10 Second Anime - Silver Spoon S2 - Episode 7

Silver Spoon S2 - Episode 7

Hachiken goes on a date with Aki, with some help. Komaba shines as a relief pitcher, but his team doesn't make it to the National Tournament.

Hachiken's drama with the cultural festival gets wrapped up as he sees the pictures his roommate took while he was in the hospital. He remembers his frustration with talking to his father, and his father's disapproval with how he didn't take care of his health before his schoolwork. Remembering the Principal's words that it's sometimes good to run away to survive, Hachiken decides he's made the right choice in coming to the agricultural school, but gains perspective on balancing how much he wants to help with how much he can actually do. With all that hard thinking and feeling out of the way, and with getting pissed at seeing visitors get to smile at Aki in the pictures, he remembers that he was supposed to go on a date with her after the festival. Priorities, Hachiken, priorities.

Before the girls and boys have to go to their separate dorms for lights-out, Hachiken has a chance to ask Aki if they're still on for their time together. Aki's friends knows what's up, after all the "girls-talk" they had about their "date." She tells Hachiken that, yes of course, they're still on. They don't have much time for standing around happily embarrassed before the dorm monitor reminds them they have to go to sleep.

Because Mr. Nakajima is "under the weather" (from mourning the loss of all his cheese?) and the horses are tired from all the festival duties, the Principal comes to the Equestrian Club and says they have no duties for the day, but they might want to use their free time to visit the horse-themed temple nearby. Hachiken seizes the opportunity (good man) to ask Aki to go with him, but he can't tell if she's happy because she's going with him, or because she wants to see the horse-shaped placards the temple provides for patrons to write their prayers on. Also good man, Hachiken, know your place with humility...

The first hurdle to getting the temple is to make sure they go by themselves, but Tokiwa can't read the mood, and tries to tag along with them. The rest of the dorm has obviously chosen their OTP (one true pair) for this season, and overdo their assistance. Aki is indeed happy to see the horsiness of the temple, and the rest of the Equestrian Club somehow found themselves there too. Oh well, Hachiken. At least you got a bus ride alone with Aki.

But all this is just the hors d'oeuvres before the multi-episode drama with Komaba that started the season. The baseball team has high hopes of winning the prefectural championships, letting them go the National Tournament, and this fits in with what Komaba told Hachiken his dream was for the future. The Komaba farm has been having a rough time since his father passed away, and his hopes are to make it to the pros, support the farm with his income, and then retire back to the farm. But he needs to be scouted, and the best chance for that is to make his presence known on the national stage. Being the closing pitcher as only a first-year on a powerhouse team from Hokkaido shows the talent of Komaba, but he can't make it alone.

After doing well to get to the semifinals, Komaba gets called in to relieve at that bottom of the 9th, bases loaded, no outs, protecting a one run lead, which became a see-saw battle after the other team went up 3 to nothing. He dispatches the next two batters, and on the last, forces a flyout to right, but a sudden gust of wind ruins the easy catch, and their team loses. All during this tension played out on TV, Hachiken is volunteered to take care of calving cows. Another pairing of events showing that the world moves on, some things are more important than baseball, and that perhaps farming will be more important to Komaba sooner than later. Back at school, he is conspicuously absent, and Aki is looking out the window wistfully.

It's almost about time for Hachiken to make whatever is going on with the Komabas, and what the Mikages already seem to know, his business. His lessons from being the "can't say no" guy to doing what he can to help is going to get a practical application very soon.