(L) Shokugeki no Soma [Manga]

[Sixth]

Originally Posted by LeftSeven

author should just stick with nakiri bloodline about blessing thing, adding azami as the bearer is just ruining story imo, lol

maybe as dragonosman said, this is the way to prevent azami from cheating though.

Does it even necessary when all judges in this series were unable to lie no matter what? Remember those two evil examiners at promotion exam and 3 corrupted judges? They hated Rebel to the gut yet they can't even lied or said "no".

[LeftSeven]

Originally Posted by Sixth

Does it even necessary when all judges in this series were unable to lie no matter what? Remember those two evil examiners at promotion exam and 3 corrupted judges? They hated Rebel to the gut yet they can't even lied or said "no".

of course it is, who do you think the last boss of this arc is? i know that he would objective about judging as he already did with takumi, but who know if he would be cheating,

whether it's necessary or not, the blessing itself give a purpose to make his foodgasm more overwhelming and more convinced as proof/sign for everyone see him say "yes, this delicious".

it's kinda dissapointed if his reaction in last moment is not as great as he would be as last boss of this arc.

[AP24]

Souma finished his appetizer but it's not shown. We have to wait until next week to see it.

[dragon1412]

Originally Posted by Sixth

Does it even necessary when all judges in this series were unable to lie no matter what? Remember those two evil examiners at promotion exam and 3 corrupted judges? They hated Rebel to the gut yet they can't even lied or said "no".

It's less about the results of the match and more of making Azami admit that food outside his choice is good. The end of this arc, required Azami himself to accept his ideal might not be correct, so the fastest way is to have someone who is not true gourmet by Azami standard to give Azami a foodgasm. If anything, this arc might be over immediately with this match. So in a way Azami butting in judges is not that bad, since it make the conclusion come quicker

[n0m@n]

At this point I'm just waiting for this whole thing to finish rather than looking forward to each chapter every week for this bout... The whole Tsukasa's flashback about his meeting with Azami already spoiled the outcome. It would have been interesting if they showed a flashback of Souma and Erina's plan against Takumi&Rindou in detail or something to break the whole "first serve loses" or "character with flashback loses" to make the outcome a bit vague (despite everyone knowing who would win at the end).

[Skyterror3381]

I agree. At this point, reckon people are following it out of habit, rather than wanting to know what happens next; we all know that the rebels are gonna win.

I personally thought that the flashbacks took more space/chapters than they should, leaving little space for the actual battles.

Overall, I reckon this arc is rather ‘stretched’. The first few rounds were fine, but as it progresses, too much backgrounds were added, and they kind of killed the hype of the battles, to me.

As they said: you either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.

Back on topic, wonder how soma’s appetiser will work; will it be bad (peanut butter squid lol) so to make erina’s main dish taste superb? Or is it similar to takumi’s two course dish?

[dragon1412]

Originally Posted by Skyterror3381

I agree. At this point, reckon people are following it out of habit, rather than wanting to know what happens next; we all know that the rebels are gonna win.

I personally thought that the flashbacks took more space/chapters than they should, leaving little space for the actual battles.

Overall, I reckon this arc is rather ‘stretched’. The first few rounds were fine, but as it progresses, too much backgrounds were added, and they kind of killed the hype of the battles, to me.

As they said: you either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.

Back on topic, wonder how soma’s appetiser will work; will it be bad (peanut butter squid lol) so to make erina’s main dish taste superb? Or is it similar to takumi’s two course dish?

Personally, the biggest issues i found was the stake was put too high, with the whole expulsion and close down restaurants, we knew from the start that the rebels is going to win. And the matching make easy guess who is going to won either, in the 1st bout, we have souma on 1 match, and the 2 remain matches is with no name, so win is obvious, 2nd bout = full set of E10, way too easy to guess again. when the 3rd bout is on, the remain member is so limited that we practically can know who will which match. As the matches goes on, members cut down = more predictable.

The rest is just as you said, bluntly, i just read to keep updated when this arc is over, rather than chasing chapters like was back during the Autumn elections

[MAX_COLA_POWER!]

I'm joining in to the agreement circle. Even though I've been starting to have my doubts ever since after the autumn selection started, it's been a constant bombardment of challenges without a single moment to focus on the human aspects of the characters. I know people would enjoy the human slice of life aspect of any series that wouldn't need to be seperated into bangai hens or volume sketches. Granted, I still found the stagiare and the school festival entertaining. Once Azami arrived and this whole arc began, it was downhill, to a point that, even if Tosh somehow convinced the author to take a Yabuki Kentaro route and just show uncensored fanservice for lulz, for us it would just get the reaction of, oh, finally letting Tosh run the show huh? Bout time, rather than actual enjoyment.

[Sixth]

Originally Posted by dragon1412

Personally, the biggest issues i found was the stake was put too high, with the whole expulsion and close down restaurants, we knew from the start that the rebels is going to win. And the matching make easy guess who is going to won either, in the 1st bout, we have souma on 1 match, and the 2 remain matches is with no name, so win is obvious, 2nd bout = full set of E10, way too easy to guess again. when the 3rd bout is on, the remain member is so limited that we practically can know who will which match. As the matches goes on, members cut down = more predictable.

The rest is just as you said, bluntly, i just read to keep updated when this arc is over, rather than chasing chapters like was back during the Autumn elections

Agreed, but I feel that it is more like the author's problem. I have read a manga that is heavily based on the real history and the winner of the history was pretty much determined and known if you have read the real history of the story. But the said author managed to wrote and crafted the journey to that destination so good and epic to the point you want to know how the hell the protagonist is going to win this despite that you had already knew that they will win in the end. That author is good in creating hype and anticipation for every chapter.

There is no deny that the final battle of Autumn Election is indeed vastly superior than this Rebel vs Central arc. Even cute Erina and fanservice can't save this poor written arc. At this moment, I am just reading it for the sake of reading. I am not exactly looking forward it like what I did in the past with SnS chapters.

This is supposed to be a climax for the Rebel vs Central but until now, it bored me. I think the author should end SnS after this arc because I have the feeling it will become even worse than this arc. The author is probably already ran out of creativity juice at this point.

[Skyterror3381]

Indeed, it went downhill ever since azami came along and became the antagonist. I feel that his background (revenge against the culinary world) is justifiable, but the execution (this arc) left a lot to desire. It’s possible to like or enjoy an antagonist: I personally love the Lich king and deathwing in WoW. But I can’t bring myself to even like azami.

I doubt this series will end after this arc, though. There were mentions of other countries, and if this follows the typical shounen manga, it’ll be an international competition next.

[dragon1412]

Sincerely doubt it will end after this arc, the twitter post is one thing, but a lot is mentioned for there to be more after this, specifically, the BLUE which is extremely crucial due to it relationship with Saiba, there is also the issues of others character as well, the only character developed this arc is Erina, and her only, Souma haven't even pinned his specialty yet, and the next chapter is the very 1st dish that he calle specialty.

[Mach56gs]

I personally expect Erina to be broken and somehow manipulated by her pops after this, cementing Central and forcing Soma to fight the gods tongue in one last epic bout.

Just sayin'.

[Homura7]

Calling out on the flaws is ok. That the current climax is predictable and it kinda lacks tension is true.

But saying that the whole arc was bad is an exercise of bias. It has got many flaws, but also a good amount of highs that some people here are conveniently ignoring for the sake of reiterating their thoughts in every post they write out. And I'm not saying any names.

I'm also bored and kinda want this to end soon, but I would be lying to myself if I said I didn't enjoy some things. When it comes to writing my thoughts, I always make sure to find the midpoint.

But anyway, to each its own.

[Sixth]

Originally Posted by Knighto

Calling out on the flaws is ok. That the current climax is predictable and it kinda lacks tension is true.

But saying that the whole arc was bad is an exercise of bias. It has got many flaws, but also a good amount of highs that some people here are conveniently ignoring for the sake of reiterating their thoughts in every post they write out. And I'm not saying any names.

I'm also bored and kinda want this to end soon, but I would be lying to myself if I said I didn't enjoy some things. When it comes to writing my thoughts, I always make sure to find the midpoint.

But anyway, to each its own.

Because the cons outweigh pros ( for e.g. 1 good part vs 9 bad parts)...at least for me.

[Homura7]

And this is why I still enjoy this manga despite the grievances: character development, cunning strategy and a smug protagonist.

Can we all agree Soma is one magnificient bastard, please. No matter what kind of new crazy invention he comes up with, he always manages to leave everyboy dumbfounded.

Using the God's tongue to his own interests, so nonchalantly, is a big fuck you to Central

But boy, the author this time sure ended the chapter in a way I didn't expect.

[NAJ P. Jackson]

Yeah Souma, use Erina's tongue as much as you please. Hell use her entire body if you must! Hisako even approves of it.

[LeftSeven]

azami was cucked by soma before he even could use his daughter as if using azami's own polished knife to stabbing himself. this is indeed best tactic for soma to create gourmet that he himself even hasn't reach it yet with his current skill, but of course he's still no book type and do it in his own way.

i was glad that author bring back the dinamic between soma and erina, that's best part of this manga. this chapter is fun

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Knighto

Using the God's tongue to his own interests, so nonchalantly, is a big fuck you to Central

Actually, using Erina to fine tune his dish in order to create true gourmet proves Azami's point. The big fuck you is that he ended up doing his own thing in the end.

[Homura7]

Soma is now doing as his dad wanted to tell him before he hung up the phone.

[Sixth]

Originally Posted by LeftSeven

azami was cucked by soma before he even could use his daughter as if using azami's own polished knife to stabbing himself. this is indeed best tactic for soma to create gourmet that he himself even hasn't reach it yet with his current skill, but of course he's still no book type and do it in his own way.

i was glad that author bring back the dinamic between soma and erina, that's best part of this manga. this chapter is fun

Azami: Erina, what do you think of my Dishes?
Erina: Uewwwww....Soma's Dishes are better. I think Jouichirou is the best though.
Azami: But..but I am your father.
Erina: Irrelevant.

And for this chapter, Azami is doing 101 how to bad villain cliche. I thought he would be at least act different than those generic villains and I am wrong. He was fully embraced that cliche.