Audience reviews
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HoneybunHardenIV
This season was a completely unnecessary addition to the food wars series. Its a one for one copy of the finale of the previous season with a half baked villain that felt lame and uninteresting.
My biggest issue with this series was the reduced quality of the food wars, every battle that didnt include Souma was just a way to inflate this out of the blue villain. The villain himself was extremely plain and felt like a poor mix and mash of other villains like aizen and mimasaka. The introduction of 'Noir' as some shady underground organisation was super cringy, like dude nobody cares about these boys😭. Also the way they completely pushed the cast to the side was so annoying when the vast personalities of the characters is the best part of the series.
One thing I did enjoy was how they exp…
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Every season becomes boring and unentertaining, yet it feels repetitive and not looking new. It always brings many challenges and they don’t make it more intense than before.
This season is absolutely the worst one compared to before. The author did try to do something different but it looks totally ridiculous. The dishes are only presented well but turn out to be more unrealistic. They also introduce a new antagonist that isn't even a good one; it's more of a poorly written one, a bland villain that was badly made. His power doesn't make any sense at all involving getting powers with lots of knives he carried, which I find pretty dum.
I would not recommend continuing to watch this after season 4, it was trying to change something different than before but it completely makes no sense a…
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As a chef and anime watcher I am very dissapointed in this last season
I'm not gonna talk about what points exactly made this bad for anyone who wants a quick skim through.
It could have been so good but they rushed the absolute heck out of it,the power scaling was all out of wack confusing me highly ,they neglected to explain the technicality and methods of the dishes,the noir plot point was kinda just wierd and felt like it didn't fit in too much,A LOT was skipped over and the ending felt like it ended 5 mins too early like C'mon bro at least give us a "Even though ny taste buds hated it,my heart longed for more" or sm.This was the first review I ever wrote but I really felt it necessary to do this to cope with all the lost potential
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The fifth and final season of Shokugeki no Souma is arguably the worst season. Even though it has some positives, it has plenty more negatives. The main thing this season has going for it is that it's the final one and that is has a good ending.
The story is one where the cast is now in their second year. It starts off with some standard cooking battles/contests that are reasonably enjoyable. However the anime introduces a new antagonist who wants to marry Erina for no discernible reason. I want to stress this point, no reason is given for his obsession with Erina. However from this point on the entire anime revolves around this guy wanting to marry erina. The other characters accept stupid shokugekis that create problems for themselves they could have avoided by simply y'know not accept…
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if you want a satisfying good ending then just finish the anime on Season 4 and skip the Season 5, but if you want a good ending with absurd and boring storyline, antagonist with an advanced version of Mimasaka, and cooking with a weapon and clown outfit then just watch Season 5
And also on this season, i feel they better change the title to Shokugeki no Nakiri instead Shokugeki no Souma.
But even though I don't really like this season, the last song in last episode was a good though (Its Season 1 OP but with Piano Ver.) i would like to add those song to my Spotify playlist.
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“I just want to eat food created by all sorts of chefs.. and compete with them. The more people there are who make things completely different from my dish, the more fun it gets. I want to protect that kind of environment.” – Soma Yukihira
► 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺: 5/10
I must say that the BLUE arc is my least favorite season. JC Staff rushed all of the food wars, especially Souma vs Erina's final. It felt like the author converted three seasons into one show. If only they extend it into 24 episodes, the show will be a lot better.
► 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳: 5/10
I actually had no doubt about the Shokugeki's characters, except Noir. Noir consists of some useless characters that came out suddenly without any background story. My point is they should have explored more about their enemies. Remember Noir's…
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Food Wars holds a special place in my heart, it was the first anime i truly feel in love with and it helped open my eyes to the world of anime. I truly believe that the first plate of food wars is perfection, I think it is the embodiment of the perfect shounen anime. As the seasons progressed so did the story, and that is where we are now... the fifth plate. I'm going to be as blunt as possible, it was bad, very bad. However i found the ending to be satisfyingly and it helped me finally let go of the greatest anime of all time. If you have seen the other four plates you must watch this to get closure.
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i'll write this as a review for the whole anime, not just this season because my overall experiences and feelings are about the same. considering how mediocre the manga was, i wasn't expecting the anime to be any better, if anything my expectations were even lower than what i got so in general, considering how novel the concept is and how boring it sounds, the overall experience of shokugeki no sōma is decent.
i was hoping they'd do justice to tadokoro in the anime and give her a bit more focus and make her less subservient and homely but nah, just as annoying and downplayed as she is in the manga. basically the side characters are all an amalgamation of ideas that could be used for the cooking prop, they are hardly seen as humans or anything beyond their cooking skills. the only true cha…
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TOT: 8.95 (9)
**Score methodology
>>Item (weighting): x (out of 10) = z (weighted score)
Story (20%): 8 = 1.6
Character (15%): 8 = 1.2
Art (25%): 9 = 2.25
Sound (5%): 8 = 0.4
Enjoyment (35%): 10 = 3.5 **Note on ‘Enjoyment’
This is based on personal taste, use this list of my favourite anime for reference:
Ano Hana, Hyouka, Death Note, Ergo Proxy, Noragami, Tokyo Ghoul, Food Wars, Fire Force, Black Butler, Ghost Hound
**Review [SPOILERS]
Story: The story culminates with Souma surpassing his dad, though indirectly. It shows the arduous journey, and Souma's relentless determination to grow. It didn't make use of a direct win with his dad, which elevates its significance.
Character: clearly well developed as it is the entire premise of the show
Art: great, nothing to complain if not too…
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I really loved the first four seasons of Food Wars. I came to know and like the characters, even the ones that maybe got the shaft in the development department as time went on, but even still. I think the fourth season would've ended things the right way and season five does much to undo it. Sure, the basics are all still there, but it just feels like the fifth season was empty calories, to use a food analogy. Everything feels just so stretched out and aimless. I can't really point to anything specific other than a general feeling as I watched it that, "this has run its course". I still loved everyone, but the fact that the story starts to feel contrived and stretched as well as the unsatisfying ending, I can't rate the fifth season as highly as I did the previous four.
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this is i believe my first review I've ever felt i needed to write and i see how others felt disappointed in a way but for me after rewatching this series i just feel as some one who loves food and hasn't been able to try the fine dining type stuff this series just hit me with such a massive wave of emotions i have no felt in a while.
yes there was echi but it was just such a great feel good anime to me. As i do not have much of a social life i spend my time gaming and watching anime. I'm often very generous on the scores but i bumped it up thoroughly for this show. to make my emotions swell to me takes something great and for me this anime hit that sweet spot.
I hope others can enjoy this as much as i did especially after rewatching it. anime like this makes me wish as a race we could a…
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I thought this anime was very good. To be fair i think a lot of anime are good but i really liked this one. I am a big fan of coomer/ecchi anime but most ecchi anime dont have very good storylines. I thought the storyline was pretty epic and i thought all the hype in the episodes was amazing. I also really liked the characters they made me laugh AND EVEN CRY. I also do like to cook ( i typically cook American foods such as hamburgers chicken steak etc. ) so it was interesting for me to see many other Japanese cooking styles. I also thought the graphics were beautiful ( NOT JUST FOR ECCHI ) the way they made the food look so good literally made me want to hop in the anime and eat the food they made. Overall i think this show is a 10/10 because i think i just generally liked all the aspects…
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After five long seasons this show's story finally comes to a close and this season offers closure to almost every major plotline that was open up throughout the series' history whether you liked the hard truths or not. While at times this season felt repetitive, especially due to the lack of deviation from the BLUE tournament, the lack of deviation helped make it feel more streamlined and to the point, cleaning up loose ends as it went. In line with what the BLUE expected, the dishes in this season get more intriguing and stunning as the dark and light chefs clashed making each episode have a degree of suspense as you wait to see how special the next dish is.
My opinion of this season might be helped by the fact that I haven't recently watched the preceding seasons and I think that if yo…
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This review is for Food Wars! as a whole.
There’s a common saying that goes something like “Gimme the food, stop explaining it to me.”
I’ll admit, the first two seasons of this show was actually thrilling and fun. When I’m still new to this concept, the amazing animation of the food as well as the creativity behind the reactions were refreshing to watch.
However, during the first season I have noticed how quickly I found the constant explanation of the way the character made the food to be extremely irrelevant and boring. I’m no food aficionado, so most of these talking made no sense to me. I tolerated this for a while, but starting from the 3rd season I found myself spamming my forward key to skip over the explanations. It’s sad that I’m aware of the amount of research that the creato…
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Food wars is a great series. It's hilarious, compelling, and has you wondering what Yukihira is planning to do next. Great rivals and a solid cast to support the main characters. However, season 4 started to show the downhill spiral food wars would go on with several inconsistencies and flawed characters.
Season 4 was a great way to end off the show. Yukihira finally gets the first seat, the gang is all in the elite 10, and most characters have been well developed and have shown no signs of any other issues. Season 5 does the most unnecessary shit in where they made up some random bullshit in which the "plan" to save Erina from the despair of God's tongue was to gather a bunch of kids with potential to join the school. As if they're not supposed to do that every year. You know when Yukihi…
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Overall this season gets a 7. It was obviously rushed, the pacing was incredibly fast and you can tell that they just wanted to wrap up the whole series in this season in a concise manner. Having known that the season itself was fun to watch. It wrapped up everything as nicely as it could and it was a fun time watching it even if the exaggerations became 10x more than usual.
If there was anything I could wish for the season it would be that fact that they could have fleshed out some of the battles better or given more spotlights to the other characters doing side work not related to the tournament.
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This season is completely forgettable.
My biggest problem is that it doesn't contributes anything new to the serie, in fact, the things that offers actually substracts. All the character development that Erina has in the previous seasons, season five is in charge of erased it.
She starts as some vain girl who growed up thinking that she was the best in the culinary world because of his divine tongue. Despite of that, she doesn't enjoy cooking, she only sticks to the recipe and nothing more. When she meets Soma, the world she known it's turned upside down. She starts to enjoy proving new things, and discover that not everything has to follow the recipe and the new things comes from "breaking" the rules, she even challenge his own father... and all that for what?? For nothing, because in t…
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A few months have passed since I've finished Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara. Back then I didn't do a review, but decided once and for all to put my thoughts on paper. While this review, and the score I've given, is for the last season, being the finale of the series means that I'll be talking about the series as a whole in this review and my experience with it.
It all started many years ago, in 2017. I’m not sure how, but I’ve heard about this Shonen about cooking competitions. Back then I wasn’t that much into cooking, since then I’ve watched some Masterchef seasons, but nothing more than that. Yet, when I watched Shokugeki no Souma I was pleasantly surprised. The show made every cooking competition an epic battle full of action and it was a lot of fun to watch.
The characters, while n…
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The downward slope of quality continues. There are both good and bad, and a lot of Meh.
I like the new bad guys a lot.
The plot is predictably retarded, but it fits the tone.
The cooking and food porn are here and are decent, but it was stronger in S1-3. The matches feel rushed and lack the build up and cool down of previous cookoffs.
Endless panning shots and camera jiggles that always look cheap. It feels like the cameraman is continuously drunk, since the picture is tilted 45 degrees (or more!) almost every shot.
The fan service is way less tantalizing than previous seasons. The majority of the cast is here to say their catchphrase and exit stage left. The standouts were the leads, (Megumi and Souma) and the main bad guy. Everyone else was static and bland. We finally get the backs…
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Food Wars overall as a show was never groundbreaking or even original. Its concepts are extremely textbook basic and the plot is very much predictable. The art and music weren't really outstanding either. Yet still, I had an absolute blast watching this series and more specifically, this season. The anime is basically a way to show audiences some of the best SAKUGA food scenes in all of anime, and I'm all for it. This season, however, breaks all limits I've set for this show. I mean,... Culinary Mafias, a Chef with a goddamn chainsaw as cooking equipment, a messed up family ruined by food, FUCKING UMAMI CLOTHES-EXPLODING NUKES and so much more. It certainly made ABSOLUTELY 0 sense but I certainly laughed my ass off at the length that these characters go through due to a bowl of rice. And t…
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