My Home Hero

What is this? Tetsuo Tosu, a 47-year-old office worker, and his wife, Kasen, love their daughter Reika more than anything in the world, even though she...

The first is the confrontation that our mystery-novel-loving hero, Tetsuo, has with his daughter Reika, who is clearly the victim of domestic abuse. Tetsuo's horror at what happened also tracks, and the shift in his demeanor when he realizes that he has to kill Nobuto in order to save his child is nicely understated. Perhaps that's just a consequence of the deeply inexpressive animation and direction, but it means that Tetsuo's driving motivation—saving his family—doesn't land. It isn't too often that watching an anime makes me concerned that I am experiencing some kind of hallucinatory episode that could portend some terrible neurological diagnosis in my future, but My Home Hero is, from its very first minute, determined to make its audience question whether or not what it is watching is even real. That's a telling moment, because it shows that he's beginning to think outside the bounds of what he's been taught his whole life. The way he discovers his daughter's abusive boyfriend is by randomly overhearing said boyfriend loudly bragging about hitting her, in public, on the streets, and then telling all his buddies what her name is in case they forgot. Yet it can't accomplish that in any capacity, thanks to janky character designs, terrible compositing, and a frankly amateurish eye for lighting that makes the stiff animation all the more noticeable. Nobuto is an abuser and Reika is at real risk of becoming his victim rather than a survivor of his abuse. For all rights and purposes, what we have here is a normal guy with a normal job and a normal family. And so begins the fight of wits over life or death between "a normal, weak, middle-aged man" who is prepared to do anything to protect his family, and the fearless fighters from the underworld. Enter Reika's boyfriend, Nobuto Matori, a brute who has beaten his ex-girlfriend to death and has ties to the yakuza. The series as a whole looks to be about how our murderer attempts to get away with the crime.

At least the production committee didn't cut corners on the casting. Suwabe Junichi (almost as big an onii-san it boy at Tsuda Kenjirou atm) is Tosu Tetsuo, a ...

[I won’t lie, the highlight of the episode for me was Ohtsuka Akio’s enforcer ](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/My-Home-Hero-01-05.jpg) [Kubo’s](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/My-Home-Hero-01-18.jpg) conversation with Miki Shinichriou’s boss [Matori](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/My-Home-Hero-01-34.jpg). Suwabe Junichi (almost as big an onii-san it boy at Tsuda Kenjirou atm) is ](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/My-Home-Hero-01-03.jpg) [Tosu Tetsuo](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/My-Home-Hero-01-03.jpg), a loser dad whose daughter [Reika](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/My-Home-Hero-01-05.jpg) doesn’t seem inclined to give him the time of day. What’s a bit shocking here is how cool his wife ](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/My-Home-Hero-01-04.jpg) [Kasen](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/My-Home-Hero-01-19.jpg) is about the whole thing, calmly suggesting they hide the body and cover up the crime, which as she points out is what the yakuza would do. Tezuka Productions is not a name synonymous with elite production values but still, this was a bit of a shock.](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/My-Home-Hero-01-01.jpg) [So with that in the ledger, the only thing that matters is this – is My Home Hero interesting enough as a story to get past the visuals? Complicating things even further is that the dead man is the son of a powerful mob boss, and thus his disappearance is going to be the subject of even greater scrutiny. I can’t get past thinking how good this would be with a vintage Madhouse treatment, but that’s obviously not what we got.](https://lostinanime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/My-Home-Hero-01-02.jpg) [At least the production committee didn’t cut corners on the casting.

Making its thrilling debut with an edge-of-the-seat episode, My Home Hero has successfully elevated viewers' heart rates.

Suddenly, Tetsuo discovered someone trying to jimmy the front-door lock. Despite the possibility of being slim, if Tetsuo manages to avoid Kyoichi, his next step would be disposing of Nobuto’s body, as his wife, Kasen, suggested. My Home Hero episode 2 will be released on Sunday, April 9, 2023, on Tokyo MX and BS NTV at 11:30 pm JST. As the cat-and-mouse game has just begun, Tetsuo will have to put more effort into safeguarding his family. The release timings for My Home Hero episode 2 are listed below, along with the corresponding time zones: With Kyoichi (a Yakuza member tasked to bring Nobuto to his father) discovering Nobuto’s body at Reika’s house, things get interesting as “what the future holds for Tetsuo” has become one of the most anticipated hot topics in the fandom.