Don't Hurt Me, My Healer!

...Alvin (male lead/armored warrior) is trying to make it as an adventurer in a land ravaged by monsters and other such baddies when he ends up getting the bad end of a fight with a bear-like creature only to be saved by the dark elf healer girl Carla (female lead/dark elf) who happens to be passing by except her personality being what it is things turn into an argument which confuses the bea...

...Alvin resumes his original quest to gather antidote herbs, but on the way he ends up getting attacked in a graveyard by ghosts which they manage to escape unexpectedly, but then he falls into a trap set by goblins and basically the first half of the episode is filled with great suffering but Carla's curse is still in effect so he can't get away from her and there's even more suffering in s...

...during his travels with Carla the healer for two episodes Alvin tries to keep up his job as a monster-hunting adventurer which I guess shows some pretty impressive resolve except when he runs into a mushroom monster he challenges to a fight and it turns out to be tougher than expected and by the way this won't get mentioned in the series proper but its species is called matango and you mig...

...beginners which is very nice and so even Alvin seems to be flying through it but of course as a veteran rookie he isn't without his struggles and he once again reveals his aptitude(?) for falling into holes and even causes their mushroom monster companion to worry and come to think of it the mushroom guy who showed up last episode has a name (it's Altargaia) and there aren't many chances t...

...Carla accidentally forces him to reveal a surprising true form and then an old lady they happen to meet on the road also reveals an unexpected side and this confirms once again that there are monsters in this world that disguise themselves as humans but by the way the name of the inn is "Stay! Burin" and some of you might not know where that name comes from but it's from a pretty famous sh...

...on their travels like being attacked by a thief and running into a golem until a certain series of events leads Alvin to take massive damage and it's so extreme that he even has to take off his armor to recuperate and that becomes an opportunity for them to get in a fight and reevaluate their relationship a little and even though their fights are an important part of the show the times bei...

...although in episode 5 we did get the witch and then the thief character but the witch only gets a few seconds at the end in her young form and the thief girl doesn't get any more screen time after this so I suspect the folks at home are wondering if we're ever going to see any new female characters and so partly for you people this episode features a female character called Maria Deathflam...

...Alvin gets out of the cell safe and sound but now that Carla and Maria are unexpectedly getting along they continue leading him around by the nose and it happens that Maria has a sweet little sister named Ellie and while avoiding spoilers regarding what trouble Ellie's gotten into it does concern Maria's status as a necromancer but I hope you won't get your hopes up for another cute female...

...of Maria and Ellie and by the way even though we jumble the order now and then we mostly follow the source material but because the Medusa and Dryad episode would let us get a few more rare female characters on-screen we originally had the idea to put them in episode 2 or 3 to get people more invested except putting them in episode 2 or 3 really would be a little too extravagant and kind o...

...(though actually it's just the next two episodes) so let me explain once again for people not in the know that "What Story Is This?" is the webcomic version of the story that would eventually be published as "Don't Hurt Me, My Healer," so this arc isn't included in the printed comic but you should still be able to read it so go ahead and do that if you like but at the same time there's als...

...and I'm really glad we found out a way for Anna and Ryoko to get involved and also to fill in some time based on the fact that there's not enough manga material available but there's also a reference to that classic family anime in this episode that I think a lot of people will get even if I don't explain it but it's been a chance to think about how animators back then had to put so much c...

...and the entire staff including those on the manga side would like to thank you all for watching but because the manga doesn't yet contain a story that could be used for a final episode this is basically going to be a totally original story although we made sure to get the dwarf character designs and lines and ideas from the creator Hakko-sensei so we were able to make it feel consistent bu...