Akira winning via superior smell is convincing though. It makes more sense than the other two. Souma's signature is using cheap ingredients, which is inventive, but not exclusive or one-of-a-kind. Someone else can copy his recipe and make the same thing. Only Akira can judge spice requirements on a per-fish basis.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Then Akira is the only one in the world with an exclusive dish, because what is anyone else doing when not using smell?
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God Tongue is another who relies on sheer natural born talent.
The others would have had to perfect certain techniques or knowledge. I actually agree that only naturals have any real exclusive, signature dish. Relatively speaking, everyone else just has recurring themes in their cooking.
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It only came down to which was a signature dish because they judged the other elements of each dish roughly equal.
The signature dish concept used here is kinda bullshit. Souma's style is consistently present in his dishes, and only he, with his experience serving the masses despite having such a high level of culinary skill, can produce them in that school. His hoi polloi-oriented creativity is his signature.
A specialty is an arbitrary word used by chefs themselves to label a dish they feel particularly proud of. It's not some kind of judgment standard.
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Yet there is someone like Souma in the finals that's basically a 1:1 copy of him.
They explained why Spice-guy won the match, and considering that the quality of each dish was pretty much equal, I'd give him the win too.
Okay. I don't like the explanation then.
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One of the better episodes of this season. But dear god, would I punch Erina in the face, when she acts so smug and arroganz. Doesnt matter if you´re right, attitude counts, too. Same reason why so many people will never vote for Hillary, cause her supporters are absolutely obnoxious.
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Episode 11...Originally Posted by MFauli
I liked this latest episode as well, I prefer these plots to tournament style ones.
Holy shit! Excellence!
Now this is what I'm talking about. Putting aside the genius chefs aspect, this was an entirely believable AND uplifting episode! Not only that, it rounded itself out by making Souma realize something about his limitations too!
Why can't this show be always like this?
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The only thing I didn't like is that Erina was able to completely manage a kitchen while her secretary Arato wasn't. There shouldn't have been such a large gap between the two in terms of management abilities.
This is still much better than a tournament style stuff we've been getting.
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Why wouldn't there be? Erina is being trained from birth to be the next culinary messiah, which likely includes managing a kitchen. Arato is always following her around like a secretary. She's likely more used to following orders than giving them.
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Giving or following orders isn't the point. Not knowing anything about real orders or restaurants was the point. She was all "I've taken team cooking classes" as if that was the highlight of her practical cooking career.
Where was Arato when Erina was learning about kitchen management? My impression was that the two stuck around a lot, especially as children. Arato was more of a personal maid back then.
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Arato was probably busy taking secretarial classes. She's certainly a much better follower and subordinate than Erina will ever be.
And I'm pretty sure Erina doesn't have much practical cooking experience for customers either. That's her main difference with Souma, right? She's just a genius at what she does and can apply lessons better than Arato can.
Peace.
New ep is out!
We really need more episodes like this. Too bad next week is the last for this season.
Agreed. Is Shokugeki no Soma the first ever anime, where a tournament is MORE BORING than the rest of the show? Typically, tournaments are some of the highlights in any anime, but here it fell flat due to the capriciousness.
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My only complaint is that I'm used to hear "Oui Chef !" after each order of the chef in high end brigades.
So it felt very unnatural/odd to have a single "Oui".
But it was a nice episode.
Regarding the "Quiche", by its very nature it's not very surprising to replace major ingredients like lardons (minced bacon) with chicken.
After all the tart form and the apparel can accomodate for many ingredients, a bit like pizza even if in that case it did really get lots of combinations thanks to its worldwide popularity.
Salmon/spinach quiche is a nice combination for example.
For burdock/chicken, since chicken does not have a very strong flavor, I'd fear it would only serve as filer.
Lastly, as good as quiche is, you need to rework its presentation for a high end restaurant.
All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. And then: Golf.
am i the only person that actually liked the tournament? yes i know it was pretty boring and the rulings were arbitrary...
but the change they brought to the table were needed for the plot to continue... since the start of the anime, soma was at first the only underdog... then the anime started to bring more and more underdogs, and more and more geniuses without giving them any personal goal except for wanting "to be the very best that no one ever was"...
while we saw the graduated top 10's being all friends, all we had for this year was that they are all rivals... by the very end we had 3 underdogs competing with each other, atleast we now have the start of a friendship between the top trio and a new goal for the main character, he finally grown up a little when he talked to his father...
now this new arc is better than the last one because its about the real hardships about being a chef rather than who makes the better dish, my only problem would be that its short as fuck :\... the good thing is now i want to read the manga to keep up!
What makes the latest arc better than the tournament is because it's not repetitive. That's it.
@David - I think they went for a more delicate quiche here. The chicken is in fact mostly filler, since it tastes mild. The chef compensated for that with the texture. It's a very Japanese thing to do. Japanese cuisine has very mild flavors most of the time, and that dish was clearly intended to be a fusion dish.
I hope Souma wins this contest. He needs one after losing to reverse albino and gang member...
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I can't remember if this content was truncated from manga material or not, but it felt so short and rushed. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Highly dense material can either titillate for more exposition (good?) or feel inconsequential (bad?), and I'm not sure which this was more.
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