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.
While distinctly more comical than expected, The Great Cleric does provide a fun, healer-focused isekai romp. If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Great Cleric, head on down below.
Anime Like The Great Cleric
For Fans of Healers
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.
For as many isekai anime as there are, there sure aren’t too many focusing on healers. Both The Great Cleric and Parallel World Pharmacy follow isekai’d main characters who, instead of being world-saving combat heroes, become world-saving healers.
While both main characters depend on magic to heal, the plots focus on different things. The Great Cleric is still very much an isekai adventure where the main character has a rather cheerful time honing his healing skills. Alternatively, Parallel World Pharmacy is actually more focused drama since he was a pharmacist in a previous life, and his new fantasy world has rather lacking medical knowledge. It is still a somewhat cheerful isekai anime, but it puts more emphasis on how much people are suffering – something The Great Cleric kind of passes over to get back to adventure and comedy.
The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent
Sei, a young office worker, is summoned to a new world. However, the people who summoned her to banish dark magic from the world only meant to summon one person they would call Saint. Instead, they summoned two, and Sei discovers that they actually like the other girl better.
Not really caring about that, she ends up making potions at a research institute using her newfound magic. Unfortunately, while she is unexpectedly talented at her work and happy doing it, she begins to think that she is indeed the Saint.
Unlike The Great Cleric, The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent isn’t about a healer, she just happens to develop a passion for making potions.
Both series are isekai anime where the main character takes up a role helping people. The Great Cleric has Luciel as a healer and The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent has her heal people through her magically infused potions that she produces.
While both series are on the lighter side, The Saint’s Magic Power is Omnipotent does focus on more of a plot and has a few more serious moments because of it.
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.
While not an isekai like The Great Cleric, Monster Girl Doctor is about a healer in a fantasy world. However, instead of using magic, he is presented as a more traditional doctor using examination to find what is wrong and potions and other curatives to heal it.
While both Monster Girl Doctor and The Great Cleric are about healers helping people in a fantasy land – particularly animal people – Monster Girl Doctor has two glaring differences. It is occasionally a more serious anime, though not without frequent levity. However, it gets its humor from ecchi jokes. So while not a very graphic ecchi anime, it does rely on ecchi-style comedy.
For Fans of Main Characters Beloved By All
By The Grace of the Gods
After leading a miserable life, Ryouma Takebayashi passes away at age 39.
Three deities, taking pity on him, reincarnate him into a fantasy world with an aptitude for magic, telling him to enjoy life and that they will always watch out for him.
With his newfound existence, he spends it studying slimes, amassing a slime army, and learning some magic, but he misses humanity. Being persuaded to join a group of travelers, Ryouma’s new world opens up for him.
The Great Cleric is one of those isekai anime where the main character is just the nicest young man and is loved by everyone he meets. By the Grace of the Gods is exactly that too. The difference is that the main character has a passion for breeding slimes rather than becoming a healer.
Both series are very light isekai with pleasant main characters, very little drama, and also profoundly little plot outside of smaller adventures. You watch them try new things, succeed with minimal conflict, and enjoy it happily. Essentially, you are watching overworked salarymen find fulfilling new fantasy jobs in a fantasy world.
Farming Life in Another World
After dying of an illness, Machio Hiraku is given the opportunity to reincarnate into another world.
The god grants him a healthy body and his wish to live peacefully. Machio also asks if he can have a talent for agriculture in hopes that he can live a more fulfilling life.
The god grants him all this as well as the ability to summon a farming tool that can turn into any agricultural tool he needs, including one that makes any seeds he can think of.
Machio is sent in the middle of a forest full of dangerous creatures. Without any civilization in sight, he makes his own small farm that slowly accumulates residents that wander the woods.
Both The Great Cleric and Farming Life in Another World are lighter isekai anime with specific focus. The Great Cleric focuses on being a healer while Farming Life in Another World focuses on being a farmer and starting a village.
Now, being a healer is really just being an adventurer with a different skill set, but what Farming Life in Another World and The Great Cleric actually have in common is that they follow nice main characters that literally everyone loves. They also happen to start tripping over women that admire them, but without really acknowledging it too much. Farming Life in Another World makes his harem a bit more obvious since his village becomes 90 percent female, however.
Both series are pleasant isekai anime about main characters following their interests in a new world, and being wildly overpowered at it.
Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill
Alongside three other heroes, Mukouda Tsuyoshi was transported to a fantasy world to save a kingdom.
However, it becomes very apparent that he was summoned as a mistake when the only skill he has is to be able to open an interface to purchase food items from modern Japan.
Kicked out into the world, Tsuyoshi sets out into the world and his ability to make delicious dishes soon pays off. He attracted the attention of legendary wolf Fenrir who enjoyed the meal so much that he forms a pact with him to be his familiar.
Now employed as a merchant and adventurer, he travels and cooks to earn a living.
Of all the other light-hearted, pleasant isekai anime like The Great Cleric, Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill is probably the most similar experience.
Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill is very much a “food anime,” given that it is about the main character having access to a Japanese grocery and just cooking meals for his overpowered, hungering void of a familiar. However, like Luciel endears himself to any guild he interacts with, Mukouda does the same thing. His familiar can tackle wildly powerful monsters, he brings them to the guild, they are all amazed, they sell for buckets of money, and then everyone loves him.
The biggest difference outside of the food theme is that Campfire Cooking in Another World With My Absurd Skill focuses much more on the main character adventuring in the wilderness. Essentially, he does what Luciel was training to do at the Adventurers Guild, but then never did.
For Fans of Fighting Corruption in Another World
The Rising of the Shield Hero
The stories tell of four heroes summoned from another world – the sword, spear, bow, and shield heroes who will prevent calamity. With darkness bearing down on them, the Kingdom of Melromarc summons these heroes from modern day Japan.
For otaku Naofumi Iwatani, unfortunately he is labeled the shield hero, the weakest of the group. Worse yet, betrayal sees him labeled as a criminal and outcasted.
With hatred and vengeance consuming him, he sets forth to grow strong.
While they differ in tone and action quantity, both The Great Cleric and The Rising of the Shield Hero feature “good guy” main characters who exist in a world where those with power are not such good guys. Furthermore, the both follow traditional, but never focused fantasy roles, like the healer or the shield-using tank.
While The Rising of the Shield Hero features the main character getting betrayed and becoming wildly bitter, both series are still about main characters that are trying to help the people they meet. Luciel is just a lot more friendly while doing it.
High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World
After their plane goes down, seven prodigy children wake up to find themselves in another world.
However, as none of them are just normal students, they set out to improve and take over this world through the use of their specialties.
Like Luciel arrived in a new world with a more rare ability, High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World focuses on a group of characters in a similar situation. However, instead of having fantasy abilities, they use their specialties from our modern world to their benefit in a fantasy land.
Both The Great Cleric and High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World are more light-hearted isekai series that actually focus on an unfairly oppressed world. The main characters then use their overpowered abilities to fight against that and make the world a better place for the people they meet.
Skeleton Knight in Another World
After falling asleep playing games, a gamer woke up in the game world, but as a skeleton. While he is equipped well, his appearance is too frightening to live the peaceful life he wants.
Yet, after meeting a beautiful elf woman, he may find himself pulled into a path of building intrigue.
While it is due to training, Luciel never quite grasps how overpowered he is compared to other healers. Arc in Skeleton Knight in Another World is the same way, but with combat abilities. He is powerful, but doesn’t realize he is the most powerful.
While Skeleton Knight in Another World is sometimes more serious and often more dedicated to following a linear plot, like The Great Cleric, it follows a main character just trying to not die and live a nice life despite some obvious set-backs.
The core plot of Skeleton Knight in Another World is a serious one, but the main character, like Luciel, is rather light and comical. Yet, those goofballs are trying to unravel and put right the corruption going on in the world.
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