The anime "The Hero Died!", which will begin airing in April 2023, is set in a fairly conventional fantasy world. It tells the story of a villager who accidentally kills a great hero who is meant to save the world, and is forced to become one himself. As a villager, he's not very strong, but the protagonist more than makes up for it with his strength. This is a silly, erotic battle fantasy story about this protagonist. Today, I'd like to introduce the main character, Touka Scott!
Touka Scott, an ordinary farmer from an ordinary village!
Three years before the story begins, the hero Shion Breidan sealed the Gates of Hell and saved the world. However, the Gates of Hell reopen, forcing the hero to seal them once again. Completely unrelated to these serious circumstances, the protagonist of this work, Touka Scott, lives a peaceful, slow life in a peaceful village, growing radishes with his nagging childhood friend and dressing him in knee-high socks. Despite his strength and personality, he is far from a hero.
The Hero Accidentally Dies! The World is Shrouded in Darkness!
One day, a demon attacks the village. The demon is an enemy of mankind, with a love for human flesh and naked women, and is no opponent that a mere villager can deal with. Touka plans to defeat the demon using her specialty trap, but it doesn't work at all. While she is doing so, the hero Shion suddenly arrives and easily repels the demon. However, immediately afterwards, the hero Shion accidentally falls into the trap Touka made and dies. This is where the hero's adventure ends.
Touka Scott must go on a journey as a hero!
Just when they thought they'd gotten away with it after the village covered up the hero's murder, Touka appeared the next day in the body of the hero, Shion! In fact, Henri, a necromancer who was part of the former hero's party and witnessed the whole thing, transferred Touka's spirit into Shion's body, effectively holding Touka hostage, in accordance with the hero's will, which stated that "someone should use his body after his death." With this situation now at hand, Touka had no other choice but to reluctantly take the hero's place.
Touka Scott, a simple villager and farmer! A radish farmer!
Touka reluctantly became a hero, but his main job is farming, and he only grows radishes. He even repeatedly engages in the bizarre habit of naming the well-shaped radishes he harvests and putting knee-high socks on them (though other villagers do the same thing). He only grows radishes because of his extreme plum fetish, and doesn't seem interested in other vegetables.
Touka Scott! His magic level is only 1! A shitty hero!
In this world, a mysterious power known as magic exists. Magical power is required to use magic and the hero's weapon, the holy sword. There's a magic level, which measures the amount of magical power. If the average person's magic level is 3, Touka's magic level is 1, the level of a child. Because of this, his body is unable to maintain its function as a hero, and he moves in a zombie or skeletal form. His holy sword, which is strengthened by magic, is of little use. His potential is completely unsuitable for the role of hero.
Touka Scott! His everyday behavior shows he's a complete scumbag, unworthy of a hero!
The hero Shion Breidan was originally an extremely kindhearted person who treated everyone equally and didn't expect anything in return after saving the world. Touka, however, is the polar opposite of Shion. To gain an advantage in his adventures, he threatens, extorts, uses cunning, and even lies when necessary. Perhaps that's why he's even called trash in the character introductions in the manga.
Touka Scott! He loves thighs more than anything! He has excessive worldly desires!
Touka has a lewd personality, and even in the midst of life-threatening combat, she is constantly thinking about lewd things. She has an extreme thigh fetish, to the point that she even puts knee-socks on the radishes she harvests, and she can go to great lengths for thighs. Her abnormal obsession with thighs unleashes incredible power, even if it's an enemy, as long as they are magnificent thighs. Because she originally possesses the hero's high-spec body, when she is in a state of concentration and fully unleashed her worldly desires, she displays a strength completely different from her usual self.
Touka Scott! A strategist of lies and bluffs!
Even in the body of a hero, Touka is fundamentally weak. However, he makes up for this weakness with his tactics, making full use of lies and bluffs. It's not uncommon for him to attract the other person's interest through conversation, buying time, while secretly devising a completely different strategy to break the situation. With neither magical powers nor strength, Touka's greatest weapons in dealing with powerful foes are lies and bluffs.
Touka Scott! The man who sets traps and traps them!
Touka is skilled at making and setting traps, and her favorite traps are pitfalls. After accidentally killing a hero with one of those traps, she finds herself forced to become a hero herself. Since becoming a hero, however, she's taken advantage of her imperfect holy sword to create improvised traps. She often uses the aforementioned lies and bluffs to lure her opponents into the traps she sets, and ends everything with traps.
Touka Scott! Learn the basics of trap making from your master, Ezel!
Three and a half years ago, when the Gates of Hell were open, Touka was caught in a trap set by the thief Ezel Borgnine and nearly died. She was impressed by Ezel's trapping techniques and learned them from her. She developed trap-making and survival skills, including pitfall traps, and also learned dagger techniques. Therefore, Touka's original weapon is not a long weapon like a holy sword. She also repeatedly sexually harassed her master, absorbing even more skills from them.
Touka Scott! Her father was an abusive parent, and her mother was deceased! Her past was quite heavy!
Ezel and Touka first met in the midst of a fierce battlefield during a demonic invasion and a war between two nations. Touka was there because her father, a mercenary, had gone to the battlefield to take advantage of the conflict. Unable to resist, Touka and her mother accompanied him. Eventually, her father never returned, and her mother, now gone, tried to escape the battlefield with Touka, but she lost her mother there. Touka somehow managed to survive the brutal battlefield and meet Ezel. There, he and Ezel set numerous traps that stalled many demons, ultimately leading to the rescue of Yuna and Millie.
Touka Scott! A man who doesn't want to fight himself and relies on others!
Touka prefers not to fight if possible, and usually avoids fighting himself by cleverly using strong allies or invading powerful people. Of course, there are times when he must fight, but when he does, he cooperates with his allies, or buys time with lies and bluffs until his allies arrive to help, and he simply doesn't want to fight himself. He wants to fight skillfully and easily, devising strategies, setting traps, and relying on others.
A coward! But he'll never abandon his allies!
Touka is a pervert, a pervert, an idiot, and a scumbag who relies on others and is not afraid to resort to cowardly tactics unbecoming of a hero. However, he is not a scumbag at heart, and he never abandons his allies. He is a scumbag who always relies on his allies and overworks them, even sexually harassing teammates who are unable to move, but when the time comes, he will face opponents he absolutely cannot defeat, using lies and bluffs as his weapons. He's far from a hero in every way, even being called a vulgar scum by the devil, but in that respect he possesses a heart worthy of a hero.
[The Hero Died!] Touka Scott Summary
Here's a summary of Touka Scott, the protagonist of The Hero Died!! Touka is an extremely perverted character, conspicuously showing his scumbag ways that are unbecoming of a hero, but his scumbag ways are amusing, and the way he uses his cunning to overcome situations is incredibly entertaining! Because of this protagonist, the story is both funny and exhilarating, as he defeats powerful enemies with lies, bluffs, and underhanded tactics! In that sense, he's a very appealing protagonist, and I think his good qualities stand out even in the anime!
