Thats exactly what we should have gotten in the story and what I was expecting after not 1 but 2 wars from Shigaraki and all the villains united.
Fuck man, I used to want a sequel manga to MHA so bad but after that ABYSMAL ending, the stupid 8 year timeskip, how much Hori ruined Deku and Ochako, the disgusting, cruel offscreen killings of Midnight and Majestic and the absolutely pathetic death of AFO and how much his character overstayed his welcome and how underwhelming Deku vs Shiggy and so on was, I really couldn't care less about MHA anymore.
I think in the end, the only things I did like were the Toga and Ochako resolution but only somewhat and All Might not actually dying a gruesome death, but RIP Sir Nighteye still I guess.
There was so much wrong with MHA by the end its just baffling and exhausting to even think about.
Maybe I didn't "understand" or "enjoy" the series enough but I'm extremely disappointed how it ended.
But given how immensely popular MHA was, like a sort of Naruto successor somewhat, I'd be surprised if it doesn't get a sequel too. When it peaked, it really peaked, even if it just flatlined towards the end ultimately and never regained its peaks.
For whats it worth, this moment was fucking amazing and this edit of it in the anime made it even immensely better, the series does have some great characters and fantastic moments regardless:
But this as well^. Hori damn near killed himself doing the manga, he had such SEVERE health issues multiple times that he should have ended the manga sooner or gone on a very long hiatus and gotten a reduced workload like Oda has, although I think he was getting a lot of breaks towards the end of MHA actually right? I remember getting a chapter every 2 weeks or so? 2 per month?
At least Vigilantes got an anime though, that's great for him genuinely, I might check it out even though I really lost interest in Vigilantes multiple times and didn't finish it either, but he wasn't actually writing and drawing Vigilantes either ofc. He might not still be with us if he was, so thankfully he wasn't.
I can't believe I actually expected to learn what happened to Red Riot too, SMH. Or that one Joker looking thief guy that Toga knew of would be relevant or that Stain would have a bigger role or that we'd get a better, longer fight between AM and AFO where AM does die or and Endeavour might die to Dabi in a literal blaze of glory but also self sacrifice/redemption/atonement for his sins etc.
Ironically I say I could care less but here I am ranting about MHA anyway lmao.
In all seriousness, I like your ideas and I would love to see them happen.
I expected some of these ideas for a sequel series at least, 100% guaranteed, there's multiple series worth of potential with alien and multiverse stuff even. But USA alone could carry another entire series potentially, even if its Vigilantes-sized at worst.
I would have loved to see other countries and heroes from there and thus villains too. The heroes from other countries not gettting involved in the final war and also the absolute butchering of the AMAZING Star and Stripe by Hori are some of the most unforgivable moments of the series, but there are plenty of those too, sigh.
I still can't believe we never saw Deku's father in the end like WTF. May as well just make him be Endeavour/AFO/All Might or whoever /s. All Might was his hononary father ofc but you could maybe stretch to Aizawa and Nighteye being father figures too.
The fact we'll never see the UA students do their 2nd and 3rd years, that it was all offscreened for the 8 year timeskip and everything Hori did, makes my skin crawl and makes me feel sick, ergh.
At this point, I have PTSD of long running manga series having absolutely awful endings now /s.
