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, the
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manga 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the readers know that the hotel arc with Megumi and Soma which would have been adapted at the start of the season has been replaced by an episode at the beach which we could clearly do without since it does little to advance the plot (except when Doujima announces the Blue, but they could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.
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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, the ... |
