Born in the slums, every opportunity was denied to Zenos because of his dirt-poor background. Able to use healing magic, he catches the eye of an adventurer that takes him in. While his party treats him like garbage, Zenos is so grateful for the opportunity that he continues to work hard as an errand boy and as the party’s healer—until he is kicked out when the party grew more successful.
Cut loose from the only job he was ever given, Zenos decides to use his healing skills to open a back alley clinic in the slums, since he can’t practice healing anywhere else without a noble pedigree. After endearing himself to the three leaders of the slum’s major demi-human gangs, word starts to spread about a magnificent healer practicing in the shadows.
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Anime Like The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows
For Fans of Healers Trying to Be Low-Key

The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Ken Usato is an average high school student, but one day while walking home with the high-achieving president and vice president of the student council, he is summoned along with them to another world.
It seems that the king of that world meant to summon his two classmates as heroes and Usato got summoned by just being close to them at the time. Accepting that he is now stuck there, he has his abilities accessed along with his new friends. He discovers that he has the rare ability to heal others – which makes him the immediate target for training by the fiercesome leader of the Rescue Corps, Rose.
Dragging her new candidate to their headquarters, Usato’s brutal training begins!
Similarities Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
- Healer main character
- Uses healing magic to become the most wildly overpowered person in the show
- Endears themselves to other fighters who protect him as he protects them
- At least one somewhat intense girl interested in him romantically
Differences Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
- The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is an isekai story
- The main character in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is psychopathically trained by his mentor until he is very, very strong in both healing and stamina.
- There is no harem element in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, just more hints at a singular romance.
- There is a pretty straightforward “demons are coming, we’re going to war at some point” plot going on in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic compared to the more meandering plot in The Brilliant Healer’s New Life.

The Great Cleric
After suddenly dying, a salaryman wakes to find himself in another world and in the body of a young teen. Taking up the name of Luciel, he decides to become a healer in order to help people and lead a peaceful life.
Discovering the world is incredibly dangerous, Luciel heads to the Adventurers Guild to try and train his body so he won’t immediately be killed on the road. There, he discovers that healers have a rather poor reputation among adventurers for charging prices so high that adventurers either die due to not being able to afford treatment or trade their life for being sold into slavery.
Working at the Adventurers Guild in return for martial training, Luciel offers his healing skills to wounded adventurers and hopes to someday right the corrupt system.
Similarities Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and The Great Cleric
- Healer main character
- Healing magic is reserved for the wealthy, but the main character heals all for fair prices
- Beast people discrimination and a main character who is a champion for the beast people despite being a human.
- Main character whose abilities are, or grow to be, miraculous
- Meandering actual plot that is mostly just him living life and helping people
Differences Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and The Great Cleric
- The Great Cleric is an isekai story
- The main character in The Great Cleric was trained psychopathically so he became very strong
- There’s no harem or even any serious stab at romance in The Great Cleric.

Parallel World Pharmacy
After dedicating himself to creating medicines as a pharmacist, Kani Yakutani works himself to death at the age of 31.
He awakens in the form of a ten-year-old boy that has been struck by lightning. He discovers that he is the son of a prestigious family as well the host to the guardian deity of medicine. This allows him to immediately diagnose illnesses in others.
While this is a miraculous ability, he discovers the state of medicine in this world is primitive and takes up his previous profession from his past life as a pharmacist once again.
Similarities Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Parallel World Pharmacy
- Healer main character
- They use their miraculous abilities to help people no matter who they are
- Healing is for the rich, but the main character serves anyone
- Opens a shop to ply his trade with female helpers
Differences Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Parallel World Pharmacy
- Parallel World Pharmacy is an isekai story
- The main character in Parallel World Pharmacy isn’t technically a healer, her was a pharmacist in his previous life and now has the ability to use magic to diagnoses illnesses. So he uses his magic, then crafts the medicine with modern world knowledge.
- Despite his female helpers in Parallel World Pharmacy, it isn’t really a harem/romance situation.

The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party, Is, in Fact, the Strongest
Only being able to use basic heals, Laust is kicked from his adventuring party for not contributing much.
After teaming up with a cute martial artist named Narsena who seemed to have met Laust in the past, they form their own party and discover that Laust is a man of many powerful talents.
Similarities Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party Is In Fact The Strongest
- Healer main character
- The healer was kicked from his party for being weak, but is actually overpowered and was holding that whole scummy party together.
- The main character meets a new girl and starts doing his own thing
Differences Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party Is In Fact The Strongest
- The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party features the main character just joining a new adventuring party, not opening a shop for his healing services like The Brilliant Healer’s New Life.
- The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party has a plot building up as they are going on adventures surrounding the girl he is working with.
- There is no harem in The Healer Who Was Banished From His Party. It is very much a singular romance sort of affair.
For Fans of Back Alley Doctoring

Monster Girl Doctor
In the town of Lindworm, monsters and humans coexist. Dr. Glenn, a human doctor, runs a clinic for monster girls with his lamia assistant.
While monster girls present some unique challenges, he does his job with grace, confidence, and professionalism.
Similarities Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Monster Girl Doctor
- Doctor/healer main character
- The main character runs a small shop in a big city with his female assistant
- The main character treats a whole lot of beast girls and doesn’t discriminate
- Beast girl harem sort of situation as the girls he treats often love him
Differences Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Monster Girl Doctor
- Monster Girl Doctor is occasionally a little, if not ecchi, then provocative
- Monster Girl Doctor is more medical dcotor-coded than magic healing like in The Brilliant Healer’s New Life.

Black Jack
The genius and “unregistered” doctor known as Black Jack has a past shrouded in mystery.
Together with his assistant Pinoko, he takes on cases that are too dangerous, feature obscure medical ailments, or handle ailments that no doctor has ever seen before.
Thanks to his skills, he can save any patient’s life – as long as they have the money for it.
Similarities Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Black Jack
- Talented doctor main character that does his business often unofficially
- The main character doesn’t discriminate with his patients, healing all
- Cute girl assistant
Differences Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Black Jack
- Black Jack has a bit of fantasy (and more sci-fi), but it takes place in a relatively modern setting and often working with real medical knowledge.
- Black Jack is about a medical doctor, not a magical healer
- Black Jack is kind of a Robin Hood-type anti-hero, and isn’t nearly as nice to most people.
- There’s no harem in Black Jack or romance, unless you count his assistant’s enduring love for him.

The Gene of AI
In a near-future society, humanity has integrated with intelligent technology so deeply that robots are sometimes indiscernible from people and humans can upgrade themselves into more durable humanoid forms.
Running a small clinic, Dr. Hikaru Sudo, using the alias Moggadeet, performs illegal medical procedures and provides care to those who suffer ailments from illegal procedures. As he handles his various cases, he also pursues his own investigation into those responsible for copying his humanoid mother’s mind and distributing it for illegal activities in the criminal underworld.
Similarities Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and The Gene of AI
- Talented doctor main character
- The main character runs an illegal back alley shop for people that can’t afford or visit other options
- Main character doesn’t discriminate against his patients, trying to help anyone in need
- Female assistant with feelings for the doctor.
Differences Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and The Gene of AI
- Gene of AI is about a doctor for humanoid-type artificial intelligence patients, so it is very, very sci-fi and not at all the medieval fantasy affair that The Brilliant Healer’s New Life is.
- The Brilliant Healer’s New Life is a bit meandering in its plot while Gene of AI is often episodic about individual patient stories.
- Gene of AI may be about the individual cases and character stories of his patients, but the main character is working his own intriguing mystery while helping them.
- Gene of AI is not a harem affair, though it hints at a singular, possibly one-sided romance.
For Fans of Beloved By Non-Human Girls

Beast Tamer
Rein is a beast tamer and member of the Hero’s Party. However, because beast taming is rather weak magic, he is used as more of a errand boy for them instead.
That all changes when they finally fire him and he is set adrift. Kicked out of the party, he ends up meeting a girl from one of the strongest species of beast people and tames her.
Together, they become magnificent adventurers while the Hero’s Party begins to realize that their previous success was all due to Rein’s support.
Similarities Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Beast Tamer
- Super powerful main character was the one holding their adventuring party together, but was kicked out because they were allegedly weak.
- The main character goes to do his own thing
- The main character is quickly beloved by a number of beast girls in a very harem way
Differences Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Beast Tamer
- Beast Tamer is about an overpowered beast tamer, not a healer like The Brilliant Healer’s New Life
- Beast Tamer’s main character is a pretty wholesome nice guy type.
- Beast Tamer’s harem features the main character “taming” beast girls with his high level beast tamer skills, so they are contractually obligated to hang out with him.
- Beast Tamer features more action, but is just as meandering with its plot

Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
One day, an average merchant named Banaza is summoned to another world. It turns out that the magical kingdom of Klyrode has been summoning heroes to help them fight against demons known as the Dark Ones.
Alongside Banaza, another man was summoned whose stats wow the king and he is chosen as a hero. However, Banaza, who has dismal stats, cannot be returned home. The kingdom grants him some land in a forest, but he discovers that it is blighted by demons living in the area.
In his new home, he not only discovers that he actually has cheat level powers that make him wildly powerful, but when he uses them to defeat a powerful demon, she has decided that she will be his devoted wife!
Similarities Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
- Overpowered main character
- Main character earns the admiration of at least one obsessive, overpowered beast girl
- Main character doesn’t discriminate in a world that likes to discriminate
- Harem elements.
- “Main character was unwanted by their old organization that thought them weak” element.
Differences Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers
- Chillin’ in Another World is an isekai
- Chillin’ in Another World may have a whole harem worth of women that admire the main character, but they all cower in the face of his possessive, yandere demon wife. So it is is more of a singular romance.
- Chillin’ in Another World does have more of a building “demons versus humans, but the demons aren’t actually all that bad” plot.

Kemono Michi
Shibata Genzo is both a professional wrestler and an animal lover. One day, he is summoned to another world by a princess. She makes the mistake of asking him to rid her kingdom of these evil beasts.
Instead of doing that, Genzo suplexes her and heads off to start a monster pet shop.
Similarities Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Kemono Michi
- Powerful main character
- The main character starts a small shop in a big city
- The main character befriends a whole harem’s worth of beast girls that now hang around his shop
- Fairly meandering plot
Differences Between The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows and Kemono Michi
- Kemono Michi is an isekai
- Kemono Michi is definitely more of a comedy than anything else.
- As Kemono Michi is a comedy isekai about a wrestler, the main character’s status as “powerful” is debatable. He’ll win, as long as its wrestling, though.
- The main character in Kemono Michi loves animals, and thus has a comically obsessive relationship with beast people in his fantasy land.
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