Tuesday, August 20, 2013

10 Second Anime: Silver Spoon Episode 6

Silver Spoon Episode 6


Out on the Mikage horse ranch, Hachiken needs to watch out for bears, deer, and overprotective fathers with hernias.

We see lots of hints of family issues this week on Silver Spoon. Hachiken wants to avoid going home so much for the summer break, he takes a part time job on Aki's family horse ranch. Aki herself seems to have an issue with the expectations of inheriting the family business. And the ever present theme of raising animals, then having to kill them and prepare them for food is shown with Porkbowl, a run-over deer, and huge roadkill with a bear. I just like the idea of using a city boy going to an agricultural trade school to learn about farming to show us other city slickers all these issues of life, death, family pressures, and how some things are the same no matter where your family lives. Well, sometimes it's hard to get a cell signal where some families live. That's different.

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