The nature of Japanese light novels is to be simple, easy-reading, disposable literary entertainment. By design, light novels are only barely more literary than manga comic books. Moreover, light novels are typically rapidly written first drafts featuring the barest minimum of editing. Thus light novels frequently contain errors in narrative continuity, technical composition errors, and […]
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Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
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The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is currently streaming on Crunchyroll....
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 02 – Healing Like Hell
Suzune and Kazuki visit Ken at the Rescue Team HQ, resplendent in their new uniforms. They’re greatly relieved to learn he’s okay. Despite the fact he’s about to…
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The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – Episode 1
Follow Usato's adventures in a solid isekai premiere that shows a lot of promise and avoids some of the genre's most sexist pifalls.
First Impression: The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Ken Usato is the most normal of high school boys, certainly not the type that would find himself buddying up with the school’s beautiful and smart kaicho, Suzume…
Manga Heals the Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Kugayama Reki does a fine job of creating a manga adaptation of author Kurokata’s 2014 light novel The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic. The story introduces three…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic Novel 1
We still don't fully understand what constitutes the "wrong way" to heal, but this is a nice little fantasy escape, and that's all it really needs to be.
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic Volume 1 Review
On a rainy day, ordinary teen Ken Usato ends up chatting with the president and vice president of the student council: the school idol (and practically perfect) Suzune…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 03 – Snake Handling
Not long after Ken crash-lands in the forest, he encounters his quarry: a ferocious white grand grizzly. He finds he can just manage to out run it, but…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic #01 — Soluble Protagonist
It's rain, my dude. Suck it up. God damn it. I completely forgot this stupid thing existed. I thought I was free from dumbass RPG world cheat…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
We have finally arrived: the first isekai that Marina will be keeping on her watch list…for now. Because, truth be told, as interesting as the mystery is behind…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 12 – Upright Demon Brigade
Back from his great victory, Ken is suddenly the toast of the town, as everyone in the market crowds around him. Needless to say he’s not used to…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 13 (Fin) – Great Expectations
The best part of Wrong Way was its lovable, adorkable characters and their chemistry with one another, and finale leans into those strengths. Ken and Suzune meet with…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – Ep. 1 (First Impressions)
The right way to start an isekai anime?
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 07 – The Essential Third Wheel
First, the bad news: For those of you hoping the action would get started, you’ll have to wait at least another week. Honestly, I was not one of…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 10 – The Black Knight Surprises
The morning of the battle arrives, and Ken wakes up to a rising sun and an uneasy heart. Suzune feels the same way, but compensates by flaunting her…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 08 – The Knights of Summer
Rose is at the reins of the wagon bearing the Rescue Team to the battlefield, and Ken is at her side. He asks about the demons they’re about…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 04 – Something Stronger than Fear
After the forest ordeal that led to Ken gaining a blue grizzly cub sidekick, Rose doesn’t sugarcoat her plans for him: he’ll be joining her in the vanguard…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 01 (First Impressions) – The Right Stuff
Usato Ken considers himself an unremarkable, run-of-the-mill high-schooler. He’s intimidated by the likes of Inukami Suzune and Ryuusen Kazuki, the president and vice president of the student…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic: The Manga Companion Volume 1 Review
One day after school, Usato ends up walking home with Suzune and Kazuki, president and vice-president of the student council respectively. Usato becomes fast friends with Kazuki, and…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 09 – Staying the Person They Admired
If only she’d stayed a little closer to her team, Rose might have been able to heal some of them. Instead, Nero is able to lure her farther…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 11 – Doing What Needed to Be Done
As she lies on the ground beaten and bleeding, Suzune remembers that dark, rainy day when she and Kazuki were at school late. She hid her sad smiles…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic Volume 1 Light Novel Release Details
The good people from publishers One Peace Books have just sent us details of their latest isekai light novel The Wrong Way to Use Healing Ma...
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 05 – The Place We’ve Made for Ourselves
The Wrong Way is drawing and keeping my interest the right way: by focusing on its lovable, relatable characters. I’d been looking forward to Ken and Suzune going…
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Kaiseki Anime Podcast Ep. 141 — Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, Sasaki and Peeps
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The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 06 – What Will Come to Pass if He Should Fail
Ken and Suzune are back at the palace with no harm done. Ken lets slip that the situation wasn’t nearly as treacherous as the king and minister might…
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The Wrong Way To Use Healing Magic Season One Review: A Rose By Any Other Name Will Still Beat You Up
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It feels like it’s time for another post on the “new” WordPress post editor: Gutenberg. I’ve written about Gutenberg several times before (first this, then this). At first,…
Winter 2024 Impressions: Sasaki and Peeps, The Demon Prince of Momochi House, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, Pon no Michi
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I Write About Fate
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