My Home Hero

 How far would you go to protect your child?

Because that is the whole idea of this highly enjoyable anime series!

 

Tetsuo Tosu is a normal salaryman, when one day he meets up with his daughter Reika for lunch.  He learns that her boyfriend, Nobuto, is physically abusing her, and he tails him one day.  When he is inside Reika's appartment, Nobuto arrives and he hides in the closet, overhearing him telling others he will extract more money from her before getting rid of her.  He bursts out of the closet, killing Nobuto with a ricecooker.  Together with his wife Kasen, they decide to get rid of the body.

Almost caught by Kubo, one of Nobuto's friends, he boils the body to a smaller mass in the bathtub, transporting it inside a suitcase.  Being followed, they manage to mislead Kubo and his band, before burying the body in the garden.  But they return, capturing Kasen and abducting Tetsuo on his way home.  Bound on a chair, a man called Kyoichi beats him and threatens to kill him.  tetsuo convinces Kyoichi to let him live, and help him out finding Nobuto who the cronies think has just eloped with the money.

 

 

Tetsuo works with Kyoichi against a deadline, his life on the line.  They learn Nobuto ripped off his own gang, but as they do a job for the club owner Kyoichi is wounded as they flee.  Tetsuo is forced to film a confession that he killed one of the gang members, as insurance of him telling on the gang's actions to the police.  He and Kasen decide that their best means of survival is convincing them Nobuto is still alive, trying to fake it with video material.

Back in a club, he accidentally meets Nobuto's father, as back home they manage to unlock Nobuto's phone.  But Kyoichi's gang suspect it is a fake, and he visits Tetsuo and Kasen at home.  Kasen gives him a laxative to his coffee though, as Reika passes by her home.  Kyoichi leaves a note in her shoe to contact him, as Kasen learns he wants to kill Tetsuo.  Kyoichi is more and more burried in staged evidence by Tetsuo, causing the mob leader Takeda to restrain him and make due with him.  

But Kyoichi escapes barely, piecing together the events that led to him being framed, phoning Nobuto's father and explaining his theory.  Matori goes to Reika's appartment, coming face to face with Tetsuo who is wracked by guilt for a father losing his child.  But soon they come to blows, as Matori tells Tesuo Reika is unimportant, enraging Tetsuo.  But as he thinks of his child, Matori stabs himself in the stomach with a kitchen knife, telling Tetsuo if he doesn't make it back, they will know Tetsuo was the cullprit.  He manages to evade discovery, and burries the body in the woods.

Now this was an intense story for certain, and a great anime to boot.  HIGHLY recommended, and yes, I guess every father would go that far to commit murder to protect his child...