Thanks to Souma Yukihira, Erina Nakiri, and the rebel forces overthrowing the regime of Azami Nakiri—the previous school director—and the former Elite Ten, Tootsuki Culinary Academy is back in order. However, its students have one more great battle ahead of them: the BLUE, a competition where young chefs seeking world-class fame compete. Faced with new trials and rivals, Souma and his friends will fight to conquer the BLUE and to defeat Asahi Saiba, the leader of an underworld organization of chefs known as Noir, who once defeated Souma and his father in a Shokugeki.
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Marinate1016
So 13 weeks in and now at the end of Gou no Sara, I never got to a point where I felt this season was as bad as people had hyped it up to be. I waited week after week for it to get awful and it just never came for me. I thoroughly enjoyed every single moment of this final season and saw it as a victory lap of sorts for the series. We saw everyone come full circle this season and show off their development. Of particular importance for me was the growth that Megumi, Erina and Aldini have had. For me, thatwas enough to really enjoy the final season. I understand that this is an unpopular opinion and that's fine, you can judge for yourself, but if you're a fan of SnS, you should definitely give this last season a try.
Production wise, you can definitely tell JC staff started to rely on the established name of SnS instead of actually putting a lot of effort into the show. The panning camera shots, off model characters and other quality control issues are not a huge deal to me, because I personally watch things for the story and how they make me feel rather than as an art critic, but they do exist and are noticeable. I also could feel that pacing was very rushed especially in the final half of the season. It felt like the Shokgeki's were on 2.5x speed and the detail and educational bits that we're accustomed to seeing were just not there anymore. It felt like they instead transitioned to relying on the girls getting naked as our sole source of entertainment during shokugeki's. I was able to overlook this because I'm easy to please, you may not be.
Overall, you can definitely see a dip in quality from SnS season 1 to season 5. It's gradual, it's painful and it's pretty sad because of how well done season 1-3 were. But, it is it the sad reality of ongoing shows. You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become Food Wars Season 5. The anime original ending wasn't bad to me, but it wasn't great like how I felt at the end of Totsuki Train either. I was still left wanting more. Despite all the flaws, I still love the series and enjoyed this a lot even with its issues. Shokugeki no Soma Gou no Sara gets 7 foodgasms out of 10 from me.
Syureria
After watching it until last episode, I know how disappointing this is, really. The story begins with the introduction of the arrival of summer, the students of Totsuki Academy must fight the first stage of the exam. After that, some teacher comes to Totsuki Academy, his name is Asahi. He's a ugly bastard who are interested with Nakiri's oppai.... And then the last tournament "BLUE" begins. The story of Souma's mom Now, what really caught the attention of the personal writer was the telling of the figure of Souma's mom. This is very interesting because in the previous seasons, the figure of Souma's mom has never even beenshown or even told, her figure seemed to have never even been thought of. So Souma's mom appearance in season 5 is very, very surprising.
There are times when we feel hurt. There are times when we want to run from reality. There are times when we don't want to do anything. We can rest, we can stop but we cannot give up. If you can't get up, ask someone else for help. If we are already destroyed by our own mistakes, then wait for the right time to get back up. If you can't invite other people, walk side by side with them.
This is the last season, I hope you can watch this final series and don't stop at the middle of the season. I know it is torturing you but an ending is not always tragic. If you already read manga, I beg you to don't miss this one, I know you are bored but to judge an anime before you watch it, isn't that weird?
Cdynamo
I've never felt such a strong sadness after finishing a series. I've been sad at ending like Gurren Lagann and Banana Fish but this hits different. I feel dismayed. After 5 seasons of food battles, foodgasms, and ridiculous characters, Food Wars felt empty at the end for multiple reasons. This season felt like it got rid of any goodwill the show had left for me after season 4 and it tried its hardest. Let's start with Asahi because holy shit, this dude was an awful villian. Say what you will about Azami but he at least looked villainous and had the backstory of a villainbut Asahi? Fuck this dude. His whole power is insane and one of the dumbest things I've seen in an anime and his overall reasoning of wanting to marry Erina is at first, just corny and then they just throw another twist at the end that just makes his plot seem disgusting in hindsight. He was a bad villian, his reason for being a villian is dumb and he was just the worst.
Then we have the worst sin for me and that's the usage of side characters. Listen, I like Soma, Erina, Megumi, and Aldini but that's not the whole fucking cast guys. Seriously, most of the other characters in this show barely showed up at all. It's so frustrating to watch the same characters (no matter how likable they are) when you know that there's more fun characters being wasted, Seriously, aren't Ryo and Akira supposed to be rivals to Souma and they didn't do shit for most of the season. Fuck, I forgot they existed. It's ridiculous and their replacements are garbage.
The underworld chef idea was pretty weird to have in a show about teenage cooks trying to be the best chefs ever but it doesn't help when the show decided to add fucking supervillains like a Sargent who uses explosives to heat their food up, a clown that uses fucking juggling to cook and that's not to say their designs are stupid because they are.
Finally, there's the animation. By this point, I'm beating a very dead horse but it still stands to reason that the animation in this was sub-par at best. They fucking reused multiple moments from other seasons in the episode so blatantly it was. amazingly shitty. I also realized just how little JC Staff really gave a shit about this season in the final episode when there was no big animation moment that supposed to look and it was just the same sub-par shitty quality. Nice JC.
In the end, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. After how fantastic the first two seasons were, I was still excited for what the show had going for it. Then the third season happened and while it wasn't great, I still had hope. Even after Season 4, I was hoping that at the very least, it would go out on a high note. Nope. Not even that. It's frustrating, disappointed and just makes me sad. At the very least, I will hold those last two seasons in high regard. Thank you for that at least, JC Staff. Fuck this season though.
Vinickw
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It is it, congratulations.
The fifth season is very, VERY rushed, differently from the others season, on this one you don't even see they making foods, it looks like as the food magically appears on the table, understanding what and why they are doing is the essential part of a food anime, imagine MasterChef without the making of, just the results, it is a bad idea, isn't it? But it is basically what is happening here.
Another very bad stuff that happened here was "superpower", or something like this, I don't even know what it is, it's like "The hidden power from the clan X, it has been passed down this clan for generations, using an axe instead of a knife", if the anime had introduced it since the beginning, there would be no problem, but the anime isn't about it, the author just created a new ability with no context. Imagine an anime like Monogatari, that at some point Araragi can now make Jutsu, it is bizarre, isn't it?
Now many of yours could disagree with me, but there's something very annoying in my opinion, Foodgasm, and on this season it got worse, what is the point of this? In the beginning, it was okay, the people liked the food so much, that it was like an orgasm, but at this season, everyone around getting semi-naked... It looks like that the manga was getting less popular, so he put more fanservice, to make the buyers don't leave the manga.
Now about the ending of the anime, if you don't want to get spoilers, skip this part
[SPOILER]
Comparing the final of the anime with the manga one, this one is a little bit better, just a tiny. Yukihira, after travelling around the world returned to Japan, meets Erina, and he makes a disgusting food to her, as always, after this disgusting food he says he'll make the best food in the entire world to her, and... it ends. It was good, bad? No one knows because it ended at this point. No romance, Erina never said she like his food, nothing happened! I'm not Open-End Hater, but this ending was awful.
[END OF SPOILERS]
This arc is horrible, the previous arc was really good, and the author just ruined it, very rushed, nonsense superpower, exaggerated fanservice and a terrible ending. But there's still something good about this anime, the characters are still wonderful, I like this art, but it is probably the unique good part of this anime.
kamikazuya
NO SPOILER REVIEW Wow. This has to be one of the biggest betrayals. Shokugeki was doing so well until this season through the whole story into the sewer and then pooped on it more. The pacing in this season is horrendous, everything is rushed and you barely see any of the meals being cooked. All you get are rushed reactions, rushed plots, and every previously made notion of characters destroyed. Animation, horrible. Merely a bunch of flashbacks or panning shots. Soundtrack, not bad, it's sad that the OP was wasted on this trash seasonCharacters, the season throws away all but 4 main characters, taking away any development that had previously existed.
DO NOT WATCH if you haven't yet. It is a complete waste of time, COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME, and you're better ending the show with the end of Season 4.
Blue_Maroon
In my opinion, this is almost as bad as a concluding anime season can be. It was honestly bad enough for me to look back at all the previous season and wonder if they were actually as good as I remembered them to be. This is because this anime performs all of Shokugeki’s conventions so poorly that it almost comes across as a critique of the series. Let me break down how this season manages to critique by nothing other than poor execution. Let’s start with what Shokugeki is known for first, pornography. Whoops, sorry, I mean “Ecchi”. To be more specific, Shokugeki is most knownfor its fanserivice during food reactions. I actually believe that this series (up to this season) is the best use of fanservice because it is used as a creative way to express how good the food is.
I say “up to this season” because the fanservice in this season is lazy and visually unappealing. The ecchi reactions are typically a single pose of creatively uninteresting artwork. This applies to the entire season, as the animation relies heavily on still frames and the art is undetailed and uninspired.
But the fanservice is even worse than that. Towards the end, it achieves something that I’ve never seen before and becomes “Fanservice Fanservice”. “Fanservice Fanservice” is when a show that typically uses fanservice for a creative narrative effect shows fanservice just because the audience expects fanservice.
This occurs toward the end when literally every somewhat relevant character in the series shows up to a competition just for the purpose of fanservice. At that point, it quite literally BECOMES a parody of itself.
Next, I will discuss he second thing Shokugeki is known for, the actual cooking.
As I stated previously, the animation and art are both very lazy and uninspired. The cooking scenes are usually just a static pose of a character with some camera movement and a blurry background. They hardly show the actual cooking too. The cooking is over in about 10 seconds and they just describe how they cooked the dish while the judges eat it. It’s so lazy that I feel loke nobody who worked on this anime actually cared.
But similar to the ecchi, these cooking scenes also manage to critique the series in general by making it abundantly clear how the cooking battles work. One chef finishes with a good dish. The second chef finishes with a good dish and makes one for the first chef. The first chef is blown away and the second chef wins. I think this was how every single battle went in this season and it ruins my perception on previous seasons as well.
Honestly, I could go on and on about things I disliked about this season. I could write a whole 8 paragraphs about how awful the villain group “Noir” is and how they are a bunch of clowns larping as ninjas. I could write a whole essay about how the characters are so poorly written and how heir actions make no sense. I could dedicate my entire anime watching career analyzing how this season was unnecessary and actually left side characters at worse places than in the previous season. But I don’t have the willpower to do any of these things.
I’m not strong enough. This anime has drained me.
I suppose I should explain why I rated this anime a 2 instead of a 1. The reason for that is soley because the last three episodes were somewhat competent. The art and animation in episodes 11 and 12 were somewhat decent and had some nice tie-ins to Souma’s past. The final episode had decent breakthrough with Souma and Erina (although I still felt their love was too forced at the end).
I also liked the Souma and Takami team up and that Souma’s dad kept a stubble beard after Souma saved him from his bearded depression when his wife died.
That is literally all that I liked about this season, but it was just enough to push it to a 2. Yes, I really believe it is this bad. I know the source material was bad, but that does not excuse the lack of effort put in place by the studio. I’m just sad that a well-known and somehwhat respected anime like this was given such a bad ending.
It is closer to a 1 than a 3.
Horn_dawg_2019
Itadakimas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!The 5th Plate has ended and so as the series itself , so Bon appétit as I make my review of this last sequel of Shokugeki no Souma.....: Story: Pros: Given that this has reached it's climax. Despite of the rushed plot, it was still good, given that it finally reached its end and the story itself present a goodbye when thing ends in a very good note, in which I wish not to spoil , so just watch and enjoy the foodgasam that is the very quintessential part of this series' plot. Cons: The problem was that this final sequel has to rely a lot on thequintessential disrobing part of the foodgasam, where we audience are subject to it as its teaser to dampen its story's mediocre plot.....
Verdict (6 over 10)
Art:
Pros: Much more darling than the 1st 3 sequel , cu'z here everyone gets naked one way or the other as the foodgasam gets intense.
Cons: They still don't do, up skirting or panchira scene to them girls, oh, and no nipples service around.
Verdict (7 over 10)
Sound:
Pros: ___________________________________
Cons:___________________________________
Verdict (5 over 10)
Character:
Pros: The introduction of the ff: Saiba Asahi and his Nior lackeys' and Erina's mom cu'z they present as new challenges for the main character Yukihira Souma and Erina Nakiri......
Cons: The misused of the other support characters from Totsuki Academy like Kurokiba, Ryou, Hayama, Akira, Kabutoyama, Tetsuji and other past antagonists from previous sequels , in which IMAO was an injustice.
Verdict (7 over 10)
Enjoyment:
Pros: Those dishes still get to me and so as the more intense ecchi thing.
Cons: I'm gonna miss this.
Verdict ( 7 over 10)
Overall:
Verdict (9 over 10)
It may be rushed, but when it has an ending this clean, who cares? So Bon Appétit..........................
SeasonalAnimes
“I just want to eat food created by all sorts of chefs.. and compete with them. The more people there are who make things completely different from my dish, the more fun it gets. I want to protect that kind of environment.” – Soma Yukihira ► 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺: 5/10 I must say that the BLUE arc is my least favorite season. JC Staff rushed all of the food wars, especially Souma vs Erina's final. It felt like the author converted three seasons into one show. If only they extend it into 24 episodes, the show will be a lot better. ► 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳: 5/10 I actually had no doubt about theShokugeki's characters, except Noir. Noir consists of some useless characters that came out suddenly without any background story. My point is they should have explored more about their enemies. Remember Noir's circus characters, they're just like a showoff and knocked out by Saiba. Then, he introduced some loser players to beat the Shokugeki.
The funny thing was only about Saiba Aishi. He literally just steal everyone's weapon and combine it with his own power, Cross Blade. I couldn't accept the fact that he beat Tsukasa, the number one chef, so easily but not Souma. It didn't make any sense at all, right?
► 𝘈𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 8/10
There's nothing new in their animation. It's good and enjoyable. That's it.
► 𝘖𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘯𝘫𝘰𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵: 7/10
It was quite disappointing when I realized it was their final season at the last episode. I'm glad they close their show with a happy ending. Thank you Souma and friends for your wonderful cooking!
_Shouganai_
Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara is the fifth and final season of Shokugeki no souma, a quite well-known show among the anime community. As you can see already it has its fifth season whereas many shows can't even get their second, this makes it clear that Shokugeki no souma is one of the popular shows which has seen great success with its previous seasons. Then what about its fifth plate? Being a fan of the show myself I expected the show to end on a good note but this season was a bit disappointing. The first problem was with the pacing. It was rushed asmuch as possible to adapt the remaining chapters and this made the experience half-assed and incomplete. Comparing to its previous seasons this season's story itself was a problem. The story was not as engaging as it's supposed to be and had a lot of unnecessary additions which made the show go into a different path from being a cooking show. Its previous seasons relied on the characters, their cooking skills, information, and knowledge about ingredients, dishes, and cooking techniques rather than introducing unrealistic and superficial types of cooking techniques that pulled the show into a never-ending abyss. This show completely changed its course from being a cooking that had competitions and a sense of rivalry that made the show interesting. The characters got lost and had no roles to perform and obviously the term called "character development" does not exist here. The Shokugeki no souma I liked dealt with stakes very well and gave a sense of tension whereas this season's stakes are very silly tbh.
The animation and art style was average at best and never showed us the best side of cooking that I wanted to see. The soundtracks were not used to its full potential. This season did not feel like the Shogeki no souma that I liked.
Even with all these flaws, I cannot forget the previous seasons that brought me to this final last season of Shogeki no souma. I enjoyed the journey and it was such a good ride anyway.
Like everything that starts always ends, this show ends with an average season and yet makes me feel nostalgic about the time I started watching it, and that brings a great feel of closure(for me at least). Thank you for reading.
Glad You Liked it!
- souma
Hotfu
In a first time, take in consideration that SNS is my favourite shonen, but i'll try to be the most objective possible about this season. In a second time, sorry if i'm making misstakes (i'm french ^^). I will make 2 parts in this review, one without any spoilers, and a second with spoilers. NO SPOILERS : Food wars was forever for me a fantastic tale of cooking and fights endlessly, with alot of strange sounds, that you can't watch that show with family (or you can, nobody will judge you), so when J.C Staff made an announcement on a 5th season, I was a little undecided, themanga has been criticized a lot in the past and therefore the author rushed the end. So when I figured out that J.C Staff was definitely going to outdo the manga, I wasn't disappointed.
This season is a good old shokugeki, but, y'know, the characters introduced in this season are a lot less interesting than the previous ones, but that was to be expected considering that this is the last season and they will never have the time to develop in 13 episodes, this season is only fights in a loop with a touch of romance. So for people who haven't seen the season yet, there is no reason to go back, but don't think you will see the best thing of your life, or you will be disappointed.
SPOILERS :
- Story : 6/10
The big problem in this season, i said before that the adaptation was better than the manga, but the readers know that the hotel arc with Megumi and Soma which would have been adapted at the start of the season has been replaced by an episode at the beach which we could clearly do without since it does little to advance the plot (except when Doujima announces the Blue, but they could replaced by a lot of other possibilities).
Now the Blue arc, that famous arc which has been criticized a lot because he took all the season. I must admit that this is really one of the less good arcs in SNS if you want to see the plot move forward (like me). I cant talk too much about this, this is only fights but the really good thing here is about Erina, she's completely trapped between her mother and Asahi, everything was calculated, she cant admit too that Soma could beat him (even she know) because she's worried and she understood why her mother left with her "superpower".
And for the end, I think that >90% of the people wanted to see an Erina x Soma, and a lot of people was disappointed. But if you take care of some sentences at the end, the studio did, for example Erina said that she will not lost against Soma for a loong time (i guess i dont need to help you more nah?) and in a other side from the 2 episode of SNS S1, Joichiro is talking about "how to be the best chef", the fact that a chef dedicates his cooking to the person he cares about the most, and that was exactly the same with Mana/Azami.
I add too that the irradiation is really TOO MUCH in this season, when it was funny in the previous seasons.
Tbh, J.C Staff couldn't catch up for all the mistakes made by the mangaka and they somehow limited the damage.
- Art : 9/10
Art style change too much from the first season but this is more and more enjoyable to see and i have not too much thins to say about it.
- Sound : 10/10
Anime : Food
Biggest quality : OST
Really, i said before that SNS was a fantastic tale of cooking, it was more because the sound can make us travel everywhere and with a lot of GOOD SONGS HELL YEAH.
Personally, with Fairy Tail, SNS is the anime with the best OST because you can listen them in every situations, if someone tells me that there will be an anime with epic musics on an food anime that make orgasms , I will have run away from this individual.
("Dish of God" is the best OST of SNS by far, and "Rough Diamonds ~Starry Stagiaire ver.~" can make me travel faaar away.
- Character : 8/10
I really like Saiba Asahi from the first episode, i knew that he was a bad guy but if you didnt watch the manga first, the antagonist is correctly introduced with the good people. But compared to Azami, he is really mediocre in the present, compared to his backstory. (But now Azami looks like a lovely dad)
Now I will talk about Erina, because i have a lot of things to say about that girl. I didn't really like the character in a first time, but i started to like her (c'mon i'm talking about the character) since the 3rd season to become my favourite character of SNS. I think that she have one of the biggest evolution in the history of shonen (take a look on the Ep2 of the S1 and the last episode, it looks like this is not the same character) and boi, she still have her horrible personnality since the start, and that's why i love this.
In this season Erina begins to realize more and more the problem with her divine palate and starts to panic more and more about her mother because she knows she will not be able to satisfy her and start to bet on Azami because Erina thinks that Azami is the one who can satisfy Mana, but he wants to marry Erina because she is the one who can satisfy his cook (and Asahi is playing with that, that's why i did this repetition).
Soma, the protagonist, didn't change but yes, this is Soma. We can notice that Soma have also more and more affection from Erina.
- Enjoyment : 8/10
Then, i remembered the plot but not how it was brought. I forget some scenes who was insanes and makes me hyped after all, that's maybe because this is my favourite shonen?
I swear that if there was a confirmed ship with a kiss/confession at the end,
I will have given a better mark because it looks like they brought it since s3 for not much in the end, a bit sad but not disappointed after all.
- Overall : 8/10
For me it was really not the best season, but i think that is the less good, however I think that you can't pass by this season after all.
Shokugeki No Soma was one of the iconics shonens in this last decade, the best shonen of all time for me for all the feelings that this anime given to me.
Now it's a page that turns to discover new animes. I need to thanks all the people who worked for the project.
I hope that you approved this review, i tried to be the most objective possible. I also hope that i'm not too bad in English too, thatk you for reading this far.
Techawesome
The hype surrounding the Fifth Season of the Shokugeki No Souma series was not nearly as high in comparison to its preceding seasons. As many of the series devoted fans already knew the conclusion to the story and hence the expectation going into the series was whether or not the studio would deviate from the manga. While there were many slight changes to the over-arching story, the ending still left an unsatisfying taste to a majority of viewers. Personally, the ending did not bother me too much as it tied in loose ends and gave us more character interactions that were not featured in theoriginal manga. To critique the Fifth season, it's important to look at both the good and bad moments and how that affected my personal time watching it.
The GOOD:
- The use of the original OSTs provided viewers with a sense of nostalgia, in a way it brought me back to why I loved the series. Food Wars has always been about interactions between characters through this concept of food. The Fifth season delivered on that by providing us several great character moments between both Erina and Souma but also the series supporting cast.
- The animation quality was generally consistent though of course one could not help but mention that it has dropped in comparison to its predecessors.
- The flashbacks throughout the battles really showed how far the characters have come and the difficult journey that they have experienced. Again taking us back to the how the original season started. Character development for this season is plentiful not only for the main characters that we have been devoted to but also the newly introduced antagonists of the season.
- Some pleasant story changes that deviated from the manga made it so that the anime felt different which was a good thing. This meant that you could not always expect what's going to happen which helped build anticipation every week.
The BAD:
- It felt as though I was watching every battle at an incredible speed. This was particularly disappointing as some battles concluded in the span of five minutes which made it difficult to truly digest what had happened. This is mainly attributed to the fact that the season limited itself to 13 episodes and so a lot of story was crammed in each and every episode. This fast-paced continued on for the ending episode too as the series had to tie in as many things as possible in order to conclude its story. This meant speeding up certain story elements which I felt should not have been done. For example, the final confrontation between Erina and Souma should have been its own standalone episode. By speeding up such important moments within the story, it gave less meaning and depth to the final confrontation between the two characters that basically started the series.
- The BLUE ARC should have definitely come in later but of course the mangaka is already finished with the series and so it had to be adapted into the anime. The premise is in good in a sense that we get to see different styles of cooking from a variety of new characters but also from different cultures as well. Adding diversity to the series. However, due to the constraints of this tournament type of story, it meant that certain characters had to sit out. While the anime gave a reason for why some characters were not present, the Blue Tournament should have been a much bigger event involving more of the cast. Seeing as it was heavily foreshadowed in the previous seasons as well.
Overall not much could be done as most of us already suspected how the story would unravel. Regardless, it has been a very enjoyable series to watch and while the fifth season is clearly the series' weakest - it is still not as bad as most people think. Definitely should give the whole series a chance even if the ending may not satisfy your true taste.
Sopseii
(This 4/ 10 is my rating for this particular season only) Why, why did you do this to me food wars? Now I wish I didn’t watch the show and was not a really big fan of it, cause this last season is a nightmare to food wars fan. For a really invested fan to hate a series is no silly thing. I will say I started watching Food wars when season 3 was about to air, it instantly became one of my favorite show. It was a show I suddenly started to love, the characters, the cooking were so enjoyable. What was appreciable about the showwas it had a concept which I haven’t seen in a battle shounen before, this show made cooking f-ing interesting and cool. You get hyped when someone is cooking, it’s not that common.
So I will just give my rating of the previous seasons to put it out of way,
Season 1 – 8.5/10 – I freaking loved it. The arcs were so good; those types of arcs were the best arcs in food wars.
Season 2 – 9 / 10 – the tournament arc – this arc was successful in keeping the pressure of who wins. We saw the characters trying to grow their skills with passing time.
Season 3 – 7.5 / 10 – this is the turning point of food wars, the first half was good as usual, but in the second half, they introduced a villain for the show for the first time. Even though it was enjoyable I didn’t wanted the show to go that way.
Season 4 – 7/ 10 the series definitely got a little weaker this season, in terms of production and the way the plot went. The show became too serious; the fun of school life was completely gone. It’s like there is politics inside the school.
Now the final season:
I really hated this season, I wish it didn’t exist. Also, I am one of those who already were informed the last arc was bad, but loving the show I was like even if it was bad, I don’t think I am going to hate it? But boi I was wrong.
Main problems with the BLUE arc. (SOME SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY)
•The whole plot of the arc was dog shit
•The cooking battles were so degraded. For the previous seasons, we get to see them going and doing the process of making the food, but this arc was so rushed every match ended so fast. Even the final battle ended in 5 minutes, No pressure or buildup.
•I don’t know where the mangaka found the so-called ‘underworld’ from. The distinction he added between people of the underworld and others felt like differentiating humans and outer space aliens. It almost feels like he found out about underworld from some Reddit comments or something, it was cringe to watch when the noir chefs just look down others like they are not even the same species. Even if some people are big criminals, we can’t separate them from regular persons this much, but here it was just chefs, how different is going to make where they work.
•The absurd types of cooking methods and tools introduced in this arc almost made me wonder if I am watching some “underworld” version of the show.
The main antagonist of this arc has a superpower. If he holds other's cooking tools he can acquire their cooking skills in an instant, his brain works that way. If this doesn’t feel like some asspull fest, I don’t know what is.
•Ending was missing so much, the soma as a character again failed to reach his goal. The focus was given to Erina even in the final battle, I understand at that situation she had some reason to win but we can’t just forget about our MC for a sudden brought up matter.
•The number of characters who just got demoted to worse than side character level was large. Most of the cast was just background characters for this arc. Characters like Hayama, Ryo just got butchered, they were not given growth even though these two of three finalists in the autumn elections.
• Story 3 very bad
Was this intended to be a meme?
The BLUE arc, just one arc just completely butchered the series. It was so bad that if it was intended as a parody series from start then this arc is a 10/10.
The stupid superpowers, the ridiculous cooking (like using explosives), the lack of tension and buildup, demoting so many characters to background scenery, the ridiculous concept of underworld chefs as something normal people are so different to, etc. just made up this arc.
• Art and animation 7 - good
Art and animation were weak in this season compared to the first 3 seasons. It doesn’t matter anymore cause the story side was already bad.
• Matches or Battles – 5 not ok
the matches were so short so that the cooking sequences were just only each person using their crazy cooking tools. Many important, even the final match was so short, the characters made their food in the background just in an instant. The blue winning food was not even shown to us
• Sound 8 very good
The osts were good like always.
• Character 6 fine
This arc just threw away so many characters we came to love and focused on only a few which was not even done well when we reached the end.
The number of characters who just got demoted to worse than side character level was large. Most of the cast was just background characters for this arc. Characters like Hayama, Ryo just got butchered, they were not given growth even though these two of three finalists in the autumn elections.
• Enjoyment 4 bad
I really hate this arc/season, this just ruined a show I really cared about and its characters.
• Overall rating of the series – Food Wars – 6/10 (wasted potential to a really awesome and good show)
A show which was really fun and good in its prime stages, which just got destroyed with the final arc its every appeal.
I will say season 1- 3 alone is still 8.5/ 10, the later seasons affected it and mage to 6/ 10
I recommend people to watch this series up to season 4 and then watch the final episode of season 5.
In short, this is another example of a long-running shounen that just got butchered with the final arcs.
(I am so pissed and sad)
BabyGirl06301
I've got a weird relationship with the last season of Food Wars! that's basically: it was average but I enjoyed it. So, the Shokugekis in this season weren't great, I have to say. It may have something to do with the fact that I've been watching this anime for a long time, and I'm used to the style so at this point it isn't exciting, but I don't think that's why. The content of this season was way too outlandish. Food Wars! has always been surreal but never ridiculous, at least not on the scale it was this season. I couldn't get excited about thefood being made or the battles going down because it was all too absurd.
The overarching story of the BLUE tournament was interesting enough, and the prompts for the Shokugekis were cool. The story that developed Souma and Erina was mostly well done, and the writing was mostly supportive of the ending. It did feel a little overblown and a little convoluted, but I still enjoyed watching the characters struggle and prosper.
The ending of the series itself was what I expected based on the manga's ending that got talked about when it was first published. I don't know that this season was the best thing in the world for finishing out the characters. The goals they had throughout the rest of the series kind of got lost, and a different conclusion was presented that was supposed to account for every loose end. Unfortunately, that didn't work out that well. That being said, I was fine with what happened this season, probably because I wasn't too invested in the ending. This season didn't feel like the Food Wars! we started out with, but it was still fun to hang out with the characters one last time. Farewell to Yukihira Souma.
LamyWater
Doesn't even come close to holding up the standard set by the other seasons short review- story: This got real weird. The core of the story that focuses on character growth is good. The details of the story once we get outside of that is not good. The primary conflict for the entire thing is totally contrived and out of character. Art and sound are as good as usual. Character: We've got a new edgy villain that's part of a comically out of place group. Feels like I'm watching a kids battle manga inspired parody of food wars. Erina agrees to something early on that makes no sense for any humanmuch less for her character as it's been established so far.
This whole season feels like the author had to write it in a week to hit a deadline. It's forced, rushed, and feels like it was written to wrap the series up as quickly as possible.
NiandraLades
This season is completely forgettable. My biggest problem is that it doesn't contributes anything new to the serie, in fact, the things that offers actually substracts. All the character development that Erina has in the previous seasons, season five is in charge of erased it. She starts as some vain girl who growed up thinking that she was the best in the culinary world because of his divine tongue. Despite of that, she doesn't enjoy cooking, she only sticks to the recipe and nothing more. When she meets Soma, the world she known it's turned upside down. She starts to enjoy proving new things, anddiscover that not everything has to follow the recipe and the new things comes from "breaking" the rules, she even challenge his own father... and all that for what?? For nothing, because in the last season she is like a puppet again.
In fact, this last path introduces an antagonist UNNECESSARY that doesn't contributes NOTHING to the story, and comes out of NOWHERE, he weren't even introduced by the story before lol disastrous.
PixelB
I'm just going to review Shokugeki no Soma as a whole, not just this season. Honestly, I'm a huge fan of Yakitate Japan, so when there's a show that's similar to it in many ways, of course I'm going to like it. A lot of Shokugeki no Soma's charm is how we see Soma and his peers/friends progress through their culinary journey towards the top. There's a large cast of characters, meaning that there's a lot of variety of the types of dishes and specialties that people produce. Despite this large pool of characters, I think the show does a great job at developing andgiving personality to these characters for the limited amount of screen time that they usually get. This is in large parts the fact that the unique dishes they make are made with their unique flair and personality, so even just a single cooking match will convey their feelings to a viewer/reader.
I think that the cooking matches that the characters go through are an essential part of why the anime is great, and of course, that in part also includes the preparation for the upcoming matches. I definitely enjoyed how Soma and everyone else had to research and come to their own conclusion on what to make when given a theme. There's quite a lot of deliberation that they each have to put in their ideas, and how they come up with their dishes becomes a anticipation: after working through all their ideas, how are they going to execute on them? The fact that a lot of the dishes can be made in real life and how they're quite complicated make for a great cooking show. There's a pleasure in watching how the chefs improve upon themselves with each food challenge they're presented with. Each dish that they prepare are fun to watch because it not only shows their progress, but their character.
It's true that this show has a lot of fanservice than say, Yakitate Japan, and I'm not the biggest fan, but what can you do?
Of course, everything I just said was good about the show is the reason why the fifth season is so bad. There's just a bunch of random people that show up, in which you have no idea about, just trying to fight against Soma and his limited pool of friends. Not only are there so many new challengers, but you don't even get to see the old characters face off. For such a large cast of characters that have been already introduced, there's only five people you know that compete in the blue competition. This was already a bad move, but the food challenges are rushed. There was always a lot of deliberation when it came to the food challenges and competitions that the characters go through, but there's not any of that present in the fifth season. You don't see any brainstorming, preparation of dishes, and self improvement. You kind of just see random dishes that get briefly explained, if any at all. I don't really feel invested in these dishes because I don't know how these characters came up with it, and I sure as hell don't know many of them. Plus, there's the supernatural aspect where the dishes they make are not able to be done in real life.
Animation is noticeably worse, and there's a lot of seconds where it's basically still frames or they lack background. The food presentation also takes a hit, and the reactions as well. Everything is rushed, random characters are introduced, I don't really see the cooking process, animation worsens, etc. Plot is terrible as well.
Shokugeki no Soma already had pretty bad plot, with Central arc and all, but this takes it up to another level. I won't talk about it that much, but it follows every cliche possible and doesn't even do it in a satisfying manner.
However, overall, it's ok. Taking into factor the good earlier seasons, I still think it's worth a watch. If you like over the top reactions and food, you sure will like this show.
elmonosuke
I honestly didn't have much expectations for this one, but i totally understand who did. After four reasonably consistent seasons, the show ends on a bittersweet tone, more bitter than sweet, to align with the manga ending. Some elements felt really rushed, especially the whole "mother" concept (both Souma and Erina's), although Erina's mom was a somewhat relevant topic back then, we never had any glimpse of the actual relevance of Souma's mom to the story. Another point that's really disappointing is how the anime builds Jounouchi to be a "Gary Sue"-like creature, and he easily loses to Saiba like it's nothing, leaving Souma withouthis actual final matchup (the whole concept of Souma's father is one of the worst thing in the series but that's another topic)
The ending is fine, but everything feels really out of place.
zandernater
It's rare I feel strongly enough to actually write out a review, but since my opinion of this show is so fresh and the series as a whole means a lot to me, I felt it important to leave my opinion. The story was certainly the least fulfilling of the series, and it shows. A ton of the more important aspects of the show have shifted from the cooking to outside of it. Suspension of disbelief is very important in shows like these, but that can't make you ignore a villain that was not only shoehorned in, but also provided no real payoff after building uphis character in a very short span, albeit not fully enough to satisfy a conclusion to his personal story. An underworld gang of chefs cooking for crime seems silly outside of this show, but the thought is never considered. The only shortcoming of the antagonists is the lack of true build-up beyond "they are bad but we are good, so we must win." The cooking itself still delivered, though in a much faster pace that rushed through the better parts that made earlier seasons truly shine. Many events take place off screen, including the fundamental part of the show; the actual process of cooking. The final product still provided a fulfilling description of the finished dish, but the cooking that led up to it was scarce at best. This wasn't the only thing glossed over during this show. The results and events of many IMPORTANT cooking battles were completely skipped over and mentioned in passing later on. The story drags the season down significantly compared to the earlier seasons, especially considering this is meant to end the series. The ending in particular left a lot to be desired, but my full opinion is full of spoilers and thus will only be posted at the very end of this review (you've been warned). 4/10
The art (excluding the extremely mediocre opening), while some argue dropped in quality, was overall the same. The backdrops may have lost some quality, many accurately comparing them to a PowerPoint presentation (I'm looking at you, opening), but the bread and butter of the show, the animation of the food and characters, didn't noticeably diminish much if at all. It's still the same detailed, satisfying and attractive style I've come to expect from the show. 9/10
The sound doesn't require much discussion. Most is somewhat recycled, which isn't terrible, since it was good to begin with. The OP and ED are forgettable, and the rest of the music remains at the same quality that is near and dear to me and the hearts of many other fans. 7/10
The characters are a mixed bag. Much of the main cast takes quite a backseat for the majority of the season, leaving only Souma, Erina, Megumi, and Takumi being the only ones to receive their share of growth. This growth was unevenly distributed and seemed to vary between situations. This, however, is not very noticeable, as the cast is as endearing as ever, and most if not all fan favorites received their deserved time in the spotlight. before the show wraps up. 6/10
Despite my harsh opinion of the story, I enjoyed the ride up until the end (friendly spoiler reminder that the paragraph following will discuss it with spoilers). The battles were still climactic and I was always eager to load up the next episode. I enjoyed following the characters, laughed and guffawed at the boisterous, quirky, and oddball chefs and styles. Not once until the final episode of the show did I even consider disliking what I was watching. I still highly recommend this show to any fan of Food Wars! despite any shortcomings and will forever consider the series as a whole a personal favorite. 7/10
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD :WARNING
My initial reaction personal opinion of the final episode is as follows:
So is that it? I mean up until halfway through I was hyped for the epic finale, but man, I should've just quit when she tasted Souma's dish. I mean, Erina wins OFFSCREEN, which is some sort of recurring theme in this season, but I'm getting ahead of myself. Everything after Asahi losing feels extremely rushed, like I'm skimming the pages of a book or reading the Sparknotes synopsis right before a test. Nothing really feels resolved. Souma lost to Erina after making a big deal of the fact that his dish actually made history, and they didn't have the decency to say why. Then another time skip for what I can only assume was the epilogue in the manga, but just ended up being a half-hearted wrap-up for a 5 season anime. It's like ending a multi-page essay with "and that's the end." it felt about as abrupt as the end of my little rant.
AnimeLover12234
I feel like the ending of the last episode was rushed, but it was a great anime for me. The journey was long but still overall I give the anime a 9/10, the story was somewhat lacking especially during the 13th episode, like what happened to soma's friend when he left to go overseas? Does Nakiri Erina finally say that Soma's dish was delicious? What dish did Soma made to serve Erina during the ending? Did Soma finally beat his Father Joichiro in a cooking contest? That all kinds of question popping in my head. I know that some of my questions are found inthe Le Dessert Manga, but still its not a bad idea to make an OVA incorporating the Le Dessert Manga. I just feel like there is more to the story that was not included in the anime, it was a fun journey with this anime, it was the start of my otaku life when I first watched this anime. I just wish there was more, cause I feel like it was lacking something. Thank You for the long and fun journey, I will miss watching this anime. This anime is one of my All Time Favorite Anime on my List. Again Thank You, I had fun watching this anime.
