<p>If you read the message <strong>translated more literally</strong>, it is not quite so scary-sounding:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>「劇中に登場する個人名･団体名などはすべて架空のものですが、酪農については、食と命に関わるテーマとして事実に基づいて表現を心がけています。モデルとなった場所や施設を訪問する行為は、動物の疫病を引き起こす等の原因ともなりえる危険な行為です。」</p>
<p>&quot;All personal names and organizations that appear in this program are fictional, however, regarding dairy farms, [we are] committed to representing themes about food and life based on reality. Visiting the location or facilities used as models is a dangerous act which may result in contracting an epidemic [from] animals, among other things.&quot;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This is <strong>a simple legal disclaimer</strong> for the animation company to cover themselves from anyone suing as a result of visiting the location and somehow catching a disease or any other number of &quot;other&quot; things they might do while there.</p>
<p><strong>The model</strong> of <em>Silver Spoon</em>'s fictional 大蝦夷農業高等学校 (<em>Ooezo Nougyou Koutou Gakkou</em> = Ooezo Agricultural High School) is the real-life <strong>Hokkaido University</strong>.  This is clear because:</p>
<ol>
<li>「蝦夷」(<em>ezo</em>, more frequently written in <em>katakana</em> as 「エゾ」) is the traditional word for &quot;Hokkaido&quot;. For example, エゾモモンガ　[<em>ezo momonga</em>] is the flying squirrel native to Hokkaido and エゾシカ [<em>ezo shika</em>] is the  deer native to Hokkaido.</li>
<li>Hokkaido University was founded under its prior name of 札幌農学校 (<em>Sapporo Nougakkou</em> = Sapporo Agricultural School), and</li>
<li>The <em>Silver Spoon</em> ending theme shows the characters walking along the <a href="https://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/about/facilities/gardens-and-parks/poplar-avenue-both-old-and-new/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">ポプラ並木</a> (<em>Popura Namiki</em> = Poplar Avenue) which is Hokkaido University's most famous attraction.</li>
</ol>
<p>Hokkaido University is one of the top-ranked national universities of Japan and is <strong>one of the main tourist attractions of Hokkaido</strong> prefecture. Now the university includes many other majors, but the major in Agricultural Science is still a main feature of the university, and large portions of the campus are covered in farm fields, including cows, sheep, horses, dogs, and plants. The fact that the campus contains lots of farmland and is home to livestock is not a deterrent; rather, <strong><a href="https://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/about/visitors-access-maps/sapporo-campus-map/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">tourism is encouraged</a></strong>. Not only do countless Japanese tourists, foreign tourists, and Japanese school groups visit the campus every year for sightseeing, the campus opens its doors to the public throughout the year with 北大際 (<em>HokuDaiSai</em>, the four-day annual school festival), エルムの森 (<em>Erumu no Mori</em> = Elm Forest) cafe (designed more for tourists than for students since students frequent the cheaper cafeterias), and public lectures. In order to view the Poplar Avenue and the <a href="http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/%7Ehashi-sculp/Museum/4hokudai/232/232.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">bust of Inazo Nitobe</a> statue next to it, it is <a href="http://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/maps/?p=sapporo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">impossible not to walk past one of the farm areas</a> of campus. Children (and adults!) enjoy watching the sheep grazing just to the right of Poplar Avenue.</p>
<p><em>Silver Spoon</em> is <strong>not discouraging fans from making a pilgrimage</strong> to Hokkaido University and is <strong>not warning that fans will <em>likely</em> contract a disease</strong> from the animals.</p>
<p>Since I lived in the international student dorm of Hokkaido University, I walked through a farm plot every day to get to class. Each time that I flew to the U.S. and went through Immigration, I needed to declare that, yes, &quot;<a href="http://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/sample-declaration-form" rel="nofollow noreferrer">I am bringing soil or have been on a farm/ranch/pasture</a>&quot;  since it is <a href="https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/955/%7E/importing-soil-into-the-united-states" rel="nofollow noreferrer">illegal to bring foreign soil</a> into the country, but when I handed in my Declaration Form and mentioned that I was an international student at an agricultural university, I was simply waved on by with no concern by the officials. Walking through the farm areas of campus and seeing the livestock in close proximity is not considered dangerous.</p>
<p>Two asides:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>When Sapporo Agricultural School was founded as a three-year college in the early Meiji era, the students entered at around age 14. Although it was a college and they were hired by the government into prestigious official positions directly after graduating, the age at which they undertook their college education parallels the age of high school students nowadays, so <em>Silver Spoon</em> matches the real history in terms of ages of students.</p>
</li>
<li><p>It is not permitted for anyone (students or tourists) to walk along Poplar Avenue in the present day.  We can go look at it and walk a very short stretch of it, but most of it has been fenced off after a typhoon felled some of the trees; poplars are, apparently, not very wind-resistant, so it is no longer considered safe for people to walk alongside or under the trees (just in case of a strong gust of wind!). There are many Japanese who would love to be able to experience walking the Avenue like the early students of Sapporo Agricultural School got to, and the characters in <em>Silver Spoon</em> get to do.</p>
</li>
</ol>

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Referencing from chapter 74 (where Hachiken mother visits the campus and saw the warning sign in front of the school), I think the part 動物の疫病を引き起こす should be translated as "causing an epidemic amongst the animal", instead of "[human] contracting an animal disease".
nhahtdh
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seijitsu
<p><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/OdhBb.jpg" alt=""></p>

<p>Here's the subject of my question. The last screen of the second season of Silver Spoon show this text. One of the sentences is really disturbing. Translated, it says:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>Visiting the places and facilities used as models can be dangerous
  and may result in contracting diseases from the animals.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Why did they put a such worrying message at the end of this innocent anime that shows the passion of people for farming?</p>

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2015-05-06T20:59:23.197Z
I would wager it's for a similar reason to why 90% of the first couple episodes of TERRAFORMARS is black screen. Japanese regulations are much stricter so censorship and disclaimers abound. However I may be totally wrong. As for what diseases you can contract from a farm... *probably* none, but *possibly* literally anything.
mfoy_
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2015-05-06T21:04:46.537Z
The thing that is the most disturbing is the full message. It sound kinda like : "It is fiction but based on reality. In reality, diseases could kill you ! Enjoy it because fiction is not dangerous."
ReMinoer
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2015-05-06T21:22:54.703Z
Some context, in case you weren't aware: hardcore anime fans in Japan have a habit of making ["pilgrimages"](https://seichimap.jp/) to sites on which locations in anime are modeled. As such, there is a legitimate concern that fans of Silver Spoon might go to the farm on which the one in Silver Spoon was modeled and end up catching some horrific goat disease or whatever.
senshin
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2015-05-06T22:09:31.720Z
While your question about the disclaimer is a valid and acceptable question, but your question about livestock communicable diseases is off-topic for this site. Please try to amended your question to reflect this.
кяαzєя
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2015-05-08T17:43:27.550Z
@senshin: Would you mind converting that into an answer?
nhahtdh
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Why is there a warning about diseases you can contract in farms at the end of Silver Spoon Season 2?
# Why is there a warning about diseases you can contract in farms at the end of Silver Spoon Season 2?
Posted by: username_0 on 2015-05-06
![](https://i.sstatic.net/OdhBb.jpg)

Here's the subject of my question. The last screen of the second season of Silver Spoon show this text. One of the sentences is really disturbing. Translated, it says:

> Visiting the places and facilities used as models can be dangerous
> and may result in contracting diseases from the animals.

Why did they put a such worrying message at the end of this innocent anime that shows the passion of people for farming?
**Tags:** anime-production silver-spoon
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I would wager it's for a similar reason to why 90% of the first couple episodes of TERRAFORMARS is black screen. Japanese regulations are much stricter so censorship and disclaimers abound. However I may be totally wrong. As for what diseases you can contract from a farm... *probably* none, but *possibly* literally anything.  
> **username_0**: The thing that is the most disturbing is the full message. It sound kinda like : "It is fiction but based on reality. In reality, diseases could kill you ! Enjoy it because fiction is not dangerous."  
> **username_2**: Some context, in case you weren't aware: hardcore anime fans in Japan have a habit of making ["pilgrimages"](https://seichimap.jp/) to sites on which locations in anime are modeled. As such, there is a legitimate concern that fans of Silver Spoon might go to the farm on which the one in Silver Spoon was modeled and end up catching some horrific goat disease or whatever.  
> **username_3**: While your question about the disclaimer is a valid and acceptable question, but your question about livestock communicable diseases is off-topic for this site. Please try to amended your question to reflect this.  
> **username_4**: @senshin: Would you mind converting that into an answer?  
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## 1 answers
### Answer by username_5 on 2015-05-09. Score: 7 | Accepted answer
If you read the message **translated more literally**, it is not quite so scary-sounding:

> 「劇中に登場する個人名･団体名などはすべて架空のものですが、酪農については、食と命に関わるテーマとして事実に基づいて表現を心がけています。モデルとなった場所や施設を訪問する行為は、動物の疫病を引き起こす等の原因ともなりえる危険な行為です。」
>
> "All personal names and organizations that appear in this program are fictional, however, regarding dairy farms, [we are] committed to representing themes about food and life based on reality. Visiting the location or facilities used as models is a dangerous act which may result in contracting an epidemic [from] animals, among other things."

This is **a simple legal disclaimer** for the animation company to cover themselves from anyone suing as a result of visiting the location and somehow catching a disease or any other number of "other" things they might do while there.

**The model** of *Silver Spoon*'s fictional 大蝦夷農業高等学校 (*Ooezo Nougyou Koutou Gakkou* = Ooezo Agricultural High School) is the real-life **Hokkaido University**. This is clear because:

1. 「蝦夷」(*ezo*, more frequently written in *katakana* as 「エゾ」) is the traditional word for "Hokkaido". For example, エゾモモンガ　[*ezo momonga*] is the flying squirrel native to Hokkaido and エゾシカ [*ezo shika*] is the deer native to Hokkaido.
2. Hokkaido University was founded under its prior name of 札幌農学校 (*Sapporo Nougakkou* = Sapporo Agricultural School), and
3. The *Silver Spoon* ending theme shows the characters walking along the [ポプラ並木](https://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/about/facilities/gardens-and-parks/poplar-avenue-both-old-and-new/) (*Popura Namiki* = Poplar Avenue) which is Hokkaido University's most famous attraction.

Hokkaido University is one of the top-ranked national universities of Japan and is **one of the main tourist attractions of Hokkaido** prefecture. Now the university includes many other majors, but the major in Agricultural Science is still a main feature of the university, and large portions of the campus are covered in farm fields, including cows, sheep, horses, dogs, and plants. The fact that the campus contains lots of farmland and is home to livestock is not a deterrent; rather, **[tourism is encouraged](https://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/about/visitors-access-maps/sapporo-campus-map/)**. Not only do countless Japanese tourists, foreign tourists, and Japanese school groups visit the campus every year for sightseeing, the campus opens its doors to the public throughout the year with 北大際 (*HokuDaiSai*, the four-day annual school festival), エルムの森 (*Erumu no Mori* = Elm Forest) cafe (designed more for tourists than for students since students frequent the cheaper cafeterias), and public lectures. In order to view the Poplar Avenue and the [bust of Inazo Nitobe](http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/%7Ehashi-sculp/Museum/4hokudai/232/232.html) statue next to it, it is [impossible not to walk past one of the farm areas](http://www.oia.hokudai.ac.jp/maps/?p=sapporo) of campus. Children (and adults!) enjoy watching the sheep grazing just to the right of Poplar Avenue.

*Silver Spoon* is **not discouraging fans from making a pilgrimage** to Hokkaido University and is **not warning that fans will *likely* contract a disease** from the animals.

Since I lived in the international student dorm of Hokkaido University, I walked through a farm plot every day to get to class. Each time that I flew to the U.S. and went through Immigration, I needed to declare that, yes, "[I am bringing soil or have been on a farm/ranch/pasture](http://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/sample-declaration-form)" since it is [illegal to bring foreign soil](https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/955/%7E/importing-soil-into-the-united-states) into the country, but when I handed in my Declaration Form and mentioned that I was an international student at an agricultural university, I was simply waved on by with no concern by the officials. Walking through the farm areas of campus and seeing the livestock in close proximity is not considered dangerous.

Two asides:

1. When Sapporo Agricultural School was founded as a three-year college in the early Meiji era, the students entered at around age 14. Although it was a college and they were hired by the government into prestigious official positions directly after graduating, the age at which they undertook their college education parallels the age of high school students nowadays, so *Silver Spoon* matches the real history in terms of ages of students.
2. It is not permitted for anyone (students or tourists) to walk along Poplar Avenue in the present day. We can go look at it and walk a very short stretch of it, but most of it has been fenced off after a typhoon felled some of the trees; poplars are, apparently, not very wind-resistant, so it is no longer considered safe for people to walk alongside or under the trees (just in case of a strong gust of wind!). There are many Japanese who would love to be able to experience walking the Avenue like the early students of Sapporo Agricultural School got to, and the characters in *Silver Spoon* get to do.
> **Comments:**
> **username_4** (2015-05-09): Referencing from chapter 74 (where Hachiken mother visits the campus and saw the warning sign in front of the school), I think the part 動物の疫病を引き起こす should be translated as "causing an epidemic amongst the animal", instead of "[human] contracting an animal disease".  
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