Manga: Shokugeki no Soma

[Augury]

The chapter certainly describes it as something very specific to him. I would think it's easy to ruin a burger with that many spices if not done properly.


I say Aldini is still hosed in his matchup even with the provocation.

[Kraco]

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Mimisaka is kind of a nonplausible character for a cooking manga, but since this is basically a fighting manga with the usual physical fights replaced with cooking, I suppose a copycat brute like that is normal variation in the opponent selection. In the end, half of the regular shounen fighting manga must have such an enemy character. Still, considering the dude has won impossible 100 times by stalking, copying, and then mysteriously enhancing his opponents' best creations, or even the opponents' backgrounds' historically developed creations, it will feel like a plot armor when Yukihira defeats him and tells it wasn't much. However, the barbarian needs to get defeated, so I don't care. At the same time I do need to admit Takumi deserved his fate by losing his cool during the match. Too bad it was against this gorilla.

[NeoCybercoin]

He is always going to say "It wasn't much". Kind of his thing I suppose.
Yukihara is rather good with improvising and improving on the fly from what we have seen so that would be perfect against a copycat.
Plus I suppose it's also mind games from now on since Mimisaka has no idea wtf he is thinking.

[Kraco]

Of course. It's half of Mimisaka's routine to shake the opponents beforehand, but this time it's he who's shaken. And like you said, Yukihira (along with his old man) actually enjoys novel experimenting, even if the results are sometimes poisonous, not delicious. Mimisaka will likely try to spy all of his ingredients, though, and even his trials, so it'll need to be something quite unpredictable. Or he'll need to pull a fast one by feeding Mimisaka false information and then making something entirely different. But that doesn't really seem too shounen spiritish, unless it's relatively minor but still still significant (like not an entirely different dish).

[Kraco]

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Erina looked really ronery in this chapter. I wonder if that might actually drive her closer to Souma, since I suppose she's the fated girl in the series. Assuming it has one. I don't personally care for her, there a few others I'd see with Souma before her, but I guess she might change, hopefully.

Other than that, I think the tournament ended quite well. I feel like it would have been too early for Souma to win, yet I wouldn't have wanted the wild beast to win either, especially since he's a Nakiri underling, even if it's Alice, who's my favourite girl in the series. It would have also been strange for the dog to win when the boss got beaten. Not good for the power balance. Hayama, however, is a disciple of an outsider what comes to the central characters, so it's cool in its neutrality.

Souma looked like he suddenly gained a couple of years of maturity during his phone call with the old man.

[shinta|hikari]

Eh? He lost.

[NeoCybercoin]

Of course he lost. Character development and stuff.
Plus Hayama had his waifu by his side.

[shinta|hikari]

Nonsense. Badassery trumps character whatever.