Yes the fight scene you see in the openings are usually symbolism to make the scene intense for the viewers. Mostly they are cooking food with their own unique way and battling to see who's the better chef. This anime is awesome and yeah it kinda get confusing after the first 2 openings where they actually show lots of food and them cooking realistically until op 3 onwards where they deviate from that and mostly portrays the battle or action scenes between characters which i previously mentioned just a symbolism where they actually just cooking great food.
Food Wars makes extensive use of "visual metaphor" because its a show about food and the sensations, memories, and emotions it evokes, and you can't exactly taste what is happening for yourself. Plus, if a particular dish in the show looks amazing, the comic its based on has recipes for most of them.
Thank u for the Food Wars OP reaction! Its a crazy show, but also an awesome one. As a Chef, i enjoyed watching this Show so much for the details it got on cooking that it even overcame my negative stand towards Shounen Anime.
I have been loving your reactions. I love food wars. It is about a school of chefs trying to be the best. The fight scenes in the openings are more symbolic of the cooking battles they have which are called food wars. It's a great show.
This is a very nice series that for me at least motivate me to cook delicious food. And yes, the fight scenes can be confusing only watching the opening, but the only real battle is a cooking competition. All the fights are just a way to make more exciting the showdown and it works
One of my favorite series of all time. It's all cooking competition while these images visualize feelings and emotions. It is a show with a lot of fanservice but to visualize the emotions the characters have. There are a lot foodgasms or food orgasms that show how much these people enjoy the food. It has rape scenes as well but for showing the taste and being in chains literally means addiction. Sometimes pretty intense but a good show to watch for almost all ages. Kids 8 to 11 can watch it but depends on how mature they are. 12+ is definitely right. A fun show to watch and the original manga is good to read as well with some differences and recipes to the dishes.
Man... I love seeing people who react to Shokugeki no Souma OP getting constantly more and more confused wether this is a cooking anime or a battle anime 😁
This show is awesome! The basic story is about students at an elite culinary school where they have to constantly battle it out in cooking competitions to prove their skills
So ya, it's basically Master Chef student edition, but over the top with Anime tropes. There's a term called "Shokugeki" which means "Food war", and it's basically a duel between 2 or more of these students. The bigger duels are held in a big open stadium with a giant screen up above, and there's judges watching the students "battle". It really feels like a fighting Anime, but they fight by cooking better food then their opponent. The biggest turn away from this show for most people is the excessive fan service, but I honestly think it's hilarious. The food is so good that it gives everyone who eats it a "foodgasm". There's never any full nudity, but you'll see underwear and lots of skin in this show.
Food Wars is such a great anime. If you ever do watch it, don't do it hungry, I learned that the hard way. This show is literally Hell's Kitchen mixed with a shounen tournament arc and it is awesome, trust anime to make a show about cooking into an intense and satisfying show with a lot of comedy, some mild erotica and a great story with likable characters who all have well made back stories that make you empathize with them and see how far they have come. I have also come to realize that Food Wars is the only anime I have ever seen that has NO plot convenience at all. Soma gets where he gets due to hard work and his cooking knowledge, NOTHING else. The story is not on his side and that honestly shocked me because this show goes in any direction it feels like.
Normally all the fight scenes are symbolism of the cooking duels. For example: 11:14 this scene represents a duel between those characters, and the bear is the ingredient they're using Bear meat
Man, this fantastic anime is about a food school and food competitions... the samurai, explosions, beasts, flying knvies, etc, are methaphorical images... like ''his food is like a samurai'' or something like that... watch it, you will love it and understand what i'm trying to say ^^
Food Wars ops are amazing for how they somehow destroy a person's ability to understand symbolism and metaphors and it always happens when the bear in Braver shows up.
yeah all the fights are just symbolism. For example when you noticed the giant bear behind the two characters as they punched each other that was there because they were competing to cook the better dish with bear meat. Things like that is why you get such weird imagery because it usually relates to how or what they are cooking.
"Last Chapter" reason it feels so different from the rest is tht the prev op from b4 was actually the story's conclusion; the author at the time finished wht he wanted to do with the story. But the publisher wanted him to make more (to squeeze more money of course). So sadly they gave him a shorter deadline, smaller budget and his assistant chef tht was helping him with the cooking part of the show left on maternal leave. So the story quality dropped and the cooking battles dropped in quality massively. So think of the final Op/season as a "After Story".
Hey man, thanks for this interesting reaction. If you want to understand this, think of it as Masterchef but more extreme and more diverse. This anime is a true feast for the eyes, and the imagery is their way of describing their way of encountering their ingredients as well as challenges.
If you watch this anime, A: Don’t do it on an empty stomach, the food looks so good you’ll have to go get food. And B: There’s some inventive nudity when folks are enjoying food. It’s definitely worth the watch in my opinion.
There is fighting but its only symbolic to the dishes they prepare and how the judges experience the food during a tournament called foodwars (forget what they called it in Japanese). Think of that old tv show The Iron Chef but a whole breakdown of the flavour from the judges is best described in a over the top foodgasem.
Think of everything weird you saw as a presentation of different types of cooking styles and taste in a visual style. The anime is about cooking competitions in a school where every conflict has to be decided by cooking duels. You might want to react to the endings as well, has some pretty good ones.
This is one of the most fun animes to watch and i’ve watched a ton (literally more than 100 at this point lol). It’s one of those anime’s that only gives you good vibes and inspires you to learn more about the core subject. (Similar to Haikyuu!! and World Trigger in that sense)
If you watch this you need to have something to eat either before or while watching because it WILL make you hungry. Also, you will be calling for the referee more times than you can count.
I know what you mean it was my favorite manga until the end. Like I thought it was gonna end like his dad told him how to be a great chef which was when he found someone special but now that I think about it they probably end like they did so shippers won't be mad lol
@@playeravigaming I honestly didn't manage to finish it. I stopped during the train arc, just started to get a tad boring. When he learns from the one guy during the training arc was peak for me.
@@nyarlathotep616 ohh well I just say that it ends almost like bleach, with a time skip but with nothing fulfilling like as if the author wanted to finish it already
If you think about it, the Promotion Exams Arc can be considered the end of the story, but the author wanted to do something more and ended up in terrible execution. Still, one of the most fun animes to watch imo.
this anime is a feast for your eyes :] the op is just heavy symbolism in whats happening e.g this chef is like a samurai cutting fish honestly tho its a good show altho later seasons get kinda meh but overall its a nice watch if u enjoy food and who doesnt (as long as ur fine w fanservice of food gasm n foodprn)
This series is genius in the aspect of making delicious food be capable of giving orgasms. Its genius if you ask me, turning the joy of food into orgasms.
Really love Shokugeki (Food Wars), but man I will always be a bit disappointed with how they chose to tie off the last few chapters. The very last handful of episodes kinda tossed away some of the big overarching character arcs and themes in the show at the 11th hour in an almost "Game of Thrones"-like way where you're left asking "Wait, why? Wouldn't it have made more sense to do 'X' instead?". One of those shows that's really genuinely great but somehow jumps the shark at the last possible second. Despite that, I still think it's worth a watch and is genuinely enjoyable, but it's definitely a "call the referee" show as you so like to say Gaz. So while it's got a unique premise and is a fun and enjoyable watch, the show does like to call attention to those succulent meats; and I'm not talking about the kinds you find at the grocery. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I actually _learned_ things about cooking from this show. I tried some of the techniques and ideas they showed during the show and they're _actually_ genuinely good pieces of advice and made really tasty food. All of the "fighting" scenes in the opening are - like you surmised - metaphorical symbolism for the "war" part of Food Wars. It's genuinely a good watch all around.
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