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Furious Lobster
Jun 17, 2006

Soiled Meat
I feel that perhaps with all these shokugekis being thrown at him, Soma can acquire enough "stuff" to use as a basis to challenge Eizan. This would fit nicely given their earlier indirect confrontation, put him above Erina and Hayama/Kurokiba as well.

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Ytlaya
Nov 13, 2005

I like how Shinomiya has sort of become Souma's advisor character. For some reason tsundere men don't bother me as much as tsundere women.

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.

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.

I don't know - while customers might care, I don't think actual experts tend to care as much about the decor of the restaurant. The presentation of the food does matter, though (but it could also be argued that the food presentation has some sort of effect on the taste as well).

Xelkelvos posted:

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.

I wouldn't be that surprised if they have to create a restaurant at some point, given that most school manga seem to have a "maid cafe" during a festival to begin with.

Ytlaya fucked around with this message at 03:43 on Apr 29, 2015

Edmond Dantes
Sep 12, 2007

Reactor: Online
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ALL SYSTEMS NOMINAL
Huh. Now that I think about it, have we ever seen Souma getting help while cooking? He's been sous chef a few times, but never been put in the position of having to rely on someone; that could be a nice challenge: learning to let go of some responsibilities while trying to cope with your underlings being morons

gwrtheyrn
Oct 21, 2010

AYYYE DEEEEE DUBBALYOO DA-NYAAAAAH!

Edmond Dantes posted:

Huh. Now that I think about it, have we ever seen Souma getting help while cooking? He's been sous chef a few times, but never been put in the position of having to rely on someone; that could be a nice challenge: learning to let go of some responsibilities while trying to cope with your underlings being morons

The first part of the fall tournament was probably the closest example before now.

Angry Grimace
Jul 29, 2010

ACTUALLY IT IS VERY GOOD THAT THE SHOW IS BAD AND ANYONE WHO DOESN'T REALIZE WHY THAT'S GOOD IS AN IDIOT. JUST ENJOY THE BAD SHOW INSTEAD OF THINKING.

Furious Lobster posted:

I feel that perhaps with all these shokugekis being thrown at him, Soma can acquire enough "stuff" to use as a basis to challenge Eizan. This would fit nicely given their earlier indirect confrontation, put him above Erina and Hayama/Kurokiba as well.

My guess is that Soma will lose a ton of them and then everyone will think he sucks again (but it will turn out he's like his dad and just loses to randoms because he's trying out experiments).

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Angry Grimace posted:

My guess is that Soma will lose a ton of them and then everyone will think he sucks again (but it will turn out he's like his dad and just loses to randoms because he's trying out experiments).

Since Shokugeki's have actual consequences I doubt that will be the case.

pnumoman
Sep 26, 2008

I never get the last word, and it makes me very sad.

Angry Grimace posted:

My guess is that Soma will lose a ton of them and then everyone will think he sucks again (but it will turn out he's like his dad and just loses to randoms because he's trying out experiments).

Nah, he just finished a training arc. No way he loses to a random challenger.

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


Fallen Rib
I will be very surprised if Soma doesn't lose a shokugeki and get expelled only to shokugeki his way back in at some point during this series

DoubleDonut fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Apr 30, 2015

Patware
Jan 3, 2005

If anyone forgot this manga was drawn by a porn artist, the latest bonus chapter would like a word with you

Compendium
Jun 18, 2013

M-E-J-E-D

Patware posted:

If anyone forgot this manga was drawn by a porn artist, the latest bonus chapter would like a word with you

Good lord, Bitch-sensei. :stare:

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo
Bonus chapter?

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

No-one going to drop a link to this chapter that is comparable to porn?

Not that it's all that surprising because I think the last bonus chapter was just an excuse to make 20 or so pages of Alice and Erina in beach-wear.

Patware
Jan 3, 2005

SyntheticPolygon posted:

No-one going to drop a link to this chapter that is comparable to porn?

Not that it's all that surprising because I think the last bonus chapter was just an excuse to make 20 or so pages of Alice and Erina in beach-wear.

There isn't even a little character interaction in this one, it's just 'Saeki Shun draws porn of other anime while Erina Japanesely reacts'

A link to this one is probably actionable.

Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this
You could at least mention who released it. To wit: Casanova has it.

E: hahaha Tosh saw the chance with Bitch-sensei and loving ran away with it.
E2: And went meta with it. I wonder if it was entirely editor's choice. :haw:

Kyte fucked around with this message at 00:10 on May 1, 2015

Compendium
Jun 18, 2013

M-E-J-E-D
Well, if a Gintama character was going to star in a bonus chapter, the 4th wall was guaranteed to never exist in the first place.

edit; Tosh needs a bonus chapter where it's the male leads of other anime stripping down.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

Compendium posted:

Well, if a Gintama character was going to star in a bonus chapter, the 4th wall was guaranteed to never exist in the first place.

edit; Tosh needs a bonus chapter where it's the male leads of other anime stripping down.

If only that drew readers...

Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this
Tosh would prolly do it, but the editor would never greenlight it.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Kyte posted:

Tosh would prolly do it, but the editor would never greenlight it.

Wasn't there some problems with a recent arc where Nagisa's mother went crazy and was going to imprison him and make him study 24/7 and also burn down class E that had a sudden change because the editors told tosh to dial it back mid storyline?

Allarion
May 16, 2009

がんばルビ!

pentyne posted:

Wasn't there some problems with a recent arc where Nagisa's mother went crazy and was going to imprison him and make him study 24/7 and also burn down class E that had a sudden change because the editors told tosh to dial it back mid storyline?

Tosh is the artist of Shokugeki, not Assassination Classroom. As for the mom stuff, that was just goon speculation since that arc was resolved too fast and neatly for some people, unless there was some article or interview that confirmed he backtracked. I don't think he did since editors typically have some idea of the outline of the arc the mangaka wants to tell, but I could be wrong.

Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this

pentyne posted:

Wasn't there some problems with a recent arc where Nagisa's mother went crazy and was going to imprison him and make him study 24/7 and also burn down class E that had a sudden change because the editors told tosh to dial it back mid storyline?

That was AssClass, by a different artist. And there's no evidence of that, only some goons speculating. I don't buy it, personally. He probably wanted to resolve Nagisa's story arc quickly so he could move onto more interesting stuff, since immediately afterwards came a bunch of very important plot reveals.

Death Bot
Mar 4, 2007

Binary killing machines, turning 1 into 0 since 0011000100111001 0011011100110110
The most relevant panel

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Tosh is the manga artist we deserve if he wrote that and made editorial let it go through

Kyte
Nov 19, 2013

Never quacked for this
The writer is not the artist

Dexo
Aug 15, 2009

A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.
That's actually pretty in character for Kagura, so it probably works.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Death Bot posted:

The most relevant panel



I don't know what to believe. Is this simply an in-character comment about the extra? Or is this the writer and artist complaining that editorial forced their (what I imagine is pretty rare) extra chapter to be all about porn of other series instead of anything about their own.

Compendium
Jun 18, 2013

M-E-J-E-D

SyntheticPolygon posted:

I don't know what to believe. Is this simply an in-character comment about the extra? Or is this the writer and artist complaining that editorial forced their (what I imagine is pretty rare) extra chapter to be all about porn of other series instead of anything about their own.

For all intents and purposes, it's in-character for a character that comes from a series where the 4th wall is consistently ignored/destroyed. That and Kagura is a smart rear end.

Compendium fucked around with this message at 23:47 on May 1, 2015

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

NWS
http://i.imgur.com/CXdXyHr.jpg?1



(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Patware
Jan 3, 2005

Patware posted:

A link to this one is probably actionable.

Nailed it

Compendium
Jun 18, 2013

M-E-J-E-D
It just occurred to me that this series is probably filling in the fanservice void in Shounen Jump that To-Love-Ru left after that series became actual creepy trash (well, more so than it already was.)

SatansBestBuddy
Sep 26, 2010

by FactsAreUseless

Compendium posted:

It just occurred to me that this series is probably filling in the fanservice void in Shounen Jump that To-Love-Ru left after that series became actual creepy trash (well, more so than it already was.)

Except it's not?

Like, outside of the recent extra chapter it's been pretty drat restrained on the fanservice front.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

SatansBestBuddy posted:

Except it's not?

Like, outside of the recent extra chapter it's been pretty drat restrained on the fanservice front.

I don't know what series you're calling restrained on fanservice, because it's clearly not this one. Sure, there's much less fanservice than there was in like the first 10 chapters but i'd say there's still a greater than average amount of fanservice all-in-all.

Patware
Jan 3, 2005

SatansBestBuddy posted:

Except it's not?

Like, outside of the recent extra chapter it's been pretty drat restrained on the fanservice front.

Women eat food and have all-but-literal orgasms. They do this regularly. I'm not gonna make excuses for it because I'm a sucker for pretty much anything cooking-based but at least accept the beast before you.

Polikarpov
Jun 1, 2013

Keep it between the buoys

Patware posted:

Women eat food and have all-but-literal orgasms. They do this regularly. I'm not gonna make excuses for it because I'm a sucker for pretty much anything cooking-based but at least accept the beast before you.

I like the chairman who eats good food and then all his clothes fly off as he stands there stoically.

gwrtheyrn
Oct 21, 2010

AYYYE DEEEEE DUBBALYOO DA-NYAAAAAH!

SyntheticPolygon posted:

Sure, there's much less fanservice than there was in like the first 10 chapters but i'd say there's still a greater than average amount of fanservice all-in-all.

That's not exactly a high bar to meet.


Patware posted:

because I'm a sucker for pretty much anything cooking-based

What other series would you say are good for this? I've read most of yakitake japan, nobunaga no chef, and everything that's been translated for cooking master boy. Never really got hooked into toriko.

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo
Toriko isn't a food manga per se... it's more like DBZ, if the dragonballs were rare foods.

DoubleDonut
Oct 22, 2010


Fallen Rib

gwrtheyrn posted:

That's not exactly a high bar to meet.


What other series would you say are good for this? I've read most of yakitake japan, nobunaga no chef, and everything that's been translated for cooking master boy. Never really got hooked into toriko.

Bambino is more about working in a restaurant than the cooking itself, but it's still pretty rad. Do not read Bambino Secondo.

Neo_Crimson
Aug 15, 2011

"Is that your final dandy?"
Iron Wok Jan is really good, but only the first 3 volumes have been translated and no one seems to have the rest of it.

Angry Grimace
Jul 29, 2010

ACTUALLY IT IS VERY GOOD THAT THE SHOW IS BAD AND ANYONE WHO DOESN'T REALIZE WHY THAT'S GOOD IS AN IDIOT. JUST ENJOY THE BAD SHOW INSTEAD OF THINKING.
New chapter:

http://www.readmanga.today/shokugeki-no-soma/117

Huge revelation this chapter: the cutesy fliers announcing events at Totsuki are being designed by Headmaster Nakiri

Total hype chapter, though. I guess we're gonna finally see the rest of the Elite 10? I can only assume that Erina's going to be held out of this since she's a 1st year to begin wtih?

Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 16:21 on May 9, 2015

Soylentbits
Apr 2, 2007

im worried that theyre setting her up to be jotaros future wife or something.

Neo_Crimson posted:

Iron Wok Jan is really good, but only the first 3 volumes have been translated and no one seems to have the rest of it.

The physical volumes have been completely translated but they're drat hard to find.

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pnumoman
Sep 26, 2008

I never get the last word, and it makes me very sad.

Angry Grimace posted:

New chapter:

http://www.readmanga.today/shokugeki-no-soma/117

Huge revelation this chapter: the cutesy fliers announcing events at Totsuki are being designed by Headmaster Nakiri

Total hype chapter, though. I guess we're gonna finally see the rest of the Elite 10? I can only assume that Erina's going to be held out of this since she's a 1st year to begin wtih?

I'm gonna guess she'll be participating as a 1st year so that Souma can tear through them yet still preserve almost half as threats.

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