The premise of The Wrong Way to use Healing Magic is quite interesting. It begins with an isekai-like premise of two students being sucked into a fantasy world as powerful heroes. On the other hand, Usato gets taken along for the ride as the third wheel. It’s a cliche storyline, yet the manga manages to be unique.
A big reason is that the isekai premise is thrown out the window after about ten chapters or so, and the plot focuses more on the world they are in. It leads to a deeper and more enriched world with tons of interesting tidbits.
10 Usato Has The Power To Sway Others With Kindness
It’s not a hidden feat in the manga, but one that can be easily missed. This is not something the manga harps on a lot, unlike Naruto, where the main character’s ability to sway others is one of his major skills.
Usato’s been able to bring a grizzly cub onto his side after helping it avenge its family’s death at the hands of a giant snake and managed something similar with the Black Knight. The Black Knight had been the first arc’s major villain, only to change sides after Usato showed compassion.
9 Healers Training Regimes Are More Intensive Than Knights
One of the best parts of the manga is that it doesn’t have the healers be frail or weak to physical attacks. They aren’t all the types who stay in the back and mend their comrades while needing protection themselves.
Both Rose and Usato are monsters in the strength department and two of the strongest characters there are. A big reason why is their training regiment is far more intensive than anything the knights do.
8 All Of The Major Villains Contrast One Another
While the series isn’t all that long, it does a great job of avoiding their villains being too similar to one another. None of the major arc villains thus far have been anything like the others.
The Black Knight’s sole purpose was to enjoy a good fight, caring very little about the war between the demons and the kingdom. Mina meanwhile wanted to utilize the discrimination of healers to her advantage to keep Nack under her thumb. Nea only has an interest in Usato as she stimulates her. They all even fight completely differently.
7 The Story Doesn’t Revolve Around One Character
Normally, a story will always have a central figure to it, and Usato certainly fits that bill here, but he isn’t the sole focus. He doesn’t always get the kills, nor is every villain out to get him.
His two companions get plenty of screen time in the first arc of the series, and Nack is practically the main character of the second arc as it centers around him and Mina’s relationship. The shifting of importance is interesting and allows everyone to have depth.
6 Usato’s Unyielding Determination Is Not Obnoxiously Overdone
There are times in manga that a characters defining trait can be so overdone that it gets to the point of being obnoxious. A good example would be the friendship powerups that Fairy Tail would always give or even Vegeta’s pride in Dragon Ball.
That never happens with Usato, as his determination is used in an almost endearing fashion, especially with the training he undergoes under Rose. It’s never made into an I-win button or constant crutch.
5 Racism Is Prevalent In The Kingdom, Despite Them Being Seen As The Good Faction
It’s always a good thing when the resident good faction has faults of their own, making it, so they aren’t squeaky clean. It opens up fun storytelling avenues that the series took advantage of with the arcs following the first.
Racism is shown to be prevalent in the kingdom, and not only towards healing mages either. Beast-kin are looked upon suspiciously—a feeling that’s more reciprocated as the beast-kin can be downright hostile at times.
4 Healing Can Be Done By Anyone, Not Just Healers
Part of the reason healers are looked on with such disdain outside of Lyngel is that anyone can do restorative magic, thus making healers unnecessary. To many, those with healing magic only expedite the healing process and nothing more, making them redundant and inferior mages.
Lyngel is the only one who disagrees with that, valuing healers for their ability to remove diseases, curses, and the fact it’s the one magic the demon army seems to fear.
3 Demons Aren’t Demonic
The series subverts the usual expectation of what a demon would be. They aren’t fallen angels or creatures that spring from the fonts of hell to wreak havoc on the world. Instead, they are beast-kin, ones who look human save for the horns sticking out of their heads.
They aren’t from hell, or some other supernatural place doesn’t change the evil they stand for. It’s still a unique take on a species that’s so often used as the villain.
2 Usato Is As Dense As Goku When It Comes To Flirting
It takes a lot to hit the ranks of Goku when it comes to density, but Usato is up there with how he takes Suzune’s teasing. Rarely does he ever pick up on it, comments often flying right over his head.
As with Goku, it’s played for laughs a lot of the time. It’s not out of the ordinary to see Suzune get upset because he isn’t receptive to her remarks or that he’s not acting as she expected him to. It’s a wonder why she even continues to try at this point.
1 For All The Evil Deeds He Committed, The Demon King Has A Point
The demons in the series won’t ever be mistaken for a shade of grey by any means. However, the Demon King does have a point when he states that humanity has made the others suffer at their hands.
Humanity is far from some righteous community as they still discriminate against beast-kin and look down on others. Admittedly, this doesn’t give the demons a right to rage a genocidal war against the humans, but it does give it context.