Hiromu Arakawa's "Silver Spoon" manga to spinoff to noitaminA anime series

Hiromu Arakawa's new manga series "Silver Spoon" will be adapted into an animated TV series.
The anime adaptation will run on Fuji Television Network Inc.'s "noitaminA" midnight animation slot, its official website said.
Because the second halves of "Psycho-Pass" and "Robotics; Notes" are currently airing on the slot and reruns of the one-hour "Katanagatari" series will follow in April, "Silver Spoon" will likely premiere in or after July.

Names of the production staff, voice cast members and other details have yet to be revealed.
Currently serialized in Shogakukan Inc.'s Weekly Shonen Sunday comic magazine, "Silver Spoon" follows the story of Yugo Hachiken.
An A-student, Hachiken enrolls at an agricultural high school in Hokkaido and finds himself surrounded by students from farming families. While many of his classmates are determined to pursue an agricultural career, Hachiken is worried because he has no specific goal. But as he makes concerted efforts in schoolwork and extracurricular activities, he makes bonds with his peers and learns from them.
First introduced last April, "Silver Spoon" spans six manga volumes with more than 6.5 million copies in print. The title also won the top award at the 2012 Cartoon Grand Prize.
Arakawa is best known as the creator of "Fullmetal Alchemist." The sci-fi epic manga was adapted into an animated TV series in 2003 and again in 2009, and also spawned two feature film adaptations.