My Home Hero, an anime series scheduled to air from April 2023, is a crime suspense series currently being serialized in Young Magazine. A family is targeted by a gangster after their inheritance, and when the gangster tries to kill his daughter, he ends up killing her... This is what happens when Tosu Tetsuo, a salaryman who has lived an honest life up until now, engages in a close psychological battle with the gangster, but his methods are not those of a regular salaryman. I would like to introduce what this ordinary salaryman, Tosu Tetsuo, has done in the story and the methods he uses.
The main character is an ordinary salaryman, Tosu Tetsuo!
The protagonist of this work is an ordinary office worker, Tosu Tetsuo. Although he lost his parents in an accident and dropped out of high school, he went to college on his own and worked at a toy manufacturer. He was a reliable presence in the company due to his harmless personality. He has a loving wife, Kasen, and a rebellious daughter, Reika, and has lived an honest life for 47 years. His hobby is reading mystery novels and writing his own mysteries, but it was just a hobby. However, his daughter had a boyfriend without him realizing it, and he was a terrible abusive boyfriend, which made him extremely worried about his daughter.
I killed Tosu Tetsuo...there's no turning back now
The daughter's abusive boyfriend, Asatori Nobuto, was actually a member of a semi-criminal organization that was targeting the inheritance of her mother's family home. Moreover, Nobuto came to the daughter's apartment and caused a commotion. Tetsuo, who was hiding and watching, learned that Nobuto had impulsively killed two of her in the past and had escaped without being caught by the police despite that, and that he had impulsively murdered his daughter. Tetsuo bludgeons Nobuto to death from behind. Then his wife, Kasen, appears. Tetsuo considered turning himself in, but because the police had not been able to track down the organization that Nobuto belonged to and because there was a high possibility that the family left behind would be retaliated against by the semi-criminal group, he abandoned the option of turning himself in and decided to dispose of Nobuto's body with his wife, Kasen, and hide the truth.
Get past the yakuza and his daughter
Before doing anything about Nobuto's body, Tetsuo and Kasen had to somehow fool their daughter who had returned home. Tetsuo explains the reason his room was messy and why they were there by saying that he had run into his blonde boyfriend, who had caused a commotion in the room and then left after making some scary remarks. I was also able to guide him to come back to his parents' house because it was dangerous. However, after his wife and daughter returned to their parents' house, the semi-gangsters picked the lock of the house and entered the house in search of their accomplices. If they see the body, it's over! In such a situation, Tetsuo managed to avoid seeing the body by pretending to be a cleaning worker. The semi-gangsters did not pursue the matter deeply because they had broken into the house by picking the lock.
Boil the body in the bath to soften it
There are several ways to get rid of the body of an adult male without anyone noticing, but if it becomes a crime, it's over immediately. Given the limited time and environmental options available, the method they chose was to mince the body and flush it down the toilet. However, mincing it by hand was impossible, so they used cardboard as insulation in the bathtub, covered it with aluminum foil, and made a makeshift pot. They then used a simple heating device made from an induction heater and a copper plate to boil Nobuto's body until it softened.
Dealing with bacteria while under the watch of the Yakuza
The method of cutting the body into pieces and flushing it down the toilet is not possible to dispose of everything at once, and if they do too much, the waterworks or the apartment owner may notice, so they took nearly half of the body home. However, the half-gangsters who are looking for the missing Nobuto were keeping an eye on Tetsuo and his family, so they couldn't go to the mountains to bury it. So they decided to decompose the body using a flower pot they had bought and bacteria, and put it into action.
Forming a united front with Kyoichi Mashima, a semi-gang member
Tetsuo is marked by the semi-gang members, abducted, and subjected to harsh interrogation. Kyoichi Mashima, the leader of the task force in charge, felt that the Tosu couple were suspicious, and in fact Kyoichi's prediction was almost certain. At the same time as Tetsuo was abducted, they broke into the Tosu house and interrogated him together with his wife, Kasen, but there was no notable success, and as a result of his solo play, he was dismissed by his superiors in the organization, and his position within the organization became precarious. So Tetsuo dares to form a united front with Kyoichi and propose that they search together for the missing Nobuto, despite the fact that he killed him. This allows them to gather information about the organization and resolve the situation.
Hijack Nobuto's account and upload a fake video
With information provided by Nobuto's girlfriend, a hostess named Hibiki, they obtain testimony that Nobuto had betrayed the organization and information about his SNS account. After that, they rely on their wife and a friend from college and upload a video that makes it look like Nobuto is alive. Furthermore, he used the hostess Hibiki to make it seem like Nobuto was alive, and if the organization believed that Nobuto was alive, that would have been the end of it, but that did not happen and the organization almost deemed it a fake, so Tetsuo had to think of his next move.
Plan to pin all the blame on Mashima Kyoichi!
Though Tetsuo felt it was unreasonable, he came up with a plan to pin all the blame on Mashima Kyoichi, his biggest enemy, who is the only one in the semi-criminal organization who continues to suspect and keep an eye on the Tosu couple. The Tosu couple worked together to find Kyoichi's address, and tried to pin all the blame on Kyoichi by hiding the evidence of Nobuto's murder there, which Kyoichi could not deny. However, Kyoichi was also becoming convinced that Tetsuo had killed Nobuto. The close battle between Tetsuo and Kyoichi continued.
After locking him in the toilet with a laxative, he planted a keylogger!
Kyoichi, as expected, suspected the mysterious flowerpot he saw when he planted the wiretap and came to check it out. It was undoubtedly the right answer, but Nobuto had already been decomposed by bacteria. In the end, Kyoichi was unable to complete the mission, but thanks to his wife Kasen's ingenuity, she managed to put laxatives in Kyoichi and Tetsuo's coffee and lock Kyoichi in the bathroom. Of course, Tetsuo was also affected, but she took advantage of the opportunity to install a keylogger on Kyoichi's computer and successfully obtained his email address and login information.
Finally, they succeeded in getting into Kyoichi's room!
Tetsuo's plan required him to somehow get into Kyoichi's room. It was a very difficult mission, but he took advantage of the fact that Kyoichi had found out that he had used Kyoichi's email address without permission, and said that someone in the organization was trying to frame Kyoichi as the culprit if Nobuto was not found. From Kyoichi's point of view, this was a very reasonable possibility. Kyoichi had no reason to bring Tetsuo to his room, but he invited Tetsuo into his room, thinking that he might do something if he took his eyes off him.
The final trick to trap Kyoichi
The time limit for searching for Narcotics Commissioner Nobuto is finally here. If Tetsuo had not been found by then, he would have been killed as the murderer of Nobuto. However, at this point, at Tetsuo's instructions, his wife Kasen sends an email to the gangsters exposing the fact that Nobuto had betrayed the organization and robbed them of their cash, and the lie that Kyoichi had been an accomplice. When they searched Nobuto's room, the stolen cash was found, exposing Nobuto's betrayal and raising the suspicion that Kyoichi had been an accomplice. When the gangsters searched Kyoichi's room, they found Nobuto's remains in the safe, and they concluded that Kyoichi was the murderer of Nobuto's murder, and Tetsuo successfully pinned all the blame on Kyoichi.
What was the surprising method used to hide the evidence in Kyoichi's room?
When Nobuto's remains were found in Kyoichi's room, Tetsuo pinned all the blame on Kyoichi, but to make this happen, he needed to break into the room while Kyoichi was away and put the remains in the safe. Tetsuo, who was being watched by Kyoichi, was unable to do so, but it was his wife, Kasen, who was instructed by Tetsuo, who managed to do it. She broke in from the rooftop using a rope ladder, and the safe's number was calculated from her fingerprints illuminated with an ALS light. Then, when Tetsuo went to Kyoichi's room, he would secretly take advantage of Kyoichi's absence to unlock the window and unlock the locked room. With this method, Tetsuo survived brilliantly.
【My Home Hero】Summary of the crime methods in Part 1
This time, I've summarized the methods used by the main character, Tosu Tetsuo, in Part 1. If you look at the methods alone, he seems like a psychopath who is completely consumed by drugs, but the people he was dealing with were semi-criminals who were not subject to the law, and it was clear that if he continued, he would be killed and his family would be harmed, so he had no other way to protect himself and his family, so he had no choice but to do it. It was extremely interesting to watch an ordinary old man engage in a psychological battle on the edge. However, there may be some scenes in the anime that are not suitable for viewing.
