10 Second Anime - Shokugeki no Soma - Episode 1



Translated - Food Wars (lit. Souma's Food Weapon). When Souma Yukihira's father is called away suddenly on business, they have to shutter the family restaurant and Souma is sent to Japan's most renowned culinary academy. Expect comedy, cooking action and cuisine related sensuality.

First Thoughts.

I just got done watching a foodie show with sensual reactions to good food, so do I want to watch another one? Oh yes, yes I do! We saw how SHAFT deals with girls cooking food, but this is JC STAFF, so you know we're going to have a certain spiky haired dude do something with one hand. Wait, I think I'm getting a whole bunch of titles mixed up... ahem.

 

I watched every single episode of Yakitate Japan!, so I know what culinary school oriented battles are going to look like, and that show was only about baking bread. Here, we have a father with mysterious origins suddenly leaving and placing his son in Japan's equivalent to Cordon Bleu, which only adds more to the elder Yukihira's mystique.

 

In contrast to Koufuku Graffiti, this is a man's show. That means there's going to be competition, slightly degrading fan service, and even some cruelty. I have full confidence in JC STAFF making the food glorious and the women sexy. Not only that, they don't shy away from showing men in full foodie orgasm, to hilarious effect. This is going to be a funny, sexy, gourmet action-packed ride. I can't wait for the real show to start.

 

Heh.

The father-son competition not only has a 489 win streak for the dad but for the customers too!

We first saw Souma evilly devising a terrible sounding dish - squid with peanut butter. Something like that can't make people have foodgasms too, right?

Oh no! Even bad tasting stuff can be prepared well. That's the first time I've seen peanuts and tentacle rape on the same screen. I may never look at calamari the same way again...

Souma is his father's son. Not only do they compete on great tasting dishes, but also disgusting dishes. I have to agree with Mr. Yukihira - dried sardines and jam totally beats squid tentacles and peanut butter.

 

There's a reason those mistakes are introduced, though. It's going to be a thing, of course, that Souma's failures will be the inspiration for new and interesting dishes. We saw how that applied to how he defeated some unscrupulous developers by improvising a juicy meat dish with only bacon and potatoes.

By plating juicy meat too close to mashed potatoes, he saw how the starchy food soaked up the meat flavor. Souma used his failure as his food weapon! Ha! How's that for working the title into the character hook? This is tournament battle anime, after all. Don't let the food and bacongasms fool you into thinking you're watching anything different.

 

I think that lady liked that bacon potato roast.

Her bodyguards too! I didn't need to see the fat dude trussed up in kite string, but that's comedy.

 

Next time, the real show begins, where we meet the other highly competitive characters and the rival / love interest Erina. I don't know what kind dish makes her think a falling jukebox ruins a waterfall, but I'm intrigued!