The official Twitter account of the anime adaptation of Yuuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma) manga began streaming a new promotional video on Sunday. This new video reintroduces the main characters of the anime whilst introducing some of the newcomers making their debut in the second season. In addition to season 2, an OVA of the series, focusing on the Aldini brothers, will be bundled with the manga’s 18th volume, releasing in Japan on May 2nd.
The second season of the Shokugeki no Souma anime will begin its broadcast this July, during the Summer 2016 anime season.
Here’s the first promotional video for the second season:
Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma) is a comedy, ecchi cooking manga written by Yuuto Tsukuda, illustrated by Shun Saeki with Chef Yuki Mirosaki adding recipes to the manga. The series began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in late 2012 and to date has a total of 9 compiled volumes released, with the 10th volume releasing in Japan on November 4th. A light novel adaptation of the manga began in February this year in Shueisha’s Jump j-Books, written by Michiko Itou and illustrated by Saeki himself. The manga itself has sold over 2 million copies to date.
Here is a synopsis of the series from Haruhichan:
Yukihira Souma’s dream is to become a full-time chef in his father’s restaurant and surpass his father’s culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma’s fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?
You can visit the anime’s website here: http://shokugekinosoma.com/
And follow their Twitter: @shokugeki_anime
