Was turned off by the summary, since I hate the 'city slicker goes to the country' trope; but I ended up reading it anyway since it's Hiromu Awakawa and I don't regret it.

It's a great read, too bad I just realized it's on haitus, probably due to Arslan. Oh well, it leaves off on a spot that wouldn't make for too bad an ending anyway.

Thing with Silver Spoon, is that people seem to be forgetting that this series used to be a weekly one, compared to how Fullmetal Alchemist was originally published back in the day (a monthly one), I still think to this day that the pressure of doing a weekly series vs a monthly one is perhaps something that Arakawa couldn't fully control on her own, either.

This, with the constant sickness of one of her relatives, and her own health reasons (I mean, one of the hiatus the manga had was around the time she was pregnant)... doing an adaptation of Arslan Senki, and doing constant research for this (her own) series, WELL...

I mean, I wish the series could finally end. I think we have been in the climax (I mean, I remember it was announced that the series wasn't that far from conclusion... and the cast already graduated from high school, IIRC), for quite a few years already. I want to see Hachiken succeed with his business, and all that, but...

(Tbf, CLAMP is a whole can of worms I wish I couldn't open... because I don't think I can compare their cases with Arakawa's)

sometimes it's not the mangaka fault, it's the publishing. Whatever the reason is, this is not the first mangaka who had done this. CLAMP is also notorious for putting their manga's on hiatus for quite a long time, while making a new manga. At any rate, I read the news online and I have a feeling that they are trying to wrap the manga nicely so as not to make the ending too rushed. There's a huge possibility that we're at 3/4 of the manga already. Who knows? /shrug/

@l3RY4N Arslan Senki, he started it when he was already writing this one.

@TetsuyaLP
wait what? what new series?

Yeah fucking smart autor, start a new series before being even close to finishing the old one.

Has this series been dropped?

@Purplelibraryguy basically this, never expect manga to have even decent economic commentary. It can do emotions and philosophy well, but japan isnt a place you should expect good discussion of economic systems to come out of

ah.. i need similar manga like this with youth teen doing fun things.

@Pluveus Family problems. Her mother is sick.

Review: A "slice of culture" series with the touch of an experienced author who is good characters. The series is about agricultural lifestyle, which is far more interesting than it sounds. The author also chooses to progress time realistically, meaning the characters grow and graduate.

These new chapters are reminding me how much I absolutely adore this series. Thanks, y'all.

@topikt: I think you are simultaneously too knowledgeable and too naive. On one hand, hardly anyone involved in agriculture or manga-writing is aware that many of their problems are caused by capitalism, so you can't expect them to go around writing manga about it. On the other, if someone did do you really think it would get published in some major mainstream Japanese magazine? If the manga you imagine were written, we wouldn't be reading it.
(As to permaculture, I think it's strategically a dead end--nothing about any so-called permaculture I've seen advocated for seems culturally sustainable at all. People would get bored, try something more dynamic, that something would take over, permaculture gone. If you want change, it has to be to something most people would find better and more desirable than the status quo, something that can eat current deracinated capitalist culture; permaculture generally represents a step down for most people, so it's out.)

Oh, they decided to upload these here as well now? Cool. Thank you.

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Komaba's debt arc is annoying in that it doesn't address the root cause: The Capitalist paradigm of agriculture...
There is so much that can be said about this but much of it has been said better elsewhere, like here:
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/06/08/ten-theses-on-farming-and-disease/
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2018/06/17/agroecology-and-the-fight-against-deadly-capitalist-agriculture/

Hope Japan can produce a permaculture manga to spread the message...

@Tonnes it's a joint release with jaimini's box and they don't allow uploading their works (even if it's a joint release) to mangadex.

what happened to Chapter 124? it was there with 18 hours till release yeterday o.o

Author Prego again? I know that's what happened for FMA's hiatus.

Whatever happened to this series? Is it still on hiatus?