Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma Episode 10 Review

The Heavenly Recette

The episode starts with all the remaining students in the processes of making the 50 dishes for the hungry athletes. We see every one quickly working and how many dishes they have left to make. Megumi's food is highly praised and it empowers her to keep going, but she still have 30 more to make, the most out of any one.
Soma, all done with his 50 dishes, is happily on his way to the bath. On the way he runs in to Erina, literally, knocking her on to the ground. The more he talks to her the more annoyed she gets, she didn't want any one to see her with all her guards down. She dislikes him so much she hates everything and anything that he says. Hisako then shows up, hurrying to catch up with Erina. Seeing Soma she freaks out. He explains that he pushed Erina on to the floor and she completely takes it the wrong way. Erina tries to correct her quickly. Soma leaves them and goes to the men's bathes. Hisako then tells Erina that the front desk did have cards that they could use. Remembering that Soma had also brought card she no longer wants to play with them. Confusing poor Hisako.
Soma Happily goes into the bath, thinking he'll he the only one there. But, Gin Dojima, an alumni, is there stretching. They easily to each other, each enjoying the conversation. Gin tell Soma that last year Satoshi was the first to finish. That makes Soma realizes that Erina finished before him. Gin tells him speed isn't everything. He then tells Soma about Erina.
She was raised on the best baby food the academy could offer. Giving review of it when she tasted it. When she was a child she tried different salts blind folded. She then told every one were each salt was from just by taking one taste. But, she is not in the top ten because of her "God Tongue" she is there because of her skill. Gin states that they created a monster because of how they treated her.
Takumi then bursts in yelling at Soma. Gin takes his leave and says good bey to Soma. Takumi is in shock at how Soma was interacting with Gin. Gin hears Soma's last name, Yukihira, for the first time and it gives him pause. He's heard that name else were.

The girls from Polar Star are all relaxing in the tub. Ryoko notice Megumi brought her rubber duck with her. Megumi says she thought he should see the world. Yuki comments on Ryoko's large breasts stating that the rice ma
lt must be the reason. Yuki is very happy to now be in 800,000 yen a night room.
The rest of the Polar Star residents join them and they enthusiastically play cards. Most of them fall asleep almost instantly. They rest of the students talk with each other. Megumi says she has become more comfortable in the kitchen cooking in front of other people. It is all because of Soma. She wants to keep going getting better and better.

The next scene is here getting fired during the cooking test the next day. We then go back in time to see what happened. Soma and Megumi are a waiting instructions for their next test. Kojiro Shinomiya is their teacher today. He gives a very hard vegetable recipe, Terre of Nine Vegtables, to cook. He also states that every one much cook it alone, they may not ask for
any help of any kind and should see their classmates as competition. Megumi is scared at first but tells her self she can do it. She gets to the cauliflower late and there are only discolored ones left, worried she almost asks Soma for help. Remembering the rules she thinks of something she can do by her self.

The students start to present their dishes. More fail, or get fired, then pass. Soma of course passes. When it is Megumi's turn she fails. She asks why, Kojiro says it is because she changed the resicpie to fix the discolored cauliflower. He says that is not allowed and so she is fired. Soma becomes pissed off and says it is Kojiro's fault for not providing good vegetables. Kojiro says that was on purpose to weed out the slow and uncareful. Soma becoming angrier is told if he doesn't back off he will be fired too. Megumi stops him from doing anything else. But, Soma then challenges Kojiro to a Shokugeki. If Soma wins Megumi will get to stay at the academy her expulsion resended.

I didn't like this episode as much as I have with the others. It focused more on the characters then the cooking aspect of the show. I like Megumi and I'm glad they are developing her some more, there was almost no cooking or explanation of the cooking at all. And, that is the main reason that I watch the show.
Also, I really hope that they don't do what most shonen does, is make a character fall in love with the main character only to have her heart broken because he ends up with some one else. I can see them making Soma and Erina end up falling in love. Because that is just like so many other anime. I really like Megumi and I can see her falling for Soma. I really don't want her heart to get broken.
Erina needs to get off her high horse. She hates Soma so much that she can't like any thing he says or does. Which is a huge character flaw and makes a boring character to watch. She even gives up playing a game with her friend because, Soma might play cards to. She is just tormenting her self so much because of hate. It's silly. She has been held so highly her whole life, because of her abilities and that has made her a spoiled brat.
Soma is such an airhead, he takes cooking seriously, but that is it. I find it unoriginal and more like some one just pasted Lufy from One Piece into this anime, rather then made a new character. It's kinda just lazy character development.
Of course you have to have the random girls in the bath scene. And of course they have to talk about their boobs. Contrary to what all anime, tells you girls to not just sit around going "oh your boobs are so big". I did like the ducky he's cute, I kinda want one.
I liked that Megumi must now stand on her own and I really with they had let her. She cooked well and didn't break under pressure, but Soma still has to save her. She didn't pass on her own. They just used it as a plot device to make Soma go into a Shokugeki with Kojiro. That's fine if you want to have an other Shokugeki, but don't just use a main character as a plot device. Or, a reason for an other character to have to fight. It's bad writing, it's not just bad it's poor writing. Also, an over used plot devise.

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