Cheesy Reviews

Media Name: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma The Fifth Plate Media Type: TV Series Season: 5 Episode Count 13 Release Year: 2020 Series Director:  Yoshitomo Yonetani Production Company: J.C. Staff English Network: Crunchyroll Finished Watching: 20th November 2022 My Rating: 6/10 So this was the final season of Food Wars and given my thoughts on the previous season , I was expecting to hate this one. I'd have to say that this one was a step-up but not as good as the first few seasons. While it introduced more slice-of-life stuff that was missing from season 4 and I found BLUE to be quite fun to watch, it was still quite flawed. The new villain of the series felt shoe-horned in and could be really annoying half of the time. The first two episodes also sucked with the second episode being my least favourite in the entire series. The ending also kinda blew with it not really wrapping up stuff as good as it could have done. The new villain group also felt like a pointless addition. Overal...

Media Name: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma The Fourth Plate Media Type: TV Series Season: 4 Episode Count 12 Release Year: 2019 Series Director:  Yoshitomo Yonetani Production Company: J.C. Staff English Networks: Crunchyroll, Toonami Finished Watching: 18th November 2022 My Rating: 4/10 Given the fact that I have given the rest of the show  positive reviews, I expected to also give this one a positive review. Unfortunately, I didn't like this season. This season felt overstuffed with Shokugeki's leaving very little room for slice of life character development. And obviously, more Shokugekis means more of the worst part of the show, the fanservice.. It may seem dumb to complain about fanservice in an ecchi show but there was way too much during this season. Sometimes it felt like Souma's friends were flanderized as well since they felt less like characters and more like just his supporters. I'd have to say though that despite this being a bad season, the last 3 episodes ...

Media Name: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma The Third Plate Media Type: TV Series Season: 3 Episode Count 24 + 1 OVA Release Year: 2017-2018 Series Director:  Yoshitomo Yonetani Production Company: J.C. Staff English Networks: Crunchyroll, Toonami Finished Watching: 14th November 2022 My Rating: 8/10 The start of this season made me kind of worry that the show was getting repetitive but thankfully the introduction of Central proved me wrong as they brought new opposition to the table that kept it fresh and interesting. I also felt that the Train arc adding in the adults opposing the main characters was fun to watch as well. Azami is also a great villain and helped to increase the cast. I also really liked the OPs. Other than those points, it was partially more of the same from seasons 1 and 2 . My only problems were that Momo's inclusion felt uncomfortable at times and it felt unnatural to end it right in the middle of a new tournament. Overall I really enjoyed this season and I wou...

Media Name: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma The Second Plate Media Type: TV Series Season: 2 Episode Count 13 + 2 OVAs Release Year: 2016 Series Director:  Yoshitomo Yonetani Production Company: J.C. Staff English Networks: Hi-Dive, Toonami Finished Watching: 30th October 2022 My Rating: 8/10 This season contained both more of what I enjoyed and some of what I didn't like from  the first season . The animation, characters and writing were still really good. Not only that but it also featured a new tournament setting which I found to be really fun and added to the season. The new OP and ED were also both great and I enjoyed listening to them. It was also nice to see characters like Alice Nakiri and Akira Hayama get more screen time after only being introduced in the first season. There was also way less ecchi content in this season which I was glad about. Overall, this was a great season and continued to build upon what the first season started.

Media Name: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma The First Plate Media Type: TV Series Season: 1 Episode Count 24 + 2 OVAs Release Year: 2015 Series Director:  Yoshitomo Yonetani Production Company: J.C. Staff English Networks: Hi-Dive, Toonami Finished Watching: 17th October 2022 My Rating: 8/10 I originally decided not to watch this anime since it's ecchi and I don't like ecchi anime. That was until one of my friends told me it wasn't that bad in terms of content and he was right. I ended up really enjoying it. I really liked each of the characters and felt they were well-written. The music was really good with both OPs and EDs being really catchy. I felt that a lot of the jokes landed and I found them to be really funny. The animation looked great especially when they were cooking with the food looking on-par with Studio Ghibli food (unironically not as in the "How does Studio Ghibli always make food look delicious" meme). I also found myself to be really addicted to ...