Manga Recommendation of the Week - "Silver Spoon"

Silver Spoon

Artist - Arakawa Hiromu

(Best known for Creating FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST) 

Genre: Comedy, School Life, Shonen, Slice of Life

Status: 2011 - Ongoing 

Hachiken-kun starts attending his new high school which happens to be in the middle of no where. He applied there to become the top of the class to get into a great college for a bright future, too bad he has no actual dreams to keep him on the right track. The school is really an agricultural school where students learn to properly take care of animals and growing crops. Hachiken-kun believes he is totally prepared for school, if he didn't get lost on the first day and memorize the wrong text book over the break. Will he find his dream job or will he be stuck in high school for ever taking care of animals at 5 in the morning?

READ:

http://www.mangareader.net/silver-spoon

Japan Relief Effort

Vaughn College's Japanese Culture Club has raised $145.00 to help with the relief effort over in Japan due to the tragic earthquake that took place in Northern Japan last month. We shall be donating the money to 'Japan Society' in Manhattan, NY. We organized an Art Exhibit at the last minute one week after Spring Break with local artists who attended Vaughn College.

-The donations will go to rebuilding Tōhoku Region of Japan.- 

Please enjoy the photos of some of the Art Work I have placed below:

For more information on the Relief Fund, please check out the website below for Japan Society: 

http://www.japansociety.org/earthquake

Anime Recommendation of the Week - "Toriko"

Toriko

Genre: Comedy, Action, Adventure

In the world where the taste and texture of food are very important, there is Toriko: a Gourmet hunter of precious foods is regularly hired by restaurants and the rich. He is a man with inhuman skills to capture the ferocious, evasive and rare animals to complete his ultimate dinner course. His current accomplice, a weak, timid person Komatsu, but who was inspired by Toriko's greatness, accompanies him on all his journeys on his quest for the course of his life. An organization that seeks to take control of the world's entire food supply increases the struggle along their adventure.


WATCH:
http://www.zomganime.com/anime/toriko