Manga 'Shokugeki no Souma' Ends

by Vindstot
Jun 5, 2019 8:26 PM | 64 Comments

The 27th issue of Weekly Shounen Jump of 2019 announced on Monday that Yuuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's cooking manga Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma) will end in three chapters. The manga will also have a big announcement on the same day it ends.

Tsukuda began serializing the manga featuring artworks by Saeki in November 2012. TV star and food researcher Yuki Morisaki collaborated with the creators, making dishes and recipes depicted in the series. Shueisha shipped the 35th volume (pictured) on Tuesday.

J.C.Staff adapted the manga into a 24-episode anime series in Spring 2015. A second season, subtitled Ni no Sara, followed in Summer 2016. The third season aired in two cours in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. The 18th, 19th, 24th, 25th, and 29th volumes bundled original video anime episodes, which served as side stories and bridges between seasons.

Crunchyroll simulcast all three anime seasons with subtitles while they aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks released the first season in North America on Blu-ray and DVD in August 2017 and a premium edition in September 2017. The company also shipped the second season on a standard Blu-ray and DVD and a limited edition in February 2018.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in 2013 and simultaneously publishes new chapters with the Japanese release through its Shounen Jump service digitally. The 30th volume went on sale on June 4.

Source: Comic Natalie

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The first arc with the fall classic competition was the best. The third arc was alright since we got introduced to the elite 10. But the last one was just absolute downhill. They really should have taken their time fleshing out the story and characters rather than rushing headfirst into chaos. Being following this since 2013, still an epic run.

Aug 2, 2019 8:23 AM by Kagutaba2019

https://twitter.com/Spytrue/status/1139010215121231873

So Soma get 4th season and extra 3 chapter in GIGA. Let us suffer a bit more.

Jun 12, 2019 9:09 PM by NeoAnkara

welp time re-read it once the serialization ends because i havent caught up with it for so long.

Jun 12, 2019 3:36 PM by jjihhye

Anyone know where the yuuto went wrong? I heard another author had to leave leaving him pretty much on his own. I feel many characters didn't get enough time as they should have, relied too much on the jump formula, and this notion that soma and erina had to be the top dogs of the academy because of their background, I was indifferent about that. It would've been cool if Megumi became #1 out of the blue(no pun intended) given her upbringing from nearly being expelled to among the elite

Jun 10, 2019 8:47 AM by Jarmend363

Wait, what? Shit, that's bad. Hope Saeki Shun gets something new to work on. His art is godly..... or he could go back to drawing hentai. Either way, art is godly.

Jun 9, 2019 9:07 PM by yhunata

the last two arc (azami and the current one) were/are pretty unreadable

Jun 9, 2019 2:56 PM by Acheron

Finally it's ending(although i thought that 7 sins would end first)

Frankly,this series was going downhill since atleast more than 100 chapters for me and the latest arc is the worst so, it's nice to know that it is going to end

I wonder what the announcement is about?hope it's not about a sequel manga

Jun 8, 2019 12:53 PM by madarchod

you have to agree that Central Arc was the pinnacle of autism as far as I could tell, and from my experience of reading it was just not fun. I pretty much stalled it after that but let's see how it's going to be... I've not heard about the current arc but I've heard that it's just also pure autism.

Jun 8, 2019 1:19 AM by _Ako_

Truly a shame. It started out so well, but tried to outlive its peak and grew worse and worse by the chapter.

A classic example of mangakas not knowing when to end their series and turning what was once sweet sour.

Jun 7, 2019 8:36 PM by Toarujisuru

Once the anime finally finishes where will I go for my weekly source of foodgasms? I'm sure as hell not going to watch actual food porn.

Jun 7, 2019 5:26 PM by FanofAction

omg...this is big news...hope erina and souma will end up together

Jun 7, 2019 4:38 PM by Stoorainclaire

I wonder what the big announcement will be.

Jun 7, 2019 3:19 PM by Daisuki

It will not be missed

Jun 7, 2019 10:09 AM by landofthekwt

OMG 😥😥😥 .. its finally done ... Thanks for nice manga and anime .. i hope SNS get a new season . I really love this anime

Jun 7, 2019 5:56 AM by Vardhan_Haykal

@shanimebib Well, I do not know. I had little motivation during the first cour of the first season, but all this shonen's madness in the future and attempts to introduce culinary Nazis in the person of her father literally fell in love with me, lol. The plot is increasingly absurd with every new arc, and the metaphors of delicious food are so intentionally dirty that I can't look at it calmly.

However, my familiar fan of manga said that the recent arc practically beat the franchise record for the absurdity of the plot. What kind of "dark" and "light" chefs, etc.

Jun 7, 2019 4:03 AM by RobertBobert

@RobertBobert: Aggresive characters like tsundere have their personalty over the innocent/shy types, outwardly at least. Besides, she held firm on her reputation of being one of the top seats through her actions in the earlier chapters, so there's that - archetype or not.

Also, I think the announcement is already the revealed longer than average final chapter. If it is an anime, I doubt they can cover the remaining chapters in a single cour. Even to adapt a single cour, from financial pov, is not gonna worth it.

>Sharp decline of sales
>End of serialization
>Popularity already tanked

Although they can make a rubbish season with everything squeezed in in a 12 episodes season. J.C is capable of absolute garbage tier adaptations but the remaining content couldn't get any worse no matter who adapted it so there's that. :)

Jun 7, 2019 2:40 AM by shanimebib

So it finally ends.

Jun 7, 2019 1:45 AM by xchyssa

caio_brb said:

RobertBobert said:
@caio_brb I remember the original interview very well, there is no need to refer to such weird sources as animefeminism, where the review on CCS sequel by 90% consists of complaints that Tomoe did not receive a lesbian love interest, or where the reviewer on Darling in the Franxx quite seriously writes, that boys' interest in naked girls is a social construct

I'm not even talking about the fact that last year they wrote a whole article just to complain about how in Lupin the main male characters negatively perceived the suspicion of their own sexuality. Well, you know, you have to positively accept the idea that you can be gay, otherwise it is homophobia.

You may question such a reading of his words as much as you like, but NEVER refer to this source in a conversation with me, please.

My source isn't this article, it was never this, I read the original interview. I only pointed out something that gives a more detailed vision about Kawahara's writing on the 2010s, which happens to be on that site but it illustrates what happens.

Aside from that, it was such a minor point compared to what I really pointed out.

This site is a trigger for me, because I hate trying to politicize art or try to impose a “correct ideological reading” on abstract things.

I am not so familiar with SAO to appreciate the difference between the various arcs. I have my own thoughts on this, but I do not want to argue about the content of the work that I did not read. If this is true - good, I don't like works, where female characters are limited to attractive love interest.

Jun 7, 2019 12:43 AM by RobertBobert

Jun 7, 2019 12:33 AM by brzzcode

@caio_brb I remember the original interview very well, there is no need to refer to such weird sources as animefeminism, where the review on CCS sequel by 90% consists of complaints that Tomoe did not receive a lesbian love interest, or where the reviewer on Darling in the Franxx quite seriously writes, that boys' interest in naked girls is a social construct

I'm not even talking about the fact that last year they wrote a whole article just to complain about how in Lupin the main male characters negatively perceived the suspicion of their own sexuality. Well, you know, you have to positively accept the idea that you can be gay, otherwise it is homophobia.

You may question such a reading of his words as much as you like, but NEVER refer to this source in a conversation with me, please.

Jun 7, 2019 12:17 AM by RobertBobert

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