I just want to mention that it has a much larger variety of songs than most musically focused anime. It's not unusual for shows to only have one or two songs that they have to overplay for the characters to have something to perform, but this is not a problem here.
9:03 "you don't cast Ayahi Takagaki and not expect world-class singing and performances" "Takagaki-san begins singing" Massive chills run down my spine Okay fine PhenomSage I'll watch the show
Anime musicals are the dream genre that I've always wanted to see become a reality, and at last, we finally have it. We saw the greatness of animated musicals through The Disney Renaissance and The Prince of Egypt, so now, it's long overdue to see that greatness come to life in anime. Thank you Yasuhiro Ire for proving once for all that anime musicals are very much possible, and deserve to be the next big genre is anime.
Studio 3Hz is my personal favorite studio for making 2 of my top 10 anime of all time, Princess Principal and magical girl masterpiece Flip Flappers. SAO Gun Gale Online was also extremely good, despite being part of the SAO franchise. Healer Girl was an excellent return to form after a string of disappointments for me. (Black Fox was okay but should have been the full cour series it was originally intended to be, and Chidori RSC was outright boring. I didn't watch A3 because I don't watch straight forward idol anime) But Healer Girl recaptured their old magic and was my favorite anime of the season, it was especially fun to watch with my physician spouse who drew analogies between her experience in medicine and the show
I know I'm late in typing a comment and it might not be seen but I remember that there's an anime that's the closest to a musical which came out before Healer Girl. I haven't watched it since then but the characters do a lot of singing explaining the plot and motives. It's called Dance with Devils and it aired in Fall of 2015. It's a reverse harem but it's not a very good series but at least they have great musical style singing in it. You can even find the musical scenes on compilations on RUclips. I was also going to add that the Whole Cake Island Arc of One Piece also has musical scenes but it's not musical enough to be mentioned as a musical arc imo though One Piece Film Red uses music in a unique way. And the last thing I want to add is that I've been thinking about music in anime all year long even before you posted this video and I'm glad you did. It feels as if there's been a lot of music-related anime movies to come in U.S. movie theaters. There was Belle, One Piece Film Red, and even the U.S. premiere of the two Macross Frontier movies. There's probably more anime movies that use the power of music, music performances as a main part of the stories that came out this year in U.S. movie theaters. I can't think of any other year in U.S. movie theaters that released that many music-related anime movies.
I never even heard about this series!!! can't wait to check it out, thanks for the recommendation! the idea of music HEALING in a series is an amazing notion, I can't believe I've never seen it done before!
men finally someone made an essay about my favorite anime of 2022 the music was the most emotional and touching thing i've ever seen since maquia and nagi no asukara
This show was incredibly amazing and the creative liberties they took in situations, (operating room scene specifically), has been one of the most unique and enjoyable experiences in a long while. Love it. Honestly I just want to add thank you for making this video, it felt like this show fell on the wayside that season for a lot of people, but it’s a show I think back to more often than others, in fact I think it was my most looked forward show in the week.
I normally wouldn't comment about something like this but I think you're misunderstanding revue starlight. It's not a full musical but its musical portions are incredibly central to characterization and plot and I don't think it's right to say that its musical elements are basically meaningless. I really appreciate this video though and I'm excited to watch healer girl! I'm happy it turned out to be a cool show and that someone gave it a chance.
Obligated, as another huge Healer Girl fan, to comment and help algorithm. I think the moment I watched episode 1 and finished, I knew that the show was special, and the feelings of absolute fun and joy I had watching and seeing the concept week by week gave me hope and optimism for shows like this to exist that seldom other originals give me. For me it's always the few originals per year that I latch onto and that I hope explode because its within the anime original space where so many cool shows are found each year. I'd say, what's even more impressive about the production, is how many episodes, early on were worked on, Key animated/storyboarded by a single person, which nowadays that might be delegated to multiple people on a team, it just really goes to show how well the production schedule was for Healer Girl. Not to mention Irie I'm pretty sure has also trained or helped mentor animators at Studio 3Hz which I'm sure also helps the overall team dynamic and being able to make the show feel so alive.
I was keeping up with Healer Girl as it aired and I loved it. The musical angle was very different from other things I've seen. The most memorable bit to me is definitely that they reused an instrumental song, but somehow managed to script at least two different conversations for the characters to sing in it. But I loved all the healing performances, it really managed to capture that each healer is amazing in different ways, and the visuals for them are so beautiful. Especially loved the idea that the visuals are diegetic, the healers can see them in universe and react to them as they happen, and they can tell when something's going horribly wrong or wonderfully right. I'm partial to Revue Starlight as the real first musical anime, for its core conflicts literally taking place on a musical stage and having characters sing with and against each other, baring their souls through song as they try to win against the others in the competition they're forced to take part in. The exploration of characters through their performances are kept to the stage, to the Revues, but the way it uses its songs feels deeper than Healer Girl ever goes. Healer Girl is a different take, much more whimsical and airy and fantastical, with musical numbers occasionally taking the place of casual conversation to reinforce character personality, and showing the power of music to soothe and "heal" in the most literal yet fascinatingly immersive way possible in its worldbuilding. I prefer Revue Starlight's use of music as a way of exploring a character's deepest aspects (while still being conversational, albeit in a heavier sense), as that feels more true to musicals for me, but I think Healer Girl's character writing outside of the music stands almost as tall as that. These two go in completely different directions with how they use music, and are equally as valuable, as the only two musical anime in my mind so far.
People you describe in the beginning fall into the "I want to seem smart but not put in the effort." As in, they can trust a Marvel/Disney/popular thing to give them what they want but fear that they might be let down by something they know zilch about. Even with trailers and promos, we've been burned before.
I saw this show title when it was announced and checked the description of show, and wasn't sure if it was worth watching so I guess I didn't plan to watch it. After watching this video, I'm definitely going to give it a chance since you make this show sound so interesting. Thank you
I watched this show solely because you recommended it in your Spring video. It was so relaxing and enjoyable to watch and listen to. I loved it, and hope we get more!
I ended episode 1 thinking the unique and exciting worldbuilding would be the best part of this show, but by the end I think that hadn't quite lived up to its promise and instead it was the authentic-feeling friendship between the girls that I was living for
You are definitely right that originality and original work is really hard to come by, as more time than not it just doesn't sell. I also have a idea that if there is no thing anime lacks, it is the MUSICAL! I would create a anime musical one day, and what that musical be about? I have not figured it out yet but the pieces are there. I think the only anime close to having a musical 🎼 is The Anthem of the Heart (good movie by the way).
Crazy thing is, I love anime and musicals, but for some reason I just couldn't get onto this show. Maybe because, even though it's technically a musical, It doesn't follow the usual musical set up? Like there are no ques to the music they just start singing randomly. IDK
The obscure horror/thriller series Red Garden is the one other anime series that I can think of which is actually "musical theatre" in the sense of telling its story through song, making the anime musical at once one of the smallest genres in the medium *and* one of the most diverse, because hoo boy, are Healer Girl and Red Garden nothing alike otherwise!
Great video. Healer girls was my favorite anime of 2022 and would really like the anime media to explore more that idea of making musical. If you are looking for another anime musical. The only one I can think about would be Nerima Daikon Brothers. It aged poorly on some aspect and is not easily accessible because of it's nature as both a musical and a satire of 90-2000s Japan but it is still a very interesting watch especially if you care to look for the context behind what the anime talks about.
Yes the best episode to me is the near operetta one where the girls only sing everything they want to say the entire episode. A very special anime thing is the fans of muscial are mostly not watching anime. Thanks for this.
anime has the strength where the music is way more powerful than the anime themself i see so many openings and endings even the ost can be so touching that its really rare to see it in other media for me anime itself is like the edm music scene because edm is so diverse and hits everything you can imagin anime has so many genre and sub genres its really incredible yet the affort of making every anime with every genre is devastating towards the people who making it
Im certainly an enjoyer of musical theater. However, when i first read the summary of this series, I dismissed it immediately as run of the mill seasonal CGDCT schlock. Evidently it’s not what I imagined. I’ll give it another look! At least one episode. One thing im worried about in a series like this is that a lot of lyrical music comes off as awkward when filtered through subtitles, and that feeling may be amplified in a series like this. Lets see!
The people complain about the lack of originality are all part of the minority who do prefer Everything to MoM, they are just a loud minority, so there is no actual hypocrisy here. I for one think Originality is BS and unapologetically want the same stuff I've seen before, just do it differently enough.
I liked this anime but, between religious-like uniforms and alternative medicine, at times I felt like I was watching an anime about a religious sect of homeopaths.
Personally I found it boring, but I see that was good at what it was trying to do. I guess I don't like extremely happy slice of life episodic shows. I like conflict ig
The most common complaint I have about modern media is the Woke bullshit in it. It's exhausting how so many forms of entertainment have gone from "entertaining", to "lecturing".
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I just want to mention that it has a much larger variety of songs than most musically focused anime. It's not unusual for shows to only have one or two songs that they have to overplay for the characters to have something to perform, but this is not a problem here.
Its strange nobody has talked about this show until now.
I freaking loved this show! Me and a good friend of mine were watching it together while it aired and it was really fun to discuss with him.
You may have just convinced me to watch something I previously had no interest in, so thank you phenomsage.
9:03 "you don't cast Ayahi Takagaki and not expect world-class singing and performances"
"Takagaki-san begins singing"
Massive chills run down my spine
Okay fine PhenomSage I'll watch the show
Anime musicals are the dream genre that I've always wanted to see become a reality, and at last, we finally have it. We saw the greatness of animated musicals through The Disney Renaissance and The Prince of Egypt, so now, it's long overdue to see that greatness come to life in anime. Thank you Yasuhiro Ire for proving once for all that anime musicals are very much possible, and deserve to be the next big genre is anime.
Thank you so much for talking about a series I adored watching that nobody else has mentioned
~It's....a....musical,
a musical,
And nothing's as amazing as a musical. (If you get the reference, you're amazing)
Studio 3Hz is my personal favorite studio for making 2 of my top 10 anime of all time, Princess Principal and magical girl masterpiece Flip Flappers. SAO Gun Gale Online was also extremely good, despite being part of the SAO franchise. Healer Girl was an excellent return to form after a string of disappointments for me. (Black Fox was okay but should have been the full cour series it was originally intended to be, and Chidori RSC was outright boring. I didn't watch A3 because I don't watch straight forward idol anime) But Healer Girl recaptured their old magic and was my favorite anime of the season, it was especially fun to watch with my physician spouse who drew analogies between her experience in medicine and the show
Based Princess Principal enjoyer.
I know I'm late in typing a comment and it might not be seen but I remember that there's an anime that's the closest to a musical which came out before Healer Girl. I haven't watched it since then but the characters do a lot of singing explaining the plot and motives. It's called Dance with Devils and it aired in Fall of 2015. It's a reverse harem but it's not a very good series but at least they have great musical style singing in it. You can even find the musical scenes on compilations on RUclips.
I was also going to add that the Whole Cake Island Arc of One Piece also has musical scenes but it's not musical enough to be mentioned as a musical arc imo though One Piece Film Red uses music in a unique way. And the last thing I want to add is that I've been thinking about music in anime all year long even before you posted this video and I'm glad you did. It feels as if there's been a lot of music-related anime movies to come in U.S. movie theaters. There was Belle, One Piece Film Red, and even the U.S. premiere of the two Macross Frontier movies. There's probably more anime movies that use the power of music, music performances as a main part of the stories that came out this year in U.S. movie theaters. I can't think of any other year in U.S. movie theaters that released that many music-related anime movies.
I never even heard about this series!!! can't wait to check it out, thanks for the recommendation! the idea of music HEALING in a series is an amazing notion, I can't believe I've never seen it done before!
I hope you enjoy it! It's definitely an extremely unique concept and done to great effect, very sad how under the radar it went
men finally someone made an essay about my favorite anime of 2022 the music was the most emotional and touching thing i've ever seen since maquia and nagi no asukara
Healer Girl was my top anime from last season and I include Spy Family in that statement
This show was incredibly amazing and the creative liberties they took in situations, (operating room scene specifically), has been one of the most unique and enjoyable experiences in a long while. Love it.
Honestly I just want to add thank you for making this video, it felt like this show fell on the wayside that season for a lot of people, but it’s a show I think back to more often than others, in fact I think it was my most looked forward show in the week.
Healer Girl was one of my favorite anime of 2022, being a original show, it's not likely to get a second season, but i really hope it does.
I seen this anime due to your nick on discord, and your season video, but it was really worth it, I just had so much fun watching it.
I normally wouldn't comment about something like this but I think you're misunderstanding revue starlight. It's not a full musical but its musical portions are incredibly central to characterization and plot and I don't think it's right to say that its musical elements are basically meaningless. I really appreciate this video though and I'm excited to watch healer girl! I'm happy it turned out to be a cool show and that someone gave it a chance.
Obligated, as another huge Healer Girl fan, to comment and help algorithm. I think the moment I watched episode 1 and finished, I knew that the show was special, and the feelings of absolute fun and joy I had watching and seeing the concept week by week gave me hope and optimism for shows like this to exist that seldom other originals give me. For me it's always the few originals per year that I latch onto and that I hope explode because its within the anime original space where so many cool shows are found each year.
I'd say, what's even more impressive about the production, is how many episodes, early on were worked on, Key animated/storyboarded by a single person, which nowadays that might be delegated to multiple people on a team, it just really goes to show how well the production schedule was for Healer Girl. Not to mention Irie I'm pretty sure has also trained or helped mentor animators at Studio 3Hz which I'm sure also helps the overall team dynamic and being able to make the show feel so alive.
I was keeping up with Healer Girl as it aired and I loved it. The musical angle was very different from other things I've seen. The most memorable bit to me is definitely that they reused an instrumental song, but somehow managed to script at least two different conversations for the characters to sing in it. But I loved all the healing performances, it really managed to capture that each healer is amazing in different ways, and the visuals for them are so beautiful. Especially loved the idea that the visuals are diegetic, the healers can see them in universe and react to them as they happen, and they can tell when something's going horribly wrong or wonderfully right.
I'm partial to Revue Starlight as the real first musical anime, for its core conflicts literally taking place on a musical stage and having characters sing with and against each other, baring their souls through song as they try to win against the others in the competition they're forced to take part in. The exploration of characters through their performances are kept to the stage, to the Revues, but the way it uses its songs feels deeper than Healer Girl ever goes. Healer Girl is a different take, much more whimsical and airy and fantastical, with musical numbers occasionally taking the place of casual conversation to reinforce character personality, and showing the power of music to soothe and "heal" in the most literal yet fascinatingly immersive way possible in its worldbuilding. I prefer Revue Starlight's use of music as a way of exploring a character's deepest aspects (while still being conversational, albeit in a heavier sense), as that feels more true to musicals for me, but I think Healer Girl's character writing outside of the music stands almost as tall as that. These two go in completely different directions with how they use music, and are equally as valuable, as the only two musical anime in my mind so far.
People you describe in the beginning fall into the "I want to seem smart but not put in the effort." As in, they can trust a Marvel/Disney/popular thing to give them what they want but fear that they might be let down by something they know zilch about. Even with trailers and promos, we've been burned before.
There have been Musical moments in Anime in various ways.
Rosario & Vampire season 2 had a musical number in almost every episode.
FINALLY!!! Someone talked about it! God bless you!
I watch tons of shows a year and it will still be my favorite of all that aired from last winter to this fall coming up.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to watch Healer Girl again, but I am glad I watched it
The best thing of this show is nothing really bad happened, it put me in ease and enjoy the show rather than worrying about the plot.
Thank you for the recommendation! Glad I subscribed to this channel.
I saw this show title when it was announced and checked the description of show, and wasn't sure if it was worth watching so I guess I didn't plan to watch it. After watching this video, I'm definitely going to give it a chance since you make this show sound so interesting. Thank you
I watched this show solely because you recommended it in your Spring video. It was so relaxing and enjoyable to watch and listen to. I loved it, and hope we get more!
I ended episode 1 thinking the unique and exciting worldbuilding would be the best part of this show, but by the end I think that hadn't quite lived up to its promise and instead it was the authentic-feeling friendship between the girls that I was living for
You are definitely right that originality and original work is really hard to come by, as more time than not it just doesn't sell. I also have a idea that if there is no thing anime lacks, it is the MUSICAL! I would create a anime musical one day, and what that musical be about? I have not figured it out yet but the pieces are there.
I think the only anime close to having a musical 🎼 is The Anthem of the Heart (good movie by the way).
Crazy thing is, I love anime and musicals, but for some reason I just couldn't get onto this show. Maybe because, even though it's technically a musical, It doesn't follow the usual musical set up? Like there are no ques to the music they just start singing randomly. IDK
The obscure horror/thriller series Red Garden is the one other anime series that I can think of which is actually "musical theatre" in the sense of telling its story through song, making the anime musical at once one of the smallest genres in the medium *and* one of the most diverse, because hoo boy, are Healer Girl and Red Garden nothing alike otherwise!
I’ll give it a watch, I sense a new favorite in the making.
Bro this channel is so underrated
Excellent vid, my guy. ❤
Great video. Healer girls was my favorite anime of 2022 and would really like the anime media to explore more that idea of making musical.
If you are looking for another anime musical. The only one I can think about would be Nerima Daikon Brothers. It aged poorly on some aspect and is not easily accessible because of it's nature as both a musical and a satire of 90-2000s Japan but it is still a very interesting watch especially if you care to look for the context behind what the anime talks about.
Yes the best episode to me is the near operetta one where the girls only sing everything they want to say the entire episode.
A very special anime thing is the fans of muscial are mostly not watching anime.
Thanks for this.
i watched it and i´m sad that it is so short!
one of my 2 highlights from last season
Didn't know this show, maybe I'll give it a try
I will now go and watch the anime before this video, thanks. Be back soon
anime has the strength where the music is way more powerful than the anime themself i see so many openings and endings even the ost can be so touching that its really rare to see it in other media for me anime itself is like the edm music scene because edm is so diverse and hits everything you can imagin anime has so many genre and sub genres its really incredible yet the affort of making every anime with every genre is devastating towards the people who making it
Im certainly an enjoyer of musical theater. However, when i first read the summary of this series, I dismissed it immediately as run of the mill seasonal CGDCT schlock. Evidently it’s not what I imagined. I’ll give it another look! At least one episode. One thing im worried about in a series like this is that a lot of lyrical music comes off as awkward when filtered through subtitles, and that feeling may be amplified in a series like this. Lets see!
Thank god
musical? doesn't carole and tuesday have more music?
Carole and Tuesday have songs, but here, the characters are singing to each other, even when they're having normal conversations.
@@notationmusical and that's what "musical" means, looks like people are starting to forget that.
Fuck... I wanna finish this now
i didnt because i watched it, stinki
I’m sold
Okay, I'll watch it
You need to see Adam by Eve.
Dance with Devils is another anime musical, reverse harem with vampires. Not as good as Healer Girl though
on god frfr
It has to be original and good.
Based!
The people complain about the lack of originality are all part of the minority who do prefer Everything to MoM, they are just a loud minority, so there is no actual hypocrisy here. I for one think Originality is BS and unapologetically want the same stuff I've seen before, just do it differently enough.
Eeeeh I would say Symphogear still counts as at least an action/musical.
I liked this anime but, between religious-like uniforms and alternative medicine, at times I felt like I was watching an anime about a religious sect of homeopaths.
ngl, after your spring 2022 video, I gave healer girl a shot. It just wasn't for me
Personally I found it boring, but I see that was good at what it was trying to do. I guess I don't like extremely happy slice of life episodic shows. I like conflict ig
I'm not gonna watch this because I don't feel like it
Based
JIGACHAD
Fair enough bro
The most common complaint I have about modern media is the Woke bullshit in it. It's exhausting how so many forms of entertainment have gone from "entertaining", to "lecturing".
I think you should check out Artiswitch. It is very musical ish with its music. It’s free here on RUclips