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aaa1e2r3
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As many fellow manga readers will atest, it's time for this train wreck to begin
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Scion Drake
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Holy crap Megumi scoring more points that Soma, that's just sad.
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ryanvamp
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I absolutely loved the first two seasons of this. Third season was mediocre and I could already tell something was off. I searched for opinions of the then future arcs of the manga and boy oh boy did I make the right choice in dropping it. It doesn't mean I'm still not sad whenever I remember it got more seasons: I used to care for these characters.
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Izanagi009
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Watching the first two episodes of Shokugeki as someone who loves food, it felt nice to see the epithet used during the autumn election come back. Feels like they have grown and established an identity.
I also love how the beach house test showed that you don't need expensive to make good. Regardless, i'm mostly in it to see the trainwreck i heard is coming and to see how what food they come up with story wise Edit: Listening to Suzuki's voice, I can already tell he's a bad guy even without knowing the manga. It's Jun Fukuyama doing a lighter version of his Lelouch voice. It's expected that a person like that is an asshole edit 2: Just realized with Tadokoro's dish, how many ingredients and miso types did she use? geez, i knew miso soup was regional as was cuisine but the amount of care needed is absurd. I'm glad she won |
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Zhou-BR
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Uh, you should fix the episode number in the title of the latest review.
Edit: fixed. |
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jdnation
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I've honestly only been watching this show for recipe ideas. Not that I'll be cooking bear anytime soon or any of the more exotic plates, but there's some good stuff here, so long as that holds up I can withstand a train wreck. Though the show's been 'good enough' for me so far, not that I'm expecting anything other than cook offs. I don't have any actual investment in any of the characters really, and the school politics are nothing really that engaging. But I do like eating.
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Gina Szanboti
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I thought I was watching Food Wars, but with all this Attack of the Underground Chefs nonsense it suddenly it turned into True Cooking Master Boy, a mid-90s manga/anime, rebooted last fall. I just could never shake the mental comparison, and every time they showed up, I kept thinking, "You guys look like clowns next to the Underground Cooking Society." Was Soma's dad's knife the first of the Eight Legendary Cooking Utensils they need to acquire to rule the world?
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Zhou-BR
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Yep, Cooking Master Boy's influence on the authors became quite evident with this final arc. After finishing the Central arc that could have been a natural ending point for the series, I guess all they could think up was doing their own riff on the Underground Cooking Society. |
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Kuzu
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spoiler[This comment will age very poorly in a few episodes] |
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Gina Szanboti
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Good thing the senile old coot didn't mix up his guns...
When Soma is detailing his dish, he says he mixed in "some homemade shichimi red pepper blend." Since they weren't allowed to use any of their own ingredients, what does "homemade" even mean in this context? |
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WizardOfOss
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Welcome to the Culinary World of Ultimate Slavic Cooking 
I also do have rather mixed feelings about the direction this is going. I did watch Shin Chuuka Ichiban last year, and they seem to have copied the very aspect I least liked about that show. And seem to make it even worse. Even less cooking than before, and more nonsensical crap, just what the show needed.... I did however kind of like the challenges, and I kind of expected Soma to go this way. Instead of just trying to please the old guy like everybode else (including Noir) did, surprise him in a way he doesn't want this to be his last supper. And I would have loved to see what Megumi and Takumi came up with for their even weirder challenges. Or maybe even more how everybody else failed.... |
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Princess_Irene
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Although I am not sure that my Russian grandparents would be proud, I definitely laughed a lot.  And to think that we made Dad get rid of his chainsaw last year...
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WizardOfOss
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(I might have watched too many of those videos.....) |
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Gina Szanboti
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Well, the US Forest Service actually recommends using canola oil to lubricate the chain, so he might well be on to something there. And the wood chips add fiber!
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Scion Drake
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Ya know it’s incredible. Soma is now currently the First Seat of Totsuki, the number 1 ranked spot in the entire school that makes him objectively the best chef there like how Eishi was considered the best when he was number 1.
This is after competing in several highly publicized events where he surpasses multiple famous chefs every time meaning it’s not even unknown that he’s a fantastic chef. Yet everytime there’s always someone who goes “Nah he’s not a good chef, he’s from some stingy little diner.” Why does that still keep getting brought up? He’s been at the school for over a year now & that’s apparently the only thing people can say about him. |
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