To Be Hero

For Uncle, a lecherous but handsome toilet designer, it is just an ordinary day of neglecting his duties as a single parent to hit on women and talk about his "superpower": his ability to tell a lady's hip size at a glance. But when he is sucked down into a toilet, the Space Peace Republic Alliance Hero Committee gives him real superpowers, and he becomes the hero of Earth. There is only one problem—he has become an ugly, unrecognizable fatty who is unable to reveal his real identity.

Uncle's beloved daughter Min-chan does not believe that such a vulgar fatty could be her father, and casts him out of his own home. Distraught and homeless, he joins up with his perverted neighbor Yamada-san, a small man with a fondness for streaking, and sets out to convince Min-chan that he is her father.

Full of sexual innuendo and slapstick humor, To Be Hero follows Uncle as he befriends bizarre allies and combats even more bizarre foes, fighting for the future of earth against aliens and—more importantly—his future with his daughter.

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Uncle Main

Tsuda, Kenjirou Japanese

Yamada-san Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka Japanese

Jiang, Chenmin Supporting

Tsukino, Moa Japanese

Prince Supporting

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Alien Supporting

Maeda, Takeshi Japanese

First Prince Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko Japanese

Great Emperor Supporting

Iizuka, Shouzou Japanese

Lu, Xing Cheng Producer

Li, Haoling Director, Script, Storyboard, Series Composition, Creator, Editing

Muramatsu, Hisashi Sound Director

LAN Episode Director, Character Design, Chief Animation Director, Key Animation, Color Design

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Dec 21, 2016

Scholek

Recommended

*** General Points ***
At 11 minutes an episode for 12 episodes, this show ends up being roughly the length of a movie.

From the audacious (and perverse) characters and sometimes immature humor it isn't a show for everyone, but if by episode 4 you haven't been repulsed, then you will most likely continue to enjoy the show.

By far, the greatest part about this show is the ending theme song, which is infinitely catchy. I would recommend spending the 1 minute of life on youtubing it. Even if you have no intention of watching the show it would be a pity to pass up that ... catchy tune.


*** Story ***
I found that the story was, in many places, metaphorical after you strip away the ridiculousness. For example, everyone has read in the synopsis that the main character is a toilet seat designer. This would otherwise be completely ridiculous, however, if you say, "He is a businessman and in the eyes of his family whom he neglects due to overwork, he might as well be selling toilet seats," things can make more sense. Another example is his drinking and chasing after women is a coping strategy for his stress and not his aloof nature portrayed humorously.

This story is all about the depressed main character fighting to protect his daughter and his love for her.


*** Animation ***
This feels like a budget project. Things seem hastily drawn and there will be no scenes that truly scream, "Beautiful." Rather, this show really focuses on it's core, which is humour. The animation is a mere medium used to only convey the story.

So if you watch shows mainly for good graphics like "Attack on Titan" this will leave you disappointed. On the other hand, if you like shows like "Kaiba" then this show seems to embody the concept of ... story > animation ... it will leave you satisfied.

There are many places throughout the entire show where I couldn't help, but think, "Ah, the animators are breaking the fourth wall and trying to pass off their animator insider jokes to their colleagues."


*** Characters ***
The main character is a very loving and protective father placed in a desperate and depressing situation.

The only character that isn't stupid, gross, perverted, depressing, or otherwise bizarre is Min-chan, the daughter of our main character.

All the antagonists are gag characters, but they serve their purposes. Chicken, shrimp, monkey, "the wife", prince, demon king.


*** Sound ***
Once again, that ending them is just too wonderful. Besides that everything else is mediocrity.


*** Enjoyment ***
I cringed and laughed throughout this show. Sometimes the humor was hard to swallow and the characters too depressing, but overall it was a surprisingly okay story better than 6/10, but less than 8/10.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Aug 30, 2018

Seregosa

Mixed Feelings

Well, this anime is kind of special. However, I just can't possibly rate it higher than 6 overall and 7 for enjoyment.

It's just a gag anime, a lot of toilet humour and weird jokes. That was what I was watching this for. However, at the end they felt the need to ruin it all and suddenly make the last few episodes somewhat serious and extremely boring. What are they even trying to pull? No, we don't need a weird background story or anything else that'd make us "sympathize" with the characters or whatever. A gag anime/manga/novel needs to STAY like that to the end. ... Only someone retarded would say "hey, let's suddenly make things pseudo-serious and completely change the setting/mood for the last few episodes! What do you mean they liked it for the gags? Naaaah, surely they want what they didn't start watching this for so that they can watch it and be happy it's over because it left a bad taste in their mouths!". I mean, think a little! When the "last boss" appears around episode 10 or something like that, just stop watching and spare yourself the time and frustration.

Other than that, I actually enjoyed it a lot with quite a few laughs. Without the utterly disappointing ending, it might've been worth even an 8 in terms of enjoyment!

Well, honestly only the gags made this thing fairly good and the only thing this should be watched for. The story itself is horrible to say the least(gag anime, so that's expected, the attempt at making it deeper at the end only pisses one off). The art is subpar as well, it doesn't flow well and screams of "budget". The sound is similarly crappy, at most mediocre, although I found the ending song to be fairly catchy. As for characters, I didn't feel any of them had anything that made them particularly good, they were there just for gags and that's the limit to their depth and uniqueness.

I also feel like the short duration of the episodes was good, this isn't the type of show that should be watched for days, it's more like something you should watch in one and a half to two hours to blow off some steam and laugh a bit. It would get old quickly if you actually watched it for much longer than that, even after just several episodes, I already felt like this show had shown whatever it had to offer and was starting to be less funny. Continuing would've just been a bad decision :D

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 27, 2018

Saacool

Not Recommended

You know, MAL needs a negative scoring for so bad its almost worth watching because of how shitty it is, if only there was a pay off at the end

its a pretty crappy gag anime, i was hoping for the story to be a little better but the final act twist is solidly eh, toilet humor never gets any better after the second ep

the art only hits watchable around 10% of the time, otherwise its just a bunch of offensive flesh in the same 2 settings

honestly this anime was a waste of a good title, at least it thematically stays pretty consistent

if you watch ... it don't get invested, it doesn't pay off at all

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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