Mainichi Broadcasting System (MBS) announced both a live-action drama series and movie for Naoki Yamakawa and Masashi Asaki's My Home Hero manga on Tuesday. The television drama will begin airing on MBS and TBS' Dramaism programming block on October 25 at 12:59 a.m. and 1:28 a.m., respectively. The live-action movie will premiere nationwide in Spring 2024.
Staff (TV Drama)
Director: Takahiro Aoyama (In Hand), Takayoshi Tanazawa (Hanzawa Naoki), Daisuke Yamamoto (Hoshi Furu Yoru ni), Hiroshi Mori (Kekkon Yotei-bi)
Script: Tsuyoshi Sakurai (Anata no Butsu ga, Koko ni), Susumu Funabashi (Kiraware Kansatsukan Otonashi Ichiroku)
Music: Hiroaki Tsutsumi (Imawa no Kuni no Alice)
Production: TBS Sparkle, C&I Entertainment
Yamakawa and Asaki began serializing the crime suspense manga in Weekly Young Magazine in May 2017. Kodansha published the 21st volume on June 6. My Home Hero has a cumulative 3.3 million copies of its volumes in circulation.
Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English in January 2023 for digital release and published the seventh e-book volume on Tuesday.
Tezuka Productions adapted the manga into a 12-episode television anime in Spring 2023. Crunchyroll simulcast the anime with subtitles and an English dub.
Synopsis
Tetsuo Tosu, an ordinary salaryman, discovers his daughter, Reika, has been physically abused by her boyfriend, Nobuto Matori. Trying to learn more about him, Tetsuo uncovers Matori's scheme to extort money from Reika's wealthy grandparents and finds out that he is a member of a crime syndicate, with a history of murdering his former girlfriends.
Filled with rage and fear at the thought of Reika being in danger, Tetsuo ends up killing Nobuto, and with the help of his wife, Kasen, successfully disposes of the body. Now, as the members of the syndicate begin to question Nobuto's sudden disappearance, Tetsuo and Kasen must work together to ensure the safety of their daughter and prevent her from getting involved in the predicament any further. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
I understand that this is a great story for a big screen or live action, but why has so little effort been put into the anime? We don't get many anime with this premise.