Silver Spoon (銀の匙, Gin no Saji) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa, set in the fictional Oezo Agricultural High School (大蝦夷農業高等学校, Ōezo Nōgyō Kōtō Gakkō) in Hokkaido. It depicts the daily life of Yugo Hachiken, a student from Sapporo who enrolled into Yezo fleeing from the high demands of his strict father. However, he soon learns that life on an agricultural school will be not as easy as he believed. Unlike his new classmates, he has no intention of following an agricultural career after graduating, although he envies them for already having set goals for their lives and the pursue of their dreams, unlike him.
Influenced by Arakawa's own life experience as she was raised in a dairy farm in Hokkaido, the manga was launched on the 19th issue of Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine on April 6, featured on the cover. It became one of the magazine's main features not long after.
An anime adaptation has been produced by A-1 Pictures; its first season started airing on July 11, 2013 on Fuji TV's noitaminA block, and the second season will air on January 2014 also on Fuji TV's noitaminA block. A live-action film based on the manga is under production by Toho and scheduled for release sometime in 2014.