The story of the manga / anime Food Wars !: Shokugeki no Soma

The story of the manga / anime Food Wars !: Shokugeki no Soma

Food Wars !: Shokugeki no Soma ( Japanese :Gourmet Soma, Hepburn: Shokugeki no Soma , literally "Sōma of culinary battles") is a Japanese manga written by Yuto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun Saeki. Cook Yuki Morisaki also works as a collaborator, providing the recipes for the series. It was serialized on Weekly Shonen Jump of Shueisha from November 2012 to June 2019. Its chapters have been published in 36 volumes tankōbon from Shueisha. The manga is licensed by Viz Media in North America, which has published the volumes in digital format since March 2014 and published the first volume in print in August 2014. In Italy, the manga is published by Goen, while the rights of the first two seasons of the anime have been bought by Yamato Video and from the third season the rights have been bought from the Crunchyroll website.

An anime adaptation of JCStaff aired between April and September 2015. A second season, titled Food Wars! The Second Plate è aired between July and September 2016. The first cour of the third season, entitled Food Wars! The Third Plate , aired between October and December 2017. The second half aired between April and June 2018. A fourth season, entitled Food Wars! The Fourth Plate , aired between October and December 2019. The fifth and final season, entitled Food Wars! The fifth plate , aired between April and September 2020.

History

The series is mainly set at the Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute, an elite cooking school located in Tokyo, Japan, where only a handful of students graduate each year. THE Its students come mainly from Totsuki Middle School, but transfers are made on condition that they pass the entrance exam. The campus is a large-scale resort with many research companies (clubs), cooking classrooms and large arenas used for competitions. Accommodation varies, but the most affordable is the Polaris dormitory, where the characters must impress the dorm matron with a tasty and superfine dish, to secure residence. Totsuki also runs a chain of resort hotels, the largest of which is the Totsuki resort run by Gin Dojima, who is visited during Soma's first year in Totsuki.

The best student chefs occupy seats on the Council of Ten Masters, the school's highest governing body, in addition to the school director. Students can start one shokugeki (anime: food war), a kitchen fight with clauses on the line, with any other student or pupil. Battles fought in this way could be over kitchen utensils, research firm facilities, board membership, or even expulsion from school.

Teenager Soma Yukihira aspires to become a full-time chef in his father Joichiro's family restaurant "Restaurant Yukihira" and overcome his father's cooking skills, but Joichiro gets a new job that requires him to travel around the world. and close his shop. Joichiro must enroll Soma at the Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute, an elite cooking school where students participate in food competitions called shokugeki. She secures a place in the school, despite the objections of Erina Nakiri, the talented granddaughter of the school principal. Soma is assigned to the Polaris Dormitory where he meets other aspiring chefs, including Megumi Tadokoro. The story follows his adventures as he interacts with his peers and challenges Totsuki's students and others in shokugeki competitions. Knowing that his father was not only a student of Totsuki, but also the second seat on the Council of Ten, Soma plans to become the best in the academy.

Soma and the other first-year students participate in a cooking camp judged by the school's pupils, which expels about a third of the incoming class. Enter the Fall Classic, a competition that takes the first 60 first-year students and reduces them to eight students, who then compete in a single-elimination tournament, The Autumn Elections. The first few years then participate in week-long internships at local restaurants, as well as a large-scale Moon Festival at the school level. During the Moon Festival, Erina's father Azami takes over the school and Soma and Erina form a rebel faction to challenge the establishment. Disgruntled Council members join the Rebel Faction and with the support of Joichiro and Gin, the Rebels take on Azami's "Central" organization in a Regiment De Cuisine (Team Shokugeki). Eventually the rebels emerge victorious and oust Azami with Erina as the new headmaster.

Subsequently, Soma and the others enter their second year. Many of the Fall Classic members were promoted to the board, replacing the group of third-year graduates. Their first assignment concerns the existence of "dark cooks", those who work with criminal organizations and other VIPs. One particular organization, the "Les Cuisiniers Noirs", is led by Joichiro's former protege, Asahi Saiba, who defeated the former. Asahi infiltrates Totsuki and kidnaps Erina from the Academy, intending to marry her. To recover Erina, the trio of Soma, Megumi and Takumi participate in an invitation-only cooking competition called BLUE, organized by the World Gourmet Organization under its principal Mana Nakiri, Erina's mother. The trio meet and fight the Dark Chefs, with Soma ultimately defeating Asahi. The manga ends with Soma and Erina facing each other in BLUE's final match. Erina recognizes Soma's cooking but insists on calling it "disgusting".

In the events of the epilogue ~ Le dessert ~, after the BLUE events, Soma took an indefinite leave before taking the third year exams. During this time Erina and Hisako ask Joichiro about his past with Tamako, while Mana and Azami discover that Asahi is Azami's biological son and Erina's half-brother, leading the former to ask him to join the Nakiri family. Many years after all the Jewel Generation students have graduated from Totsuki, Soma tells Erina that she is coming home and offers her another challenge which she willingly accepts, certain that she will finally make Erina say "delicious".

The anime on TV

Crunchyroll announced that the episodes will be released in streaming  Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: Takumi's Downtown Competition OVAFood Wars! The Third Plate: Erina at Polar Star Dormitory all over the world except in Asia. The company said it will add the other three  Food Wars! Shokugeki at sum OAV at a later time.

Crunchyroll also announced that it is streaming the episodes on Haikyu !! OAD in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Turkey and Latin America. The three OADs are titled “Lev Appears!”, “VS Failing Marks” and “Special Feature! The spring tournament of their youth ”.

The fifth and final season of Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Fifth Plate,, debuted in April 2020 and covered the finale of Yuto Tsukuda e Shun saekithe original manga.

Tsukuda and Saeki posted the manga on Weekly Shonen Jump in 2012 and ended the series after a three-chapter epilogue in August 2019. Chef Yuki Morisaki is credited for collaborating on the manga. Viz Average published the manga chapters weekly in English on its app and website, and also published volumes of the manga books in English. Shueisha he also published the manga digitally in English on his own MANGA More service.

The first anime season ran for 24 episodes from April to September 2015. Food Wars! The Second Plate had 13 episodes and aired in July-September 2016.  Food Wars! The Third Plate premiered in October 2017, and the second half of the third season premiered in April 2018.  Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Fourth Plate premiered in October 2019 and ran for 12 episodes.

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