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jackofarcades posted:Could be as simple as a few people stuffing the ballot. That's how all Japanese surveys/voting works.
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Isn't that poll based on the anime? That is gonna skew results. e: wait nvm
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Imma be hella disappointed if there's not a chapter with Megumi as Hinako's stagiare
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Hey now, at least 1,195 voted for The Best Girl, so just because Erina got #1 does not mean all hope is lost.
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Speaking of the anime... is it just me, or does Erina sound like she's voiced by Shizuka Itoh? 
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The Evil Thing posted:Speaking of the anime... is it just me, or does Erina sound like she's voiced by Shizuka Itoh? Doesn't sound like it to me, and she's listed as being voiced by Taneda Risa
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gwrtheyrn posted:I don't see any other reason why takumi is #2. He's a decent character, but 4-7 are at least as good if not better Literally yaoi fangirls. Soma and Takumi are a highly popular fujoshi pairing.
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:Hey now, at least 1,195 voted for The Best Girl, so just because Erina got #1 does not mean all hope is lost. And only 50 points behind Soma. So if you ignore the superficially popular character's she's only behind the main character, which is pretty impressive. It's interesting to see the majority of the top 5 be female characters as well. In most Shonen popularity polls i've seen, outside of the female lead, the top spots are taken up by the dudes, but in this one it's pretty evenly split. Although I imagine a lot of it is just for fan-service reasons. kidcoelacanth posted:Imma be hella disappointed if there's not a chapter with Megumi as Hinako's stagiare Megumi would not be allowed to be Hinako's stagiare because Hinako would pass her automatically and then spend the week taking her out shopping something, and Megumi would learn nothing from the experience.
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You guys are really harsh on Erina. Like, she'S not my favourite character, but she does have a personality and character arc. There's the whole thing about her having trouble relating to people and being really lonely and missing her best friend who went on some stupid self-imposed exile and what not. It's not great or original, but it's there.
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Angry Grimace posted:Literally yaoi fangirls. Soma and Takumi are a highly popular fujoshi pairing.  MonsieurChoc posted:You guys are really harsh on Erina. Like, she'S not my favourite character, but she does have a personality and character arc. There's the whole thing about her having trouble relating to people and being really lonely and missing her best friend who went on some stupid self-imposed exile and what not. It's not great or original, but it's there. I don't mind her that much, but she's not really a good character at this point in time. Even her secretary person is more interesting because she was in the first stagiare arc with soma. Erina's stagiare story was boring even though it had megumi in it. SyntheticPolygon posted:Megumi would not be allowed to be Hinako's stagiare because Hinako would pass her automatically and then spend the week taking her out shopping something, and Megumi would learn nothing from the experience.
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MonsieurChoc posted:You guys are really harsh on Erina. Like, she'S not my favourite character, but she does have a personality and character arc. There's the whole thing about her having trouble relating to people and being really lonely and missing her best friend who went on some stupid self-imposed exile and what not. It's not great or original, but it's there. I think it is more that she is presented as the Main female lead or Rival, rather than presented as just a regular cast member. Because as just a member of the cast she is fine but she's not really around enough to seem like as important a character as the manga seems to present her as and only recently has her character arc really come into focus and it's been playing B plot to Soma's development in the Stagiare week.
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MonsieurChoc posted:You guys are really harsh on Erina. Like, she'S not my favourite character, but she does have a personality and character arc. There's the whole thing about her having trouble relating to people and being really lonely and missing her best friend who went on some stupid self-imposed exile and what not. It's not great or original, but it's there. No, she doesn't. Her entirely personality up to this point is "I HATE SOMA FOR NOT BEING A CHILD OF PRIVILEGE AND WANT HIM DESTROYED!" and nothing she's done has changed that. Even her "humanizing" chapter with her and Megumi at that one restaurant was her being an unbelievably arrogant rear end in a top hat and humiliating the chef to prove her superiority. Her being lonely is stupid because it just means she's never made an attempt to bond with Hinako and was completely fine letting her act as a bowing and scrapping servant until Hinako feels that she fails and exiles herself. Her being given so much importance is annoying as poo poo given how many more interesting characters are currently present and she's literally just "tsundere blond princess" and nothing else.
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She's really more of a villain with a heel face turn coming up sometime down the road.
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pentyne posted:Her entirely personality up to this point is "I HATE SOMA FOR NOT BEING A CHILD OF PRIVILEGE AND WANT HIM DESTROYED!" and nothing she's done has changed that. Even her "humanizing" chapter with her and Megumi at that one restaurant was her being an unbelievably arrogant rear end in a top hat and humiliating the chef to prove her superiority. It's probably more to do with the fact that he doesn't give her the respect she thinks she deserves. It's not like megumi is a child of privilege either, but she's also not really annoying. Soma's just that weird combination where he doesn't really respect her but is actually competent, yet she refuses to recognize him because he's an annoying boy who doesn't respect her authority. This doesn't really make her any better though.
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Erina doesn't hate Soma because of class differences or anything. She hates him because he proved her wrong about her initial impression of him and was incredibly casual about it. Still really petty but not as mean, and she also dislikes him because he speaks to her casually without any respect, as if they are friends even though she in The Elite Ten and hates his guts. Her main problem is that shes kind of generic with an arc that just started, and has far better interactions with anyone other than the protagonist. Who will inevitably be essential to her character arc. I dont really dislike her though and am looking forward to her and Arato reuniting, their interactions were generally pretty good.
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pentyne posted:No, she doesn't. Not really, no. You're projecting a whole lot.
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http://i.imgur.com/z1Koqad.gifv ...yup, that's a Soma anime alright.
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I just realized that Shokugeki no Soma is basically the exact same as Grappler Baki except with cooking instead of martial arts. edit: I just read through the whole comic again since I didn't remember much of it beyond the most recent chapters, and it's really pretty damned good. The characters are all likable and/or memorable and, more importantly, the author is very creative in the various things he has the characters cook and does a great job of explaining them. Since I can't think of anything else to compare it with, it's far, far better than Yakitate Japan ever was, even during its earlier chapters before it went off the rails. Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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I was lurking around when I found this guy who cooked up some of the meals shown in the series. Here are the ones that he's done so far.
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Mraagvpeine posted:I was lurking around when I found this guy who cooked up some of the meals shown in the series. Here are the ones that he's done so far. That looks really good, but his presentation leaves something to be desired.
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Casanova scan of the next chapter is up. Not terribly exciting and no second stagiare arc for megumi 
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MajorMarcus posted:The next chapter will probably just be a montage of Soma winning shokugeki after shokugeki. I wish that you weren't probably going to be right
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I wish, for once, we'd get to see Megumi do a proper shokugeki. The way I imagine it, someone challenges her thinking "she's just a quiet, shy girl, what can she do?", forgetting she was among the best 8 during the tournament, and getting roflstomped as a result.
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Mikl posted:I wish, for once, we'd get to see Megumi do a proper shokugeki. The way I imagine it, someone challenges her thinking "she's just a quiet, shy girl, what can she do?", forgetting she was among the best 8 during the tournament, and getting roflstomped as a result. I'm sure there's a few, less confident or less honorable 2nd years looking to challenge the rest of the top 8 to polish their skills before facing the top three First Years. Alternatively, it looks like Megumi is picking up hostess skills so I don't know what she's planning with that.
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I guess after all of the comments about the tournament being too long, the author didn't want to drag out another arc. It's not a bad thing, I guess.
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Xelkelvos posted:I'm sure there's a few, less confident or less honorable 2nd years looking to challenge the rest of the top 8 to polish their skills before facing the top three First Years. Alternatively, it looks like Megumi is picking up hostess skills so I don't know what she's planning with that. Going for the full experience. When you eat in a restaurant, it’s not just the flavor that matters (although it's the most immediately critical part); the presentation, the decor, and especially the service all play a part in the impression left on the customers. Might even be an interesting contrast to do in a future arc. Have Megumi win a contest against Erina by virtue of being the one whose hypothetical restaurant people would want to come back to, since the food is almost as good and the service is infinitely better. Also, by virtue of being able to retain staff, which is something restaurants tend to find difficult IRL.
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The Sandman posted:Going for the full experience. When you eat in a restaurant, it’s not just the flavor that matters (although it's the most immediately critical part); the presentation, the decor, and especially the service all play a part in the impression left on the customers. A team competition arc sounds like what it's leading up to with teams either based on dorm, picked by the students or "randomly" chosen and requires them to basically operate a restaurant and compete. This also would likely include having someone be declared Head Chef with all of the responsibilities including the fate of the entire team.
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Working as a waitress is probably really useful as a chef as you would learn all sorts of things about what clients think of food, how they react etc etc.
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Dexo posted:Working as a waitress is probably really useful as a chef as you would learn all sorts of things about what clients think of food, how they react etc etc. You also learn a lot more about what happens to food from the kitchen on it's way to the table as well.
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Xelkelvos posted:I'm sure there's a few, less confident or less honorable 2nd years looking to challenge the rest of the top 8 to polish their skills before facing the top three First Years. Alternatively, it looks like Megumi is picking up hostess skills so I don't know what she's planning with that. Megumi's thing is hospitality, so it fits.
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Mikl posted:I wish, for once, we'd get to see Megumi do a proper shokugeki. The way I imagine it, someone challenges her thinking "she's just a quiet, shy girl, what can she do?", forgetting she was among the best 8 during the tournament, and getting roflstomped as a result. Shokugeki's just aren't really that important, despite the name. There's only been 3 done so far this entire manga and Megumi's the only main character other than Soma to have taken part in one. And at the very least, I think the point of her match against Kurokiba was that although she lost she forced people who had previously looked down on her to re-assess their opinions.. Also, the stuff with Shinomiya was guaranteed to be the peak of this arc in terms of actual growth and development for Soma, so i'm unsurprised it ended where it did. Although now i'm just wondering why they didn't just skip week's 2 and 3 and make Shinomiya's week 4 so that the conclusion of the arc matched the conclusion of the Stagiare period. This next match is probably just going to be to show off what Soma's learnt and I imagine the rest of the Shokugeki's will be skipped, the method seems to be that after an arc we get a few vaguely filler chapters until we jump into the next one so I imagine that will be happening. DoubleDonut posted:I would like to see any of the other Polar Star students do pretty much anything at all. I actually kind of like the way the Polar Star guys are handled. They all got a moment in the Fall Tournament qualifiers that showed their stuff and proved them to be some of the best students in the school even though they just lost out to being in the top 8. Since it allowed for the pacing to flow a bit better and gave them all screentime and a cool moment without necessarily without necessarily drawing focus away from the characters the narrative considers important. I like the character balancing in this series.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:I like the character balancing in this series. lmao did you conveniently forget about Erina
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Eej posted:lmao did you conveniently forget about Erina Yeah, she's the exception. She probably should have had more continued importance throughout the cooking camp and fall tournament and had her arc progress somewhat quicker. Everyone else is good though, most people get enough stuff to be likeable and have characterisation but not enough focus to bog things down instead of focusing on the character's actually important to the narrative. Still didn't really help the pacing when we had like 6 cooking matches in a row with very little breaks in between.
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BlitzBlast posted:I dunno, I think it's kind of funny that literally everyone around Erina is starting to develop and progress while she just sulks in a corner. To be fair im ok with not getting 3 months of Erina flashback stories trying to show why she's such a tsundere.
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