much more impressive then me and then no you are more impressive until they all come together in harmony saying "because you're both so good! I really love your singing! And I'm so jealous" Then have the hehehe we all like each other and now we are friends again cliche which I hate every time I see it.

In conclusion if you dislike generic and bland mediocre looking girls trying to do cute things then don't watch this. I would still give the first episode a try to see if you might enjoy this and it might be right up your alley but for me it wasn't and I never wanna see anything about this show again.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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