#Tamako Inada

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This is a handkerchief that was handed out as a prize for a fair's lottery back in 2014! I ordered it and it finally came in!

I'll see if i can scan it properly on campus, but in the meantime, I'm posting this for all silver spoon enjoyers on the hellsite to see

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GIN NO SAJI (2011-2019) by arakawa hiromu

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Indies making bets on market prices

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last art of the year! merry farming everyone!

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I was tagged by @ladyoftheunderworld (thanks for tagging me! :D ♥) to describe myself as 3 fictional characters and istg it took me longer to choose 3 characters than to make the gifs. 

I went with Shirley Crain from The Haunting of Hill House (I like her a lot and I identify with her so much and then I found out that a lot of people hate her so idk what that says about me but here we are, I’ll defend her forever), Elinor Loredan from the Inkheart books by Cornelia Funke (in the movie she looks nothing like in the books but I can’t be mad because Helen Mirren) and Tamako Inada from Silver Spoon. 

I tag @gorgoneions @starsfadingbutilingeron @daphneblakess @whopooh @poorlifedecisionsemily @aelfenpath @millk-of-the-poppy (you don’t have to make gifs or post pictures necessarily, I guess each one does what each one wants lol) ♥

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“Don’t push your views on me!”

Honestly, same... and that includes human babies, in my case. Not interested and, probably, never will be so don’t expect me to be moved/touched in any way.

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okay so.... i've never watched/read gin no saji in my life. but the other night i saw a picture of tamako inada and like.... compared to the skinny characters i think the way she's drawn is too caricature-ish, but when i really looked at her i realized i actually like some elements of her design? her face has a lot of personality haha. so i took a quick stab at drawing her in my own way. supposedly she's actually not that bad of a character as far as fat anime girls go either, like she seems to have a personality other than "eats food" lol

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Know this is just fan art but more modern day set anime need sumo spin offs. Even the actual series about sumo ;)

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I've heard about good plus size girl rep in Silver Spoon with Tamako Inada. I think there's a throwaway line about how she /could/ lose the weight if she wanted but chooses not to because her energy is best spent elsewhere. I haven't watched the anime myself tho so I'd look at reviews

Ill take a peek at it thanks anon qwq

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do you know any character that goes from being slim to being chubby? or any character that was always chubby? we see yuuri getting fit for the sake of the sport, but i'd like to see someone always being chubby/going from slim to chubby. i just want to see more chubby characters. P.S. don't rush with answer for this, rest well, sleep well, care for yourself <3

You’re sweet anon, thank you ❤

It’s sadly not a very common trope. As for being slim in the past and then gaining and keeping the weight, I can only think of two examples.

There’s Inko Midoriya, the mum of the main character of My Hero Academia. She is slim in all the flashbacks and chubby in the present.

And Ken Miyamae from Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, who gains weight whenever he’s around his very stressful co-worker. He’s currently chubby.

Chubby characters that stay chubby that come to mind:

Yuuya Sera, Yoshinobu Kubota and Mario from Sakamoto Desu Ga?

Chieko from Princess Jellyfish

Jasminka Antonenko from Little Witch Academia

The entire Akimichi clan in Naruto, most notably Chouji (he temporarily loses the weight but gains it back)

Chouchou Akimichi from Boruto

Jerso in Fullmetal Alchemist 

Tamako Inada from Silver Spoon (also temporarily loses weight but gains it back)

Hige from Wolf’s Rain

There is Pochamani, which is shoujo about a chubby girl finding love. The thing with Pochamani though is that her love interest specifically has a thing for chubby girls. I’m saying this because I know it’s a trope that bothers many people. 

Outside of anime there’s always Steven Universe, which has plenty of chubby characters that remain as such, even amongst the main cast.

That’s all I’m remembering right now though I’m sure there’s more, even if not nearly enough. Especially in the main character department *sigh* But if my dear followers know of more characters, please help out with the list. 

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#143 - Bestower - Tamako Inada - Gin no Saji

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I suddenly realised that my next Stardew save MUST be Gin no Saji themed. I will be Farmer Hachiken of Silver Spoon Farm and my favourite thing will be math. Chestnut the horse, Vice Prez the dog, Pork Bowl the pig...

Tokiwa, Tamako & Inada the chickens...Yoshino & Nakajima the cows...Aikawa the goat? Which begs the question: which spouse is most like Mikage though? Emily has similar hair and Penny’s got the stepford smiler tendencies, but tbh I always wanted to marry Maru at some point. They’d get along; she’s smart. I’ll probably choose her just because.

Also Alex is clearly Komaba and Sebastian being a computer potato is comparable to Nishikawa re: both computer and potato. And Sam would make a great Okawa.

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Silver Spoon, Vol. 1

The title of Hiromu Arakwa’s latest series is a pointed reference to Kansuke Naka’s The Silver Spoon: Memoir of a Japanese Boyhood. First serialized in the pages of the Asahi Shimbun in 1913, The Silver Spoon documented Naka’s journey from childhood to adolescence through a series of vignettes that recalled turn-of-the-century Tokyo in vivid detail, describing first the bustle of its modern neighborhoods, and then the rustic isolation of its western regions, a contrast emphasized by one of the book’s most important events: his move to rural Tokyo. “For me to be born in the midst of Kanda was as inappropriate as for a kāppa to be hatched in a desert,” his narrator declares, viewing the country as a place of rebirth.

Yuugo Hachiken, the fictional protagonist of Arakawa’s Silver Spoon, also moves from Tokyo to the country — Hokkaido, to be exact, where he enrolls at at Ooezo Agricultural High, a small boarding school. Though his peers chose the school for its curriculum, Hachiken chose it to escape the college prep grind — cram schools and high-stakes tests — and his parents, who seem indifferent to his misery. His competitive streak remains intact, however; he assumes that he’ll be the top student at Ezo AG, sizing up his classmates’ mastery of English and geometry with all the condescension of a prep school boy in a backwoods schoolhouse.

Hachiken’s path to redemption predictably begins with a rude awakening: there’s no spring break and no sleeping in at Ezo AG, where students rise at 4:00 am to muck stalls and harvest eggs. Adding insult to injury, his cosmopolitan prejudices are challenged by his peers, who are more ambitious, motivated, and knowledgable than he is; in one of the volume’s best scenes, Hachiken’s elation turns to despair when he overhears his classmates discussing the transformative effect of somatic cell cloning on the Japanese beef market. “Are they speaking in tongues!!?” he fumes, rivers of sweat pouring down his ashen face. “Are you guys smart or stupid? Make up your minds!!”

After a series of humiliating trials, Hachiken makes tentative steps towards fitting into the community and finding his purpose. His incentive for trying a little harder — making nice with the chickens, joining the equestrian club — is, unsurprisingly, a girl. Aki Mikage is yin to his yang, a pragmatic, cheerful soul whose horse-wrangling skills, can-do attitude, and endless patience for Hachiken’s questions make her a little too saintly to be believed. Her main role in volume one is to help Hachiken overcome his sentimental ideas about farm life, encouraging him to see the farm more as an elaborate ecosystem or factory than a collection of cute animals.

This bracing dose of reality is one of the manga’s strengths, preventing the story from devolving into a string of sight gags and super-deformed characters screaming and flapping their arms at the sight of poop. Near the end of volume one, for example, Mikage invites Hachiken and fellow classmate Ichirou Komaba to the Ban’ei Racetrack to watch a draft horse pull, an outing that quickly turns somber when they stumble upon a horse funeral in progress. “Some souls are thrust into a cruel existence where there are only two options, life or death, simply because they happen to be born livestock,” Mikage’s uncle observes — a statement that makes a deep impression on Hachiken, who’s just beginning to realize that many of the piglets and chickens he’s raising will be on someone’s dinner table in a matter of months.

The racetrack episode also highlights Silver Spoon‘s other secret weapon: its terrific supporting cast. Though Hachiken, Komaba and Mikage’s more serious conversations dominate the chapter, two of the series’ most memorable personalities — Tamako Inada, a steely business major, and Nakajima, the equestrian club supervisor — make cameo appearances. Nakajima, in particular, exemplifies one of Arakawa’s greatest talents as a writer: creating visually striking characters whose goofy, exaggerated appearance belies their true natures. Nakajima has the face and disposition of a classical Bodhisattva everywhere but the race track, where a maniacal gleam creeps into his eyes, drawing his brows and lids into a state of terrifying arousal. Tamako, by contrast, looks like Tweedledee, enduring rude comments from her male classmates about her shape, weight, and brusque demeanor. She proves sharper and more ruthless than her peers, however, channeling Monica Seles in a heated ping-pong match with Komaba, and making a killing at the racetrack with carefully calculated bets.

As these comic interludes suggest, the twists and turns of Hachiken’s evolution from sullen teen to happy young man are dictated more by shonen manga convention than fidelity to Naka’s The Silver Spoon — there are 200% more jokes about cow teats and chicken anuses — but the sincerity with which Arakawa captures the emotional highs and lows of adolescence shows affinity with Naka’s writing. Hachiken’s mopey interior monologues and fumbling efforts to connect with his classmates are as authentic as Naka’s own reminiscences; both convey youthful angst without irony, embarrassment, or “the layered remembrances of adulthood” (Kosaka). But don’t worry: Hachiken spends as much time hanging out with ornery ruminants as he does ruminating, thus ensuring that volume two will also yield a bumper crop of manure gags. (Yes, I went there.) Highly recommended.

Works Cited:

Arakawa, Hiromu. Silver Spoon, Vol. 1, translated by Amanda Haley, Yen Press, 2018.

Kosaka, Kris. “A misanthropic memoir from Meiji Era Tokyo.” The Japan Times, 26 Sep. 2015, https://ift.tt/2IQRrDb. Accessed 24 Mar. 2018.

By: Katherine Dacey

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Tamako Inada from Silver Spoon

done x

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A tarot spread a friend did said I was gonna meet my soulmate on my vacations and I watched the Silver Spoon anime and met Tamako Inada, so I guess it was 100% right