Warning: Spoilers for How to Use Healing Magic Wrong episode 8 and 9!!
Summary
The user calling The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic volumes 8 and 9 “filler” is wrong. Flashbacks are a common anime element, and these episodes are important to the story. Rose’s backstory is also common in the source material, refuting the addition argument. Flashbacks provide important context and personal stakes for upcoming events in the series.
Crunchyroll users in the comments section of How to use healing magic incorrectly incorrectly called the two latest episodes of the isekai series “filler.” These accusations are completely false as the events take place in the light novel. Of course, these comments are certainly not using the term “filler” in the traditional sense, meaning anime-only episodes, but rather to convey frustration with the overall storyline of the original story. Basically, they felt that the two episodes were a waste of time because they took place in the past and not the present day.
This in itself is an odd argument, just because flashbacks are a big part of most anime series – and just novels in general.
Despite this indisputable fact, this special The flashbacks in How to Use Healing Magic Wrong aren’t just important to the story as a whole but has even been hinted at in previous episodes. So viewers who were paying attention might have expected such a flashback to happen.
The incorrect use of Healing Magic’s flashbacks is crucial to the story
Based on the light novel series by writer Kurokata and illustrator KeG; produced by Studio Add and Shin-Ei Animation
In the sections leading up to this long-awaited flashback in episodes 8 and 9, How to Use Healing Magic Wrongly begins to lay the groundwork for such an event to take place by slowly unraveling the past of a protagonist named Rose, the captain of the Llinger Kingdom’s Rescue Team, who coerced the protagonist, Ken Usato. Viewers learn that before forming the Salvation Army, she was a general of a combat battalion and that all the members of the battalion died tragically in some battle or war.
In fact, there was a telling scene between Rose and her king in a previous episode, where the king told her that she should stop blaming herself for something that seemingly happened because of her. no error. A separate moment also seems to connect Ken to someone important to Rose, named Aul.
These accusations are completely false, because the events take place in the light novel.
Besides fully displaying these allusions and allowing the viewer to experience the same pain that happened to Rose, the flashbacks in episodes 8 and 9 also provide some much-needed context for Rose’s character. Of course, viewers already know that she was clearly shaken by whatever happened, but this is much more powerful when viewers now know that Rose’s personality is exactly the same as before. . She was just as rude back then as she is now in her Rescue Squad. This doesn’t seem to make sense from a narrative perspective, but she’s only doing it now because she promised Aul and her battalion before they were killed that she wouldn’t change. Obviously she could have become a much darker character after their deaths, but she is honoring lost loved ones by staying the same.
The upcoming battle is now personal for those watching the misguided use of magic
This storyline provided important context for the future developments of the series.
Likewise, it’s always been assumed that Rose founded the Rescue Squad because of what happened in the past. While that’s still true now after the flashback, it’s a bit more nuanced than that. That’s because the same promise she made to Aul and her battalion was also the reason why she refused to submit revenge in How to Use Healing Magic Wrongly.
Besides portraying an already compelling character, the flashback also gives viewers a gift that truly affects the present moment. It magically increased the anticipation of an already highly anticipated fight in a way that the anime would not have been able to replicate except in a flashback. As revealed in episode 9, one of the reasons Rose lost her battalion was because a powerful demon prevented her from saving them, and that demon survived. Although Rose may be said to not have any urge for revenge, the audience now has a strong desire to Increase to fight against that demon again in the coming war.
It’s hard to imagine that viewers could somehow be more hyped for this fight than they already were, only for expectations to be raised significantly when Ken was given a disturbing vision of the outcome. possible outcome of the war. However, that’s possible because this flashback is now personal to Crunchyroll viewers and hopefully naysayers will realize this sooner in future episodes How to use healing magic incorrectly.
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