English Dub Review: The Great Cleric “The Healers’ Guild”

Overview (Spoilers Below):

A salaryman meets an untimely demise and gets reincarnated in a fantasy world as a fifteen-year-old boy named Luciel. Luciel uses his business skills to talk his way into a nearby town’s Healers’ Guild, where he begins a crash course in magic.

Our Take:

Being reincarnated as a warrior in a fantasy world is fun, but it would be cooler if someone became a healer instead. But, of course, having the ability to help others through healing isn’t without a few conditions one must face. The Great Cleric is another recent addition to the expansive isekai collection that focuses more on the characters’ secondary roles amid the usual good-vs-evil narrative.

The first episode starts the same way as other isekai shows. The main character dies from a tragic accident in the real world and reincarnates into an alternate realm as a different person. In the case of The Great Cleric, we have an unnamed salaryman who just got a promotion. Unfortunately, his celebration was cut short when he got shot by a gunman. Afterward, he reincarnates as Luciel, with his business knowledge left intact from his previous life. He even gets some healing magic to boot. There, he uses that knowledge to gain access to a nearby town, where she’s greeted by Lady Lumina, who shows him the healers’ clinic and puts him through Spartan training to practice his magic.  

If you’ve seen this episode, you’ve practically watched all of the first episodes in other isekai shows, no matter the perspective. The only difference for this series is that it’s from a healer’s perspective, whose job is to…well, heal adventurers’ wounds. Additionally, he starts his new life already as a young adult. It certainly isn’t without a few moments of world-building, including healers getting special treatment. Not to mention that Luciel is suitably voiced by Justin Briner, best known for his portrayal of Deku from My Hero Academia. It’s very noticeable when you compare Luciel’s cowering personality with Deku’s. But all in all, we might have another isekai series that offers a different perspective but nothing else to make its narrative stand out.