My Hero Academia

Even then I think any villains with any sense of self-preservation in the aftermath would put things on a hold for a while and lay low until things have returned to a "safe normal" again.

Especially after seeing this "absolute madman" and his justice league defeat what's essentially a real life "Dark Souls" boss that's so far above the common crook's level that they might as well be tardigrades in comparison, live on television.

Maybe so, but I still think Deku and the others are looking towards an "and the adventure continues ending."

They are far too early in their careers to have a flash forward to their peaceful ends if they do achieve that.

Plus I think MHA makes too much money to end things now.

With a lot of stories, flash forwarding to a peaceful life seems to say “yup nothing interesting ever happened to these people again”

One of the exceptions I can think of is Biscuit Hammer, where the point was that the exciting magical battles were just one year in the characters lives and all the normal stuff like getting married or going to college or starting to wear Hawaiian shirts were more important.

Biscuit Hammer? What's that?

The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer.

Series about a dude who hates the world becoming a Knight for the Princess who is supposed to save the world but actually plans to destroy it.

That's an abridged description. It was a fun series that got an anime about a year or two ago (but is older than that).

Sounds like a fun time.

One of my favorite underrated manga

From what I hear, stick to the manga if you want to check it out.

BNHA will have its own Boruto/UQ Holder/Yashahime/Shaman King Flowers/Kinnikuman Next Generation. We all know it.

Deku and Ochako and Toga’s child Boku

Adult Bakugo's kid named "Bacchan".

Who will send the entire fandom into fanon-Todoroki's "Conspiracy Room" trying to figure out who on earth the mother of that kid is since the author will do an excellent job at keeping her identity a secret from the fandom and forcing them to make guesses based on the kid's appearance which also happens to be ambiguous enough to leave multiple candidates to make guesses from.

Edited by Trainbarrel on Apr 8th 2024 at 7:31:51 PM

If there is a sequel after My Hero Academia, I hope its either not until a long distance from now, or else Horikoshi doesn't do it himself. You need the rest, man!

Rather than do a spin-off babies and have a new biggest threat ever, you can do an anthology of the UA kids in their adult careers doing everyday capers

Honestly, I think could get something like that and see the students be adult heroes. It's more likely than spin off-babies.

Granted, I think the target audience would prefer MHA focus on them as students. High school is a popular trope for Japan.

the age demographic is kinda weird honestly, even young adult-ish M Cs for action series are relatively rare?

And THAT'S were Vigilantes comes in!

Yeah, I'd be totally on top of an anthology series on their careers without any overarching threat or plotline. Basically Slice of Life, except from the lives of professional heroes.

I know a lot of the people on here hate the All for One/ Shiggy reveal, but all I can picture during that rant is the "IT WAS ME, AUSTIN!" meme, and it's making me love it.

Please tell me the big All for One scene is something like:

"Remember when Bakugo and those other kids were bullying you for being quirkless? It was me Deku. I gave Bakugo 500 yen to torment you so you would get One for All and being an easy target for me to steal from."

Edited by RedHunter543 on Apr 9th 2024 at 10:45:45 PM

"Easiest 500 yen I ever earned"

I'm actually wondering IF All for One is genuinely petty enough to hire kids to bully other kids for random shits and giggles.

I mean, besides Shiggy, he had all sorts of kids in his orphanage. Some of them HAD to be pre-selected to be kidnapped/recruited.

Dabi's life wasn't influenced by All for One, but....

I am begging you to just get back to reading the manga.

Maybe they don't like the manga as much as the anime?

Or it's not available yet in their zone.

I don't know there's anything that's too petty for Afo.

And I'm going to play devil's advocate and say that I'm just fine with the latest chapter. It would have been contrived if Nana's grandson had just so happened to have both the perfect villain backstory and the perfect villain quirk. It doesn't absolve Tenko's dad because, even if Afo was encouraging him to be how worst self, he ultimately chose to do it. It doesn't affect the backstory of Stain, Overhaul, Gentle, or any of the other league members, so I don't think this means that society is perfect aside from Afo.

And now that I think about it, I think fandom discussion of societal causes vs Afo did it are trying to impose a division that doesn't fully work. Afo doesn't exist in a vacuum apart from the society of the series. A person like Afo needed a society with Quirks in it, with people who are desperate to either have or not have Quirks, with powers he wants to steal. There's also the fact that, given both his power and age, Afo has been part of what shaped society into what it is.