The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is a light novel based on the novel site Let's Become a Novelist, and is scheduled to be adapted into an anime series starting in January 2024! The main character, Usato, is an ordinary person who gets caught up in a summoning to another world. Thanks to his talent for healing magic, he is able to heal himself from injuries and fatigue, and gains overwhelming physical strength through super-recovery powers thanks to his healing magic. Despite being a healing power, he also fights using his healing magic and his own body as weapons. Because of this, the story is full of muscle-brained scenes. Here, we've arbitrarily and prejudicially selected and ranked scenes from the comic adaptation that epitomize muscle-brainedness!
Famous Scene Ranking #10: Kidnapping!!!??
Of the three people Usato, Kazuki, and Suzune were summoned to another world, only Kazuki and Suzune were actually summoned. However, the moment it was discovered that Usato, who had simply been dragged into the situation, had the potential for healing magic, everyone around them became enraged. This wasn't because Usato's abilities were particularly special, but because they felt that one person should not be found out about them. That person was Rose, the leader of the Lifesaving Squad. Rose was the kingdom's strongest person and an extremely Spartan-like resident of the end of the century. When Rose discovers that Usato has potential for healing magic, she kidnaps him and takes him away.
Famous Scene Ranking #9: Diary
After being brought to another world, Kazuki and Suzune undergo perfectly normal training alongside the kingdom's army, but Usato is different. Usato's diary describes his first day as full of dreams and hope, but from the next day onwards, his emotions disappear. The training Rose gave Usato was lukewarm, even if it was military-style. While Usato is not the only one to undergo training for the rescue squad, the content is generally similar.
Famous Scene Ranking #8: Do it to the Death, and Heal When You Die
A scene from Usato and Rose's training. Before she gave up her human form, Usato was forced to run so hard she was exhausted. However, even with such overwork, healing magic can heal both injuries and muscle pain. Healing magic users can train with this kind of super-healing, which is how Rose achieved her ultimate physical strength. And so, Usato, trained with this super-healing power, also graduated from being an ordinary person and gave up her humanity...
Famous Scene Ranking #7: Bear-Saddled Lifesaving Training
Usato's super-powerful body and mind, achieved through super-healing magic, which he used to heal his extremely harsh training. He even completed a dangerous forest survival mission assigned to him by Rose, transforming into a complete muscle-brained warrior. When a baby blue grizzly bear named Bullling, whom he met in the forest, joins the lifesaving team, Usato returns to his training routine. But this training involves running with Bullling on his back...or rather, riding Bullling on his back. On the battlefield, Usato needs to run around carrying wounded people, and this was part of his training. The people around are initially taken aback, but they adapt, realizing that anything is acceptable for the rescue squad.
Famous Scene Ranking #6: Usato Pulling Out the Stake
Usato and his group arrive at the Magic Academy in the magical city of Rukvis as emissaries seeking cooperation from other countries. There, they are challenged to a mock battle by a student at the Magic Academy, Halfa. Healing magicians are considered useless in Rukvis, but during the mock battle, Usato uses his bare hands to drill a hole in a sturdy stake that was held in place by magic and pulls it out. While magic might be a different story, Usato pulls out the stake with ease using only his strength, leaving everyone around him dumbfounded...
Famous Scene Ranking #5: Usato Treated Like a Monster
Prejudice and discrimination against healing magicians run deep at the Magic Academy, and even after Usato demonstrates his monstrous nature in a mock battle, the violent bullying continues. Usato comes across a scene where Nack, a fellow healing magician and student at the Magic Academy, is being violently beaten. Having become a muscle-brained character thanks to Rose's training, Usato threatens the enemy while destroying a large tree with his bare hands. To Usato, it wasn't serious and was merely a threat, but his thoughts were completely influenced by his master.
Famous Scene Ranking #4: Another Rose
After a series of events, Usato trains Nac, a bullied healing magic student. A week later, Nac and Mina, the ringleader of the bullying, are dueled. With only a week to spare, and a fight that would be impossible to win by conventional means, Usato trains Nac through the same hellish training that Rose had given him. Usato thought he was definitely less strict than his master, but his mercilessness showed at key moments, and he realized he had been under his master's thumb.
Famous Scene Ranking #3: Usato's Ability to Intimidate
Usato's natural intimidation of those attacking Usato and his group. By this point, Usato's intimidation skills have become as natural as his master's, and he has come to be feared by his companions. His villainous side has also become completely like his master's.
Famous Scene Ranking #2: Usato Jumping
Usato and Amako infiltrate the necromancer's hideout, but the necromancer turns out to be nowhere to be found, and they are ambushed by zombies. Trapped, the two have no chance of escape, but Usato manages to grab Amako from the third floor. Amako hesitates, but Usato, with a smile on his face, says, "I'll never let you go," and jumps off. Naturally, he's unharmed. Graduated from being human.
Famous Scene Ranking #1: The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
The Black Knight, Kazuki and Suzune's strongest enemy in the war against the Demon King's army, possessed the invincible ability to return the wounds he received to their knees. However, Usato heals his wounds by attacking while healing, instead directly transmitting only the pain and impact, defeating the Black Knight in a completely muscle-brained way. The title is recaptured.
[The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic] Ranking of Famous Scenes
I've compiled a ranking of the best scenes from The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, focusing on the most ridiculously silly scenes and scenes in which the protagonist, a mere ordinary sword-and-sorcery fantasy, becomes like a resident of the end of the century! It's a fun story with both refreshing and silly humor, and I'm really looking forward to the anime adaptation! Please check it out if you're interested!
