Healer Girl Sonia Yanagi anime character spinoff manga to premiere in May 2022
Kodoani.com – The June issue of Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Alive magazine publishes the final chapter of the manga Healer Girl espressivo by Imo Ōno, is a spinoff manga adaptation of Studio 3Hz’s original Healer Girl anime, on Wednesday.
Ōno launched the manga in Weekly Comic Alive in May 2022. The manga features a story about one of the anime’s characters, Sonia Yanagi. Kadokawa published the manga’s first compiled book volume in October 2022 and will ship the second volume on June 22.
The anime premiered in April 2022.
The story is set in a world where three schools of medicine are common: Western medicine, Eastern medicine, and “vocal medicine”. Healing illness and injury through songs is a special technique that not only improves the health of patients but also the mental health of doctors. Such “Healers” strive to sing when called upon in response to the health and anxiety of patients and doctors alike. The anime depicts healing girls being trained at the Karasuma Vocal Medical Institute.
Yasuhiro Irie is directing the anime at Studio 3Hz, and Noboru Kimura is overseeing the series’ scripts. Yukie Akiya is designing the characters.
In real life, Healer Girls is a unit consisting of the voice actresses for Healer Girl: Akane Kumada (Hibiki Morishima), Karin Isobe (Kana Fujii), Marina Horiuchi (Remi Gojō), and Chihaya Yoshitake (Sonia Yanagi). The group performed the anime’s opening theme song “Feel You, Heal You” and the ending theme song “Believe like Singer”. The unit held its last concert in October 2022.