Luciel’s life path is a familiar one: after his death as a salaryman in our world he reincarnates in another as a spry, 15-year-old, chooses a few abilities as compensation for his death, and off he goes! Luciel doesn’t want nearly as stressful a life as his previous one, or one that will kill him young, so he chooses “healer” as his occupation but without realizing just how desirable that skill will make him.
Luciel has reincarnated in your typical, fantasy isekai world where there is magic, adventure, and he’s able to view a video game-like status screen to track his progress but absolutely no one else can do this. This world is also functioning in a perfectly capitalist way, as economists would define it, since the low number of healers results in many of them banding together and charging exorbitant prices (quite literally enslaving those who can’t pay their debts). This leads many adventurers to go without healing and causing quite a few early deaths in an otherwise healthy population! It’s not intended to be real-world commentary on healthcare but as an USian I can’t say that any of these practices surprised me (especially with the detail that being a healer is a profession that requires large taxes to be paid yearly to the Guild, which is then passed onto customers in a similar way to how high medical school costs are passed onto patients in US healthcare).
Naturally, Luciel is the only healer so far we’ve seen to buck the money-grubbing trend and his general naivety about social norms in this new world also means he isn’t racist towards beastfolk, another rarity in healers, and heals them without compunction as well. He’s the kind of isekai protagonist with just enough personality to not feel like a total self-insert character but he’s also a very under-baked character with only positive traits associated with him and yet no morals, etc, to define why he has these traits in the first place. The art is similarly bland — while the art for the light novel covers looks to have a bit more style to it, I can’t really blame artist Hiiro Akikaze since there’s not a lot of interesting material to work with.
Speaking of the light novel, it has been recently licensed by J-Novel Club so perhaps there is an audience for the story out there for it but I will pass. There are plenty of other, more interesting isekai set-ups and protagonists out there and after two volumes, The Great Cleric hasn’t convinced me that it has anything interesting or great to speak of.