TITLE: Food Wars! – Shokugeki no Soma Vol. 24
YEAR: June 2018 (US Release)
COMPANY: Vertical Comics
STORY BY: Yuto Tsukuda
ART BY: Shun Saeki
CONTRIBUTOR: Yuki Morisaki
The stakes are high… The Resistance vs. members of Azami Nakiri’s Council of 10. If the Resistance loses, not only are they all expelled from the Academy but Soma’s father, Joichiro must work under Azami Nakiri forever.
If the Resistance win, they take over the Council of 10.
But because this is a Team Shokugeki, they must work as a team but is it enough to defeat the Council of 10?
And who will take part in the Resistance as many people have been expelled? Find out in vol. 24 of “Food Wars! -Shokugeki no Soma”!
What is “Food Wars! – Shokugeki no Soma” about?
In 2012, writer Yuto Tsukuda and artist Shun Saeki created their manga series “Shokugeki no Soma” which continues to be serialized in “Weekly Shonen Jump”.
The manga was voted #3 in the Nationwide Bookstore Employees “Recommend Comics of 2014” in Japan and voted #12 in the 2014 “Kono Manga ga Sugoi!” Top 20 Manga for Male Readers survey and continues to be a popular series in Japan.
With a total of eight tankobon volumes released in the U.S., Viz Media will be releasing the first manga volume titled “Food Wars! – Shokugeki no Soma” in North America in August 2014.
The series revolves around a young teen named Soma Yukihara who works for his father, chef Joichiro Yukihira, at their local restaurant.
Trained to cook at an early age and known for trying to combine various foods together as experiments, Soma has been known to cook dishes that make people feel they have tasted the best food ever to touch their tastebuds. But his goal is to someday beat his father in cooking.
But with landsharks trying to get control of the land to build condo units where the restaurant is located, one day while returning to the restaurant, everything inside is removed.
While Soma wants to rebuild, his father tells him that he will be closing the restaurant for two or three years to travel and as for Soma, he is enlisted in Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute where the elite of the elite attend and less than 10% of its students ever graduated.
But his father gives Soma a stern message, if he can’t make it at Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute, he will never beat him.
Determined to prove to his father that he can graduate as an elite cook, Soma is still looked down by his fellow students and faculty because unlike them, he is not wealthy and his family did not own a four or five star restaurant.
But Soma is determined to prove them wrong.
In volume 24,the stakes are high… The Resistance vs. members of Azami Nakiri’s Council of 10. If the Resistance loses, not only are they all expelled from the Academy but Soma’s father, Joichiro must work under Azami Nakiri forever.
If the Resistance win, they take over the Council of 10.
But because this is a Team Shokugeki, they must work as a team but is it enough to defeat the Council of 10?
And who will take part in the Resistance as many people have been expelled?
As a big fan of manga series about food and the culinary industry, “Food Wars! -Shokugeki no Soma” is a series that I absolutely enjoy.
For one, you have an antagonist that was cooking since he was young, often experimenting on different foods, even know that all his combinations are not always successful. But he also was brought up in a family restaurant and has to attend a school of elitist who think their food is the greatest and that they are more refined because they are wealthy.
So, it’s pretty awesome to see how far these people will put him down and until they eat his food, their reaction, and probably this may be the best word to describe their reaction to his food as “orgasmic”.
With the 24th volume, wanting to teach the group about the teamwork needed in a Team Shokugeki, it’s Joichiro’s team (with Soma Yukihira and Erina Nakiri) vs. Gin Dojima’s team (with Takumi Aldini and Megumi Tadokoro) and once all is done, the selection stage of who will represent the Resistance vs. the Council of 10 and it will be a battle between 8-members.
But which four people can Soma recruit considering many people have been expelled?
Find out who will join the Resistance in vol. 24!
Featuring wonderful artwork by Shun Saeki and an exciting storyline by Yuto Tsukuda, this is a buildup to the Team Shokugeki!
Overall, “Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma” is a magnificent manga for those who love cooking, cooking competitions and with volume 24, it’s the preparation and the recruitment of who will compete in the Team Shokugeki between the resistance vs. the Council of Ten!