Healer Girl - A miracle story told by a healing voice The TV anime series "Healer Girl," which aired from April to June 2022, is based on the theme of "voice medicine," which heals illnesses with singing. The original work was planned by Anison Days and Lantis, directed by Yasuhiro Irie, and animated by Studio 3Hz. The work depicts the growth and friendship of apprentice healers in the world of healing, which is recognized as the third medicine. Broadcast information "Healer Girl" was broadcast on TOKYO MX and BS11 from April 4 to June 20, 2022, in a 30-minute slot every Monday from 11:00 p.m. It consists of 12 episodes and was also streamed online at the same time. It was available for unlimited viewing on Animehodai, d Anime Store, DMM TV, Bandai Channel, Hulu, and U-NEXT, and for pay-per-view on Amazon Prime Video, FOD, J:COM On Demand, TELASA, Niconico Channel, HAPPY Video, Bandai Channel, Video Market, milplus, music.jp, Movie Full, and Rakuten TV. story The third medicine is healing. It is "voice medicine" that cures illnesses and injuries with songs, and people who perform medical procedures through singing are called "healers." Three apprentice healers working at Karasuma Voice Therapy Clinic, Kana Fujii, Reimi Gojo, and Hibiki Morishima, are high school freshmen who are training after school to become full-fledged healers. Sonia Yanagi, a returnee and C-class healer, also joins them, and the girls continue to sing healing songs today, working towards their dreams. Commentary Healing is a form of "sound medicine" that cures illnesses and injuries through song, and has become the third branch of medicine after Western and Eastern medicine. Healers can treat wounds with song, stabilize the patient's mind, and contribute to the mental care of not only the patient but also the surgeon during surgery. The healing space that appears through the healer's song changes shape through the power of images such as a soft breeze, budding flowers, and a glittering world. Healing is a special technique that requires responding to feelings of anxiety and changes in the patient's condition, but by continuing to sing boldly, healers can support patients who are fighting illness and the doctors who treat them, and perform miraculous treatments. cast The voice actors for the main characters are as follows: - Kana Fujii - Karin Isobe
- Reimi Gojo - Marina Horiuchi
- Hibiki Morishima - Akane Kumada
- Sonia Yanagi - Chihaya Yoshitake
- Karasuma Risa - Takagaki Ayahi
- Shoko Nagisa - Hisako Tojo
- Shinobu Honosaka - Miyu Takagi
- Karasuma Aoi - Hanamori Yumiri
- Kinnosuke - Junichi Yanagida
- Shinobu's Grandmother - Mika Doi
- Yui - Satomi Amano
- Yoshinori Morishima - Minami Tanaka
- Takeshi Morishima - Ayane Yamane
- Yasushi Morishima - Hiyori Kono
- Haruna Morishima - Natsumi Hioka
- Mayumi Morishima - Maki Kawase
- Katsuya Morishima - Hiromichi Tezuka
- Kumiko Morishima - Hana Sato
- Ando Sleet - Sakurai Hiromi
- Kenji Nibeyama - Toshiki Iwasawa
- Shiro Kitazato - Motoki Sakuma
- Ichiro Noda - Kenta Sasa
- Abigail - Manami Tanaka
- Hannah - Tomoko Ikeda
Main Staff Many staff members were involved in the production of "Healer Girl." - Planning - Anison Days, Lantis
- Director: Yasuhiro Irie
- Series composition and script - Nobuo Kimura
- Character design: Yukie Akitani
- Art design - Toru Ishiguchi
- Prop design - Ryo Akizuki
- Music: Ryo Takahashi
- Lyrics - Yohei Matsui
- Sound Director - Hirotaka Gobumi
- Art supervision: Junichi Azuma (Studio Easter)
- Art Director: So Seno (Studio Easter)
- Color design - Rie Kato
- Graphic art - Hirofumi Araki
- 3D Director: Kohei Ogawa (Marco)
- Director of photography - Yusaku Murakami (Studio L)
- Edited by Takeshi Sadamatsu
- Animation Production - Studio 3Hz
- Produced by: Healer Girl Project (Bandai Namco Arts, Live Viewing Japan)
Main Characters The main characters of "Healer Girl" are as follows: - Kana Fujii - An apprentice healer currently training at Karasuma Voice Therapy Clinic. She is a bright and positive mood maker who loves to sing. She admires the healer who helped her when she was young.
- Reimi Itsushiro - A lady of noble birth from a good family. Aiming to become a healer, she works at Karasuma Voice Therapy Clinic with Kana and Hibiki. She admires Karasuma Risa more than anyone else, and struggles to get closer to her whenever she gets the chance.
- Hibiki Morishima - An apprentice healer who loves to sing. As the eldest of six siblings, she is caring and a good cook. Her family is a part-time farmer in the countryside, and she currently rents a room at Karasuma Voice Therapy Clinic.
- Sonia Yanagi - A first-year high school student who attends the same school as Kana. She is a talented person who has already obtained a C-class healer qualification through an overseas skipping grade system. For some reason, she considers Risa, who is famous as a genius healer, to be her rival.
- Ria Karasuma - Kanata's healer master, who runs the Karasuma Voice Therapy Clinic. A gifted healer, she is known as the "Witch" of the voice medicine world.
- Shoko Nagisa - A pharmacist who works at Karasuma Voice Therapy Clinic. She has known Risa since their school days and is a friendly person who treats everyone equally.
- Shinobu Honosaka - The granddaughter of the Honosaka Clinic. She is Sonia's childhood friend and aims to become a "sound therapy music expert" who creates healing music.
subtitle The subtitles for each episode are as follows: - Singing 1/I'm Kana Fujii, a healer (apprentice)! (2022/04/04)
- Singing 2/Can I take a photo? Or video (2022/04/11)
- Singing 3/Cleaning, Run Run Run (2022/04/18)
- Singing 4/Ippo, Horror and First Job! (2022/04/25)
- Singing 5/The sky is blue, the mountains are green, the river battle Galaxy Station (2022/05/02)
- Singing 6/Be My Slave/Sweet Dreams with Russian Cuisine (2022/05/09)
- Singing 7/Cultural Festival Full Stomach Surprise (2022/05/16)
- Singing 8/I Love Maids/You're Fired (2022/05/23)
- Singing 9/The best recommendation/Buy the CD (2022/05/30)
- Singing 10/Halloween Masquerade Butterfly (2022/06/06)
- Singing 11 / Shark and Camp, Let's Climb Together! (2022/06/13)
- Singing 12/We are C-class healers! (2022/06/20)
Theme songs and music The theme songs and insert songs for "Healer Girl" are as follows. Opening Theme- Feel You, Heal You
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by Healer Girls (Karin Isobe, Akane Kumada, Marina Horiuchi, Chihaya Yoshitake)
Ending Theme- Believe like Singing.
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by Healer Girls (Karin Isobe, Akane Kumada, Marina Horiuchi, Chihaya Yoshitake)
Insert song- Feel You, Heal You
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Healer Girls (Karin Isobe, Akane Kumada, Marina Horiuchi, Chihaya Yoshitake), Risa Karasuma (Ayahi Takagaki)
- In the soft sounds
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe)
- In the soft sounds
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada)
- In the soft sounds
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Singer: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada), Risa Karasuma (Ayahi Takagaki)
- Let's sing again
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe)
- The reason for my dream
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada)
- To you who are laughing
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Karasuma Risa (Takagaki Ayahi)
- Small voice, big world
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Karasuma Risa (Takagaki Ayahi), Fujii Kana (Isobe Karin), Yanagi Sonia (Yoshitake Chihaya)
- Small voice, big world
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe)
- Run! Run! Run!
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Singer: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada), Sonia Yanagi (Chihaya Yoshitake)
- Learn from this
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Singers: Karasuma Risa (Takagaki Ayahi), Yanagi Shoko (Tojo Hisako), Fujii Kana (Isobe Karin), Gojo Reimi (Horiuchi Marina), Morishima Hibiki (Kumada Akane)
- Stars and Fireflies
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada)
- Stars and Fireflies
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Singer: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada), Risa Karasuma (Ayahi Takagaki)
- Open the door to the future
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada)
- There are wonderful things in the mountains - Let's climb to the top - Stars and fireflies
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Singer: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada), Yoshinori Morishima (Minami Tanaka), Takeshi Morishima (Ki Yamane), Yasushi Morishima (Hiyori Kono), Haruna Morishima (Natsumi Hioka), Mayumi Morishima (Maki Kawase)
- Sleep tight, Sweet dreams
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Singer: Sonia Yanagi (Chihaya Yoshitake)
- To you as you are
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Singer: Sonia Yanagi (Chihaya Yoshitake)
- Resonance
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Singer: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada), Sonia Yanagi (Chihaya Yoshitake)
- Nesting birds
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi)
- Wonderful hospitality
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi)
- Dream Cage
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi)
- SONG FOR LIFE
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Karasuma Risa (Takagaki Ayahi), Fujii Kana (Isobe Karin), Gojo Reimi (Horiuchi Marina), Morishima Hibiki (Kumada Akane)
- Halloween Shopping
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada)
- You can choose anything
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Singers: Karasuma Risa (Takagaki Ayahi), Fujii Kana (Isobe Karin), Gojo Reimi (Horiuchi Marina), Morishima Hibiki (Kumada Akane), Yanagi Sonia (Yoshitake Chihaya), Shinobu's grandmother (sung by Obata Satomi)
- There are wonderful things in the mountains - let's climb to the top
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Karasuma Risa (Takagaki Ayahi), Morishima Hibiki (Kumada Akane)
- Healing Song
- Lyricist: Yohei Matsui
- Composed and arranged by: Ryo Takahashi
- Sung by: Kana Fujii (Karin Isobe), Reimi Gojo (Marina Horiuchi), Hibiki Morishima (Akane Kumada)
Evaluation and Impressions "Healer Girl" is an appealing work with a storyline that makes use of the unique setting of healing illnesses with singing voices. Episodes depicting the growth and friendship of the apprentice healers, as well as the depth of the world of healing, leave viewers in awe. In particular, the individuality of each character stands out, and their singing voices and growth enrich the story. The animation quality is also high, and the fusion of Studio 3Hz's beautiful visuals and music enhances the appeal of the work. The opening theme "Feel You, Heal You" and the ending theme "Believe like Singing." have beautiful melodies that symbolize the theme of the story and resonate with the viewers. The inserted songs are also used effectively to match each scene, adding depth to the progression of the story. The voice actors are also excellent, especially Karin Isobe, Marina Horiuchi, Akane Kumada, and Chihaya Yoshitake, who express the emotions of the characters realistically. Their singing voices also enrich the worldview of the work and have the power to draw the viewer in. Recommended points "Healer Girl" is a work that can be recommended to many viewers as a new genre of anime that combines music and medicine. The following points are particularly attractive. - Unique setting : The setting of healing illnesses with singing is a fresh one not seen in other anime. This setting adds depth to the story and has the power to draw viewers in.
- Character Development : The growth and friendships of the apprentice healers are carefully depicted, allowing the audience to feel their growth right along with them.
- Beautiful music : The opening, ending, and insert songs are all beautiful and enrich the worldview of the story. The singing voices of the Healer Girls are particularly moving.
- High-quality animation : Studio 3Hz's beautiful visuals really add to the story, especially the healing scenes.
- An inspiring story : The story depicts the patients and doctors facing illness, as well as the efforts and growth of the healers, leaving viewers in awe.
Conclusion "Healer Girl" is an appealing work with its unique premise of healing illnesses with singing, and a touching story of the growth and friendship of apprentice healers. The beautiful music and high-quality animation combine to deeply move viewers. This is a work that I would highly recommend to anyone interested in music and medicine, or who is looking for a touching story. |
