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Rangpur
Dec 31, 2008

Hate-Senpai posted:

Call me when she kills an ostrich or a shark.

EDIT: Or a crane.
Well someone has been reading Iron Wok Jan!

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ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022

Rangpur posted:

Well someone has been reading Iron Wok Jan!

It's all I ever talk about. I legit love it so much.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
New chapter up:
http://mangastream.com/r/shokugeki_no_souma/205/4073/1

Not much happens other than closing out the scene and skipping a month. I'm guessing the four we see leave with Azami are the ones who'll face the four which would mean we'll get to see Rindou cook.

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

Xelkelvos posted:

New chapter up:
http://mangastream.com/r/shokugeki_no_souma/205/4073/1

Not much happens other than closing out the scene and skipping a month. I'm guessing the four we see leave with Azami are the ones who'll face the four which would mean we'll get to see Rindou cook.

Not much happens other than an amazing cover page

paragon1
Nov 22, 2010

FULL COMMUNISM NOW
That's not true, Erina finally figures out how to set hot blooded to the ON position.

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.
Reminder: Erina and Joichirou, neither of whom will be Totsuki students, are apparently going to be forced into a lifetime of involuntary servitude if the good guys lose this high school dispute.

Arist
Feb 13, 2012

who, me?


Angry Grimace posted:

Reminder: Erina and Joichirou, neither of whom will be Totsuki students, are apparently going to be forced into a lifetime of involuntary servitude if the good guys lose this high school dispute.

Yeah it owns

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK

Angry Grimace posted:

Reminder: Erina and Joichirou, neither of whom will be Totsuki students, are apparently going to be forced into a lifetime of involuntary servitude if the good guys lose this high school dispute.

It's not going to happen, but I'd kind of like this sort of set up to happen and the bad guys win. Then the losing good guys renege and there's gently caress all the bad guys can do because slavery is illegal.

I also kind of want Food Hitler to refuse to honor his pledge and then Soma and the crew open their own competing school with the expelled students and Totsuki become a shell of it's former self with no real prestige and the dream of Central unable to come to fruition as a result.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
student councils are very powerful

paragon1
Nov 22, 2010

FULL COMMUNISM NOW
Yeah Azami isn't even Erina's legal guardian, he's got no way to back up his threat at all.

Neo_Crimson
Aug 15, 2011

"Is that your final dandy?"

paragon1 posted:

Yeah Azami isn't even Erina's legal guardian, he's got no way to back up his threat at all.

He does, he's rich.

Buzzsaw Roomba
Feb 14, 2012

Christ, what an asshole.
Shokugeki Law supersedes all other law

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Buzzsaw Roomba posted:

Shokugeki Law supersedes all other law

The flag has golden fringes after all.

Elfgames
Sep 11, 2011

Fun Shoe
everyone knows that if you lose in a duel you're honor bound to the conditions of the duel same as in pokemon or yugioh

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012
So is the manga skipping ahead a month?

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

TheKingofSprings posted:

So is the manga skipping ahead a month?

Seems like it. I don't know myself, but how has the manga fared in the WSJ polls recently? I'm guessing Tsukuda and Saeki got the warning to speed things along if they want to cover something other than the current arc, unless they're planning to make beating Food Hitler lovely Dad the end game, which would be kinda sad, because I like the manga as a whole, and while Azami's introduction shook things up a bit, not everything has been gold diapers in my opinion.

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

Wark Say posted:

Seems like it. I don't know myself, but how has the manga fared in the WSJ polls recently? I'm guessing Tsukuda and Saeki got the warning to speed things along if they want to cover something other than the current arc, unless they're planning to make beating Food Hitler lovely Dad the end game, which would be kinda sad, because I like the manga as a whole, and while Azami's introduction shook things up a bit, not everything has been gold diapers in my opinion.

Doing a lot better now, I think it actually took first one week. Last week it did place last though, people didn't like going into the Jouichirou flashback right out of 10 weeks of Hayama, I think.

No worries about the manga ending though, I think, they seeded another arc (BLUE) at least so we'll be here a while (sucks that they're slipping Christmas though :()

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
Hayama being boring AF doesn't surprise me. I'm guessing it's part of the reason they cast F/SN Archer's VA for him was to make him more likable for fangirls.

Buzzsaw Roomba
Feb 14, 2012

Christ, what an asshole.

Wark Say posted:

I don't know myself, but how has the manga fared in the WSJ polls recently?

Average ranking so far this year is 6.6, which is a safe, middle-of-the-pack average. (7th out of the 13 currently ranked series.) Though placing dead last in the latest issue had to be chilling, and I wouldn't be surprised if they got a warning.

Buzzsaw Roomba fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Mar 6, 2017

Gyges
Aug 4, 2004

NOW NO ONE
RECOGNIZE HULK

Wark Say posted:

Hayama being boring AF doesn't surprise me. I'm guessing it's part of the reason they cast F/SN Archer's VA for him was to make him more likable for fangirls.

Now I'm dreaming of another world, where H. John Benjamin voices Hayama in the dub.

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.

Wark Say posted:

Seems like it. I don't know myself, but how has the manga fared in the WSJ polls recently? I'm guessing Tsukuda and Saeki got the warning to speed things along if they want to cover something other than the current arc, unless they're planning to make beating Food Hitler lovely Dad the end game, which would be kinda sad, because I like the manga as a whole, and while Azami's introduction shook things up a bit, not everything has been gold diapers in my opinion.

Training arcs are dumb and especially dumb in a food manga.

I doubt the issue is that the series has real life problems. It's more that this arc is explicitly about Erina and not Soma. That requires Erina to defeat her father.

Those rankings mean nothing. It's a Top 10 seller overall. It's not being cancelled.

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

Angry Grimace posted:

Training arcs are dumb and especially dumb in a food manga.

I doubt the issue is that the series has real life problems. It's more that this arc is explicitly about Erina and not Soma. That requires Erina to defeat her father.

Those rankings mean nothing. It's a Top 10 seller overall. It's not being cancelled.

Stagiere was technically a training arc and it was probably the best arc this manga has had tbh

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy

TheKingofSprings posted:

Stagiere was technically a training arc and it was probably the best arc this manga has had tbh

That arc has a chapter cover where Hisako is controlling a Mazinger-Soma. That arc is awesome on that fact alone.

SwissArmyDruid
Feb 14, 2014

by sebmojo
A SouMazinger, if you will.

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.

TheKingofSprings posted:

Stagiere was technically a training arc and it was probably the best arc this manga has had tbh

Technically the entire manga is a training arc. Literally.

There have just been a lot of people suggesting the series is being cancelled and this is the last arc, which sounds ludicrous to me. Azami is a silly villain and they've been telegraphing for like 50 chapters that this is going to be Erina's arc; they made it explicit in this last chapter. Unless the ending of the series is about demoting the main character to a sidekick, I don't see it.

Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

SwissArmyDruid posted:

A SouMazinger, if you will.
:rimshot:
Thank you for that.

Wark Say
Feb 22, 2013

by Fluffdaddy
I don't think the manga is getting the boot. I'm just thinking that, given the poll results, probably people in general / the Editors in particular just want this overall (related to Central) arc to be done already. I swear that I read somewhere that even the writer acknowledged that one of the arcs had gotten a bit too long because he didn't planned it all that well.

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

Wark Say posted:

I don't think the manga is getting the boot. I'm just thinking that, given the poll results, probably people in general / the Editors in particular just want this overall (related to Central) arc to be done already. I swear that I read somewhere that even the writer acknowledged that one of the arcs had gotten a bit too long because he didn't planned it all that well.

On the other hand, if you take the general poll results as gospel Japan wants it to be Erina most of the time, so

Cipher Pol 9
Oct 9, 2006


Angry Grimace posted:

Training arcs are dumb and especially dumb in a food manga.

I doubt the issue is that the series has real life problems. It's more that this arc is explicitly about Erina and not Soma. That requires Erina to defeat her father.

Those rankings mean nothing. It's a Top 10 seller overall. It's not being cancelled.

Yeah, this. There's little point in going over a month of training when they can far more effectively get on to the actual fights and just flash back to the important moments when the rebels win or reveal the secrets of their crazy new dishes.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
the author acknowledged that the hayama arc was dragging but that the arc needed to happen anyway. and really, i agree with that. can't have one of souma's peers running around indefinitely after he beat souma. the execution was dull, is all.

Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

They should drop the series so the artist goes back to drawing porn. :thumbsupguy:

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

Pewdiepie posted:

They should drop the series so the artist goes back to drawing porn. :thumbsupguy:

Shonen Jump would just put him on a new series, he's mainstream now and not going anywhere

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012
Spoilers are out, It's 8 vs. 8.

And Mimasaka's back.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Hells to the yeah, that's totes awesome!

ZepiaEltnamOberon fucked around with this message at 07:01 on Mar 8, 2017

blizzardvizard
Sep 12, 2012

Shhh... don't wake up the sleeping lion :3:

TheKingofSprings posted:

Spoilers are out, It's 8 vs. 8.

And Mimasaka's back.


That's... neat?

He can join Takumi as the B-lister who has bafflingly taken up the spotlight instead of like Alice or Hisako

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012

blizzardvizard posted:

That's... neat?

He can join Takumi as the B-lister who has bafflingly taken up the spotlight instead of like Alice or Hisako

Takumi's taken up the spotlight because he's getting spare paired with Megumi.

ZepiaEltnamOberon
Oct 25, 2010

I Failed At Anime 2022
Mimasaka is good, please don't hate.

TheKingofSprings
Oct 9, 2012
http://mangastream.com/r/shokugeki_no_souma/206/4088/1

Chapter's out.

blizzardvizard
Sep 12, 2012

Shhh... don't wake up the sleeping lion :3:

Finally, some action.

I'm pretty excited again though, despite the arc's problems Shokugeki does good cooking battles but we've only had like, one single cooking battle in the last 100 chapters.

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Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012
Get hype.

I'm glad they're starting things off with two of the chefs on the Rebel side that haven't been shown cooking in a proper battle. Sure they're facing two mystery chefs who may well have shown up previously and otherwise get wrecked, but who knows? Obviously the most dramatic finish will be a final 3v3 or 1v1 or something with everyone else defeated and it all coming down to the line, but this manga has defied expectations at times.

I'm guessing based on her name, Kinokuni has something to do with books like she's mentally archived a library's worth of recipes or something so her cooking is largely conventional but multi-faceted as compared to the spontaneous Souma who writes his own recipes as he goes along

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