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Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

We'll have to agree to disagree.

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pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

LorneReams posted:

She would then say it sucked and to get out of her face with that weak poo poo.

We've clearly reached the point where #10 Erina will end up on the side of upstart Souma against the other 9 and counsel him on the best way to embarrass/defeat them and as a result she rises in rank.

It will probably be poorly handled and full of challenging glances between her, Megumi, and meat girl but it's the only way the series moves forward.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

I don't think that's how the system works though. I think it was mentioned that Soma wants to challenge Kuga with his seat up for grabs, which implies to me at least that beating him would make Soma just immediately bypass 10th seat and take Kuga's position, and Erina would just remain in the same place.

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.

LorneReams posted:

She would then say it sucked and to get out of her face with that weak poo poo.

I mean, the furikake he made for the entrance exam was just a part of the Yukihira menu, so it probably IS a Joichiro dish. And the, uh, colorful, description of what might happen is exactly what happened. She had a foodgasm and then told him it sucked because she's a tsundere rear end in a top hat.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

I don't think that's how the system works though. I think it was mentioned that Soma wants to challenge Kuga with his seat up for grabs, which implies to me at least that beating him would make Soma just immediately bypass 10th seat and take Kuga's position, and Erina would just remain in the same place.

There was never a discussion of the stakes, I believe. Even if there was, I don't know that beating Kuga would let him instantly pass Erina, or even get you onto the Elite 10. Its never been detailed how you get onto the Elite 10 - the only time we ever saw a Shokugeki with the seat on the line, all she did was bet that she'd leave the seat, not that she'd give the other guy the seat. The only real info we have on this is what Naked Apron told Soma and he didn't really say specifically, he just detailed the Shokugeki procedure.

If you look at the list of the E10, the first 5 seats are all third-years, the 6th through 9th are 2nd years and the 10 is Erina. To me that suggests that there's some other procedure to fill vacancies and that the shokugeki with the seat on the line is just that: you vacate the seat, not that the opponent obtains it. It kind of makes sense that you wouldn't just be able to let people onto the council without the rest of the council's consent.

That said, I don't think he's going to pass Erina for obvious reasons: Tsukuda clearly set Erina up as boss. My guess is that if an outsider wins a Shokugeki with a seat on the line, the E10 member who lost just gets kicked off the council and the rest of the 10 move up. I wouldn't be surprised if there's some procedure to switch seats around among people already in the E10 since it would be really random if the No. 2 losing to the No. 1 meant the No. 2 was kicked off the council entirely.

Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Aug 18, 2015

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.
Yeah if anything Erina goes up to 9 and Akira as the winner of the election moves into 10.

Eej
Jun 17, 2007

HEAVYARMS
Hisako is a better character and she was literally the "bitchy assistant to the ojou" trope with no subtlety for like 100 chapters.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

It was really more like 60 chapters because she got some development in the Autumn tournament.

Patware
Jan 3, 2005

Pewdiepie posted:

We'll have to agree to disagree.

Just so long as they maintain the roughly even ratio of buxom ladies to 100% man steak they can't do wrong by me

Elfgames
Sep 11, 2011

Fun Shoe
I assume it matters more what you bet than an official procedure, like betting "if you lose i take your seat" is going to require a bit more compensation than "if you lose you vacate your seat"

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.
Ask and ye shall receive, I guess.

(Spoilers for the upcoming chapter) Erina's father appears and he's rear end in a top hat high expectations Asian father who she's scared of. I guess the development you guys were asking for is on the way?

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

Angry Grimace posted:

Ask and ye shall receive, I guess.

(Spoilers for the upcoming chapter) Erina's father appears and he's rear end in a top hat high expectations Asian father who she's scared of. I guess the development you guys were asking for is on the way?
Too little too late IMO.

Her dad could hit her in the face with a riding crop or something when she speaks out of turn and I don't think I'd care.

Compendium
Jun 18, 2013

M-E-J-E-D
You have issues.

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

Compendium posted:

You have issues.
:greenangel:

AVeryLargeRadish
Aug 19, 2011

I LITERALLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO NOT BE A WEIRD SEXUAL CREEP ABOUT PREPUBESCENT ANIME GIRLS, READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE!!!

Fabricated posted:

Too little too late IMO.

Her dad could hit her in the face with a riding crop or something when she speaks out of turn and I don't think I'd care.

Is the goal here to come off as more awful of a person than the fictional character you are criticizing?

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream

AVeryLargeRadish posted:

Is the goal here to come off as more awful of a person than the fictional character you are criticizing?
Seems kinda like a bunch of chapters in to step in and possibly soften a character that was originally set up as sort of an antagonist. If some actual characterization like this had happened really early on it'd have given a lot more context to her actions instead of just kinda making her seem like a cliched rear end in a top hat. Now? Meh, I don't really care- you can't really make me feel sorry for the character.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Fabricated posted:

Too little too late IMO.

Her dad could hit her in the face with a riding crop or something when she speaks out of turn and I don't think I'd care.

You seem to hate the boring tsundere more than is really warranted.

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.
I know where this is going anyways.

Erina's dad got Joichiro expelled, watch. Bonus points if he got him expelled because Joichiro was Erina's mom's one true love or some poo poo. Or the dad had his eyes on Soma's mom and Joichiro swooped.

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo
I'll sign onto that theory. I'll even go one step further as to suggest that Soma and Erina share a mother or something.

...come to think of it, what kind of hentai did Saeki Shun do before he went legit anyways?

SwissArmyDruid fucked around with this message at 03:40 on Aug 20, 2015

vibratingsheep
Nov 2, 2013

Fudou, Gunzou. The Face of the Franchise Killer. 2004.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

...come to think of it, what kind of hentai did Saeki Shun do before he went legit anyways?

Nothing creepy or taboo really, mostly vanilla.

Davincie
Jul 7, 2008

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-08-19/shokugeki-no-soma-lottery-goods-include-erina-figure-dishes/.91819

get the good stuff

Sonata Mused
Feb 19, 2013

I'll show you... a nightmare...
More. Alice. Merch.

That's not boob pad.

Davincie
Jul 7, 2008

ill take it

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo
Every time I see the "A5", I am always disappointed that they wasted the opportunity to make a bigger "eigo" gag out of it.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Fabricated posted:

Seems kinda like a bunch of chapters in to step in and possibly soften a character that was originally set up as sort of an antagonist. If some actual characterization like this had happened really early on it'd have given a lot more context to her actions instead of just kinda making her seem like a cliched rear end in a top hat. Now? Meh, I don't really care- you can't really make me feel sorry for the character.

It's lazy writing, but seems pretty common in many forms of media. It's really easy to instantly humanize a bad person by having the audience now view them as victims of their own circumstance.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
An Alice Nendoroid.

With all her facial expressions.

Feoffic
Feb 13, 2012

ZepiaEltnamOberon posted:

An Alice Nendoroid.

With all her facial expressions.

As long as it has the only one that matters...

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.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

I'll sign onto that theory. I'll even go one step further as to suggest that Soma and Erina share a mother or something.

...come to think of it, what kind of hentai did Saeki Shun do before he went legit anyways?

That seems highly unlikely given the genre. And I've never looked but everyone calls him "tosh."

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Tosh just makes me think of that comedian whose show I never watched.

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.
Of course, that spoiler is just like 1 page of the new chapter, it just happened to be vaguely appropriate to the conversation. The rest of the chapter is just a continuation of the story the last few chapters have been about.

Folt The Bolt
Feb 21, 2012

Nothing exciting to see here. Move along.

Angry Grimace posted:

That seems highly unlikely given the genre. And I've never looked but everyone calls him "tosh."

Most of Saeki "tosh" Shun's work is vanilla, but there's certainly some... weird... stuff too.

And that's all I'll say on the matter. I have faith that Shun will keep the really bad stuff out of works were it doesn't belong.

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.

Folt The Bolt posted:

Most of Saeki "tosh" Shun's work is vanilla, but there's certainly some... weird... stuff too.

And that's all I'll say on the matter. I have faith that Shun will keep the really bad stuff out of works were it doesn't belong.

The editor isn't gonna let him get away with anything more lewd than stuff we've already seen. This is running in Weekly Shonen Jump after all.

Blhue
Apr 22, 2008

Fallen Rib
He's illustrating (not writing) anyway so his prior works are completely irrelevant to the story.

Blhue fucked around with this message at 17:55 on Aug 20, 2015

Dick Spacious CPA
Oct 10, 2012

im glad everyone in the thread is inherently cognizant of tosh's porno works that is why we can discuss how the food orgasm scenes have no place in this manga and dont make us horny when we read them.

Mraagvpeine
Nov 4, 2014

I won this avatar on a technicality this thick.
Do you think it's Tosh doing it or the writer telling Tosh what he wants?

Futaba Anzu
May 6, 2011

GROSS BOY

Dick Spacious CPA posted:

im glad everyone in the thread is inherently cognizant of tosh's porno works that is why we can discuss how the food orgasm scenes have no place in this manga and dont make us horny when we read them.

the actual food on the other hand sure does

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.

Mraagvpeine posted:

Do you think it's Tosh doing it or the writer telling Tosh what he wants?

The writer probably hired tosh because he read tosh's porno crap. But that's not as unusual as you would imagine; lots and lots of illustrators have written porno doujins, e.g. Ken Akamatsu (I'm sure you're surprised).

pandaK posted:

the actual food on the other hand sure does

The food recipes in this series are literally provided by an underwear model. It's so appropriate.

Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Aug 20, 2015

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!

SwissArmyDruid posted:

I'll sign onto that theory. I'll even go one step further as to suggest that Soma and Erina share a mother or something.

Quoting myself from six months ago:

Mikl posted:

Speculation: the big reveal will be that Souma's mom is a Nakiri.

Also, since Erina recognized Souma's dad, it's not too far-fetched to think that she saw him in old photos with her mom. Maybe Souma's dad and his wife split, and she kept Erina, so Erina's been searching for her dad. Who is Souma's dad.

Hence Erina and Souma are siblings.

(Or it will be a hilarious misunderstanding.)

Still possible.

Dick Spacious CPA
Oct 10, 2012

r/wincest

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.

Mikl posted:

Quoting myself from six months ago:


Still possible.

I don't think its likely because its simply not the type of drama this series is going for. They're not going to turn his tsundere sort-of love interest into his sister.

Actually, the 2nd Seat (Rindou) actually just looks like female Soma. Its probably just a coincidence though.

Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Aug 20, 2015

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Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
I dunno; my memory is fuzzy but I don't really recall Erina really being "romantically" flustered by Souma; she just seems pissed this weird little nobody doesn't give a poo poo about her power/influence and on top of it his cooking isn't bad either. The softer she gets with him the more it seems like she recognizes his talent rather than her falling for him.

poo poo, Aldini comes off as more enamored with Souma than Erina.

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