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!
While it started fun and comedic, oh boy, did this series start swinging some serious – and seriously good – plot around at the halfway point! If you are looking for more anime recommendations like The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, head on down below.
Anime Like The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
For Fans of Healers (With Personality Issues)
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 Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and The Great Cleric
- Both series follow healers as the main characters
- Both series assert that healers are hardcore masochists for comedy
- Both series feature the healer doing brutal training, then being OP on actual adventures
Differences Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and The Great Cleric
- While both have dark elements to the world, The Great Cleric often glosses over them to keep being comedic, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic embraces the darkening story
- The Great Cleric is about being physically trained by a muscle dude while training his healing in his down time, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is about being trained in healing by being physically trained brutally by another healer
- The main character in The Great Cleric adventures on his own while The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic features the main character teaming up with others
Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer
Being an adventurer is considered a desirable job and an honor. Wanting to make a name for himself, a warrior named Alvin is exploring low level quests to get started.
However, on his quest, he is confronted by a magical bear. Luckily, a dark elf healer named Karla offers her assistance, but instead of healing him, she accidentally casts a curse. Now, if she strays too far from Alvin, he will die!
Forced to adventure together until the curse is broken, Alvin remains steadfast in his desire to be an adventurer despite Karla’s eccentric whims.
Similarities Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer
- Both series feature comedy about a healer being as punishing as they are healing
- Both series follow a healer and their more combat-oriented companions on an adventure
Differences Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer
- Don’t Hurt Me Healer is an adventure comedy with no serious plot unlike The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic that starts comedic and gets serious
- The main characters are forced to be together in Don’t Hurt Me My Healer
- Don’t Hurt Me My Healer is like if Rose didn’t have a sad back story and just liked torturing one guy
For Fans of Honing Your Skill
Reincarnated as a Sword
After his death, a man is reincarnated into a new world. However, his body is not that of a human, but rather he is a legendary sword that, after leveling up his skills, becomes stuck firmly in the middle of a dangerous forest.
Begging for a wielder to come to him, he watches a slave caravan attacked by a two-headed bear. A young catgirl named Fran flees and happens across him with the pair teaming up to slay the bear and break her enslavement.
Similarities Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Reincarnated as a Sword
- Both series are action isekai anime
- Both series have a focus on characters training and honing their abilities for use in combat situations
- The actual main character is more of a support for other characters, but is pretty overpowered regardless
Differences Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Reincarnated as a Sword
- Reincarnated as a Sword is indeed about a sword as the main character while The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is about a healer
- The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic starts focused on training then moves to actual combat while Reincarnated as a Sword has combat pretty much be the training
- The mentor is a lot nicer to his student in Reincarnated as a Sword, Rose is more the tough love type in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Shangri-La Frontier
For high schooler Rakurou Hizutome, he enjoys playing games like any teen. However, his pleasure in gaming comes from playing trash games.
The broken, the janky, the terribly designed, the ridiculously difficult – he has conquered all of the trash games that no one plays!
After his most recent conquest, the games clerk recommends that he try something that isn’t trash – a new VRMMO game called Shangri-La Frontier. While he decides to give this VRMMO a try, his min-maxing trash game play style allows him to discover some little known secrets of this incredibly popular game that even the major tryhards haven’t found out.
Similarities Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Shangri-La Frontier
- Both series feature main characters slowly honing their abilities
- Silly-seeming initial premises eventually fade into quite serious action
- The actual action of both series is detailed and well done
- Both main characters are overpowered, but more so because they took the time to train their abilities and have developed solid skill to use them
Differences Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Shangri-La Frontier
- Shangri-La Frontier takes place in a VRMMO that he can and does log out of while The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is an isekai
- Shangri-La Frontier puts more emphasis on action early and often, growing increasingly grand in scale
- Shangri-La Frontier presents the main character as a bit eccentric while the world views the Rescue Corps as a series of eccentrics in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Kenichi – The Mightiest Disciple
After years of reading self-improvement books, “weak legs” Kenichi finally works up the courage to join the karate club. Unfortunately, his school bully challenges him, intent on literally kicking him out.
While all hope seemed lost, new classmate Miu invites him to her dojo for training. While he was able to defeat the bully, his new strength attracted the attention of a powerful group of students, and in order to overcome them, he must train in many martial arts styles.
Similarities Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Kenichi
- Both series adapt a more comedic sort storytelling to what is still an action anime story
- The main character starts off very weak and spends a good chunk of time training his body and abilities rigorously
- Their teachers are both a bit eccentricities
Differences Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Kenichi
- Kenichi is a martial arts action anime, which is quite different from the isekai story offered in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
- Kenichi, while it treats its fights seriously, does still keep silly characters around throughout whereas The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic gets progressively more serious as the war starts
For Fans of Detailed Fantasy in Initially Comedic Premises
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
Rentt Faima is an adventurer who has been grinding out low-level adventuring jobs for nearly a decade. With little talent for the job, he is stuck in the low adventurer ranks, killing low-rank monsters just to make a living wage.
While doing a job in the Water Moon Dungeon, he discovers a hidden path and decides to explore it. However, at the end of the path is not treasure, but a legendary dragon that swallows him whole!
Waking up awhile later, Rentt discovers that he is very much dead. He has somehow been revived as a skeletal undead. Armed with just his sword, Rentt fights other weak monsters in the dungeon hoping to experience the Existential Evolution that monsters can go through after killing other monsters so that he may someday become a high enough ranked undead to blend back into human society.
Similarities Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
- Both series start with a basic, somewhat silly premise, but grow increasingly more serious in plot over time
- Both series are dedicated to lengthy training in the beginning
- Both offer a pretty standard fantasy world, but do clearly put effort into giving them depth
- The main characters both seem pretty dense to women clearly flirting with them
- Both main character are beloved by the town despite thinking they are pretty average
Differences Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
- The Unwanted Undead Adventurer is more focused on dungeon crawling while The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is about adventure in the field/war
- The Unwanted Undead Adventurer isn’t an isekai
- The Unwanted Undead Adventurer is more grounded in combat while The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic goes for grander, more energetic combat
- The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic follows a, very alive, healer while The Unwanted Undead Adventurer has an adventurer die and come back as an ever-evolving undead
The Faraway Paladin
Born into a new world, Will awakens as a baby that has been taken in by three undead guardians of a long-dead city.
As he is raised, he is taught magic and swordsmanship, but also learns of the world that surrounds him. A world that was once ravaged by a powerful warrior that the three undead guardians only just managed to seal away.
As they are bound to that city, they can’t say for sure what became of the world or humanity after their death and undeath, but they prepare young Will for when he will eventually have to venture out into the world.
Similarities Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and The Faraway Paladin
- Both series are isekai anime with darker undertones
- Both series have a long initial focus on the main character being trained to use his abilities and learning about the world
- Both main characters aim to use their abilities for others
Differences Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and The Faraway Paladin
- The Faraway Paladin puts a huge amount of effort into detailed world-building while The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic is happier to remain more of a standard fantasy world with above average effort
- The Faraway Paladin features a protagonist reborn into that world as a baby with virtually no memories of his previous life
- Due to the nature of things, The Faraway Paladin is often a bit melancholy, even in its comedic moments
Tsukimichi – Moonlit Fantasy
Makoto Misumi is just an ordinary boy, but one night after learning his parents were from another world and guaranteed their travel to Japan by agreeing to give up what they care about most one day, he is transported to another world.
Unfortunately, the goddess of that world finds him ugly and in all ways repulsive.
She flings him to the corner of the world with her only gift being the ability to understand, speak, and write monster languages. With gifts from his previous worlds’ god, Tsukuyomi, and enhanced abilities from growing up in a non-magical world, Makoto sets out to make a life for himself.
Similarities Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Tsukimichi
- Both series are action comedy isekai
- Both series start off very comedic with a series of unwanted events happening to the main characters
- Both main characters have a least one women with a very obvious attraction to him
Differences Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Tsukimichi
- The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic gets quite serious over time while Tsukimichi has its moments, but is always somewhat comedic
- Tsukimichi has some harem elements
- Tsukimichi follows an innately OP protagonist while Usato honed his overpowered abilities through training
- As Tsukimichi has a combat-overpowered protagonist, it features more actual combat
Handyman Saitou in Another World
Handyman Saitou has always been a kind of an unremarkable man. He worked a thankless handyman job where the company prioritized profits and clients often dismissed his work as too simple to be worth paying for.
One day, Saitou is transported to a fantasy land where he takes up with a group of adventurers who, despite having some slight dysfunction of their their own, make his skills feel valuable!
Similarities Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Handyman Saitou
- Both series are isekai anime
- Both series start off comical about a dysfunctional-seeming group
- Both series manifest more serious, darker plots
Differences Between The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic and Handyman Saitou
- Handyman Saitou is an ordinary handyman. He didn’t get any special powers like Usato
- Handyman Saitou starts light, has a serious arc, then transforms into a more serious plot with a lot of dark comedy whereas The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic goes from comedic to serious
- The group in Handyman Saitou is legitimately not great at adventuring while the eccentricities in The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic are the result of training
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