Shokugeki no Souma

>>146576179
Is Kuga for sexual?

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kuga a kute

Reposting
>>146574150
>wok
Is currynigger going to cook chinese too?

>>146576252
Yes. Even the shota form.
I would a shota Kuga

>>146576339
Niggastream's "cleaning" was even worse than usual this week.

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>>146576179
Shota Kuga and teen Kuga are both adorable as hell, but how will adult Kuga looks like?

>>146576339
Why is Kuga so based

>>146576179
Where can i find the clean version?

>>146576400
Adorable and a sex god at the same time.

For some reason I read every one of Kuga's lines as dub Envy from FMA

>>146576179
>>146576400
Literally Yugi.

Risa Taneda is sick?

http://osawa-inc.co.jp/blocks/index/news000011.html

Please no. I live for that sultry voice of her's.

>>146576179
>be ingenious with bear meat
Well, if this isn't the gayest thing I've seen all week.

>>146576179
>the path of Chinese cuisine is a spicy one
I'm starting to think that the reason Kuga only does Sichuan cuisine is because the consultant isn't confident in her knowledge of chink cuisine beyond that.

>>146577285
sh'yeah stupid fucking nip thinks she knows cuisine like he researches food for a living or whatever

they should've asked some genuine chinese cuisine masters of canada to help them out

>>146576393
Why don't you do it yourself if you don't like it, huh?

>>146577417
What're you on about? I'm not attacking her knowledge, I'm just saying she might be playing it safe by sticking to things she actually knows about. It'd be kind of bad of an idea to do some ancient egyptian cuisine or some shit and get it completely wrong.

>>146576400
muh

not even best boi can save this series.

>>146577029
It's not like we were getting season 3 anyway

>>146578388
I don't know. I actually completely skipped several chapters where Souma and co. passed some tests with Central mooks because they looked so boring. Now with best boi Kuga back, I actually gained some interest in manga again.

>>146578388
This is a meme isn't it

>>146576179
Which chinese dishes are genuinely spicy? Whenever I get general tso's chicken it's disgusting easy to eat around the peppers. Which dish doesn't allow me to do that?

>>146578649
>general tso's

Jesus Christ.

>>146578719
That's not a chinese dish I'm familiar with, care to elaborate?

>>146576179
I want to believe Kuga's packing a huge weapon down there.

>>146578550
Well, there's an OVA announced. No Erina there I guess.

>>146578649
> general tso's chicken
What in the world is this?
t. Lives in Beijing.

>>146578550

Have the sales for the manga volumes and Blu Rays tanked?

Not asking that sarcastically, genuinely curious.

>>146578649
Try eating actual Chinese cuisine as opposed to heavily americanized Chinese takeout.

>>146579544
The anime never sold well, I think the manga sales are the same as always.

>>146578649
Try Mapo, an entry-level 'spicy' dish in Sichuan cuisine which itself is not famous for being "spicy" but heavily "spiced".

>>146578914
We will know next week, when Kuga and Souma will go to mountains to """learn about bears"""".

>>146576179
wtf I like manlet now.

>>146576179
So who's the current #8 and #10 ?

>>146580416
I'm betting one of them is that girl who was with Rentarou and the others jobbers, the one who wasn't defeated.

>it's another "mangaka thinks his audience is retarded enough to believe that an MC who won 99% of his matches so far will lose to a nigger that he already fought when expulsion is on the line" chapter

>>146580416
Erina is #10, iirc, 8 hasn't been revealed yet. That is of course unless thank rankings changed.

>currynig is higher ranked than Erina even though he has been in the elite 10 for literally a month

>>146580604
Me think Erina is now #7 though. Also Eizan #6 Momo #3 Sword #4 Nene #5

>>146580535

>Souma
>won 99% of his matches

You're a retard.

So what exactly is Hayama going to tell Souma what to put on the line in the Shokugeki? Expulsion is already on the line and they already played the "I will never cook again" card. Doesnt seem like there's much to do

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I want it to be real

>>146580956
Something to do with Jun, like taking care of her so that curry can fully go down the path of darkness if he wins

So Kuga is planning on getting back into the elite 10 by having Soma get a seat on the council

I wonder if Isshiki & Tosuke are planning on doing the same thing

>>146580535
>an MC who won 99% of his matches
>lost to Shinomiya (technically)
>lost to Erina
>lost to Hayama
>lost to his dad a few hundred times
>lost to Kuga (overall sales)
>lost to Tsukasa
Right.

>>146578649
>general tso's
>chinese dish

Not sure if bait or

>>146580832
It was just a manner of speaking.
Doesn't change the fact that he has won or forced a bullshit "draw" in most of his matches so far and clearly isn't going to lose to someone he already lost once when losing means expulsion.
I just wish they would end this bullshit mini-arc already and go on with the Hokkaido trip so that the story can move into more interesting places.

>>146581184
He didn't lose against Erina. She just went full bitch mode and said his dish sucked. It wasn't even a Shokugeki.

Didn't Rindou say that all the rookies would be facing Elite 10?

So are the rest of them challenging seats higher than Hayama? How the hell are they gonna justify those wins?

>>146581362
Most probably they will face those new faggots that no one cares about.
Still, I'm expecting some of them to get expelled or some serious bullshit to take place.

>>146580968
I'm sure these two will talk a lot about their respective waifu and husbando after this arc.

>>146581362
Tosuke and Isshiki will be able to help out a few of them

Other's will probably face noobs that took the old spots like Hayama

>>146581477
I really want the sidebros to go. Also a few of the others in PSD. This show needs a tighter cast and stronger individual character focus.

Eishi/Rindo/Momo/Somei aren't going to be defeated anytime soon

They will be the final enemies(not counting Azami)

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>>146581486
As long as they're glued to each other like this when they do it.

>>146581217
I wish the whole Hitler youth academy arc would fucking end.

I really wish Erina would just tell her dad she won't cooperates with him no matter what and tell him to fuck off.

>>146581712
I consider Azami a pretty cool character, my issue with this whole arc is that they are focusing in his edgelord henchmen rather than the main villain himself or at least the few likable people in his side like Rindou.

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> Yukihira you lost, you a shit, die ahahahaha
I fucking hated this part.

What did I ever enjoy about this show? With every new challenge, all I can find myself thinking is "let's wrap this shot up".

Is Kuga better than Eizan? And I mean serious dedicated Eizan with his glasses off.

>>146581772
His plan is kids cartoon tier of stupidity though. Literally "Imma rules the world with x" and x being cooking.

>>146581790
I like how they are expecting us to believe that Hayama really stands a chance.

>>146581790
Calm down anon, we all know currynigger has 0 chance of winning. It'd be all anticlimactic if he didn't say "OMG SUCH POWER LEVELS"

>>146581800
Maybe you should stop following it week by week.

>>146581790
I want to kill this fucking cunt.

>>146581214
It's literally served at chinese restaurants you fucking retard

>invented by chinese people
>not a chinese dish

>>146581790

twice the pride, double the fall

>>146579653
>>146579049
>food invented by chinese people
>"it isn't chinese because I said so"

There is no universe that exists where it works like this

>>146581790
The only way they can reedem this bullshit is if Doujima shows up later and says "lel I was kidding, he sucks".

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>Suddenly an episode from Stagiare
>Shino: Yukihira! It’s time for the staff to begin work!
>Shino: Wake up already, dammit!

>Souma: Oh, ‘morning Shinomiya-senpai!
>Souma: I cleaned the kitchen and prepped the ingredients!
>Shino: O-Okay. (Tch!)
>Souma: Why did you click your tongue?

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Kuga wasn't Yugi. He was Marik all along.

>>146581790
>inb4 he loses because he has no feelings

Is SnS in danger of being cancelled? What position does it hold in Jump?

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>Bag: Peeled Sweetened Chestnuts
>Souma: Thanks, Kracie-sama.
Someday I'll get off my ass and translate these recipes. Someday.

>>146582026
>tfw you will never have an army of bald man to do your shit.

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>Excessively handsome Tsukasa Eishi

>>146581958
>food invented by chinese people
What are you on about
>The food has been associated with Zuo Zongtang (Tso Tsung-t'ang) (1812–1885), a Qing dynasty statesman and military leader from Hunan Province. Zuo himself could not have eaten the dish as it is today,[2] and the dish is found neither in Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, nor in Xiangyin County, where Zuo was born. Moreover, Zuo's descendants, who are still living in Xiangyin County, when interviewed, say that they have never heard of such a dish.[3]
>could not have eaten the dish...
>descendants have never heard of such a dish...
Okay, so let's see who made it.
>Peng claim
>Wang claim
Both of these dudes first made this dish in the states, for US diners. It's not a Chinese dish any more than Chicago mapo is a chinese dish or NY Pizza is an Italian dish.

>>146581892
Possible.
Good lookin' out Anon

>>146581790
What was the last serious cooking competition Souma was in that Doujima oversaw?

How would he even know what Souma's current level of cooking is?

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>Fairy Erina-sama

>>146582142

Pretty sure the last one was the three way autumn festival battle between Soma, Ryo, and Hayama.

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>Erina-samaaa!! Where are you!?
>Hisako stampeding

>>146581958
Are Buffalo Wings prime examples of Italian Cuisine because they were invented by an Italian couple?

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>Erina-sama is on verge of death!?
Wh

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>So this… is the power of a diner…!!
>Sfx: munch munch nom nom

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>E: …that reminds me, I should begin packing for the trip…
>E: But I ran away from home, and going back to fetch my luggage isn’t a good idea…
>H: Erina-sama

>H: I’ve packed your luggage for the advancement exams. // It has everything including travel-size lotion.
>E: Is this REALLY what it’s like to run away from home…?

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>Tootsuki Academy’s duffel coat

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>Tsukuda Yuuto
>We’re on Volume 20!!! Honestly, I’m a bit scared!! I have no idea how long this story will continue, but please watch over me.
__
>Saeki Shun
>Tehepero

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>1st Seats of past generations
>Sfx: Bam
>Gnn…
So I gather Etoile is being worked on after all?

>>146581807
We know nothing of their true power.

>>146582409
Sasuga Hisako.

>>146582041
It's selling pretty well actually.

Also Jump can't afford axing another popular series now that Bleach and Nisekoi are gone.

>>146582041
SnS is that solid series that may not be a heavy-hitting flagship (i.e. BnHA, Haikyuu) but regularly makes the top 3-5 and rarely dips below 7. Hell, before the Azami arc it was flying high.

>>146583010
Bleach was a ghost ship drifting aimlessly, its fanbase a mere shadow of what it used to be. Jump had nothing to lose by sinking it.

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>>146583350
I hope this Azami shit is over soon.

>>146582327
kinda rude considering her seiyuu is dying

>>146583863
Don't jinx it ;_;

>>146577417
>of canada

>>146581362
It surely can't be 1 on 1, there's more rebels than there are E10 members. Plus whoever gets Tsukasa or Rindou are doomed.

>>146581772
Rindou has had more screen time than any of the non PSD E10 though, what are you saying? Unless you count Hayama before his E10 tenure.

>>146582013
This must be why master Shinomiya got so luke warm lately. His common sense can't keep up. Then again it's pretty insane how little Souma sleeps.

>>146583863
Risa is life and as such shall persist.
Kami-sama has taken far too mnay young nip personnel this year.

>>146581362
Power of love and friendship. Plot armor like “I defeated you but I think you're worthy so I'll make sure you won't be expelled with my E10 powers” isn't out of question.

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looks like best boy is back

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This arc has really put into perspective how much of a little shit Hayama is, if he turns out to be a double agent or something

>cocky little fuck, no modesty
>cruises by with his OP nose powers that he was born with
>Indian, objectively one of the worst nationalities
>when he won the elections, instead of playing it cool, he started blabbing about how much better he is than Souma and Kurokiba, even though he beat them by a hair
>is usually a dick to his cute loli guardian
>will look down on and trash talk anyone he beats (e.g Hisako).

These bait threads are getting annoying.

>>146585115
Everything you said is out of context besides the Indian part, which is 100% true. It's also the reason why he's about to get BTFO.

>>146585193
He still looks like a dick, even in context. Dude is constantly trash talking and provoking people. Just reread any of his matches

>>146585288
>>146585193
Even in-context he's a massive fucking prick. Out of context he's an antagonist instead of a protagonist, he has the personality of fodder who gets btfo.

>>146585288
What appears on the outside isn't what's on the inside though. As readers we already know it's mostly just a cover for himself. I'm not saying he isn't a dick, because he is that's his true character, but he's not doing it to be a dick. It's always to hide his own insecurities.

That moment where he hugged Jun was probably the only time in his years at Tootsuki where he allowed his truest self to come to surface. And it's plain as fucking day Jun is a hostage in Azami's grasp one way or another you'd have to be a mongoloid to think otherwise.

So why would Hayama not turn out to be a haughty smug cold dick? He's probably shitting his pants over how to keep her employed under the guise of it all.

>>146585422
He's not sociable, and is indeed a dick, but he's not massive by any means once you have the context. Most people under heavy pressure end up fucked up one way or another, Hayama just took the route that he took his entire life since he himself believes he's not allowed to fail.

He's similar to Erina in that sense, or at least old Erina. He's full of himself, but not completely because he believes he's that good, rather he believes he has to be that good for the sake of Jun.

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>Yukihira... The way you are now...
>YOU HAVE NO CHANCE AT BEATING HIM!

It's almost like this whole chapter was built around Yukihira figuring out a way to beat Hayama and improving as a whole.

Way to point out the fucking obvious Dumbjima.

>>146586051
Why do you think Azami is so angry at Saiba senpai lost and left? He couldn't handle Gin taking 1st.

Rindou was extremely cute this chapter.

>>146582026
Because of the whole Chinese thing I'm going to assume they're all eunuchs.

>>146582502
Oh man, we're in for a long ride aren't we.

>>146586118
just remember, all of SnS is an elaborate courting ritual between Azami and Jouichirou

>>146582026
H-hayai.

>>146583863
DELET

>>146585516
>shitting his pants
Not on the streets?

>>146576179
>Souma manages to coerce Hayam into betting the 9th seat

>Wins

>Kugga betrays him and forces Souma into betting his 9th seat

>Kugga wins and is back on the E10

This is what is going to happen right? It is too early for Souma to be an E10

>>146587875
No he's 'upgraded' now remember?

>>146587875
He will be, in some weeks.

>>146587910
Well, less than betrayal, that's literally Kuga's plan. That he so openly told.

fujobait when
these boys are too cute not to

>>146588252
As soon as they start the tasting. We have Gin to lure in the gays and Kuga for everyone else.

>>146587910
>betrayal
No m8, he's offering to help Souma beat Poo in Loo in return for Souma's help to get him back into the elite 10. It's give and take.

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>>146581790
I like Hayama, I would like to touch his hair.

I fell out of love with the series after the Mimasaka shokugeki. There is not and literally never will be a loss on Souma's part. His dad told him not to lose until he beats him, so he won't.

>>146589212
>what is the final.
>what is the Tsukasa shokugeki.

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>>146589212
But he loses plenty of times

>>146579544
Manga sells very well.

Animu never did. Basically why season 2 is only 1 cour.

>>146580781
Although it's not confirmed, this is the most logical outcome. Whoever Azami added to the E10 wasn't good enough to be there before the other 3 got the boot. There isn't suddenly going to be someone else better than Momo to slot in at #3, so the best thing for him to do it bump everyone up to fill in the empty seats and then add the new people at the bottom.

>>146589859

Only because he had to go and do some dumb two-stage dish in the finals, and challenge the first seat to anything. He hasn't lost anything that really had any impact on his life anyway.

>>146590168

But he has lost. So the people saying that he's never lost since he lost to his dad are wrong.

Now, did those losses mean anything? Ultimately no, and you can certainly take issue with that, but they are still losses nonetheless.

>>146589212
>His dad told him not to lose until he beats him, so he won't
But he lost. Like, literally.

He lost in the finals, lost against Kuga, lost against Tsukasa.

The only problem is that the madman keeps getting away with it, so even whe he loses, he isn't affected.

I'm betting cinnamon will be they key ingredient that will defeat Hayama. At least I want it to be.

>>146588872
but its covered in poo, why would you want to touch it?

>>146589212
>His dad told him not to lose until he beats him, so he won't.
Faggots are still saying this?

>>146588306
Nah mate, I'm gay man and I think Kuga is really hot, while Dojima is not attractive at all for me.

How will Jun get tied into this?
I liked that anon's theory, hayama beats souma 2-1 in the shokugeki, but souma's vote comes from jun and that causes hayama to forfeit.

>>146581958
You're probably the kind of person who thinks California rolls are served in Japan.

>>146590168
>He hasn't lost anything that really had any impact on his life anyway.
You mean punishment? Souma has nothing of value to bet besides his enrollment. His loss to Hayama spurred him to find his specialty instead of lurking in his dad's shadows.

>>146591455
Hopefully killing herself so Hayama will follow.

>>146591455
I don't see souma losing to hayama for the third straight time. Hayama will lose and return as a mama boy to Jun.

>>146591739
can we have a non edgelord answer?

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>>146590999
this won't happen but it's hilarious

>>146590999
I like the way you think

>>146582028
>>inb4 he loses because he has no feelings
Because now the dish won't show his face, but Azami's due to Hayama learning under him.

Ofc they will disregards Yukihira learning from Kuga.

So Azami really fucking destroyed the fanbase on /a/ huh

Realistically speaking, how can Yukihira find a bear, much less observe it? It's not a fucking squirrel, it's a rare animal, even more so in Japan. Unless there is some wonderful place in Hokkaido where bears are abundant. The whole plan sounds weird even by SnS standards.

>you'll never have rindou senpai scold you and pinch your cheeks
why live

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>>146593397
he can lure it at least, but observing one would be troublesome indeed, maybe he'll just look at its den

>>146593397
It's like we are reading manga or something

>>146581790
>Implying no bait and switch ending where Hayama is working as double agent for central under spice waifu's orders

>>146594784
>>Implying no bait and switch ending where Hayama is working as double agent for central
Likely

>under spice waifu's orders
LOL NO. Spice's head is too dumb and only full of spice. Literally a one trick pony.

>>146594784
>>146595352
probably to benefit spice
gotta join central so spice waifu stays safe

Jun a shit.

>>146593397
He doesn't actually need to see the bear, just the bear's environment.

He probably will see a bear though.

It really is pretty fucking perfect that he's going to beat Pajeet by cribbing from Nao's cookbook.

>>146576179
doujin of Kuga ordering his army of men to fuck his boipucci good when?

It's honestly hard to tell whose side Rindou is on. She does whatever she feels like, really.

>>146596871
She's on her own side. Her archetype is the eternal wildcard, a great asset to have but never one to depend on.

>>146596871
>>146596981
Rindou and Kuga have the right mind set

Everyone else is treating this like it's fucking life or death, and they know that it's just cooking and you can't cook well if you aren't enjoying yourself

>>146597338
This is literally how Soma does everything though

If he loses he gets pissed but he always enjoys himself

>>146583350
>BnHA
>heavy-hitting flagship
What?

>>146597670
Rindou is basically female Souma. They have more in common than their hair color.

>>146597803
Both Rindou and Kuga see themselves in Soma, it's why they like him so much.

Do we have any character that specializes in South American cuisine ?

>>146597963
Not yet, maybe the E10 dude with the Peruvian hat who got axed, but it's all speculation.

>>146597963
Only if the big guy with the hat is peruvian, but it's probably ramen.

So this Manga just needed Yugi to be back for it to be good again?

Man, why didn't this happened sooner?

>>146598112
>So this Manga just needed Yugi to be back for it to be good again?
That's just your retarded opinion.

>>146598140
Well this Manga was SHIT before Yugi showed up.

Even Akame Ga Kill was more alive than this.

>>146598112
It needed to be about Soma prepping and struggling for some major challenge.

Those are the really interesting parts of the series and that didn't happen literally since the festival.

>>146598203
>>146598140

>>146581790
>Yukihara loses to Hayama by a hair in earlier arc
>Yukihara gets a rematch
>Hayama is apparently fucking amazing now compared to Yukihara

What the fuck? If this were true than Yukihara is improving at a shit pace compared to Hayama, and if so will never beat him.

>>146598245
this
I don't want some BS political discord plot, I want Souma or someone facing an obstical and overcoming it through trial and error. Getting fucked over because the other team is cheating isn't fun

>>146598203
It's a lot better when you can read through it all in one sitting. I'm sure the last year was brutal weekly but catching up starting a month ago, it made for an interesting change of pace, had some really good moments in it, and even if Ryo vs. Literally Who wasn't great Soma vs Eizan was (fuck the morons who think the entire sauce was made of ketchup, a little bit of it seems fine as a way to tie a sauce together)

>>146598392
That's the thing, Soma lost.

If they both improved at similar rates, Soma would lose again. He needs something that will give him the edge.

>>146581790
This poo in loo fuccboi about to be BTFO HARD.

>>146598112
Yes. Just look at the threads.
Kuga is best boy. Rindou is best girl.
I would trade this entire series for a cooking SOL starring big sis Rindou and lil bro Teru.

>>146596871
>>146596981
After the latest Betsubara, I feel like Rindou actually does have some loyalty to Tsukasa beyond just doing whatever she feels like whenever she feels likes.

>>146598461
Ryou vs Ren was fantastic, and one of the few matches where the outcome was legitimately in doubt throughout the entire match.

>>146599180
Except to a wildcard like Rindou, 'loyalty' can well mean 'get you kicked out of school so you wake up' or 'steal your seat to tease you over it later'.

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Learn your fucking place Hayama, you got btfo by Central while Soma was fighting the E10.
>even then he still acknowledges that he's inferior to Erina
Kek

>>146599180
Ryou vs Ren was a wild ride. I was one of the person who thought he would job

>>146599687
Everyone's inferior to Erina in 1st year

We actually don't know how strong she is but it's probably really goddamn strong.

>>146599788
She's supposedly strong.

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DEAI WA SHOCK WAVE SHOCK WAVE
MADA SHIRANAI SEKAI EHHHHH

>>146600479
This season's OP fucking sucks.

Both S1's were much better by a mile.

>>146600705
Second opening is the worst by far though

>>146581790
Jobberflag for Currynigger.

Where is Giganigga?

Can't the council/committee that actually approves shokugeki's just throw out this idea of the 9th seat vs someone without anything to offer, or will that just be ignored because drama.

Or is this another ILL STOP COOKING bullshit move?

>>146601093
As long as both parties agree to the stakes they can do whatever afaik.

Curry could just put up Soma being his bitch for life as punishment for dissing the nose or cucking him with SpiceWaifu or w/e

>>146599810
>She's supposedly strong.
She is strong. If you make 100 new dishes Erina would make 100 dishes that score 95-100 points.

Souma might make more dishes deserving of a score over 100+, but he'll get at least 5-10 absolute trash tier 0's.

Hayama is like Erina-lite. Fragrance is important but food is still about flavor.

Hayama and the rest also competed in the eggs challenge and Erina blew everyone the fuck out.

Too bad japan doesn't like stronk women and author is retarded.

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>>146601071
Who knows.

>>146601242
>she is strong
We've almost never seen it demonstrated. The Hotel Eggs shit made her look Alice-tier if even that since Alice only stopped because she literally ran out of ingredients. I can't even think of when else she actually did anything.

>>146601242
Author probably just wants to make a big deal of her actually fighting for real. 180 chapters and she's still billed as stronk as fuck.

It is pretty shit that everything seems contrived to keep her from fighting though, between the tournament and her going full Princess Zelda at sanctuary for 30 chapters.

>>146601365
She cooks well enough while at PSD that the buttbros revere her and shut up about her not being able to use a washing machine and they're not shit enough to make it this far at least.

>>146601447
That doesn't mean shit though. I get the established powerlevels, but skirting around the issue for this long when she doesn't actually seem that impressive in comparison to other first years actually makes her seem weaker just as a reader.

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>>146600705
Sorry anon.

UMARE KAWARU

IMA KOKO DE

>>146601682
Yeah, no.
I also feel like the Animation quality has been worse this season when compared to the 1st.

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>soma barely beats Hayama
>he's there for a while, talking to him and Gin/Central
>back at the train
>erina starts to worry because he hasn't arrived yet
>soma comes back late
>erina is relieved and calls him Soma
>"what, were you worried about me, Erina?
Tsukuda please
>>146601927
Yeah the 1st season definitely felt like it had more effort put into it. This season feels like they don't care anymore and are just trying to finish it for the cash grab.

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>>146601927
The anime just isn't popular, they will not put much effort into it.

At least the Pool OVA looked pretty good.

>>146602017
Easy anon, she's just calling him Yukihira now

Next you're gonna say they'll hold hands or something

>>146602114
>that Megumi creeping on Takumi
It was foreshadowed since the beginning.
>>146602136
They'll cook together under the distant moon and Soma will give her his dish

>>146602114
>>146602249
She got lessons from Giga and now she will cuck him, the madwoman.

>>146601549

Erina is the other main character and we haven't seen her cook against a named character for 170 chapters. The author's not gonna build hype the entire manga just to go ayyy she's barely better than currynigger on chapter 200.

>>146603131
So she's suddenly going to be Rindou tier? At this point there's more hype around Rindou than around Erina. Erina's hyping has been handled too heavy-handedly with very few feats imo.

>>146603213
The thing is, her dad were able to grab the third seat in his first year. So a first years prodigy who could match the higher seats isn't actually too far fetched

>>146599180
I admit, it was pretty fun trying to figure out who was actually going to win between the two; matches that don't involve Soma are so rare in this series.

>>146603628
We've had a lot of it back at the autumn election

>>146603582
Seats one and two are always on a different tier entirely from what we're seeing, and Rindou's powerlevel is an utter mystery besides 'she's pretty damn good'.

>>146603213
What makes you think she wasn't always?

She's seat 10 because of entrance exams, we already know Eizan was able to go for higher, why couldn't she?

>>146603669
Yea, I feel like there needs to be a balance though; Its good to take focus away from Soma once in a while, but it doesn't have to drag like I felt the Elections did.

>>146603670
Yeah. Actually even though I believe that erina is strong, I also don't think that erina could win against rindou at this point. In fact, I want her to lose her seat at the E10 so that she could start from the beginning again with everyone

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>have fun
It's like literally everyone has forgotten that these are teenagers except these two and Souma

>>146603769
It really is a fucking blessing that Soma is a good enough protagonist that even if the focus is entirely on him and one other character for a bit you know it will turn out well. He can carry a scene with pretty much anybody.

>>146603831
Well Exams are tough just like normally with a pencil and paper, and now you have to like do live physical exams, first phases were like doing math equations where everyone EXCEPT you gets to use calculators, protractors, and even get like example equations

This next exams is like giving college finals to highschool freshman. So yeah it's intense to the students.

but Really I don't know why the examiners and E10 are acting like they are about to preform a political coup and start world war 3 agains some highschool punks

>>146603831
I but they fug casually

>>146601365
Not that guy, but she crushed a bunch of clubs, finished the fastest in the first hell camp by far (she was completely done bathing when Souma was going to the baths), dominated the egg competition even with Souma poaching enough of her customers to pull his ass out of the fryer at the last second, completely destroyed a professional chef who was on the verge of being awarded his first michelin star by cooking his own specialty better than him and then took over his kitchen and ran it better than he did, and finally she also dominated in the moon festival, coming in second place is the hardest area (where the other first years struggled in the lower areas) despite using a reservation system and leaving a prime table completely vacant.

Despite the lack of shokugekis, Tsukuda does not fail to consistently demonstrate that Erina is operating at a different level.

>>146604412
>Tsukuda does not fail to consistently demonstrate that Erina is operating at a different level
Additionally, every single time she's shown watching someone cook, particularly during the festival, she's almost always the first one who knows exactly what they're doing with their cooking, showing she's by far the most knowledgeable of all the first years.

>>146604412
Most of those are completely out-of-context. It's like telling a western audience that someone beat Bai Qi in a fight. "Who the fuck is that? Is he strong"? If we said 'Bruce Lee", then they'd be all 'wow'.

>>146604227
>using calculators
>for math
>needing example equations
>implying having the equations in front of you even helps all that much if you've actually practiced with sample problems
American detected. I'm joking I get the idea
Still it's like, they've been SRS BSNS nonstop. I guess they mostly skipped over the fun stuff for non-Polar students, but these guys are regularly pulling all-nighters.

>stagiare was chapter 105
>Yugioh was chapter 120-130 or so
So...Azami over when?

>>146604500
No? The clubs, sure. The hell camp was the rest of the first years. For stagiaire, you should understand the context by virtue of the michelin star. And the Moon festival was most of the student body including 2nd and 3rd years. In fact, outside Erina and the E10 second years, the upper area seemed to be nothing but 3rd years from the rankings page.

>>146604057
That's a sign of good writing when the protagonist is as likable as Soma. Dude even tops in the character polls, which isn't that common.

>>146604550
Azami isn't an arc.

>>146604694
It's not too uncommon for the type of series Souma is. For those kinds of manga, it's usually either the protagonist or his "cooler rival".

>>146598392
Doujima is just full of shit.

>>146604699
Well he's kind of a shit, but you know what I mean. Azami Youth, Comrades Under the Central Party arc.

>>146604694
Nah it's not that rare for this type of manga. Explicit sports manga (not SnS but it comes close at times) are basically fujofests.

>>146604699
Who says? He could easily get kicked out of the chairman seat before they get into their third year, all they have to do is get a majority into the E10, which shouldn't be hard considering muh jewel generation.

>>146604663
To be fair a huge amount of her festival success was probably rep coasting, that was demonstrated to be a big deal.

Erina shokugeki fucking when?

And it'd better be vs Hannibal.

Since people are pretty vocal on their dislike of Azami and Central as a whole, what would you have preferred from them that doesn't involve removing them from narrative.

>Don President is a fucking laughingstock
>he's a second year
Are we meant to believe that Meat is stronger than a legit second year (legit, because he made it to Stagiare through the other trials of year 2) right at the start of her first year?

>>146604775
What's rare is that it's pretty much an even split, 4 of the top 6 are women with 5:5 in the top 10.

>>146604775
>>146604838
It's already been two arcs, assuming you count the Survivor hunt and Azami's takeover/Erina's escape as a single arc.

The promotion exams are explicitly a new arc according to the manga, so there's no argument there.

So yeah, Azami isn't an arc.

>>146604898
Nearly all of the important characters that are freshmen are better than pretty much anyone that's not an Elite 10 member or and an Alumni.

Golden Generation and all that.

>>146604898
They're 6 months into the year anon, it's not really the beginning anymore

>>146604898
Again, "muh jewels generation". Remember, they told us most years the top scores in the prelim are 70 or 80. Meat scored an 86.

>>146604891
He's too overbearing and his plan is fucking stupid. It'd be a good way to shit on the shonen 'through kids trying new things' idea by showing that, well, there's really very little that these kids can come up with that Azami can't - unless they're the exceptionals, in which case welcome aboard. There's very few downsides to an Azami plan that isn't pants-on-head retarded, especially if he just records the lectures being given and sends them to the rest of the students. He loses a miniscule amount of manpower in return for polishing even the rocks to a shine - they'll never match gems, but they'll be better than they were if they left out to dry just like that.

>>146604989
>>146605009
>a generation is a single year
What a retarded concept
Only in hindsight do I realize how stupid it was

>>146604990
No back at like Chapter 10, Don was scared fucking shitless of Meat.

>>146604989
He has to be top like, 50 or so of the second years and he's a [second] year.

>>146604891
I want all the Azami thing to never happened and the story continues with First year vs Second year E10 vs Third year E10

>>146605041
Its more which year you entered the academy as a freshmen.

Even though he was the third seat at the time, Azami isn't in the same generation as Jouichiro or Gin and is explicitly said to be from the generation after them.

>>146605162
Isn't that usually the 'Class of' shit?

>>146605123
I just said "without removing them from the narrative" Anon. :V

>>146605041
That's how it works at Tootsuki though, the first years are explicitly the 92nd generation. Isshiki's class is the 91st, Rindou's the 90th, useless tits came from the 89th, Taki, the 88th, Shinomiya the 79th, Azami the 71st, and Jou and Doujima the 69th.

>>146605123
If that means "I am Saiba Jouichirou's son" doesn't happen then I can't agree with that

That drop was brilliant and I'm grateful to Azami for making it possible

>>146605258
Bah.
>Jou is 21 years older than Rindou
...Timeline fits, he had a kid with Lilith when he was out touring the middle east or something.

>>146605197
Nope, its explicitly said to be a generation.

>>146605123
Azami's nonsense is the narrative device that allows them to face the upperclassmen. In a regular school year, Souma would never face the 3rd year e10 at least. They would all graduate having basically met him once at the leaf viewing and then likely almost never interacting with him again.

>>146605329
So make Eishi and Rindou student teachers

>>146605329
If they all worked together in Central it could easily work though.
What would happen is that the E10 are the bigshots of Central but exceptional and promising students are also inducted. Just use >>146605010 plan imo, the arc would revolve around Souma trying to change the system but not really having a great arugment for it besides it 'feeling wrong'. Or maybe, he doesn't want to at all - he thinks that the old system, while harsh, might be too harsh to people like Megumi who clearly had potential but were deemed unfit. If you're thrown out of central you always have a chance to crawl back in.

>>146601365
The egg breakfast challenge wasn't a direct measurement of cooking skill. Erina had Souma steal some of her backed-up customers with his acrobatics. Alice had fucking Meat for competition.

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>>146605407
>Rindou student teacher
I CAN'T HANDLE IT

>>146605041
Back in the first 10 chapters Soma beat up a guy for shitting on Yukihira's and Hisako and Erina were implied to be lesbians.

It was early on and they had no idea if the series wouldn't be cancelled, I wouldn't read super far into some of the early stuff.

>>146605496
Had souma not pulled up that acrobatic idea she would've easily scored 500 plates

>it's another "Erina can't cook" meme episode
Can't you people stop taking the bait?

>>146605418
Isn't that basically how Central operates now...minus the heavy-handed villainy presented by them.

>>146605554
Yeah. Back then they throwed everything they have in order to stay afloat. Ecchiness was off the chart, all those panderings. Now that SnS is a fairly stable they started to build up things, toned down the ecchiness

>>146605626
That's literally the only problem with them.

>>146605554
I kinda miss Soma being such a jackass. Sure, he wouldn't have been that likable, but having such an asshole as a protagonist was so fresh.

>>146605496
"An egg dish directly reflects the skill of the chef."

Erina says that twice and it's been in a scene that served as a barometer for Soma's skill both times. She made an exceptional egg dish 400 times, Soma made one that almost fucked him up until he figured out a way to save his own ass

Also Jesus Christ, it really is going to be eggs all the way down with them every time, isn't it?

>>146605736
Asshole MCs are a-plenty these days for some reason. Especially in WNs and LNs. Datalian from Dungeon Defense is a legitimate fucking sociopath and Ainz is getting something of a god complex.

>>146605554
>Hisako and Erina were implied to be lesbians
I think they were just messing around as friends, if you're talking about that one panel before Souma took the entrance exam.

>>146605702
Shame, because the point they present actually makes sense, but I guess the author didn't want us to sympathize with the antagonists and made them as overbearingly evil as possible to make sure that we don't.

>>146605795

Even that's out of character as fuck then.

>>146605736

It's not like Soma's incapable of being a jackass, Kuga's entire plan is hinging on that right now.

I find it pretty refreshing that an MC's just nice without being a saint, and a pretty cool guy on top of that.

>>146605841
This is what I don't really get. Why is this whole "individuality" thing so important when it all comes down to survival of the fittest? I mean Soma and his group don't have to care, because they're talented enough to graduate anyway, but now they want the old system back that will result in many more people dropping out of school. Who's the greater evil here?

>>146606142

It's that and they also don't want Bad Dad within 50 feet of his daughter.

Do you think if Hisako just told the E10 Erina's backstory they'd throw Azami out on his ass? There's selfish and then there's literally enabling a physical abuser and I don't think any of them are actually that apathetic.

>>146606312
You've seen tsukasa. He only cares about his cooking and maybe rindou .

>>146606435
I doubt he would raise an eyebrow when rindou turn against central. The guy's legit food autist.

>>146606142
>they want the old system back that will result in many more people dropping out of school. Who's the greater evil here?
It doesn't have to be that way though. The Shokugeki aren't designed to get students expelled, it's just that the combative mentality of many of the students causes that to be the case. Soma himself clearly stated as much when he beat Subaru and told him he can't leave.

And the purpose of the strict exams is to filter out the people that are willing to accept that they can't do any better- something that Ishikki points out is beginning to change.

>>146606558
It's rindou's job to drag him out of central when they finally fight

>>146605841
>>146606142
I don't think it's that simple. I think most people reading understand that Azami has some legitimate criticisms of Senzaemon's system. It's just that his own way introduced very real problems too, like those students we just saw at the promotion exam, who blindly followed his instructions without any understanding of why exactly they should follow those steps.

I think that in the end, Erina, who was trained by both Senzaemon and Azami, will synthesize the best of what they have to offer, and toss out the worst, and Tootsuki will end up better for it.

Place your bets on who the others will face.

Nikumi or Ryou - Sword
Because Sword probably chops tuna or meat with that blade.

Megumi or Hisako - Nene
Megumi and Nene look vaguely look alike and Nene is probably the type to hide her powerlevel like them.

Takumi - Eizan
Gentleman mafia vs. yakuza?

>>146606854
I mean even if Azami does have a point, that still doesn't change that he's pretty hard to take seriously most of the time and the fact that he's psychologically damaged his daughter.

Tsukada would have to be a god tier writer to get us to sympathize with someone who's made such a negative impression so far. I'm not saying he can't, but it seems unlikely without it feeling forced.

>>146607143
Oh yeah, Azami himself is a real problem. I just meant that his education system has some merits and some demerits just like Senzaemon's.

I think if we actually do get something sympathetic from Azami at some point, it'll either be related to his (almost certainly dead) wife, or him eventually coming to regret his actions that have cost him his own daughter.

>>146607143
All I ask is that we don't get a flashback arc. I fucking hate flashback arcs. A flashback isn't bad in itself but spanning several chapters while the readers are impatient to see what happens next in the present is horrible. Luckily Tsukuda has been fairly good about keeping those moments short and sweet,

>>146607252
We haven't heard much about Erina's Mom, so the latter seems more likely and things seem to be pointing towards most of his motives being related to Jouichiro.

I just hope we get something to justify all of this shit he's done and that he isn't just unceremoniously removed like people want.

>>146607143
>>146607252

On the other hand, if he pulls it off, we can get reformed headmaster Azami who still talks exactly the fucking same and I think I'm ok with that

I remember people being hype and liking his look when Azami first appeared. It's funny how many of them now think he ruined the manga.

>>146607465
Provided he doesn't remove himself from the setting to "atone".

It would be pretty entertaining to see him act exactly the same while trying to be a "normal" headmaster while awkwardly trying to mend his broken relationship with his daughter.

>>146601190
I remember either when he challenged Isshiki or the first seat its mentioned that it doesn't work like that

>>146607399

I wonder if it's deliberate that both Erina and Souma are missing their moms? Souma's mom's death is apparently important to his character, so maybe it'll come up at some point for the two of them?

>>146607252
>>146607143
>>146606854
The biggest problem is Azami himself, he's a extreme edgelord to the point of being more of a caricature than a character, like some living strawman someone pulled out of god knows where.
The students who followed without understanding aren't a huge problem. That should be discouraged but just because they don't understand WHY they're doing doesn't mean they don't know what to do, and that's okay, because that's all they amount to. They will never be extraordinary chefs who innovate. They will never be the next Shinomiya or Hinako or Tsukasa or Hayama. They are merely very good at making dishes, and that's what many restaurants would welcome with open arms. CENTRAL would be the true bed of innovation and progress and more or less be the core of the 'old' Tootsuki. Being part of Central for a time would hold the same prestige as before, given that they maintained their general quality. The Elite Ten system would remain unchanged.
The biggest problem with Senzaemon's system is that, yes, they might not be jewels, but that doesn't mean these people don't have worth and if you can polish them with minimal effort, why not do so on the way?

>>146607537
We didn't expect a literal WW2 political cartoon character out of him. He's basically a drawing of Stalin or Mao or some shit, except trivialized to the point of being simply a strawman to bash communism or something with.

>>146607537
His introduction was VERY well done; his appearance changed the entire tone of the manga and made way for a significant shift in the status quo by usurping Senzaemon as headmaster.

While I admit what came afterward didn't exactly live up to the hype of his debut chapters, Azami did provide a major shift in the manga's setting, for better or worse.

Man, I remember how many threads were being made at the time too when everyone was super hyped by him. Good times.

>>146607668
Now we rarely even get two full threads total for spoilers and release.

>>146607668
>I remember how many threads were being made at the time too when everyone was super hyped by him
People were calling the Civil War spoilers bullshit because it was simply too crazy to believe and went nuts when it turned out to be true

>>146607714
Viz anon dropped the manga too. Those dump threads used to be very active during previous arcs. Now, well, they just don't exist anymore.

>>146607714
Yea, that's what happens when hype wears off and it doesn't feel worth it. Backlash sets in.

>>146607721
It was literally SnS's NXT Invasion in terms of "HOLY SHIT" factor, it was amazing.

Its sad that I don't think anything will top it in the series` future.

>>146607811
>Viz anon dropped the manga too
I'm glad he did, his whining was starting to get annoying
>durr I hate this manga now
>durr I hate Erina
>durr this is boring
>why do I keep dumping this?

>>146607875
what a faggot
I miss when Casanova still did this though.
Niggastream are fags

>>146607668


Azami is like Aizen in that everything after him was kinda worse but his intro was fucking amazing.

I started reading this month ago and I couldn't stop when he showed up.

>>146607925
All the details that get lost when Niggerstream cleans pages kills me.

>>146607964
Oh man, the comparisons were more on point than I first thought lol.

At the very least, I don't think we can expect Azami to start pulling new things out of his ass when he's cornered......right?

>>146607668
>Good times
Indeed
https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/130711898/#130711898

>>146607964
>>146608075
Aizen didn't make things worse, per-se, it was just the Mexico arc that was fucking horrible. Fake Karakura Town was actually enjoyable because of meme characters like Barragan (who was legit as fuck) and of course Aizen who attained true meme status around that time.

>>146608104
>will Rindou ever return to waifu status /a/?
Oh yeah I remember these guys

>>146608104

Honestly if it's any consolation for you anons who read through Azami chapter by chapter it's that a fucking lot changes in a year in this manga apparently.

>>146608162
>it was just the Mexico arc that was fucking horrible
Making the Szayel fight shorter would have improved things tremendously. That and giving Orihime something to do other than scream Kurosaki-kun or just cry in her cell.

>>146608298
Orihime was just garbage throughout.

>>146608308
Let's be glad that we didn't have to put up with Erina being a damsel for that long. That is something I will praise about this whole thing.

>>146608397

Wasn't she a damsel for like 3 chapters?

>>146608437
Orihime was a damsel for well over 130.

>>146608162
>>146608298
SnS may have seen better days but I'm confident that it will never get as bad as Bleach.
>>146608397
I like how she wasn't just rescued by the MC, they sort of reconciled or reached an understanding and then she pulled herself together to make the best of the situation.

>>146581790
Let's hope that Yukihira's improvement from working at Kojiro's pays off, and kicks his ass.
He was shown to have improved a lot too since then, right?

>>146608446

No, I mean 3 chapters is barely anything at all.

And since then she's actually been more proactive and in a leadership role than the MC which is kinda cool

>>146608468
I mean, he got BTFO by the 1st seat which isn't really a good reference, but he should still be able to put up a fight against Hayama, unless he's been training under Azami directly.

>>146608513
The point is that she looked close to tumbling into the pit which Orihime even at the end didn't manage to fully climb out of. Let's be fucking honest here, for all the salt memes Orihime's 'usefulness' was roughly equivalent to Sakura's, arguably less because there wasn't ebin POTTERY going on.

>>146608447
Yea, that's something I liked a lot; I was so dreading that she was just going to cowed into Azami's side until Soma "rescued" her.

While he did play a part, she mostly pulled herself together and is even leading the good guys against him.

>>146581992
>the way you are now
Apply some basic reading comprehension. This is obviously set up to show off Souma improving and shit.

Plus, it's a shonen. Hyping the opponent is part and parcel.

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>>146608544

Souma and Erina post Azami is one of the nice things about everything after he showed up. They're clearly growing closer but there's been no "saving" bullshit in spite of what Senzaemon begged Souma to do.

Also Erina having her entire foundation on which she based Souma ripped right out from under her feet is one of the best moments in the entire manga.

>>146608892
The 'saving' Senzaemon wanted him to do was likely as simple as bringing the fun back to cooking for her. Showing her what she wanted once. She'll crawl out of the hole herself after she sees the light.

>>146607663
It's a failure of education in general. Imagine learning how to fix and engine, and someone teaches you a specific way to fix a problem, but you don't understand why it works.

Then something comes up, a manufacturer made some changes to their engine design, and the problem is fundamentally the same, but the exact solution no longer works. If you actually understood what the problem was, you'd still know how to fix it.

For the cooks, we already see examples of how they can get screwed over. Imagine that one of them is cooking in a restaurant, and suddenly a snowstorm cuts off the supply of a particular ingredient they need. They would have no idea how to compensate and complete the dish without it.

>>146576179
>ALL HIS COOKING SENSES HAVE RISEN TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL

Wew lads

>>146608939
That's not too far off from how Japan teaches its students actually.

They'll teach their students how to solve a problem, but teachers don't encourage thinking on HOW to solve it. Its very boring honestly.

>>146609038
Specifically, they'll give you an answer but don't teach you how to get to it.

>>146609038
But you wouldn't want to apply the same to cooking since cooking relies heavily on creativity

Souma should definitely be winning this fight, but if the writing takes a turn for the worst and he does lose, how would the author asspull him to stay in the school?

>>146608892
Yea, those were some of the better chapters as of late. It was also one of the big things I wanted to come out of this arc, Soma and Erina growing closer together and it was honestly pretty well done.

>>146608513
Souma works best as an example. People can look up to his accomplishments and think "I should be like that too". But he's mostly a lone wolf, and tries to go at things alone to prove himself rather than being a team player, like at the moon festival.

That's why Erina works better in the leadership role. She was honestly basically presented as the de facto leader of the first years back during the moon festival (when she basically called the top 1st years in for a meeting to chew them out for their dismal performances) and she's essentially become the leader of the "rebellion".

I think it works in a way that Souma is "the heart" of the group, and Erina "the brain". He inspires and she directs.

>>146608892
I really just want them to tag team up and defeat Azami and put an end to his arc while fleshing out Erina's character even more.

Get back to the fun cooking shit.

>>146608939
Right, which is why it should be discouraged. Azami is clearly fucking up big time in general right now to have students not understand anything at all, but the idea that everyone needs to be the innovator or fuck off is kind of retarded. Not everyone has what it takes to contribute to mathematics, but it doesn't mean that, given the chance to basically teach them it for free, they shouldn't learn anyway.

>>146609038
As far as I understand that lasts only through high school. In Uni it's the same as anywhere else, you need to actually understand what you're doing because you've hit the point where rote memory has failed.
That being said, up to a certain point focusing on memory is superior to focusing on understanding. You teach the Pythagorean theorem first, you don't need to teach WHY it works nor do you need to teach them the derivations - they won't get it anyway.

>>146609076
Doesn't sound right, you mean equations or what? I think that's a good approach for low-level knowledge, because confusing students who are already struggling with understanding the law of sines or newton's laws is hard enough without deriving it and explaining why it works to them.

>>146609079
No, top-level cooking does. To be a 'good' cook, you don't really need creativity, you just need pure technical skill. Look at Giganigga, he can recreate any dish perfectly with some trace on sharingan bullshit. If everyone who couldn't make the top echelons was a giganigga, that'd be insane for cuisine in general.
I mean they can't be complete robots, but they can be close enough. These people are more or less failures from the point of view of Tootsuki anyway.

>>146609129

If the rest of this arc is challenges alternating with that I'm more than fine with it.

I'm curious where it's gonna go from where it's at right now, and whether something's going to happen this arc to really upend things (because they will be really, really looking up for Souma by the end at the rate it's going)

>>146609079
It doesn't take much creativity to make a good dish. Central provides people who simply wanna get by but don't have the "talent" that the other prodigies have.

Even that one teacher said that ever since Central was established that the students have been improving and was even A+ material. The problem is that even if those dishes were good, they have no creativity or identity behind them.

They're basically just doing what someone told them to do rather than discovering things for themselves.

So in essence, academically Central is great, but it stifles the creativity in the long run.

>>146609305
But that's the point of Central. Central's dishes aren't some rigid curriculum never to be changed, they're supposedly devised by the E10. While they might not have 'identity', these people are so numerous they'll be everywhere. There'll be a flood of E10 tier chefs, if only in some dishes, floating around instead of like 40 of them floating around.

>>146609217
>Doesn't sound right, you mean equations or what? I think that's a good approach for low-level knowledge, because confusing students who are already struggling with understanding the law of sines or newton's laws is hard enough without deriving it and explaining why it works to them.

Yea, that's Central in a nutshell; its system works for people who just simply lack the understanding of cooking that some other students have and allows them to keep up with them instead of being booted out for their lack of creativity.

And yea, I agree that beyond high school that changes significantly, but since the setting of he series is primarily in High School, I think that's more relevant.

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I know this is at it's core a dumb cooking manga and all, but fuck this is some attention to detail

>>146576400
dat :3

So, I havn't watched or read this series because to me it looked like Iron Chef: The Animu

But these designs are cute. Is it any good?

>>146609470
Well yeah but that's the point. In an ideal high school, the shittier students just learn to memorize - even if they'll never innovate or anything, it doesn't matter as long as they can utilize their basic knowledge. I don't care if you actually understand trig on a higher level, just know how to use it when you go find a job. It's the best they can do.
The better students are made to understand why it works and what it means in applications other than a triangle. The exceptional students get to branch out more, dip into linear algebra and matrices and whatever.
Central works, as long as you assume they can manage to keep the E10 and 'Elite Student' system working.

>>146609536

I went into watching it on the advice of a friend whose opinion I valued pretty highly.

I was on the fence about it for 6 episodes.

I haven't enjoyed a manga or anime as much in years, there's kind of something exhilarating about going through it.

>>146609536
It's one of the better manga currently running in WSJ IMO. Also you'll fap a lot

>>146609374
Exactly, but those dozens of chefs will only ever know what was taught to them by Central and never try to innovate on their own.

That's what Soma was telling Erina a few chapters ago, that half of the fun of cooking is not knowing what you're going to make and if its even going to taste good, but the feeling of experimenting and developing new recipes based on those failures is what makes it worthwhile. That's why he's opposed to Central, Soma isn't interested in simply making good dishes, he wants to make his own good dishes.

The rest of the student body are so concerned on whether they'll pass or if they can ever catch up to the top tier chefs that they're not trying to actually learn, but just survive. Which is why its easy to understand why so many of them fell into Central in the first place, it gave them an out.

>>146609536
It's a sports manga where the sport is cooking. If you enjoy the trappings of a sports manga, you'd likely enjoy it.

>>146609536
>:3
No one's gonna call out this shit? /a/ is well and truly ded

>>146609623
But you are missing the point. People don't GO to Tootsuki to "have fun cooking". It's a top-tier professional school. They go to tootsuki to be trained in the culinary arts.
Those people will NEVER innovate. They simply do not have what it takes. It's like trying to make a C- mathematics student solve one of the unsolved problems of topology or some shit. It just isn't going to happen, they don't have the aptitude.
For those people, knowing what Central taught them is more than enough.

I guess it's because of the nature of the situation, but I was surprised that Erina kept her cool so well when those students revealed that they didn't understand why they were cooking the way they were. Erina's been shown to really be bothered by ignorance.

Azami's an interesting case because he's decided that almost everyone is a retarded pleb who doesn't even deserve to eat good food, but he's decided to make use of them as retarded robots anyway. It's crazy to think how much he must actually hate the kids he's teaching.

>>146609603
It is kinda murky though, because the series is basically saying that those students who rely on Central or who flunk out simply "don't work hard enough" and are directly compared with Soma, who is that good by simply working hard and improving.

Its fiction so obviously things are different, but the sad part about real life is that some people really aren't good enough and no amount of hard work will change that.

Even in the series, Soma wasn't born with Erina's incredible palate or Hayama's godlike sense of smell.

>>146609753
>Azami's an interesting case because
Because he's extreme and shallow to the point of farce.

>>146609770
You really think Souma got to where he is just by working hard? When he intuitively comes up with shit on the spot? Stuff like that performance thing or the okikage fish? Most people wouldn't even think of that, their minds are inherently limited to what they see. As Hinako said, people who are not of a certain caliber simply don't think wide enough. It's not a matter of trying.

>>146609536
Its a pretty enjoyable read; fun characters, great designs, and very hype moments despite it being about cooking.

Give it a shot, although the early chapters are pretty lewd. Artist used to do hentai.

>>146609824

He did spend 10 years powerlevelling against Jouichirou, and basically nobody has anything on that level for a sparring partner.

What's all this discussion about?

>>146609891
Well sure, but even then - the aptitude to never give up when pushed to this extreme is something special in and of itself. It's like, high-functioning autism, basically.

>>146609610
ok, that's good to know.

>>146609612
>you'll fap a lot
Is the food THAT good?

>>146609648
as long as it isn't softcore bara porn like some sports

>>146609711
nobody cares, stop with the "I'm an oldfag, rly guise! plz notice me!" shit. We're here for the weeb toons.

>>146609853
>artist used to do hentai
Ok, that's worth checking out.

>>146609891
Jou only gave him a super high bar but it's been established that Jou did not teach him gourmet.

>>146609925
>nobody cares, stop with the "I'm an oldfag, rly guise! plz notice me!" shit. We're here for the weeb toons.
desu this doesn't really work when you're actually a newfag. and have already proven your newness by not knowing who Tosh is.

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>>146609915
>It's like, high-functioning autism, basically.
>Souma is an autist
Besides him not being shit at interacting this actually fits pretty well.

>>146609824
But that's exactly what the series says it is! We even see Soma brainstorm most of his crazy methods before he implements them.

Its kind of a broken lesson the series is teaching by saying simply working hard will breed amazing result using Soma as an example, but its also pretty much established that Soma is simply more talented than most of his peers. He's already outperforming most of his upperclassmen for fuck's sake; no amount of hardwork can put you over people who have been in the business longer than you unless you were simply more talented than them.

>>146609925
Fuck off.

>>146609925
>Ok, that's worth checking out.
Its definitely one of the main draws of the series for better or worse.

>>146609980
Well I know what the series says, but Naruto has the same fucking thing with 'destiny can be fought' using literal ninja jesus as the example of he-who-fought-destiny-and-was-the-underdog (lol).
Like the fact he can actually come up with the ideas makes him a genius already. Who the fuck would think of that shit on the fly? Any normal person would simply think of how to change their dish fast enough. He's an intuitive genius, not a physically blessed one like Hayama or Erina maybe, but being able to consistently think outside the box and come up with innovative solutions to problems is a rare and powerful talent.