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My Home Hero

My Home Hero

7.0

Parents keep their daughter safe at all cost, in this live-action manga adaptation

TV Show

Japan
Japanese
Crime, Mystery
2023

TLDR

Oh, to have a ride-or-die relationship like Tetsuo and Kasen Tosu.

What it's about

Disapproving of his daughter’s abusive boyfriend, normal salaryman Tetsuo Tosu resolves to commit the perfect crime, deciding to murder him. However, this boyfriend was the son of a powerful yakuza head, who’s now out for blood for whoever took him.

The take

The love parents have for their child is powerful, but most parents normally don’t resort to murder for them. Of course, most families don’t actually need to, but like Tetsuo Tosu, they might if their daughter’s yakuza boyfriend plans to murder her first. My Home Hero depicts this scenario, slowly going into the potential sequence of events that could happen, realistically portrayed by Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tae Kimura, and Asuka Saito as the loving family. The family might be a bit cookie-cutter – we’ve seen similar characters in other series before – but they’re relatable enough to make My Home Hero a fairly decent, though generic, crime drama.

What stands out

My Home Hero has a fairly understandable, if not relatable, premise. After all, many of us would do plenty for our loved ones. While most of us won’t end up resorting to murder, Tosu’s predicament is something that could push us into the deed. That being said, part of the reason he and their family feel relatable is because they don’t have plenty of in-depth characteristics– except, of course, for the ones that make the plot seem plausible, like his expertise in hiding evidence from murder mystery novel writing and his wife’s loyalty from their sordid past. It makes the series relatable, if a bit generic.

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