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9Characters appearing in ''Manga/SilverSpoon''. Currently under construction.
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14!!Students
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16[[folder:Yugo Hachiken]]
17[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hachiken.png]]
18->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RyoheiKimura
19
20A city boy from Sapporo who enrolled in Yezo after failing to pass the entrance exams for his preferred high school. Though he believed he'd have more time to relax and study more for college, he underestimates the physical effort he has to put into just to get through a day of school.
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22* AccidentalMisnaming: Ayame can't seem to remember his name, replacing the "hachi" (Japanese for "8") with various other numbers("roku"/"6", etc).
23* AnimalsHateHim: Zigzagged. Some animals like him, such as Pork Bowl (Butadon), largely due to Hachiken feeding him. Others usually treat him with contempt, such as Chestnut (Maron) the horse.
24* TheBGrade: He achieves the best overall grades in his entire high school - but he isn't the #1 top student in any one class or subject, so he still feels like he hasn't reached his full potential.
25* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:Shares a very sweet one with Mikage after his LoveConfession is reciprocated. Bonus points for being out in the [[SnowMeansLove snow]].]]
26* ButtMonkey: People love him. Animals, the universe, and cosmic laws of probability… don't.
27* CelibateHero: Hasn't had a girlfriend before, despite what [[OutOfContextEavesdropping Tokiwa thought happened]] [[MistakenForPregnant with Yoshino]]; but over time it's subverted in regards to [[WillTheyOrWontThey his relationship with Mikage]].
28* CharacterFilibuster: Hachiken finds the need to do this whenever he has to ask for help from someone else, possibly due to his [[HeroicSelfDeprecation inferiority complex]].
29* ChronicHeroSyndrome: While he doesn't get faced with desperate life-or-death situations or anything like that, he becomes known as "the guy who won't refuse you" for his consistent willingness to help anybody who feeds him a sob story.
30* CityMouse: He's from Sapporo (the biggest city in Hokkaido) and he enrolls at Yezo thinking it'll be easy...only to realize that going to an agricultural school isn't as easy as it sounds. HilarityEnsues, though he gets used to it.
31* DamnedByFaintPraise: You are very nice Yugo, but telling Aki her grades are better than Tokiwa's is hardly a compliment.
32* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: The whole reason why he chose to come to Yezo, on the recommendation from his middle school homeroom teacher.
33* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: He is most definitely the Responsible to Shingo's Foolish.
34* HeroicBSOD: After his hospitalization and a visit [[SarcasmMode from dear old dad]].
35* HeroicSelfDeprecation. He is the best student in the school by a mile; is able to adapt quickly to the hard life of modern day farming and agriculture; is the go-to guy for managing projects and events among his peers; is the Equestrian Club's Vice President even though he has never ridden a horse before coming to the school; voluntarily tutors several school subjects to a few of his friends; and is, by far, the nicest, most compassionate, most selfless guy in school. Yet, from time to time, Hachiken still feels that he is a useless person with no personal ambition, and unworthy of being friends with the other students in the school.
36* HitMeDammit: Asks this of Tamako when she gives him some BrutalHonesty. She immediately obliges. He also asks Aki. The horse she's attending to obliges in her place.
37* ImagineSpot: His very vivid imagination leads to many of the LargeHam expressions he wears.
38* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: Thanks to his [[SarcasmMode wonderful friends.]]
39* LargeHam:
40** He gets some of the most exaggerated facial expressions ever seen in manga.
41* MagneticHero: BIG TIME. It's repeatedly stated and shown that he excels at bringing the school community together. Best demonstrated by the pizza arc.
42* ManlyTears: Practically every time he accomplishes something.
43** TearsOfBlood: Nearly every time something bad happens to him.
44* NaiveNewcomer: Starts off this way when he first arrives at Yezo High.
45* NiceGuy: Taken to absurd (and hilarious) levels. This guy seems physically ''[[TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity unable]]'' [[TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity to say no to a request]].
46* TheNicknamer: He has a tendency to give livestock names.
47* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:After hearing from Mikage that she passes her college entrance exam, he finally gives her an official one over the phone.]]
48* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Finally seals the deal with Mikage in chapter 120.]]
49* OnlySaneMan: Often curses his classmates for what he considers to be unreal stamina and screwed-up points of view. His teachers also regularly comment that his unique perspective as the only non-farmer in the school forces others to discuss and reevaluate things they took for granted.
50* PerpetualFrowner: Rarely smiles, and when he does, it's usually because he's going into OhCrap mode. He gets better as the series progresses though, as chapter 72 demonstrates. Oddly enough, the cover page for an early chapter shows him with a genuine smile so it was just a matter of time.
51* TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity: Is frequently on the "being taken advantage of" end, due to his ChronicHeroSyndrome and being a NiceGuy. It even gets {{Lampshaded}} by his classmates, who refer to him as "The Man Who Can't Say No."
52* TemptingFate: At the end of a special flashback chapter, a young Yugo finishes a school presentation with "I know a life of agriculture would be impossible for someone like me." You never know Yugo, you never know.
53* ThankYourPrey: Has a tendency to do this before butchering an animal or while eating its meat later, as a way of dealing with his qualms on the whole carnivore issue.
54* WellDoneSonGuy: He went to the agricultural school partially to get away from his parents, who have high standards for his education. He prefers to avoid going home as much as possible.
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56[[/folder]]
57
58[[folder:Aki Mikage]]
59[[quoteright:186:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mikage_92.png]]
60->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MarieMiyake
61
62A first year of Yezo and the object of Yugo's affections, she attends Yezo to prepare herself for taking over her family's farm, although her real love is working with horses.
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64* AllGirlsLikePonies: Played with. If you replace "ponies" with "absolutely massive draught horses", you're there. And, she's not the standard kind of girl generally expected to like the ponies, either. See BookDumb. Funnily enough, the only way to get her to study? Link it to horses somehow. Otherwise, it just doesn't go in.
65* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:Shares one with Hachiken, by the woods where they first met and while it's [[SnowMeansLove snowing]].]]
66* BookDumb: To an extent. She's not very good at studying. Apparently, the best that can be said is she is better than Tokiwa. Her grades are between 60-70% on most subjects. Not failing, but definitely not good enough for her to go to her university of choice.
67* ChildhoodFriends: She is good friends with Ichiro, who she has known since childhood.
68* HeroicBSOD: Played for laughs whenever Yugo is is rumoured to be involved with another girl.
69* InsecureLoveInterest: Doesn't consider herself a suitable companion for Hachiken due to the situation with her family's farm, and because she's BookDumb while he's good at academics. It's made obvious that she thinks he should go for someone smarter and with a guaranteed future. [[spoiler:Even after they start dating her instant thought when Hachiken said he wanted to discuss their future together in Chapter 122 was that he wanted to break up, and he had to hurriedly assure her it wasn't that.]]
70* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:Takes Hachiken out to the woods where they first met, and reciprocates his earlier confession.]]
71* NiceGirl: Very much.
72* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler:Finally gets together with Hachiken in chapter 120.]]
73* ObliviousToLove: Even after Yugo asks her on a ''freaking date'' she still doesn't catch on his feelings. She believes there to be so much baggage involved with dating her (her parents want her and her future husband to inherit the farm and care for the family) that she can't see anyone going there. She has the other girls notice for her though. It's also hinted it might be SelectiveObliviousness.
74** In chapter 89, when Hachiken makes an unsubtle suggestion that he'd ''love'' chocolates from her on Valentine's; she thinks that he's making a suggestion for farming cacao to set up chocolate production for the school. It only hits her after an annoyed Mika outright points it out.
75* StepfordSmiler: She's less-than-enthusiastic about the prospect of taking over the family farm, but covers this by always hiding her problems and misgivings under forced smiles and cheerfulness that most of her friends and acquaintances see through, prompting them to regard her with some skepticism and caution. This was the reason why her seniors gave the Vice Presidency of the Equestrian Club to Hachiken instead of Aki, despite her being the best rider in the club.
76** Has softened considerably [[CharacterDevelopment after her she confessed to her parents]] that she is not interested in taking over the running of the family farm; and has since been noted by many of how her smiles now are more sincere, and that her general disposition has become more optimistic.
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78[[/folder]]
79
80[[folder:Ichiro Komaba]]
81[[quoteright:181:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/komaba.png]]
82->'''Voiced by:''' Tohru Sakurai
83
84Yugo's classmate and a childhood friend of Aki's, as his family owns a dairy farm not far from her home. He's also a skilled baseball player looking to go professional.
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86* CitizenshipMarriage: Winds up contempating this [[spoiler:since as a Japanese national, he cannot purchase land in Russia.]]
87* ChildhoodFriends: He has been friends with Aki since they were kids.
88* DumbJock: True enough with the traditional subjects, though subverted in other ways, since most subjects at Yezo Agricultural are not of the 'traditional' variety.
89* EarnYourHappyEnding: After being forced by his mother and sisters to consider his own desire for a ranch of his own, he takes steps forward towards this, [[spoiler:ultimately resulting in him moving to Amur Oblast, Russia to build ties there in order to make his dream come true.]]
90* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Goal-oriented, abrasive and bad at displaying emotions, but also cares deeply for his family.
91* MistakenForRomance: Hachiken suspects he and Aki are dating when they start keeping secrets from him. [[spoiler:It's revealed Aki just knew about his family's situation, and even more so when we learn her family was a co-signer on the farm.]]
92* NumericalThemeNaming: His name shares a numerical theme with his younger sisters, with his name containing the kanji for "one".
93* TheStoic: He rarely shows more than a little frown on his face, and often refuses to talk about himself.
94** NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:Chapter 108 is an exception when he gets a text message from Hachiken showing that Yezo qualified for the equestrian Nationals. He yells out in joy to the surprise of his work colleagues.]]
95* TragicDropout:
96** [[spoiler:Drops out of school after the big baseball game to help out his family's farm, which had gone bankrupt.]]
97** [[spoiler:Recent chapters seems to be averting this, as Komaba has started taking online tutoring from Hachiken's brother in order to enroll into night school.]]
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99[[/folder]]
100
101[[folder:Tamako Inada]]
102[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tamako.png]]
103->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AyahiTakagaki
104
105An outspoken member of the 1st Year Dairy Farming Program, her family owns a large industrial farm that she wishes to take over in the future by herself.
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107* {{Acrofatic}}: Tamako's surprisingly agile, as shown in her Table Tennis skills. She is also quite the skilled judo practitioner, seen when she gave Tokiwa an impressive tackle and held him down in an arm-lock.
108* AppearanceAngst: Downplayed and Justified. While losing her characteristic obesity doesn't cause her any actual ''emotional'' distress, she openly dislikes it as she becomes weak and anemic when she loses weight, so she vastly prefers to remain her usual egg-shaped self whenever possible.
109* BeautifulAllAlong: She was completely unrecognizable after she lost a substantial amount of weight over the summer. Lasted for a couple of chapters only though.
110** Turns out this is a back and forth thing as she works during the summer and loses weight pretty easily. She comments she doesn't like it however and promptly eats to regain her weight. She also agrees to slim down and act as eye-candy for the cow event at the school festival.
111* BigBeautifulWoman: One who ''prefers'' being such. Every time she slims down she complains about feeling light-headed from not eating enough.
112* BrutalHonesty: Even though she cares for her friends, Tamako still lays out the facts that Yugo was pressuring Aki to succeed where he didn't.
113* FirstNameBasis: Almost always referred to as such.
114* MeaningfulName: As stated by Tokiwa, she looks like a giant egg. The Japanese word for egg is "tamago".
115* MoneyFetish: ''Really'' loves money and jumps at the chance to make any.
116* PerpetualFrowner: Almost never smiles, and when she does it's because [[MoneyFetish money's involved]].
117* TemporaryBulkChange: [[spoiler:Is on the verge of becoming a running gag, but never sticks.]]
118* ShipperOnDeck: Shipmates with the other girls on the '''Yugo x Aki''' ship.
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120[[/folder]]
121
122[[folder:Shinnosuke Aikawa]]
123[[quoteright:154:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/aikawa_34.png]]
124->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobunagaShimazaki
125
126Part of Yugo's work group. Wants to be a veterinarian.
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128* AfraidOfBlood: Gets lightheaded whenever he witnesses an animal dying, being dissected or otherwise butchered. In the very first episode, he even turns blue and faints after a chicken is decapitated in front of him.
129* BewareTheNiceOnes: When the gang encounters a watermelon thief in the fields during the Area 51 "dorm escape" story, he ''brutally dropkicks him in the back''.
130* {{Determinator}}: He really wants to become a veterinarian, and has worked all his life to get over his aversion to harming animals to do so.
131* EyesAlwaysShut
132* {{Fainting}}: Whenever animal harm or death is discussed.
133* IronicFear: Despite his desire to become a licensed veterinarian, he is deathly afraid of the mere sight of blood and dying animals. He struggles to get over it during the course of the plot.
134* NiceGuy: Very kind and and the first to quickly befriend Yugo on the first day of class.
135* NightmareFetishist: Subverted; he resorts to watching slasher flicks to help him get over his hemophobia, resulting in him being unfazed by onscreen gore. It [[NotSoStoic still doesn't work out well]] when one of the students replaces the horror DVD he was watching with a video of an animal dissection.
136* TheSmartGuy: His EstablishingCharacterMoment is when he casually discusses college-level agricultural genetics, biotechnology and animal cloning during class break--leading to an internal FreakOut on the part of Hachiken, who was assuming his classmates were all BookDumb hillbillies at the time.
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138[[/folder]]
139
140[[folder:Keiji Tokiwa]]
141[[quoteright:145:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tokiwa.png]]
142->'''Voiced by:''' Masayuki Shouji
143
144Part of Yugo's work group. His family owns a chicken farm.
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146* AmusingInjuries: Frequently finds himself on the receiving end.
147* BabiesEverAfter: He's a married father of two by the age of 22. (Though to be fair, this isn't too surprising given that he's now working his family's farm.)
148* BookDumb: With Hachiken's help studying, Tokiwa got the best grade on a math test that he'd ever managed in his life -- ''10%''. His midterm results were perfect in Animal Husbandry and decent in Produce -- just terrible on everything else.
149* ButtMonkey: Sometimes he brings it upon himself, though.
150* DelinquentHair: He shows up to school after summer break sporting a mohawk. [[spoiler:One class period later, he's been slapped with detention and his head's been buzzed almost bald.]]
151* GetRichQuickScheme: Comes up with various levels of these practically all the time, not always just for himself (he helped mastermind Vice President's food fund, after all). Because of this he's actually pretty spot on about [[DumbassHasAPoint obvious financial solutions]].
152* GossipyHens: Tokiwa ends up spreading rumors around the school of Hachiken and Yoshino dating after [[OutOfContextEavesdropping mistaking her complaining about getting a bump on her head as Hachiken knocking her up]].
153* MsRedInk: When he has money, he spends it on the weirdest, most useless things (see DelinquentHair, which came with a total wardrobe makeover, the works) without a second thought. Almost constantly broke thanks to not managing the dosh.
154* OddFriendship: He seems to be the only student, including Yugo Hachiken himself, to not be scared of Kazumasa Hachiken, Yugo's father. At first maybe, but once he is invited by Keiji to his family's home for lunch, he and his family really hit it off with him just by being casual, and Kazumasa in turn loved their recipes with eggs.
155* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: [[spoiler:He is able to read Shingo's notoriously bad handwriting.]]
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157[[/folder]]
158
159[[folder:Mayumi Yoshino]]
160[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yoshino_9.png]]
161->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShioriIzawa
162
163Part of the Dairy Farming Program. Wants to start a cheese-making factory.
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165* AscendedExtra: While more of a minor character rather than a throwaway extra, her role has gradually expanded, becoming part of Hachiken's inner circle and one of his closest and most trusted friend.
166* AmicableExes: Hilariously, the other girls refer to her as Hachiken's ex when asking for advice to help out Aki's obliviousness about her relationship with him, even though they all fully acknowledge that Mayumi's "relationship" was only a rumor. [[RuleOfFunny She shares her thoughts on him as if she really was his ex-girlfriend anyway]].
167* {{Blackmail}}: Applied ruthlessly to Nakajima-sensei with regards to his illicit cheese stash.
168%%* GirlishPigtails
169* MistakenForPregnant: While passing through the school pigpens, Tokiwa overhears Hachiken and Yoshino having a solemn discussion about Hachiken needing to be a man and take responsibility for the mess he's caused. Only after Tokiwa has spread the news of Yoshino's TeenPregnancy all over the school do the "happy couple" get to explain that they were discussing a piglet destined for slaughter that Hachiken had named and half-adopted as a pet. And [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensued]].
170* ShipperOnDeck: Shipmates with the other girls on the '''Yugo x Aki''' ship.
171%%* YouthfulFreckles
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173[[/folder]]
174
175[[folder:Hajime Nishikawa]]
176[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nishikawa.png]]
177->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KengoTakanashi
178
179Yugo's roommate, 1st Year Agriculture Program student. His family owns a potato farm.
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181* BerserkButton: Interrupting him while he is playing his games is a good way to piss him off.
182* BestServedCold: Okawa accidentally shuts off the power in the dorm, causing him to lose his progress in a dating sim. [[DisproportionateRetribution What transpires next is a long series of small hits to Okawa's self esteem, and then finish him off with posthypnotic suggestion to make him be attracted to an anime character]].
183* ClearMyName: Was wrongfully accused of [[spoiler:viewing porn on the internet, which resulted in having one of the dorm computers being infected with a virus. He ends up getting most people off his back by pointing he plays dating sims loaded off discs, not anything he got from the internet.]]
184* LoveConfession: Offers one to [[spoiler:Ikeda]] in Chapter 117. She [[spoiler:turns him down because his family raises chickens for eggs and not meat.]]
185* {{Otaku}}: Though you wouldn't know it just by looking at him.
186* TheEngineer: Aside from being a mech (and anime) otaku, he's also good with the hands-on stuff such as refurbishing the Ban'ei sleds (to his own taste).
187* ProudToBeAGeek: So proud that the other students can't keep him from decorating stuff like it's the cover of a {{Dating Sim}}.
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189[[/folder]]
190
191[[folder:Taro Beppu]]
192[[quoteright:259:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beppu.png]]
193->'''Voiced by:''' Nobuyuki Kobushi
194
195Yugo's roommate, 1st Year Food Sciences Program student.
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197* MeaningfulName: His given name, 太郎, means 'thick son' or 'big son'.
198* NiceGuy: He helps Hachiken out from time to time, such as doing cleaning duty Hachiken was assigned to but forgot about for one reason or another.
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200[[/folder]]
201
202[[folder:Ikeda]]
203[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ikeda_silver_spoon_7634.jpg]]
204->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaoIchimichi
205
2061st Year female Food Science Program student.
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208* CannotSpitItOut: Played with. Everyone, Hachiken included, thought the reason she acted so hesitant when meeting Hachiken was because she wanted to [[LoveConfession confess her love for him]]. Turns out she only wanted to buy some of Hachiken's bacon to make pizza.
209** Twice after that as well. Once, also with Hachiken, when she wanted to chip in some money into the Pork Fund scheme and again, this time with Nishikawa and his hot dogs, at the Pork Fund investors party. By then, both boys were prepared to react accordingly.
210* RealMenEatMeat: Subverted. Ikeda is the smallest, shyest, cutest girl in a cast full of burly {{Big Eater}}s, and the biggest meat enthusiast.
211* ShrinkingViolet: She's a very shy, very cute and very small girl. Possibly the shyest girl on campus.
212* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ikeda's love of all forms of meat products is something of a RunningGag. She apparently materializes from thin air when someone mentions the hamburgers at the school festival are all meat, no filler or binder.
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214[[/folder]]
215
216!Equestrian Club
217
218[[folder:Shin'ei Okawa]]
219[[quoteright:184:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/okawa_6.png]]
220->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TakahiroMizushima
221
2223rd Year Member of the Equestrian Club. In the Agricultural Engineering Program.
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224* AscendedExtra: Has ascended from a rarely seen character to a more supporting role, becoming the PluckyComicRelief of the Equestrian Club.
225** Ascended further after his graduation by becoming Hachiken's partner of sorts in their fledgling business venture with him acting as the "Company President" to Hachiken's "Chairman" role, cementing his role as a major character.
226* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When it comes to job-hunting, he easily gets distracted by things such as taking care of Yugo's dog, etc.
227* ClubPresident: Recently 'retired'.
228* GreenEyedMonster: Don't say or suggest you have a girlfriend in his presence. [[EvilGloating Or that your girlfriend just dumped you]].
229* HiddenDepths: While those who know him tend to view him as a shady slacker (and not without reason), he shows these as president of Silver Spoon:
230** He's shown to be exceptionally handy, creating both a portable refractory oven (which winds up providing Silver Spoon with needed capital early on) and a movable sty (which makes keeping the pasture pigs easier, particularly in the winter.)
231** He has good presence when doing interviews as president of Silver Spoon (which leads Yugo and others to call out said interviews as fradulent given their own opinion of him.)
232** He shows a decent amount of emotional intelligence and awareness, as seen when he asks if Grandpa Mikage can take care and train a pony he was given for use with Silver Spoon's operations (ostensibly because he wouldn't be able to devote the time to the task properly, but it's clear he could see how much working with the horse would mean to him.)
233* {{Jerkass}}: Expresses his envy of Hachiken's relationship with Aki by hampering him. And inciting a nearby horse to kick his phone broken.
234* MomentKiller: His pastime as of late. [[spoiler: Accidentally expanded and invoked this trope into the realm of 2-D by tripping the dorm's circuit breaker, thus ruining Nishikawa's progress in his dating sim game.]]
235* MasterOfNone: Part of the reason why he can't find a job is because he's accumulated too many useless skills to put on a resume.
236* {{NEET}}: On the verge of becoming one, [[spoiler:until he goes in business with Yugo.]]
237* NightmareFace: Good ''god'', his smile in chapter 90 is terrifying. Hilarious, ''but terrifying''.
238* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Often subverted in that what doom he brings is ''not'' always unwitting. However, nobody wittingly goes into having stuff literally blow up in their face in a way that would be downright deadly if played for drama just to score get-back points, either. When it comes to electrical goods, ovens or anything with a heating element, whatever doom he's caused... is very likely unwitting.
239* WithFriendsLikeThese: His relationship with Hachiken most of the time.
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241[[/folder]]
242
243[[folder:Mika Toyonishi]]
244[[quoteright:168:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/toyonishi_silver_spoon_4774.jpg]]
245->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AsamiTano
246
2473rd year member of the Equestrian Club.
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249* CannotKeepASecret: She offered up [[spoiler:Nakajima-sensei's illicit stash of cheese]] as prize for winning the human horse race during the school festival.
250* ShipperOnDeck: For Yugo × Aki
251* VoiceOfReason: Usually the only one in the club to state the obvious, such as Hachiken being too chicken to ask Aki out, and suggesting that Okawa concentrate on looking for a job instead of lounging around in the club.
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253[[/folder]]
254
255[[folder:Manabu Yoda]]
256[[quoteright:168:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yoda_silver_spoon_2329.jpg]]
257->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsushiTamaru
258
2592nd year member of the Equestrian Club.
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261* ClubPresident: Of the Equestrian Club.
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263[[/folder]]
264
265[[folder:Manami Sakae]]
266[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sakae_silver_spoon_550.jpg]]
267->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JuriNagatsuma
268
2691st year member of the Equestrian Club.
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271* BeginnersLuck: Won the gymkhana in her first competition. (Note that the gymkhana was specifically for beginners.)
272* {{Noob}}: Along with Hachiken, Maruyama, and Kino.
273* PairTheSpares: Gets one in chapter 122 with Maruyama after the two gripe that they had expected to find a significant other with their programs having plenty of people of the opposite sex, and Maruyama suggests that they should perhaps go out together. Since this conversation happened while they were cleaning up horse crap, [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel Sakae]] was initially quite displeased, but they go through with it.
274* ShipperOnDeck: Another one for Hachiken and Mikage. After she learns that Mikage had been avoiding Hachiken after he confessed to her, she practically tries to force her to give him a proper response.
275* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: More of the third-person type, in which she's more interested in other people's romantic life than her own.
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277[[/folder]]
278
279[[folder:Noburo Maruyama]]
280[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maruyama_silver_spoon_361.jpg]]
281->'''Voiced by:''' Yukitoshi Kikuchi
282
2831st year member of the Equestrian Club.
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285* {{Noob}}: Along with Hachiken, Sakae, and Kino.
286* MomentKiller: Along with Kino, they pulled Yugo into an early-morning snow-wrestling horseplay before Yugo can get any further progress with Aki.
287* PairTheSpares: Gets with Sakae in chapter 122 once they both realize they were hoping to find a significant other during their schooling but didn't got anywhere yet.
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289[[/folder]]
290
291[[folder:Hiroyuki Kino]]
292[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kino_silver_spoon_1773.jpg]]
293->'''Voiced by:''' Takumi Watanabe
294
2951st year member of the Equestrian Club.
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297* GreenEyedMonster: ParodiedTrope, like Ookawa, Kino is humorously very verbally jealous when Sakae and Maruyama get together while he's still single.
298* {{Noob}}: Along with Hachiken, Sakae, and Maruyama.
299* MomentKiller: Along with Maruyama, they pulled Yugo into an early-morning snow-wrestling horseplay before Yugo can get any further progress with Aki.
300----
301[[/folder]]
302
303[[folder:Miha]]
304[[quoteright:282:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/miha.png]]
305
306The newest member of the Equestrian Club who joins during Hachiken's second year.
307----
308* AllGirlsLikePonies: Something that she's embarrassed to admit, but Miha applied to the school twice all so she could get the opportunity to join the Equestrian Club and ride the horses.
309* BirdsOfAFeather: Miha is another city-kid who is the child of a Salary Man who is undergoing a Culture Clash in a new environment. Hachiken even mentions that she reminds him of himself during his first year.
310* ChekhovsGunman: It's implied that Miha is the person who wrote the thank you note to the Equestrian Club during the Cultural Festival for cheering her up from her depression.
311----
312[[/folder]]
313
314!!Teachers
315
316[[folder:The Principal (Koremichi Kitaka)]]
317[[quoteright:146:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/principal_7.png]]
318->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YujiMitsuya
319
320The very small and friendly principal of the school.
321----
322* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: While he ''technically'' has a name via WordOfGod, itt was only established at the very end of the series - for most of it, he is simply The Principal.
323* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: So small Hachiken didn't even notice him when he was giving a speech during the opening ceremony.
324* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He responds to everything with his characteristic smile and a cheerful curiosity about the ultimate outcome, often trying to make even the biggest mishap into a learning opportunity for his students even if it's just about themselves.
325* ObfuscatingStupidity: Perhaps it's because of his stature and very friendly and laid back nature, he looks like he's constantly clueless, but it has been shown many times he is very much aware what happens in his school and that he cares very much for his students. He is also a very competent and practical person to have around, being able to do many things almost effortlessly like relieving the absent Nakajima-sensei at the equestrian club, assisting in the birth of calves and making homemade soba noodles, to name a few.
326----
327[[/folder]]
328
329[[folder:Sakuragi-sensei]]
330[[quoteright:213:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sakuragi.png]]
331->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshihisaKawahara
332
333The 1st Year Dairy Program's Homeroom Teacher.
334-----
335* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Example includes letting Yugo's adopted stray on campus...since adding one more animal in the farm won't matter in the grand scheme of things.
336** Also, when he heard the rumor about Hachiken and Yoshino's [[OutOfContextEavesdropping "illicit sexual relationship"]], he calmly heard their side of the story in private first, listened to their arguments against the rumor in entirety, and punished Tokiwa for the rumor once everybody else pinpointed him as the one who started it. If it were some other manga, there would be freakouts, discussions between teachers before talking to the students involved, talk about the school's reputation, whether or not they should be suspended regardless of innocence or guilt.
337----
338[[/folder]]
339
340[[folder:Nakajima-sensei]]
341[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nakajima_5.png]]
342->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YasunoriMasutani
343
344Equestrian Club Advisor.
345-----
346* {{Blackmail}}: Is on the receiving end for illicit use of the cheese-making facilities.
347* CornerOfWoe: Happened both times draft horse racing was held in the manga.
348* {{Expy}}: Of the Buddha... [[BrokenPedestal sort of]].
349* GenderBlenderName: Episode 4 of the anime reveals his first name is Miyuki.
350* MrViceGuy: A kindly figure who dispenses sage advice and looks out for his students... and will become an asura for anything that involves cheese or gambling.
351* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[HumansAreFlawed As long as it doesn't involve]] [[MrViceGuy gambling or cheese]].
352** And in the run of the series he winds up being mostly reasonable regarding cheese, becoming Yoshino's mentor (and ultimately using his connections to help her study abroad after graduation.)
353----
354[[/folder]]
355
356[[folder:Fuji-sensei]]
357[[quoteright:171:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fuji_5.png]]
358->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AtsukoYuya
359
360Teacher in charge of the pigpen.
361-----
362* ImprobableAimingSkills: During the summer festival, a shooting booth owner [[TemptingFate expresses his relief that he choose not to open a food booth]], which are always hectic because of [[BigEater Yezo High's students]]. [[CurbStompBattle He's wrong]]. ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Dead wrong]].''
363* TheStoic
364** NotSoStoic: Even she seems to like the equestrian club's dog.
365** At least she keeps a stoic façade when bringing in a keg of beer to a party!
366----
367[[/folder]]
368
369[[folder:Todoroki-sensei]]
370->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiUtsumi
371
372The P.E. teacher.
373-----
374* {{Expy}}: Of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist's'' Alex Louis Armstrong, right down to having the same seiyuu.
375* HeroicBuild: Again, he's an Expy of Armstrong from ''FMA''. The man is ''built''... but then he rides in his truck while making the students run a marathon around the school grounds, which Armstrong likely would have run himself.
376* MusclesAreMeaningful: [[spoiler:He was able to singlehandedly defeat a draft horse when racing it. More impressive considering he dragged the sleigh, Tamako, ''and'' the other contestants who were supposed to drag the sleigh with him.]]
377----
378[[/folder]]
379
380[[folder:The Dorm Manager]]
381
382The manager of the male dorms at the school, and a frequent obstacle for the boys to overcome.
383----
384* MomentKiller: Likely part of his job description.
385* NobleTopEnforcer: Though he is a [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure chill man]], one must still deal with the consequences of breaking a rule without reasonable cause.
386* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: When Aki and Yugo talked about skipping school [[spoiler:to witness the Komaba's cows being taken away to market]], he conveniently suggested "helping out in the farm" as an excuse.
387* TheQuietOne: Though appearing more often than Todoroki-sensei, his presence is far less prominent.
388----
389[[/folder]]
390
391!!Families
392
393!Mikage Family
394
395[[folder:Aki's Mother]]
396->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FuyukaOura
397
398Aki's mother, who spends most of her time trying to rein in her husband.
399----
400* ShipperOnDeck: Loves the idea of having Hachiken as a son-in-law.
401* UnnamedParent: Only known as "Aki's mother".
402----
403[[/folder]]
404
405[[folder:Goushi Mikage]]
406->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TsuyoshiKoyama
407
408Aki's overprotective dad.
409----
410* BoyfriendBlockingDad: ''Doesn't'' love the idea of having Hachiken as a son-in-law.
411* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Takes one look at Hachiken and shouts, [[BoyfriendBlockingDad "I DO NOT APPROVE!"]]
412* PapaWolf: PlayedForLaughs with regards to how views Hachiken's relationship to his daughter.
413* PerpetualFrowner: Is almost always scowling.
414* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Hachiken-hating aside, he's the first to [[spoiler:concede to Aki's desire to study and work with horses instead of take over the farm.]]
415----
416[[/folder]]
417
418%%[[folder:Aki's Uncle]]
419%%!!Aki's Uncle
420%%->'''Voiced by:''' Takehiro Hasu
421
422%%He works at a nearby racecourse.
423%%----
424%%[[/folder]]
425
426[[folder:Aki's Grandfather]]
427->'''Voiced by:''' Mutsumi Sasaki
428
429Aki's slightly odd grandfather.
430----
431* DrivesLikeCrazy: Victims include a deer and a bear. Yugo's luggage was almost a victim of this too.
432* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Though 'reasonable' may include some loopholes to be freely taken advantage of.
433----
434[[/folder]]
435
436[[folder:Aki's Grandmother]]
437->'''Voiced by:''' Yoko Ono
438
439Aki's Grandmother. She shows up less than the other family members, but gets along quite well with her daughter-in-law (Aki's mother).
440----
441* ShipperOnDeck: Likewise thinks Hachiken would do good as a son-in-law.
442----
443[[/folder]]
444
445[[folder:Aki's Great-Grandmother]]
446->'''Voiced by:''' Tamie Kubota
447
448The very small head of Aki's household, who used to be so dirt poor that she can even eat Shingo's cooking, since she's had worse.
449----
450* MiniatureSeniorCitizen: Even tinier than the Principal. Always shown kneeling on a little cushion in her kimono, always looks like you could stick her in a backpack and wander off with her.
451* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Her reminiscing about the old days can be rather disturbing, to say the least.
452* ShipperOnDeck: And a ''lot'' more blunt about it than the other women in the family.
453-->'''Ayame''': What are they talking about?
454-->'''Great-Grandma Mikage''': How I might get a great-great-grandchild soon.
455----
456[[/folder]]
457
458!Komaba Family
459
460[[folder:Ichiro's Mother]]
461->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NaokoMatsui
462
463A farm wife who was forced to take over when her husband died.
464----
465* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: Gives one to her son Ichiro, when he states that he can't go back to Yezo High as he has to work to support the family. She angrily rebukes him, saying that she has worked herself hard to support the family for years, and asks him what he truly wants to do with his life.]]
466----
467[[/folder]]
468
469[[folder:Nino and Misora Komaba]]
470->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaiGoto
471
472Ichiro's twin little sisters.
473----
474* AlwaysIdenticalTwins: Good luck telling them apart. They mirror each other exactly in every appearance.
475* CheerfulChild: In sharp contrast to Ichiro's role as TheStoic.
476%%* GirlishPigtails
477* NumericalThemeNaming: Their names share a numerical theme with their brother, with their names containing the kanji for "two" and "three". It also doubles as ThemeTwinNaming in their case.
478* {{Plucky Girl}}s: After they were forced to sell-off their cows, the girls are determined to study hard, get into good colleges, graduate and get good jobs without Ichiro's help, so that ''they'' could look after both their mom and brother, instead of the other way around.
479* SingleMindedTwins: They effortlessly finish each other's sentences.
480* {{The Pollyanna}}s: Somehow they fit hours of farm chores into their elementary-school lives… and seem to wholeheartedly ''enjoy'' helping their mommy and brother.
481----
482[[/folder]]
483
484!Inada Family
485
486[[folder:Shinichiro Inada]]
487[[quoteright:178:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/inada.png]]
488->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukiOno
489
490A third year student in the Food Sciences Program, and Tamako's brother.
491----
492* GranolaGirl: Studies mostly improving the production and delivery of food without using chemical additives and preservatives.
493----
494[[/folder]]
495
496[[folder:Tamako's Father]]
497->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToruOkawa
498
499A shrewd businessman who is proud of his children... when he's not scared of them.
500----
501%%* {{Gonk}}
502%%* GoodParents
503%%* HappilyMarried
504* UglyGuyHotWife: Although, like his daughter Tamako, he'd probably be a real looker if he lost enough weight.
505* UnnamedParent
506----
507[[/folder]]
508
509[[folder:Tamako's Mother]]
510->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChiwaSaito
511
512Almost as shrewd as her husband, she works to support the rest of her family.
513----
514%%* GoodParents
515%%* HappilyMarried
516* MomLooksLikeASister: Mistaken for Tamako's sister.
517* UnnamedParent
518----
519[[/folder]]
520
521!Hachiken Family
522
523[[folder:Shingo Hachiken]]
524[[quoteright:194:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shingo_2.png]]
525->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KatsuyukiKonishi
526
527Yugo's reckless older brother, he was a student at UsefulNotes/TokyoUniversity before he decided to drop out to look for his path in life. He meets Yugo after he was sent on a "journey" by his mentor in ramen-making, though in reality he was fired.
528----
529* TheAce: Excels at pretty much anything he puts his mind to, from academics to motorcycling... except for cooking.
530* DitzyGenius: He acts rather spacey and selfish a lot of the time, but he was smart enough to get into Tokyo University. He's also shown to be smarter than he lets on around his father, whom he seems to detest.
531** And like Yugo, he's very good at studying and note-taking (even if his handwriting is chicken-scratch), his studying methods noticeably increasing the average grade of Yugo's entire class.
532* CoolBike: Rides one most of the time.
533* CrashIntoHello: Basically how he first met his Russian wife, Alexandra.
534* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: He is most definitely the Foolish to Yugo's Responsible.
535* LethalChef: His horrible food is the only reason the food stalls at a festival "defeat" the ravenous Yezo High students - because they're all on the ground groaning in pain after eating.
536** By the end of the manga, [[spoiler:it is explained that while Shingo's cooking skills are utterly horrid, he comes up with superb recipes that allow Beppu to open a highly successful ramen shop in Russia.]]
537* LikesOlderWomen: Outright stated that his new wife is older than him, though not by how much.
538* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: A running gag with him; at times he pops up doing odd jobs at Yezo High, working at the Mikage Farm, or even tutoring people hoping to get to Tokyo University themselves.
539* SiblingRivalry: It's quite clear that this is pretty one-sided. Shingo can be an obnoxious brat, but when he chips are down he cares for his brother.
540* TragicDropout: Subverted. He actually chose to leave Tokyo University willingly just after getting in, effectively as a "screw you" to his EducationPapa father; who had attempted to control and dictate his education when he was younger. Now he's much happier in fact, even if he is living as a {{NEET}} most of the time.
541* WalkingTheEarth: Due to being KickedUpstairs.
542----
543[[/folder]]
544
545[[folder:Alexandra Hachiken]]
546
547Shingo's Russian-born wife, and partner in his online tutoring business.
548----
549* CitizenshipMarriage: Implied to be the case.
550* UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}}: She is partly descended from them. Her singing Mugi a Cossack lullabye has the Hachiken brothers a bit unnerved as they hear the lyrics.
551* FourthDateMarriage: [[spoiler:Shingo]] married her quite soon after they met.
552* MarshmallowHell: How Yugo and Fukubuchou (Vice President) first met her in person.
553* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Implied with the mention that she's part-Cossack and that she found a -20 centigrade winter "a bit warm." When met with the titular silver spoon, she comes to the "obvious" conclusion that it must be a warning about the dangers of assassination and poisoning.
554* NiceGirl: Yugo's impression of her when they first talked on the phone, and to Misako as well.
555* OlderThanSheLooks: She looks about twenty, thirty at the most, but she makes comments about the economy during the fall of the Soviet Union, her tone implying she witnessed it personally at an age old enough to understand it.
556----
557[[/folder]]
558
559[[folder:Mugi Hachiken]]
560
561Shingo and Alexandra's daughter, and Yugo's niece.
562----
563* ClintSquint: Sports this as an infant, and on occasion as a toddler (such as when she tells Uncle Yugo that she wants to grow up to be President of Russia.)
564----
565[[/folder]]
566
567[[folder:Misako Hachiken]]
568->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukaImai
569
570Yugo's mother who tries to understand her sons the best she can.
571----
572%%* {{Housewife}}
573* OnlySaneMan: Had much of the same reactions her son did when she visited the school.
574* ShipperOnDeck: Is excited by the idea Yugo has Aki's attention on him.
575%%* StepfordSmiler
576----
577[[/folder]]
578
579[[folder:Kazumasa Hachiken]]
580->'''Voiced by:''' Mitsuru Fukikoshi
581
582Yugo's father, a well-off salary man whose high expectations and strict personality cause both of his sons to detest living under him.
583----
584* BrutalHonesty: It seems he doesn't really have much consideration for his son's feelings.
585* DotingGrandparent: At first it doesn't really hit him that he is a grandfather, but as soon as his granddaughter says Santa Claus only comes down a Chimney and that their house doesn't have one, he immediately starts researching to build one, later when she mispelled Santa as Satan, he already begins searching up Satan Costume to please her.
586* EducationPapa: To the point where both boys have had strongly allergic reactions. They've both managed to drop out of his attempts at {{Railroading}} their educational lives. If in different ways.
587* FaceOfAThug: When he visits the school, the martial arts club greet him in fear because they thought he was a Yakuza. Even the animals refuse to look at him, even ''Chestnut'' was internally terrified of him, but couldn't look away in fear of his life. It was the same when Aki had to confront him, and no sooner then he left she nearly collapsed in fear.
588* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler:He really wants what's best for his sons, but is bad at getting that point across in a kind manner. He, in fact supports Hachiken's business endeavour, if in a SternTeacher sort of way, and it's later implied that he is actually quite proud of how far Hachiken's come along in life, from being a goal-less overworked student, to someone who now has a clear vision of what he wants to do in life.]] In chapter 109, [[spoiler:after Mikage's run ensures Yezo makes the equestrian Nationals]], he decides not to meet with his son. He tells Nakajima-sensei that he knew he would only discourage his son with his perfectionist attitude.
589* {{Jerkass}}: He belittles Yugo's efforts, despite the fact Yugo had ''overworked himself so hard that he had to be hospitalized''. And not only that, he's upset that he was hospitalized over something as trivial as overworking on a school festival, instead of overworking on his studies. He cruelly points out that his "so-called" friends didn't visit him during his hospitalization (which happened during a school festival, so they obviously couldn't skip work to visit). And he didn't even ''try'' the homemade bacon that Yugo sent to him, as proof of Yugo's hard work.
590* JerkassHasAPoint:
591** [[spoiler:He was giving some valid advice when Yugo didn't have a concrete plan for his business while asking money from his parents. He just says it in blunt harshness]]. He has another one [[spoiler:when he tells Yugo that Yugo has already overworked himself into hospital once, and that he's headed that way again if he insists on trying to study, ride, tutor Aki and work on his start-up at the same time.]]
592** Yugo eventually comes to the realization that while he doesn't like his father very much he doesn't have to like him to do business with him, and his advice (especially when it comes to money) is usually very good.
593* KubrickStare: His default expression. Egads, but that thing can drill through walls...
594* MemeticBadass: In universe Yugo's schoolmates find him so terrifying that his picture is being circulated around school as a warding charm.
595* MysteriousParent: Arguably the biggest mystery of the series.
596* SlasherSmile: When the Tokiwa Family treat him to some delicious egg recipes, he gives off this sinister smile that can only be described as a monster finding a worthy meal. Remember, this is one of the few times you will ever see a smile on that man's face.
597* SmileOfApproval: When he hears that Yugo wasn't using his allowance his family was giving him, but that the account has been increasing in funds thanks to his multiple side jobs in order to help with his business venture, Kazumasa can't help but smile in pride over his son's convictions.
598* ToughLove: He does want Yugo to succeed, but uses this method to toughen him up.
599* {{Workaholic}}: At least implied.
600----
601[[/folder]]
602
603!!Animals
604
605[[folder:Chestnut]]
606
607The horse Yugo's responsible for in the Equestrian Club. Former racehorse.
608----
609* CoolHorse: Even if Yugo finds him ugly...
610* MeaningfulName: Its appearance and personality are as ugly, spiky, and abrasive as a chestnut.
611* {{Narcissist}}: Once lost a race because when it was apparent a photo finish would be needed to see who won, ''he turned to the camera to smile''.
612** It even goes beyond to a meta-level, in any panel that'll even show him [[PaintingTheMedium he instantly looks at the reader]] as if taking a photo.
613* SnarkyNonhumanSidekick: Though less on the sidekick part and more on the "you're not the boss of me" part.
614* VitriolicBestBuds: He treats Hachiken this way. With the others he's quite docile, but is quite violent with Hachiken even though Hachiken is the one who looks after him the most.
615----
616[[/folder]]
617
618[[folder:Pork Bowl]]
619
620A pig Yugo got attached to.
621----
622* CutenessProximity: During its early days. Became a fat pig later on, to Yugo's dismay.
623* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It indeed ended up in a pork bowl, among other dishes.
624* LetsMeetTheMeat: Pork Bowl and his siblings are being raised to turn into food. This causes Yugo no small distress when he becomes attached to the pig.
625* TheFunInFuneral: And eating its delicious remains will be the memorial service!
626----
627[[/folder]]
628
629[[folder:Vice President]]
630[[quoteright:214:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fukubucho.png]]
631
632A stray dog that Yugo adopted.
633----
634%%* ChickMagnet
635* CutenessProximity: Exploited by the Equestrian Club to its full advantage - they gave him a small container on his collar to accept donations.
636* NoNameGiven: Was originally referred to as 'The Vice President's Dog'. That appellation was soon shortened to 'Vice President' to Yugo's dismay.
637* TeamPet: At least that's the plan so far.
638---
639[[/folder]]
640
641[[folder:Ex-President]]
642
643A pig unwittingly owned by Okawa-senpai.
644----
645* ExtremeOmnivore: The reason why Okawa doesn't want to eat it.
646* MomentKiller: Trained well in this trope by its owner.
647----
648[[/folder]]
649
650!!Others
651
652[[folder:Ayame Minamikujou]]
653[[quoteright:225:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/234673_7733.jpg]]
654->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayuriYahagi
655
656The granddaughter of a president of the local agricultural union. She is Aki's childhood friend -- and, according to herself, rival.
657-----
658* AttentionWhore: Obsessed with having the spotlight on her. She enters riding competitions and has her horse walk them placidly like a show animal, bragging about her and her horse's loveliness, and runs out of time each time.
659* BookDumb: She was not able to get into Yezo Agricultural High. Especially considering how Tokiwa managed to get in, despite his deficiencies.
660** It's to the point that even with extensive tutoring from Shingo, she only manages to get 2s across all her subjects. That said, the improvement alone moved her homeroom teacher to tears.
661* ChildhoodFriends: With Aki. They went to elementary school together. By consequence, she has also known Ichiro for many years.
662* DumbBlonde: She's blonde and certainly not the smartest person around.
663* FullNameBasis: Towards Mikage Aki, Komaba Ichiro, and [[AccidentalMisnaming Hachiken Whatever]].
664* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She appears to be spoiled, arrogant and cocky, but in truth she's quite honest and loyal, if a bit dumb.
665* LargeHam: Even Hachiken finds her nearly insane.
666* MockMillionaire: Ayame is from a perfectly ordinary family who just got rich by some circumstances, but she acts like an arrogant {{Ojou}}, with all the associated tropes. She acts normally with her parents, though.
667* NoblewomansLaugh: Hohohoho!
668* {{Ojou}}: Subverted and parodied: she ''acts'' like one, but her family just got rich when the government decided to build a freeway on their farm. Seeing as how her family isn't even NouveauRiche, her parents at least don't let said money particularly affect how they act.
669* OjouRinglets: Her hair is styled in long Victorian ringlets. The two in the front are behind her ears and fall in front of her shoulders. This is part of her acting like an {{Ojou}}, even though her family is totally normal. Aki wonders where she goes to get her hair done like that.
670* RichBitch: Played with. She always boasts about her high status and looks down on people whom are not within her status. However, her family isn't really THAT well off.
671* SmallNameBigEgo: Thinks herself an accomplished star of the local equestrian circuit, despite having been disqualified in every competition she been shown to enter.
672** Also thinks (and proclaims loudly) that she is superior to everyone, especially the Ezonoo High School students, in every way, even though her many failings and weaknesses are thrown right back at her by her objects of supposed ridicule.
673* UpperClassTwit: Her riches and over the top behavior glaringly showcases her lack of brains, although most of the other characters are more amused than annoyed by her ditzy-ness.
674* VitriolicBestBuds: With Aki, although [[MutuallyUnequalRelation Aki doesn't realize the vitriol]]. [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther She IS still Aki's friend]], though, going so far as to [[spoiler:call her father to bring her horse and riding gear to Yezo High so she can take Hachiken's place in the school festival when she saw how distressed Aki was at Hachiken's hospitalization.]]
675----
676[[/folder]]
677
678[[folder:Toku Hachiken]]
679
680One of Yugo's ancestors, and an agricultural soldier in Hokkaido during the Meiji period.
681----
682* BeautifulAllAlong: Once she puts on Hachi's glasses, her perpetually squinted eyes finally relax. Hachi falls head-over-heels the second after. Essentially an inversion of TheGlassesGottaGo.
683* ClintSquint: Purely as a result of trying to compensate for poor eyesight.
684* LadyLooksLikeADude: The impression Hachi has of her at first.
685%%** FaceOfAThug
686%%* PerpetualFrowner
687* IdenticalGrandson: Her looks seems similar to Mr. Hachiken. [[SubvertedTrope Eventually revealed that she just squinted really hard, thanks to her poor eyesight]].
688----
689[[/folder]]
690
691[[folder:Hachi]]
692
693Yugo's great-great-grandfather. He was an escaped prisoner and ended up in Hokkaido, where he met and eventually married Toku.
694----
695* CallToAgriculture: More like "call to anywhere he won't be arrested as a runaway prisoner."
696* HiddenBadass: Seems like a weak guy at first, but he came from Soma, a region known for their wild horse handling. It comes in handy when the village horses run loose from their pen.
697* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: "Hachi" is just a name [[LineOfSightName he decided on the spot]].
698* WrongfullyAccused: He and a friend of his were sent to prison for complaining too much about his lord.
699----
700[[/folder]]
701

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