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Shokugeki no Souma

Manga

Category: Ecchi, School, Shounen

Summary: Yukihira Souma's dream is to become a full-time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?

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There are those boring times that we experience in our lives. Leading us to try new things, may it be funny or serious or just plain something we want to do, and those experiences will give us a learning or two. I had two or more of those moments in my life, and what i did during one of those times was browse a random manga in a manga hosting site. And there i found a shimmering shining diamond. A manga titled Shokugeki no Souma.

Story: 8/10

The story is quite simple really, the protagonist, Souma Yukihira, has a father that has a world renowned culinary artsskill, known by high people from throughout the world. But is just running a Specialty of the day restaurant. One day Souma's father decided to work abroad as requested by a friend, resulting to the closing of their restaurant. Souma is now sent to a very prestigious high school where the sons and daughters of japan's top restaurants are enrolled.
To keep the spoilers out of this review i recommend that you read the manga because i like to preserve the excitement on souma's conquests. BTW, this is an ecchi manga. Additional points.

Art: 9/10

The art was magnificent. The ingredients being used, they were somewhat detailed but not THAT detailed, otherwise I'll give a 10. The drawings are clean, and may i say "those meats." If you know what i mean.

Character: 8/10

Hey, i never had these feeling since yakitate japan and mister ajikko. The characters are well thought in my point of view. Unique skills, Unique Background stories, Unique Goals, and Unique Traits and any other Unique things that you can think of.

Enjoyment: 8/10

Are you kidding? It's a shame that i could only give a 8/10 to describe this feeling I'm having right now. This would be one of the greatest anime if this would be adapted to be one(I have high hopes for that.). Talking about this manga having high potentials to be adapted as an anime, i had second thoughts if i would continue reading this or not. Mainly because i don't wanna spoil myself and decrease the enjoyment of watching an anime, knowing what will happen in each upcoming episode. So yeah, this is quite an exciting piece of work.

Overall: 7.8/10

WHAAAAAAT?! 7.8/10 but reading you're reviews on each sector seemed that it was getting a 10/10?!

If a gave it a 10/10 then there would be no room for improvement. Overall I fell in love with this manga. To the point where i didn't want to spoil myself because i somehow feel that this will have an anime adaptation soon. A must read to all ages(Lol, jk 18+). This manga also gave me this weird thing called, "Inspiration". Much like Yakitate Japan and Mister Ajikko, the reactions of the judges gives a good laugh. I now leave this place deciding whether to continue reading this or not. This feeling, Tasukete XD. Anyways, This Manga is highly recommended to everyone. This will somehow boost your self confidence. Don't believe me? Read it for yourself >:)