A new key visual, trailer, and more cast have been revealed for the ongoing The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows TV anime series, highlighting the show’s next “Royal Institute of Healing” story arc. The next story arc will begin with the eighth episode on May 22, 2025. The anime first premiered in Japan on April 3, 2025 and will run for 12 episodes.
The three new cast members joining the series include Takehito Koyasu as Becker, Setsuo Ito as Cress, and Tetsu Inada as Goldran.
They join the show’s main voice cast that stars:
- • Shogo Sakata as Zenos
- • Miharu Hanai as Lily
- • Yoko Hikasa as Carmilla
- • Anna Nagase as Zophia
- • Mashiro Hitaka as Lynga
- • Sayaka Kikuchi as Loewe
Joe Yoshizaki (FLOW GLOW debut PV unit director, Goddess of Victory: Nikke “Miracle Snow” special video director) is directing the anime series, with Parkji-seung (animation director credits on shows like THE IDOLM@STER MILLION LIVE!, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun) as assistant director, Taika Miyagi as screenwriter, and denpuougi and Yoshihiro Sawada as character designers. Makaria is handling the animation production for the series, where Yoshizaki also serves as president.
The series began as a web novel on Shosetsuka ni Naro on November 30, 2020, written by Sakaku Hishikawa. It was then published as a light novel by SB Creative on October 14, 2021, with new illustrations by Daburyu. Eight volumes have been released as of March 2025. J-Novel Club licensed the light novels and manga adaptation for digital release in English. It will also release a print version later this August.
The manga adaptation by Junoichi was first serialized in GA Comic on January 22, 2022. Four tankobon volumes have been released as of November 2024, with a fifth volume set for release on June 15, 2025. It will also receive a print release from J-Novel Club later this July.
Crunchyroll is streaming The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows worldwide, outside of Japan, and describes the main synopsis as:
Banished as “useless,” Zenos, a self-taught healer from the slums, turns despair into defiance and opens a secret clinic in the city’s shadows. With unlicensed, unmatched magic, he cures, comforts, and rights wrongs, quietly becoming a legend. But as his power grows, even the royal palace takes notice. Can he buck the odds and heal a world that cast him aside?
Source: The Brilliant Healer’s New Life Official Twitter, Anime News Network, Comic Natalie
