2016 cooking story, shounen manga adaptation in 13 episodes:
AniDB, vt
"Food Wars: The Second Plate". Yukihira Sōma continues to fight
cooking duels on his way up the élite Totsuki cooking school.
The first ten episodes of this season throw the viewer straight
into a continuation of the duel sequence established at the end of the
first season: Sōma continues to battle his way up the ladder, with
occasional matches between other people, and extended flashbacks to
show how each person got to where they are now. This time we do get
some idea of how Sōma prepares for the battles, being given a theme
some time in advance, but the sports anime template continues to be
the one on which the show is built.
There's less of the other stuff, which is a pity; but the final three
episodes feature the "Stagiare", in which the students are sent out to
work at restaurants and have to "leave their mark" in some way, and
that I found rather more interesting and worthy of more attention than
it got. It's all pretty rushed, though; the first season got through
seven volumes of manga in 24 episodes, while this covers the same page
count in just 13, and there's a constant sense that there's more
material which the show just doesn't have time to cover.
It's still fun, but the last few episodes are distinctly better than
the body of the series; there's only so much one can say about
competitive cooking designed to load as much as possible into the
first bite, as opposed to real cooking where the whole dish is meant
to be consumed.
No sequel has been announced, though there's plenty more of the manga.
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