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Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma

★ 8.0 15K votes 2015–2020 5 seasons · 91 episodes Ended TBS
Food & cookingCooking and food culture at the center.This show: 10/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 10/10School & campusSchools and universities as the primary world.This show: 8/10Genius leadExceptional intellect as the protagonist's engine.This show: 7/10Visually strikingComposition and imagery worth pausing for.This show: 7/10Ensemble castMany characters carrying equal weight.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Kappei YamaguchiYoshitsugu MatsuokaMinami TakahashiMaaya UchidaAi KayanoNatsuki Hanae
Starring
Kappei YamaguchiYoshitsugu MatsuokaMinami TakahashiMaaya UchidaAi KayanoNatsuki Hanae
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About

"Shonen tournament anime disguised as a cooking show"

Soma Yukihira, a scrappy diner cook, enrolls at an elite culinary academy where students settle rivalries through high-stakes cook-offs called shokugeki. What follows is basically a shonen fighting anime with skillets instead of swords: escalating tournaments, flashy techniques, and judges reacting to food with wildly exaggerated, often absurdly sexualized ecstasy. It's fast, silly, and unapologetically over-the-top, but the cooking itself is inventive and clearly researched, giving each dish-battle real stakes. Best enjoyed as candy-colored competitive spectacle rather than anything subtle, it rewards viewers who like escalating power levels applied to gastronomy.

Watch it for

the genuinely creative, well-researched cooking battles that turn recipes into shonen-style showdowns.

Maybe skip if

you find the constant exaggerated, fanservice-heavy food reactions tiresome rather than funny.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Season 12015
8.27K269h 57m
Ever since he was a child, fifteen-year-old Souma Yukihira has helped his father by working as the sous chef in the restaurant his father runs and owns. Throughout the years, Souma developed a passion for entertaining his customers with his creative, skilled, and daring culinary creations. His dream is to someday own his family's restaurant as its head chef. Yet when his father suddenly decides to close the restaurant to test his cooking abilities in restaurants around the world, he sends Souma to Tootsuki Culinary Academy, an elite cooking school where only 10 percent of the students graduate. The institution is famous for its "Shokugeki" or "food wars," where students face off in intense, high-stakes cooking showdowns. As Souma and his new schoolmates struggle to survive the extreme lifestyle of Tootsuki, more and greater challenges await him, putting his years of learning under his father to the test.
The Second Plate2016
8.53K165h 12m
The qualifiers of the Autumn Elections are now over, and only eight talented chefs remain. Now, they face off in one-on-one food wars, each with their own unique themes. Met with both new judges and new opponents all with their own specialties, Souma must stay on his toes if he hopes to make it to the top of both the Autumn Elections and Tootsuki Culinary Academy.
The Third Plate2017
8.24K2424m
The Moon Festival is Tootsuki Academy's annual gourmet gala, where students compete against each other to earn the most profit through selling their cuisine of choice. But for Souma Yukihira, it is also his first opportunity to challenge the Elite Ten, the supreme council that rules over the academy. However, this is only the beginning of Souma's war against the Elite Ten; a nefarious plot is underway that will provide Souma with the challenge he desires but will also shake the very foundations of Tootsuki Academy itself.
The Fourth Plate2019
8.12K1223m
At Tootsuki Culinary Academy, a heated eight-on-eight Shokugeki known as the Régiment de Cuisine rages on between Central and the rebel forces led by Souma Yukihira and Erina Nakiri. Though they won a stunning perfect victory in the first bout, the rebels face an uphill battle ahead, as they must now face off against the rest of the Elite Ten Council. With the future of Tootsuki at stake, Souma and Erina must push far beyond the limits of their abilities, using everything they learned from their mentors and ultimately drawing from their experiences cooking together as friends.
The Fifth Plate2020
7.62K132h 18m
Souma has now moved up a grade and he has finally grasped what he has always hoped for; the first seat at the Totsuki Ten Masters Council. Things are getting back to normal for Soma and his friends, but that doesn't mean there's a break for them. Exams are looming, a suspicious new teacher shows up, and in the meantime, an invitation to a world-class cooking competition known as "BLUE" arrives to Totsuki. "BLUE" is one of the most authentic gastronomic tournaments for young chefs seeking fame. However, there's been a change to this year's system and themes are all out of ordinary!

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Kappei Yamaguchi Yuki
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka Soma Yukihira
Minami Takahashi Megumi Tadokoro
Maaya Uchida Yuki Yoshino
Ai Kayano Ryoko Sakaki
Natsuki Hanae Takumi Aldini
Kengo Kawanishi Shoji Sato, Male Student
Saori Oonishi Hisako Arato, Madoka Enomoto, Hisato Arato
Junichi Yanagita Daigo Aoki, Customer, Male Student
Shizuka Ishigami Ikumi Mito

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