# Food Wars Shokugeki No Soma Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma is a Japanese cooking-themed shonen manga and anime about a young chef battling his way through an elite culinary academy, notorious online for its over-the-top reaction scenes where characters react to food in sexually charged 'foodgasm' poses. The manga launched in Weekly Shonen Jump in November 2012 and its anime adaptation began streaming on Crunchyroll in April 2015, becoming a widely memed staple of anime fan communities. ## Overview Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma is a Japanese cooking-themed shonen manga and anime that follows Soma Yukihira, a diner cook's son who enrolls at Totsuki Culinary Academy, an elite school where only 1% of students graduate[1]. The plot centers on Yukihira climbing the ranks toward the Elite Ten council through 'shokugeki', formal cooking duels judged by tasters who evaluate each dish[3]. Online, the series became a fixture of anime meme circles less for its plot beats and more for its signature reaction scenes, where judges tasting a dish are drawn in exaggerated, sexually charged poses often called 'foodgasms'[3]. This fanservice framing of food, combined with actual recipe detail, gave the show its distinct online identity and made screencaps easy to share out of context[1]. ## How It Spread After its Crunchyroll debut, Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma built an active English-language fandom around its cooking duels and reaction gags. Follow-up seasons kept the momentum going, with season two airing between July 2nd and September 24th, 2016, and season three running from October 4th to December 20th, 2017[1]. Critical reception on aggregator sites helped legitimize the series alongside its meme footprint. It holds a rating of 8.5/10 on MyAnimeList from over 351,000 users and 8.3/10 on IMDb, and Anime News Network gave positive reviews to episodes 15 through 24[2][4]. In Japan, the manga was ranked number 12 in the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Male Readers survey and number three in the 2014 Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics list[3]. The fandom's online footprint grew alongside the show. A subreddit dedicated to the series, r/ShokugekiNoSoma, gathered over 25,000 subscribers, and a devoted Wikia became a hub for character and recipe info[5][6]. YouTube analysis channel Mother's Basement covered the show on November 10th, 2017, and a fourth season was confirmed for spring 2018[3][7]. ## How to Use The most common meme use pulls a screencap of a judge or side character in mid-foodgasm and pairs it with a caption about tasting something absurdly mundane[3]. Reaction images from Yukihira and rival chefs also circulate as generic 'this dish slaps' or 'this cooking is unhinged' responses on anime Twitter and Reddit threads[6]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Food Wars Shokugeki No Soma? It's a Japanese cooking-themed shonen manga and anime about Soma Yukihira, a young chef competing at the elite Totsuki Culinary Academy through cooking duels called shokugeki[3]. ### Where did Food Wars Shokugeki No Soma come from? The manga started as a one-shot in Weekly Shonen Jump in April 2012 before beginning weekly serialization that November, created by Yuto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun Saeki[1]. ### What does Food Wars Shokugeki No Soma mean? 'Shokugeki' translates roughly to 'food war', the name for the formal cooking duels at the fictional Totsuki academy where students wager things on the outcome of a dish[3]. ### How do you use Food Wars Shokugeki No Soma? Fans typically share screencaps of the show's exaggerated 'foodgasm' reaction scenes as captions about eating something surprisingly good, along with clips of shokugeki duels on Reddit and anime Twitter[6]. ### Is Food Wars Shokugeki No Soma still popular? The series holds a strong 8.5/10 rating on MyAnimeList from over 351,000 users and its subreddit passed 25,000 subscribers, keeping it a classic reference in anime meme circles[2][5]. ## References 1. [https://myanimelist.net/anime/28171/Shokugeki_no_Souma]() 2. [https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/GY8VEQ95Y/food-wars-shokugeki-no-soma]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/food-wars-shokugeki-no-soma]() 4. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4508790/]() 5. [https://shokugekinosoma.fandom.com/wiki/Shokugeki_no_Soma_Wiki]() 6. [https://www.reddit.com/r/ShokugekiNoSoma/]() 7. [https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16816]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/food-wars-shokugeki-no-soma Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library