"Wait for it, I'll make you clearly say "It's Good" with that mouth of yours, even if I have to exhaust my cooking to its limit..."
Shokugeki no Souma is on of those anime series you start watching without any expectations because "hey It's anime about guy who apparently can cook and joins a cooking academy that's supposedly pretty challenging".
In reality It's much more than just a cooking show. It's outrageously funny and well illustrated how they depict every cooking session as some kind of battlefield or orgy of multiple "foodgasms" (as the fans of the series call those scenes) where the tasters gets assaulted by peanut butter coated tentacles after tasting one of Soma's creations.
The comedy and shounen "battle" aspects of this show are brilliantly done, it was a great blend of over the top cooking and tense moments. It felt like there wasn't a single filler episode.
The school where he joins is full of culinary world prodigies who each have some kind of specialty or "ability" which they use to make some Gordon Ramsey tier of food. Soma doesn't have that kind of abilities but he learns from his mistakes and has been cooking and working in his family diner since he was a child. It's great to watch Soma improve and improvise each episode.
The art and animation in this anime was actually quite good and the quality the put into the "foodgasm" and cooking moments was just beautiful. I also adored the lovely chibi moments which made me smile every time.
The music in this anime wasn't that noticeable but the sounds of cooking were very authentic and enjoyable. Needless to say that it made me hungry. OP and ED were both fine.
This show kept me hooked (and hungry) episode after episode and in the end I finished this series in four days!
Shokugeki no Souma is a solid 8/10 a very enjoyable series.
They also announced season 2 for summer 2016 so stay tuned for more outrageous cooking!
