Dramatic My Home Hero Manga Gets Anime Adaptation

In this year’s twenty-ninth edition of the magazine Weekly Young Magazine it was announced that the manga written by Naoki Yamakawa and illustrated by Masashi Asaki, My Home Herowill have an anime adaptation. The press release did not reveal production details or a scheduled release date. In this edition, the serialization of the manga was also resumed with its third and final part, which begins seven years after the events of the second.

Yamakawa and Asaki began publication of the manga in the magazine Weekly Young Magazine from the publisher Kodanshaand the publisher published the seventeenth compiled volume in February 2021. Yamakawa is also the author, in collaboration with the artist Akinari Naofrom the manga 100-man no Inochi no Ue ni Ore wa Tatteiru (I’m Standing on a Million Lives), which has already inspired a two-season anime adaptation to date.
My Home Hero Synopsis
Tetsuo Tosu, an ordinary salaryman, discovers that his daughter, Reika, has been physically abused by her boyfriend, Matori Nobuto. Trying to find out more about him, Tetsuo discovers Matori’s plan to extort money from Reika’s wealthy grandparents, and discovers that she is a member of a crime syndicate, with a history of murdering her former girlfriends.
Filled with rage and fear that Reika is in danger, Tetsuo ends up killing Nobuto, and with the help of his wife, Kasen, successfully disposes of the body. Now, when syndicate members begin to question Nobuto’s sudden disappearance, Tetsuo and Kasen must work together to ensure her daughter’s safety and keep her from being drawn into the predicament.
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