10 Second Anime - Shokugeki no Soma - Episode 2



Souma meets Erina acting as his examiner to get into the prestigious cooking school. Both have their expectations challenged during their encounter.

Heh.

The story proper begins this week. At least Souma and his dad are in contact with each other, so it's not like he actually abandoned him.

 

Mr. Yukihira was grilling squid tentacles like Souma did last week. Is he trying to find the perfect terrible dish of squid because Souma almost beat his dried sardines and strawberry jam? The best cooks keep trying new things.

 

Souma is very practical. He only talked to one stuck-up kid, then immediately fought with him, before starting the entrance exam, so of course that's the guy he grabs to get an explanation on who this Erina girl is.

That is harsh! The first words out of baby Erina's mouth is that her mother's milk lacks deep flavor.

 

I guess we're going to get weird titles for people's talents like in Yakitate!! Japan. God Tongue for Erina's discerning taste. In English, even.

 

Hey, that's not real yuri. That's just using the power of yuri as a comedic veneer on taste testing new dishes in Erina's room. Yeah, okay, that does sound suggestive.

Of course Souma would have a bad first impression. You don't interrupt a couple of close friends' moment of fake yuri. That's just rude.

Souma's and Erina's relationship quickly made its broad outlines. Hisako has seen this kind of behavior before. I wonder who else has provoked Erina's embarrassed side. Souma's lazy smile on his application was just about perfect for him.

 

Erina flunked Souma's dish out of her injured pride, but it looked like her grandfather overruled her in the end. I'm looking forward to her shock at seeing him in school next week.

 

 

Geh.

Before we get to the foodgasms this week, we need to appreciate a new oujosama's contribution to the Zettai Ryouiki canon.

No twin-tail tsundere here, but she does have two hair pokey things which give a hint of one.

 

Erina's previous foodgasms, that we've seen, have all been about failures. Last week, some soup made her evoke an image of meditating under a waterfall before being clonked on the head by a jukebox. A similar non sequitur image happened this week while she envisioned relaxing in a hot spring but interrupted by a gorilla. The point of these images is that the dishes were almost there, but one little detail missing or added in totally ruined the dish for her discerning taste. For Erina, a perfect dish is supposed to be a calm, sublime experience, like how she imagined taste testing food at restaurants - she's a saint being catered to by cherubs. Well. That's not how Souma cooks.

The Yukihira style of cooking appears to be presenting a sensual orgy that slowly drives people insane with pleasure. We saw hints of that with Mr. Yukihira's fans in New York this week and obviously what happened to their customers at the diner and the unscrupulous developer last week. I can't even imagine what Souma is going to do to his classmates next episode.