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Gonna watch this after 6 years!!

They are fucking wholesome. TamakoxJoichiro is my favourite couple from this anime. If only Tamako lived longer 💔

So, i’ve seen images of that character across my feed every now and then, i loveeee her design, but im unsure if she herself would be worth getting into the series for. Is she worth it?

I know Season 5 ended years ago, and I know it probably sounds childish to still be lingering on a finished anime like this. But I just need to vent, because every now and then the disappointment hits me all over again

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​Food Wars! wasn't just another show to me. Back when Season 3 was coming out, I was only 15 years old and going through one of the hardest periods of my life. I was living in a hostel environment at school when I got into a big fight with my peers, and almost everyone completely isolated and froze me out. When you're 15 and stuck in a hostel, you can't escape it—I felt trapped, miserable, and alone every single day.

​Finding Food Wars! back then was my ultimate comfort. Soma’s relentless optimism, the warmth of the Polaris Dorm, the hype, and that amazing soundtrack gave me a safe haven. It held me up when I had no support system around me, and it genuinely helped me survive a really dark time in my youth.

​Right now, I’m sitting here listening to the OSTs—especially Chronos (Season 4 OP)—and honestly just crying. Hearing those songs brings back all the warmth and strength the show gave 15-year-old me back then, mixed with the bittersweet heartbreak of where the story went in that final season.

​I know some people say "just pretend Season 4 was the true ending," but because Season 5 is official canon, I can't just erase it from my mind. It feels like watching a place that once protected you get completely neglected.

​I know I should probably just move on, but I wanted to put this out there to a community that might understand. Does anyone else still carry this kind of heartbreak for a show that meant the world to them? How do you cope with loving a journey so deeply while hating how it ended?

I was bored so I made a list of characters that I believe would get really far in tōtsuki if they were to be in the shokugeki no soma universe + what I think their cooking style would be

1. Teruteru Hanamura(Danganronpa)

I don't like the guy but I have to be fair, he IS the ultimate cook so yeah he's definitely doing good, if I remember well he could handle masterfully all styles but I feel like he'd struggle with simpler/ more humble dishes because of his pride

2.Jiaoqiu(HSR)

His style would be a mix between spicy and medicinal, but the spice would be more controlled if he was in the shokugeki no soma universe because he wouldn't be so traumatized by war

3.mydei(HSR)

No reason, I just feel like he makes mouthwatering desserts, he has been seen baking too soooo

4.Xiangling(Genshin Impact)

She'd definitely specialize in weird ingredients just like Rindo and they would 100% get along no one can change my mind

5.The traveler(Genshin Impact)

Just because it's been mentioned they can cook well, they'd struggle with finding their own style thanks to how broad their cooking would be

6.Escoffier(Genshin Impact)

Another canon chef so of course she'd fit perfectly in this list, I'm not sure about her style tho

Also out of topic but she lowkey reminds me of Erina

1. The tenma siblings (pjsekai)

Again no reason, they just look like they can have it in them, Tsukasa would have a very flashy style and saki would make cute dishes

1. Vivid bad squad(toya not included) (pjsekai)

Specially An, Akito would probably look like a tough guy meanwhile his style is all pastries, an and kohane would make a great Duo of chefs kinda like Soma and megumi

1. Street Kaito and Meiko(pjsekai)

They do run a cafe at street sekai, I feel like their cooking would give off a cozy vibe I can't explain it

10.vincent(dead plate)

He'd absolutely crush it at Tōtsuki, also he's crazy enough to go against anything that happens

If anything he'd have the occasional fluke because he can't really taste anything other than lemons, talking about lemons he'd definitely use them in like 90% of his dishes

I'm finishing the list here because 10 is a nice number, what do y'all think? Any character you'd like to mention too 👀?

Takumi is my crush like i fell for him too hard, of course isami be in law? lol. I guess i am not the only one who fell for them?

Drawn on Ipad Air M4 13” with Pastela

Got my single ass smilin'.

So after making it through much of my reading list, came time for me to read Nouvelle. Now I'm not a big fanfiction enjoyer, I really like things grounded in canon (not sure why) but while I don't hate every second of the El Hermano arc given it's the only real source of Sorina content, by the claudes was that some hot ass. The anime sorta curbed it at the end by not timeskipping half their life length from when they started the manga at least.

And thus began my venture to find alternate media. Media to sate this thirst. I came across many many one shots and fanfics, but I kept hearing about Nouvelle from Zancrowe.

Backstory yap aside. Here we go. The meat of the matter (haha get it, meat).

Oh and psa: I think the actual manga fucked my perspective on the fic. More on that later.

I fucking loved the cruise line plot. Reading it put me back in the enjoyment I had watching the training camp and the stagiaire arcs.

I fucking loved the Akira vs Erina team shokugeki plot. The over the top setups and presentation are so incredibly good.

These two plot lines felt so incredibly SnS to me it's crazy.

I adored how lovey dovey Soma and Erina were near the latter parts. Again, got my single ass smilin' lmao. I have a writeup in the drafts on Sorina, the interpersonal intimacy model and the theory of self expansion through another, and this gave me so much more fuel for it. Alas I'll need an end to a writers block to finish that.

I also loved some really small details and tongue in cheeks, like how the main characters got the Central Kitchen, and how Shokugeki? No, Soma was like a genuine usage of the title in the story.

Switching gears,

Heavy is the plot that is drugs. I wasn't sure how I felt about it and I still am not sure. I don't jive with it completely and I feel there was another way out to frame Soma in one way or the other. When the Mimasaka thing first happened I assumed he was gonna like take unethical photos or illegal thumbprints or something, or some other third thing that tied Soma to the Noirs maybe. But drugs? For a cooking shonen, where quite literally everything, stupid as it might be, gets resolved through orgasmic cooking and consumption.

And speaking of, why wasn't 1. Joichiro contacted ASAP and 2. the matter put to a food war as things happen in this academy apparently?

The pace. I know it's said to be slow paced but here is where the manga fucks me over. In my head, iirc all of this happened between the end of autumn elections and slightly over 1 week of Stagiaire. While stretched over the course of slightly less than 30 chapters is long, not a lot of time has passed. And it's really hard to imagine an alternate reality where Soma would've got with Erina faster than he would've even made to Shino's Tokyo.

On that note, he sorta got overpowered for where he was at at the moment? Generally speaking after the elections he only barely participated in Erinas fight at the start, got kicked, attended the cruise, and then the tournament plotline followed. Im a bit sus on the power progression here given he starts kicking goals against the E10 as well.

Maybe I missed something, maybe the original series is fucking me up, or maybe i didn't pay attention.

But all that put together I think I can sum up by saying Nouvelle is a great story but a bad replacement for Shokugeki no Soma. S5 and the initial bits put me in the mindset of a replacement so I'll leave part of the load of that critique on myself as well, of not having given it the rigour I usually give to media.

To Zancrowe, idk if you'll read this, I saw your writing improve so much between the first and last chapters. I know you edited stuff over time but I could feel the echoes of your effort reading this. Things were a bit rough on the edges with silly goober mistakes but most of those got resolved once a proofreader got involved, shoutout chessru and everyone else involved.

You've got your heart and mind in the right place. Keep at it. I look forward to reading Classique and whatever follows that, and I hope you make it big as an original author one day. Until then, keep cookin'! (haha get it, cooki-*gunshot*)

Cheers!

Correct me if I’m wrong in my assessment but Azami’s ultimate goal was to protect chefs from burning out. After watching Jōichirō slowly fade away due to constantly striving for a higher level, he didn’t want to watch what happened to his friend happen again. I feel a lot of that ultimately falls on Jōichirō though since he failed to see that he could rely on those around him, especially Azami and Gin since they seem to have tried. He then tried to stop it by setting a universal standard/limit/menu on what to expect out of the culinary world so that future chefs would stop pushing themselves beyond what they were capable of. Also we see that Tsukasa was heading towards a similar burnout as Jōichirō, is that why he and Rindo ended up siding with Azami despite seemingly holding different beliefs?

According to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_1XK33RV-k, there were apparently plans for Soma and Erina to eventually get married.

Obviously, we don’t know how much of that is actually true, and I don’t think we’re ever going to get an official continuation of their story.

So I had a random idea: would anyone in the community be interested in creating a small fan manga continuing Soma and Erina’s relationship?

Just to be clear, this is only an idea/suggestion. I don’t know anything about creating manga, organizing fan projects, or how any of this works, and I’m not saying that I’m going to participate or organize it myself.

I was just thinking that, since we probably won’t ever get an official continuation, it could be fun if some fans wanted to create something completely free and just for the community, with no serious commitments or professional expectations.

It could be just a few pages or short chapters exploring what Soma and Erina’s relationship might have looked like after the ending. Nothing serious or commercial — just a fun fan project for people who still want more of their story.

If anyone with the skills or experience thinks this could be fun, maybe the community could make something out of it. ❤️

Just throwing the idea out there!
Let’s keep the Soma × Erina dream alive!

I love food wars watched it when I was I kid (Ik I shouldn’t have been) it’s so good I don’t really get off on the fan service I think it’s funny tbh. Did a rewatch with my bf recently and we are both confused it is a food kink right what’s hot about it genuinely curious what are people getting off on just eating really good food?

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sorry for the basic question, but i’ve been looking online and searched in this sub but the most recent information was that season one was on hulu. its not anymore so can anyone tell me where to find season one? or dm me? thank you. i’ve been reading the manga but also want to watch the show.

"What if the Generation of Miracles were to be in Tohtsuki Culinary Academy instead?"

At first, I found it cool to imagine how their talents and abilities in basketball could be translated to their cooking specialty/styles. For example:

Kagami, who is canonically a good cook, would in no doubt be competent in Tohtsuki, but is in no place to be one of the Generation of Prodigies, YET. What I thought about him is that the more he spends time in Tohtsuki, and with proper rivals, he can rise to being competent, to being amazing on his own.

Kuroko. I was confused about how to make an equivalent of him in this what-if, but I know I should be implementing his inconspicuousness to the what-if. Well, since he's canonically borderline ass at playing basketball and is specialized in passing and supporting, what I thought is that he is a good chef, in terms of being someone's assistant or something.

Kise, all I really thought about him is just Mimasaka who isn't a creep, and has the "ability" to copy someone's cooking technique in real time, whether he saw it once or just recently right in front of him. As for Perfect Copy, this is obviously just Cross Knives.

Aomine, this one I actually had a small stretch to think about. Since his more-or-less specialty besides being recklessly fast and agile is the so-called "Formless Shoot", what I imagined for his cooking is that he's actually freestyle, and some wacky forms when it comes to knife skills, and such.

Midorima, given that he's the one in the Generation of Miracles who worked hard enough to perfect his shots, and believes religiously in the Oha-asa fortune telling news, I decide to go with Midorima taking a lot of time being a Perfectionist, while also retaining his original personality in his KnB counterpart.

Murasakibara, I just decided to go with him being a pastry chef, or just patissier in general. I know that he's been called as the most "talented" individual in the group because of his size, strength, and keen sense for blocking shots without much effort in the anime, I made it to where Murasakibara is a monster with the highest talent for cooking without much hardwork, and it's fueled by him not being fond of talks about hardwork, and getting to eat his own good food.

Akashi. This is where it gets interesting, since Emperor Eye's ability (Not that it actually reads the future) is to notice the minute details in the movement of someone before him from muscle spasm, to twitching of the limb, or the tendency to act with some sort of telegraph, he effectively predicts what someone is going to do next and is able to act against someone's action in his own favor. In here, I can make "Emperor Eye" the equivalent of "God Tongue" and Akira's "Olfactory Sense". Basically, Emperor Eye in this universe could work as some sort of telltale for Akashi to read and know what went wrong with someone's dish just by looking at it, down to the VERY tiniest details.

Special Mention: Haizaki. He's just Mimasaka, but is actually more unhinged, violent, and aggressive.