Shokugeki no Soma

[shinta|hikari]

Like I said, what steps? What's a pseudo improv? You either improvise or you plan. Those are mutually exclusive. And no, "planning to improvise" doesn't count. I'll give you that Souma had prepared ingredients (which I wanna repeat Mimasaka knew about), so it wasn't completely out of inspiration, but the preparation part and thus the final dish is a product of improvisation.

What Souma did is nothing special. It's only natural to bring your best to the table. It's only natural to hide info and improvise if your opponent profiles and copies you. It's only natural to learn about the enemy before facing them, especially with valuable tools on the line. Are you saying none of the other people who defeated Mimasaka did any of this? Now that's unbelievable.

I never said (aside from that joke) that Souma would've won without knowing what he faced. What I did say is that I'm surprised no one else apparently knew what they were facing, or took measures against it. Except we know that's not true because Mimasaka explicitly stated that people do know about his trace and do take measures against it, 2 types of counters, to be exact.

Souma took the 2nd one. The show just disguised it as something else, namely experience ejaculation. I called that bullshit in my first post about it, and it still is many down the line. Souma didn't think of a way to get past the trace ability. He simply came up with an awesome dish which apparently Mimasaka failed to copy because of... reasons...

I like Buff's explanation. Mimasaka is small fry, and everyone else he defeated is small fry, including Aldini, who I'm pretty sure is well behind Souma's current self now. If Mimasaka faced one of the elite ten or even the other finalists in this contest, he would've been obliterated.