So is this one of those quirks in an anime I'm just suppose to overlook? I'm 8 episodes in and there has already been 3 instances of "if you don't get an A, you're expelled".
Why does this place even bother being called a school. There is no learning going on here, just trials of complete victory or death.
>just trials of complete victory or death
Yeah there are like 3 people that actually graduate every year.
It's stupid but that's how it is.
Hell's kitchen anime when?
In Japan school compulsion ends after middle school so high schools function a bit more like colleges. You're supposed to see it like that.
But really, it's the only way the writer knows how to create tension.
>I'm 8 episodes in and there has already been 3 instances of "if you don't get an A, you're expelled".
You should watch more of it, or go for the manga
>Nakiri-san
The kanji for “kiri” in this character sketch’s Nakiri means Paulownia, a tree prized for its high quality wood with few flaws. Once it was customary to plant a Paulownia when a girl was born and make it into a dresser and other articles as dowry when she married. It’s also a popular motif for noble family crests. Coincidentally it’s also known as “princess tree” in English.
The “kiri” in the current Nakiri means “cut”.
>The heroine at the center of a culinary academy that values formality and tradition.
>For the better or worse she’s a sheltered girl.
>Very fussy about taste, merciless toward unsuccessful dishes and incompetent chefs, throws knives
>*Wants to rule at the top of the Taste Mafia
>Even longer?
try and look at it from a position of understanding of the food industry
its raw
spoilers, megumi wins da souma
also tsukuda is meh, don't expect too much
worst girl
Isshiki
>Isshiki Satoru? Satoshi?
Can’t make out what’s written behind his head. At first I thought it said “second seat” but the kanji doesn’t look right.
>His apron is super lame
Kuga
>Senpai (2nd Year)
>Short and very confident
>Doesn’t get along with Isshiki-senpai, or rather Isshiki unilaterally teases him and he snaps
The Kuga prototype is marked as “hi”, the tall figure in front of him is “Isshiki” and the girl (?) is marked “ku”.
I kinda want to pull her longer braids with force
>Why does this place even bother being called a school.
Because it's a shitty shonen manga for 14 yo boys.
Kinda funny how they don't even interact now.
Megishima
>Ramen guy
>Pulls around a ramen stand every night on the academy grounds
>They say you get +6P in Luck if you encounter the stall
>Q: “Why run your stand at night?”
>A: “Ramen eaten at night is the most delicious food in the world”
>So he’s always sleeping during the day
>Wears a knit cap and souvenir jacket when pulling the stand? Might put on extra layers during the winter
Rindou (Tsukuda sketch)
>Teases Erina like an older sister
>R: “Your boobs are so big, Erina-chan”
>E: “R-Rude!!”
Rindou(Tosh sketch)
>Fake nails (takes them off when cooking)
Tsukasa
>Elite 1st Seat
>a translucent genius-type
>all rounder-ish? (same type as Erina?)
>want him and Souma to look good when standing next to each other
>might be funny if the 1st Seat is a shrimp?
I like the current Kuga more than what Tsukuda's concept would have become.
>that insanely generic sketch from tsukuda
>mandibles
I'm glad they fixed his design or Tsukasa would have no redeeming features
>tfw when tsukuda can draw better than me
Is there not a Souma page?
>elite concepts
>where is souma
Somehow I often forget Erina was part of the Elite 10. S-Sorry.
Eizan
>delinquent
>glasses
Kuga
>shrimp
>upright and pure
Isshiki
>lady’s man
>tall
Erina
>conventional tsundere
>gorgeous
>busty
Tsukasa
>undecided
>might want him to be around the same height as Souma
Nene
>model student
>sharp-tongued
>small breasts
Saito
>samurai
>looks taciturn
Momo
>loli
>fushigi (hard to understand) type?
[blank]
>M/F undecided
>”creature” male?
Megishima
>gloomy
>resembles a classical composer
>obsessed with ramen
>My Personal Take on the Ranking
Council of Ten Masters sounds cool.
Where's Rindou?
Kuga confirmed pure.
Presumably she's that [blank] and Tsukuda came up with her character last. The "creature" part is probably what he had in mind for Rindou's snake/dragon-like characteristics.
>Yeah there are like 3 people that actually graduate every year.
>It's stupid but that's how it is.
Totsuki isn't the most prestigious school for nothing. It has a 10% graduation rate for a reason retard
Even if you don't graduate I'm sure it's a big deal in the culinary world if you made it to third or even second year. Wasn't that mentioned somewhere in the manga or am I making shit up?
Any luck finding a link to the Elite 10 OVA anyone?
>Pulls around a ramen stand every night on the academy grounds
No wonder he's so buff
>>My Personal Take on the Ranking
So Saeki thought Saito should be the sixth seat? And Nene the fifth?
If you miss a single class in culinary school you essentially fail the course/ semester and Japan is equally weird with that shit
Thanks a lot for having me vividly imagine that. I wanna die
This is probably the reason Azami caught on so well with most normal students. He promised them an easy graduation so long as they followed his methods.
Yea honestly whose side you'd realistically choose if this was real life? I'd honestly choose Azami because I wouldn't be a gifted chef like most students are which means i'll most likely flunk with Senzaemons method but with Azami's method I'd be guaranteed to graduate even though i'm not gifted like most other people are.
The problem is that Senzaemon's method it's all about polishing the 1% in terms of graduating but even if you don't graduate you can still get a job in other kitchens or even hold your own restaurant with the skills you learned at tootski.
However under Azami's method all other resturaunts get shut down and everyone is forced to make the same food. So it's a question of is it worth it to have a guaranteed shot at graduating if it meant you couldn't have any freedom in your adult life when it comes to your cooking.
>However under Azami's method all other resturaunts get shut down and everyone is forced to make the same food.
Isn't it to either follow how he wants food to be made otherwise they'd get their Restaurant shut down? I don't think he's targeting every Restaurant, just the ones he doesn't approve that provides fine cuisine therefore he forces them to comply to his demands otherwise he shuts them down.
Yeah basically it's every restaurant not endorsed by central but it's not like he's going to test the restaurants himself. Something like yukihira diner would have been shut down even though Jouichirou owns it. It seems like its not necessarily just the quality of the food but how "high class" It is. Only the fanciest of foods will pass to be allowed into central with no room for creativity in what you make since it's a small group of chefs that tell everyone else what to make. So even as a chef who cooks at a hole in the wall diner if you aren't allowed to cook what you want it would suck which was really my point that its not like you can't have a restaurant you just get no creativity in what you want to cook unless you were the kind of chef that would have graduated from tootski anyways.
Choosing Azami's method is the easy way out in life but then you're limited to do whatever while Senzaemon's method is a hard path to follow but is very effective and leaves a lasting impression for your future
I doubt he'd interfere with Restaurants he approves of. There isn't a point in him doing so if he agrees with the cuisine they make. Azami's only goal is to only remove unhigh classed cuisine made from Restaurants by forcing them to follow his method or by shutting them down if they don't comply since he finds it unsightly or fodder
There's no hero. They're all dead
Right but his idea for what counts as cuisine is only high class expensive food. He only has the experiences of a rich man so he doesn't think about how impossible it is for a normal person to afford a high class meal any time they want to eat out. There's a reason diners and other small time restaurants exist its because the poor people need to have a way to get food. And his food is only expensive shit. As well as not allowing any creativity which is what stops anything from progressing further.
>There's a reason diners and other small time restaurants exist its because the poor people need to have a way to get food. And his food is only expensive shit. As well as not allowing any creativity which is what stops anything from progressing further.
Welp I guess we're gonna have to wait and see to confirm whether Azami's ideals involves the Restaurants to cook high class cuisine with normal standard prices or go full douche and have the prices more expensive than usual. If the food is normal priced(which I doubt) then pretty much Azami's ideal isn't that bad and what he's doing is more beneficial, If not then he's literally retarded.Now we wait.
>Saito
>samurai
I'm still wondering why he carries a sword around
I don't know of any specialties/cuisine styles that could possibly call for him to have that thing
Some anons were saying it could be a tuna knife and if that's so it kinda makes sense he got that theme.
Either work hard and build your craft and passion as a chef and graduate with a culinary degree that is respected and carve out your own path or be a lemming and follow Azami's method and learn to copy the same dishes that every other jackhole who got their obligatory graduation certificate knows, meaning that you have no skill set that makes you stand out in the culinary industry, making it impossible for you to get a job.
Azami's plan is fucking stupid because it makes the Tootsuki degree as worthless as any other college undergrad degree nowadays.
>Kuga
>upright and pure
But his asshole is slutty
Why did the wild dog and the Indian guy get shafted so hard? They had pretty high ratings in polls. Now they don't even have screentime anymore.
The author stated that he's primarily focusing on Soma and Erina during this whole arc. He didn't forget about Megumi, dog or Pajeet. He just decided to not show them as often
>The author stated
More so he implied it
Do you seriously want more Pajeet? Really?
Because we are getting superior Kuga, Takumi and Giganigga.
Two of them will job tho
>Teases Erina like an older sister
I need this.
やっぱ、いいやつじゃん
>Fodder got two pages dedicated to her
kek
They tried too hard to make her cute and they failed.
I need this
When will this happen?
NEVER! Megumi will win da Soma
Off screen, we'll get a time-skip in the final chapter.
It'd be great if they become a established couple during the series
You know that will not happen.
Let's be honest, as a Shonen we'll be lucky if Soma is never oblivious to love.
I always see this character as a teen male fantasy so it gets used a lot. "I'm so cool that all these stunningly hot women love me but I just couldn't see it."
>Soma is never oblivious to love.
Technically Erina is also oblivious to love as well since they both aim to become #1 which makes them both dorks
Every chatacter is a retard in that aspect desu except for Pajeet, Takumi and maybe Yuuki for noticing Pajeet wanting to fuck his mom.
During OVA 2 she clearly stated that she cannot think of anything(relationships) other than cooking right now, not until she becomes the best(first seat).
THIS. The main appeal of ecchi harems is that the MC is mainly sexless while all the girls want to ride his manhood. It's meant to appeal to young adults who are attracted to the opposite sex while being afraid of any real intimacy. This is a "have cake and eat it" scenario, where all the girls want the MC but the MC is too cool to fall in love with any of the girls. Also, gives excuses for a lot of ship-teasing and fanservice. If he's gonna get together with somone, it's probably just gonna happen at the end of this manga.
This is not an harem.
>"if you don't get an A, you're expelled".
That was just for Megumi.
It could be considered a harem because three of the girls seem to have feelings for him. Isn't that the minimum number for the label to be applied?
>It could be considered a harem because three of the girls seem to have feelings for him.
Only Meat and Childhood friend have feelings for Soma. Megumi just admires Soma while Erina is progressing to begin having feelings for Soma
I mean, we know Erina is end girl but she doesn't have feelings for him yet. Then you have a irrelevant character that people barely remembers and meat's crush is used as a joke.
It won't happen anyways but the thing is that Megumi doesn't feel that way about Soma even after he helped her out so much and they seem to be like closest friends at the moment, her feelings don't seem to be growing anymore from admiration.Erina is confirmed to develop feelings for Soma so even if it takes time, endgame will be SomaxErina
I think none of the girls are oblivious to romance actually.Megumi and Erina read shoujo manga, they pretty much have idea about romance, Ryoko has feelings for Smoke and Yuki obviously is aware, Alice also watches romantic movies.I find only Ryo and Soma being oblivious if anything.
I need that too.Why is no one uploading it yet?
Just wait for it to be hardsubbed in Chinese again.
I am ready to watch it in raw version too.Someone just needs to upload it.
Why is Soma so sexy?
All the boys are really sexy in this manga.
>Communism vs Capitalism
Guess history already answered this one.
Foreigner mom
I find most of the guys sexy especially Eishi, Takumi and Isshiki.
Dem Saiba genes though
I fixed it according to anons' suggestions. Also added some guys I've forgotten.
Ok now its perfect.
Switch Megumi and Erina then it'll be perfect
Hey now, he remembers Don-san.
He's targeting regular old ramen restaurants.
He's trying to quite literally take control of the entire country through food.
Senzaemon's method is harsh and a very large amount of people flunk out, but the students learn a lot in the process by being exposed to all the different ways people prepare food, whereas Azami's method makes you nothing more than an assembly line worker who makes the exact same dishes as everyone else. Might as well replace them with robots in that case.
I can't help but think that MILF Erina will get the ponytail.
I've got high expectation on milfs of this series after seeing Leonora
I am waiting to see Erina's and Aldinis' mom, probably they will sometime appear in the series.
What bullshit!!!
Erina and Megumi will develop love for Soma
But I remember a Japanese user who said the author with said during a convention that Erina is just a rival to Soma and
That it's just a relationship that is not romantic
But another line on respect
Erina will finally respect Soma and be friends
This reminds me of the author of Bleach who told the same thing to the readers on the relationship IchigoxRukia but nobody listened to it or took the author to serious
And you saw the result
IchigoxRukia = friendship
IchigoxOrihime = love
I think this manga will end with the same thing
SomaxErina = friendship
SomaxMegumi = love
Unfortunately the shock will be the same as for Bleach and Naruto
Erinafags will join the Sakurafags (pinkfags) and the Rukiafags
It is always the same anyway They are pretentious about their victory And they cry at the end as if it were the end of the world
I've read fanfic where Erina's mother is dead, but now when I think about it was is ever mentioned in canon? Souma's mother is confirmed dead, but I don't remember Erina's one being mentioned anywhere.
Probably dead, I doubt she'd allow what Azami was doing.
...
tl;dr
I hope she's alive.
Rough translation too.
This is not comparable with Bleach or Naruto since author confirmed that Erina will develop feelings for Soma in the future.