I have convinced my boss to finally give me an official full-time contract, YES! On the other hand, if anyone has tips how to cram everything into my limited free-time, I’m in!
The story of Silver Spoon revolves around Yuugo Hachiken, a young and brilliant student who one day is just too tired of everything. He doesn’t know what he wants to become, he just knows that he has had enough of trying to answer his parents expectations. And thus, following the advice of one of his teachers, he registers to an agricultural boarding school. That is how his adventures start.
It does not sound too interesting said like that does it? But I have found myself quickly falling in love with this series, as quickly as the first episode actually.
To be honest, I had a good disposition from the start. I am from the countryside so a lot of those things are things I am used to. A lot of Hachiken’s life is also mine, in one way or another. And, as I like my life, I came to like Hachiken’s. It was simple as that.
If I had to give a genre to this series I would definitely say it is a slice of life. You see nothing more in this anime than Hachiken slowly getting used to his new life as an apprentice country man. And that is exactly what interested me in the story. Slice of life can quickly become boring and this one was not. Because we were living Hachiken’s life with him, we discovered things with him. The story was very well told. The viewer can easily identify to Hachiken (unless you already know all those things, and even then, you cannot know everything, I sure do not), and the fact we can identify easily with him helps us get into the story. In every episode we had the pleasure of discovering a new aspect of life in an agricultural context and I thought that was pretty awesome.
As far as characters are concerned, Hachiken is obviously the main one; everything is centered around him and the whole story is told through his eyes. He is not a bad hero, really. I mean, he is not awesome by any means, he is just lost. He does not know what he wants to do with himself and does his best to adjust to his new environment and the new people surrounding him. It’s nice to see his progresses and he is actually quite endearing.
I quite liked the secondary characters as well. Mikage is a nice girl who’s also torn between her obligations and what she wants to do, even though she does not quite know what she wants to do. There is Tokiya who does not want to do anything. And you have Inaba who wants to do everything. The cast of characters was pretty diverse, that made their interaction interesting to watch.
I thought it was quite an accurate description of how some people live in the country and it made me want to make bacon. I’ve never made bacon, I don’t even have pigs. In a way, it was inspiring for me and I’m pretty sure it can be inspirational for a lot of other people too.
Moral of the story? Homemade pizzas are way tastier. And you should watch Silver Spoon.
And eat pizza. While watching Silver Spoon.
