Gin no Saji

[Ryllharu]

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I apologize if this comes off as rude and abrasi- Who am I kidding? Were you even awake when you claim to have watched this?!

Vocational High School. Everyone who isn't Hachiken works on a farm. All the time. They only talk about it constantly. It's a boarding school, so they only work on their farms when they go home for breaks. That's a major plot point, because Hachiken doesn't come from a farming family, but also doesn't want to go home. He's running away from embarrassment, perceived failure to get into a good school, etc.

This is also why the pizza episode is great. Hachiken's middle school teacher came, worried that Hachiken would be having a hard time in his place of self-imposed exile. Hachiken was definitely the type of student who has too much pride, but runs away when he can't succeed. However, he threw himself into making the pizza, and his middle school teacher saw a Hachiken that was actually fitting it rather well.


Yes, these places exist. In the US they are more common at the University Level, but there are dozens of "Tech Schools" (vocational trade schools) with Agricultural programs in my portion of the state I live in alone.

In Japan, there are plenty of these schools in each of the prefectures of Japan, though the would obviously be more common further from Tokyo and on the eastern coasts where food is primarily grown.