(L) Shokugeki no Soma [Manga]

[~Yami~]

Originally Posted by B214

Probably because Asahi knows what is Mana talking about the lack of his cooking.

The ending gave me idea to two potential Scenario:
1. Mana didn't acknowledge Soma's cooking
2. Mana didn't acknowledge Soma as her son-in-law.

I agree about this...

I think the point of this chapter is "hmm.. this kid is a good cook.. but he is not good enough for my Erina!!"

[SilverGlavenus]

He already stripped Mana, if that's not enough..... Hmmmm

[NAJ P. Jackson]

Originally Posted by ~Yami~

I agree about this...

I think the point of this chapter is "hmm.. this kid is a good cook.. but he is not good enough for my Erina!!"

Meh. So far nothing I've seen points to Erina even deserving Souma. And Souma haven't shown any romantic interest towards her either.

[DragonOsman]

But that's still what Tosh is trying to work towards. The fact that we still aren't seeing it just means he isn't doing a good enough of job of developing it. Which sucks. But I still support the ship--I just hope it was handled better than this.

Anyway, I do wonder what Mana's trying to say at the end. She already acknowledges that his cooking is delicious, so it's not a "like mother, like daughter" thing with Mana pulling an Erina from the start of the manga where Erina refused to acknowledge Souma's dish as being good.

As has been said, though, we should've seen the thing about Asahi's cooking lacking his own original flavor. That's what you get when you use cross knives without trying to create your own flavor. And on the other hand, Souma now knows how to do it as opposed to when he faced Kurokiba and Hayama in the Autumn Election.

[RDNexus]

Erm... I think you're forgetting Tosh isn't the writer, only the artist.
The writer is Yuuto Tsukuda, so it's him who one has to complain about when it comes to the plot

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by NAJ P. Jackson

Meh. So far nothing I've seen points to Erina even deserving Souma. And Souma haven't shown any romantic interest towards her either.

Souma was in awe at her beauty when he saw her under the moonlight in an earlier chapter. Only time he ever showed an interest in a girl the entire manga.

[DragonOsman]

@xrick: Yeah, my bad there. I had a sinking suspicious that I might be mixing them up. Thanks for correcting me.

@Kanon: Yeah, I do remember that part. The trouble is that there's no indication aside from that one scene that he's interested in her at all, unless you want to also count the part where he told Asahi right before this match that he won't be able to make Erina happy (at the very least, that does show that he cares about her to some extent, and may have done this also with the intention of protecting her).

[LeftSeven]

this is jump manga anyway, of course about that part, they cannot make it obvious about who likes who since this is not shoujo or romcom, both author and artist only gives some hints and implications where us readers should figure it out not with text alone but with facial expression that the said characters have shown.
if you reread this manga from beginning with only soma and erina part, it's so obvious how their relationship have progressed.
also, soma is aware about love, but he think that's not priority since he want to seek his career more than anything else, buutttt on this recent chapter after talked to asahi where he mentioned the secret about jou, i just guessed that soma finally knew it about it, at this point it's up to author to develop soma's feeling or leave it in the shadows lol


btw, i hope this chapter indicates that soma vs erina will happend, cuz i've waited for it and mana's word at the end felt hanging..LOL

[NAJ P. Jackson]

That part where Souma asked Asahi why he wanted to marry Erina and saying he thought he wanted something else when Asahi mentioned on becoming stronger. Did Souma imply that he thought Asahi wanted to find someone to cook for like Jou manage to find in Souma's mom?

[Ka-el]

Originally Posted by NAJ P. Jackson

That part where Souma asked Asahi why he wanted to marry Erina and saying he thought he wanted something else when Asahi mentioned on becoming stronger. Did Souma imply that he thought Asahi wanted to find someone to cook for like Jou manage to find in Souma's mom?

No. Asahi wanted to marry Erina because he thought that he could have become stronger doing for her what Joichiro did for his wife, the person who dedicate your cook to. He states this even in the first chapters he appears and speak to Soma.
It's implied that what what Asahi truly wanted was a family.

[DragonOsman]

That's what I thought too. He had shitty parents after all. It'd make sense.

@LeftSeven: Not necessarily always true. There are Shonen Jump manga that have the characters actually say it.

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by Ka-el

No. Asahi wanted to marry Erina because he thought that he could have become stronger doing for her what Joichiro did for his wife, the person who dedicate your cook to. He states this even in the first chapters he appears and speak to Soma.
It's implied that what what Asahi truly wanted was a family.

Yep, the panels showing Souma with his parents and then Asahi all alone more than implied he wanted a family.

[GDB]

Originally Posted by ~Yami~

I agree about this...

I think the point of this chapter is "hmm.. this kid is a good cook.. but he is not good enough for my Erina!!"

If she says that, I hope someone, anyone, even Azami, calls her out on being a worthless person who has no right to act like a parent.

[NAJ P. Jackson]

Originally Posted by ~Yami~

I agree about this...

I think the point of this chapter is "hmm.. this kid is a good cook.. but he is not good enough for my Erina!!"

Would be stupid of her to say that when he manage to trigger a double effect strip burst on her.

[Kanon]

Originally Posted by GDB

If she says that, I hope someone, anyone, even Azami, calls her out on being a worthless person who has no right to act like a parent.

Just wait until it's revealed she's been doing all this for Erina's sake and not her own after everything is over. It happened with Azami, it will happen with her.

[Wandering Soul]

Originally Posted by GDB

If she says that, I hope someone, anyone, even Azami, calls her out on being a worthless person who has no right to act like a parent.

As much as that should happen, we all know it probably won't. We'll probably just be shown that despite how she treats her, Mana really does love Erina in her own way or something.

[SilverGlavenus]

If Mana is going to say that, might as well show that Soma has feelings for all the girls all along.

I really hate the cop out explanation that the parents left their child for their own good. That reason only works if their child turned out a somewhat decent person. Had it gone a different route and Erina became a much worse person than she is now, both Mana and Azami are to blame.

[LeftSeven]

Originally Posted by NAJ P. Jackson

That part where Souma asked Asahi why he wanted to marry Erina and saying he thought he wanted something else when Asahi mentioned on becoming stronger. Did Souma imply that he thought Asahi wanted to find someone to cook for like Jou manage to find in Souma's mom?

that's not it, my point issszzz soma finally knew "that word" is in fact it's not truly asahi's that he had said in ch.273 butttt it's jou's word that passed through asahi, that's it. it would be good if this magic word echoes in soma's head

in the other hand, soma saw through him want something else which imply it's happy family not jou's word that blinded him till now.

Originally Posted by DragonOsman

That's what I thought too. He had shitty parents after all. It'd make sense.

@LeftSeven: Not necessarily always true. There are Shonen Jump manga that have the characters actually say it.

i'm talking about shonen jump in general, you can mention each titles that you know as much as you can, but only few of it..in the end, only obvious pairing happened without more screentime/ romantic development. such as naruto or bleach, without epiloge movie or novel, their love plot felt make no sense, right?

if you want the good development between mc and fmc, there you have romcom or shoujou for it.

[NAJ P. Jackson]

^There's no rule that a Shonen can't have a proper developed romance.

[DragonOsman]

Yeah. There are Shounen LNs that have them. And some Shounen manga as well, like History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi. So there's no rule that says that a Shounen series can't have well-developed romance. There are even Seinen series that have them. So it's not limited to Shoujo or romcoms. Get that misconception out of your head.