Shokugeki no Soma

[Kraco]

You might be visiting a hospital next if you planned to eat Alice's bento several hours later. Keeping sushi in RT or even higher for hours doesn't sound like a good idea. She had absolutely nothing in her presentation that would deal with that problem. Even the initial cooling was only for the show. Souma's multi-compartment stainless steel thermal bento container looked like it would cost 50 bucks at the absolute minimum, most likely a lot more, so I doubt it would ever leak.

Souma won this easily and unquestionably. But I still enjoyed watching Best Girl Alice very much.

[KrayZ33]

This episode felt....weird? I can't really pinpoint it but they constantly switched between "silly" and "dead fucking serious I'm going to kill you, you fucking loser", 'twas really awkward.

I guess Souma has always been like that, but if two characters do it at once it's really difficult to take them more serious.
Alice's flashback to the past didn't convince me either. It wasn't as good as the others imho, probably because she never had a bento in her past.

Souma rocked her ass, and what a fine ass she's got. Alice is my absolute favorite in terms of character design/looks in this show.

[NeoCybercoin]

Alice is the in nr 1 spot for me. Well...shared with another character that they haven't introduced yet in the anime.

[Buffalobiian]

S2 Episode 04

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I didn't like where this episode went. It's saying that you can always add a twist and just beat someone else. It's saying that you can't have a perfect recipe from previous trials, where any further alteration will just ruin it.

edit: lol, I just watched the preview. I guess ^ is exactly what they're going for. Souma will perfect his own dish through taste-testing and Murasaki will self-destruct by trying to twist it differently.

Hayama needs to win his own duel so we can have him vs Souma again. His fragrance war is a more refreshing watch compared to assistant-kun's Umami battle.

(Seriously, half the battles are about whoever can concentrate the most umami.. have they not heard of MSG? :P )

[Munsu]

Was about to look for this thread as I just began watching this series, I'm on episode 15 of season 1. Should catch-up soon.

It's been entertaining to watch, but man is it making me hungry as fuck.

[MFauli]

Don´t really enjoy this new season anymore. It feels so rushed, and nothing has gravity. Feels more like a parody of itself. One battle per episode and it´s completely arbitrary who wins. There´s no build-up, no tension.

And yeah, the whole "more umami = better" shtick is kinda silly.

[shinta|hikari]

When the main character promises to quit the premise of the story if he loses, it makes the turnout of the match completely predictable.

Still gonna be an awesome beat down though.

Isn't it how funny how the antagonist here is named Subaru?

[Munsu]

Just caught up.

Enjoyed the first season. I'm glad some of you feel the second season feels rushed because I completely support this arc being rushed. It hurts the pacing and all the setup, but I want to get through this tournament as soon as possible as I really don't care for it. Didn't care for the last arc of the first season, and this is an extension. So let's finish it up as quickly as possible and go along to the next stage.

Also thought it was a very poor choice to eliminate all the girls from the tournament in their first match-up, what a dumb decision to make.

Furthermore, the new judges suck balls. The ones from the preliminary were much more interesting, and of course, lady judges included.

I'll also mention, I would've liked to see more actual teaching in this school, so far I haven't seen the purpose of having a school at all. Might as well simply have a privileged series of tournament and be done with it.

Lastly, they ruined the impact of having Nakiri Senzaemon around. Thought he'd be a more interesting character, but he's completely irrelevant.

[shinta|hikari]

Also thought it was a very poor choice to eliminate all the girls from the tournament in their first match-up, what a dumb decision to make.

Because women can't cook. All they are good for are foodgasms and tasting stuff men produce.

[Munsu]

Because women can't cook. All they are good for are foodgasms and tasting stuff men produce.

Well, it beats the malegasms they've been replaced by.

[shinta|hikari]

The author of this show doesn't really cook. Or gave up the pride of being able to. Some recipes just don't need gimmicks, like Buff said. It's like saying a margherita pizza would be enhanced by adding shit on top of it.

EDIT:

Oh I remember now. The reason I dropped the manga ages ago is because of this Mimasaka arc. Copying recipes by profiling? This is more unbelievable than... anything. Utter trash.

[MFauli]

Fast-forwarded the entire episode. Really boring. First you´re switching the anime to a rushed, shallow "one match per episode" format, now you expect me to care about Soma´s side story? Tough luck.

[KrayZ33]

The author of this show doesn't really cook. Or gave up the pride of being able to. Some recipes just don't need gimmicks, like Buff said. It's like saying a margherita pizza would be enhanced by adding shit on top of it.

It makes sense though, these kids aren't learning how to cook using recipes, everyone of them can cook already, they are supposed to learn and show how to create own recipes.
They might as well not be there otherwise, even if they are able to make the best margherita in the world, if they don't add anything to it, the difference in taste will be marginally better/worse.
They are basically trying to get a doctor title in cooking, you don't do that by doing "science" that has already been done.

[neflight86]

I've always been slightly puzzled by just how much scrutiny Shokugeki gets about cooking around these parts. It's almost like people are offended by how 'gourmet' cooking is portrayed in an over the top anime.

Is the problem that the show presents itself seriously? As a work of fiction (in this medium), it can't afford to be too mundane. This is plainly a shounen battle anime who's setting happens to be the creation and evaluation of foodstuffs. I don't know how it could be done any differently, for its audience, and remain true to the tone established at the beginning of the first season. Set pieces, exciting climaxes, and snobby smack-talk are hallmarks of the genre, and here have constant complaints about their use!

We have't been pirates. Or ninjas. Or hunters. But we have cooked in our lives, so we suddenly expect an exacting recreation of that? It just seems like a reaching thing to complain about. On the other hand, there hasn't been much else to discuss since this season started, due to the fast pace and pitched battle format.

[shinta|hikari]

The problem is this isn't supernatural. All the other examples you gave have magical fruits, chakra, or nen. Shokugeki has... food science. If they go that far pretending to be realistic, then at least man up to it. Sometimes simpler things are simply better.

The first season was relatively better because the recipes made sense. Now, they are just piling gimmicks on top of gimmicks, and if you actually cook the recipe, it'll be an utter mess, or irrelevant because most of the twists done aren't detectable by the human tongue. God's tongue ftw.

EDIT:
I'm not saying Shokugeki is terrible or anything. It's just personally annoying for me as someone who cooks and enjoys food a lot. It's like how Gate annoyed the shit out of Military Kraco, while I didn't know a damn thing about how choppers or jets worked.

[David75]

And they just plainly forgot the main ingredient of boeuf bourguignon last season: red wine.
They always emphasize how precision is important in cooking, which is true, but they also make huge mistakes and miss what's important at times.
But if the manga/anime help getting genius chefs 10 years from now, I'll be delighted IRL.

[Buffalobiian]

Episode 06

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The bigger the asshole, the better the win feels.

Bring on the assholes.

[neflight86]

I loved how even the male tasters were in sailor uniforms at Yukiland!

[MFauli]

This episode was as unsatisfying and disappointing as I expected it to be. There was no proper reason why Yukihira should have won this match (ofc aside from him being the "hero").

1.) So what made HIM of all people so unpredictable? He told us a bunch of bullship, but nothing that couldn´t apply to thousands of other cooks, including the Aldini brothers.
2.) Maybe it´s my lacking understanding of the English language, but ... the dish was supposed to be a beef stew. A stew is a stew. What this twat did, was to add random ingredients on top of it, passing it off as "garniture", lol. Yeah, sure, I´ll also just put a lobster on top of it as "garniture" - got nothing to do with a beef stew, but it´s fancy and delicious, so I´ll win!

Yukihira won this match from a combination of inexplicably being unpredictable and breaking the rules (as far as I´m concerned). Good job. Not.

[shinta|hikari]

What's new? Cooking and judging in this show was and is bullshit lol.

Wanna watch real cooking? Flying Witch and Amaama to Inazuma.