Tu Bian Yingxiong Baba

For Uncle, a lecherous but handsome toilet designer, it is just an ordinary day of neglecting his duties as a single parent to hit on women and talk about his "superpower": his ability to tell a lady's hip size at a glance. But when he is sucked down into a toilet, the Space Peace Republic Alliance Hero Committee gives him real superpowers, and he becomes the hero of Earth. There is only one problem—he has become an ugly, unrecognizable fatty who is unable to reveal his real identity.

Uncle's beloved daughter Min-chan does not believe that such a vulgar fatty could be her father, and casts him out of his own home. Distraught and homeless, he joins up with his perverted neighbor Yamada-san, a small man with a fondness for streaking, and sets out to convince Min-chan that he is her father.

Full of sexual innuendo and slapstick humor, To Be Hero follows Uncle as he befriends bizarre allies and combats even more bizarre foes, fighting for the future of earth against aliens and—more importantly—his future with his daughter.

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Uncle Main

Tsuda, Kenjirou Japanese

Yamada-san Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka Japanese

Jiang, Chenmin Supporting

Tsukino, Moa Japanese

Prince Supporting

Sugita, Tomokazu Japanese

Alien Supporting

Maeda, Takeshi Japanese

First Prince Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko Japanese

Great Emperor Supporting

Iizuka, Shouzou Japanese

Lu, Xingcheng Producer

Li, Haoling Director, Script, Storyboard, Editing, Series Composition, Creator

Muramatsu, Hisashi Sound Director

LAN Episode Director, Color Design, Key Animation, Character Design, Chief Animation Director

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Jul 19, 2025

Xeddoz

Recommended

Very special type of humor. Every episode is arround 10 minutes each. The story is an art of itself. Specially once you find out everything at the end. Some jokes are even funnier for veteran anime watchers. For example: if you know Dragonball, some scene will be even funnier. Art style is also very good in this CGI century. Not a masterpiece but total recomendation from my side if you like this type of humor. It hit me on the very first episode and made me laugh a lot. Gag Anime with 100% toilet humor. The last episode is answering many questions but loses ... its origins by beeing a comedy but thats fine though. If you like short anime with dry humor, just watch the first 2 episodes.

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Apr 28, 2025

UseableVirus

Mixed Feelings

"But as long as you're alive, anything can happen, right? That's what makes it fun, right?" -Ossan

This really is a bit of genius stuck into a gag anime and it does that well. Some parts made me laugh for sure but it was not the humor that kept me watching. The plot is goofy and all over the place and is reminiscent of a gags I have seen in one punch man and etc. Everyone will not like this but it deserves a chance at the very least and with episodes being under 12 minutes 3 episodes then gauging your thoughts is a must.

The animation ... at times is so good i would not this was a gag anime. The character design and everything also blends together and works well all of the time. Modern anime cannot even measure up to the ridiculous effort that is adde dto the art, sound, and animation in every single second. This is really where the seeds were laid for the work they would go on to do with to be hero x pivoting away from the gag style completely and BY having a serious setting they have delivered their best work yet!!!

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 27, 2018

Saacool

Not Recommended

You know, MAL needs a negative scoring for so bad its almost worth watching because of how shitty it is, if only there was a pay off at the end

its a pretty crappy gag anime, i was hoping for the story to be a little better but the final act twist is solidly eh, toilet humor never gets any better after the second ep

the art only hits watchable around 10% of the time, otherwise its just a bunch of offensive flesh in the same 2 settings

honestly this anime was a waste of a good title, at least it thematically stays pretty consistent

if you watch ... it don't get invested, it doesn't pay off at all

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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