Shokugeki no soma (Food Wars)
Shokugeki no Soma is another great on-going manga with great combination of fighting theme, cooking and comedy. This manga series is written by Yūto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun Saeki. It was first released as individual chapters in Weekly Shōnen jump since November 2012, with Tankōbon (independent book that complete in itself) released by Shueisha. It is quiet a new manga series but it has become very popular in the past few years. In the first half of 2014 (18 November 2013 - 18 May 2014 Shokugeki no Soma ranked 20 in sells in Japan with almost 1.4 million copies sold.
The story follows our main character, Yukihira Sōma. Yukihira dream is to takeover his father's special of the day restaurant and surpass his father's skill in culinary. However, after graduating from middle school, his father have another plan for him and that is to go to the prestigious Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute and learn too be top class chef. In that school, Yukihira will have to face many strong chef and beat them in a cooking battle.
As this manga is a Shōnen manga, it is still have similar format to many other old Shōnen manga that involved a lot of fighting and getting stronger but the different between this manga and other Shōnen manga is that fighting in this manga will be taking place in kitchen. This manga have good mixture of one improving skills, fighting with strong chef and also comedy. This manga have many hilarious moment as many characters have very weird personality. For example, our main character Yukihira Sōma who is quiet clueless sometimes and he usually make some kind of weird dish that he would serve to his friends to try. One of his weird dish is Grilled Squid Tentacles Dressed in Peanut Butter, it is a dish that made person who ate it feel like their entire body were groped by large squid (imagination).
'Imagnation' or image of what eater feels like when eating that particular dis is another distinct characteristic of this manga. Every time a dish was served and was eaten, the reaction of eating that dish would be describe as a imagination of what its feels like which is usually weird and funny.
At first, I was attracted to this manga because it is a cooking manga and its look very interesting to me. After reading a few chapters, I was hooked to it. Unique personality of characters, many interesting dish that make you want to try make or eat it and also a hilarious moment in manga. After all, this is a great manga that I believe will become a lot more popular if the story and plot quality stay the same or improving.
The story follows our main character, Yukihira Sōma. Yukihira dream is to takeover his father's special of the day restaurant and surpass his father's skill in culinary. However, after graduating from middle school, his father have another plan for him and that is to go to the prestigious Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute and learn too be top class chef. In that school, Yukihira will have to face many strong chef and beat them in a cooking battle.
As this manga is a Shōnen manga, it is still have similar format to many other old Shōnen manga that involved a lot of fighting and getting stronger but the different between this manga and other Shōnen manga is that fighting in this manga will be taking place in kitchen. This manga have good mixture of one improving skills, fighting with strong chef and also comedy. This manga have many hilarious moment as many characters have very weird personality. For example, our main character Yukihira Sōma who is quiet clueless sometimes and he usually make some kind of weird dish that he would serve to his friends to try. One of his weird dish is Grilled Squid Tentacles Dressed in Peanut Butter, it is a dish that made person who ate it feel like their entire body were groped by large squid (imagination).
'Imagnation' or image of what eater feels like when eating that particular dis is another distinct characteristic of this manga. Every time a dish was served and was eaten, the reaction of eating that dish would be describe as a imagination of what its feels like which is usually weird and funny.
At first, I was attracted to this manga because it is a cooking manga and its look very interesting to me. After reading a few chapters, I was hooked to it. Unique personality of characters, many interesting dish that make you want to try make or eat it and also a hilarious moment in manga. After all, this is a great manga that I believe will become a lot more popular if the story and plot quality stay the same or improving.