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
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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!
RobertSpeedwagon
First of all, I am not going to write an interview as long as the bible, I just wanted to say some things about this anime so here we go: First things first, the reason someone should watch this anime is pure for enjoyment. If you are looking for an anime with a great plot, character development or a stunning romance this isn't it, but if you just want to watch a fun food porn anime you're at the right address. there are going to be some spoilers so be aware: first of all, I don't agree with everyone on how 'shit' this anime was. Let me firstlyclear one thing up. I'm not saying I liked Noir being added tot the anime, in fact the anime would've been so much better off if they just would've added something else then Noir, it was just plain shit. They didn't have a good motive, characters were garbage, and overall just garbage No underworld chef even cooks with a chainsaw or with exploding ovens it just was so dumb to even look at. And I believe 99% of people who saw this season will agree with me on that. The story also didn't make sense. After BLUE they suddenly tell stories about the illegaal goods, like i didn't even care anymore don't waste time on the last episode on these bullshit stories and just make a good ending how hard is it.
Second of all, I don't know if people will agree with me on this one and I don't know if anyone's even gonna read this review, but here's one thing that really bothers me (with more anime btw). I really would've loved to see a future soma and Nakiri together, or even just a kiss. It would've made the ending so much better. Just a little more emotion, maybe a secret love rivalry between Nikumi, Nakiri and Megumi. Not in a harem way of course but to twist it up a little. I understand that this isn't the kind of anime you need to watch if you want such a story, but I believe there was a lot of potential there. Also, they could've made something way better out of the whole Asahi Saiba is the son of Azami thing. Like a kind of small drama thing. But again, this isn't the anime for that. But if they would've let the Noir bullshit thing go there'd be a lot of screen time left for other thing such as one of the ideas I just mentioned. but yeah overall I liked the anime as it brought me joy, but for me I would've liked more romance between soma and Nakiri, and less bullshit like Noir.
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.
SinCrow11
Overall: 6.8 / 10 Unfortunately, we arrive at the last saga of this beautiful work, but with a satisfactory ending by the J.C. STAFF who did a good job implemented an "original" epilogue that matches quite well for its closure. Regarding the season in general, I have felt quite disappointed in a certain way, since in terms of the decline of the story and its development it has been announced with a plot that although it serves to finish tying up some more ends to the story, either It ends up being completely consistent and contributing much more than its prequel, in addition to losing that essencewhen preparing culinary competitions or preparing the same dishes that gave a good bonus to the work.
On the characters side it is similar, we have new members like the "Noir" with the same Asahi, but all this cast is used only to create an atmosphere of drama in the story, but the reality is that most of them are too flat and superficial. Perhaps what hurts me the most is that they show relatively little of Asahi's childhood and growth. At the same time, the same happens with characters that are no longer on the scene, such as Tamako (Souma's mother) who never just developed that childhood and mourning for both Souma and his father, which was a great emphasis to create a good "feeling" they waste it on the viewer.
In short, I consider that it ends up being a fairly regular adaptation but with the plus of being the last installment and with that Happy end it masks a little more the shortcomings of the program.
In Total quickly reviewing its seasons, I would dare to say that it is an anime that begins from highest to lowest in quality, but that despite everything continues to maintain that entertainment about the dishes and the kitchen that pushes you to continue watching it (and the shipeo of Erina x Souma of course this :p)..
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General: 6,8 / 10
Llegamos a la ultima saga de esta linda obra lamentablemente, pero con un final satisfactorio por parte del estudio J.C. STAFF que hizo un buen trabajo implemento un epilogo "original" que concuerda bastante bien para su cierre.
En cuanto a la temporada en general me eh sentido bastante decepcionado en cierta forma, ya que en cuanto al decaimiento de la historia y su desarrollo ah sido anunciado con una trama que si bien sirve para terminar de atar algunos cabos mas a la historia, tampoco acaba siendo del todo consistente y que aporte mucho mas que su precuela, además de perder esa esencia a la hora de la preparación de las competencias culinarias o la elaboración de los mismos platos que daban un buen plus a la obra.
Ya por el lado personajes es similar, tenemos nuevos integrantes como los "Noir" con el mismo Asahi, pero todo este elenco no se utiliza mas que para crear un ambiente de drama en la historia, pero la realidad es que en su mayoría son demasiado planos y superficiales. Tal vez lo que mas me duela es que muestran relativamente poco de como fue la infancia de Asahi y su crecimiento. A la vez esto mismo pasa con personajes que ya no están en escena como Tamako (la mama de Souma) que nunca acaba de desarrollarse esa infancia y duelo tanto de Souma como de su padre que era un gran hincapié para crear un buen "feeling" en el espectador e lo desperdician.
En fin considero que acaba siendo una adaptación bastante regular pero con el plus de ser la ultima entrega y con ese Happy end enmascara un poco mas las falencias del programa.
En Total repasando rápidamente sus temporadas me atrevería a decir que es un anime que comienza de mayor a menor en calidad, pero que a pesar de todo sigue manteniendo ese entretenimiento sobre los platos y la cocina que te empuja a seguir viéndolo (y el shipeo de Erina x Souma claro esta :p ).
KakoriG
A few months have passed since I've finished Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara. Back then I didn't do a review, but decided once and for all to put my thoughts on paper. While this review, and the score I've given, is for the last season, being the finale of the series means that I'll be talking about the series as a whole in this review and my experience with it. It all started many years ago, in 2017. I’m not sure how, but I’ve heard about this Shonen about cooking competitions. Back then I wasn’t that much into cooking, since then I’ve watched some Masterchefseasons, but nothing more than that. Yet, when I watched Shokugeki no Souma I was pleasantly surprised. The show made every cooking competition an epic battle full of action and it was a lot of fun to watch.
The characters, while nothing too special, are a fun cast to follow through the seasons as they progress in their studies and hone their abilities, each and every one of them with different styles, techniques and personalities. As far as story goes, it has always been over the top. A gastronomy school where you can bet anything, including expelling, on a cooking contest? That’s nuts. But I don’t think anyone here would disagree that we can, and have, accepted weirder for the sake of entertainment.
One of the main problems with Shokugeki no Souma is the lack of stakes. When you can put averything on the line, it becomes obvious that the protagonist won’t lose. That’s not a problem that’s exclusive for Shokugeki no Souma, tho, after all, do you really think Naruto would ever die in the middle of the series? He can’t die, without Naruto there’s no, well, NARUTO. The way to avoid this problem is to put side characters into danger and make the viewer fear for them, not for the protagonist. To be fair tho, Shokugeki no Souma managed to avoid this issue by having way more grounded situations, where the bets weren’t that big and the win far from guaranteed.
The focus of the show has to be on the cooking. While not always realistic, the way they explain the ingredients, techniques, preparations and how everything comes together to make something bigger than the sum of its parts makes you believe that you could potentially try to replicate those recipes yourself. Even if the result is predictable, the curiosity to see what they will cook next is enough to make you keep watching.
So, with all of that said, what happened? I adored this show, with Stagiare, at the end of Ni no Sara (Season 2), being, in my opinion, the high point of the series. From there, it only went downhill. As the series progressed, stakes got higher and, as such, the story got predictable. If the protagonist can’t lose, then the protagonist won’t lose.
That leads me to the second problem, what a like to call the “Naruto effect”. As the series goes on, Souma becomes more and more the spotlight of the series, being the one to save everyone when things get rough, and when you finally think a side character will have its time to shine, it doesn’t come through. I really wanted to see more of some characters.
The story as a whole became just too surreal. Like I said, it has always been over the top, but it becomes more and more ridiculous as time goes on, to the point where is hard to take anything serious.
Finally, the cooking fights became rushed and dumbed down. We no longer had detailed explanations of ingredients, techniques and such, instead the characters cooked and the side-characters spend a whole bunch of time repeating the same lines over and over to show how good the dish was. With that, the fights became boring and uninteresting. I no longer wanted to see the next dish they would come up with.
All of that is reflected on the score each season received. As of the moment of writing the user scores went, chronologically, 8.28, 8.19, 8.12, 8.06, 7.76 and 7.34, with a noticeable drop at Shin no Sara (Season 4) and Gou no Sara (Season 5). Season 5 in particular highlights everything that went wrong with the series. Character making ridiculous bets, minutes from each episode focused on repetitive character reactions and ecchi scenes, and a story that’s predictable from beginning to end.
Overall, Shokugeki no Souma is a series I will always remember as a series that I loved, with 2 incredibly good seasons at the beginning, but also as the series that disappointed me with its final ones. It’s hard for me to recommend Shokugeki no Souma to new viewers knowing how it ended up, even if I know the first 2 seasons are amazing. With that said, Gou na Sara is a disappointment in so many ways and a horrible ending to what could have been a great series otherwise.
LegendAqua
STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE? Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara gives us another plate of some GOOD FOOD ala character development. This tournament arc of a season pits us against the BLUE tournament but also against Les Cusiniers Noirs lead by Asahi Saiba voiced by Jun Fukuyama who wants to wed Erina Nakiri and "rule" the culinary world, but more is to the BLUE tournament that it seems. Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara, LA will say falls under the same flaws it experienced throughout it's previous season but it's one main core strength is nonetheless it's character development in it's character which still stays in the 5th Platewhen they go throughout the anime, be it the main cast's camaraderie or internal character development or regression for the plot in order to do so. Case in point Erina's main goal for winning BLUE which is in contrast to her in Totsuki arc right down to her methods and personality taken in this arc.
Though LA will say this is again an Erina-centric arc once again with her taking centre stage even though she's technically awy for about half of the anime. But nonetheless Souma, Megumi and the rest of the new Elite Ten does have bit parts with Souma being in a more narrative focus role as protagonist this time. As for villains, we have Asahi as our main villain and he affects BOTH Souma and Erina in this arc, with Asahi being a former student of Souma's father and even beating his father, all the while he's the biggest threat to Erina in the tournament as well his own goals of culinary domination concerning Erina. Though LA sees Asahi as a step down from Erina's father from the previous season, his "main culinary power" is something that outshines Subaru's culinary mimicry to the point of absurdity. Nonetheless though the anime has some scattershot focus towards it's characters (mainly Souma and Erina), it is one part due to the weird tournament rules that caused that to happen.
The animation from JC Staff is back and thankfully reduced it's panning shots once again but still noticeable sometimes. Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara's animation does have some odd derps here and there with it's quality but it's "expected animation" for Souma by this point and at least the food animation was and is still great to look at to amazing detail.
The voice cast is back and really the only new addition to the Souma cast would be Jun Fukuyama who does a decent job as the smug snake like character of Asahi. Nonetheless Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara's voice cast is more or less back and overall..decent voice cast with the MVP easily going Hisako Kanemoto for her wide range of emotions throughout this arc.
What LA have found out due to the shift in the cooking in this season is that due to many of the writers and staff for Shokugeki no Souma went on pregnancy leave and JUMP wanting one more arc to round off Souma, coupled together with the author needing to rush things, caused the anime to rush things with their battles even more apparent now more than ever and the cooking has focused on cooking styles over cooking techniques. LA can see it but the bigger question would be does the shift in this make this season better than the previous season finale or this one?, well for LA the previous season's finale was a GREAT finale and rounding things up, however this seaosn's ending and what it wanted to focus more on Erina was a nice touch as well as stitching how everything came to be for Erina was also good in this regard. Overall in comparison to previous season's finale and this seaosn's finale...the previous season's finale was GREAT, this season was GREAT...for Erina.
So, what does LA think about this season?, it's not bad especially for Erina fans, but does LA find this season superfluous?, ehh not really either as LA said, this season gave MUCH more development to Erina more than anything in a similar method from the previous season did. LA liked Totsuki-hen's finale, this isn't.....that bad either.
Meh?...nah more like this season's dish gave off a nice tangy finale with a rushed-like different style of dish from Totsuki's more meaty dish, not horrible just a good lasting after-taste.
BlazinRidr
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.
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.
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)
tanvikumar17
Food Wars is among the first anime that I ever watched and since then it has been in my Top 10. The storylines, characters, unforgettable plot twists, amazing music, and mouth-watering food were elements that were executed extremely well in the previous seasons. My wait for season 5 was long and I was very excited to see what happens with the gang next. However, sadly, this season is a big disappointment. It is so RUSHED!!! New characters are introduced but hardly any time is given to the viewer to understand them. We don't see any cooking montages. The antagonist has made an appearance out of nowhere.Basically, nothing feels right, and the fast pace of the whole season adds to the problem and makes the experience worse.
I wanted to enjoy the series but the whole vibe is off! I am really sad about seeing a good show getting treated like this in its final stages.
I would recommend skipping this season. Not a lot you'd miss plot-wise.
LightRobot
As a chef and anime watcher I am very dissapointed in this last season I'm not gonna talk about what points exactly made this bad for anyone who wants a quick skim through. It could have been so good but they rushed the absolute heck out of it,the power scaling was all out of wack confusing me highly ,they neglected to explain the technicality and methods of the dishes,the noir plot point was kinda just wierd and felt like it didn't fit in too much,A LOT was skipped over and the ending felt like it ended 5 mins too early like C'mon bro at least give usa "Even though ny taste buds hated it,my heart longed for more" or sm.This was the first review I ever wrote but I really felt it necessary to do this to cope with all the lost potential
shineforbangtan
I personally think that people are a little bit too harsh on this season. I personally liked that they delved into more personal aspects, the dynamics of characters, and the backstories of the characters. I agree that there could have been more of the supporting cast but also this season really honed in on our main characters and then some new villains which is also a fair way to write the story. I however hate how much was squeezed into the last episode. It was all over the place and they tried to do way too much. Adding an extra episode or two would havebeen way more preferable. The last episode also was a little bit lackluster but it was an okay finish to a show that I have been watching for a good chunk of time.
