Shokugeki no Souma

how so? I thought the ending was rushed because no one read the series anymore

Is Soma the overdog now?

There was no ending, we got left hanging in the last cooking duel. The manga now gets 3 chapters for an epilogue in another magazine.

is this manga a prime example of career suicide?

I disagree, without her this manga would have been so much more boring and probably dead a long time ago, but maybe that's what some people would have wanted so go figure

the cooking never ends!

>A literal non ending
lol

lmao just go eat some actual food

Thank you for reading this manga with pleasure! Please look forward to the next work by Yuto Tsukuda!

>Bleach had more closure than Souma

More interested in Saeki Shun's one whatever that may be

no, Megumin killed the series

No, Gal Cleaning is

Gotta love them characters with "great potential" that lose every damn time

can't you underage faggots read?

>mfw 3 more months for the timeskip epilogue with milf Erina
Kill me

I gotta admit i preferred the chapters and arcs where erina wasnt a central character.

What is it with the elevens and writing endings?

>Jump GIGA or Shonen Jump GIGA, formerly Shonen Jump NEXT!! is a monthly sister magazine to Weekly Shonen Jump
>monthly

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No one writes with an ending in mind since it can come in 6 weeks notice. The series are usually written to go on for as long as possible until they get the cancel notice, so it almost always comes out of nowhere and gets rushed.

I can't even remember a manga with 300+ chapters with a satisfying or at least non-rushed ending
Except Nisekoi maybe, at least for me

Agreed. Shokugeki had soul when the first half of the manga didn't revolve around Erina's conflict with her family.

It seems like Soma only made the eggs benedict dish for Erina, he didn't even present it to her mother. Is he going to present an entirely different dish?

Might have had parts of the ending in mind since the start, like Souma and Erina stealing eachother's first dishes and the final goal of making her say his dish tasted yummy
But probably not the whole arc and maybe not even her mom

Erina stripping didn't even get a full page. She got no closure with her mom even though the whole arc was about that conflict. What the fuck?

Gotta wait for the next chapter for that

Were the 40 chapters of El Hermano, evil chefs, and filler BLUE competitions really necessary to reach this ending.

About the final arc, most of the Japanese reactions in the sites are annoyed with Noir Chefs, Asahi and to an extent, rushed ending mostly. Very few are hating or blaming Erina, she is the most popular character at the moment (if not, then one of the most). It looks that way so I’m sure her popularity will remain the same.

>Nisekoi
What in the hell is wrong with you

There were tons of other major problems, saying that the fault resides on a character that consistently got either 2 or 1 on the popularity polls is just weird
I usually dismissed the complaints made here about her as the ever-present vocal minority that shits on tsundere-type characters in every series

It's a series i hold dear despite its major flaws since i followed it since the beginning and it's one of the few cases where i got a satisfactory win

Forgive the slight shipsperging, but making the Sorina ship go so fast was the absolute downfall of the series. Erina worked best as an example of the raw talent and skill that would act as a wall for Souma to get past in his training. For fuck's sake, the power scaling and the pace of Erina's cooling towards Souma was on point until at least the Moon Festival and it's Three Way Shokugeki. But then the fucking Central arc started, Erina ran off to the Dorm, and Souma got a massive buff from nothing so he could fill the role of "muh protector that makes Erina ask 'why does he make my kokoro go doki-doki?'" Shipping needs killed the power scaling of the manga, made Erina go from a massive but neutral-ish force to a passive support character to Souma, and killed off the relevance of any character who didn't get the same monster buff that Souma got. None of this would've gone down the same way if Megumi actually got the fucking character arc and ship that was building, but nooo, the Japanese wanted Erina, Erina, Erina.

Fuck Megumi shipping, Takumi should have been Erina's true shipping rival

I guess you could say it wasn't much

The last 2-3 chapters with Erina and her mom had finally an emotional core again that I could get behind. The whole Noir thing though was a dumpster fire, especially with the idiotic ntr angle with Asahi. As for the final chapter, kinda expected, though I feel there wasn't enough romantic payoff, considering the baiting and buildup before. The "stripping" building was a meh idea for a final reaction. Also feels a bit cheapish to not have a lead-out chapter or two for the regular run. It felt rushed as fuck and yet another case of "look forward to your extra chapters/novels/movies for a proper resolution". The whole Mana thing became an afterthought. At least have mother and daughter reunite and let's hear that "I wan't to taste your dish" if you won't go for the romance. Is her vomiting condition now suddenly cured thanks to her new outlook? That and more should have been part of the finale.

Yes. Her popularity is very high. Her CP pair with Soma is also very popular. There’s not many complaints on her. There’s good anticipation for Jump Giga to let author finish the story what he wants to write.

What a shitshow.
The last half of the manga is about Erinas dysfunctional family and it fucking blows.

Ending can still be salvaged if Mana drops her useless husband and now wants to milk Souma's discount chef sauce, making Erina compete with her.

At least we can finally get high quality SnS doujins straight from the source. If Tosh hasn't already become set for live off of royalties for the four or five successful years of this, putting out actual doujins after half a decade of teasing the strongest girl designs in Jump would make sure his bank account will never dry up.

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The Death Note guy said he could only live from his manga for about 5 years after it ended.

It'll never happen, we can only dream

Is that taking all of the spinoff media into account, or is he just talking about the tank sales? That kinda stuff is always interesting to learn about, and I gotta admit, having five whole years with nothing to worry about still sounds like a pretty good time. Especially when you can use that time to build up to your next project.

SnS is another reminder to not to invest yourself in a weekly shonen manga.
The competition is extremely harsh and the deadline is bone crunching suffering. There is no single shonen manga in these last 10 years that has satisfying story and ending. everything is rushed due to "axed because theres no popularity anymore"

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Naruto

Does Steel Ball Run count?

Especially Naruto
I think SBR is monthly.

it didn't though

I agree, most of its problems can be attributed to it being a weekly shonen
Altho it's also the reason it even got to 300 chapters in the first place, so whatever, i enjoyed it overall even if i wasn't that invested in the first place except for some stuff

Technically, this isn't the end yet. Still, it's a pretty shit chapter made solely for the predestined ship and ignores the other important stuff.

What were downsides of series staying on "souma gradually grows and becomes the number one seat" route exactly? Even though it was formulaic it didn't feel stale at a time and school assignments were actually creative and interesting at that time, the whole drama of "suddenly all of you have to become the best" didn't feel like it added much.

I don't see exactly how weekly deadline has a lot to do with overreaching story. Weekly stuff often delivers, authors are pretty good and making cool spreads and interactions, it's overall direction of a story that often sucks c

SBR was in weekly jump for 6 chapters, then it moved to a monthly seinen magazine which was the best move ever.

The reason was Azami or EL HERMANO.

Even for rushed ending standards, this was terrible.

horrible ending. i'm disgusted i even read/watched this manga/anime.

I glossed over the weekly part.
The way WSJ works makes it so that making an ending that is satisfying is fucked. They want their series to run indefinitely until they don't want to anymore and then go "lol you have 10 weeks before your series gets axed".
HxH could have had a decent ending with closure end ending of character arcs, but then he decided to do a boat arc.

What the FUCK was that? That was the worst blueballs ending I've ever seen.

Based

So is this actually moving to Giga, or what?

3 extra chapters on giga

how was the ending ? spoil me

True, satisfying conclusions are few and far between, even if you go further back. I think Houshin Engi left me thoroughly satisfied. I'd have to go digging to look up more examples.

Lot of author need to be more like Negi.
The guy already have ending in his mind and he doesn't give a shit that it was in height of it popularity.He wanted to end it in his own virtue instead of waiting for the magazine to end it.

>erinacucks on damage control once again
>shippers still trying to pretend that they're not mentally ill
Tsundere is by far the shittiest archetype out there. Just a violent, angry bitch that never gets called out for her awful behavior. That's what a tsundere is. Erina is one of the worst. A bitch that never really changed, never got humbled and ended up having the whole cast serve as fodder for her just to keep her in a state of never changing. From the top of my head, I can think of only a handful of tsundere characters that aren't hate worthy
>Asuka
Mentally fucked.
>Haruhi
Subverted, she is easy to hate earlier on (especially during the Sigh arc) and debateable if she is even really a tsundere all told.
>Misaka
Tsundere is a small part of her characterization, Railgun does wonders for her.
>Kurisu
Her tsundere reactions aren't the kind that needs to be called out by other characters, often somewhat understandable even.
>Rin
Plenty of other issues with Rin, not least her retarded fanbase, but her being a tsundere isn't done poorly. Also, personality being warped is part of her character which is explicitly stated.
>Chidori
FMP does slapstick very well. Plus, reactiosn aren't totally unreasonable, and the tsun gets downplayed to almost non-existant by halfway through.

Shitrina has no such excuse. Just a beneficiary of nepotism, who acts the same now as she always did. I never understood why nips like tsundere characters so much, they're always the hardest to like and need some form of redemption or handwaving "explanation" that either never lands or they never even get. Literally appeals to bottom-tier spergs like cucks and shipkeks. Soma is particularly bad for shippers, who even cares about romance in a series in which romance was never a constant theme?

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>spinoff media
Jump authors get a misery from merchandise sales, their income comes from volumes sales. Except for Kubo

>No oyakodon

Literally all my why.

I suppose I should add Inner Moka to that ist, although whether even she was tsundere is debateable too.

And people wonder why sales dropped so hard with this mentality.

>Lot of author need to be more like Negi.
Cancel your manga in a fit of protest for no reason than come crawling back a year later to shit out a terrible sequel which is vastly less popular than your previous series?

I miss when it was a decent cooking manga with some outlandish shit. Why did it have to turn into harem trash with fucking chainsaw circus chefs.

But we already got an oyakodon.

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Her character was actually progressing fine and I thought we could finally get a good Tsundere character isn't annoying constantly.
But then the author decided to let her character direction do 1080 flips up and down every ramp.
The mommy drama flushed everything down the drain the moment she entered to scene and Erina immediately became the biggest cunt ever again. Or even worse.

>let's throw the entirety of Erina's character's development out the window lol
I really hope this shit is ending and not just continuing in another magazine.

It's got 3 chapters left in GIGA. Take consolation in the fact that Jump are so sick of it they won't even let it finish in their main magazine.

Stop lying Mehgloomyfag.

Read the novels dumbass

Assasination classroom got the perfect ending for his series, and SnK is going possibly to have a well written ending too since the mangaka have made the final arc slow and full of details.

>GIGA

Isn't that also the retirement home for ABoruto?

Think Bortuto was V-Jump.

Underrated post

The true shokugeki no souma were the friends they made along the way.

Can we appreciate that Niggastream got sniped out of ad revenue?

Hm?

Ah! Guess it's time to catch up. Had just finished the shokugeki with Esdeath so shouldn't be too long.

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that wasnt even an ending
not even the match results were shown

Assassination Classroom is short for a shonen manga (less than 200 chapters)

more like her entire family dragged this down, she's just the cherry on top of a steaming pile of feces

Well at least we got plenty of hot girls out of it.
No ending can ever take those away from our dicks.

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More like because author didnt know what the heck to do with her after her character development so he just went ahead and devolved her back for no reason.
What a shitfest of an ending. Give us atleast an epilogue you fucking hack!!!!

And what did it cost us?
Our time wasted and Tosh lost from doujin industry.
NOT WORTH

Yeah, but since it had such a poor ending, the manga will just be forgotten as another shonen, and so too will the girls fade away in to obscurity

If you're gonna include anything outside the main manga then SnS still might have a better conclusion than Bleach since it still has epilogue chapters and a new anime season.

SnK is monthly

In the end Takumi never did anything.

Shougeki no Souma was the faps we made along the way?

checked

Reminder that in the end she was and will always be a T-Rex

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So Erina and her tongue are made for fellatio and cum drinking right? Maybe rimming while we're at it.

>no valentine chapter ever

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How's it feel knowing that she will be more liked and remembered when one things of the good parts of Soma than your garbage tsunshitter, Erinacuck?

He's right, though. Nisekoi still followed through with its original premise and ended in a thematically appropriate fashion. The problem with Nisekoi wasn't the ending, it was how much the conclusion was dragged out over so many chapters, which particularly killed Rakugos likability as a MC. The Nisekoi oneshot is honestly far superior to the Nisekoi manga in many regards because of that, but that's just a general problem with harems overall, the longer they go on the worse the MC seems because he won't ever make a decisive call, because if he would, the series ends.

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She can discern the exact contents of what you've drank and ate with just a drop of your cum. Truly a god tongue.

Clearly the mission needs to grow from cooking the best meals Erina can enjoy to finding out what the best things to eat to make your cum taste amazing to her

Ah, typical.
WSJ building should be gassed.

> Erina Arcs are HOT GARBAGE
> T-T-Trust me is azami o el hermano
Sorry user but Erina Kill this manga

Has there been a good manga ending in the last decade? I'm starting to think that nips as a whole cannot write proper and satisfying conclusions.

>What a shitshow.
>The last half of the manga is about Erinas dysfunctional family and it fucking blows.
Even Soma got 1 chapter keeek

Better than drama parents

Assasination classroom got a really good ending

Unironically Toriko

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Soma mom

Bleach.

>Rio didn't become the classroom's disguises expert
>Didn't confess her love
>Good

You're delusional son, Erina is a good tsundere that got hit by the dragging, that's all. Miles better than the boring Megloomy who pretty much did nothing all the way through, that's for sure.

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I should really get around to reading it. Is it actually good? Does the anime follow the full series?

wait, so nobody is declared the winner of the Blue competition in the final chapter?

lolwut?

Mushibugyo. Mangaka actually went and gave the MC a harem end with all three of his love interests. Shame nobody will pick the series up and finish translating it though.

>good tsundere
KEK, how? She's a bitch to the end, still can't admit she likes his cooking. Stagnant, and an extremely unlikeable character. Thats not "good tsundere" at all. You're just a retarded shipcuck that will lap up any shit so you can tell yourself you "won".

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Kurisu isn't a tsundere, she's angry all the time because Okabe and Daru are retards. She's just a nerd otherwise.

I wouldn't say she was directly responsible for it, but what actually made the manga tank wouldn't have happened without her, so I guess it still checks out.

>yfw Soma just marries his childhood friend

The winner was the cuisine we made along the way, duh.

I hesitated to include her, but I wanted to be generous to the worst archetype.

A shitty T-Rex, all the way.

>Good fucking riddance

Agreed. I can't believe this was done to this halfway decent series. I've never read the manga, but have the jist of what all went down and it's just silly. Why did they do it? Are they in a purposeful hurry or something?

Also, Alice is best girl.

>disgusting
Every character in the manga already knows that she loves his food.
Her denying it is just the usual banter between them and because she doesn’t want him to stop cooking for her.

If it's ending in GIGA then I'm expecting 40 pages for each chapter.

The ratings dropped to the bottom halfway through last arc and I guess after that debacle ended they gave the author a deadline and told him to wrap things up in this final arc.

Goes from trying to getting him expelled by any means, to simply not caring, to thinking it's not bad to be with him after all, all the way to being pals that pretty much end up being the ultimate cooking combo, she was anything but stagnant. She lost her harsh haughtiness and stopped the bitch act so nice try but no, at this point you're just shouting at the sky and trying to bargain and cope as much as possible but in the end Erina did nothing wrong, or dare I say, at least she did something? Heh

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I don't recall her ever trying to get him expelled, I think she just took notice whenever he got into trouble and rooted for him losing and getting expelled. I don't think she ever took an active role though.

All that, and she still can't admit that his food is good. Great romance there, shipcuck. Truly worth reading 300+ chapters for.
>She lost her harsh haughtiness and stopped the bitch act
Looks like the erinatard hasn't read the latest chapter then, KEK. Or even this arc, where she outright roots for Asashi because she suddenly has no faith in Soma. And now she says his food is disgusting, i.e. she's a bitch (it's not an act, it's who she is which is why she doesn't have any friends), but I guess it doesn't count WEW
>but in the end Erina did nothing wrong, or dare I say, at least she did something?
What did she do, exactly? Fall for Ashiti, then literally start COPING once he loses and only wins because the protagonist has to go out of his way to throw the match just so she can start cooking. This is after it's revealed that she had an entire class year of students handpicked to help her, and she still managed to do nothing the entire arc. Literally more useless than Shitkura. Even Lucy in FT had better feats at this point in the manga. Cope Erinacuck, she's the biggest Mary Sue and also the most useless "heroine" in SJ history.

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shut the fuck up lol your waifu is shit and you should feel bad

She literally tried to get him expelled in the first couple chapters when he made the dumb egg dish

Toriko had a rushed middle instead

Well technically she tried to not let him be admitted to the school

SJ is such scum the dudes only doing 3 more chapters just let it finish. This trash magazine has way worse content.

The amount of butthurt from people is seriously baffling but hilarious.

Jump is scum because they should have axed this much earlier.

Not like it's WSJ's fault, the manga went so shit it should have been cancelled earlier.

Are you seriously this autistic that you don't understand that people dislike that a story they've been following for years ended in a completely lackluster fashion? Also I don't even see any butthurt, the few fans of this series that are left are more apathetic than butthurt.

Reminder that Erina is a good girl and that it's not her fault the writer can't think of a plot that involves dragging her into some retarded family mess with superpowers.

Plenty of manga have great endings, like this one.

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Out of all the stupid plot shit they could've pulled, the last fucking thing I expected from a cooking manga was a fucking anime Sylar. How does that even work

I wonder did that hack forgot about the childhood friend in the past?

Remember when meat had a superhuman sense of touch and she was exclaimed as an amazing chef?
Neither do I.
Last chapter's "look at all the jewels we've found" section made me laugh because of all the irrelevant characters never seen again or only ever used for commentary.

Psyren's was nice

U19

When will the extra 3 chapters come out?

He's probably one of the few harem protagonists that actually feels as a protagonist. Didn't go for the best girl, but you still accepts his choice if only because he was based as fuck.

Based.

Is this author still making manga? Or did the ending impacted his career?

Its quite funny.
Cooking in general is about teamwork because no kitchen is operated by a single person unless its some some street food thing. And yet this cooking manga was completely unable to integrate any of that and sticked to 1vs1 matches nearly the entire time.
Could have integrated bigger parts of the cast with that instead of literally locking them behind a cage and having to draw their faces behind bars every time (this looked like complete shit)

The average shonen has more teambattles than this. Kinda sad actually.

>Screenshot (24).png
Did you take 23 screenshots before you could come up with that one, OP?

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That's the length Shokugeki should've ended at too.

Erina has got to be one of the worst heroines to come of WSJ. Even worse than Sakura from Naruto. Sakura is shit, but at least her and her family didn't singlehandedly destroy the manga. She should have just stayed a haughty and bitchy antagonist all the way through.

>inb4 i-it was all EL HERMANO
Sales started to drop with Azami.

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Cooking is about having fun.

Nah, Erina's alright. She just needed to change her parents. (Maybe kill them off.)

Now that SnS is over with I can finally stick to GOOD manga

>Kengan Omega
>Komi
>Nagatoro

I am free. Also Erina and SOuma will have lots of children together after this

Erina didn't destroy the manga, her family is entirely responsible. Also Soma's Hermano.

I agree, when the story became all about her and her family (instead, I don't know, maybe the character whose name is in the very title fucking title) it became bad.

>Erina didn't destroy the manga, her family is entirely responsible
Erina did because she's the sole reason her family was introduced. Alice is a Nakiri as well, but her parents aren't lunatics. Erina and her parents are the ones with all the drama. Every major arc that has revolved around Erina-the two we got-have been shit.

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>The Nisekoi oneshot is honestly far superior to the Nisekoi manga
I see you are a man of culture as well.

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He's had several other mangas they just don't get translated.

Azami lead the manga to the block but Shitmom choped its head of.
After the elite ten arc (which had good characters with Rindou and china boy) it was almost like there was character progression. Azami felt kinda out of place in the manga but it was still acceptable.
After that the manga didn't just shit the bed, its entire insides prolapsed outwards.

Does this count since it was clear it was a part 1?

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>reddit spacing
>mangas
Interesting.

>Erina did because she's the sole reason her family was introduced.
That's idiotic. Her family was introduced because the author got brain damage. It's still HER FAMILY, not her, that caused all of the problems that killed the manga. You may as well blame Soma for El Hermano's stupidity.

No she isn't, Erinafag. She's terrible, and you can't defend it.

>She should have just stayed a haughty and bitchy antagonist all the way through.
You mean, like Sherry from Konjiki no Gashbell? She was a mean bitch that was Kyomaro's rival until the bitter end. No shiptease, no warming up, just mellows down a little, but still a cunt.

She was great and you can't prove otherwise.

She's very sexy, and Tosh's delivered on her foodgasm. +1 ;)

The fact that the series she was the main heroine of got cancelled so hard WSJ didn't even let it have another 3 chapters to end it proves I'm right.

WTGOK is honestly the best harem manga of all time, simply because Keima is the only protagonist that isn't an indecisive faggot. The premise of the manga was superb, since you actually got to see him conquer girls and win them over, rather than the usual harem state of constant stagnation and teasing. And once the premise reached its conclusion he immediately and decisively made his choice. It was great.

>She's very sexy
If you're a cuck that likes bitches who have nothing redeemable about them maybe.

No it doesn't, because the failings of the series had nothing to do with the main characters themselves.

I loved it. Just don't go into it expecting a battle manga.
Anime is serviceable but it skipped a bunch of arcs and botched some of the gags. Read the manga instead if you can.

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>you can't prove otherwise.
Sales and rankings do. She finally stepped into the heroine role-which she always was, but didn't feel like it until Azami showed up-and the manga got the axe. The manga was better when she wasn't a central focus.

Shit manga having shit endings shouldnt surprise you user.
Read something of quality like Spirit Circle from time to time.

She was a shit character, had nothing to make her likeable by the end, was entirely useless and the author wanked her off to be the biggest mary sue we've ever seen making her even more unlikeable.

>the failings of the series had nothing to do with the main characters themselves.
Nips have been complaining over Soma's character for years.

Pretty much.

He didn't forget about her he cleanly rejected her so she could move on with her life.

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Mizukami usually makes good/satisfying endings.
I personally only really liked spirit circle, but he always manages to get a satisfying conclusion.

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No I mean the other one, the rich girl

Yea, nothing wrong with a heroine that regresses and does nothing the entire final arc cause she's so shaken up by mommy issues to the point where she doesn't even trust her own nakama.

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I'm not soma's biggest fan but nips have famously bad taste anyway, and soma's character had nothing to do with what made the manga terrible. Azami, Erina's mother and El Hermano were entirely responsible.

Huh, so that's why it's been the only harem manga I've ever able been able to stomach.

The final arc was shit for everyone and everything. Even Jou jobbed.

Erina was the only tsundere I like and was done well. Slowly dropping the tsun for the dere instead of flip flopping or pulling a sharp 180.

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> no human meat cooks
> no body fluid cooks
> no anal frosting
wasted potential

>but nips have famously bad taste anyway
Let me guess, Erina being the most popular somehow doesn't count alongside this?

I'm good, thanks bro. You need to relax as well. ;)

Broken clocks etc. Erina isn't my favorite either, but I do like her and she gets undeserved amount of shit for problems caused entirely by other characters.

She wasn't done well though. She's another example of a generic tsundere that never truly changes, never gets held responsible for her actions and in the end needed the whole cast to save her. She's a poorer tsundere than Chitoge, and that's saying a lot.

So just a retard then. Gotcha.

> Clueless, but focused on his goals
> "I have experience" plot armor
> Can't win a main tournament

I confess the thing I liked more about Soma it's his taunting immunity. Where every other shounen protagonist loses their shit for petty insults, Soma is mostly unfazed. It was a different trait.

>soma's character had nothing to do with what made the manga terrible
Soma hasn't been good character for ages. Great in the beginning, someone you could truly root for, but he just became grating. Not to mention, his matches went on for far too long even though readers knew the outcome from the beginning.

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I agree, but Soma's stayed roughly consistent, if boring. He simply was the least of the manga's problems by the end.

>make shonen manga with a tsundere that is literally Erina except superior in every way except looks
>nobody reads it

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>Soma is mostly unfazed.
It's fine with petty shit, but when then things get serious, Soma still going on with his NO BIG XD attitude is just annoying. React more. Get genuinely angry like you did when Megumi got expelled.

>He simply was the least of the manga's problems by the end.
I disagree. It's hard to follow a manga who's MC isn't compelling as he use to be. I mean even in the end Tsukuda was still pushing the whole 'underdog" shit with his character.

I think the thing that made the things worse was mostly her gramps confessing he pretty much used everyone, from Soma to that creepy stalker girl, to "save" Erina.

did they fuck?

>we could've had more comfy SoL chapters and banter between these two
It still pisses me off. The RdC overall was shit and wasted any potential the Elite 10 had but at the very least it was recoverable. Tsukuda could've written the most predictable plot afterwards (going to a non-retarded BLUE, Soma making Erina say delicious and finally beating his dad) and the majority of people wouldn't complain. Instead he fucks everything up in the worst way possible.

The only things I'm looking forward to is the potential boner I'll get from the timeskip designs and a half-hearted Sorina ending which Tsukuda might completely fuck up.

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If by "great" you mean rushed, then yes. It was great.

i had a dream that shippers got btfo with the epilogue ending

Anything can happen considering the state of the series.

I just wanted to go back to comfy highschool shenanigans. Tsukada is a fucking moron to through out what worked and double down on the retarded shit. The school festival chapters were the last time the manga was really good.

>expected the ending discussion to be Sorinafags vs. salty Somegufags
>it's everybody vs. Erinafags instead
You just had to go full retard didn't you, Tsukuda.

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As much as I loved it, I thought Spirit circle had the weakest ending of his works. Bicuit hammer and especially Sengoku youko had a phenominal ending.

Soumegufags don't care anymore since Soma isn't a character worth getting with at this point. They liked older Soma.

They got cockblocked by that DVD but they're still getting married after the tournament.

Because it's a sumo manga, far less of a broad appeal than a cooking manga. Reina is an amazing tsundere, though, (and a cute imouto to boot) that beach scene was god tier.

I don't even read that but I'm seething already.

That makes her a mary sue and useless, but her being an inredeemable bitch (from this arc onwards in particular) doesn't change. She's a terrible character. I'd have more respect for Erinafags if they just straight up admitted that they only like her because her design gives them boners, instead of pretending that she's "a good tsundere" which at a minimum requires ignoring this arc entirely.

In due time user. They already confessed and did a marriage proposal on live TV.

Did Isshiki ever release his limiter? He was always so suspicious when talking with Eizan.

>which at a minimum requires ignoring this arc entirely.
A perfectly reasonable thing to do, this arc was worse-than-fanfiction-tier.

Once it's truly over in GIGA then I'll just pretend the series finished once Azami appeared.

Not when you're trying to claim Erina is a good example of a tsundere. She may have been, at one point, but that was all reverted, and thus she no longer is. She's a bad character.

The manga fell apart in the previous two arcs, the last arc was just so incredibly horrible it blocks out the memory of how bad it already was.

I'm a woman and I love Erina. It's probably because I've been invested in her character since beginning, so even if it all went to hell, she's still my favorite character.

El Hermano was just a retooled giganigga
>Takes people's cooking tools
>Copy power
Literally bereft of creativity

I think the last time I actually enjoyed SnS was watching giganigga pretend to be Soma for their teamup before Azami came and fucked errythang up.

>I'm a woman
years ago i would have thought nothing of this cause WE'RE ALL LITTLE GIRLS HERE, but dumblr and leddit have invaded threads so who knows

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>I'm a woman and I love Erina
I don't care what you are.
> It's probably because I've been invested in her character since beginning, so even if it all went to hell, she's still my favorite character.
So then you just eat shit and never change your opinions when new stuff comes to light. You decided, arbitrarily, one day, that this character you will stan, and so you just ignore everything bad and pretend all is well. I like Megumi, but I'm not going to tell you she's a good character. She's useless, and should have been expelled and removed from the cast 100 chapters ago.

The manga fell apart the instant Azami poked his nose through the door, but Erina herself wasn't bad until this last awful mess of an arc. I think she carried the manga before the RdC even.

And to think that just 4 years ago, this was among my Top 3 weekly series. What a letdown.

I have long since been pretending that the manga ended when Rindou took Soma out to have some food.

>I think she carried the manga before the RdC even.
Erina never carried this manga. The manga was just genuinely good before bullshit Nakiri family drama started.

Erina never once "carried" the manga, Erinafag. Soma was fun back then, he along with porn artist was enough.

When I say before the RdC, I mean after Azami arrived, before the tournament itself. Before Azami the manga was just plain good, yeah.

Updates never.

Nope, she still didn't carry it. The other characters were still fine, and didn't have to job. The RDC, and in particular, the third bracket where Megumi jobs to Momo, is the point where it all went to complete shit. That ruined Megumi for good, Tsukada even spent the next chapter trying to make up for it by naming the dish after her, and then after the arc was done gave her the hot spring arc, but it still wasn't enough to make up for it.

I wouldn't say they were cockblocked so much as neither of them were ready in the first place. She was trying to force it to help him stop being so self destructive.

The fuck? The manga went to complete shit once Erina became a central focus, before that the manga was actually fun, and had a varied cast that Souma could play off of. The glory days of this manga were when Erina was in a backdrop role and Souma was having fun cooking with the other members of the cast. .

I hated RDC all the way through.

>Nope, she still didn't carry it.
Sure she did. It was the arc that actually started giving her development and melted her bitchiness, which then led to her taking charge of the preparations for the RdC.

>Megoofag
Ahahahaha but I agree with you the RdC was the point of no return

You stopped following FA and you're up to date with MangaPLUS, right?

The arc itself was bad. It had gotten stale, and ever since the curry battle it needed to step it up. The reasons behind it were bad, and boring, so no, she didn't carry it. The RdC was the point where it really went to shit because it became another festa of jobbing for every character that wasn't Soma or Erina. That third bracket was a great chance to have some hype stuff, and instead we needed to feed Momo only for her to lose pathetically next chapter anyway.

Shut up !!! Imagine thinking being a woman gives you even an IOTA of credibility when it comes to having shit fucking taste !!!

user, you just said you would respect Erina fans more if they admitted they’re there just for the boner. I’m telling you otherwise, you fuck. Read what I wrote again.

>Erina carried the manga.
Please seek help

FA dropped it? My last chapter was 221.

>The arc itself was bad. It had gotten stale, and ever since the curry battle it needed to step it up. The reasons behind it were bad, and boring

Agreed, but Erina was the only thing that made it bearable until the RdC proper.

They dropped it because it got picked up by MangaPLUS. You got some catching up to do my friend.

Jesus christ are you that bitch from reddit?

>curry and dog and soma monster trio lasted a literal chapter
>tsukusa jobbed
>jou jobbed
>megumi never won an important match
>alice never even won a match in general during the run of the manga
>meat who?
>dog who?
>hisako W H O?
>takumi and his mezzaluna story just get glossed over
and people wonder the manga started to drop. you don't give your beloved cast this kind of treatment. sure some of these characters were never super popular but they were liked well enough and got good treatment before central happened

This made me laugh a little, so ill forgive you for that. No I'm not. I'm just a lurker, I promise.

>>megumi never won an important match
>>alice never even won a match in general during the run of the manga

On God, best girls have never suffered like this this in the entire history of shounen.

So, souma is only pretending to go first and then say "haha I would never show my food first" and win because he shows last? Pretty high iq move

What? I said I'd respect them if they admitted that they only like her design. Hence boners. You saying you're a woman has nothing to do with that. In fact, I respect you even less, as you seem to have just decided you like her, and will never change your opinion no matter what happens. She's a bad character. She's one of the worst tsundere characters to exist in Shonen Jump history, is the bigest Mary Sue, and perhaps the worst main heroine ever. Cope.
It wasn't bearable. She didn't carry shit. It was bad. The RdC buried it. Erina did nothing of value.

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Okay, sure, continue to rage and emit your flames of fury. :|

>Megumi crushes one of the top 5 anticipated contenders for best chef at BLUE
>it happens in less than three pages
>no food was served or even seen
I didn't even like this girl that much yet I still felt bad for her because I'm a sucker for underdogs getting their due. Can't believe the author made not one but two potential underdog characters but was so much of a hack that he couldn't capitalize on either one in a satisfying way.

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Rage? Where am I raging? I haven't been invested in this manga in years. You're just claiming that she carried the manga because you don't want to admit to yourself that the moment she embraced the role of "main heroine" the manga went to shit. Because she's shit. The fact that the nips like her best is testament to how bad she is.

Basically all blue concluded with souma cherring up erina and telling her to stop being such a drama queen, and then she does and then it ends

Wrong person, user. But do carry on.

Where's my Megumi end?

>best girls
Impeccable taste.

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Then make it clear. You have green text for a reason. And, once again, your inability to explain why you still like her is testament to how shallow your "like" of her actually is. You still like her, because you just decided you would, and aren't capable of changing your opinions. I never thought I'd see the day that there was a main heroine worse in every conceivable way (except design) than Shitkura, but here we are. There is a reason it is cancelled, after all. I guess her popularity really doesn't amount to much, huh?

I want her to be in France visiting Shinomiya alongside Hinako in the epilogue so bad.

Spin-off where they're roommates in some dinky Paris apartment when

Sakura isn't even that bad compared to the nepotism dumpster fire that was the nakiri bullshit

All I wanted was for her to have a cute shoujo romance w/ best boy Takumi and work w/ ShinoHina in the epilogue. Smh

Porn spin off when

It’s not because I ‘don’t have the ability’ to explain, its because I don’t want to waste my time on you. Period.

So continue ranting in your soapbox. Take care.

Exactly. shitkura had almost nothing to redeem her either, and was a truly awful character, but Erikek has somehow outdone her in awfulness. The fact her fans are left repeating stock catchphrases and clinging to one arc that has since had said development reverted says all you need to about the people who enjoy this garbage.

ukw you're right they deserve each other

So i mean this as a genuine question, what are the chances the jump giga chapters have actual nudity? Does that manga allow that kind of stuff?

Rushed ending: r-u-s-h-e-d-e-n-d-i-n-g. Rushed ending.

if the epilogue is a timeskip into their third year then alice better have full on long hair and megumi better have her hair out of braids for good. if its an adult time skip then i expect alice to look even better than her mom and megumi to go full on traditional japanese mommy mode with a kimono, updo, and those traditional aprons they use

>It’s not because I ‘don’t have the ability’ to explain, its because I don’t want to waste my time on you. Period.
You keep responding, which means you apparently want to waste your time on me enough to prolong our discussion. So I'm left to believe that these reasons of yours simply don't exist, and that you aren't capable of defending her character without insisting we forget everything to the contrary.
>So continue ranting in your soapbox. Take care.
KEK, if you wanted a hugbox erinatard, this probably isn't the best place to be. Cope.

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Untrue. There are plenty of shonens with great endings if you know where to look for them.

Top kek

>not wanting to see french!megu
Curious choice, user.

Well shit. God damn licensed manga.

I swear it looks like Erina has short hair (in fact the same cut as Zelda in BOTW2) in the previews for the epilogue

>Azami
There was literally NOTHING wrong with his arc except the fact that it was started far too prematurely. It would've been an incredible penultimate act for the manga before BLUE, and as it is now it's still the apex of SnS in terms of cooking creativity and high-stakes competition. The buckwheat-noodles showdown in particular was truly a masterpiece.

> SnK is going possibly to have a well written ending
doubt

>There was literally NOTHING wrong with his arc except the fact that it was started far too prematurely. It would've been an incredible penultimate act for the manga before BLUE, and as it is now it's still the apex of SnS in terms of cooking creativity and high-stakes competition. The buckwheat-noodles showdown in particular was truly a masterpiece.
I honestly can't tell if this is bait or not. Stagiaire was by far the peak of this series, and even sales back this up.

Which is a shame, because on the face of it there's nothing really wrong with Azami's arc except its introduction. See my post .

This but unironically.

The scenario was shit from start, all that happens is people making a dish and making girl strip, of course virgins like these sort of manga because they can fap to the girl they like

Oyakodon hentai with Erina and her mom when?

im so scared that the entire epilogue is just gonna be another souma and erina match so that she can say it's delicious. fuck. i don't trust tsukuda with the other characters.

gintama got rocky at a few points but its literally ending on the best chapters in the whole series especially the most recent one

so it basically ends with them being confirmed a couple, since it was stated at the start of the manga that love is something like "finding the one you want to cook for"

>sales
Can you honestly not think of a better argument instead of resorting to 'hurr muh numbers' and actually judge manga on its merits? Stagiare was good, but I challenge you to point out any other arc in the manga with so many mind-boggling dishes like Doppio Mezzaluna Pizza, Queen's Apple Tart, Green Tea Puree Soup and Primeval Meat.

Remember the witch girl who focused on making disgusting looking dishes? Did we see her cooking more than once?

He might be defending it a little too much but the Azami arc had the potential to be a great arc for the series if it wasn't for the timing. Going straight into Azami before we really got to learn about the E10 and get the proper foreshadowing is what killed it from the outset. Combine that with them wasting out time with Souma/Hayami and the jobber cage it was underwhelming as shit.

>mind boggling means it's good
KEK, found the brainlet bootlicker.

>mind-boggling dishes like Doppio Mezzaluna Pizza, Queen's Apple Tart, Green Tea Puree Soup and Primeval Meat.
All shit. Stagiare was the peak. The Queen Apple tart literally just looked pretty. I expected more from the best pastry chef at the academy.

But Kengan Asura was great

Fair point. The food porn made the RdC's writing tolerable.

Reminder, they should've lost to the elite 10 in the Azami arc and then been expelled and had to work outside of the school to become better chefs.

Tsukuda also still treats Soma as a fucking underdog when he actually defeats tough opponents and he gives him the majority of screentime to do so. It's shown time and time again that he is overpowered. He only loses when he has to for plot reasons as shown versus Asahi.

Megumi, she is supposed to lose first yes, but also work her way to the top and gain confidence. Instead, she has to lose for someone else to take over for her. Like what's the point of still giving her focus when you can't even handle her right? It really shouldn't be that hard as Tsukuda is making it out to be. Just have her get one win, one loss, balance it out where she won't feel like an overpowered chef so quickly. Give some draws too. But no, Tsukuda is just that bad of a writer. She's instead used as a jobber to make the opponent look good. Which was honestly retarded in Asahi's case because we all fucking already knew that he was powerful since the beginning of the damn arc.

Not him, but while I would love to see Megumi in France in the epilogue, I just don't see it happening. Especially if we get a Naruto and Bleach timeskip in the epilogue. She'll probably take over her family Ryokan as an adult, make it a huge success which could lead to Meg being responsible for putting her small town on the map. I kind of expect her to look like a Yamato Nadeshiko in terms of appearance as an adult, kimono and chignon. That's a pretty realistic ending for her.

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Reminder they will make an anime with anime original arc and anime original ending and it will be better than this.

Those kids had no business going up against the E10 so early in the first place. Soma was pulling out all the stops just trying to compete with Kuga yet he beat all those other schmucks in a shokugeki like it wasn't much.

At least we got Megumi basically telling Asahi to piss off.

She establishes a chain of hotels including a ryokan in France.

>timeskip
>Soma and Erina are happily married
>Erina is on her deathbed
Please dear cook me something..
>She eat it
"It's delicious"
>She dies shortly after from God tongue illness
The end

>look pretty
And tasted amazing too. That's exactly what you'd be served at high-class patisseries. Megumi's Dorayaki was good too, but anyone could tell it was a shoe-in. Honestly, the Central and the Autumn Cooking Competition had sublime dishes.

That'd be great as well, but Megumi has never expressed desire to establish herself in France. The only way I could see her ending up in France in the epilogue is if the epilogue just takes us back to the second year, and she heads over there for Shinomiya to mentor her some more about how to run your own business.

>Tsukuda also still treats Soma as a fucking underdog when he actually defeats tough opponents and he gives him the majority of screentime to do so
I hated this so much. In the beginning he was cool when he'd pull all nighters and have to rack his brain trying to think up a dish that can compete with his peers so his victory felt well earned. Once Azami arrived he just started wining against opponents who were established to be leagues above him with minimal effort.

Cooking is all about making people take off their clothes.

And how would they have gotten back in with Azami in charge? Besides, Jou also promised he'd work under Azami if his team lost, which would've really been awkward if it actually happened.

at least tosh could still come back as a hentai artist

Don't remind me you assholes.

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Which automatically made her better than Erina at that point.
The bullshit "muh mother" dilemma never mattered until right then and there, all she needed to do was tell Asahi to fuck off. But Soma "needed to save her" so of course Tsukuda couldn't allow her to use the backbone she grew at the end of RdC.

>That's exactly what you'd be served at high-class patisseries.
No, you wouldn't. That pastry looked like some Instagram shit. An actual high-class pastry would look like pic-related.

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Hm, point taken. I guess I'd still like to see her be the globetrotter she's turned out to be.

I'm so mad she didn't get her own romance subplot w/ someone else. Goddammit. Best fucking girl.

Why would they need to go back into the school?
>Jou also promised he'd work under Azami if his team lost, which would've really been awkward if it actually happened.
Maybe he shouldn't have made such a stupid promise when his son with no talent was up against some of the talented chefs to grace the halls.

>high class
you mean pretentious

>minimal effort
Not really. Remember how badly he got served by Kuga and Megishima when he tried to take them on? Also, the Ten arguably screwed themselves over with their inflexibility, like Nene's insistence on making and serving authentic buckwheat soba in sub-zero temperatures.

and tosh can't use them IF he come back as hentai artist

The pastry looks fucking ridiculous, but it's exactly what high-class desserts look like. Pic-related belongs to the person who was named the best pastry chef in the world.

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>no talent
I get you hate Soma, but chill the fuck out. Soma is unrefined, but he has never at any point shown a lack of talent.

Souma and friends were carried by the ex-elite 10 in the first place

He still had a several-hundred chapter manga that was wildly successful. For a time. Bad endings don't torpedo careers, it takes failed starts.

His own father said Souma had no talent as a chef, stop being a sperg.

>I'm so mad she didn't get her own romance subplot w/ someone else
Tsukuda couldn't even properly develop his main pairing. I would never trust him with a Megumi romantic subplot.

So he had so little faith in his son he deliberately threw him into Japan's most prestigious culinary school as a deliberate challenge to the headmaster. Right.

Was it Jodi Roca? If it is, his documentary is great. Had the feels.

>Remember how badly he got served by Kuga and Megishima when he tried to take them on?
See those moments were neat and established how powerful the E10 were supposed to be. That was the kind of overwhelming power I was expecting from the rest of the E10 but they really didn't deliver, and a quick training arc aboard a train wasn't enough to sell it to me.
Cooking power levels were a mistake now that I think about it.

Takumi was right THERE it wouldn't been so easy... I'm not really a chan user but tell me you guys have at least considered the idea on here at some point.

>carried
Everyone had to conceptualise and cook their own dishes, so the three ex-Elite rebels needed help from the rest of the team too. And Soma ultimately won on his own. It wasn't even that much of a stretch, considering how much knowledge he'd gained from the Stagiare and Autumn Cooking Festival.

Inner Moka was definitely Tsundere; She just started off as an aloof ice queen and gradually changed into one as she fell for Tsukune.

The best Tsundere's are the ones who develop into one.

Are you a speed reader or didn't you understand anything when it was brought up that Souma had no talent as a chef?

I would argue otherwise, certainly by the end of the manga there was very little "tsun" there. But if she counts as one, then she belongs on the list of good ones. Good character all-around actually, R+V was genuinely a good series. Even had a decent ending all told.

>I'm not really a chan user but tell me you guys have at least considered the idea on here at some point.
Some anons did.

And are you so dense that you're going to take that statement completely at face-value? Soma is 'untalented' in that he doesn't have superhuman perception like Hayami or Erina, or specialised training/techniques. What he DOES have is a flexible mind that allows him to make dishes that suit the optimal requirements of any request (e.g. the Evolved Nori Bento), instead of thoughtlessly showboating.

Of course! Not.

>that bento made for that grandma
>that souma introduction at the academy
>soumegu tag team against best boy shinomiya
>autumn election and stagiare
it was all so good bros

I don't know, it seemed like she became really fond of traveling and meeting people around the world during the time skip. It's a shame we never SAW it to confirm, but right now it seems more likely that she'd want more of that than immediately planting herself at the ryokan.
If she gets with Chadumi and heads to Italy for a while that'd be pretty sweet.

>guy outright says his son has no talent as a chef
>"well acktually"
So yeah, you just didn't understand it. I'd recommend rereading it but I'd advise against that with this manga.

>If she gets with Chadumi and heads to Italy for a while that'd be pretty sweet.
Your absolute mind, user.

That's what made her a great character; she feels less like an archetype and more like a character who changes over time as you learn more about her.

She starts off as the aloof ass kicker who only shows up rarely and Tsukune is terrified of her. Then you see she's not as unflappable as she appears and Tsukune is able to let his guard down around her and realizes he likes her as much as outer and Inner has no idea how to deal with someone like that because she's always just been a fighter and believes love will make her weaker.

But yea, she drops the tsun completely by the end and is straight dere.

>but right now it seems more likely that she'd want more of that than immediately planting herself at the ryokan.
Look at my post again. I was talking of a Naruto and Bleach timeskip which means a 10 year one or even more. As an adult, I could see Megumi taking over her family Ryokan as her first career move. If we get an epilogue that takes us back to the school then we're probably not gonna get anything special. Just the entire cast trying to better themselves as rising chefs while doing their own thing. I'm going for a realistic ending here.

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They weren't really a thing in the first place; some of the Elites would be ranked very differently if they really applied themselves, like Eizan and Satoshi. The problem was that Soma was given too little room to fail and improve from it, because he was constantly locked in all-or-nothing battles. I think the reason why the Stagiare arc was so beloved is because it got away from that repetitive, unrealistic structure and grounded the story in the realistic struggles of professional chefs. It's one thing to make a single dish for a dick-measuring contest against another frat-boy, and another to constantly break your back coming up with different shit in unfathomable amounts for an endless stream of customers. There's a reason why so many chefs turn into burned-out druggies.

Honestly I remember enjoying all the characters, it felt like they all got their moments and development by the end. Ruby being my favorite, but any one of them were good picks. I think my only issue with the ending was not all the plot threads got tied up, but given how some of these series have gone it looks almost perfect now. Great art by the end too. I wonder if the author (who was also the artist if I recall) has done anything else since.

>what is self-deprecation
Have you ever talked with East Asian parents? They often downplay their kids' accomplishments due to growing up in a culture of humility. Actually believing them is as dumb as believing someone saying their kid's just a silly bookworm when they graduated as valedictorian of their class in Princeton. Imagine being such a pridefully ignorant weeb you can't into cultural context.

youtube.com/watch?v=vV3l_1j8pPE

youtube.com/watch?v=CqF0aOPT2XQ

Remember the good old days?

So which is it? Self-deprecation or that Jou meant he didn't have superhuman perception alongside no specialized training? Stick with one.

Yes.

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>frogposter hasn't killed himself yet

>doesn't post spice
why

How about both, you conceited sperg, since Soma isn't gifted in the same way as his peers but is a talented cook regardless? Or is reading between the lines too much for you even in a basic shonen manga?

Don't remind me of how enjoyable this manga use to be.

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Yea, every girl was great and had their moments to shine and since the main pairing was already done and done, the series was allowed to actually have a plot even if it was mostly a battle shonen/harem.

The juxtaposition of harem and battle Shonen elements just helped it stand out without feeling trite and the art was top notch. The ending was definitely a bit rushed, but it ties up all of the main loose ends.

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Which of his peers are gifted in that way? Hayama and Erina, and that's it.

The very fact that gary stu is still in this shitty manga is just one of the many reasons why its so damn terrible.

>gets assblasted when someone calls him out on changing his argument

Proving the point I made in , that's Soma's talent; whereas other chefs simply use the best ingredients and techniques for the sake of it, he actually puts his heart and brain into his cooking to fully satisfy a customer. A chef who fails to make a diner happy is a bad chef, no matter what tricks they pulled out of their sleeves or what school they walked out of.

volume 35 extras are out but there is no erina chibis?? tosh sick of her or something? even her foodgasm was lame this chapter

Tosh is a garbage artist anyway.

I literally just explained why these two interpretations don't contradict each other, since Jou is both being humble and honest about his son's level of talent. Once more; Soma is not as gifted as his peers, BUT he is a remarkable chef nonetheless.

>whereas other chefs simply use the best ingredients and techniques for the sake of it, he actually puts his heart and brain into his cooking to fully satisfy a customer.
Erina does this though which is why none of her dishes ever flop among those that try them, and Megumi has been shown to put her heart into her dishes which is why her specialty is hospitality. Like when she made an easier dish for the judges since she was concerned for their well-being she they've been non-stop trying dishes.

Good thing it ended right after the Central arc. I feel like the story peaked during the Festival and even though Central was a let down having Souma and Erina work together to defeat her dad and becoming members of the E10 made sense thematically and was a good way to end the series. Too bad Souma never did beat his dad but it really was about the friends and meals we made along the way in the end.

At least it never fell into the usual traps weekly shounen writers fall into of soap opera plots, unexplained random powers, quantity over quality, and twists that are more about shocking the viewer then making any thematic sense.

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What a disgusting, bloody, rushed abortion this was. I binged the anime not so long ago and seriously took this steaming up in hopes for it to be as good or even better and damn if that wasn't a mistake I don't know what was. Shit should've ended after Soma became #1. Sure, loose threads and everything but they literally set this whole thing on fire in that last arc. Nothing and I mean nothing good came out of it. The end of Bleach was a fucking masterpiece next to this

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I had a friend that continuously pestered me to get into this series about a year ago. I kept declining it because I thought for sure it'd end up being shit. Feels good to be right desu

>Good thing it ended right after the Moon Banquet
FTFY

Just imagine the manga you publish has gotten so bad that you have to evacuate it into another magazine so that people won't relate its horrible end to your paper. You can't make this shit up

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How about elites like Satoshi, who's a cooking genius in his own right, Nene who grew up mastering traditional cooking to perfection, and Tsukasa who's practically a Michelin chef in high-school? Even in his own year, there are freaks like Mimasaka, who can perfectly copy and improve dishes on the fly.

>that banter between them
>that scene when souma tells her she looks cute in an apron
TSUKUDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

They are mostly older than him. Not really peers.

But that means you missed the good parts while they were happening too. Reading manga should be for pleasure, not simply avoiding disappointment.

>Finally, some good fucking food.
>THE END

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Meh, it wasn't that bad, i've read worse. And the last arc is somewhat readable now that you can read it in one go. 7/10, hopefully Les Dessert can bump it to an 8

>It's revealed that Senzaemon asked Jouichirou to send Souma to the school
>Everyone loses their shit because it's all but confirmed that he's hoping Souma breeds the daddy issues out of his granddaughter
>Years later it turns out that Souma was just one person out of dozens that were handpicked for the sole purpose of propping Erina up
Can anyone look at this series and not come to the conclusion that it was intentionally sabotaged? The writer must have been going through something and decided to take it on us fans. Anno did the same with EVA when his depression took over.

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Man, such a shame. In the first like 100 chapters or so I really digged this series, so much I actually considered getting into cooking a bit because some of the shit they made looked so good.

Sucks that it just completely shit itself for the last few arcs and ended on such a wet fart.

It's not as cynical as you make it out to be. Sezaemon didn't just want to help Erina, he wanted to make a Jewel Generation of supreme chefs, with Soma amongst them. He and his friends are graduating from Tootsuki with flying colors at the top of the world; they all win.

>7/10
>with that final arc
what kind of bottom of the barrel manga do you read

Not by much. They're fellow students like him, and he was expected to challenge them anyway even without the Central arc happening.

No, that's not what he said. He outright claimed he was happy to let everyone else get crushed, all for Erina. He wasn't doing it for their sakes, he was doing it for Erina. It's extremely cynical.

>Sezaemon didn't just want to help Erina
The main goal of the Jewel Generation was to help polish themselves until the best one rose up and that chef would be the one to break the stupid curse. Helping Erina was always his main objective.

>He and his friends are graduating from Tootsuki with flying colors at the top of the world; they all win.
In the manga? Sure. When you're a reader, it just feels like none of these characters really mattered and that they just exist for her sake.

Nice bait you've cooked up but I'm afraid it won't be able to trigger me, my god nose can reek bullshit miles ahead

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Central was a clear decline but it still had decent moments. I can accept Central as the end of the series and a let down but it was still miles ahead of what came after. El Hermano is when everyone outside of a few dedicated shitposters said fuck it.

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I too honestly enjoyed central. It went into some dangerous bullshit territory with its direction but I'm a sucker for cliché good vs. bad all or nothing situations. The last arc however was a fucking abomination, the superpower concept was ridiculous even for this mangas standards. I fucking cringed every time they brought it up

>what kind of bottom of the barrel manga do you read
well, for starters, i've been reading most of the manga JUMP, Sunday and Magazine shit since 2008
Also. I enjoyed SnS up to the Hot Spring Investigation Arc and the art was always above average even if it declined with time

This Central at least stuck to the core goals of the series Souma wants to beat his dad and make Erina acknowledge his cooking. The very fact El Hermano defeated his dad spits in the face of everything and reeks of Daily Soap Operas.

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True. I think the manga fell into the very trap it was warning against; it traded its heart and sense for artificial spectacle purely for entertainment's sake, without consideration for what the readers really wanted out of the series. And even that was ultimately botched due to the imminent axing forcing a headlong rush to a ramshackle conclusion. BLUE was so atrocious I almost felt like Jou when I read it; broken and disillusioned.

Well we're finally free lads. I can't believe I stick to this piece of shit after Azami.

Kek, well put.

This looks good as well as practical to eat but here makes me wonder if you're suppose to mix all the flavors up instead of trying them one by one, since some parts look too small to even affect your tongue. Like look at second from the right, how the fuck would that affect your taste buds? it's like 4 scattered bits of something, the only way you'd even stick it onto the pastry or whatever is through the yellow sauce, and wouldn't that yellow sauce cover up the taste through sheer volume difference?

I've only ever eaten at 3 star restaurants as far as high class food is concerned, so I have no idea how the pastry industry works. It just seems rather difficult for plebs like me to appreciate it from a practical stand point.

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Remember when they showed a flashback of Jou and Doujima conquering territory? What if we had gotten that instead? Different characters/factions could win or lose territory and Soma wouldn't have to win all the time.

The magic is that you can eat it in any order you wish and it'll still taste delicious. When you attain this level of mastery, you plan every detail from top to bottom, and pastisserie is arguably the most demanding discipline to specialise in.

>The magic is that you can eat it in any order you wish and it'll still taste delicious
Sounds good but it still doesn't let me taste just the tiny bits if I happen to want to, which is the only trivial but still noteworthy part I can see as a flaw. Choice is only as good as the convenience in taking it, so no matter how great it looks I'd rather the portions of some of them be a tiny bit bigger and maybe more spaced out.

TPBP

>That deliciousness wave crap can not only forcibly make people strip but can now even knock down walls.

Why. Just why. This is legitimate super power territory. Even that shitty cross knives thing was almost plausible if you just think of it in terms of him being a super genius who is just copying their shit from experiance. But this is just plain rediculous. You can't just throw this shit in with no in-universe explanation or precedent.

I remember people claimed Mori was only a glorified recipe maker and that she wasn't all that important to the manga, but damn look at it now. When you think about it, even on maternity leave she should still have the leeway to give some recipes and consulting here and there right? And yet the moment it happens shit runs downhill like a landslide.

Tsukada really was telling the truth when he said Tosh and Mori carried his ass. Just one of them being busy ruined it. She was probably the real editor so to speak, since her background in cooking keeps everything grounded.

She said that to encourage him to keep growing as a chef. Yea Forums is so retarded sometimes

heh...in the end we truly were... shokugeki no soma

this so fucking much, im still salty about nisekoi

>She was just pretending to be retarded!
This is the average SnS fan

>dish never before seen in this world
>we're never going to see it because the hack can't think something up
unless the end of BERU is longer than usual then I doubt they're going to waste the chapter on the dish/reactions

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Fuck you.

From the top of my head:
Magi
Kuroko No Basket
Sket Dance
AssClass
Jitsu wa Watashi wa
Saint Seiya Lost Canvas
Eyeshield 21
Air Gear
Tsurezure Children

But yeah, monthly series tend to have better endings than weekly series

Are those supposed to be examples of good endings? Magi was passable, I guess. Tsurezure Children ended when it got the most interesting it has ever been, so I guess that ending is alright but it was way too abrupt imo. And Kuroko no Basket had an actually good ending.

Air Gear was shit

>Are those supposed to be examples of good endings?
yes, they were good for me atleast.
That's your opinion.

It had gorgeous art and had a great premise early on. Of course it all went to shit once the story took roller skating too seriously but when it was an underground sport filled with dangers on the level of slums and gangs vying for control while slipping away from the police that was 10/10.

Dropped this a while ago, did they mention Souma's mom?

yes, like 5 chapters ago she showed up for 3/4 pages

They still never explained the fucking scar on Soma's forehead. Not even when Soma's mom was finally being shown.

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Why do you want an explanation for that
He probably cut himself while juggling with knifes

>3 months to get a final FINAL ending
AHHH JUST FUCKING GIVE IT TO ME ALREADY

>Sket Dance
>Satisfying end

Nigga ...

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>It's Disgusting
Erina ended the series just how she started it, as a shitty tsundere.

The week
The day
The very SECOND that they revealed that Takumi got his knife back from Mimasaka completely off screen.

That was when I knew there was no hope.

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And yet that's the arc that killed the manga and caused its cancellation

There's no way tsukuHACK didn't intentionally sabotage his own series

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>expecting Bossun to give a shit about romance
be glad Shinohara gave Himeko her confession in a gag manga
also
>ignoring the god tier graduation ceremony, and how the chapter shows the future of the most relevant characters

Sad my wife never came back but glad as well.

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I was tricked into believing it was a detective manga

for what? so tsukuda could ruin her?

>Not him, but while I would love to see Megumi in France in the epilogue, I just don't see it happening. Especially if we get a Naruto and Bleach timeskip in the epilogue. She'll probably take over her family Ryokan as an adult, make it a huge success which could lead to Meg being responsible for putting her small town on the map. I kind of expect her to look like a Yamato Nadeshiko in terms of appearance as an adult, kimono and chignon. That's a pretty realistic ending for her.
nono she have infinite potential, she go on beerus sama planet and save the earth

That is why I am both sad and glad she didn't show back up.

>Magi ending
>Good

Well, most of anons don't even know what women are, so it's kinda obvious they don't see past the big tits.

FMA

A reminder that Bleach novels are fanfiction-tier cancer and trash that contradicts the manga plot.

It's actually over
All this time of following this manga
And this is how it ends.
Jesus Christ.

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"I have no idea what an ultimate dish would be so, I'm just not going to draw it."

I want to go back to better times.

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If we don't get a valentines chapter, tsukuda I swear ....

perfect

Last time I checked Kubo was sick and needed surgery so the manga had to end quickly. Tsukuda on the other hand got axed so hard, he had to finish his manga in another magazine.

I can'tr believe this shit lasted almost 7 years. 7 long years since last Tosh porn.

He could’ve just made the first dish he cooked for Erina but fuck common sense, amirite?

I haven't felt this disappointed in an ending in a good long while.Not even an extended chapter

Even Double Arts axe made more sense.

Fuck man, even JaPan! Made an attempt at making the ultimate Japan style bread, even if it was mostly just a rolled bread meant to look like the Japanese flag when cut into slices. This on the other hand is just sad.

I think having the elite ten being defeated stole the big drive to do better. By achieving the highest goal, what else there was to do in the school?

This. Competing against the Elite Ten early stole the thunder from some potential clashes that could have happened over time. Having the top seats to start only their second year of school left nowhere else to climb but in a world of real pros, and it just became this weird edgy thing with an antagonist that was poorly executed and brought a hurricane of bad ideas with him.

I want a doujin with Erina's fish eyebrowed mother, Tosh please make it happen

There's no way Tosh can draw these characters for doujins.

I mean, the chapter makes sense in a way to make the point that be challenged it's what make Soma happy, so...

Be glad Shinomiya had his own spin off.

>had
I though it was still going

98% sure that will be explained in the second extra GIGA chapter

I told you guys it was gonna be like ES21. The 'Winter Cup' was long over and BLUE was just the life support arc designed to milk shit out. The only real difference is Black Panther turned into a tsundere nip girl and got focus from the start instead of coming out of fucking nowhere. Just compare them:

>Both have the most broken inherent talents/specs/etc in their series
>Both had issues with their 'father figure' at the start until coming across MC's gang and learning to assert themselves
>Both respect the MC and that relationship is what fueled growth
>Both end up winning at the end carrying hard

Man what a nothing ending.

Slickback didn't even appear in the last chapter.

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>Slickback
Tsukuda: Literally who?

Me too