English Dub Review: Don’t Hurt Me, My Healer! “In This World Where Monsters Are Rampant…”

Overview:

While Alvin the adventurer is battling a monster, he comes across a healer named Karla. She offers her assistance, but she does more harm than good. She places a curse on Alvin that will kill him if the two are separated by more than 300 meters. This means the two of them are stuck together.

Our Take:

This show takes place in a world where monsters are all over the place. That’s all we learn about the actual world in the first episode because the rest of it follows our two main characters on their first encounter.

Alvin the adventurer is battling a monster and Karla walks up during the fight. She offers her assistance, but she makes it extremely difficult. When she does go to heal Alvin, she messes up and accidentally curses him instead. If the two are separated by more than 300 meters, Alvin will die.

Naturally, this causes frustration and the monster tries to break up the quarrel. The monster, known as Mostly Bear, inadvertently hurts Alvin in the midst of this. She takes them back to her house and it’s revealed that Karla healed Alvin. Not much of note happens for the rest of the episode, but this is the beginning of Alvin’s and Karla’s partnership.

To be blunt, this was an awful way to open the series. I don’t know anything about this world besides the fact that there are monsters about. Not only that, but Karla is terrible. She started annoying me from the second or third line she uttered and didn’t stop since then. She’s so full of herself and she cries at every little thing. It also seems like she’s pretty useless in the grand scheme of things. She reminds me of Aqua from KonoSuba, but even Aqua has her moments. Karla might too, but she didn’t in this episode.

Alvin isn’t irritating, but he also just comes off as a typical bland protagonist. Mostly Bear isn’t bad either, but she’s just a supporting character.

The humor in this episode started off okay, but it went downhill pretty quickly. Most of the jokes are dragged out painfully long and they weren’t funny to begin with. Karla saying she messed up Alvin’s face when it turns out she didn’t had no chance of being funny nor did any other joke involving her. I’ll admit that she made me smirk once or twice, but that’s nothing compared to the amount of aggravation she caused throughout the entire episode.

I hope there will be plenty of entertaining supporting characters introduced real soon. Otherwise, this will be a painfully long adventure for Alvin and for me too.