Silver Spoon (Seasons 1–2)

Silver Spoon (銀の匙, 2013) is a Japanese anime comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Yugo Hachiken enrolls at Ooezo Agricultural High School because it has dorms — and because it is about as far from the pressure-cooker prep school world he was drowning in as he could get. He had not thought through the part about the cows.

From day one, five a.m. barn duties, classmates who grew up hauling hay, and animals that have no interest in his city-boy credentials. The series is based on Hiromu Arakawa's manga — the same creator behind Fullmetal Alchemist — and carries her signature warmth: this is a story about a teenager discovering that working with your hands and caring for living things teaches things no exam ever could. Stream Silver Spoon online on iFILM.