Renowned manga artist Hiromu Arakawa has an unusual backstory: she used to work on a farm in Hokkaido, the food warehouse of Japan, for seven years! To her editor, Ishii, harvesting produce and milking cows are foreign concepts; but as the daughter of two multigenerational farmers, Arakawa is there to explain the challenging yet noble job of being a farmer. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

The agricultural aspects featured in Hyakushou Kizoku are supervised by Japan Agriculture Group's Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives.