MHA Fans Demand Naruto Shippuden Treatment After Manga’s Abrupt Ending
----- ADS-----
By now, the anime version of My Hero Academia is in its final stretch with the events of Season 7, and author Kohei Horikoshi’s original manga has just one chapter left to go. The story is practically over in both forms, and the most devoted fans of My Hero Academia want more. While there’s the fourth movie on the horizon, that may not be enough to whet certain fans’ appetite for more Plus Ultra action. While it’s unlikely to actually happen, some viewers and readers are clamoring for a hypothetical My Hero Academia Shippuden.
The original Naruto franchise helped popularize the idea of a meaty part 2 being the “Shippuden” of a series, since the original Naruto Shippuden succeeded on so many levels. In short, a Shippuden anime series is bigger, better, and deeper than the original, with older and stronger characters who face all-new villains with sky-high stakes. A Shippuden can also greatly expand upon worldbuilding and lore secrets, and My Hero Academia has ample room for all of that.
While the original Naruto anime already set a high bar on many levels, Naruto Shippuden upped the ante even more. Even if Naruto Shippuden stumbled in a few ways, such as the dragged-out final war and the mishandling of Neji Hyuga’s death, Naruto Shippuden still reached greater heights than the original series did. That series did everything that made the original so strong while adding even more, starting with making the characters a bit older. Naruto Shippuden is a classic example of an anime-style time skip at work, and some fans might say it even set a new standard for “two years later” arcs in anime, similar to its rival One Piece.
----- ADS-----
