I just finished My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, and I’m honestly pissed. This series was on the verge of being one of my all-time favorite manga — it was getting dark, real, psychological. We had Koichi slowly evolving as a street-level hero, Knuckleduster being a true underground OG, and Pop☆Step’s descent into trauma was straight-up giving Hummingbird from Deadman Wonderland energy. Worse than Toga. WAY worse.

And then… it just stopped. All that heavy setup? Thrown out for a flashy battle and a clean ending. The emotional fallout, the real consequences? Ignored. And I’m like… what the actual f 

Don’t get me wrong — the final fight was cool. Better than the main MHA fights for sure. But how do you just ignore everything Number 6 did to Pop☆Step?

Koichi never finds out.
Knuckleduster disappears.
Number 6 goes boom and that’s it.

What happened to the emotional fallout? To Pop☆Step’s trauma? To the lingering evil that Number 6 created?

And suddenly All For One is back, and we’re just handed off to the main MHA storyline like nothing else mattered.

I’m glad Koichi moved to New York. That was the only satisfying part. He deserved better than being erased from Japan’s hero scene. And Captain Celebrity actually turned out cool.

But man, this could’ve been something special. We need a sequel, set in NYC — darker, rawer, with a better writing team that won’t flinch when shit gets real. Let Koichi face what happened. Let Pop☆Step process it. Let Number 6’s legacy haunt them.

Vigilantes is better than the main MHA series. But it could’ve been great. And that missed opportunity hurts more than anything.

How Did Vigilantes Go From Psychological Trauma and Real Stakes to a Sanitized Ending? (Pop☆Step + Number 6 arc deserved better)??