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Gin no Saji, a.k.a. Silver Spoon
"Yugo Hachiken dreams of life separated from his family, so he takes the initiative by enrolling in an agriculture school. He thinks, with his talent in studying, no problems will arise no matter what kind of school he attends. He is proven wrong very quickly. Raised as a city boy, he is forced to uncover the inconvenient truth about agricultural life. Enjoy the story of Hachiken, as he tries to keep up with his new friends, farmers' heirs, who are already accustomed to the harsh world of farming. With no clear goals or understanding of farming life, how will Hachiken survive this new, cruel reality? The story of a sweat, tear, and mud-stained youth begins!" (Source: MAL) Let's get to discussing life on the farm! :3 Oh, and this thing is created by the same person who made some little thing called Full Metal Alchemist, whatever that is. Last edited by kaisap112; 08-01-2013 at 07:09 PM. |
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Read this manga since the 1st chapter came out, love it.
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Talon's thoughts on Episode 01
Talon's thoughts on Episode 02 I just watched Episodes 03 and 04. Both were good. Both were improvements on their predecessors. If the series keeps this pattern up, it could become really, really great in little time. Episode 03 was the one about Hachiken, his crush, and his crush's childhood friend going on a three-person "date" to the horse racetrack. Spoiler: show Episode 04 was the one about Hachiken making pizza for the campus. This was a fun episode. Spoiler: show I'm not really seeing a reason to root for Hachiken x his crush over Hachi's crush x her childhood friend. Kind of hoping that she pairs with her childhood friend and Hachi gets someone new. (Incoming freshman next year, maybe?) Then again, I really hated Winry Rockbell too and never much cared for Ed pairing off with her. Maybe this author just writes romances that frustrate the crap out of me.
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Has anyone in this thread tried any of the foods shown in this show? Such as
Spoiler: show I'm curious as to how these foods taste...but I'm also a chicken and a picky eater so I don't dare try them myself without at least some confirmation this stuff's edible.
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Coulda sworn I responded to this post last week. Guess not.
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Guess I should start getting used to the idea that I'm a cooking/baking nut and everyone else who don't do that daily are actually the normal ones. I've only eaten Gouda as slices on bread and in sandwiches and it's perfectly fine that way, but with pizza I always thought mozzarella was The Way to go. Personally found Episode 5 boring Spoiler: show
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Also this looks really interesting, especially considering how rare it is for me to find something that actually sort of relates to the profession I am heading towards. I'll definitely pick this up once I have finished watching the couple of shows I have to finish.
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Episode 6 is here, guys! And what an episode it is.
Spoiler: show Also, I'll be testing the egg+rice+soy combo soonish, I'll let you know if I got awful food poisoning or not. PS. So that dish actually has a name!
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Episode 06:
Spoiler: show I think I may have espoused similar views in an earlier post, but I guess it's worth mentioning that I once again find myself rooting moreso for Komaba x Mikage than I do Hachiken x Mikage. From a literary perspective, I think it'd make more sense for Hachiken and Mikage to just be friends, for Komaba and Mikage to pair off, and for Hachiken to pair off with a new freshman next year or the year after that. From a real world perspective, I can well appreciate Doppel's point about how "once a childhood friend, always a childhood friend" and thus Komaba and Mikage are in one another's mutual friend zones. Guess we'll just have to wait and see what the author has in store for us.
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Episode 07:
Watched this one last week but apparently forgot to post about it. I guess I don't have too much to say other than: Spoiler: show Episode 08: The plot moved a bit more forward in this episode than in the previous week's. Spoiler: show
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So ... apparently Gin no Saji only has three more episodes before it takes a break for a season. This is pretty strange to me since it feels like the story is still in introduction territory. But hey, at least fans don't need to fear that it's been canceled. It hasn't been. Just taking a break for a season, with plans to return in January 2014.
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Does anyone else keep up with the manga here? I would watch the anime if it wasn't for time constraints, and I've been keeping up with the manga consistently since the beginning.
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Yay, I probably would take it to Private Message though to not spam this thread completely haha. When I have more time
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Episode 10:
Spoiler: show Episode 11: Spoiler: show And just like that, the first installment of the Silver Spoon television anime is over. Granted, the hiatus is likely to be short -- with us returning to Ezo Ag this January, no? -- but it is what it is, the end of a season. It kind of doesn't feel like we've seen an entire season yet though. I feel like right now we're in the middle of a 26-episode "season" rather than being at the end of a 13-episode regular season. I definitely can't imagine many people in future generations opting to watch these first eleven episodes but then skipping out on the next eleven to thirteen. A couple of people, sure, but I think most people are going to want to watch this plus whatever begins airing in January if they want to feel like they're getting a complete package. While I've definitely tried to enjoy the series as best I can -- and while I've indeed found lots of little things to enjoy in most of the episodes -- I can't deny that this series doesn't excite me anywhere near the level of the author's previous work, Fullmetal Alchemist. I guess in that sense Arakawa Hiromu is walking down the same path perilously laden with landmines as Kobayashi Jin (School Rumble, Natsu no Arashi, Ichiro Heian) did before her. In a lot of ways, I feel like we can tell that Gin no Saji is a story that Hiromu wants to tell, but the problem for her is getting fans of her earlier work like me to quit making comparisons between this one and FMA.
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I put S1E01 on in the background while trying to get my ideal Rayquaza in ORAS, and now I'm through Episode 02 as well. I enjoyed both episodes a lot more than I remember giving this series credit for. I'm contemplating rewatching all of S1 and then bursting on to S2 (which I still haven't seen).
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I finished re-watching Silver Spoon. Thoughts:
This anime was much better than I remembered it being. My memories from 2013 were of an anime that was only so-so at being a way to pass the time and that didn't hold up as an anime you should give your full attention to. But in 2016, I was only able to watch Silver Spoon in the background for the first two or three episodes. By Episode 04, I would routinely put the 2DS down to give the show my full attention. And by Episode 08, this was no longer a show I even attempted to multi-task with the 2DS. Silver Spoon is a lot of nice things. It's cute. It's thoughtful. It's thought-provoking. And it's fun. Looking back over my posts from 2013, I'm a little embarrassed by how much I brought up Fullmetal Alchemist, Arakawa Hiromu's other work. While it's true that Silver Spoon isn't as exciting or even as generally good as FMA was, that doesn't mean that Silver Spoon is bad. Far from it. I think 2013 me was just a little disappointed that Silver Spoon wasn't "FMA-grade material." And it's not like I hold FMA on a high pedestal either. I dunno. That's all I really want to say right now about my past posts on this show. Like I said, I'm rather embarrassed by how I refused to let that comparison go. One of the things my 2016 re-watch of Silver Spoon had going for it was nostalgia. That's obviously something you can't give a show when it's your first time watching it, but without a doubt this time 'round benefited from my anticipation of certain events like: Spoiler: show Many times, I'd anticipate an event far sooner than it aired. Other times, the event would catch me from behind unawares and then I'd smile on turning around as I recognized its face. But in general, there was a lot of nostalgia driving this show's re-enjoyment. I think it's a similar phenomenon that was/is at work with Maria-sama ga Miteru, where every time I re-watch that series I seem to enjoy it more than the last time. Another benefit Silver Spoon had on the re-view was the fact that I wasn't antsy or negative about plot progression. Because I already knew roughly where Season 1 would wrap up / how far we would get, I was never upset with any episodes for "wasting my time" or "not living up to their full potential." On the re-view, not a single episode was bad. Not a single episode felt like a waste of my time. I feel like that probably wasn't the case in 2013. Looking over my 2013 post for Episode 05, for example, I see myself saying that the episode is a subpar entry for its genre. Not only did I not feel it was subpar this time around, but I didn't think any negative thoughts like that towards it period. I enjoyed the episode. I enjoyed that it was a part of the Silver Spoon family. But when you're watching in 2013 without any idea of how far the season will take you and the wait between episodes is weekly, I can well appreciate how frustrating it must have been for me to receive episodes that didn't advance the plot whatsoever. The animation was pleasant and effective. So too was the music. The voice acting was good too -- nothing too remarkable, but nothing worthy of criticism either. Is the series somewhat guilty of the "Careers: Anime Edition" trend that was popular in the early 2010s? Well sure it is. This and Nourin are the two series I can think of that are the E/I stories for farming. Is there an ulterior motive on Arakawa Hiromu's part? Is she trying to romanticize farming such that if even 0.001% of her readers decide to grow up to become farmers then it means she'll have helped to revitalize Japan's farming industry? Maybe. I can't say for certain. But with the re-viewing of Silver Spoon, I also have to ask: who cares? Not to be so carefree about subliminal messaging and the like, but seriously: so long as the story provides a mostly-honest presentation of what farming life is like, what's the sin in one city slicker entertaining millions of other city slickers with this tale? If it grants us a window into the life of a farmer, then what's the harm? Most of us would never be fortunate enough to get the windows into farm life that Hachiken gets, and Hachiken gets them thanks to Arakawa's research efforts when penning this tale. We owe her a minor debt of gratitude: her hard work has let us all be farmers for a day without having to leave our living rooms. Personally, I enjoy the career-glance animes. I just don't like, like I'm sure many people didn't like, the glut of them that we got in the early 2010s. Overall, I'd like to give Silver Spoon S1 an 8/10 this time around. Last night my thinking was "7/10 objectively but 8/10 personal enjoyment-wise," but today I can confidently upgrade that objective score to match my personal enjoyment of the series. Silver Spoon is in a few words very good if not great. I'm glad I happened to load up Episode 01 on a whim last night, and I now look forward to pressing on to the fresh turf for me that is Season 2.
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I just finished the first episode of Season 2. I was delighted to see that it was 96% a "Season 1 Episode 12" and not a typical "Season 2 Episode 01" where they either recap constantly or else the episode has completely different-feeling pacing and direction than the ones from the previous season. Sure, Episode 01 of S2 has recap, but it's all identical to what you get in any other mid-season episode that calls back to earlier episodes. It wasn't "recap" so much as "topical flashbacks."
S2 Episode 01: Spoiler: show
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