Audience reviews
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LightRobot
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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“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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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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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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I'm just going to review Shokugeki no Soma as a whole, not just this season.
Honestly, I'm a huge fan of Yakitate Japan, so when there's a show that's similar to it in many ways, of course I'm going to like it. A lot of Shokugeki no Soma's charm is how we see Soma and his peers/friends progress through their culinary journey towards the top. There's a large cast of characters, meaning that there's a lot of variety of the types of dishes and specialties that people produce. Despite this large pool of characters, I think the show does a great job at developing and giving personality to these characters for the limited amount of screen time that they usually get. This is in large parts the fact that the unique dishes they make are made with their unique flair and personality, so even just a…
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Doesn't even come close to holding up the standard set by the other seasons
short review-
story:
This got real weird. The core of the story that focuses on character growth is good. The details of the story once we get outside of that is not good. The primary conflict for the entire thing is totally contrived and out of character.
Art and sound are as good as usual.
Character:
We've got a new edgy villain that's part of a comically out of place group. Feels like I'm watching a kids battle manga inspired parody of food wars. Erina agrees to something early on that makes no sense for any human much less for her character as it's been established so far.
This whole season feels like the author had to write it in a week to hit a deadline. It's forced, rushed, and feels like it was written…
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Ok so this season is bad, like real bad ; reasons :
- they threw away all the side/mainish characters away, noone really mattered besides Soma and Erina
- the pacing is way too fast, almost like recap episode
SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 2 important mothers, a past cooking son / half brother suddenly pops out in this season, without any mention in the previous seasons
- Asashi's superpower, I dont really need to explain why this is bad
- Asashi as a villain, his whole evil backstory is like a fanfiction i swear - The fact they revealed Asashi was Nazami's son in 1-2 min, and jumoed to the next topic
- Noir, this is was the frst thing that seperates the most from the previous seasons, Chainsaw cooking??? Blood injections???? Claws??? What in the world man...... They needed to one up themselves…
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I honestly didn't have much expectations for this one, but i totally understand who did.
After four reasonably consistent seasons, the show ends on a bittersweet tone, more bitter than sweet, to align with the manga ending.
Some elements felt really rushed, especially the whole "mother" concept (both Souma and Erina's), although Erina's mom was a somewhat relevant topic back then, we never had any glimpse of the actual relevance of Souma's mom to the story.
Another point that's really disappointing is how the anime builds Jounouchi to be a "Gary Sue"-like creature, and he easily loses to Saiba like it's nothing, leaving Souma without his actual final matchup (the whole concept of Souma's father is one of the worst thing in the series but that's another topic)
The ending is fine, but…
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I honestly believe that this season should not have even been released. I am someone that firmly believes extra seasons or sequels are not always necessary. Often times , it ruins and/or dilutes the originals. This season just felt so watered down and repetitive. Every episode , had no excitement or meaning to me, you almost know what is going to happen so much so that I saw this season on (2x speed), something I often do to anime series that are boring to me.
Every episode , you got Souma being cheeky all smiling , all the people/judges' clothes getting ripped off , moaning, non stop every episode. If that happens every now and then , it is funny or so but if it happens almost every 5 minutes in every episode, then it just becomes super annoying.
The new addition of the antagonists , r…
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It's rare I feel strongly enough to actually write out a review, but since my opinion of this show is so fresh and the series as a whole means a lot to me, I felt it important to leave my opinion.
The story was certainly the least fulfilling of the series, and it shows. A ton of the more important aspects of the show have shifted from the cooking to outside of it. Suspension of disbelief is very important in shows like these, but that can't make you ignore a villain that was not only shoehorned in, but also provided no real payoff after building up his character in a very short span, albeit not fully enough to satisfy a conclusion to his personal story. An underworld gang of chefs cooking for crime seems silly outside of this show, but the thought is never considered. The only shortcoming…
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Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara is the fifth and final season of Shokugeki no souma, a quite well-known show among the anime community. As you can see already it has its fifth season whereas many shows can't even get their second, this makes it clear that Shokugeki no souma is one of the popular shows which has seen great success with its previous seasons. Then what about its fifth plate?
Being a fan of the show myself I expected the show to end on a good note but this season was a bit disappointing. The first problem was with the pacing. It was rushed as much as possible to adapt the remaining chapters and this made the experience half-assed and incomplete. Comparing to its previous seasons this season's story itself was a problem. The story was not as engaging as it's supposed to be and…
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In my opinion, this is almost as bad as a concluding anime season can be.
It was honestly bad enough for me to look back at all the previous season and wonder if they were actually as good as I remembered them to be. This is because this anime performs all of Shokugeki’s conventions so poorly that it almost comes across as a critique of the series. Let me break down how this season manages to critique by nothing other than poor execution.
Let’s start with what Shokugeki is known for first, pornography.
Whoops, sorry, I mean “Ecchi”. To be more specific, Shokugeki is most known for its fanserivice during food reactions. I actually believe that this series (up to this season) is the best use of fanservice because it is used as a creative way to express how good the food is.
I say “up…
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Top 5 Fastest Runners:
#5 — Asafa Powell
#4 — Yohan Blake
#3 — Tyson Gay
#2 — Usain Bolt #1 — Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara
It is it, congratulations.
The fifth season is very, VERY rushed, differently from the others season, on this one you don't even see they making foods, it looks like as the food magically appears on the table, understanding what and why they are doing is the essential part of a food anime, imagine MasterChef without the making of, just the results, it is a bad idea, isn't it? But it is basically what is happening here.
Another very bad stuff that happened here was "superpower", or something like this, I don't even know what it is, it's like "The hidden power from the clan X, it has been passed down this clan for generations, using an axe instead of a knife", i…
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NO SPOILER REVIEW
Wow. This has to be one of the biggest betrayals. Shokugeki was doing so well until this season through the whole story into the sewer and then pooped on it more.
The pacing in this season is horrendous, everything is rushed and you barely see any of the meals being cooked. All you get are rushed reactions, rushed plots, and every previously made notion of characters destroyed.
Animation, horrible. Merely a bunch of flashbacks or panning shots.
Soundtrack, not bad, it's sad that the OP was wasted on this trash season Characters, the season throws away all but 4 main characters, taking away any development that had previously existed.
DO NOT WATCH if you haven't yet. It is a complete waste of time, COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME, and you're better ending the show with the…
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I feel like the ending of the last episode was rushed, but it was a great anime for me. The journey was long but still overall I give the anime a 9/10, the story was somewhat lacking especially during the 13th episode, like what happened to soma's friend when he left to go overseas? Does Nakiri Erina finally say that Soma's dish was delicious? What dish did Soma made to serve Erina during the ending? Did Soma finally beat his Father Joichiro in a cooking contest? That all kinds of question popping in my head. I know that some of my questions are found in the Le Dessert Manga, but still its not a bad idea to make an OVA incorporating the Le Dessert Manga. I just feel like there is more to the story that was not included in the anime, it was a fun journey with this anime, it was the start of…
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Itadakimas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The 5th Plate has ended and so as the series itself , so Bon appétit as I make my review of this last sequel of Shokugeki no Souma.....:
Story:
Pros: Given that this has reached it's climax. Despite of the rushed plot, it was still good, given that it finally reached its end and the story itself present a goodbye when thing ends in a very good note, in which I wish not to spoil , so just watch and enjoy the foodgasam that is the very quintessential part of this series' plot.
Cons: The problem was that this final sequel has to rely a lot on the quintessential disrobing part of the foodgasam, where we audience are subject to it as its teaser to dampen its story's mediocre plot.....
Verdict (6 over 10)
Art:
Pros: Much more darling than the 1st 3 sequel , c…
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I've never felt such a strong sadness after finishing a series. I've been sad at ending like Gurren Lagann and Banana Fish but this hits different. I feel dismayed. After 5 seasons of food battles, foodgasms, and ridiculous characters, Food Wars felt empty at the end for multiple reasons. This season felt like it got rid of any goodwill the show had left for me after season 4 and it tried its hardest.
Let's start with Asahi because holy shit, this dude was an awful villian. Say what you will about Azami but he at least looked villainous and had the backstory of a villain but Asahi? Fuck this dude. His whole power is insane and one of the dumbest things I've seen in an anime and his overall reasoning of wanting to marry Erina is at first, just corny and then they just throw another twist…
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So 13 weeks in and now at the end of Gou no Sara, I never got to a point where I felt this season was as bad as people had hyped it up to be. I waited week after week for it to get awful and it just never came for me. I thoroughly enjoyed every single moment of this final season and saw it as a victory lap of sorts for the series. We saw everyone come full circle this season and show off their development. Of particular importance for me was the growth that Megumi, Erina and Aldini have had. For me, that was enough to really enjoy the final season. I understand that this is an unpopular opinion and that's fine, you can judge for yourself, but if you're a fan of SnS, you should definitely give this last season a try.
Production wise, you can definitely tell JC staff started to rely on the…
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After watching it until last episode, I know how disappointing this is, really.
The story begins with the introduction of the arrival of summer, the students of Totsuki Academy must fight the first stage of the exam. After that, some teacher comes to Totsuki Academy, his name is Asahi. He's a ugly bastard who are interested with Nakiri's oppai.... And then the last tournament "BLUE" begins.
The story of Souma's mom
Now, what really caught the attention of the personal writer was the telling of the figure of Souma's mom. This is very interesting because in the previous seasons, the figure of Souma's mom has never even been shown or even told, her figure seemed to have never even been thought of. So Souma's mom appearance in season 5 is very, very surprising.
There are times when we feel…
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