#but I haven't been successful thusfar

[cultivating-wildflowers]

I could spend a couple hundred bucks on a fancy grow light setup or I could spend about $30 for a basic stand and lamp from the pet store

[bbq-hawks-wings]

The next arc in the manga will be the death of me.

Things I am hyped for:

The Big Three, Bakugo, Deku, and Todoroki truly teaming up for the first time

We haven't truly seen these three in a pure dynamic together yet. We've seen Deku and Bakugo, Bakugo and Todoroki, and Todoroki and Deku, but not JUST the three of them staged as equals and definitely not with the character development they've had thusfar. Despite some surface tension I have no doubt they'll work together splendidly.

Bakugo finally having direct ties/interactions with Endeavor

Bakugo and Endeavor have been thematically aligned from the very beginning of the series, and now that they've both moved in the same direction with their attitudes towards being a hero (and remember, Bakugo knows about his family history) I'm excited to see what sort of direction we'll see their character types go when put in the same room together.

The top heroes' archetypes All Might, Endeavor, and Hawks and their history of being contrasted against each other (True Hero, Second Best, Obligated Hero) being re-contextualized and transformed as working together in the next generation as Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki

I. Cannot. Wait! These boys have gone from being the worst kind of rivals to the best - lifting each other up and driving each other towards improvement and success, building off of each other's strengths and weaknesses over time. While it was always a solo race with the previous top three, it'll be a relay with the next generation.

Things that terrify me:

Bakugo's connection to Best Jeanist and direct interaction with Hawks

That body in the bag just got 8x worse when Bakugo joined the squad. Bakugo clearly holds respect for BJ, so when it comes to light that Hawks is directly connected to his disappearance and seriously implied to have murdered him I don't see that going down well.

The end of the Top Three

It's all coming to a head. All Might has already been forced into retirement, and while Endeavor has taken up the mantle with pride and reverence he's on shaky ground. I absolutely believe the Commission will throw Hawks under the bus, and even if they don't, Jeanist's vanishing will forcibly tear him down.

The child soldiers of tomorrow

Most people rightly have a problem with how the Commission is trying desperately to do deals under the tables and recruit ACTUAL CHILDREN to do their dirty work while the adults play popularity games. Hawks has been vocal about not participating in it because he's barely an adult himself - already a matured, neatly groomed, former child soldier. He wants to make sure no other kids are duped into the hell his life has become, and the system is getting ready to implode on itself purely because the Commission has been viewing this war as a battle of might instead of a war of ideals, and they are set to lose badly.

There's no way this won't be a disaster in the end. Our heroes will come out on top because this is a shonen, but they will be called upon to pay for the sins of their fathers. This isn't their war, but they will be forced to fight in it. It's going to be exciting and intense, but I think more than ever I'm expecting a literal body count this time around.