Health

Health (hp) is how many hits Welltaro can take before the run ends. Almost everything that hurts — enemy contact, bullets, spikes — costs exactly 1 hp. You start with 4 (6 in Boulder Style).

Gaining health

• Heart-type gun modules: +1 hp.
• Shop food: Rice Ball, Sushi, Curry and friends.
• The Apple and Youth upgrades; Knife and Fork lets corpses heal you.
• A 25-kill combo: +1 hp.
• The Tomato: +8.

The overflow bar

Healing past full doesn't vanish: each surplus point fills one slot of the small overflow gauge under your health bar, and every 4 slots converts into a brand-new permanent max-hp heart. Eating while healthy is an investment.