10 Second Anime - Shokugeki no Soma - Episode 12



Souma's irregular Shokugeki ends in an irregular way.

Heh.

Well? What kind of vegetable deity is Megumi? This did not get resolved to my satisfaction.

I guess we'll just have to collect all three figurines of Megumi Megami.

 

Not surprisingly, Megumi lost to Shinomiya on technical grounds. It's not like she makes paté everyday, let alone seven varieties.

But she beat Shinomiya on sentimental grounds and just plain good old home cooking. She made a dish specifically for the alumni, using allspice to make digestion easier after all the taste testing they'd been doing for two days already.

Hinako didn't have a special coin, but a 500 yen piece registered her irregular vote.

 

Dojima didn't just save two great chefs with this little game, but nurtured a third by handing Souma a defeat to fuel his desire for victory.

Hinako and Shinomiya's relationship hasn't changed in 10 years. But she was right about his stubborn personality pushing away friends and alienating customers.

 

After all the tension with emotional highs and lows, I'm glad the epilogue brought us back to some lightheartedness with Souma and Megumi's classmates.

Yuuki slap!

Hmm.

I quite liked the juxtaposition of the three chefs in the contest, which Dojima had the sense to mix altogether. Shinomiya had that drive to achieve a pinnacle, but lost his sentimental core for his customers in preparing dishes. Japanese culture always stresses that cooking with someone in mind with your feelings for them present makes a dish taste better. That was the theme for Koufuku Graffiti last season. Dojima wanted to put that sentimental spark back into Shinomiya to move him forward towards a new goal. He had something else in mind for Souma.

 

Souma came to Totsuki with no other goal besides beating his dad at cooking. But the world is a much larger place than the Yukihira kitchen, no matter how good a chef his dad is. Souma's desire for winning Shokugekis might be good while he's at school, but that fire he has needs to be applied to a greater goal than that. I believe Dojima wants to stoke that fire so the school can't contain it and Souma will find for himself an avenue to direct that flame. I just hope it doesn't go down the wrong path in finding the absolute worst tasting dishes. He needs to use his skills for good not evil!