The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows (Manga): Volume 1

The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows (Manga) #1

by Ten Junoichi (Artist), Sakaku Hishikawa (Story), Camilla L. (Translator)

Born a poor man in the slums, Zenos never had opportunities in life, so he decides to forge his own opportunities by teaching himself the curative arts after a chance encounter with a healer. When an adventuring party led by a man named Aston extends him an invitation, Zenos is elated—only to then be treated like dirt by his teammates. Despite Zenos’s diligent efforts to hone his skills to nothing short of perfection, the party deems him useless and kicks him out. Bereft of money and options, Zenos starts an illegal clinic and becomes a shadow healer. Word of his healing genius spreads quickly throughout the city’s underbelly, and as his reputation grows among the dregs of society, knowledge of Zenos's esteem reaches the wrong ears...

Genres: Manga, Comics, Graphic Novels

Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2023

Reviews

[Susanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good start to a series. Zenos is a self-taught healer who gets fired from an adventuring party for being from the slums. Since he can’t join the adventurers’ guild for his low birth, he opens a shadow clinic and starts healing the people of the slums with his incredible skills. (He can regrow limbs even.)

His skills attract the leaders of three slum factions, lizard people, wolf people, and orcs, all women prepared to fight for his attention. But he manages to make them cease hostilities instead and unite. This frightens the king who needs the slums as scapegoats, so he sends a knight to arrest him, another woman for Zenos’s harem.

Zenos is a nice and earnest character and totally clueless about the women’s intentions. He’s not convinced either that his magic is all that special. He was easy to root for. The women were fairly interchangeable, except the knight who gets a backstory even. The ending is a cliffhanger and I’d like to read more. Art was very good.

I received a free copy from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

[☽ Jess ☕️ · Rating 4 out of 5]

C'était sympa. J'aime bien suivre un healer pour une fois. En plus, il a un passé dur qui fait que ses actions ou sa façon de changer les choses sont touchantes.
Bien sûr, il y a ces nanas partout mais ça reste soft et plutôt drôle pour le coup.

Je lirai la suite avec plaisir.

[Breanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thanks to the publisher for the DRC!

Though this isn't doing anything particularly new, it's still an enjoyable read! We have a self-taught, diamond-in-the-rough overpowered MC who was mistreated and banished from his upper-class party because they think they don't need him (and that his class would be a stain on their reputation). He continues to save the day, and a lot of girls who end up falling head over heels for him. His continuous healing of the clan battle for his affection was really funny and a great way to bring harmony, despite it making it harder to keep his reputation on the dl. I won't be surprised if he continues to make waves while trying to live his quiet life and accidentally disrupting the caste system that their world is trying to hard to protect. Looking forward to the next volume and excited to read the light novel as well!

[Logan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh...

The OP MC is not concerned with revenge, thank goodness, but it's otherwise the usual 'banished from the party' slop.

The least these authors could do is make the characters a little more compelling, but this is yet another instance of failure in that regard.

[Stas · Rating 2 out of 5]

PASS.

[Lissa Hawley · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars
Male protagonists aren't usually my thing, but Zenos has style.

[Lynnette · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Brilliant Healer's New life In the Shadows Vol. 1

Zenos is thrown out of his Adventurers party! He decides to be healer in the shadows after saving Lily from slave kidnappers!

[lantredugrizzly Perrine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chouette premier tome .
Une introduction du monde, de l’histoire et des personnages, avec du graphisme plaisant .
Magie et créatures surnaturelles sont au rendez-vous, vivement la suite !

[Caroline Godin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bon commencement, déjà dans l'action dès le tome 1!!!!