(L) Shokugeki no Soma [Manga]

[GDB]

Spoiler for Chapter 140 and beyond:

Honestly... I'm kind of hoping that Soma gets to challenge Eizan, and when Eizan tries to pull this same BS, Aizen calls him on it and forces him to win legit.

Something along the lines of, "If you cannot defeat trash, then your cooking is even lower than trash."

Because honestly, I don't see how Eizan can even remotely be part of Aizen's regime/plan if he's not actually Elite 10 material (likely due to getting rusty rather than never having had the skill in the first place).

[Sixth]

Spoiler for My thought on chapter 140:

Since Soma always does something ridiculous. I have the feeling that Soma will do this:

Soma: Eizan! Let's have shokugeki!
Eizan: Prepare to lose (I will bribe those judges for EZ victory)
Soma: You will be the judge.
Eizan: WHAT? You know that I can lie about the result.
Soma: Oh well, it didn't work well on the woman that I destroyed in the end of chapter 1.
Eizan: What woman?
Soma: My food will be so good that you will question your masculine.

[Proto]

Come on Eizan and corrupted judges, at least pretend to care instead of straight away give 0 score to the satay-guy. Stop making it looks obvious.

The entire point was to make it obvious. To dissuade other people from attempting to use Shokugeki ever again.

[Nicaea]

I'm not convinced that Eizan can't cook on the level of the E10 pr that he got rusty, that's too convenient.


But yeah, surely there must be some kind of loophole. Also, if Aizen's plan are going to succeed, he will have to separate the students who are most likely to cause trouble if they band together.

[Skaddix]

Eh Eizan had to get to the E10 there is no way he just cheated his way to the top. The Old Regime was literally cooking is everything so no bribes.

[Dysprosium]

Originally Posted by Malicre

alice is the girl you eventually settle down with and start a familly.

Are you friggin' serious?

In all honesty, only Ryouko gives off that (motherly & matured) vibe, compared to the other girls.

[Nvis]

Originally Posted by GDB

Spoiler for Chapter 140 and beyond:

Honestly... I'm kind of hoping that Soma gets to challenge Eizan, and when Eizan tries to pull this same BS, Aizen calls him on it and forces him to win legit.

Something along the lines of, "If you cannot defeat trash, then your cooking is even lower than trash."

Because honestly, I don't see how Eizan can even remotely be part of Aizen's regime/plan if he's not actually Elite 10 material (likely due to getting rusty rather than never having had the skill in the first place).

Bleach fan detected.

[dragon1412]

Originally Posted by noobita

Spoiler for My thought on chapter 140:

Since Soma always does something ridiculous. I have the feeling that Soma will do this:

Soma: Eizan! Let's have shokugeki!
Eizan: Prepare to lose (I will bribe those judges for EZ victory)
Soma: You will be the judge.
Eizan: WHAT? You know that I can lie about the result.
Soma: Oh well, it didn't work well on the woman that I destroyed in the end of chapter 1.
Eizan: What woman?
Soma: My food will be so good that you will question your masculine.

It's strangely how i could see this happening

Spoiler for my thought about 140:

No matter how we see it, Eizan is setup to be the 1st to fall. So now there are 3 route i can think of
1. Eizan try to Hjack the judge, Rindou or some other member of Elite 10 or Azami taste test believe Eizan didn't deserve to be part of them, kicked him out
2. Flower scenario
3. Grandpa Nakiri interject, as Azami is only academy director, not owning any other of the Nakiri Empire thus allowed him to Interject with actual Judge

- 1 more scenario might happen is that Dojima or Saiba crash the game and challege Azami him self, though this is unlikely

[Dysprosium]

Originally Posted by Skaddix

Eh Eizan had to get to the E10 there is no way he just cheated his way to the top. The Old Regime was literally cooking is everything so no bribes.

Yeah, its quite apparent he knows how to cook.

He wants to remove [possibly] the only tool/method to revolt against the current regime.

With this, the students will think twice about issuing a Shokugeki against them [the E10].

[Sixth]

Originally Posted by Proto

The entire point was to make it obvious. To dissuade other people from attempting to use Shokugeki ever again.

Well i would prefer they to chose a better way to dissuade others like overwhelming victories to the point that no one dare to challenge them.

Current Eizan's method just put all of them in bad light.

So Rindou, is this what you want?

[Dysprosium]

Originally Posted by Mach56gs

And the two authorities (Elite 10/Central and Aizen) are the ones who are instigating it.

This seems to be a real problem..... Didn't think it would be that corrupt. So how the heck is Souma and CO. going to resist if they can just pad the judges?

Nah, I think only Eizan himself knows what he's doing.

It'll be interesting to see what happens once the two mentioned authorities know about that, and their subsequent actions taken against Eizan.

Even though Eizan is with them [the regime], its hard to picture the Azami administration condoning something criminally and reputably damning to the school like bribing.

[Skaddix]

Originally Posted by noobita

Well i would prefer they to chose a better way to dissuade others like overwhelming victories to the point that no one dare to challenge them.

Current Eizan's method just put all of them in bad light.

So Rindou, is this what you want?

That is not new I am sure the E10 usually crushes anyway.

[Log]

Originally Posted by Nvis

Bleach fan detected.

Everyone is a bleach fan at heart.

Originally Posted by noobita

Well i would prefer they to chose a better way to dissuade others like overwhelming victories to the point that no one dare to challenge them.

Current Eizan's method just put all of them in bad light.

So Rindou, is this what you want?

While Eizen isn't worried about losing to guys on the Skewer sempai's level he wanted to dissuade guys on borderline elite 10 level like Souma, Ryo, Hayama, Alice etc. from challenging him by basically saying that "it's my win no matter what you do". These guys are the one's that can put up a fight and given Souma managed to do well against Kuga and Hayama was stated to have potential to get on Erina's level so it's not that crazy that they can pull off a win against lower level elite 10's. Eizen's a arrogant shit but he isn't stupid or reckless.

There's a reason why Eizen wanted to show Souma and co his "win" over skewer sempai instead of straight up accepting Souma's challenge.

Originally Posted by PSY.Gangnam

Nah, I think only Eizan himself knows what he's doing.

It'll be interesting to see what happens once the two mentioned authorities know about that, and their subsequent actions taken against Eizan.

Even though Eizan is with them [the regime], its hard to picture the Azami administration condoning something criminally and reputably damning to the school like bribing.

Maybe the Elite 10/staff care but I doubt Azami really cares and even if he did he wouldn't do anything about it. Eizen is part of the vote that gives him power, if Eizen switches sides his vote goes over and it's 5 v 5 so I doubt Azami wants to tick Eizen off. Also Eizen is carrying out Azami's will and by making sure he wins the Shokugeki he retains his spot in the elite 10 which works in Azami's favor. For the school's rep I'm sure that Eizen knows what he's doing and has a way of sweeping it under the rug. I don't think the author will make him dumb enough to bribe someone without thinking about how to get out of it.

[Fwarlord]

Why are people so angry about what Eizan did? Obviously he either was just too tsuntsun to fight the other guy honestly, felt that guy's cooking was too alien for him to perceive thus resorted to this method out of confusion or something along those lines. Wait, maybe it's 95% that guy's fault for opposing the new regime in the first place.

[Skaddix]

Yeah Azami only won the vote 6-4 he really cant afford to annoy any of his E10 Members.

As for this Eizan did it to crush hope.....ie normally you could fix it by saying its time to DDDDDUUUEEEELLLLLLLL!!!!! but with this he is basically saying sit down shut up challenging E10 members wont make a difference. Also it protects him because lets face it if you hate the new regime you are going to after the lowest ranked E10 member who voted in favor. That be Eizan.

[M.A.D]

As much as I am in disagreement with Azami's reform, I have to say, it's genius. With the old regime's usage of competitive selection, the expected outcome was that 90% of students would be expelled before graduation. That means the only ones who would support it would be those who have a realistic chance of making it into the top 10%, which is to say, at most, 10% of the total students. Even the abolishment of clubs wouldn't meet with too much resistance either. At most, it'd be the club heads - who are confident in their skills - to do it. The rest of them would most probably bow their heads. And with that, the final straw that any cooks with decent skills in this school could cling to is Shokugeki, and so Eizan made it clear to them that even that is gone, too.

Originally Posted by Skaddix

Also it protects him because lets face it if you hate the new regime you are going to after the lowest ranked E10 member who voted in favor. That be Eizan.

The lowest E10 member is actually Erina. This happened during the previous regime, so he probably won against her fair and square.

[Nicaea]

^Given that Erina is the youngest E10 ever, she's stronger than Eizan, by potential at least. There's a fair chance that she'll end uo being third or fourth seat.

[Fwarlord]

Originally Posted by Nicaea

^Given that Erina is the youngest E10 ever, she's stronger than Eizan, by potential at least. There's a fair chance that she'll end uo being third or fourth seat.

Erina became an E10 because of her gifted tongue and her relationship with the school's director. There's nothing guarantee her ability as a chef will become better as she getting older. At least it hasn't changed in more than 100 chapters so far.

[Dysprosium]

Originally Posted by Log

Maybe the Elite 10/staff care but I doubt Azami really cares and even if he did he wouldn't do anything about it. Eizen is part of the vote that gives him power, if Eizen switches sides his vote goes over and it's 5 v 5 so I doubt Azami wants to tick Eizen off. Also Eizen is carrying out Azami's will and by making sure he wins the Shokugeki he retains his spot in the elite 10 which works in Azami's favor. For the school's rep I'm sure that Eizen knows what he's doing and has a way of sweeping it under the rug. I don't think the author will make him dumb enough to bribe someone without thinking about how to get out of it.

Not really. Azami will definitely still think Erina's on his side.

Besides, do you really think for a moment there Souma will head into the Shokugeki with biased judging on show?

[M.A.D]

Originally Posted by Nicaea

^Given that Erina is the youngest E10 ever, she's stronger than Eizan, by potential at least. There's a fair chance that she'll end uo being third or fourth seat.

I think she's got pretty good chance of being a future 1st seat herself.

Originally Posted by Fwarlord

Erina became an E10 because of her gifted tongue and her relationship with the school's director. There's nothing guarantee her ability as a chef will become better as she getting older. At least it hasn't changed in more than 100 chapters so far.

Nope, having good taste buds is useless is you can't formulate decent taste based on it, and her getting preferential treatment just because she's related to the school's director would go against the meritocratic system that the school followed, as maintained by the director himself. The fact that she's related to the director only means that she was a good breed, but it was made clear several times in the manga that Erina won the 10th seat by her own cooking skill. After all, in this school, cooking is everything.