Silver Spoon - Recommendations

• Vol: 13; Ch: 159
• 2004 - 2014

Sawaki Tadayasu and his long time friend from the village, Yuuki Kei, are finally away from home and ready to start university. They attend Tokyo's College of Agriculture, and the adventures start from day one! But that is to be expected, as Sawaki has a special ability that is inducive to adventure and glory, especially in the world of agriculture and biology: Sawaki can see, communicate, and interact with microbes! With ambitious sake-brewing upperclassmen, a sadistic postgraduate, and a clean-freak colleague, things can only become more exciting for the duo!

• Vol: 7+; Ch: 82+
• 2006 - ?

Before she became a mangaka, Hiromu Arakawa worked on her family's farm, and now she's ready to educate the world. From explaining what a typical day on a dairy and produce farm is like, to describing how harvesting machines work and even telling why milk is good for you, Arakawa is here to spread her love of farming to the nation.

• Vol: 26; Ch: 281
• 1995 - 2000

Kuze Shunpei, a high-school student, is on spring break going to Hokkaidou when he loses his wallet. Stranded in the mountains with no money and his motorcycle having run out of gas, he passes out in the snow on the side of the road. When he wakes up he finds that he's been saved and brought to the Watarai farm, a horse ranch that breeds race horses. There he meets a host of various people, ranging from stable hands to the owner and his family (which includes four daughters). Shunpei is completely unsuited for the farm life, and his city upbringing contrasts sharply with the hard labor required to help the farm out. Yet despite all this, he tries his best to become accepted.

• Vol: 14+; Ch: 304+
• 2019 - ?

In this slapstick comedy-filled biography of a cartoonist who begins cultivating new land, Yokoyama-sensei has earnestly moved to the Tokachi district of Hokkaido... Will he be able to grow delicious vegetables and make the best curry in all of Japan?!

• Vol: 3; Ch: 36
• 2014 - 2017

Freshly graduated, urban girl Minami got admitted to an ideal company -- large and famous for food products, located at the center of Tokyo. Everything was going so smoothly until she got assigned to a remote cattle farm in Hokkaido. There she must learn everything of raising cattle from scratch.

• Vol: 13
• 2011 - 2016

When the national idol Kusakabe Yuka suddenly retired from the entertainment business, it shocked the world and it devastated teenager Hata Kosaku. Kosaku was Yuka's biggest fan and her departure left him depressed. His classmates at the Tamo Agriculture School finally are able to get him to leave his room and attend his class, but to everyone's amazement, Kusakabe Yuka (her stage name) comes into the class under the name Kinoshita Ringo as a transfer student. Kosaku realizes he has the once in a lifetime opportunity to get to personally know his dream girl and, together with his group of friends, try to find out why she is here and become closer than just classmates. 

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 8+
• 2023 - ?

• Vol: 4; Ch: 21
• 2000 - 2001

A city girl from Tokyo goes to the countryside for vacation. Being delusional about the romantic country life, she wanders off on her own and meets a young, troubled farmer. Needless to say that she falls head over heels for him. She offers to help him out as a live-in part-timer. Will something sprout...?

• Vol: 4; Ch: 31
• 2020 - 2022

Sick of his job and the city, Yohei “Kuma” Sakuma has a grand plan—to start anew in the countryside and live off the land. Thing is, he hasn't told his wife yet, nor does he know the first thing about growing rice. Between crooked houses, swarms of bugs, and grueling work under the sun, the city slicker Kuma and his wife Miyu get a crash course in country life. But at the end of the day, with beer in hand as they take in the sights, they begin to understand that country life can be real hard, but real good.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 48
• 1963

Yuki is a 10-year old girl living in an orphanage, until she is adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Iwabuchi. Yuki's new stepsister Sanae is a nice girl who has a heart disease.Mr. Iwabuchi runs a construction company and he is planning to build a research center in Hokkaido. When Mr. Iwabuhi and Yuki get lost in the snow, Ryuuta saves them. Ryuuta is Ainu and thinks that mainland Japanese people are invading Hokkaido and he hates it.