Shokugeki no Souma

Anonguy

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If you were gonna off panel someone, off panel Takumi. No one cares about him, not even you guys.
 

BtML

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New chapter is up in Mangastream.

Well, it seems they're not going to off Takumi from the competition...despite shenanigans from the opponent.

Of course, if Takumi does end up eating a loss, does it mean Souma is screwed? Not likely to happen, imo, but the possibility is there.
 

Anonguy

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Lord am I thankful SnS isn't super popular because the awful takes about this match might kill someone
 

Anonguy

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New chapter is up on Mangastream

We seriously off-paneled Tsukasa vs Asahi for this trash.

And I HATE Asahi
 

BtML

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*shrugs* I wouldn't go so far as call it trash, but yeah, this chapter wasn't really making me feel invested. It was just...a chapter, nothing else to say about it.
 

Anonguy

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That's fair, I'm being a bit over the top because it just doesn't feel like it's worth the page space.

Then again if they stop with the stupid arguing and actually let Takumi look cool I'll retract it/
 

BtML

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New chapter is up in Mangastream.

Well, it's a chapter. That's all I'll say about it.
 

Anonguy

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New chapter, it's the big 300!

....was not expecting that, though seeing Erina off panel a buncha Noirs is fun.
 

BtML

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Agreed. What amused me was how jealous Souma got when he saw that, and wanted a piece of the same action as Erina.

I was also surprised that Bookmaster was Erina's mom. I had been wondering where she had ended up. Maybe future chapters will explain just what is going on with quite a dysfunctional family I have ever seen in a manga.
 

Anonguy

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Mangastream finally translated the chapter....

Well it has a funny shout out to Bleach?

Jokes aside, Erina hates her mom because her mom abandoned her to her abusive dad so yeah.

(Kill Asahi.)
 

BtML

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And what, exactly, would Erina's dream be, Asahi?

To make something that would ensure that Erina's mom actually, you know, eats something for real instead of ending up vomiting it all over the place because her God's Tongue is so sensitive that she can't stomach any real food at all anymore?

Yeah, good luck with that, Asahi. That's *IF* you even get that far. We'll see.
 

Anonguy

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New chapter is up and....

...Megumi... off paneled someone...? Holy shit.
 

BtML

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Yeah, that was amazing.

But what I'm dreading is the next chapters. I don't want Megumi to end up being off paneled by this jackass. :(
 

Anonguy

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Azami was bad because he was an over-escalation, throwing the stakes to absurd levels and robbing the series of tension.

You can't even get excited about Asahi because he's gonna get thrashed by Soma or Erina. He's just nothing.

I just hope the contract runs out and they can end it before Souma is cooking to stop an alien invasion from a future past alternate timeline alongside his son.
 

BtML

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Poor Tadokoro... :(

Sacrificed to make Asahi seem overwhelming.
 

FinalMax

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Did it really? Because to me, it seemed like the whole Asahi/Tadokoro match was a result of him going "Let's use this setting instead on the poison injectors to quickly tenderize meat and sneak in some extra ingredients." He pretty much walked in with a false heel in his shoe filled with substitute ingredients.
 

Anonguy

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New chapter is up on Mangastream

This definitely feels like they're speeding to finish out the story before they're canned. This is end of Eyeshield/Bleach level of rushed.

>God Tongue leads to despair

Man fuck off
 

Anonguy

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I've let it sit a couple days but this series definitely needs someone who can pace it better and stage the intro of characters betters.

Hayama was intro'd right at the start of the Fall tourney which made his win feel empty because he just showed up and was handed the title of main rival. There's nothing to make the loss for Souma feel anything more than arbitrary. It's supposed to be a big grand moment where Souma has to adapt because he came up short when he was so sure he'd win but both the sudden "hey here's a criteria we didn't mention until now" and the fact that a character never established as anything other than someone good at cooking like Souma won makes it all fall flat. It's like, trying to have that Goku losing to Jackie Chun or Tien vibe to it but none of the work went into making it function.

Azami and Central was bad only that it was spoiled from the outset. You could have had some ambiguity to it, like maybe Azami didn't entirely usurp the headmaster spot but he was in a position to do great harm that left the headmaster turning to the students. Take the expulsion and FATE OF THE CULINARY WORLD off the fucking table and holy shit we have drama. We have suspense! Nothing feels like a slog because there is some ambiguity to the events. But no, we have to be assured Souma wins because they just assumed the problem was JUST that he lost, not the circumstances around him losing.

And now we're on Asahi and it just feels empty because he has no personality. He FEELS like he's supposed to be a reflection of Souma: fearless, flippant and all that but he's just blank. He's a person shaped space of nothing. He's not even a good villain, he's just winning because he should and there's a lot of stuff that'd be cool if they went and did the work to make us care but like, a two page spread of them facing off is wasted because no one cares about Asahi. Either Souma wins via ass pull or he loses because he has to keep his silver medal position to keep the complex of getting better. Ugh, if this is the final arc, I know for sure I don't want to read the author's next manga. Please give the artist a non-shit writer next time plox.

Under spoilers just in case you don't want a couple paragraphs of me whining.
 

Anonguy

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New chapter up on Mangastream

It was... not as awful as it has been? Still dumb as hell but not offensively so.
 

Anonguy

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New chapter up on Mangastream

Don't you try to use meta humor to win me over you assholes.

(Though that was pretty cool at the end, NGL)
 
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