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Plot
A normal salaryman, Tetsuo Tosu, discovers that his adult daughter Reika is being physically and emotionally abused by her new boyfriend, a young man named Nobuto. Soon after discovering that Nobuto has a history of murdering other girls that he has dated in the past and is currently trying to get money from Reika's grandparents before planning to dispose of her as well, Tetsuo murders Nobuto. He then resolves to commit "the perfect crime" and hides the body with the help of his wife, Kasen. However, Nobuto was the only son of Yoshitatsu Matori, who runs a powerful yakuza branch in the city. While Tetsuo wishes to protect his family, he must now deal with Matori's men as they threaten his family to find out what happened to Nobuto.
Characters
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- A 47-year-old manager for a toy company who enjoys reading and writing mystery novels in his spare time. After murdering Nobuto, he uses his knowledge gained from mystery stories to dispose of the corpse, and then to counter the syndicate that surveils and directly threatens his family.
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- Tetsuo's 41-year-old wife and accomplice. She is a housewife but her father is the head of a rural cult she managed to leave. She and her mother pretend to speak for the spirits of departed cultists and their families. She and Tetsuo have another son later.
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- An 18-year-old college student trapped in an abusive relationship with Nobuto at the start of the story, until he is murdered. She offers to help her parents with their garden, unaware of their role in Nobuto's disappearance. She becomes a police investigator in the 3rd arc of the manga after a time skip.
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- A member of the syndicate who works under Kubo. Incredibly skilled at surveillance and detection, as well as taking countermeasures against both. He entered the Yakuza to settle a family debt.
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- A loud young man who boasts about extorting girls for money and "accidentally" murdered at least two of them. When Tetsuo murders him at the start of the story, his remains become a focal point of the plot from then on.
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- Nobuto's father, the head of a local yakuza branch who makes a lot of money for the family. He seeks to find out what happened to his only son, to the point that he threatens to leave the syndicate if they do not come up with an answer.
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- Reika's classmate.
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- Yoshitatsu's trusted lieutenant and Majima's superior. He swears vengeance on Tetsuo's family and turns into a serial killer after seeing all his men die.
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Media
Manga
Written by Naoki Yamakawa and illustrated by Masashi Asaki, My Home Hero was serialized in Kodansha's [[Seinen manga|Template:Transliteration manga]] magazine Weekly Young Magazine from May 29, 2017,[3][4] to July 29, 2024.[5] Kodansha collected its chapters in 26 Template:Transliteration volumes, released from September 6, 2017, to October 4, 2024.[6][7]
The manga is licensed in North America by Kodansha USA.[8] The first volume was released on February 28, 2023.[9]
Volumes
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Chapters not yet in tankōbon format
These chapters have yet to be published in a Template:Transliteration volume. They were originally serialized in Weekly Young Magazine from May to July 2023.
Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced on June 19, 2022.[10][11] The series is produced by Tezuka Productions and directed by Takashi Kamei, with scripts written by Kōhei Kiyasu, character designs by Masatsune Noguchi, and music composed by Kenji Kawai. It aired from April 2 to June 18, 2023, on Tokyo MX and BS NTV.[12][13] The opening theme song is Template:Nihongo by Chiai Fujikawa, while the ending theme song is "Decided" by Dizzy Sunfist.[14]
Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia, and released it on a Blu-ray Disc set on May 28, 2024.[15][16] Medialink licensed the series in South, Southeast Asia and Oceania (except Australia and New Zealand), streaming it on its Ani-One Asia YouTube channel.[17]
Episodes
Live-action
A live-action television drama and live-action film was announced on August 21, 2023. Both adaptations are directed by Takahiro Aoyama. The ten-episode television drama was broadcast on MBS and TBS' Dramaism programming block from October 25 to December 20, 2023.[1][18]Template:Efn The live-action film premiered in Japanese theatres on March 8, 2024.[1][19][20]
Reception
By June 2022, the manga had over 2 million copies in circulation.[10]
Erwan Lafleuriel of IGN France called the first volume of My Home Hero a "very effective thriller" and compared its premise to the American television series Breaking Bad.[21]
See also
- I'm Standing on a Million Lives, another manga series written by Naoki Yamakawa
Notes
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