# Silver Spoon (2013)

> A city boy who fled cutthroat prep schools enrolls in a rural agricultural high school, where animals, farm chores and new friendships force him to find his footing.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/52115

## Facts

- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 22
- Episode runtime: 23 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: animation, comedy, drama
- Network: Fuji TV
- Cast: Ryohei Kimura, Marie Miyake, Ayahi Takagaki, Toru Sakurai, Nobunaga Shimazaki, Masayuki Shoji, Masahiro Kobayashi, Taishi Murata
- TMDB rating: 7.9/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2909912/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: earnest, warm, gentle, humorous, observational

## What critics say

Audiences broadly rate the series positively, praising its warm, grounded portrait of agricultural high school life and its lively characters.

## Synopsis

Silver Spoon (2013-2014) is a Japanese animated slice of life series created for Fuji TV and produced by A-1 Pictures, running two seasons and 22 episodes. Yuugo Hachiken (voiced by Ryohei Kimura) enrolls at Ooezo Agricultural High School mainly because the dormitory offers a way out of the cutthroat prep schools he once attended. Instead he finds himself surrounded by livestock, crops and unfamiliar club duties that test his city-bred assumptions. Classmates Aki Mikage (Marie Miyake) and Tamako Inada (Ayahi Takagaki) and fellow student Ichirou Komaba (Toru Sakurai) become the people who push him through each stumbling week of chores, rivalries and small triumphs. Each episode is built from a single farm task or club challenge, with the larger arc tracking Yuugo's slow growth into someone who belongs in this rural world. The tone is earnest, observational and warm, with gentle comedy grounded in the physical realities of raising animals and working the land. The setting is a contemporary rural agricultural school in Hokkaido, Japan, where the pace of country life shapes everything. Fans of Barakamon, Non Non Biyori and Honey and Clover will find the same blend of coming of age warmth and humble everyday humor.

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