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HikenNoAsxce

  • Joined Jan 18, 2016
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The story of a Young boy, going to an elite cooking school to become a great chef like his father, has now become the story of a Young boy fighting, the equivalent of Team Rocket but Cooks, in the EVIL (OOOOOOO spooky) GROUP OF UNDERGROUND CHEFS, NOIR. Again, the villains of the anime are now CHEF MAFIA.

Forget the days of using obsecure French/Italian/etc. techniques in a new way to make a Fantastic Dish.

NOW we have people who use Chainsaw as a Whisk, Hammers instead of a Knife, & Explosives for Oven.

Shokugeki just pulled a Game of Thrones on us. You end the Anime as a Hero or extend it long enough to become the Villain.

Don't even get me started on the shitty IF I WIN A SHOKUGEKI, ERINA HAS TO MARRY ME, Bullshit. Like WTF! Erina is literally the best cook in Totsuki after Season 4, Why is marriage being decided by Soma & Mr. New Villain.

Please just read the original synopsis of Food Wars,

Food Wars! The story of a young talented cook, Soma, who at an early age started working in his family's diner. When Soma goes to the Elite Cooking Academy Totsuki, he looks down on his fellow schoolmates as they have never been in the field and served customers, like Soma has since an early age. All the Totsuki students have book smarts and Soma has street smarts.

But as Soma lives & more importantly cooks with these students, He realizes his knowledge is still lacking and he has ways to go. This is exemplified in Soma's loss to Chef Shinomiya.

Soma, now with new respect for the Chef, & fellow students goes on a journey to learn new cooking techniques so that one day he can be the very best like no one (except his father) ever was.

Now for Food Wars Season 5 synopsis,

Soma after becoming the NUMBER 1 at Totsuki (a position he only kinda earned, Nakiri beat the former no. 1, just saying) is constantly making an ass of himself as he fails to compete with the former no. 1. After all the learning and all the hardships Soma still is not able to live up to the number 1 spot he has acquired.

But a Mysterious new group of underground chefs called Akatsuki Noir, has beaten, probably the best chef in the Shokugeki World & Soma's dad, Saiba Joichiro. Soma must now face this new threat and become the number 1 chef in the world???

Soma is not living up to the title of no. 1 at Totsuki & now the series wants him to defeat the man who defeated his Father, again someone who was heavily implied to be number 1.

This review is so critical not because the season itself is terrible, far from it. If you like Food Wars you may still find some enjoyment in this. But when you consider the previous seasons, in comparison this one fails hard.

I gave Season 1, a 10/10. After that there is no way can I give Season 5, a 6/10 because by comparision, Season 5 isn't 60% as good as Season 1.

2/10 story
7/10 animation
7/10 sound
5/10 characters
3/10 overall

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