 The 27th issue of Weekly Shounen Jump of 2019 announced on Monday that Yuuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's cooking manga Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma) will end in three chapters. The manga will also have a big announcement on the same day it ends.Tsukuda began serializing the manga featuring artworks by Saeki in November 2012. TV star and food researcher Yuki Morisaki collaborated with the creators, making dishes and recipes depicted in the series. Shueisha shipped the 35th volume (pictured) on Tuesday. J.C.Staff adapted the manga into a 24-episode anime series in Spring 2015. A second season, subtitled Ni no Sara, followed in Summer 2016. The third season aired in two cours in Fall 2017 and Spring 2018. The 18th, 19th, 24th, 25th, and 29th volumes bundled original video anime episodes, which served as side stories and bridges between seasons. Crunchyroll simulcast all three anime seasons with subtitles while they aired in Japan. Sentai Filmworks released the first season in North America on Blu-ray and DVD in August 2017 and a premium edition in September 2017. The company also shipped the second season on a standard Blu-ray and DVD and a limited edition in February 2018. VIZ Media licensed the manga in English in 2013 and simultaneously publishes new chapters with the Japanese release through its Shounen Jump service digitally. The 30th volume went on sale on June 4. Source: Comic Natalie |
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| Wow! So this finally comes to end, good thing it's ending as the author was dragging the manga too much. The last few arcs were meh. Anyways I've been reading this for the longest time. Hopefully we get a good conclusion and a epilogue into the future where Erina x Souma ship sails. |
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| Dang that's a shame, haven't read the manga past the anime yet, but I've heard so many bad things about it.. It started off so well too but once Erina's dad came into scene it became pretty shit, there's barely any point to the competition when it's rigged and later when the main characters have to win, it came down to "omg dis suh dilisius me iz cummin cun rig eettt liek dat" The mangaka should not have taken the story too seriously, the whole take over the world with food thing is just ridiculous. Never should have had the evil vs good vibe. I am guessing at that point it's too late to go back anymore and they just keep digging the hole deeper. R.I.P. |
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| I'm very much gonna miss this series. Hopefully it ends on a satisfying note. |
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| Old news. As for the announcement, it got AXED. That's what happened. AntwanMantilla said: Hopefully it ends on a satisfying note. If only. |
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| It's on its deathbed for the past 3 years, finally the authors decided to end its suffering. But, wow what a way to end it, was Asahi supposedly the final boss? Because that's super lame and disappointing if he was. |
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| Well, Im happy that it's going to end because if not then im going to drop it anyway considering how this has been shit since Azami appeared. |
| Shokugeki no Souma gets axed, yet Chainsawman lives on. What is Shueisha thinking? |
Chronowarp said: Shokugeki no Souma gets axed, yet Chainsawman lives on. What is Shueisha thinking? One is losing big sales for more than 10 volumes and reception is getting worse in each chapter in Japan while the other is a new title which is selling well for a new title and the reception is good. It's simply that. Soma not ending earlier was already surprising. |
caio_brb said: Chronowarp said: Shokugeki no Souma gets axed, yet Chainsawman lives on. What is Shueisha thinking? One is losing big sales for more than 10 volumes and reception is getting worse in each chapter in Japan while the other is a new title which is selling well for a new title and the reception is good. It's simply that. Soma not ending earlier was already surprising. The fact that it is selling poorly while having ffing 3 (season 3 was split in 2 parts so you can say 4 seasons) anime seasons is also very telling. This also explains why they haven't announced a 4th season. But then again the anime adaptation wasn't that good either. |
| Awww that's a shame, i did really enjoy what i saw of the anime, was the manga canceled because it was doing poorly? Does this mean there will no longer be a fourth season? :( |
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| Well the manga has gotten quite bad and this final arc was just.....awful. So this news isn't surprising lol. |
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Dauphine said: Awww that's a shame, i did really enjoy what i saw of the anime, was the manga canceled because it was doing poorly? Does this mean there will no longer be a fourth season? :( Any story that makes its 'main female' character who is supposedly having a personality into a 'trophy' is likely to be doomed in today's world (I put likely because we have sh!ts like SAO). Yet, we continue to see this in this day and age. A shame really. Because I had been a fan of the story and I have been a fan of Souma. With a third or more chapters of bad storytelling, I have no clue how this is rated so high in MAL. Someone pointing out in the other thread that the readers in MAL are yet to catch up, but seriously, the anime adaptations also cover the chapters where it started to go downhill so I am surprised that it's still rather well liked. |
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| Good fucking riddance. Just another garbage ass series out of the way. |
| I bet the special announcement will be the final season of the anime. Least I hope. |
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| Is there a possibility that it's going to continue on a different magazine? Or it really the end? From what I've read from the ones reading the manga, it doesn't even feel like it's supposed to be ending yet. |
| Happy that its ending but also love that cover. Very cute. |
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| I've only read around the first 50 chapters of the manga long time ago, but there's a consensus among my friends that it became a run-of-the-mill shounen after Erina's dad was introduced. Kinda sad to hear since the beginning was fairly enjoyable. |
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| Well, there was not really much they could pull off anymore. It's good to know when to leave the stage. Now we are hoping for proper anime conclusion. |
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| I am just here to say good riddance too. Dropped the manga a while ago and from the looks of it, nothing improved at all. |
| Well, it's two chapters now. |
EGOIST said: Is there a possibility that it's going to continue on a different magazine? Or it really the end? From what I've read from the ones reading the manga, it doesn't even feel like it's supposed to be ending yet. That's what I assume when I first saw the twitter post on another thread, considering on what happened to Gintama, also the fact that SnS used to be one of among WSJ titles that reached 6 figures in volumes sold in recent times that Shueisha would be considerate enough to have a proper ending on another magazine. Well that's how you do business. |
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| Thanks god. I thought it started declining slowly after the autumn election and it downright started becoming awful at the central arc. I didn't even touch the arc that followed but I heard that it's been even worse. Good riddance, manga should stop being milked and conclude while it's still good smh. |
| Thank god finally. Souma has way overstayed its welcome already. I really liked the series once upon a time but it's gotten waaaaaayyyy too repetitive over the years. Ahegaos and people finding new adjectives to describe food gets a bit old after literally hundreds of chapters |
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Antagonized said: EGOIST said: Is there a possibility that it's going to continue on a different magazine? Or it really the end? From what I've read from the ones reading the manga, it doesn't even feel like it's supposed to be ending yet. That's what I assume when I first saw the twitter post on another thread, considering on what happened to Gintama, also the fact that SnS used to be one of among WSJ titles that reached 6 figures in volumes sold in recent times that Shueisha would be considerate enough to have a proper ending on another magazine. Well that's how you do business. The difference is Gintama didn't get axed. It is just that Sorachi decided to work a wee bit more to conclude the story. He asked for three months, which got extended to a year with no ending in sight and then it got extended to another year and then finally he agreed on a couple of months. Guess what? It didn't work out either so they gave him three GIGA chapters worth of more than 2 months of contents but it still wasn't enough. Ultimately, Ginama is now expected to draw the curtain in its very own App (it's backed by the publisher btw and is promoted through their official medias). Was it worth it? Look at the fans' reception. The penultimate chapter, and the one preceding it hit the peaks yet again for Gintama as it did in numerous occasions during its run, and amazingly, the peaks are very evenly distributed. That says a lot for a manga that ran over 700 chapters. SnS will never be able to achieve that in the final 2 chapters. Because if it's Sorachi, we are talking about an author who is often regarded as one of the greatest mangaka to grace Japan, often being mentioned amongst the likes of Oda, Arakawa, Toriyama, Togashi and a very few household names in Japan. |
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shanimebib said: Dauphine said: Awww that's a shame, i did really enjoy what i saw of the anime, was the manga canceled because it was doing poorly? Does this mean there will no longer be a fourth season? :( Any story that makes its 'main female' character who is supposedly having a personality into a 'trophy' is likely to be doomed in today's world (I put likely because we have sh!ts like SAO). Yet, we continue to see this in this day and age. A shame really. Because I had been a fan of the story and I have been a fan of Souma. With a third or more chapters of bad storytelling, I have no clue how this is rated so high in MAL. Someone pointing out in the other thread that the readers in MAL are yet to catch up, but seriously, the anime adaptations also cover the chapters where it started to go downhill so I am surprised that it's still rather well liked. SAO did that in 2002 when it was still a web novel and one time. In most recent parts of the franchise like the novel Progressive or recent arcs like Mother Rosario, Alicization or Unital Ring it's different. Kawahara was always critical of his work and tried and try to change, which in his works on the 10s, you can see it. Hell, even in mother rosario and alicization you already can see it changing even though those were originally from the web novel as well. |
| I would be more interested in learning how it came to an end. Thanks to his contribution to the mag the author was able to choose to end his narratives like he wanted, or was he exhausted/not interested anymore, or the publisher/magazine put an end to it because of crumbling popularity (read as "weekly polls fall" and/or decreasing book sales) or... ? ToG25thBaam said: the whole take over the world with food thing is just ridiculous. No, trust me, it looks probably logical, compared to going SSJ, getting an NDE, desintegrating your arch-enemy or conquering the world through... breads ! |
| I heard about it on ANN last week, but this is still some sad news... |
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| Good fucking riddance. It's all for the best, i hate the fact that one of my all time favorite shows is getting this type of treatment in these last few arcs. And i hope the announcement wont be a new season because if they decide to start adapting the Noirs arc... oh boy, BIG mistakes were made JC Staff.. it means the anime will adapt everything. Plot twist: The anime goes original and has a super awesome last arc and shuts up all the critics. Lmao that would be too good to be true. Because at this point, even if it is basically impossible, that's precisely what i want xD |
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| Oh. Haven't been keeping up with it for a while now. It started really interesting but got quite repetitive. Guess i'll check it out again once it has ended. |
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| who read manga and still surprised about this? good fucking riddance... |
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| About time, honestly. The manga has gone far too downhill and there's no way of returning. |
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| I hope J.C.Staff make new season |
| This is the first shounen I fell in love with since I started with anime "for real" in December 2014, seeing it end really feels like the end of an era to me. People found that it went downhill hard but to me outside of some chapters at the start of this last arc it was still tons of fun as usual, I will be so sad once it ends, a work I love now and will always do. |
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| Is this real life? Is Tsukada that much of an imbecile that he's just ending the manga on this shit excuse of an arc? I thought the arc was ending when the last chapter said "three left," not the entire godforsaken manga. I was hoping for an arc with them as third years, but whatever. Let's hope this "super important announcement" is something interesting. I understand I'm overreacting here, but as someone who really enjoyed this manga and anime, it's just so fucking sad to see it go this downhill. |
AntwanMantilla said: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh god where did this series go so wrong. Hopefully it ends on a satisfying note. |
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| The series started strong but become a boring and repetitive mess shortly after. Glad it's finally ending. |
JizzyHitler said: AntwanMantilla said: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh god where did this series go so wrong. Hopefully it ends on a satisfying note. Two words: Azami Arc. |
shanimebib said: Dauphine said: Awww that's a shame, i did really enjoy what i saw of the anime, was the manga canceled because it was doing poorly? Does this mean there will no longer be a fourth season? :( Any story that makes its 'main female' character who is supposedly having a personality into a 'trophy' is likely to be doomed in today's world (I put likely because we have sh!ts like SAO). Yet, we continue to see this in this day and age. A shame really. Because I had been a fan of the story and I have been a fan of Souma. With a third or more chapters of bad storytelling, I have no clue how this is rated so high in MAL. Someone pointing out in the other thread that the readers in MAL are yet to catch up, but seriously, the anime adaptations also cover the chapters where it started to go downhill so I am surprised that it's still rather well liked. Did Erina ever have a "personality"? I know little of manga and only recently finished watching the entire anime, but to me personally she always seemed like an archetypical rich tsundere. In any case, in the anime she has very little time, even against the background girls like Ikumi. However, now I am interested in only one question. They promised some big announcement, can it be that this will be the final anime season that will cover all the remaining chapters? @caio_brb When you talk about this, I recall how Kawahara thought that writing good female characters is called "political correctness." |
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RobertBobert said: shanimebib said: Any story that makes its 'main female' character who is supposedly having a personality into a 'trophy' is likely to be doomed in today's world (I put likely because we have sh!ts like SAO). Yet, we continue to see this in this day and age. A shame really. Because I had been a fan of the story and I have been a fan of Souma. With a third or more chapters of bad storytelling, I have no clue how this is rated so high in MAL. Someone pointing out in the other thread that the readers in MAL are yet to catch up, but seriously, the anime adaptations also cover the chapters where it started to go downhill so I am surprised that it's still rather well liked. Did Erina ever have a "personality"? I know little of manga and only recently finished watching the entire anime, but to me personally she always seemed like an archetypical rich tsundere. In any case, in the anime she has very little time, even against the background girls like Ikumi. However, now I am interested in only one question. They promised some big announcement, can it be that this will be the final anime season that will cover all the remaining chapters? @caio_brb When you talk about this, I recall how Kawahara thought that writing good female characters is called "political correctness." He never said that he think that writing good female characters is called that though. He said in 2019, 8 years after writing SAO Progressive and over 10 years in previous arcs like Mother Rosario and Alicization, that he should write with this in mind and give agency to the characters, which he already was doing for quite some time. That was just the first time he began to talk about it in interviews, but if you read his material on Mother Rosario and Alicization, it's already happening there, be it in an arc entirely focused on Asuna or in Alicization where Asuna and Alice have a pretty big part on the story. And then it gets better in the 2010s when he begins SAO Progressive, or in his first arc after a decade in the main series which is unital ring. There's a good text about it here https://www.animefeminist.com/feature-when-creators-strive-to-improve-female-representation-the-case-of-sword-art-onlines-reki-kawahara/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork |
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| @caio_brb I remember the original interview very well, there is no need to refer to such weird sources as animefeminism, where the review on CCS sequel by 90% consists of complaints that Tomoe did not receive a lesbian love interest, or where the reviewer on Darling in the Franxx quite seriously writes, that boys' interest in naked girls is a social construct I'm not even talking about the fact that last year they wrote a whole article just to complain about how in Lupin the main male characters negatively perceived the suspicion of their own sexuality. Well, you know, you have to positively accept the idea that you can be gay, otherwise it is homophobia. You may question such a reading of his words as much as you like, but NEVER refer to this source in a conversation with me, please. |
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RobertBobert said: @caio_brb I remember the original interview very well, there is no need to refer to such weird sources as animefeminism, where the review on CCS sequel by 90% consists of complaints that Tomoe did not receive a lesbian love interest, or where the reviewer on Darling in the Franxx quite seriously writes, that boys' interest in naked girls is a social construct I'm not even talking about the fact that last year they wrote a whole article just to complain about how in Lupin the main male characters negatively perceived the suspicion of their own sexuality. Well, you know, you have to positively accept the idea that you can be gay, otherwise it is homophobia. You may question such a reading of his words as much as you like, but NEVER refer to this source in a conversation with me, please. My source isn't this article, it was never this, I read the original interview. I only pointed out something that gives a more detailed vision about Kawahara's writing on the 2010s, which happens to be on that site but it illustrates what happens. Aside from that, it was such a minor point compared to what I really pointed out. |
caio_brb said: RobertBobert said: @caio_brb I remember the original interview very well, there is no need to refer to such weird sources as animefeminism, where the review on CCS sequel by 90% consists of complaints that Tomoe did not receive a lesbian love interest, or where the reviewer on Darling in the Franxx quite seriously writes, that boys' interest in naked girls is a social construct I'm not even talking about the fact that last year they wrote a whole article just to complain about how in Lupin the main male characters negatively perceived the suspicion of their own sexuality. Well, you know, you have to positively accept the idea that you can be gay, otherwise it is homophobia. You may question such a reading of his words as much as you like, but NEVER refer to this source in a conversation with me, please. My source isn't this article, it was never this, I read the original interview. I only pointed out something that gives a more detailed vision about Kawahara's writing on the 2010s, which happens to be on that site but it illustrates what happens. Aside from that, it was such a minor point compared to what I really pointed out. This site is a trigger for me, because I hate trying to politicize art or try to impose a “correct ideological reading” on abstract things. I am not so familiar with SAO to appreciate the difference between the various arcs. I have my own thoughts on this, but I do not want to argue about the content of the work that I did not read. If this is true - good, I don't like works, where female characters are limited to attractive love interest. |
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| @RobertBobert: Aggresive characters like tsundere have their personalty over the innocent/shy types, outwardly at least. Besides, she held firm on her reputation of being one of the top seats through her actions in the earlier chapters, so there's that - archetype or not. Also, I think the announcement is already the revealed longer than average final chapter. If it is an anime, I doubt they can cover the remaining chapters in a single cour. Even to adapt a single cour, from financial pov, is not gonna worth it. >Sharp decline of sales >End of serialization >Popularity already tanked Although they can make a rubbish season with everything squeezed in in a 12 episodes season. J.C is capable of absolute garbage tier adaptations but the remaining content couldn't get any worse no matter who adapted it so there's that. :) |
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