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To Be Hero (TV)

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Alternative title:
トゥ・ビー・ヒーロー (Japanese)
突变英雄 (Chinese (PRC))
Genres: comedy
Plot Summary: "Ossan" (pops), is a handsome yet undisciplined man and a divorced father who has a job as a toilet seat designer. He lives with his daughter Min-chan, who excels in both academics and sports. One day, while on the toilet, Ossan is sucked into it and becomes a hero charged with protecting the world. In exchange, he transforms from his handsome form into a chubby appearance. Ossan's fight to save the world and protect Min-chan begins.
User Ratings: 54 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Very good: 15 votes (sub:14, dub:1)
 Good: 17 votes (sub:16, raw:1)
 Decent: 5 votes (sub:5)
 So-so: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Not really good: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Weak: 5 votes (sub:3, others:2
1 Russian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 84 users, rank: #5813 (of 10148)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.630 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.8589, rank: #5586 (of 10319)
Weighted mean: 6.577 (Good−), rank: #5682 (of 10319) (seen all: 6.70 / won't finish: 2.97)
Bayesian estimate: 6.751 (Good−), rank: #4632 (of 7759)
Running time: 11 minutes
Episode titles: We have 12
Vintage: 2016-10-05
Opening Theme:
"Ai ni Koiyo" (アイ二コイヨ) by BRATS
Ending Theme:
"Watashi no Papa ga Chikyuu o Mamoru" (私のパパが地球を守る ~我爹守护地球~) by Kazuyo Lin
News: Show:
Ellegarden Performs New Opening Song for One Piece Anime's Egghead Arc (Updated) (Aug 3, 2025)
Aniplex, bilibili Launch 'To Be Hero X' Animated Project (Mar 25, 2023)
North American Anime, Manga Releases, October 23-29 (Oct 25, 2022)
Emon: 2nd Seasons of To Be Hero, Hitori no Shita the outcast Anime in Production (Apr 1, 2017)
Emon Lists To Be Hero 2, Four Youth Anime Projects for 2017 (Mar 7, 2017)
Yuri!!! on Ice Voted as Tokyo Anime Awards' Animation of the Year (Feb 22, 2017)
Crunchyroll to Stream To Be Hero, Cheating Craft Anime (Oct 4, 2016)
Superhero Comedy Anime 'To Be Hero' Profiles More of Cast in Video (Sep 27, 2016)
Emon Unveils Original Anime 'To Be Hero' With Excel Saga's Shinichi Watanabe (Sep 6, 2016)
Interview:
Interview: Up-and-coming J-Rock Group BRATS (Jan 29, 2020)
Press Releases:
BRATS Reveal New Music Video 'Ainikoiyo' From 'To Be Hero' Anime (Dec 27, 2016)
'To Be Hero' to be Aired on October 5th (Wed) on Tokyo MX1 (Sep 8, 2016)
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    To Be Hero and To Be Heroine - Collection (Blu-ray) 2022-10-25 (from $39.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Haoling Li
Script: Haoling Li
Character Design: LAN
Chief Animation Director: LAN
Animation Director: Wang Feng
Producer: Xing Cheng Lu

Art Setting: LAN
Color design: LAN
Editing: Aya Hida
Key Animation:
LAN (OP; eps 1, 3-4)
No.18 (eps 1-2)
Original Director: Haoling Li
Production Assistant: Jun Kang
Script Assistant: Shinichi Watanabe (Japanese version)
Kenjirō Tsuda as Ossan

Genki Okawa as Third Prince
Kazuhiko Inoue as First Prince
Moa Tsukino as Min
Nozomi Nishida as Data Alien
Shōzō Iizuka as Great Emperor
Tomokazu Sugita as Prince
Yutaka Aoyama as Yamada

Aiko Ōkubo as Girl with glasses (ep 8)
Akari Uehara as Woman C (ep 1)
Arisa Noto as Childhood friend's younger sister (ep 8)
Aya Kitamura as Tsundere heroine (ep 8)
Gentoku as
Great Emperor's father (ep 8)
Policeman (ep 3)
Harumi Sakurai as
Ossan's wife (eps 5, 9-10, 12)
Woman A (ep 1)
Hiroki Matsukawa as Servant (eps 7-8)
Kahoru Sasajima as Great Emperor (10 years old)
Kei Minegishi as Classmate (ep 2)
Kokoro Tanaka as Servant (ep 8)
Kujira as Princess (ep 8)
Maki Kobayashi as Woman B (ep 1)
Mamiko Hanada as Elementary school student (ep 3)
Miki Toyonaga as Woman in a bath towel (ep 5)
Naoko Yasuda as
Great Emperor's mother (ep 8)
Yamada's wife (ep 2)
Nozomi Nishida as Beautiful girl (ep 2)
Riki Kitazawa as Chicken Demon Lord (ep 2)
Rui Tanabe as Prince (young)
Sena as Shota (ep 8)
Shinichi Watanabe as Nabeshin (ep 12)
Takatsugu Awazu as
Beast King Urubaropus (eps 1-2)
Theory solving alien (eps 3-4)
Takeshi Maeda as
Alien (eps 1-2, 5)
BumbleZ (ep 3)
Great Emperor (young)
Loli man (ep 4)
Mario (ep 12)
Yū Sanada as Sportsman boy (ep 8)
Yūichi Masuda as
Boy A (ep 10)
Colleague (ep 12)
Yukari Sakuraniwa as Woman (ep 4)
Yuuto Suzuki as Brother (ep 3)
Japanese companies
English staff
English companies
Translation: Sriram Gurunathan (Crunchyroll)
Distributor: Discotek Media
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Licensed by: Crunchyroll
English cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Italian cast
(none)

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