Food Wars! The Fifth Plate

After watching it until last episode, I know how disappointing this is, really. The story begins with the introduction of the arrival of summer, the students of Totsuki Academy must fight the first stage of the exam. After that, some teacher comes to Totsuki Academy, his name is Asahi. He's a ugly bastard who are interested with Nakiri's oppai.... And then the last tournament "BLUE" begins. The story of Souma's mom Now, what really caught the attention of the personal writer was the telling of the figure of Souma's mom. This is very interesting because in the previous seasons, the figure of Souma's mom has never even beenshown or even told, her figure seemed to have never even been thought of. So Souma's mom appearance in season 5 is very, very surprising. There are times when we feel hurt. There are times when we want to run from reality. There are times when we don't want to do anything. We can rest, we can stop but we cannot give up. If you can't get up, ask someone else for help. If we are already destroyed by our own mistakes, then wait for the right time to get back up. If you can't invite other people, walk side by side with them. This is the last season, I hope you can watch this final series and don't stop at the middle of the season. I know it is torturing you but an ending is not always tragic. If you already read manga, I beg you to don't miss this one, I know you are bored but to judge an anime before you watch it, isn't that weird?

Top 5 Fastest Runners: #5 — Asafa Powell #4 — Yohan Blake #3 — Tyson Gay #2 — Usain Bolt#1 — Shokugeki no Souma: Gou no Sara It is it, congratulations. The fifth season is very, VERY rushed, differently from the others season, on this one you don't even see they making foods, it looks like as the food magically appears on the table, understanding what and why they are doing is the essential part of a food anime, imagine MasterChef without the making of, just the results, it is a bad idea, isn't it? But it is basically what is happening here. Another very bad stuff that happened here was "superpower", or something like this, I don't even know what it is, it's like "The hidden power from the clan X, it has been passed down this clan for generations, using an axe instead of a knife", if the anime had introduced it since the beginning, there would be no problem, but the anime isn't about it, the author just created a new ability with no context. Imagine an anime like Monogatari, that at some point Araragi can now make Jutsu, it is bizarre, isn't it? Now many of yours could disagree with me, but there's something very annoying in my opinion, Foodgasm, and on this season it got worse, what is the point of this? In the beginning, it was okay, the people liked the food so much, that it was like an orgasm, but at this season, everyone around getting semi-naked... It looks like that the manga was getting less popular, so he put more fanservice, to make the buyers don't leave the manga. Now about the ending of the anime, if you don't want to get spoilers, skip this part [SPOILER] Comparing the final of the anime with the manga one, this one is a little bit better, just a tiny. Yukihira, after travelling around the world returned to Japan, meets Erina, and he makes a disgusting food to her, as always, after this disgusting food he says he'll make the best food in the entire world to her, and... it ends. It was good, bad? No one knows because it ended at this point. No romance, Erina never said she like his food, nothing happened! I'm not Open-End Hater, but this ending was awful. [END OF SPOILERS] This arc is horrible, the previous arc was really good, and the author just ruined it, very rushed, nonsense superpower, exaggerated fanservice and a terrible ending. But there's still something good about this anime, the characters are still wonderful, I like this art, but it is probably the unique good part of this anime.

I've never felt such a strong sadness after finishing a series. I've been sad at ending like Gurren Lagann and Banana Fish but this hits different. I feel dismayed. After 5 seasons of food battles, foodgasms, and ridiculous characters, Food Wars felt empty at the end for multiple reasons. This season felt like it got rid of any goodwill the show had left for me after season 4 and it tried its hardest. Let's start with Asahi because holy shit, this dude was an awful villian. Say what you will about Azami but he at least looked villainous and had the backstory of a villainbut Asahi? Fuck this dude. His whole power is insane and one of the dumbest things I've seen in an anime and his overall reasoning of wanting to marry Erina is at first, just corny and then they just throw another twist at the end that just makes his plot seem disgusting in hindsight. He was a bad villian, his reason for being a villian is dumb and he was just the worst. Then we have the worst sin for me and that's the usage of side characters. Listen, I like Soma, Erina, Megumi, and Aldini but that's not the whole fucking cast guys. Seriously, most of the other characters in this show barely showed up at all. It's so frustrating to watch the same characters (no matter how likable they are) when you know that there's more fun characters being wasted, Seriously, aren't Ryo and Akira supposed to be rivals to Souma and they didn't do shit for most of the season. Fuck, I forgot they existed. It's ridiculous and their replacements are garbage. The underworld chef idea was pretty weird to have in a show about teenage cooks trying to be the best chefs ever but it doesn't help when the show decided to add fucking supervillains like a Sargent who uses explosives to heat their food up, a clown that uses fucking juggling to cook and that's not to say their designs are stupid because they are. Finally, there's the animation. By this point, I'm beating a very dead horse but it still stands to reason that the animation in this was sub-par at best. They fucking reused multiple moments from other seasons in the episode so blatantly it was. amazingly shitty. I also realized just how little JC Staff really gave a shit about this season in the final episode when there was no big animation moment that supposed to look and it was just the same sub-par shitty quality. Nice JC. In the end, I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed. After how fantastic the first two seasons were, I was still excited for what the show had going for it. Then the third season happened and while it wasn't great, I still had hope. Even after Season 4, I was hoping that at the very least, it would go out on a high note. Nope. Not even that. It's frustrating, disappointed and just makes me sad. At the very least, I will hold those last two seasons in high regard. Thank you for that at least, JC Staff. Fuck this season though.

NO SPOILER REVIEW Wow. This has to be one of the biggest betrayals. Shokugeki was doing so well until this season through the whole story into the sewer and then pooped on it more. The pacing in this season is horrendous, everything is rushed and you barely see any of the meals being cooked. All you get are rushed reactions, rushed plots, and every previously made notion of characters destroyed. Animation, horrible. Merely a bunch of flashbacks or panning shots. Soundtrack, not bad, it's sad that the OP was wasted on this trash seasonCharacters, the season throws away all but 4 main characters, taking away any development that had previously existed. DO NOT WATCH if you haven't yet. It is a complete waste of time, COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME, and you're better ending the show with the end of Season 4.