Oh, thanks anime for reminding me how much of an asspull this win was.
I understand the MC has to win, but even by the writing's own logic there's no reason why Souma should've won.
>Being this retarded
>implying dagashi isn't always the solution
>>143792772
>asspull
>legit method
stay in English class kid
>>143793888
>Those repeating digits
Souma x Hotaru confirmed for OTP
>>143792772
he mostly won because alice fucked up big time if that makes sense
>>143795549
Alice lost because cold technicality applied to comfort food robs it of life. She was blinded by the science of it and forgot what a bento really meant. It's a lesson she needed to learn early and to the best of my memory it's an error she doesn't repeat again, so this was more about her remembering that cooking isn't all about the science than it was Souma winning. Alice comes out of this a better chef and a stronger force in the kitchen than when she went into it, though it's a pity she had to learn it as a loss to Souma as opposed to just observing Ryou in how to cook with passion.
She lost because of the way the author says, it's easy to understand: She lost because it wasn't as true and good to the theme of 'bento' as Souma's, it could have been a sushi theme and it would have fit just as well
>>143796124
Anime only fag here, but it looks like Ryou and Poo in Loo are going to be the big antagonists this season. But isn't Ryou supposed to be Alice's subordinate?
I guess then it makes sense for Alice to be knocked out so early on a pure technicality, they probably need to "save" her as an antagonist for later.
>>143795549
>>143796124
>>143796229
The author's presented logic: she didn't push forward what makes bento special. Something along those lines, whatever.
Anyway how the fuck did she not? It was an amazing, innovative dish. Souma's was just a bento that tasted good.
>>143796229
Exactly. All she essentially did was make food, put it in a box, and call it a bento.
She fucked up right from the beginning by misinterpreting the theme.
>>143796375
It was a neat dish, but at its core it was just sushi in a box. Souma's dish was a bento at its core, you couldn't really make it any other way.
>>143796323
>they probably need to "save" her as an antagonist for later.
She was never really an antagonist. A rival at best.
>>143796375
I was a great dish. But it wasn't a bento.
Souma made a good bento.
Souma won almost by default.
thought curryfag was knocked out fast because he's literally ONLY good at curry
i mean i guess for India he'd be a great chef, but they expect more than "muh 36 spices" to become TOP CHEF
>>143796442
This, like Senzaemon said, had the theme been sushi, she would have served the same dish. It's a bit embarrassing since her cousin had just been lecturing her opponent about bento too.
I've always supposed that we were meant to chalk some of it up to Alice moving to Europe at a young age and losing touch with s1of her Japanese roots.
>>143796703
The fuck are you talking about?
I'm disappointed with how this was executed in the anime. They skipped all of the build up to the match which made it lose the suspense that the manga had. Even the Shokugeki against Ikumi had two episodes and that was way less significant than one against Alice.
They should have spent one or two episodes on building up hype for the match against Alice.
>>143793888
How would Hotaru be and fare in the Shokugekiverse?
>>143796375
>Anyway how the fuck did she not? It was an amazing, innovative dish
But it wasn't a Bento. If you tell a 4 year old and Da Vinci to draw a flower, and the 4 year old draws a flower while Da Vinci draws a river, the 4 year old wins no matter what cause he actually did what they said. They told Alice to make a Bento, something that can be taken around and eaten on the go or at work/school. Something exciting, fun, and nostalgic. She presented them a fucking air ball containing an open box and sushi in it. she had no way of winning.
>>143797262
She's pursuing his dad because she once tasted one of his homemade dagashi, and it left her insatiably hungry for another hit of the VILE taste.
Souma has to please her by giving her an equally addictive dagashi
what does /a/ think of pic related?
>>143797428
Cute. Not best girl (I dislike moe moe kawaii deredere blobs) but destined to win the Soumabowl.
>>143797428
bland?
that tournament killed the manga
the art dropped off hard
too much stupid stuff
>>143797504
>but destined to win the Soumabowl.
Nigga are you blind? Erina's winning the bowl so fucking obviously it's not even funny.
>>143797504
You animeonly? If so there is big hole in your ship.
>>143797428
I like her. Hopefully she becomes more relevant again since she's supposed to be the third MC. Unlikely though.
Also I want her to stop doing the stupid fucking pose so that everyone will stop shit posting about it.
>>143796703
we only call him curryfag because his first couple of dishes were curry. his actual shtick is that he's good with spices in general and has a great sense of smell.
>>143797428
generic uninteresting moeblob that was guaranteed to generate a fanbase (thank you, shitty nip taste) that has zero chance of ending up with the MC
>>143797564
>>143797588
Wishful thinking, I was hoping we wouldn't have YET ANOTHER shitty tsundere winning the MCbowl. We already have more of those than you can spit at.
>>143797792
But you have to admit that Erina is just as generic as the moeblob
>>143796375
You literally have that backwards.
>>143797835
What you are forgetting is that a tsundere's character is completely dependent on a love interest (most commonly the MC) existing. If you take away a tsundere's MC, they have literally no character. At least most tsunderes today.
>>143797854
Absolutely, she's a generic tsundere ojou-samaI prefer Meat. Alice is good too
Best thing about whole Autumn Elections is coming guys!
>>143797428
Perfect.
>>143797428
moeblob done right
Rindo > Alice >>>>>>>> Erina
>>143797913
And that's what makes them so detestable to me. I have tolerance (no love, tolerance) for specific kinds of tsundere's, the kind whose initial dislike of the MC is justified and their progression to warming up to the MC makes sense. Not this "HUMPF I HATE YOU KYAA~ BUT YOU'RE SO CUTE AND HANDSOME B-B-BAKA!".
>>143797919
Top tier taste.
I can never tell if the creator of this is like a really great cook who understands food really well or has no clue what the fuck he's talking about
>>143797950
I wonder how he's doing with the central.Since he's the master of copying other people's recipes.
>>143796375
It's literally Nikumi 2.0 of not maximizing the theme. She make a sushi box not a bento
>>143796375
do you guys just not watch the show
they literally explain all of this
>>143798098
It's nice that you can spot an Ecchi Anime by the amount of movement boobs have that shouldn't *normally* be there
>>143798165
There's a chef consultant who creates all the recipes. Pic related.
>>143798165
Morisaki Yuki provides the recipes for the manga.
>>143798279
At this point I have to ask: Are you trolling? this question has been answered what feels like a dozen of times by this point
>>143798165
Well according to the dishes I personally tried so far, I think someone at this show really knows something about cooking. The "tasting" is of course mostly made up bullshit, just like in the real world, but they really show some creative dishes. However I wouldn't be surprised, if they're all straight up from some website or something like that. I mean in the end cooking isn't that hard, really.
post times shokugeki was wrong
>>143798301
>She's 11 years older than me
Explain this shit, Japan. She doesn't look a day over 28.
>>143798788
makeup and a diet low in sugar will do that
>>143797428
Cardboard.
You can cut out any panel in the manga with Megumi in her signature pose and paste it over another one of her panels, and nothing would change.
Tsukada realized his mistake of giving a boring blob so much screentime early in the manga and now he can't really drop her completely. His solution for the past 80 chapters was to have Tosh occasionally draw her in the background with her mouth wide open in that pose with 1 line of forgettable dialogue. They don't even try to hide it.
>>143797428
The girl who always makes the :P face is better (I don't remember her name because almost every character in the dorm aside from Souma is bland and forgettable)
>>143797428
Mehgloomy a shit.
>>143798301
She's cute for a 3DPD
>>143797428
7/10
Would eat herfood
So they finally got to this part on this trash. Shrimp boy not getting the win when he destroyed the curry nigger was the most retarded shit. Glad I dropped this garbage manga.
Soma and Nikumi best ship.
Posting truest of OTPs.
>>143801406
This chart would be perfect without Hayama/jun and the "Souma the loilimancer" meme
>>143801406
>implying any of the two stalkers will win their victim's bowl.
They will have each other.
>>143801498
>This chart would be perfect without Hayama/jun
>>143801531
Currynigger is sonzoned,accept the truth.
>>143801406
Who is that with fat Aldini?
>>143792772
>ass pull
>Alice made a dish too "generic" for the theme
keep crying
>>143801631
Best girl.
>>143801631
Bianca.
Aldinis childhood friend,has a crush on Asami.
>>143801669
Translation sometime?
>>143797428
A Stand master
>>143801669
>>143801690
Is it an extra chapter thing? I have to ketchup
>>143797390
>it's still the same show
>>143801710
No;_;
>>143801669
>>143801690
Also, thanks anons
>>143801736
Novels and before you ask,they are canon.
>>143797835
>>143798098
>I have tolerance (no love, tolerance) for specific kinds of tsundere's, the kind whose initial dislike of the MC is justified and their progression to warming up to the MC makes sense
Good thing Erina is that kind of tsundere then
>>143801736
Novels. also there's a drama cd. Bianca's voice a qt.
Beside i feel like Souma need to loss a cook off to grow as a character, Souma understood the true meaning of a bento when Alice just made another cool dish
>>143801669
>>143801710
Has anyone seen bananashiki lately? Is he still working on these?
>>143801853
Is he dead? I don't see him since last year.
>>143797504
Sorry my headcanon tells me that Erina gets the Soumabowl, grandfather will put Souma on high pedestral like keikaku and Souma will teach little fucks about real cooking because Tootsuki will become part of the Yukihira cooking empire.
Moeblob will become best cook in her hometown and idolized so that she can never get married.
>>143798353
It feels like anons are either not very good at reading or have short term memory. I keep seeing this happen in almost every anime's threads.
>>143802251
>Sorry my reading comprehension tells me that Erina gets the Soumabowl
ftfy, bro.
>>143792772
>I'm sharing /a/ with retards like this
Do you guys watch the show at 2x speed or something? Do you not pay attention? Come on guys
>>143802571
People only watch to get the bare minimum of information needed to shitpost.
>>143792772
Oh for fuck's sake, don't revive the endless shitstorm from last year.
>>143797428
Disgusting moeblob, I truly liked her at first but i got tired of her.
>>143799189
Morisaki Yuki is gorgeous anon.
>>143801669
>Yfw you'll never have an ova about Bianca and the Aldinis doing qt things ;-;
Why to even live?
>>143802571
You tell em Bear
>>143802921
At least we have a drama CD about her.
>>143797129
13 ep season and apparently wanting to adapt stagiaire means the pacing is borked.
>>143797919
Is this a joke? Meat is cute,but she's the cutout tsundere.
>tfw you will never make people orgasm from the food you cook
Spoilers when?
>>143806515
Five Azami minutes
>>143806515
>>143796323
They're not antagonists, they're "worthy rivals". In manga they actually start hanging out together after the tournament, and Alice totally drops her cold side and starts acting friendly towards Souma.
I have a feeling that we won't see the actual big bad this season, and probably never (if they don't do S3). I wasn't even sure in S2, because they dropped some very important plot twist from the curry stage.
>>143808800
When was alice not friendly with soma?
>>143792772
>I understand the MC has to win, but even by the writing's own logic there's no reason why Souma should've won.
Try that bait in a different showdown. For Soma vs. Alice it was obvious. Alice made a great dish, but she didn't make a great bento.
>>143796323
No,Ryou is better than Alice.
>>143809311
Somehow Ryou is my favorite chef in the whole cast. Too bad he never gets any decent personal development except Central Shokugeki, which was a pain to read.
Spoilers Never.
>>143802698
The hilarious part is that everyone who'd watched actual cooking shows like Top Chef was predicting the cause of Alice's loss weeks in advance. Ignoring the match's theme in favor of showing off their technical skills is something molecular gastronomy specialists are infamous for. They turn in some beef flavored foam that's been flash frozen into a wafer placed delicately on top of a cracker when the assignment was to do a damned hamburger.
>>143796733
The funny thing about the bento discussion is that Erina basically ignore its origins as a common luncbhbox to criticize him for his lack of knowledge on its worldwide popularity.
Also, this is a "gourmet/haute" tournament and yet the prelim theme was curry...
new chapter spoilers when?
>>143813671
https://www.spoiler.net/spoiler/50.1-shokugeki-no-souma-chapter-174
>>143809027
When they first met and all she did was stare at his stuff was kind of bitchy in that "I know everything and you don't" kind of way, but that's not a defining part of her personality so it thankfully didn't last long.
The same can't be said for Erina. Thank fuck she's going to lose to Megumi by the end because she really doesn't deserve to win at all.
>>143813887
She was smug and self superior, but never really unfriendly.
>Thank fuck she's going to lose to Megumi
You poor deluded motherfucker.
>>143813887
It seems like you are serious about this, so I expect loads of teary asspains at the end with long posts ranting why Megumi deserved to win.
>>143813703
I'm liking this new team smug, can we keep them?
>>143811991
>Ignoring the match's theme in favour of showing off their technical skills is something molecular gastronomy specialists are infamous for. They turn in some beef flavored foam that's been flash frozen into a wafer placed delicately on top of a cracker when the assignment was to do a damned hamburger.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
>>143813887
>she's going to lose to Megumi
This is a shounen fantasy series about how hard work prevails in the end, so of course Soma will get Erina instead of having to settle for second best.
What's with this new direction of comically overly evil faces?
>>143814259
Erina is second best, it's just first best isn't available becauseshe already has Ryou
>>143814259
>second best
And that would be?
>>143814363
Nao Sadatsuka, naturally.
>>143814257
>detailed drawn brooding Erina
I missed this Erina.
>>143814270
Tosh wants to expand his techniques. Eizan made some great faces
>>143814495
>that pose of course
>>143814495
>Megumi arms
How does they work?
>>143814495
Experts on /a/, is this a variant of the pose? What are we seeing here?
This is important.
>>143814502
>>143814547
>>143814583
>>143814603
I wish this would stop already, everyone has a default stance in life and megumi is no exception
>>143814603
Seems like it. The panel is full of movement, so it would be out of place for her to be doing her regular pose, but this seems to be a hybrid of her regular pearl-clutching and a running motion.
Narusakufags(hinata win) = Ichirukifags(irreplaceable nakama) = chitogefags(??)= Hanafags(??)=Erinafags(??)
Narusaku and Ichirukifags shippers were behaving exactly like Erinafags now who next BTFO???maybe chitogefags or Erinafags??
>>143814603
I believe is her usual pose; however, her arms were forced apart by the wind pressure. Normally, humans run with their arms moving in the opposite direction of each other. Just look at Souma for a direct side by side comparison.
Of course, there is a split second where the arm position is the same relative to the y-axis, and the possibility of Tosh drawing her in that really awkward position is not zero. But they seem to be a bit high for that moment where the arms meet up.
She has not adopted a running stance, and is in her usual pose. Perhaps she is mid transition. That is my verdict.
>>143814956
Except Erina is actually is going to win without a doubt
>>143814990
>>143814805
>>143814603
what is this megumiology
why is this a thing
why is this a meme
STOP. IT.
>>143815610
>>143814797
It'll stop when she gains enough personality to at least be a side character instead of this cardboard that is copy and pasted on every page.
>>143814956
>Thinking Erina or Chitoge will lose
You are a funny one. Mehgoomyfag.
>>143815917
Cardboard > mehgloomy
>>143792772
I do not think it is particularly inconceivable that Souma would win this one. In fact, you could say he has a huge advantage-- bento is very far removed from Alice's realm of haute cuisine and modernist instruments. Alice's dish was very well received, but the big critique of it is pretty poignant-- she could have made the same thing if the theme was sushi.
Alice's approach was flawed from the beginning. Rather than exploring the theme and pushing the limits of the theme with her skill, she went to the limits of her skill and tried to fit it into the theme. It was not even a proper bento. Meanwhile Souma began with the concept of bento and explored it to the best of his ability.
So this was not an ass pull. The candy thing was also not particularly important-- he could have used any number of surprises in his bento and probably still would have won. Alice may have made the better dish, but she did not make the better bento.
>>143814270
WE NEURO NOW
>>143792772
It wasn't as much asspull as it was jobbing on the highest level.
Alice was lauded as master chef 5 star genius whatever with gastronomical skills and knowledge of ingredients, and her loss was because "she didn't make a real bento". By most standards, Souma would have been gutted in a normal match.
>>143816186
If the point of the competition is to make the best bento, and you make a dish that's only a bento in a "kind of" way, then yes, you are going to lose.
Alice lost because of her hubris. This isn't hard to grasp.
>>143816305
People just can't accept that Souma actually worked a way to innovate the way Bento is eaten while Alice just refined what Bento was. They also ignore the fact that Souma's idea actually lasts quite a while longer while retaining more quality whereas Alice's is reliant on the mist and that is very hard to keep contained within the package she presented. She didn't even use some technobabble to flood the box with mist, she just covered it with a dome.
How easily can you carry that fucking dome shaped bento box around? The dome covered more than the entire bento itself, so the purpose of the bento is already gone.
If she found a way to retain the cold temperature within the box itself without the need for a dome, it would be a pure bento, bonus points if it lasted as long as Souma's.
>>143816305
She did, but it's a far too overused way of letting a character defeat an otherwise superior opponent. Considering how she was hyped up, being defeated on what is more of a technicality stings.
>she was arrogant
>didn't take it seriously
>muh nipponese humility
Color page never
>>143816628
>technicality
>literally didn't conform to the theme of the match enough
>used a novel idea that wouldn't even be practical for the purpose of the bento
You guys are retarded. By that logic Wayne Gretzky is a better athlete than Michael Jordon simply because his stats are better, nevermind they are both playing different sports that's just a technicality.
>>143795293
Yeah? Well double dumbass on you!
>>143816061
This.
>born Rich
>lives in Scandinavia
Bento was not a strong theme for her, while it was real strong on Souma's pleb food side.
>>143792772
I hope Megumi loses in the next episode, and gets kicked out of school, so that Yuki can take her place as Souma's main love interest.
Yuki > Megumi in every way.
![[Jumonji-Giri]_Yakitate_Japan_Ep49_(27987c42).mkv_snapshot_09.41_[2016.07.04_18.05.42].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ACT4JtU.jpg "[Jumonji-Giri]_Yakitate_Japan_Ep49_(27987c42).mkv_snapshot_09.41_[2016.07.04_18.05.42].jpg")
>tfw Souma was made too late to have a crossover with Yakitate Japan
>>143817529
>implying Megumi is Souma's love interest
>>143816555
Maybe it's because they watched the anime only.
We, who read, felt the build up and Souma working on his dish - while in the manga it was just a Ryouko's side comment.
>>143817529
>wanting Yuki to be ruined
>>143816939
Cooking techniques can be applied to many types of food, it's not as separate as different kinds of sports.
![Shokugeki%20no%20Soma%20-%20Episode%2013%20-%20Nakiri%20Alice%20teaches%20Ryou%20how%20to%20intimidate%20people[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/nYf9MuY.gif "Shokugeki%20no%20Soma%20-%20Episode%2013%20-%20Nakiri%20Alice%20teaches%20Ryou%20how%20to%20intimidate%20people[1].gif")
>>143801787
Did you misspell "Alice" by mistake? Erina is a tsundere "uguu~ d-do I love him or d-do I hate him?" cunt that tried to ruin his culinary career almost instantly after meeting him because he was kinda smug.
Alice is smug as fuck too, but she only scolds Ryou when he messes up.
>>143817861
Well, to be fair, those two are almost a marries couple.
Alice scolds him, they banter, but they are always together.
>>143801787
>whose initial dislike of the MC is justified
No it fucking wasn't
>>143817861
>>143812033
>uguu~ d-do I love him or d-do I hate him?
>I didn't read the manga or watch the anime
Second meant for >>143813887
>>143817745
That doesn't matter. Cooking is not some pure objective one path trumps all narrow minded subject. The entire point of honing your cooking is so that you can deliver what the customer wants to the best of your ability while still retaining your individuality and creativity.
The entire manga has been showing this over and over and over, and yet you people just don't get it. Alice didn't cook for people, she just made a dish she deemed very high quality. She had no consideration for others, and that was why Megumi's cooking was compared to Alice's earlier because it's literally what she lacked at that point. She didn't care for the person who ate, she just cared about MUH GASTRONOMY.
Souma's dish with a bento encompassed all that even if his technical skill put into the box was lower. He utilized the box itself, while Alice literally failed the box component because the mist is impossible to retain within the box itself.
So tell me, how the fuck did she not fail? What good is a bento that requires you to put it on top of a silver platter then cover it with dome after injecting some ice mist into it? How the hell are you gonna bring that with you to work?
You can't, so she failed. Her design wouldn't even be able to last very long and just achieves the minimum requirements set by the theme, and only by technicality. In practice you would never buy a fucking bento box like that even at a high class shop because the moment you walk out of the shop you only have the box itself. On a hot summer it's basically useless.
There is no excuse for this, and not one person on /a/ has ever made a proper excuse for it despite that chapter happening ages ago. Most of you people didn't even pay attention and notice such a glaring error.
>>143817861
Ryou fucks up every time he's not pumping her womb full. Seal the deal you scandi twit.
![VnzJdVl[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/4d0HMAD.jpg "VnzJdVl[1].jpg")
>>143812033
Isn't Soma's entire schtick that he believes even a simple, rustic meal can be made into a delicacy? Isn't that why he always comes out on top?This is actually accurate to what´s happening in France ever since about the 60s. Even haute cuisine restaurants have to a large extent abandoned cuisine classique for nouvelle cuisine, a style which focuses on simplicity over pompousness and takes inspiration from regional "peasant" dishes.
>>143792772
>logic
There's your problem.
gook out
http://blog.yuncomics.com/archives/1721210
>>143819687
>She foodgasmed already
Not even one chapter. I suppose I should be glad the first match wasn't dragged out.
>>143819687
>Mezzaluna.;_;
That's a pretty random color page, I like it though.
>>143819687THE POSE
>>143819687
My guess is that named characters will start falling in the second test.
The question is who, remembering that Souma and Erina are immune.
>>143819687
Looks like the bitch was gloating that there's only 30 minutes until sunset, and that even though they managed to get a fish, surely they can't make a delicious dish on time.
>>143819904
Souma is kind of doing it too. Takumi is next.
>>143818724
>Isn't Soma's entire schtick that he believes even a simple, rustic meal can be made into a delicacy?
More that a dish with an initially unassuming appearance can be hiding a powerful culinary experience.
>italian jobber will never be relevant
>we will never see chikan sensei in action
Serious question:
If they love umami so much why don't they just use MSG?
>>143820073
But he will, look he is getting Mezzaluna back >>143819687in a most likely offscreen battle.
>>143819687
Why is Tosh pushing Rindou so hard?
>>143820226
Maybe he likes to draw her, can't blame him.
>>143792772
To me Souma's dishes are always the less appetizing.
The girl presents some sushi with beef meat folded 1000 times and cooled with nitrogen.
Then that fucker shows some fried fish and white rice. I won't judge which one is better, but certainly I would pick something carefully elaborated not something that I could make in my kitchen.
What happened to Hayama?
>>143820226
This. She's not even relevant at this point.
>>143820336
Went to Britain.
>>143820336
Lost to central and never came back.
>>143814270
>>143817258
Mea in 20 years.
>>143819687
I always told you that Megumi and Takumi are Souma's closest friends, but you wouldn''t believe me. Now look at this.Rindou becoming Souma's best friend CONFIRMED
>>143820327
But the theme is BENTO
BENTO
E
N
T
O
>>143820336
He joined central to protect Jun's RS
If Azami tried to close Jun's RS we'd have seen a shokugeki with Hayama tried to protect it. So Azami didn't close it. So he either didn't close it because he respects Jun and lets her roam free due to their days in PSD (doubtful) or because he got the officially most skilled first year after his daughter to join him.
Seems likely.
I expected Kuga and Hayama shokugekis, since we didn't get any, it seems chinese rs got spared because Kuga is/was an e10 and Jun's got spared for some other reason that likely involved Hayama joining central.
>incoming healing loss for him
>>143820424
No you dingus. Rindou is totally not Souma's friend or even at good terms. Shipperfags are the worst.
>>143820327
>looks over substance
see me after class
>>143820327
Spoken like someone who has never eaten good home cooked meals.
>>143819687
B E S T T E A M
E
S
T
>>143820424
>Megumi and Takumi are Souma's closest friends
But that was obvious.
Megumi and Yuki looks soo beta in this chap. Well, it looks like Megumi couldnt cut it to elite ten level after all.
>>143820226
Because if it's not obvious enough, she's the 3rd year's equivalent to Jouichirou and Souma. She's also one of the seats that hasn't revealed jack shit about her cooking.
GODDAMN IT THE POSE IS SPREADING
>>143820543
I hope Rindou is secretly more powerful than Tsukasa. I really like femdom.
>>143820327
And just how will you carry that nitrogen around with the bento set up she presented? You gonna go all Beauty and the Beast on us and fucking do a musical dance all the way to work before dining?
Souma's bento was something you could bring anywhere and retain it's taste. You can't even eat Alice's bento in a god damn subway unless no one was around you.
>>143820327
That's literally the point.
Souma believes his pleb looking food can be up to taste with elite 5 star food.
Pay attentiom to his dishes, he always uses a pleb idea or cook some pleb food.
Funny enough, when he has to make some elite food, even with his shaneningans, he fails (loses) everytime, but vs Eizan. See tag team vs Shino, Election's finals, vs Tsukasa.
>>143797428
I love her. She's cute.
>>143819687
So Takumi x Megumi is happening, right. The otp chart is slowly coming true after all.
>>143820671
Meme magic.
>>143820564
I wouldn't say there isn't a possibility, but personally I'm betting that Rindou has an edge outside of strictly cooking kinda like Erina with her tongue tasting, Mimasaka with his copy, or Eizan with his business skills. She was the only elite 10 we know of to not cook during the festival and instead just go around eating everything right?
The fact that she deigned to eat at every stall instead of just the top tier ones might imply that she views food the same way Jouichirou and Souma do, that it's a vast wilderness and you gotta experience the bad and the good to truly progress.
Whereas I can't see Tsukasa as being anything but being a cooking nerd, and maybe being a pencil pusher but that has more to do with everyone dumping their shit on his lap than his natural aptitude for it.
>>143820736
>she views food the same way Jouichirou and Souma do.
But then why would she join central?
>>143820827
muh chaos
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>>143817598
>Implying is not
You are one of those "she just respects him"?
>>143820827
What >>143820862 said, probably cause conflict breeds evolution. Just because she might not agree with Azami doesn't mean she can't see the value in using him.
That or she's just an airhead as usual.
>>143792772
Also before anyone forgets Souma already got his lesson of not playing to theme. Remember the training camp breakfast buffet? Souma didn't think of the theme so he had to brute force his way to a buzzer beater pass.
>>143820977
She might be in love with him, but not vice versa. Simple as that.
>>143820582
>>143820429
Never said he didn't deserve to win, I just said his dishes are always the less appetizing.
Honestly if you had both in front of you and had to choose one, which one would you pick?
>>143821030
Agree, but is not as if he loves any other girl neither.
Also, not saying she has any chances of winning, in shonen manga if someone wins thats always the female lead, but that doesn't mean she is not a love interest, a potential girlfriend (even we know it will never actually happen)
>>143821057
At first glance Alice seems better but Souma's is full of surprise.
>>143792772
You're going to love his shokugeki against Eizan
This is the first image I saw of this series...started to read it thinking it was a battle manga.
>>143820544
called it
>>143821162
MAC N CHEESEI actually dropped the manga at that point for a few weeks before being able to pick it up again.
>>143820226
because she is aesthetically best girl
and Tsukuda has confirmed she becomes an "important character" on twitter a while back
>>143821182
Shokugeki no Souma is a cooking manga.
>>143796375
Alice loses because while her cooking was better she literally answered to the wrong theme. A bento is lunch in a box, not something hyper-fancy that you serve at a Michelin three-star. It needs to be comfy, not awe-inspiring, hot, not cold, beautiful in simplicity, not complexity. The fact that you had to eat her dish in a specific order fucked with that even more, who the fuck puts instructions on exactly how to eat your lunch in a lunchbox?
>>143820226
Because Rindou's the Hisoka, she's just creating adversity to accelerate the main cast's growth so she can eat the results. She's going to bail them out of a dead end at some point.
>>143821182
It is a battle manga, though.
>>143820049
That and he thinks that even 'cheap' ingredients can be used to defeat good ones through compatibility or something.
>>143820327
>not something that I could make in my kitchen.
Yeah but if you can't make it in your fucking kitchen it may as well not be a bento. Who the fuck has time to make beef folded 1000 times cooled with nitrogen and using a damn centrifuge? The fact that Souma seemingly used shit you could find in leftovers and fucking candy means he stuck to the theme
Where did all the Megoomyfags come from? She hasn't done anything for the past 80-100 chapters but be a background character (like PSD fodder, Meat). The next anime episode will be the first and last time she won't be a doormat in this series.
>>143797428
Someone post the pose chart
>>143821366
>Yeah but if you can't make it in your fucking kitchen it may as well not be a bento
>>143821057
>>143821057
It would depend. Souma's is more appetizing in an environment where the benefits of a bento are used. Alice's bento is hard to enjoy if you're in a cramped environment or lack a place where you can lay the box out (again the mist literally doesn't work without the giant silver platter and dome) whereas you can literally eat Souma's bento while working at a typical office cube while doing accounting.
And like the other judges pointed out, Alice's bento is awesome in how it accumulates, but like Erina said before, the higher class cuisine stuff is all about first impact, and doesn't really give much of a shit about repeated eating. It's the same mistake Nikumi made during the don match.
With a bento, you can't expect bento culture to advance much by selling an idea that is not only impractical, but can only be eaten one way if you wanna 'eat it right'.
With Souma, his idea leaves the control to the consumer themselves. It's up to them to find the best combination, if they even can, and that spices it up for people having more repeat eating value since the set up allows you to mix and match.
With Alice's intricate order, it's unlikely that trying to change the order will ever make it taste better, so there's nothing to hold appeal over time.
You are correct in that it's more appetizing if you just sat down at an open table like the judges and ate it for the first time, but that's not a bento, that's a dish.
It's like comparing a fast food burger joint to a 3-star hotel burger that takes 1 hour to make and the match is takeout. Yeah, the 3-star hotel burger is amazing, but it does not serve the needs of what the consumer aka the judges want.
And Souma's bento was by no means that much more inferior to Alice's bento in taste.
There's no guarantee Alice could have made a better appetizing dish than Souma if Souma also just skirted around the theme and went for maximum taste either.
>>143801406
Is Lilith even interested in Galahad? She just seems like a massive troll.
>>143821384
moeblob.
>>143819687
I see no difference.
>>143821366
This is a poor point, it doesn't matter if the person can make the bento or not. You can always sell Alice's bentos in stores. The problem is that her bento doesn't even work as a bento, because Alice never thought of a way to encapsulate the nitrogen within the box itself without ruining the taste.
It's literally just a box without a lid, put on top of a platter, and had a dome placed on it after injecting mist.
How, the, fuck, do, you, carry, that, shit?
You can't make excuses like oh she would have the real box in the real thing, because the entire point was to present a bento in it's entirety. You can't just present a 20oz steak and say you'll somehow skewer it on a tooth pick and sell it as a popsicle. The proportions don't even match.
>>143816061
I think an even bigger problem was that her bento isn't actually able to be moved around. It's served as a dish, not as a take it, get on the subway, walk to work, type spreadsheets for two hours then take the elevator and start eating thing that Souma's was. It literally can't be used as a bento, and you're physically unable to make a bento like Alice's because who the fuck has millions of dollars of cooking equipment and knows how to use them in the forty minutes you have before you run off to work?
>>143820736
>I'm betting that Rindou has an edge outside of strictly cooking kinda like Erina with her tongue tasting
I bet sucking your customer off while they taste the dish is allowed.
>>143821456
she interacts with him more than anyone else though. Everyone seems to either be intimidated by "muh white knight" or thrown off by his autism and she's just there casually giving him shitits cute
With how all the girls keep changing bust sizes in the recent chapters, who will end up as the queen of mega milk by the end?
>>143821612
Wouldn't that make Meat the best simply because she can adjust her technique to how your dick changes temperature as you get close to climax?
Whereas Erina's tasting doesn't do shit but just make her vomit faster though I guess there's people with that fetish. And maybe there are people with fetish for fang marks on their penis.
But I don't know, Rindou doesn't seem to have much advantage there.
>>143821630
That's literally how every 2nd seat is though. Inui and Mizuhara give everyone shit all the time, same with Taki. It's only big boobs can't decide girl so far that falls out of the mold of 2nd seat being the Joker while 1st seat is always the serious Ace, although I guess Goutouda makes up for big boobs, since he's not all that serious.
>>143821535
>You can always sell Alice's bentos in stores
I dunno man
Like, to me a bento is something that reeks of being from home something comfy-like. To use Chinese food as an example, their bentos can include mapo or twice-cooked pork, those are 'homely' dishes, but they won't include something like sour whitefish because that's a gourmet dish.
Either way Souma had a massive advantage right from the start, there's not much more plebian than the bento.
>>143821664
We don't know anything about Rindou. For all we know she has God's Tongue, Nose, Eyes, Fingers and Ears at the same time.
Plus she looks a lot better than Meat.
>>143820226
I don't see the problem.
>>143820461
I don't think anyone is seriously shipping that, calm your tits anon. It's just that they could probably get along very well because of their personalities.
>>143820736
this.
>>143821703
>Like, to me a bento is something that reeks of being from home something comfy-like.
I am not denying that. I am just saying Alice could have still qualified within the boundaries of the theme set by utilizing her technology to sell her dish/bento as a premium product.
It would naturally mean Yukihira's dish having home made value would give him bonus points in comparison, but unlike right now where Alice didn't even fucking make a real bento box capable of dealing with her novelty at least it would be something you could bring to work and act as a bento.
The way she presented her bento was so terrible that it's almost nepotism they didn't fail her on the spot, or rather it was more like a giant oversight by the author because working cooking techniques into a battle manga is probably pretty hard when you get as anal as Shokugeki.
Point is, at least it's a bento if it's capable of being sold in stores. As it was, you couldn't even take it out of a restaurant.
>>143795483
>Souma x Hotaru
I just realized what a perfect match that would be. She would WILLINGLY try his disgusting squid monstrosities and have fun with it. Perfect waifu
>>143821664
>Wouldn't that make Meat the best simply because she can adjust her technique to how your dick changes temperature as you get close to climax?
Yeah see
Sucking dicks is apparently largely a matter of experience, and then there's the problem of personal pride. If Meat isn't slutty enough to get on her knees every other Shokugeki she's probably not that great at sucking dick, since realistically speaking virgins are always shit at dicksucking.
>>143820226
I imagine Rindou is either stronger than Tsukasa and just not interested in cooking or she has a thematic tie-in to Souma.
It's actually pretty stand-out how we know literally nothing of her cooking and she's never demonstrated so much as intent to cook, she literally sat aside to eat eat eat during the festival.
Personally I think she's the type to use her opponent's meal to her advantage, that's why she eats so damn much, to find out what goes well with what after what. It'd fit in nicely with Tsukasa, who seems to like to serve dishes that are self-encompassing, but the idea is that when you can't make full-course meals, the next best thing you can do is use your opponent's dish as your appetizer or your dish as dessert. It'd also be why she can't beat Tsukasa, not because she's necessarily worse at cooking but because Tsukasa's dishes open, fill, and close all by themselves, Rindou has no way of taking advantage of Tsukasa and in fact whatever she makes might even grate against Tsukasa because as far as the judges are concerned, the meal is 'already over'.
>>143821850
His squid monstrosities aren't even that bad compared to shit like that super sundae ramen
Someone post the screencap
>>143821612
wow, such salt.
>>143821703
If she had all 5 God senses, Erina wouldn't be the golden child who Azami and Tootsuki in general puts on a pedestal.
She might have one, but I doubt she would have more than one.
>>143821917
I'm a Rindou fan ya git
>>143821901
>It's actually pretty stand-out how we know literally nothing of her cooking
We know jack shit about some of the other elite 10s as well. Like 3rd seat, 6th seat, uh who else? Do we know 4th seat's? What about 5th seat's? We don't even know Isshiki's specialty.
Don't forget that Rindou could just be another Alice. Erina's dishes were presented before Alice's, but ain't nobody gonna tell you Erina is below Alice.
>>143821918
Yeah but that's why I said 'may as well be', that's how little we know about her. The sum whole of the info we have is that she eats a lot and is #2, nobody has even commented on what she does outside of cooking or was even "w-woah that's her isn't it".
I feel like I've seen this persons artwork before, just can't put my finger on where.
>>143822042
I wonder why.
>>143822003
But at the very least we've seen them cook and have the intent to cook
The thing that makes her weird the ones we know nothing about, we barely even see. Rindou is all over the place and all we know is that she's lazy.
>>143822003
Wasn't Isshiki's speciality supposed to be veggies or some shit or was that wild specula from being CROPS SEASON?
>>143822007
We also know that it's her motto that she has to try food for herself to judge, it's a big hint at how she's similar to the Yukihira family. Cause you just know a massive portion of that festival would have made Erina cringe.
>>143822210
Erina was kind of a shit to be honest when it came to food
>oh so this review says it's bad
>and it kind of looks messy
>100% it tastes bad not even gonna try it XD
Like come on mate
>>143822089
That's why it depends on when she decides to show her stuff. If she shows it soon and it looks like she might battle someone, chances are she's just 3rd year Alice.
But if she keeps hiding it all the way near the end of graduation, the chances of her usurping Tsukasa rise exponentially.
>>143822280
What if she's the one to finally find a flaw in Tsukasa's cooking and offers to complete his dish for him?the fangirl inside of me is squealing
>>143822254
That was the point. She had become so jaded from Azami and given how everyone with a bit of talent usually stood out very clearly she ended up like that. Remember people like Souma and Megumi are clear outliers. Most of the faggots in Tootsuki are filthy rich to begin with.
>>143822320
That would be easily possible, given she is the exact opposite of Tsukasa in a regard where Tsukasa is incredibly confident in 'his' cooking whereas so far all we've seen of Rindou is her interest in 'other' people's cooking.
>>143822324
Most of the top 8 are poorfags anyway.
You know
I feel kind of bad for Azami
Like, yeah I know he's the bad guy, I know he's being really really heavy handed, but it feels like he legitimately wants to better cuisine and he's actually working for it
It's not like he's really hurting cuisine either imo, since the people who are developing Central obviously aren't going to be hindered.
Am I the only one?
>>143822368
>>143822320
Now THAT'S romance.
>>143822397
He's just a manchild who can't get over senpai losing. He's also a giant idiot who can't see how shortsighted relying on one mortal girl is for the future of all cuisine.
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