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127. Healer Girl
https://myanimelist.net/anime/48857/Healer_Girl
Spring 2022 (12 episodes)
My Score: 6/10, MAL Score: 7.38/10
Best Character: Fujii Kana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49UDf5sTfMU

Premise: Vocal medicine, the practice of singing to help heal patients, has become an accepted form of treatment. Fujii Kana is training alongside her friends to become a healer.

The Good: Healer Girl is a music anime with a supernatural twist in the form of magical songs. I always like concepts like this. A lot of it is the cute girls hanging out or training, but sometimes things get real with an emotional scene. The healers in training, Kana, Reimi, and Hibiki, are a fun trio. I also liked most of the side characters like their enigmatic teacher or the friendly rival from another clinic. The art style in this is light and colorful. Creative, symbolic visions also spring up whenever they're doing songs, which makes each of them feel special.

The Bad: Healer Girl never did anything wrong, but I still felt like it didn't utilize its premise as well as it could have. Since their curing songs can't treat everything, I think it was a lost opportunity that they never faced an ailment they couldn't help with, just to face their limitations. There was also one episode where they went kind of nutty from training and they were stuck singing everything they said. It was like a musical, and it was amazing! After that, going back to only singing during songs couldn't help but feel like a letdown. I want a full musical anime someday.

Overall: This was a solid music anime with a creative fantastical aspect to give the songs weight. I liked all the characters and the things they did together. Healer Girl just didn't resonate with me enough to rank higher than this. It was a nice anime, but it could've been great if it leaned more into the musical aspect or put the characters in situations with more of an emotional punch.