Silver Spoon - Seasons 1 & 2
So with the time off school I spent the last couple of days mostly binge-watching the two seasons.
First off, I liked it. I could relate to the story at times due to the time I spent in the army (early mornings, camaraderie..), and time spent working with animals - and nostalgia is a powerful drug. I also enjoyed how they had many characters and it's not like "everything always happens to the same three people", you get different things with different people. I like Hachiken's character in that he's far from perfect, and even though he's super-helpful he's not worshipped or anything (in a shounen show they always have that scene where everyone acknowledges the protagonist and go "he's so amazing" - and there's nothing like that here, though he is appreciated).
Aside from that rich girl there are no real annoying characters (didn't find her funny), and I don't think it suffered from having no real antagonist.
I enjoyed the stories that generally went nowhere, but I would have liked more "drama" or at least more details into more characters (other than Hachi, Aki and Ichiro), I sorta thought it was gonna be this show that has random day-in-the-limelight for each character and it was a shame it didn't come. I liked how they handled the Ichiro story, though.
Overall enjoyable. The last episode where Hachi remarked that most aren't going to stay in the dorms anymore hit me a lot harder because I've had to suffer that transition in both the army and in school-- and boy, does it make a huge difference. You go from a family to a company.
But the real part that hit me hard is "The End". What the hell!? Does the manga continue afterwards? Can I just keep reading that? No chance of another season?