My Home Hero

My Home Hero (Japanese: マイホームヒーロー, Hepburn: Mai Hōmu Hīrō) is a Japanese manga series written by Naoki Yamakawa and illustrated by Masashi Asaki. It has been serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine since May 2017, with its chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes as of January 2023. An anime television series adaptation produced by Tezuka Productions premiered in April 2023.

My Home Hero
Cover of the first tankōbon volume
マイホームヒーロー
(Mai Hōmu Hīrō)
GenreCrime, suspense[1][2]
Manga
Written byNaoki Yamakawa
Illustrated byMasashi Asaki
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintYoung Magazine KC
MagazineWeekly Young Magazine
DemographicSeinen
Original runMay 29, 2017 – present
Volumes19
Anime television series
Directed byTakashi Kamei
Produced by
  • Nobuhiko Kurosu
  • Yoshiteru Maeda
  • Hajime Maruyama
  • Hideo Momota
  • Akiko Nabeiwa
  • Fumihiro Ozawa
  • Yoshiyuki Shioya
  • Hitoshi Yagi
Written byKōhei Kiyasu
Music byKenji Kawai
StudioTezuka Productions
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTokyo MX, BS NTV
Original run April 2, 2023 – present
Episodes1

Plot

A normal salaryman, Tetsuo Tosu, discovers that his adult daughter Reika is being physically abused by her new boyfriend, a young man named Nobuto. Soon after discovering that Nobuto has a history of murdering other girls and is currently trying to get money from Reika's grandparents before disposing 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
Tetsuo Tosu (鳥栖 哲雄, Tosu Tetsuo)
Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe[3]
A middle-aged 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 who surveil and directly threaten his family.
Kasen Tosu (鳥栖 歌仙, Tosu Kasen)
Voiced by: Sayaka Ohara[3]
Tetsuo's wife and accomplice.
Reika Tosu (鳥栖 零花, Tosu Reika)
Voiced by: Chihiro Shirata[3]
A 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 her new garden, unaware of their role in Nobuto's disappearance.
Kyōichi Majima (間島 恭一, Majima Kyōichi)
Voiced by: Kent Itō[3]
A member of the syndicate who works under Kubo. Incredibly skilled at surveillance and detection, as well as taking countermeasures against both.
Nobuto Matori (麻取 延人, Matori Nobuto)
Voiced by: Keita Tada[3]
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.
Yoshitatsu Matori (麻取 義辰, Matori Yoshitatsu)
Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki[3]
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.
Hibiki (響)
Voiced by: Rumi Okubo[3]
Reika's classmate.
Kubo (窪)
Voiced by: Akio Otsuka[3]
Yoshitatsu's trusted lieutenant and Majima's superior.
Shino (志野)
Voiced by: Koichi Yamadera[4]
Takeda (竹田)
Voiced by: Katsuhiro Tokuichi[4]
Bin Tabata (田端 敏, Tabata Bin)
Voiced by: Mitsuhiro Sakamaki[4]

Media

Manga

My Home Hero, written by Naoki Yamakawa and illustrated by Masashi Asaki, began in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Magazine on May 29, 2017.[5][6] In February 2021, it was announced that the series would reach its climax.[7] Kodansha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on September 6, 2017.[8] As of January 6, 2023, nineteen volumes have been released.[9]

The manga is licensed in France by Kurokawa,[10] in Spain by ECC Ediciones,[11] and in North America by Kodansha USA.[12]

Volume list
No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 September 6, 2017[13]978-4-06-510139-1February 28, 2023[14]978-1-68-491382-4
2 December 6, 2017[15]978-4-06-510543-6March 28, 2023[16]978-1-68-491436-4
3 March 6, 2018[17]978-4-06-511107-9April 25, 2023[18]978-1-68-491481-4
4 June 6, 2018[19]978-4-06-511555-8——
5 September 6, 2018[20]978-4-06-512699-8——
6 January 4, 2019[21]978-4-06-514178-6——
7 April 5, 2019[22]978-4-06-515194-5——
8 July 5, 2019[23]978-4-06-516365-8——
9 November 6, 2019[24]978-4-06-517730-3——
10 February 6, 2020[25]978-4-06-518478-3——
11 June 5, 2020[26]978-4-06-519993-0——
12 September 4, 2020[27]978-4-06-520690-4——
13 February 5, 2021[28]978-4-06-522303-1——
14 May 6, 2021[29]978-4-06-523348-1——
15 August 5, 2021[30]978-4-06-524355-8——
16 November 5, 2021[31]978-4-06-525840-8——
17 February 4, 2022[32]978-4-06-526783-7——
18 October 6, 2022[33]978-4-06-529426-0——
19 January 6, 2023[9]978-4-06-530380-1——
20 April 6, 2023[34]978-4-06-531351-0——

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on June 19, 2022.[35][36] 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 premiered on April 2, 2023, on Tokyo MX and BS NTV.[3][37] The opening theme song is "Ai no Uta" (愛の歌, "Song of Love") by Chiai Fujikawa, while the ending theme song is "Decided" by Dizzy Sunfist.[38] Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia.[39] Medialink licensed the series in South, Southeast Asia and Oceania, except Australia and New Zealand, and streams it on their Ani-One Asia Youtube channel.[40]

Episode list
No.Title [41]Directed by [lower-alpha 1]Written by [lower-alpha 1]Storyboarded by [lower-alpha 1]Original air date [42]
1"From Today, I Am a Killer"
Transcription: "Kyō kara Satsujinki" (Japanese: 今日から殺人鬼)		Yuri UemaKōhei KiyasuTakashi KameiApril 2, 2023 (2023-04-02)
Tetsuo Tosu meets his daughter Reika for lunch and discovers that her boyfriend Nobuto is physically abusing her. While tailing Nobuto and his friends one day, Tetsuo is seen and beaten up by a man who threatens to kill him if he talks to the police. Tetsuo spends the night in an internet cafe, then returns to Reika's apartment the next day seeking clues about Nobuto. However, Nobuto arrives so Tetsuo hides in a closet where he hears Nobuto talking over the phone about killing other people and how he plans to get money out of Reika before getting rid of her. About to be discovered, Tetsuo bursts from closet and beats Nobuto to death with a rice cooker. Tetsuo's wife, Kasen, arrives at the apartment and after rationalizing that Tetsuo killed Nobuto in self-defense, the two of them decide to clean up the mess and get rid of the body. Reika returns to the apartment and Kasen convinces her daughter to stay with her so Tetsuo can deal with the body. However, another of the gang members enters the apartment looking for Nobuto while Tetsuo is still there and Nobuto's corpse is laying in the bathtub.
2"Cutting the Cake"
Transcription: "Nijūnenme no Kyōdō Sagyō" (Japanese: 20年目の共同作業)		TBATBATBAApril 9, 2023 (2023-04-09)

Reception

As of June 2022, the manga had over 2 million copies in circulation.[35]

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.[43]

See also

Notes
  1. Information is taken from the ending credits of each episode.

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