Silver Spoon, Vol. 11

銀の匙 Silver Spoon [Gin no Saji Silver Spoon] #11

by Hiromu Arakawa

À medida que o segundo ano se aproxima, os primeiros anos da Ezo Ag estão analisando seriamente seus planos futuros. Uma observação casual sobre como iniciar um negócio dá a Hachiken uma centelha de inspiração. Ele já é apaixonado por ajudar seus amigos a alcançarem seus objetivos: esse poderia se tornar seu objetivo? Com apenas uma ideia incompleta, Hachiken parte para criar um plano de negócios que atenderá não apenas aos rígidos padrões de aprovação de seu pai, mas também aos de seu igualmente temível consultor - Tamako!!

Genres: Manga, Slice Of Life, Comics, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Humor

176 pages, Paperback

First published March 5, 2014

About the author

Hiromu Arakawa (author: 荒川弘) is a Japanese manga artist, best known for Fullmetal Alchemist (鋼の錬金術師 Hagane no renkinjutsushi).
Her real name is Hiromi Arakawa (荒川弘美).

Arakawa was born and raised on a dairy farm in Hokkaidō.
She thought of being a manga artist since she was little. After graduating high school, she took oil painting classes while working on her family's farm. During that time, she also created dōjinshi manga with her friends and drew yonkoma for a magazine. After eight years she moved to Tōkyō and started out as assistant writer for Hiroyuki Etō.
Her debut as manga artist is in 1999 with STRAY DOG. In 2001 she started working on her famous and award winning series Fullmetal Alchemist, that soon gets a successful anime adaptation.
Other works include Silver Spoon (銀の匙 Silver Spoon, Gin no saji Silver Spoon).

Reviews

[Kendra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'll stop rating these five stars when they stop being totally excellent.

[Rod Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hachiken wraps up his first year of high school getting caught up in some Valentine's Day hijinks, watching the seniors graduate, moving out of the campus dorms, and finding a possible direction for his life. Bring on year two! A solid volume in a terrific series.

[Trinh · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Kailey (Luminous Libro) · Rating 5 out of 5]

This volume is really interesting as Hachiken starts to find a more specific goal to work towards. He wants to start his own agricultural company, and he begins to formulate a plan.
I love that we get to see more from Hachiken's parents in this volume, and there are some dramatic family moments with a lot of emotion!

[Coke Fernández · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/10

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty great agriculture and farming manga, great art and really good story!😁👌❤️

[Axelle⁷ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Emilija · Rating 4 out of 5]

This installment covers the end of Hachiken's first year and that means that he's had to finally square up to the problem that, unlike the rest of his schoolmates, he doesn't know what he wants to do. This was engaging and heart warming, and I just want to read more.

[Becky B · Rating 4 out of 5]

The end of Hachiken's first school year at Ezo Ag is wrapping up. That means he has to figure out where to live next year...and that means talking to his parents...not his favorite activity. He's also decided rather late to try and find a boarding house so just finding a place to live may be a challenge. Mikage is getting her grades and will find out if her new dedication and Hachiken's tutoring has helped. Valentine's Day hits. And Hachiken actually gets an idea of what he may like to do after graduation (while one of the seniors freaks out because graduation means he officially is unemployed).

I love the animal's and Mikage's first reactions to meeting Hachiken's father, probably the funniest part of this book along with a certain character needing a little extra persuasion to take his diploma. The closing scene is also pretty good. Even though I live in Asia, the Japanese school system is pretty different so learning how they view high school and university is very interesting. Hachiken and Mikage's relationship is so cute in how honest, fumbling, and innocent they are with each other. I've been saving reading these new volumes I picked up for the end of they day as they help me unwind and usually provide a few laughs. Recommended to anyone looking for pretty clean manga and contemporary Japanese fiction.

Notes on content: No language issues that I remember in this one. No sexual content. (Some boys freak out when they realize there's a possibility they could have girls over if they move out of the dorm, but that's it.) No violence. Hachiken's father is super hard on everyone.

[Prachi · Rating 5 out of 5]

i'm almost glad I can't see any further volumes on goodreads; while this manga is among the best I've read in recent times (notwithstanding haikyuu) because hiromu arakawa (my angel, my love, my hero) is the one behind it, I think because of her father's failing health she wasn't able to devote as much time to the manga as possible? this is speculation based on her state of affairs, of course, because while the manga is perfect to me, the ending seems a little rushed, the events feel hurried. a lot of interesting and funny things happen, the changes are good. but it just feels like it could have taken longer to develop. or maybe that's just my personal gripe.

and this is irrelevant, but I simply never thought of adding mangas to my goodreads lists. tiring process though.

[J · Rating 5 out of 5]

Parting is such (bitter) sweet sorrow... With the first year coming to a close, Hachiken and classmates have to prepare for their lives as upperclassmen—including making off-campus living arrangements. After his earlier ups (Valentine’s Day chocolates from Mikage), and downs (Papa and Mama Hachiken pay a visit to campus), and a formative idea for a new business, there’s no telling how year two for Hachiken will start. With a little help from his senpai Ookawa, however, we know it begins with a bang! Another fantastic volume, but with the series ending in Japan with the 15th tankōbon, it seems unlikely that we will see all three years of Hachiken’s studies at Ooezo Agricultural High.

[The Loco Librarian · Rating 3 out of 5]

A middle schooler takes his first job on the summer holiday, going to a friend's farm and helping them. He learns about the circle of life--both death and life, butchering his first deer and watching a cow give birth for the first time.

TW: 53 - "I'll pull out your guts through your butthole, pal!"; 64 - a girl invites the MC to her house for the summer and says her parens won't be around; 88 - "keep your hands off!" in reguards to a father's daughter, 117 "cow shit on my baseballs", 119 "dammit"; 121 "sonuva"; 131f shows butchering a deer with a knife; 171 "dumb ass", 175 "shows a cow giving birth"

[Donna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hachiken decides to start a business to help all his friends reach their goals.

I love this series! Who would have thought the end of the first year at an agricultural school could be so interesting. Students have to decide whether to stay in the dorm for the next year or move out, Hachiken gets valentine's day chocolates from Mikage, and Hachiken confronts his father. More, please!

[Christine]

Hachiken needs to find a place to live and convince his dad to back his new business venture.

Swearing/profanity: 1 use of damn

Sexual References: None

Religious elements: None

LGBTQ + rep: Not specified

[-moonprismpower- · Rating 4 out of 5]

By the end of this volume, Hachiken is a 2nd year student! It only took 11 volumes! How the heck are 2 more years of high school going to fit in the next 4 volumes?! Lol. I’m worried about the pacing of the rest of the story. It’s been a slow ride so far… It would be nice if it was quicker though.

[Anthony Wendel · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a lot of change in this book. Hachiken decides what he wants to do and works towards opening a business. Unfortuantely this isn't a manga where things magically work out for the main character. Strife and difficulty move forward as he continues to work towards his future.

[Sinta Zaiyan · Rating 5 out of 5]

suka dengan keputusan Hachiken... penasaran sama lanjutannya

[Marc · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ca avance doucement mais j'aime bien la direction que prend l'histoire. :)

[Nell · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Nunya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love seeing Hachiken's development as a character throughout this series. It is one of the better anime developments.

[Janet · Rating 3 out of 5]

Filling in the missing editions.

[🧸♡뀨♡🐣 · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5高一就在思考未來出路…反觀自己大學畢業半年還無所事事==

[Miguel Esteban · Rating 4 out of 5]

Al fin sé por qué se llama Silver spoon, y es hermoso ;-;. Ya en este volumen siento que se sientan las bases para el desenlace de la historia. Hachiken al fin encontró algo que quiere hacer ;-;

[Lisandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,9 estrelas

[georgiaotaku · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hmm could’ve been 5 stars but I hate Ookawa and I wanted to scream at how many times they pushed “silver spoon” at the end there.

[The Book Dragon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hachiken's first year at Ezo Ag comes to an end and the everyone is feeling the clock tick down their time in high school. Time to start seriously thinking about your future: what you want in life and how you're going to get there.

Hachiken is finally taking a step forward and facing his future and his father. And we get a lovely moment where his father gets a redeeming moment. This entire time, we've seen his father from Hachiken's perspective: this mean hardass whose only definition of success is 'good results'. But here we see that his father does actually see his son and is looking a lot closer than we thought. Before, Hachiken was just taking the easy way out, and his father could see that. 'If you're not going to put in effort, you can't complain when things don't go your way.' That's his father's mind set. Now, Hachiken has grown enough to look his father in the eye and speak his mind. He's taking a chance and taking risks and as such, has earned his father's respect. But that still doesn't mean his father is going to let him slack off.

And the volume closes on a very inspirational message: you're not alone. There's always someone you can connect with who can come along side you and lend a hand.

This series has 15 volumes.

[machinaheart · Rating 4 out of 5]

Series Review:
Great fun, great characters, great art, what's not to love?
I really enjoy stories set in rural Japan and I do love the emphasis on agriculture as well as the thoughts on eating animals/meat. Oh, and there is a lot of food appreciation in this, it's utterly lovely though it did make me hungry quite a bit. It's a great slice of life manga that includes some unusual topics and handles them wonderfully approachable and in fun ways.
The only thing that I didn't quite enjoy as much was the romance element in it. It is in no way overpowering, but it didn't add anything to the plot for me.

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[Eressea · Rating 4 out of 5]

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