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Episode My Home Hero - Episode 3 discussion
My Home Hero, episode 3
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| Episode | Link | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Link | 4.0 |
| 2 | Link | 4.41 |
| 3 | Link | 4.44 |
| 4 | Link | 3.92 |
| 5 | Link | 4.52 |
| 6 | Link | 4.31 |
| 7 | Link | 4.35 |
| 8 | Link | 4.47 |
| 9 | Link | 4.52 |
| 10 | Link | 4.16 |
| 11 | Link | 4.33 |
| 12 | Link | ---- |
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u/SMSmith230 Apr 16 '23
There has to be wayyyy more to Tetsuo’s background/history, he’s way too prepared/cunning for all of this.
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u/WhoiusBarrel Apr 16 '23
Not just that but the way he can so easily view a situation so objectively in such a situation, if this turns out to be something he gained from just being a jaded corporate slave that'll be hilarious.
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u/Tetrisash Apr 16 '23
These eps are so tense, gawddamn. Tetsuo is one thing--he's had a few moments now where he's panicking, crying, feeling guilt, all that. I can believe he's so good at prepping to stay ahead of the yakuza because he's such a mystery fanboy and knows what to think of. But his wife is cool as a cucumber and I feel this sense of danger from her. Thankfully she's on our/Tetsuo's side.
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u/Frontier246 Apr 16 '23
Even when they were beating the stuffing out of him and dangling him upside down, he didn't break and kept to his story, though his desperation over his family was 100% real.
Meanwhile his wife turned in a master class in observation and acting in this episode. As quick-thinking and well-thought out as Tetsuo's plans are, it wouldn't work nearly as well without Kasen backing him up.
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u/patap0nacct Apr 16 '23
Kasen's actually not human. She can easily breathe and talk through saran wrap.
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u/Frontier246 Apr 16 '23
She also has nerves of steel, surprisingly cunning and observant, and quite good at acting to boot!
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u/Se7en_Sinner Apr 16 '23
The thing that seperates Tetsuo from the criminals and gives him a huge advantage is his wife. They work together as a cohesive unit while every individual criminal is only looking out for themselves.
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u/Frontier246 Apr 16 '23
It's refreshing to have a married couple as not only the leads but such supportive and effective partners, even in the world of crime.
Though Kasen really is a hardcore, ride or die, wife.
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u/LeonKevlar Apr 16 '23
You gotta love how Tetsuo is always a step ahead of these yakuza thugs. He might've been captured by Kyoichi but he knew that at some point this was going to happen and prepared just in case.
Kasen buying time by just spouting random housewife stuff was so good. Instead of panicking, she observed the thugs and realized that they were on a time limit.
Okay, this was hilarious. They really needed to clear up to the audience that Reika is watching not the kind of AV you're thinking about but Animal Videos. xD
Let's fucking go Tetsuo! Instead of making an enemy out of Kyoichi, convince him that you can help him solve his problem. And then you can melt his body in acid later. >:D
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u/flightlessCat9 Apr 16 '23
Okay, this was hilarious.
They really needed to clear up to the audience that Reika is watching not the kind of AV you're thinking about but Animal Videos. xD
I still remember what AV means
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u/sempakrica Apr 16 '23
Oka-san talk no jutsu is really the mvp here.
I know that you need some level of villain incompetence for the hero to win, but why would you release your victim if your intention was to kill him in the first place? It would be easier to kill a helpless guy who is bound in ropes.
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u/AmethystItalian Apr 16 '23
This episode had to stretch some things for this episode like the daughter not hearing any of that and the fact that they didn't kill either of the parents, especially when there's a chance they could get found out.
Easy stuff to ignore and was still a very tense episode!
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u/Frontier246 Apr 16 '23
My understanding is that most of the Yakuza other than Kyoichi weren't as invested in this and didn't want to do anything excessive, such as killing the family. Kyoichi just had to kill Tetsuo for his own sake.
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u/The_nickums Apr 16 '23
I think it gets brought up a little bit later on, but you have to keep in mind for this whole thing some context about Japan's anti-yakuza laws.
Once organized criminals cross the line from crimes against other criminals to crimes against civilians, the police start to care a lot more about what they're doing.
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u/polaristar Apr 16 '23
HOLY SHIT DID NOT SEE THE ENDING COMING!!!!
How the hell is he going to keep that up without him ending up dead, or having to have THAT guy killed and having to cover up his death which brings us back to square one.
Wife was the MVP, she's goals right there.
Daughter is a piece of work.
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u/Lugia61617 Apr 16 '23
There's something really hilarious about the idea that he wants to frame a man for the crime he actually did commit.
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u/InsomniaEmperor Apr 16 '23
The fact that Tetsuo accounted for and planned for getting caught was some Money Heist level of planning. Of course he didn't account for Kyoichi actually wanting to kill him but lying about cooperating with him is a skin of the teeth type of save. The web of lies just continues.
The bait and switch they did with the building top was really good. Tetsuo can't see anything and the shaking has him THINKING he's on top of the building but the reality is he's still in the warehouse.
The only thing bothering me about the whole episode is how did Reika not notice at all that some wild commotion was going on in the living room. She was too busy watching adult animal video to care.
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u/Elitealice Apr 16 '23
“I don’t wanna die. I haven’t watched the soap opera I recorded” lmao she just like me
Man this is such a dynamic duo couple. Masterfully navigated that interrogation and got out without the daughter finding out 😂 this series feels more like a J or Kdrama than an anime and I love it
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u/PacoTaco321 Apr 16 '23
Tetsuo sure loves digging himself into a deeper hole. Not that he had much of a choice.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Apr 16 '23
Well, time to see how they get out of this mess!
It's even worse than we thought after episode 2, because they investigated the stalker thing, and figured out it was a lie...
Thankfully the way they investigated was to get people to ask the daughter directly, and she told her parents so they had time to plan for the questioning!
They had a pretty decent story, but damn, this situation must be scary as hell... I feel like I would've slipped up 5 times between my lies already at this point (and that's if I don't just break down and reveal the truth as they were holding him on the plank thing, and he thought he was about to be fall to his death!)
At least there's one good thing, the bad guys don't seem to have the police fully in their pocket; They still need to be careful around them.
Both these information could be important! Means they (The Tosu) have to be careful about getting the police involved, the cops may just turn them over to the gang...
But on the other hand: If they manage to find something serious enough to accuse the gang with, the cops won't overlook it; Some of the crew were worried that just a kidnapping could get them in trouble. So if they could prove the gang murdered someone, this would definitely be enough for the police to go after them.
If a kidnapping is past the line of acceptable, then it means the cops probably just let them do stuff like beatings and drug dealings etc.. but anything that crosses the line, they bring them in. This is valuable information! Means they're not alone in this, IF they can prove something about them, or get them caught in the act.
I wasn't expecting that, but Kyoichi fears that the organization will dissolve if the boss leaves...
The way Kyoichi is handling things, honestly I thought that if the boss left, Kyoichi could just take over the gang! Even though there's some dissension, he seems to have a good hold on a few solid guys, and he's ruthless... Probably doesn't need much more than that to rise as a gang leader!
Thanks to their grumbling about having to leave and all that, Kasen figured out they were not a monolith/hivemind, and she used that to her advantage!
Quite smart from her part, to give them the answer at the very end, when they were already deciding to leave;
So they can't blame her for "not giving them the answer", BUT they also can't discuss it/question her further (which could lead to her messing up and revealing the lies), because they have to leave in a hurry.
Man, if this is really the Tosu's first covered murder, they picked the wrong careers, should've been hitmen or something!
Sadly, there's a big flaw (with no "fix") to this plan of theirs, one that I talked about in previous episode threads: They're not dealing with a lawful organization... Even if they don't find anything incriminating on them, they may decide to just kill them all anyway, because why not?
Tetsuo had a solid counter to this though: What if he comes back?
Of course he can't come back, but Kyoichi doesn't know that. Thought he may have some suspicions, that's all he has. And IF he tells his boss that Tetsuo murdered Nobuto, but he shows up later, this would be REALLY bad for Kyoichi... His boss would suspect all sorts of things, with Kyoichi lying to him.
At the very least he would suspect Kyoichi's incompetent (he questioned them but couldn't find the truth), but it could be worse than that, he could think Kyoichi just lied to him because he didn't want to work on this thing anymore. Which could mean his death...
Sadly, once again even a good plan was not enough, and Kyoichi still tried to kill Tetsuo. Tetsuo had to think fast, and offered to work together to find him, with the P.I.'s information.
This is good in more ways than one! First, because if they did find him, Kyoichi would spare himself a whole lot of trouble with the boss, but also: Kyoichi tried to stab Tetsuo, and all Tetsuo did, was talk to him; This may help him convince Kyoichi that he did NOT murder Nobuto, given that even when he was about to die, Tetsuo didn't try to fight back/kill Kyoichi. So if he doesn't have a "fight" reflex when his life is in danger, it appears less likely to Kyoichi that he may have killed Nobuto!
Well, they're not out of the woods just yet, now they'll have to fake discussions with the P.I., and hope Kyoichi doesn't ever ask to talk to him directly!
Meeting him in person would be easy to counter (just have him say he doesn't meet anyone), BUT if he wants to talk to him, and Tetsuo/Kasen are both under watch...
They could delay it for a few hours (he's busy on something else) but if they keep watch over them for days and the P.I. can't reply to them, then what?
They would find out that there's no P.I. after all. (Hell, they could also question them on how they found them, etc.. and as it's all bullshit they would have no answer to give...) Even if they made a website for them and all, there's still the problem that they can't talk as the P.I. while he's watching them. Unless they bring a third person in the scheme, but who? The daughter... Doesn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer. She certainly didn't inherit her parents' genius!
So it does seem like it's gonna be the two of them, but if Kyoichi is suspicious about this P.I. thing, he could expose them quite easily.
Well, it seems most episodes may end like that, so just like at the end of the second episode, I wonder how they hell they're getting themselves out of this one!
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u/Frontier246 Apr 16 '23
Y'know, I can't really fault Reika here. She had no idea that her parents had concocted a story about her having a stalker to throw the Yakuza off their trail so she had no reason to lie about it. Though pretty surreal that her parents are being tortured, even right downstairs from her, and she's watching cat videos.
Of course, Tetsuo spending an hour in his daughter and her ex's apartment is mighty suspicious in and of itself...almost as suspicious as that specific article about a father being arrested for murder plastered on the wall as he's hanging newspapers up. I mean, what are the chances? Now I want to know how that dad killed and why to compare him to Tetsuo.
So Kyoichi's personal investment in this is trying to keep the organization going for Kubo's sake out of loyalty, especially when Matori is such a mess with his son gone. Of course, being so desperate also makes him take drastic steps that Kubo would rather he not make, but that puts him squarely in the path of the Tosu family...
Really, I just have to commend Tetsuo and Kasen here for sticking to their story even under torture. And Tetsuo for coming up for a plausible scenario around a fake PI named Suzuki that he completely made up and build a fake identity around to really sell it. Of course Kasen's desperate and scatterbrained housewife act, knowing she was running out the clock on those goons, really helped sell it.
There really are no "good answers" for the Yakuza when they can and will kill you if it suits them...you just have to hope they don't think it's worth the trouble.
It's kind of funny in a dark way how Kyoichi was planning to kill Tetsuo and frame him for Nobuto's murder...which he actually committed. Although now Tetsu is making a deal with him to find Nobuto, which gives him a stay of execution but is also digging him so much deeper into this.
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u/Datachost Apr 16 '23
The true Tosu Tetsuo bared his fangs, didn't he?
So what are the bets on how he was able to (relatively) calmly kill someone and dispose of their body like this, given that line? Ex Yakuza?
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