The Superior Rules should have been the final villains of Undead Unluck.

Okay, so, brief rundown for those who don't know UU: bunch of people exist who negate the rules of the universe. Andy has the power of Undead; he can't die and has regeneration powers. Fuuko has the power of Unluck: she destroys luck and can basically cause natural disasters, etc. Opposing them are the UMAs, living embodiments of the rules created by God, who manifests as the sun and keeps destroying and recreating the universe.

About half the manga is set in one universe, then, in probably the most underrated arc in all of battle shonen, Ragnarock, the sun descends to earth and starts destroying everything, the whole cast fighting to slow it while Fuuko escapes to the next world so that there she can prepare their new versions to fight God as well as possible.

The sun only gets like 4 lines of dialogue throughout the whole process, and it's honestly pretty standard demiurge stuff; "rah, pesky insignificant humans, how dare you defy me, I am a giant fire man with no genitals, rah". He's intimidating as all getout, but he's not exactly a compelling guy.

In the new Universe, we're introduced to his top leftenants, the Superior Rules, the first 10 UMA he ever created: MFs like Soul, Time, Change, Language (she's easily the best of them), and, of course, Luck and Death. (They're in a pretty weird order, like Time is number 7, but that's neither here nor there.) These guys... aren't especially interesting either, mostly, but, honestly, due to actually being embodiments of concepts,

I think they had more potential as thematic final antagonists than the Sun/God.

Like, I think it would have been easier to just write that they usurped God after his failure and absorbed his strength, and then take care to give them ideologies that could conflict with our main heroes: God doesn't really say anything to elevate him any further in the final battle, and neither does Soul, effectively his mouthpiece there. I think the Superior Rules, especially Luck and Death, should have been treated not as subservient minibosses, but as a league of evil, with each given the attention (if not the time) of Language.

So... yeah. Interested to hear what you think.