Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara

“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 the ... Shokugeki'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!

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 us ... a "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

i'll write this as a review for the whole anime, not just this season because my overall experiences and feelings are about the same. considering how mediocre the manga was, i wasn't expecting the anime to be any better, if anything my expectations were even lower than what i got so in general, considering how novel the concept is and how boring it sounds, the overall experience of shokugeki no sōma is decent.

i was hoping they'd do justice to tadokoro in the anime and give her a bit more focus and make her less subservient and homely but nah, just as annoying and downplayed as ... she is in the manga. basically the side characters are all an amalgamation of ideas that could be used for the cooking prop, they are hardly seen as humans or anything beyond their cooking skills. the only true characters are sōma and erina, and their relationship gets old real fast.

overall the anime lacks impact, doesn't try to fix anything from the manga and follows it to a 't' which is not all that bad if you're into some fun cooking trivia, which was the point of this anime for me.