“Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma” is a magnificent manga for those who love cooking, cooking competitions and with volume 23, the answer to why Soma’s father, Joichiro, mysteriously left Totsuki Academy is finally revealed!
© 2012 by Yuto Tsukuda, Shun Saeki. All Rights Reserved.
MANGA TITLE: Food Wars – Shokugeki no Soma Vol. 23
STORY AND ART BY: Story by Yuto Tsukuda and Art by Shun Saeki
FIRST PUBLISHED IN JAPAN: SHUEISHA, Inc.
PUBLISHED IN USA BY: VIZ Media, LLC/Shonen Jump Manga
RATED: T for Older Teen
RELEASE DATE: April 3, 2018
Dropping all pretense of being fair, the Azami administration has now declared that to pass the third stage of the advancement exam, Soma and the members of the resistance must each defeat a Council of Ten member. And what will everyone think when it comes to light that Dean Azami’s real motivation for overthrowing the institute is Soma’s own father, Joichiro?!
The conclusion of Soma vs. Hayama – Who wins?
And since “Food Wars! – Shokugeki no Soma” was created, there were always questions of what happened to Soma’s father and why the most talented chef at the Academy suddenly quit school. And the relation to Soma’s father and Alice Nakiri’s father, Azami.
All is revealed in vol. 23 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 23, we find out who wins in the conclusion of Soma’s matchup against Hayama, but also we find out which student chefs from Polaris won their cooking matchups and who will get expelled.
But for the longest time, many wondered why Soma’s father, Joichiro, who was the most talented chef back in the academy and was renown for his dishes, would quit the Academy and throw everything all away just to run a local restaurant.
And now, Joichiro’s history at Totsuki Academy is revealed!
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 23rd volume, Soma’s competition against Hayama has come an end, which one of them won? And also, how are the others of Polaris and members of the Resistance are doing with their matchups.
And the result would lead to one person making his return to the academy, Soma’s father Joichiro, the most talented chef of Totsuki Academy who one day quit the Academy with no explanation.
But with this latest volume 23, all is finally revealed!
Featuring wonderful artwork and an exciting storyline, this is a rematch that no one wants to miss!
Overall, “Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma” is a magnificent manga for those who love cooking, cooking competitions and with volume 23, the answer to why Soma’s father, Joichiro, mysteriously left Totsuki Academy is finally revealed!