Shokugeki no Soma

why the fuck is aizen trying to take over totsuki, his plan seems fucking stupid

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Actually he should just job to Megumi.

Asahi is a good character, I don't know why everyone hates him. He's sexy, very entertaining, tragic past, and a powerful chef. He's pretty damn awesome.

He's like someone's edgy self insert OC.

>O MY KNIFE COLLECTION
You must be in the elite ten, for no one else could produce such DELICIOUS and world-class BAIT

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Honestly, I would lose my shit and actually change my opinion of this being a dumpster fire.

It would be a glorious dumpster fire and more than worthy of my time and not just sunken cost fallacy

I meant every word.

It would be a huge asspull considering the fact that three of the strongest chefs in the series couldn't even beat him but fuck it, I'd let it slide.

He was tolerable until this page.

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Why is this power stupid but not Erina's God Tongue or Hayama's nose?

I can buy enhanced senses and even Giganigga copying other chefs by stalking them for days because it was at least somewhat grounded in reality, just like the cooking methods that this manga used to have.
This is a straight up bullshit superpower where he instantly gains abilities by touching a damn utensil.

god he's lucky

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Wow... it went downhill BAD. Now they have supernatural utensils?

if you can't figure that out you're probably a fucking teenager.

Because they aren't too far-fetched. Supertasters are an actual thing.

Though Hayama not having his sense of smell completely fried from living in the slums is a bit questionable. His life must have been hell living in the loo, he probably could tell what people had for dinner just from smelling their shit. Also, the bestowing thing was pretty dumb too.

>Why is he so thirsty for Erina?
he wishes to become the architect

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I don't even give a fuck anymore. I want to see how much worse Tsukuda can ruin his series, because he surprises me every week when I think things couldn't possibly get any worse.

SnS isn't even the "fun" kind of trainwreck like Bleach or Akame ga Kill though. It's just fucking horrible

You know it's bad when Erinafags can't even bother to shitpost about Megumi's upcoming destruction. They know that their waifu caused the decline of the series.

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>megumi is a mommy figure
>asahi hates his mom
Oh man his dish is going to be filled with angst

Megumi is going to lose and instead of Erina consoling her she's going to rub salt in the wound and call her dish pathetic and an insult that she would make such rubbish to try and defend her.

Shut up, Erina.

Just self-insert as him instead of Souma.

That would be really cruel considering the fact that she wasn't as big of a bitch towards Takumi.

I don't care enough about Megumi to bother. Also it's not Erina's fault.

She felt insulted that Takumi didn't go all out by having his brother with him

But it is partly her fault that the manga is shit.

What was Tsukuda thinking adding NTR alongside an tournament arc? It really spoiled the majority's of readers enjoyment reading.

he secretly is a good person and doing it for Soma's benefit

>Also it's not Erina's fault.
Imagine being this delusional. Imagine thinking her character didn't play a part in the series going to absolute shit.

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F Megumi.

I would

I love her.

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best girl

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The utensils are retarded but not supernatural. El Hermano is the one with the supernatural powers

centrals plan to shut down all non gourmet japanese restaurants is the stupidest shit ever

imagine the absolute shit that'd go down here if he actually jobbed to megu

If Erina even says a mean WORD to Megumi about this, we riot.

Erinafag isn't enough. We have to start taking in the lack of reading comprehension and start referring to these people as erinatards.

>actually wanting the series to be better
>not wanting the trainwreck to go on even stronger

Anyone who likes this iteration of Erina is a shiteater. I'd call myself an erinafag but only up until her faggot dad came and ruined everything. She was already slowly defrosting to everyone until the forced drama came in and made her a damsel in distress. I don't know how any erinafag could find this series of developments satisfying for her character.

Whenever someone makes a Chainsaw Man thread, I keep thinking they're making a cheeky joke about this series.

Erina was a fucking GREAT antagonist and rival character. Too bad Tsukuda's a fucking pussy who couldn't bear to see his waifu put in her place for her snotty, bratty behaviour.

That panel of her as Jeanne d'arc put my fucking sides in orbit. This is the same bitch who bulldozed clubs for her personal use, but she has muh haute cuisine drama, so she's our lady and saviour now. Holy shit.

>I don't know how any erinafag could find this series of developments satisfying for her character.
They don't, they just want to admit it.

He needs to touch her tongue with his tongue to gain her powers.

Hence they need to get married first; because it's inappropriate to kiss outside of marriage.

Doubling down is worse though. No point in defending it, literally nobody is enjoying this series at this point and is only watching to see how much worse it can get.

100% not even baiting I'd pay good money to see Megoo waste Asahi. It'd fuck up Everything established so far. It would be glorious.

I'll admit that while I hated how forced the Azami backstory felt, I got over it quickly because I enjoyed watching her interact with the residents of the Polar Star Dorm.
Now there's nothing left to enjoy anymore, meaning there's nothing worth defending.

>It'd fuck up Everything established so far
Everything got fucked up the moment EL HERMANO beat Jou off-screen making Soma's journey thus far completely pointless since beating his dad was his main goal. We should have seen Jou BTFO by Soma and only Soma. Now Jou is just a fucking joke of a character.

I genuinely can't tell if the author is trying to just crash this train or what. The manga was fine until it got into weird superpowers shit.

If Megumi uses her superability MORAL VICTORY and loses to Hermano 2-1, can we then justifiably say Mehgloomy >>> Jou?

its pretty fucking obvious that jou will appear in some future chapter soon and it will be revealed that he went easy on el hermano. the writing has gotten so predictable. if its not revealed that jou didnt go easy on him then its safe to say that the manga is in the final arc and that souma beating el hermano is the end of it especially if el hermano wins over erina. that way souma beats el hermano who beat his dad/tsukusa/erina therefore becoming the "strongest" chef without having to win over the last three.

Jou's not appearing lol. We can safely say that this is the endgame.

This development is so stupid that I can see it actually turning out to be his true motive the entire time.

It was cute, but it still rubbed me the wrong way how all was forgiven just because she had Le Tragique Backstory.

When they were in Hokkaido, and Meat all but started licking her ass despite how Erina threw her away like hot garbage got me fucked up. There was no redemption arc, because Tsukuda felt like she didn't need one. Wack, lol.

Yeah I didn’t like that either, but I figured it would be brought up later in the arc somehow so I let it slide.
It never did and I was so disappointed.

Maybe I'm being too harsh on her. The dorayaki she made inspired by Megumi was genuinely heartwarming-- but it sucks that Megumi had to job for Erina's development.

It's not that Erina's a bad character. It's just that she sucks up everyone else's development.

This. I don't think ANYBODY had called Erina out on her behavior. They all just acted afraid of her but then praised her afterwards with no hesitation

It’s a combination of the stupid drama brought on by the Nakiri family name and Tsukuda being biased in favor of giving Erina the lion’s share of the spotlight. I wouldn’t have minded as much if the other characters got more of that love too like they did in the Training Camp, Autumn Election, and the Stagiaire Arc.

Cause Erina is his self-insert waifu. That's why he had her shitty attitude blamed on her boo-hoo backstory instead of just having her own up to being a brat, which would have made more sense since she's wealthy, praised to the heavens, and has the god tongue. With those three factors, anyone would turn into a brat. Tsukuda just couldn't bare to have her be less than perfect.

This is why I don't get Hisakofags. Why sperg over a glorified lapdog? All she ever does is wait on Erina. It's fucking pathetic. She hasn't done anything since the first fucking round of the Autumn elections.

>This is why I don't get Hisakofags. Why sperg over a glorified lapdog?
cause waifufags are mentally ill. like you said, she hasnt done anything since the first round of the autumn elections but still managed to land 2nd place in the last popularity poll even though we barely saw her break out of maid/mommy/butler mode.

>Stagiaire Arc lays down groundwork for Hisako to develop her individuality as a chef and assert herself as more than just Erina’s assistant
>never goes anywhere in favor of Central bullshit
I’m not even a Hisakofag yet I’m still mad.

Marry Megumi, fuck Miko, kill Erina.

Up to which chapter would you recommend this series? I've finished that tournament against the "culinary mime" and I'm wondering if I should go on or stop.

Remember when she got expelled and went into a bonafide catatonic state bc "how will I face Erina-sama?". I ragequit.

>central was the chance for her to be fighting by Erina's side
>gets caged

Hisako couldn't even fight her way onto the new Elite Ten Council. Fucking Megu is literally >>>>

>Erina ruined the series
Whilst I agree her story has been shit, that statement is wrong.
Erina is just but a symptom of a the actual root of everything that is wrong with this series, and that's that Tsukuda tried adding a plot to this story, when Tsukuda cannot write to save his own life.
The manga was fine when it worked like a sports manga. You had plenty of events, and characters developed through competition. It was fun because it was simple. However, the moment Tsukuda added Azami to this mix the story fell apart, because the whole thing didn't fit the type of story he had been writing, and whilst it isn't impossible to change the mood of a story, he simply never had the skills to do so. A testament to this is the fact that he seems to think things can just happen: Erina can just turn a new leaf nearly overnight, Souma can just become a much better cook in a week, foreshadowing? what the fuck is that? Here, have the Noirs and El Hermano, completely out of my ass.
That's quite the big issue because, no matter what type of plot you try to write, you do not get to add anything to your story that you haven't already established prior and/or that you've been developing for a while. Any event that occurs without prior development is plain bad writing, as none of that has been properly tied to your story. Furthermore, those type of events completely kill any hype as there's just no build-up to them.

So, it doesn't matter what vehicle Tsukuda would have used to bring in some plot into his manga. Whether it was Erina, Jou, Megumi, Hayama, or Souma himself, the fact of the matter is, Tsukuda just has no idea how to write a plot. Moreover, he also has no idea how to develop characters. Just look at how badly he's handled Erina's development, or that fact that Souma, the fucking MC, has had close to no development to his character (and I'm not talking about him as a cook, but as a person, but if the writing was good, both would be tied).

He wants to kill everyone WITH LAZORS while screaming ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA". Madeyalook madeyalook madeyalook

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>Up to which chapter would you recommend this series?
130 since Azami shows up in 131. You won't get to know the Elite 10, but they're all jobbers and forgettable anyways. Rindoufags will argue differently since she has a nice design, but that's all there is to her character. There is literally no reason to continue past that chapter. Azami reveal starts the downhill, and Asahi makes it irredeemable.

God, shut up.

Why does he look like Souma

Erina didn't ruin the series, but she definitely played a massive part in it going to shit. The main reason Azami was a thing was for Tsukuda to push her early bad attitude onto him hence the "sad" backstory we got. Hell, the Central arc didn't even have a proper conclusion. It just ends with Erina winning and smiling brightly thus showing her dad that she's broken free from her cage with him just fucking off. Literally walking away without saying anything from what I remember. Then we get EL HERMANO, who is so obviously here to play the love rival, because Tsukuda went the most cliche route to push/develop his endgame that had bare bones in terms of romance. It's not a coincidence that Soma realizes the beauty of Erina AFTER he shows up, and that one chapter cover page with Erina in a dress while chibi!Asahi dressed up as prince and chibi!Soma dressed up as some lowly knight or something are fighting over here makes it blatant that his main role is to play the evil shoujo love rival that needs to taken down by our MC. Then we get evil mommy Nakiri and her confrontation ends with Erina going into cold mode again despite Tsukuda writing an entire fucking two year arc where we see Erina change, and it's obvious she's in cold mode again because Soma needs to play a huge part in defrosting her cause he didn't in the last arc. The series was 100x better when she played the antagonist.

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She had a nice bit with Soma during the Stagiaire. Got to be independent of Erina for a bit and get some development.

This Erina stuff is reminding me of people's complaints about Diana

Yeah, the more i see him the more satisfying his jobbing moment would look in the future

Well shit, I don’t remember that line at all. Thanks for giving me another reason to hate the Central arc.

>, I don’t remember that line at all
its a small panel but alice tells her to chill out cause erina doesnt care.

Erina and Hisako have the most disproportionate friendship I've ever fucking seen. Even Megumi's better friends with her. What a fucking joke.

Fuck you. If this ends up with ntr, I am dropping this shit so hard, and I haven't read this in months

cause they were never really friends. a friend isn’t suppose to act like your maid/butler/helicopter mommy. thank god for alice because she the only one that treated erina like any other person meanwhile everyone was groveling at her feet.

>why not give them a show
The fuck do you suddenly care Erina? Jesus this mango.

best girl coming through

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Imagine a scenario where this shit series goes on after el hermano, how else would they "raise" the stakes? Cooking in space?

Fuck Soma/Erina drama for a second. Why is this crackship god tier?

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inb4 cannibals

Yes

The Edge was a better villain/character then this guy is and that was a really low bar already.

Asahi was a really over top and dumb villain but at least how over the top he was, was sometime funny. El Hermano doesn't even have that

The only reason I still read this manga, is to see this guy have a complete breakdown when he loses.

*Azami

if Megumi manages to pull something crazy, we're crowning her the supreme, right?

mfw he's actually after erina's mom

Why do her eyes look so off?

good lord, no

why are your eyes so off? she looks fine lol

wrong pic

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Unironically he's Luxu from Kingdom Hearts and he's trying to gain the "Princess's" heart.

He has a completely fabricated backstory, he talks like he's Satan, and he even wears the dumb scarf.

Because having a supersense of taste is actually real and I can buy that as an actual ability in a cooking manga. Fucking nen with conditions for activation isn't and it's retarded that they are LITERALLY retroactively making shit like "hospitality" or "brotherly bond of cooking" to be fucking LITERAL superpowers someone can steal from you with their own superpower. Is that French vegetable chef's superpower now an extreme affinity for vegetables or something? Shit like that is what makes it retarded.

So, this is the final arc, right?
They can't be seriously thinking of continuing the manga in the direction, right Yea Forums? RIGHT!?

his endgame is to be the Dio to Soma's Jonathan. The girl is literally even named the same! He only wants her for 2 reasons. 1. Because Soma does and 2. because he'll be unstoppable if he gets that ability.

Is there any reason for the existence of Shokugeki no Soma anymore?