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Queen Helaena Targaryen

Tomura is dead

Toga is dead (or, let's just call it as it is, she committed suicide) - this is despite the fact that if she died other characters (read: heroes) should have died as well, but didn't (Bakugo and Edgeshot for example)

Dabi is presumably still in the hospital (since we didn't see a funeral), unable to move or do anything on his own

Spinner wrote his book, but where he is and how he's actually doing is unknown - presumably he still has to deal with multiple quirks that aren't his own and are tearing at his body

Compress is alive but where he currently is is unknown - he read Spinner's book (and that's it)

Kurogiri exploded?? And nobody has bothered to mention anything about him since

Twice has been dead for a while, but his murderer is not only free of charge but also the head of the HPSC (which still exists btw)

Other things:

The hero ranking system still exists

Seemingly no real changes have been made which would help victims like the LOV before they felt like they had to turn to villainy to be heard/seen/understood

Deku gets to be a hero again by the power of ~technology~ - kinda making the whole deal about him losing his quirk feel pointless

Not from this chapter, but I still feel like it's very important to point out that it's heavily implied that Rei is just gonna take care of Enji (her abuser) now and probably for the rest of time

The few good things:

Ochako bringing more focus on mental health

Horikoshi's thesis statement on the League of Villains/Meta Liberation Army is essentially 'we don't really need systemic change in the world, those villains could have been fixed if they went to therapy and people were taught to be nicer to them even though they look weird, someone should have reached out to them sooner. that would've solved it all.'

It's kinda like the ending to Naruto? Anti-revolution and pro-reform, without much legitimate reform being shown. Except even Naruto leaned further into producing actual reforms than BNHA.

One of the main goals of the heroes throughout the story was to bring back faith in heroes to the populace, which feels the industry is one big fame obsessed sham, and in the end they succeed at winning their trust back without actually changing anything about the industry at all.

In fact it seems like the hero industry is actually worse now? Because based on what Aizawa and Deku were saying; only the most powerful heroes are even in consideration and have a 'golden ticket' to the fame and fortune of being a hero, and everyone else who wants to be a hero is apparently just falling to the wayside?

You're really going to sit there and tell me that Washington, California and Oregon are as distinct from each other as the UK, France and Germany?

Really?

With a straight face and everything?

The states are more like, I dunno, different denominations of protestantism, or different Shonen Jump battle series, or different versions of Star Trek.

It's very strange to imagine a single country where crossing a state border means different sales taxes, different emissions regulations, different driving ages, different abortion policy, and until recently different marriage laws, especially given how state law is consistently privileged over federal law.

What was the first album you bought?