My Home Hero - Vol. 7 Ch. 53 - What Kind of Person is your Father

[coldpray]

I stand by my word, Reika's brainwaves have amplitude of zero.
@XXXXXXXXXIII stop simping Reika pls.

 

[reanseih]

Lmao don't worry. Not all of us skim through the chapters and jump to conclusions. I don't get why she's getting all the hate either. It's obvious she's not falling in love with any of them yet, if anything it looked like she was testing them to see which of them wouldn't be another one of her ex.

 

[Doomroar]

Well at least the scanlator likes the girl everyone hates. See there's someone for everyone out there you just gotta search.

Fortune teller guy shouldn't be giving fortune telling for free, even less to people that will ignore him anyways.

Edit: @reanseih I would explain why i don't like Reika:

She has been sold the lie that she is the best thing in the world to come after sliced bread, this is an illusion fabricated by her own parents, and by her first boyfriend, and that now is being reinforced by her current prospects, which makes her act arrogantly and dismissive towards the people that care about her (but that don't want to change her), and get with people that don't care about her and would benefit from her staying as she is (so now she went from abusive bf that was gonna kill her, to Stalker, to Yakuza spy, to Guy obsessed with her dad, to Guy obseesed with her dad's crime, and the fortune teller who is there cementing the lie).

This has repercussions for not just the people she meets, but also for how she deals with them.

Again, the fact that she believes this and acts this way is not her fault, like i said it is all something her parents instilled on her, so she believes it while being ignorant of what is happening around her, something that her dad is trying to keep that way, even if it is clear that such a thing is not really benefiting her.

When Nobuo was beating her down and abusing her, she decided to defend him and take his side, this once again is not her fault, since she is a person who believes she is the most awesome creature on the planet, it is natural for her to think that she could deal with an abusive bf and even reform him, which is why she never considered to ask for help, in her mind she was good enough to fix the situation.

So whenever her dad tries to help her, she of course will react with annoyance, because "how dare he, who does he think he is to intrude on such a magnificent girl's life?" in her mind her dad is an incompetent worrywart that doesn't believes on her ability to solve her own problems and he should know better, this of course is false, but she genuinely believes it because they raised her that way, and the world around her is bending in a way to reinforce the idea even more.

Why? just after her first bf left, she gained an stalker, and now has a bunch of boys interested on her, she is becoming super popular, the world itself s validating her self image. But that again is not her fault.

If anything the author got kind of lazy with this second part, he had Reika get a harem of men with ulterior motives that may endanger her dad, while a convenient landslide threatens to expose her dad's crimes, while an obsessive detective willing to take cases that are not his own gets interested on his dad, while said dad conveniently decided to publish a novel about his crimes on the internet...

And out of all those convenient plot devices, Reika is the easiest one to shit on, because as a character one would expect her to develop and grow (granted if the world itself corroborates her self image it wont happen, and that's a problem in itself, it limits her agency as a person, making her unrealistic as a character), and that kind of change is something that can't really be demanded out of circumstances, like a sudden landslide, or the convenient appearance of a new character at the right place and time.

Plus it is fun to hate on her, even when you know it is not her fault.

I would really like to know the position of our exalted scanlator @XXXXXXXXXIII on this matter, not regarding Reika, but with the series of convenient things that are driving this second part, personally i find them a bit too contrived.

 

[HajimeteNHK]

Oh separate beds, what a waste! For me it would be immensely tiring to not be stuck with Kasen all the day, but at night? the night! Tetsu, this time you lost a few points

 

[8yuri8]

great job, the last two pages had me rolling on the floor laughing

 

[tasasip]

I don't know why many reader always hate the heroine 😅 she is ot dating yet, so I think its fine to find which one is right for her.

 

[lazylazygoaway]

lmfao

 

[qtblader]

Lmao that copypasta

 

[Sonaldo]

The real reason Reika is hated? Incels and basement dwelling virgins. She did literally nothing wrong. The abuse by Nobuto? Not her fault. The guys approaching her in this arc? Not her fault. The syndicate aiming for her family through her? Not her fault. These kind of peoples need to reaffirm their beliefs tjat womans are bad and stupid when best waifu Kasen exists. Heck Reika even took boxing classes in this arc to protect herself presumably. Also pretty meta that Tetsuo had to endure stupid people on the internet.

 

[nareswaridiana]

What ego of the author? You mean the ego of takuma right?

 

[laiseran]

Based credit pages

 

[ShiZerolaaa]

Was "day view" on the second page meant to be "debut"?

 

[betelgeuse]

dang i didn't know reika was so hated?? shes just living her best life?? lol.

edit: conbini kun is nasty too ain't he? who else is the worst, please come forward

 

[SCP-049]

Oh god oh fuck

Possibly new ally?

 

[XXXXXXXXXIII]

@Doomroar wow great analysis on Reika... @Thunderscourge too! Glad at least some people not blindly hating on Reika...

Regarding the events in part 2, yes, they are definitely a bit forced so the story can continue. The author most likely had no plan for a sequel when he first started, and the ~6 month hiatus after part 1 finale supports that. I was worried that people won't receive it well, but it seems like Reika drew away most of the attention. 😒

 

[origamicactus]

I'm enjoying the revelation that not every new character is who they appear to be. Finding out her coworker hates the syndicate is crazy exciting. Hope he shows up to save Tosu from that sword we saw in the first chapter.

 

[One111Eleven]

Lmfao god tier copypasta, these scanlators are cool

 

[sylvacoer]

Okay, seems like she's actually learned from her experience, but she's gonna need to rely on her family if things get bad - kick-boxing isn't going to do much against a guy who has 30 lb of muscle on you.

 

[yasm]

Oh boy. This is getting complicated.

 

[lionfromnorth]

Reika is a retard.
The timid boy is a serial killer wannabe, but at least he only seems to target people who deserve to die.