Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars!) Season One Review

Shokugeki no Souma Season One

Soma, a young aspiring chef, assists his father in a neighborhood cafe as a cook. Even though he is an excellent cook, his father much exceeds him in this regard. Yukihira Soma is then sent to Touchiki Culinary Academy in Japan after his father closes up the diner to go back to seeing the world. Soma is skeptical at first, but he soon understands that by learning from the diverse group of individuals at the academy, he would be able to catch up to his father in terms of competence.

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Food Wars looks like a fun show. It follows a pretty conventional plot style, with an aspirational hero who aspires to "be the greatest," if you get my meaning. Many of his own adventures and obstacles must be conquered to reach his objective. Each new companion and foe that appears has its own unique style and skill set as he progresses through the game.

This isn't a manga about eating. It's not a pornographic film. It's a simple love tale about the process of creating something lovely that we can all appreciate: good food. To do this, you'll need a thorough understanding of world cuisine and gourmet culture. I was impressed, and I don't say that about anime or cuisine very often, but I found myself repeating multiple times, 'These authors definitely know their stuff. Watching the show piqued my interest in trying new recipes and techniques in the kitchen.

Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars!) Season One Review

Lest I forget, aside from the fact that Yukihira Soma is a skilled cook, he’s also one to cook up really disgusting recipes that he’d force on his friends, most especially the girls. And even in this, he often competes against his father. So in one sentence, Soma and Saiba Yuichiro, his father, often hold cooking competitions to determine who the better cook is and who can cook up the worst dishes.

The confrontation and brazenness of the characters, seriousness, ferocity, love, and hatred, friendship, skill, and other props used in the series are just a perfect blend as all these elements tell tales of Soma’s life it takes a turn for the better. And funny how he’s even managed to get everyone to hate him on his first day of school; Soma is a surprisingly good cook, having served at his family’s diner with his father, right from when he was just about five years old.

And do not be fooled by the arts and episode cut-outs; Food Wars isn’t an anime where anyone fights with swords and knives! Fine, Soma has a case for his knives, and Nikumi has a shoulder strapped knife, but these are simply for cooking, not for fighting.

Believe it; several criteria make it worthwhile. These range from the story, the way it employs near-sexual arousal and feelings to denote how good food makes people feel, the semblance to a harem or hentai anime the education it provides on lots of things centered around edibles.

The musical pieces used in the anime are just on another level of excellence. They start off as easy, with little beats and vibes until you find out you’re smiling and moving your head and body to the music. But keep in mind that when talking about the music being great, I mean only the opening and closing songs of the episodes in the first half of the season.

But despite all these good qualities, does that mean there aren’t faults with this anime?

That is a NO! One thing to look out for is the pretty repetitive scenes and stories despite the excellent plot twists. It almost seems like the story just seems to rock back and forth at some points and sometimes just progresses forward with the main points. There’s also the exaggerated reactions of the characters (most especially the ladies) to food whenever they’re required to have a taste of someone’s cooking.

There’s also the imagery of somewhat unnatural boobs seen in non-ecchi anime; it’s like they just have a will of their own. They move, bounce up and down like flicked jelly even when the character is still, making it look like they’re having their own separate reaction to the food.

Food Wars anime is based on Shokugeki no Souma (Shokugeki is a term used in the anime to mean cooking challenge). It was written by Yuto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun Saeki. It required the consultation of a famous model and chef, Yuki Morisaki, to help provide most of the food models and dishes presented in the series, as seen from Chapter 5. The final chapter of the series was then titled Shokugeki no Soma.

The series was licensed and published by Viz Media and was released as Food Wars: Shokugeki no Souma in North America. Since 2004, print and digital editions of it have been planned and used all over.

One more thing you’d come to realize at the end of the first 24 episodes of Food Wars is the fact that as thrilling and fun as it is to watch, certain parts of it just stress the story and all you’d want to do at that point is to just fast track and move on to the more interesting parts. Still, then you just might miss some important facts or scenes, so you just have to leave it as it is and watch it all.

All in all, it is an excellent and exciting anime, and you just can’t help but take more than just dreams of the dishes served in it away in your mind. You will always find yourself humming the musical pieces used in the first half of the Season One of Food Wars.