Shokugeki no Souma

That panel is enough to be worth another thread.

>>145204238
But anon-kun, Souma already protects this smile.

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>>145204238
Erina-sama is a miracle.

>>145204238
H E A L E D
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Damn, I'm not reading this but I might just do it for this panel.

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>>145204238
The power of being healed.

>all the shipping and friendship teasing this chapter.

I can't wait for Christmas/Valentines arc.

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>>145205003
Come for the food and ecchi, stay for Erina laughing and smiling.

>>145205003
Wait for this shit arc to end.

>>145205335
It's already getting good though. Erina can carry it even if it doesn't.

>>145204238
Shit taste incarnate, OP. She's literally done nothing to deserve protection. Bitch can't even cook.

>>145204695
Souma protects every smile, that's like saying Santa Claus loves you best because he brings you presents.

>>145205003

Do it, it's good and I'm really glad the anime got me in

>>145205658
(You)

>>145205658

She's ~10 chapters from having to cook all over Megumi's face anon, give it a bit

>>145205658
2/10 made me reply

>>145205712
The anime does have a bit more flair, but once I catch up, I can't help but read ahead.

It's a lot of fun.

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>>145204238
She can protect her own smile now.

So how will it be, the thing against Rindou. 4 vs 1 seems like the best option.

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>>145206154
>implying edgedaddy won't scare her into submission again

>>145206295
It will be 1vs1.

>>145206295
They'll probably won't beat her (not by normal means anyway) but leave an impression on her.

Then later in the arc she will faceturn when she concludes that these rebels are more fun to hang around with

>>145204238
>that last page

Souma and Rindou are too hot for this world desu.

Your face when the perfected version of Soma's squid tentacle dish is what breaks Azami's whammy on Erina

>>145206295

Erina's an E10 too, there's no way she's not getting roped in with the bad guys here

>>145206295
>>145207003
>Erina vs. Souma

>>145206154
>that armor
It's beautiful. Tsukasa's White Knight gear looked great too, Tosh is a god

>>145207504

That'd be amazing and it will happen at least once but my money is on Megumi

>>145206154
I'd summon her in the Holy Grail War, if you know what I mean.

>>145207846
Are you saying you'd have sex with her?

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>Italian qt will get ntr'd by a nigger.

Why is this allowed?

>uhh there is no tension in the exams because we can't expel a 3/4 man "good guy" team
>lmao lets just change the rules and make them fight the E10! Tension created...?

This arc is terrible.

Which E10 will Mehgloomy fight?

>>145208368

There's a really good chance the E10 switch was planned for a while and it's probably a big part of why Erina got so much focus in the last 7-8 chapters.

>>145208368
Everything's been pretty terrible since Azami showed up.

I'm pretty much only reading for character interactions at this point, I couldn't care less about the actual cooking and Azami/Central battles.

>>145208460
Yeah but Erina is with the group now, and the same exact thing still stands. They will not expel a fucking 4 man group of Polar Star characters

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What is this the face of

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>>145208752
The recognition of love.

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Where's your waifu, /a/?

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>>145209488
Front left.

Also TakumiXMegumi confirmed?

>>145208543
I'm the same way right now.

Azami pretty much sucked all the energy out of the story for me. I really hope he isn't the end boss of the entire manga.

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>>145209298
>The recognition of love.

That would be this

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>>145209666
you have excellent taste, satan

>>145209666
Checked and confirmed.
Even satan melts with this page.

I always smile when reading it too.

>>145209617
If it wasn't for all this melting and group/friends fun shaneningans, the series would be in a pretty bad spot, for me.

>>145209774

This pretty much, the character interactions seem like they've never been better, the plot seems like it's never been worse

Are SnS threads always kinda slow?

>>145210009
Since some months, yeah.

>>145209774
>>145209924
>yfw Tsukuda is focusing on character interactions now and not the story
>the rebels bond and advance together in merry fellowship while the plot crawls
>at the climax of this arc, Tsukuda switches back to the plot and ruthlessly wipes out half the rebel cast for narrative purposes
>this cuts down the size of the cast and tightens the story's progression while subjecting them to despair
>the survivors harden their resolve to survive for those who didn't make it and shoulder onward to prevail
A man can dream

>>145210009
Been like this ever since Azami popped up.

Actually, to be more specific, it's like this ever since Souma vs Eizan. Sometimes we get some life, but nowadays is usually when the korean/raws/spoilers pics are posted.

>>145210128
>>145210146

That's pretty depressing, I just caught up on the series and I like it a lot but every place to discuss it seems to be dead

>>145210009
People only read this for Erina being cute now, she gets a new outfit every couple chapters and half the comments shit on how boring the manga is while the other half enthusiastically approve of her scenes.

>>145209617
He really can't be, which makes me wonder what's going to happen after him.

You can't have an antagonist who actively tries to wipe out the entire cast every single day and then just spend several years resolving it.

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>>145210009
Since chapter 134.

>>145206295
I dunno if they stand a chance. She had a lot of knives, dude.

>>145210316
my guess is after some point, Souma or his Dad completely breaks Azami and he runs away, eventually coming back a reformed man and making amends with his daughter.

Then a new challenge/adversary is introduced in the 2nd or 3rd year.

At least, that's what I hope.

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Say something nice about this man.

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>>145210423
>a lot of knives
Where have I seen this before

>>145210484
>>145210316
Final boss is probably whoever is seat one when the final arc rolls around.

>>145210557

He's legitimately scary as shit

>>145210557
He fathered the most beautiful WSJ heroine to date, that's an incredible feat

>>145210557
He has good genes

>>145210607
That leaves a lot of time to kill in a school where the headmaster already bowed to and begged the MC.

I think this whole Central thing was premature, but I don't mind being proven wrong if there is a good followup to it.

>>145210009
better slow than fast but full of shitposting

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>>145210557
He was pretty cute when he was younger.

>>145204238
I can never be bored watching this panel

>>145210693
This. Bleach threads are downright unbearable now, they spam Tumblr art and make polls about which shippers are worse, which make them max out fairly quickly.

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>>145210557
Needs to be protected.

>>145210484
>Then a new challenge/adversary is introduced in the 2nd or 3rd year.
>2nd or 3rd year
>Implying SnS will last more than one school year

Good one.

>>145210557
He'll make everyone happy when he leaves.

>>145211329
Sket Dance burned through all three years IIRC
And they had even less material to go off of

>>145211329
It could probably spiral for another year even if it didn't have a popular anime adaptation. I do think that adaptation won't last unless things start getting better fast.

>>145211543

Pretty much, I got into it through some anime-only friends and I can't imagine how they won't drop it like a fucking rock when Azami shows up (even if some cool stuff did come out of it)

>>145207589
Tosh fantasy manga when?

>>145207993
Who's the one on the right?

>>145211944
Biance, a LN-only character. Translations never.

>>145211825
If it does get better quick, there are a lot of clever adaptation tricks they could do that would make the anime far superior to the source material for this arc, but you do really need that "it gets better, trust us" hook.

>>145210642
Hang on a sec. Erina is 100% Japanese right? So a fake blonde.

>>145211409
Sket Dance was also a gag manga and was never at the top of the ranks. Gag series have a lot more repetitive value than most genres unless you are up against the likes of Detective Conan.

Given how the Elite 10 sided with Central and the battles are already beginning, there's nothing to really write on for 2nd/3rd year. You might try using common sense but that doesn't work with the manga industry. They for whatever reason, deemed that a shonen series about a kid who climbs to the top in 1st year, will not be interesting if he has to defend his position in the 2nd/3rd year. It's always gotta be a underdog thing. There can only be progression, there can never be maintaining the status quo. That's shonen 101.

By the time Souma finishes off Azami, even if there are E10 still left, it won't be enough to take a whole year or two. This is especially true given how the only 2nd year with any remote threatening presence is chicken man and he already lost while Kuga is a non factor. All the big shots are among the 3rd years.

>>145211543
It's not about whether or not it can be milked, cause Tosh alone makes it milkable. There's a thousand ways to milk it if you're willing to take risks with the story direction like having Souma turn into the 'bad guy' through his tyrannical experimental dishes in the second year and basically have it be really lighthearted with the new 1st years rebelling against Souma's ridiculous whims on the E10 council.

But that would NEVER happen.

>>145212101
We don't know who her mother is.

>>145212438
Her mother is confirmed to be a Nakiri. Unless she was adopted, she is Japanese.

>>145212101
You're talking about a series where we have Japanese with

>Red
>Purple
>Blonde
>Orange
>Green?

And possibly more. I don't think you should start giving a shit about hair color realism.

>>145212339

Underdogs are inherently the more common and popular thing, it's a theme that resonates with people.

They did kind of blow their load on Azami and there's really no turning back there at this point, it'd be a huge de-escalation and it'd feel like the weirdest intermission in the world just ended.

The series probably wasn't one that could've run through all 3 years anyways, though, unless the 3rd year was a fair bit shorter or less battle focused and more on character interaction (because at that point most of the battles would be retreads of first year). The third years in the current arc are scary and all, but wait 4 months and it's oh hey they're gone I guess things just got much easier.

Did an editor demand Azami's existence or something?

>>145212101
>>145212519
Her mother could be a half, so she would a 1/4

>>145212628
Yeah, I guess no point dwelling on that.

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>>145209666
Will Megumi bake their wedding cake?

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>>145212754
4th seat Loli is the cakemaster.

>>145212754
Megumi is going to become a shipper and don't really gave a fuck at this point.

>>145212339
Of all the possible endings, none of them work in the first year. You pretty much have to make it to end of year 2 before you can even do an ending where he leaves the school with Erina like his dad.

That's also probably the only ending that would work in Year 2, unless you just do a fast forward to show what happened after graduating.

No matter what, something has to happen for a 2nd year, and I have no idea what.

>>145212754
No, she will give them a free stay in her italian ryokan.

>>145212874
>No matter what, something has to happen for a 2nd year, and I have no idea what.

International culinary school battles.

>>145212947
>implying they will not stay in nippon and leave Isami and Nikumi the italian business.

>>145212645
>Underdogs are inherently the more common and popular thing, it's a theme that resonates with people.

I don't deny that, I'm just explaining how as a magazine marketed towards kids, it's very hard for WSJ to maintain a series about a character who beats down others. Even for maintaining status quo, which WSJ series do you know has a rival of the MC that stays an equal rival or weaker (so no fucking Sasuke who is always conveniently more powerful besides a handful of times) that ends up not being fodder? It's like saying Takumi Aldini will graduate as the #1 of Souma's grade or even be Souma's final opponent in the battle over the first seat in 3rd year.

It's just impossible.

I don't know who's idea was for Azami.

>>145212669
Just enjoy the art.

>>145212874
The epilogue might have them time skip to 2nd or 3rd year sure, but the main meat of it will be 1st year and anything in the 2nd/3rd will basically be an afterthought. Beating Azami in 1st year means they are the top of the ladder, there's nothing interesting to go on during second year.

Just look at shitty Bleach if you need a quick reminder.

>10 years later

>>145212947
> they opened a ryokan in italy
Seems pretty nice. Which city would be nice for ryokan though?

>>145213095
>presenting Nikumi to your family.

Will she use proper clothes at least?

>>145210557
He was created literally to make Erina likeable.

>>145206295
I'm not sure we should take it literally as them having to shokugeki the E10 directly.

>>145207003
Erina's still a first year and has to take her exams though. Just like how she sat on the side of the first years during the leaf viewing instead of on the E10 side.

>>145213773

He succeeded

>>145213773
>implying she wasn't already improving before Azami came along
Dad just sped it up

>>145214213

Unless her dad the literal headmaster decides to make her suffer by pitting her against her friends and arranges for it to happen

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>>145212754

>>145214286

Well, that and "I am Saiba Jouichiro's son" sped things up quite nicely

>Cook off against the Elite 10 as part of the exam

I thought NotAizen's plan was to make a lot of cooks that are up to his standard. I don't see how a lot students are going to pass if they use the copypasta recipes given to them against the Elite 10.

>>145213136
A turistic one, good for sight-seeing might be fine.

So you could come back and relax in the tranquil mood of a ryokan.

>>145214480
It's just the rebels that have to go against them.

>>145214480
Only the rebels are going against them, everyone else is getting semi-normalish tests. My only question is: How the fuck do they make this work without having most of the E10 job like motherfuckers or without wiping out most of the cast?

>>145214581
Good question.

>inb4 only those four + Ryou, Alice, Hisako pass.

That would be something.

>>145214581
>How the fuck do they make this work without having most of the E10 job like motherfuckers or without wiping out most of the cast?

Right, I had to read again the last page. Didn't Soma even struggle against ChineseYugi? I remember that glasses accountant dude lost against Soma but how will the others go up against the Elite 10 unless all of the jobbed.

I can't remember their names.

>>145214581

Either make the tests non-standard, or have the best people win against some of the weaker E10 in 1v1 while the weakers get bailed out (and one actually does die for real)

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>>145212754
She is going to bake their cake, catch the bouquet, help deliver their firstborn, and babysit their children as the nanny. She can also be a surrogate mother so Erina doesn't have to ruin her hot body. Erina doesn't have time for pregnancy leave anyway considering what her future will be inheriting the Nakiri name.

That is the fate of Tadakoro Megumi.

>>145214729

Soma struggled against him using his own specialty and putting himself at a massive disadvantage.

>>145214729
Souma only won against Eizan because he wasn't even trying.
If they win against the E10 it would be bullshit.

>>145212660
That would mean Senzaemon banged a gaijin, assuming Senzaemon is full nip.

>>145214780
I think it won't be 1v1 though. The rebels are simply outnumbered the E10. So I guess it'll be 1 E10 vs few rebels for example Rindou vs souma takumi megumi erina

>>145215025
Only one group needs to win, because if you beat the end boss, everyone who died can just be brought back.

>>145215084

I can agree with that for some of them but 100% I think someone's getting put up against Erina solo here

There's no way Azami would ever put his daughter in a position where she could risk expulsion

>>145215106

How the fuck are they going to beat Azami anyways

>>145215358
Poison his food.

>>145215358

Become the majority of E10 and fire his ass

>>145215358
Humiliate him in a way that makes him lose all support, I'd recommend having Soma seduce him while they're being recorded.

>>145215358

Souma impregnates Erina and Azami dies at the thought of a Saiba/Nakiri super child.

>>145215474
You know, that would have been a much better way to do things if they hadn't already gotten rid of the dissenters.

>>145215506
>Soma has Azami eat his squid

>>145204238
>Soma is going to impregnate this
That lucky bastard.

>>145215474

He's already shown he can kick them out anytime he wants, if they get in he can just boot them again

>>145215358

How do people not see how this ends? This is the same shit as every shounen. Azami will be "healed" in some way and then he'll back off and be a normal headmaster, and something else will happen during their 2nd years.

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>>145214916
> catch the bouquet
I just imagined Megumi running like hell to catch it because she can't reach out for it with her fixed hands.

>>145215729

Bad dad is stupid evil though, it'd be ridiculous if he got redeemed from abusing a child for years

>>145215746
Someone will give it to her out of pity

>>145215358
Souma and Erina elope and then they start a cable access cooking show, revolving around making wacky food combinations, with Souma's father.

It becomes a smash hit and the #1 rated show on food network.

I think Meat is getting kicked out

This chapter was kind of a deathflag for her.

>>145215813
Sasuke murdered a bunch of innocent people too, but he never faced justice after he got redeemed.

Azami and Erina will eventually make up and start over. its inevitable.

>>145215977
I fucking hope so.

>>145215929
I'm pretty sure Erina being cute could sustain several hundred chapters of even that.

>>145215996

Naruto's also a complete and utter shitpile, SnS is down right now but it never got that fucking terrible

Erina a shit.
Worse than Emi and Kirino.

What if making them stronger was Azami's masterplan all along

>>145206154
The Seiba virus has finally breached quarantine.

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>>145204238
Best girl
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>>145215996
Orichimaru is an even worse example desu. Many of his followers, like the Sound 4 (who were literally a bunch of 13-15 year olds who were manipulated and enslaved by him), were punished and killed off while Orichimaru is redeemed, gets to continue his experiments, gets most of what he wants, and is even chummy with Naruto at the end.

>>145216593
Apparently Tayuya and co were pure evil while Snakepedo has a fruedian excuse, or that's what I heard from narutards when the manga ended.

In any case, I don't think Azami will get redeemed. Erina will stand up to him, he'll be humiliated, forced to admit he was wrong, and run out.

>>145216766

Except she's still brainwashed and that's a plot bomb just waiting to go off

>>145216852
I'm talking about endgame here. She'll obviously throw his ideals back in his face after having a huge existential crises.

>>145204238
How can she easily cruise through to the top of best girl ranking.

>>145216852
the power of love trumps all

>>145216922

And force-fed honey squid

>>145216909

I'm amazed at the sheer lack of Alice support in the thread

you guys have to remember that the former E10 (Isshiki, Kuga, and the #3) all were shown planning and getting ready to go there. They are up to something too.

>>145217487

Maybe they'll bail out a failing group(s) by Shokugeki-ing?

>>145215539
>implying this isn't exactly why he left Erina at Polar Star.

>>145216984
Alice is great, but her mother is better.

Besides, Albinos freak some people out.

>>145217630

He didn't even know Soma existed or that he was the same age as Erina

Not that he's not beating off furiously to the very thought now that he knows it's possible though

"All of you, get the fuck out of my school and you, come by my house later to fuck my daughter"

>>145216766
I think we'll eventually delve into what went wrong with Azami. I think Gin's warning to Hayama after the election was related to Azami for one.

I think at some point, besides learning about Erina's mom, Azami will indeed be forced to face up to the fact that his actions cost him his daughter. And that he'll have lost over a decade of her life that he could have spent with his child over his obsession.

I bet Hayama took Isshiki or Kuga's spot and is on the train with the other rebels. Hishoko rematch.

>>145217896

He's doing a real fucking bad job making himself out to be open to any kind of reconciliation

Particularly with the whole isolating his daughter from her friends so she can sit and taste mass produced Elite 10 meals for the rest of her life

Jump will be on a break next week?

>>145218088
Yep.

>>145218179
Damn. Right when things gets interesting

>>145210146
>>145210009
Basically around the time Casanova died the threads did too.

Come to think of it. We never see buttbros wearing school uniforms right?

<spoiler> it might be a sign that they'll be expelled</spoiler>

>>145218551

Around the time what died

>>145218618
To be fair, we've only seen Souma in uniform in the extra from the recipe book.

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This page says Azami's got an evil sorcerer thing going on right

>>145219988
The Devil is a Culinary School Headmaster!

>>145219988
>The Demon Lord of Dystopia has appeared!!

>>145219988
It's more of a demon lord thing while Erina is now instead of a small fairy, the goddess that unites the heroes against the demon lord.

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>>145220073
LEAVE AZAMI TO ME

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>>145220073
It will take more than KFC and McDonalds to defeat him

>>145220110
She'll probably be a small fairy again when she joins him via either the brainwashing, coercion, or of her own will because some bad shit went down

That hook got planted right after Azami left Polar Star and it's just a matter of time before it comes roaring back

>>145220233
>coercion
I just have a feeling that Azami will threaten to expel all of them unless Erina comes back to Central, and it will be lame.

>>145220233
Of course she'll probably willingly go back to him in a possible attempt to prevent the rebels from being expelled, and then the heroes will go off to the final battle and rescue their goddess from the demon lord.

>>145220294
He'll be forced to make that threat only when he realizes he's lost Erina for good and she won't come back from him just ordering her to.

So let me get this straight
They're fighting the E10
Not just the lower E10
But fucking #2?
The only way I can see out of this is that they're not literally going to Shokugeki them, or that Rindou is going to laugh her ass off,, say 'this isn't fun' and straight up quit.

>>145220317

That or he'll isolate her from the Polar Stars using her E10 status and convince her that she needs to stay away from all of them

>>145220294

That's a possibility and it'd be really really boring, yeah. Especially since it'd essentially shut out a Shokugeki between her and Soma unless Azami decided now was a great time to brainwash his daughter through psychological torture some more

>>145220294
>I just have a feeling that Azami will threaten to expel all of them
I asked Tsukuda on Twitter why Azami hadn't done this already and he ignored it. It's not like he hasn't been on Twitter either, he's retweeting and chatting with people regularly. Either he's working to fix it or the editor forbade him from tweeting important details.

>>145220420
>That or he'll isolate her from the Polar Stars using her E10 status and convince her that she needs to stay away from all of them
She wouldn't obey that in her current state of mind, not unless we get some good old fashioned mind break.

>>145220428
>I asked Tsukuda on Twitter why Azami hadn't done this already
Probably because he still wants to expel them instead of making a deal when he's under the impression that Erina would go back to him should her order her to.

>>145220511

I think he'll force her to go up against Megumi or Soma as part of the E10 right now by threatening to just expel them for collusion with a proctor otherwise, she'll absolutely crush them and even though something will come up that'll save them, she'll go into shock from almost getting a friend expelled, realize her rank ties her to him and there's no chance he'll let that go, and try to put some distance between herself and the group.

>>145220653
Can't she just resign from E10?

Isshiki, Megishima and Kuga to the rescue.

>>145220565

>>145220511

Even though on the surface everything is good with her mental state, there's probably a shitload of leftover programming and he'll exploit the shit out of that when the time comes.

The trigger phrase joke came up earlier, but I'm not sure it'll wind up a joke.

>>145210557
The reason why the manga went downhill

>>145204238
I don't even read this but that's a nice smile

>>145215358
Souma is gonna fuck Erina in front of Azami.

>>145220733

So long as Azami accepted it, sure.

He won't accept it.

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Why don't they just shoot him?

>>145221107
Which one is the real him

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>>145221107
Because that would be murder you edgelord.

>>145213773
Erina was always likeable, since the very first chapter.

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Pffft, the author is trying too hard to make me stop disliking Erina.

And it's working.

>>145221607
She was annoying as fuck in the test and her smug superiority shit never faded until much later.
Failing a nigga because he was smug that he exceeded your expectations is bs

>>145221722
I actually find myself liking most of the characters now. I even thought Meat was cute this chapter.

Except PSD fodder, they still a shit.

>>145221792
>soft oneechan a shit
Granted Rindou is basically her deluxe edition but fuck you

>>145221724
Don't get me wrong here, because Erina was definitely in the wrong, but,

>go to job interview.
>be qualified
>be smug ass
>interviewer gives the job to someone else

It's wrong, but it's not unexpected. There's a reason you are supposed to be on your best behavior for that sort of thing after all.

>>145222112
Yeah but it wasn't a job interview
The deal was literally "cook to satisfy and you're in", this wasn't something like a real Tootsuki test where attitude towards 'customers' could probably be a criteria (even if your food is good nobody comes to be smirked and yelled at).

>>145221902
Rindou is shit too.

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>>145222180
>having shit taste
Who do you like then? You can prefer Erina or Megumin or whoever but how do you dislike Rindou's design

>>145222241
Her fang is stupid.

>>145222265
You're stupid.

>>145222176
To be fair, that was Erina's doing. There's a genuine entrance exam, and she was supposed to give it to Souma, but she decided that way was faster.

I'm not actually sure how Souma would have done on the actual exam given some of the gaps we've seen in his knowledge.

>>145222493
Was the exam paper-based though? I was under the impression it was going to be cooking-based anyway.

>>145222112
>It's wrong, but it's not unexpected.
Well desu not necessarily, a job interview is often scouting your personality, thinking if you'll be able to work with the group, etc.
It's not purely seeing if you're qualified since your resume / CV / whatever is supposed to be the collection of your qualifications.

>>145222520
Hisako said the first step is an interview, and the second a practical test with 3 different dishes, and then Erina cut her off when she was saying what those who passed that had to do. I don't doubt there was a written section too.

>>145222645
Probably saved Souma's ass

>>145221724

>Erina is a bitch because she failed Souma

You're about a year late. If this was last year you'd have 20 other Megumifags spamming that to stir up waifuwars, but now it's just you.

>>145222702
I dislike Megumi and I'm not trying to stir shit up.
I'm saying that Erina wasn't ALWAYS likeable, in fact she was purposely presented as an asshole by the story in the beginning.

>>145222645
>the first step is an interview

>Chapelle: so it says here on your resume that you like to make "experimental dishes". Care to explain?
>Souma: yeah dawg I make squid tentacles covered in peanut butter
>Chapelle: GET OUT
Yup

>>145222767
Chapelle seems to me like he prefers a holistic approach, so once he samples the practical dishes he might think that the 'experimental' dishes aren't a sign that Souma is shit at cooking but rather got to this level just by trying random shit, which says something about him
He doesn't seem like he immediately jumps to conclusions, he's just strict about the rules he's laid out clearly.

>>145222664
Quite possibly. Though of course, we know that Senzaemon wanted him to get in.

Senzaemon is a hard ass though, and if Souma couldn't cook he wouldn't let him in anyway, but since he can, and he wanted him in, he probably would have found a way to get him in regardless of written tests just like how he overrode Erina's judgement.

>>145223431
I don't think Senzaemon particularly 'wanted' him in so much as both knew he was Jouichirou's kid and thought his cooking was so impressive that he kept an eye on the plucky fellow

>>145224105
Are you not caught up with the manga?

Jou didn't want to send Souma at all. Senzaemon specifically requested that he send Souma to Tootsuki. Senzaemon specifically wanted Souma to attend for Erina's sake.

>>145224409
Was that how it was? I'll be honest I forgot, Azami kind of ruined the manga for me so I don't remember stuff after his arrival as well except for the Great Autist and Rindou

Can someone explain to me what's so bad about Meat?

>>145224670
Design,personallity,rol in the story.
Everything.

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I'm just catching up with the manga. But I'm gonna say this over and over again. Why is Alice so best girl? Shit, it's unfair for all the other ones. Has personality, attitude, charisma, looks and it's not in the Soumabowl. Fucking perfect.

>>145225083
>not in the soumabowl
Good!

>>145225083
Alice is a perfectly acceptable choice.

The Soumabowl is a sham since the winner was determined all the way back in the first chapter, so competing in it is a negative point for a girl.

>>145221107
I can´t belive how since his introduction, this manga has gone downhill

>>145225216
He's a meme edgelord done poorly.

>>145225113
That's because she has a bowl of her own.

>>145225285
No she doesn't
She has a boy of her own
There's no meaningful competition for Ryou.

>>145225216
I stopped reading Souma because of him, I'm catching up right now to see if it improved. But is as this anon said >>145225241 He's poorly done, lacks charisma, and when he's around lacks impact. Look at villains like Aizen, you can argue that Bleach is a clusterfuck, but everytime he's around it's so fun to see what's he gonna do. With the edgelord, he just spergs muh perfect cuisine.

>>145225608
>He's poorly done, lacks charisma, and when he's around lacks impact
This
He's a villain with a plan that's poorly thought out
He doesn't have truly overwhelming power like Madara or Aizen
He's not incredibly charismatic like some of the Kingdom villains nor does he feel like he's always in control of the situation like the MC from Dungeon Defense
He's just an ass.

>>145225728
>He's a villain with a plan that's poorly thought out
>plan that's poorly thought out
Fucking this, his plan looks something like a shitty villain has thought. "Stop eating what I don't like", what now faggot you are gonna close every restaurant, factory that makes food you don't like? Good luck fighting against capitalism.
>He's just an ass.
He has stopped the progression the manga had, we should be at a point where things like what is the gourmet world outside the academy than just staying there and battling for surviving. Fucking Edgelord.

>>145226069
No like
You can fight against capitalism, it's just that
He doesn't have a good plan for doing so, nor does he even have a good reason.

The pace of the anime is like 5 chapters an episode right? if so I'm so fucking glad, with the pace it will finish introducing the elite 10

>>145218551
When Casanova died we lost that free bump of their digital colored chapters, the thread's been like this ever since koreanbro disappeared.

>>145215977
>>145216009
>>145220233
This. If anything, this chapter was a flag of Erina breaking again when someone from Plar Star get expelled.

>>145220368
Well, "all out battle" might not be a shokugeki. The E10 members could be the ones in charge of the third phase.

>>145226069
What? We wouldn't be outside of the academy. There would be more tests and events just like there is now, only with slightly fewer assholes and much less cheating. And there would be less interaction with the upperclassmen.

>>145226422
Avg of 4.5 ch an ep. We'll end with Souma returning from Stagiaire.

>>145221724
Erina was good ever since the hellish training camp in Tootsuki Resort.

>>145227081
She was bad inside the camp proper and she barely showed up for a while after it.

>>145227375
She was cute in the camp and had good ship moments after that.

>>145227439
>cute in camp
All she did was shit over Souma though.

>>145227568
I think anon is referring to her card game bits with Hisako and her singing in the bath.

Subbed OVA when? It's quite shocking to see no one doing it, till now.

>>145228875
anon's translation for OVA 2 is here

https://r.kyaa.sg/lvvzpm.txt

Needs a raw and an editor.

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>>145215358
Jouichirou will make Azami his bitch like in the good old days.

>>145226757
Yeah. I can see her gave up her position at the E10 to save them

>>145228875
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4mrg5h

>>145230241

I don't see that happening, her E10 rank is what kept her separate from all the other first years so far, it seems like a bad idea narrative-wise to throw that away now that it's actually working against her

>>145227568

Is it not possible for someone be cute because she dislikes and was mean to the MC? Fucking self inserters.

>>145232438
>no counterargument
>le self insert
I didn't say she was always shit but she was pretty horrid until AFTER camp arc, the whole reveal with Jouichirou being HIM was when she began to get better.
The only thing that was 'cute' about her in the camp arc was the singing on the way to the bath and the way she immediately becomes insufferable to gloat at him isn't endearing, it doesn't matter if the target was Souma or Takumi or whoever.

>>145232518

Is someone like Rindou not cute and insufferable also because she's aligning herself with an autistic villain and trying to get the main cast expelled?

>>145232518
Did she ever mock Takumi? I thought it was a thing that Soma brought out her absolute worst and everyone else she was just cold to

>>145232772

Rindou is also really really positive and friendly, which Erina wasn't bar Hisako and Megumi until Azami showed up

>>145232772
I don't find her insufferable because DUDE LMAO WHY NOT is one of my favorite character types male or female. Could see why others disagree though.

>>145232788
Pretty much, she was icy to everyone but an ass to Souma
I don't know if it was because he was a 'peasant', because he was actually good at cooking, or because she was wrong for once in her life about food (she bashed his dish before trying it which is usually a stupid thing to do but she thought she'd basically seen everything at that point so there was no need to even give him a chance) or a combo of all three, but shes basically only an ass to Souma. She's actually nice to Megumin later during the tournament and wonders why she'd never heard her name.

>>145210557
When were you under the impression that Shokugeki would be interesting?

>>145232857
>>145232856

>Mean/petty girls can't be cute.

>>145232933
>everyone has to find what I find cute, cute despite "asshole" and "likeable" very nearly being antonyms

>>145232857

She was an ass because clearly a peasant with no culinary background couldn't catch her off-guard and she kept doubling down on that completely in spite of the increasingly overwhelming evidence until that rug finally got completely pulled out from under her when the Saiba bomb dropped

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>>145211900
After Tosh sports manga.

>>145232933

I liked her from the start dude, doesn't mean I wasn't going to enjoy when Soma finally annihilated her convictions about him, quit projecting

>>145233044
Delinquent Megumin when
She's far superior to normal Megumin

Hope it's time for Erina to actually cook. It's been 170 chapters already. Power levels can be pretty retarded at times but I will be extremely mad if she's barely better than Souma/Curry after wait.

>>145233961
We saw her shokugeki back then.

>>145216279
A blast from the past.

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>>145233120
this
she would become best girl along with Alice

>>145217487
>inb4 they help the weaker teams of these match ups win against E10

>>145226757
Souma is the most viable one to get kicked out. He's basically her lynchpin to ''fun cooking'' now. There was also the flag a couple of chapters back when they promised to get to 2nd year together

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>>145204238
What now?

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>>145204238
>>145235146

>>145235512
stop
STOP

I've rarely seen a manga push a character so hard in so few chapters.

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>>145235512
Delete this.

>>145235695
The stranger thing is that in spite of how shit the arc is, it actually did it well.

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>>145235512

>>145222265
So is your face

>>145235512
:c

>>145235512
I only wish I had the skill and tools required to do this to every post that says "I WANT TO PROTECT THAT SMILE"

I want to bully them all.

>>145237561

Azami get out

>>145235512
delet

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>>145205725
>>145205807
>>145205958
>Erina finally has to cook
>crafts a dish with taste so exquisite that it even pleases her
>judges burn her for having shit presentation because all she knows are flavor profiles and nothing else about gourmet dining
>Erinafags tag their #suicide Vines and die in droves when she loses to a jobber like Marui

>>145208368
The only explanation would be that Aizen is trying to make the rebels stronger and he was fucking with them the whole time. That is literally the only thing that would make the most sense as to why Aizen doesn't just expel the rebels or tell them to fail them without question.

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>>145238773
>>>/fanfiction.net/

>>145225728
The thing about this manga is, we don't need a villain. This manga was perfectly fine not having any form of villain, but challenges to overcome and a show of the character's skills.

Now with this villain it just looks fucking stupid. Surviving through the school's challenges already put in place was enough. Having cooking battles and chefs displaying their skill in cooking was enough. Having a big bad for no reason other than reasons is just shit.

>>145241195
That's the thing though
If he was at LEAST well done, it'd be acceptable. He's not. He's retarded.

>>145241269
Another problem is that Soma is becoming John Cena. He's still pushed as the underdog despite him beating a fucking Elite 10 member.

This manga would be so much better if it were what it was originally; people battling each other to simply get better/weed out shitty cooks. They can still have Soma and the crew going through challenges, but them having to go through these stupid set of biased challenges is just no fun. Especially when the win due to absolute bullshit with no explanation.

>>145241458
and his name is

>>145241458
It would be nice if he lost and actually had to face consequences.

>>145242281
It kinda is shit when whenever Soma loses, it's just 'oh well, I lost, time to learn and get better!' But then there's hardly any consequences for anyone he's beaten. Gigga Nigga just gave up a bunch of knives and learned and became good. Nikumi became tsundere and went to the Don RS, which isn't really a big deal. Everyone he beat in the Autumn election simply lost and moved on. And Eizan just lost and didn't destroy a building.

>>145225216
If i am not mistaken, didn't Tsukuda and Tosh got an new editor around Azami debut? Also, Erina was still a smug bitch during that time. So they had to introduce him to justify Erina attitude and at the same time open up a new plot (Rebels vs Central). Albeit it is shitty as fuck now, since there is no tension and stake now.

>>145210557
Its not your fault Tsukada is a hack writer.

>>145242614

There's definitely a stake in that if they lose they all get expelled and Erina winds up Bad Dad's taste tester puppet for the rest of her life, but they've done a horrible job with the tension, yeah

I would legitimately love to hear how the fuck Azami came into existence as something that should've happened in this manga though

Can this manga be saved at this point? Will it just die a slow death?

>>145238773
Anon, she ran the second most successful restaurant at the moon festival.

You need to come to terms with reality.

>>145242614
The new editor joined after Erina ran to the PSD.

And even during the moon festival we had Erina rooting for Souma to beat Kuga without even realizing she was doing it.

>>145210607
>>145210484
I don't see how this will happen. We have the existing E10 made up of third or 2nd years, but then we are introduced to almost-E10s already. So who the fuck can they add outside of HOW IS THIS FIRST YEAR SO STRONG?! without pulling a new 2nd or 3rd year out of their ass?

>>145230749
Even though it's a stream, thanks for this anon. It's nice to see the OVA subbed.

>>145245876

When was she rooting for Soma? She tasted a dish because Hisako kinda put Soma's foot in the foot for it but I don't remember anything beyond that

>>145246074
It's simple

Transfer students

>>145246161
During the Souma v Yugi,she wanted Souma to win.

>>145246181
It would be pretty fucking dumb if a transfer student from a lower school just ends up being top tier at THE school everyone goes to. Unless they continue the legacy stuff and his/her parents are already introduced but for some reason aren't at Tootsuki

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>>145246161
Like I said, she doesn't even realize she's doing it.

>>145246357

I completely forgot about that, nice catch.

So things were already on the brink of turning even before Azami, nice

>>145246357
What was Megumi thinking here

>>145246683
"Just like my shoujo manga"

>>145246683
>"Why do I suddenly have the urge to bake a wedding cake?"

>>145247224
Too soon

Ok, so I know I've said this like 5 times already but I finally found the 2nd OVA available to download , even if it's just 360p so if anyone here feels like it I'll leave the links here:

http://pastebin.com/TAmVwSd0

>>145235512
Underrated post.

>>145242452
Its a fuckng COOKING MANGA.

What are you expecting, some grand spectacle to be made out of him winning? This entire series runs off of the mundane being made over the top.

>>145247973
Nice. Someone subbed a stream here - >>145230749

Seems like maybe we can coordinate some folks?

>>145247268
Why? It's not like the event was tragic.

>>145248739

At this point I only want it to get done so if there's anything say it here, I'll probably be here for the rest of the day

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>>145220195
>>145215358
Shokugeki no Souma vs Azami
The stakes shall be eternal obedience vs winning Erina

>>145204794
the smuggest face in the universe

>>145246074
I don't think they're adding the final boss m8. THe deer whisperer is the final boss.

>>145246074

There are three new E10s that replaced Isshiki, Yugi and Pacha so I'm pretty sure they'll be used in this part of the exam and serve as people that don't know the rebels that well

>>145209298
But isn't this what most guys do ANYTHING for subconsciously? For the attention of women?

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>>145210557
I can't. He's retarded. He's making all this big deal shit about FOOD. No matter how you dress it up, how you cook it, how expensive/cheap your ingredients are, no matter how much it costs the customer to eat it; food is meant to be eaten. Nothing more, nothing less.

>>145246683
>"Is-is this bitch trying to invade my territory? SOMA'S MINE!!!"

Either that or she knew right then and there Erina liked Soma. Female intuition.

>>145220195
>Shokugeki
>Azami is the judge
>You just serve him McDonald's #3 with a large vanilla shake.

Would he die?

>>145252185
>THe deer whisperer
Makes me laugh every time

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>>145235512

Azami's in charge of the departure times for the train most likely, yeah?

It'd be too coincidental to have Souma and Erina on the same train after she was deliberately separated the last two times otherwise.

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>>145253245

>>145255911
Probably.

He is just a shipper trying to make all his otps canon. We are being to hard with him.

>>145252463
I don't think we've been given any indication that Azami has selected the replacements yet.

>>145256324

"Congratulations, Yukihira Souma, you've been selected to fill the vacancy in the rank 8 seat. Now, it is still E10s vs. the first years, so you've been selected to face my daughter. Loser is expelled, of course, not that she'd possibly lose."

>>145256422
>Erina throws and lets him win
>Azami pulls some bullshit so she doesn't get expelled
I can see it. No idea how what excuse could possibly let the others survive though.

>>145256422
Did you have a mental breakdown while writing this? Why would he face the first years as an E10 when Erina isn't

>>145256422
If, for whatever reason, Soma was to be in the E10, then it would make no sense to have him go agains Erina. It would be better for him to go against the rebels; that way he could lose and have everyone he's going to go agains win, thus not having to be expelled. Or he could win and be the one to have his friends be expelled.

>>145256610

What makes you think she's not going to face them right now? Azami's not going to put his daughter in a position where she's going to get expelled and all signs point to him really wanting to get rid of Souma, who she's currently sharing a train car with.

>>145256496

Azami could just threaten to expel Souma for collusion if she didn't go at her best, there's the possibility she can't or won't hold back, or the brainwashing plot device comes roaring back right then.

>>145257141

Azami would be doing it to fuck with him before getting him expelled in a match with Erina.

It's pretty unlikely, he'd have to know that's the kind of thing Souma cares about to know it's a dick move and all he really knows about him is he's fairly good, and he hangs around Azami's daughter because Jouichiro and Senzaemon.

It'd be amazingly dickish though.

>>145257142
Re-read these last chapters, there's a page in which she says she's still a first year so she has to pass the exam nontheless even if she's part of the E10

>>145257445

Any idea which chapter it was? I'm skimming around and not seeing it so far, was it before they left for Hokkaido?

>>145257445
Yeah, Erina didn't take part in the elections since their purpose is basically to sort out the likeliest first years to become part of the E10 come second year. Since she's already part of the E10, it's pointless and instead she served as one of the organizers of the election.

She still took part in the Hell Camp, in Stagiaire, and even for the Leaf Viewing she sat on the side of the first years and not the E10 side. The moon festival was for all grades, and granted Erina was in the zone that was basically just 3rd years + the E10 second years, but that's more about her skill and savvy than her position.

>>145257445
>>145258101

Azami's made it pretty clear he's not abiding by the old rules, and even if she sat out the one stage of the exam as a proctor there'd be 4 others (or he could just lie and say she passed this one with ease)

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Does Erina ever do anything but blush?

Like seriously has she been in any shougukeis in like the last 50 chapters?

>>145258321
>Does Erina ever do anything but blush?
Teach?

The only Shokugeki we've seen her do was against that sumo dude in Chapter 4-ish. In fact that's probably the only 1-on-1 Erina has done in this manga.

>>145258321

She's literally about to be in some kind of fight now anon, relax

>>145258321
Wolverine vs Eizan.
Souma vs Eizan.
Ryou vs Rentarou.

offscreen
Meat vs Mea
Megumi vs Kumai

Counting the offscreen ones, which is a questionable idea, I think those are all the shokugeki in the last 50 ch.

Oh, I guess there's also Souma vs Eishi (unofficial)

>>145258321
>Does Erina ever do anything but blush?
She rallied the PSD and taught them about the various ingredients in the Hokkaido region. Ultimately, they passed thanks to her.

>>145258500
Gotcha, a useless support character. She'll be good for sucking off MC-kun after he does stuff that's actually important

I find it hard to believe that PSD is the only rebel group. Surely there are second years and a couple of non-Elite third years that disagree with Central's methods? Even if their clubs got dismantled there has to be a few people resisting the regime

>>145258540
(You)

>>145258557
I'm pretty sure that the other members of the Don RS and Megumi's Local Cuisine RS count. And there are second years in those groups.

>>145258557
They resisted already and lost. The election group, PSD, and dissenting E10 are the only people who have had any success at resisting.

>>145258700
>a bunch of first years could resist what second and third years couldn't, barring those exceptions
Embarrassing

>>145258834
Muh Jewels Generation.

>>145258834
How many 2nd and 3rd years are there even? The ones that are left should be pretty good, but there can't be many.

>>145258834

The first year group this time is really really stacked and that's been a plot point since the Autumn Elections

Most of the really good 2nd and 3rd years are probably in the E10 anyways so they don't really give a shit.

>>145259003
Souma took on several dozen of the 2nd years post-Stagiare, he probably defeated most if not all of them in Shokugekis
Hard to say if there are any non-Elite third years, though they would be weaker than Eizan at least

>>145259105
There are. If you look at the leaderboard for the moon festival, you can see like 20 or so 3rd years.

But yeah, we have to remember that the top 4 second years are considered better than all but the top 5 third years, and the top first year is considered better than all but the top 5 third years and top 4 second years.

The rest of the top 5 first years probably outrank most 2nd and 3rd years too, even without muh jewels generation, which may extend that to like the top 10.

>>145258557
>I find it hard to believe that PSD is the only rebel group.
Nao, Mimasaka, Alice and Ryou are not from PSD. There are the E10 who lost their places too.

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>>145235146

>>145259534
>Shokugeki No Soma
>Artist: Nobuyuki Fukumoto

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>>145205658
>Shit taste incarnate, OP. She's literally done nothing to deserve protection. Bitch can't even cook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkgRb0uKwKs

>>145204238
this faggot should do vanilla doujins for his whole life

remove the following to have sns great again
>azami
>hayama