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I recently finished season one of Food Wars after watching YouTube’s FeastofFiction who recreated episode 1’s pork roast. I was intrigued.

I’ll be honest, I’ve never bothered to sit down and watch an anime about cooking. Sure, cooking anime exist out there, but they always had a little too much fluff, sunshine, and rainbows for my tastes.

If you’re the kind of person who enjoys a super silly yet high-stakes anime, this is the anime for you. The characters are eccentric and compelling, the storyline leaves room for the characters to fail or accomplish their goals, and it’s freaking hilarious. I never thought that listening to an ... average of one overexaggerated moan per episode would make me laugh, but it did.

… at least for the first half of season one.

But let me tell you: the moaning gets annoying fast. Other than the fact that most of the time the highly inappropriate moaning comes from 15-year old girls, the moaning is very dramatic. I get it. It’s over the top to be funny. In the beginning, I thought it was hilarious. By the end of the first season, I was so done with it to the point that I would skip past the segments where characters were moaning.

Then there’s the characters. Souma, for example, is a character that is fun to watch but veers a bit too close to Gary Stu territory. He’s not as bad as Kirito from Sword Art Online, which I will address later, but it’s close. As for the rest of the cast, there’s not a single character that I found to be unique. We have the quiet, timid character just brimming with untapped potential, the big-breasted snobby rich girl with a heart of gold, the eccentric foreigner, the god-tier level parent, etc. Pretty much every character is one that I have seen before in other anime. Were these characters fun to watch in Food Wars? Absolutely! Did the constant shoving of their respective character quirks get old after a while? Definitely.

Honestly, I’m still not sure if I want to continue with season two. It was a funny show, but Food Wars relies a bit too heavily on old and tired character and story tropes.