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madokasoratsugu · 5 years

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im new to shokugeki and i dont care about spoilers, why is it bad?

a no joke answer bc u deserve this:

tl;dr Shokugeki sucks because it lost its direction halfway through the story, and when Tsukada (the author) realised that he’d bitten off more than he could chew with such a huge cast of characters.

long answer:

here’s the thing. Shokugeki started out good.

it mostly played off the usual shounen tropes: a challenger would appear, but then they quickly joined the friendship circle, rinse and repeat. but with such a wide cast of characters with differing goals and personalities plus the high stakes of only the top 10% graduating, it made it easy to bank on the character interactions and friendships, which is what the first half of Shokugeki did, heavily so. and it worked !

it was a simple set up (protag aims to beat his dad in a cook off, goes to cooking school, meets friends and foes ! a tournament arc ! fun and shenanigans ! yay!), but Shokugeki did it good. it didn’t subvert any expectations, just did according to what it set out to do. nothing felt exaggerated beyond the typical manga stuff, and everything achieved was earned with hard work. with the occasional fluff and friends thrown in, it became a comfy mix for a good shounen manga.

if anything, id say that half the success came from the character’s relationships themselves - the plot wasn’t anything special, but the genuinity that the characters and their friendships and goals (shared or not) were treated with were wholesome and fun.

which is why it was so fucking jarring when it derailed by throwing aside half of its cast and completely stagnating all character development for the remaining half.

(insert infamous Central Arc expulsion joke here)

if you’ve started/are intending to start, id say its the most obvious after the Moon Banquet Festival Arc/beginning of Central Arc. the writing started getting sloppy, as did the handling of the characters. ive mentioned this before, and ill stress this again: i honestly believe that Central Arc is when Tsukada realised what a big miss steak he did in creating such a huge cast, and in the face of Shokugeki’s then success, made some poor authorial choices to keep the hype going (both plot and character wise).

for characters: half the cast was rid of via expulsion, including very competent chefs (which had no proper in canon explanation on how the fuck that happened) who happened to be fan favourites. i mean, Hayama Akira ? fuck, Nakiri Alice, anyone ? plus any poor remaining characters got shafted in lieu of Souma, hard. this became more prominent as the Arcs slowly go on, the ones of which took the worst brunt of it being Takumi and Megumi.

(what do u think is worse. your fav never getting a cameo or your fav being part of the forefront team but constantly getting fucked over because Souma didn’t get the spotlight of the chapter yet. vote now in the replies.)

for plot: higher and higher stakes were introduced that again, just didn’t make sense !! in Central Arc, Souma was expected to win against Eishi, the best chef in his entire school. when two arcs prior he just lost a cooking contest to two of his peers (placed third), and one arc prior struggled to beat Kuga in ticket sales (even then he didn’t win because his cooking was better, so. wasnt even a win on the cooking front). there was no build up ! NOT EVEN A TRAINING ARC. he just went straight from the bottom rung of the ladder to the fucking ceiling. super different from the first half of the series when everything would be shown in careful detail (best example i can think of off the top of my head being the Shokugeki against Mimasaka in the Autumn Election Arc).

also: in the midst of introducing Erina’s character arc and backstory, Tsukada seemed to completely forget (or maybe just didnt know how to link back?) that he’d already established an overarching plotline: Souma’s quest to best Jouichirou. so when Souma began overthrowing these foes that are his seniors said to be leagues ahead of him, the suspension of disbelief was stretching waaay thin. but hey ! its a shounen manga ! we can forgive this much (sarcasm).

then Tsukada introduces Asahi. mother fucking Asahi. who is basically introduced by beating Jouichirou without breaking a sweat, but oh boy did he break the suspension of disbelief right then and there and completely toss the plot into the fucking fire. because there’s no end goal anymore ! the one thing that our main character has been working so hard for ? non existent. pointless. this no name (at that time) character has done it, pack your bags boys, let’s go home.

(might i note that at this point, Shokugeki was also uuhh nothing like the slice of life comedy it originally was. it became an action-psychological mix that just…doesnt work. and i mean. of course it wouldn’t. there was no foreshadowing, the villians can’t be taken seriously because 1) theyre also teenagers for fuck’s sake 2) Azami’s just a creep, plain and simple. he has no depth. no one cares about an antagonist who’s bad at just being bad.

the themes it began with was completely set aside for really badly written character backstories and angsty edgey bs that i still don’t understand why Tsukada thought would work in retaining hype. especially when considering how pure the premise was.

i honestly also think that its the Blue Arc + Dark Chefs Arc when Tsukada actually realised that his plot had gone haywire, since volume sales were dropping hard and fans clearly hated the direction the series had gone in. but instead of trying to reign it back in, he decided to just let it run buckwild because he just didn’t know how to fix it.)

to rub salt into the wound: so many promised resolutions are shoved into the background, done offscreen, or worse yet, forgotten ! scenes that fans have literally been waiting for. Souma VS Erina Shokugeki. Souma VS Takumi Shokugeki. Nakiri Alice coming back to the series and actually fucking cooking again.

(im sure that there’s more that lead to its downfall but like. shrugs. this is mainly to me why it sucks: it had A Lot going for it (im not ashamed to admit that at one point i actually genuinely believed it could be one of the next Big 3 on Shounen Jump), and it just didnt live up to any of it for no other reason other than Tsukada mixing elements of a story that didn’t work well together, tried to force them to work, and did nothing to fix it when it didn’t.)

so our plot is gone. so are our lovable characters. so is the slice of life comedy that drew most people in in the first place. the potential that it had is now dust. what does Shokugeki have left that makes it unique, that makes people love it ? here’s the answer !

nothing.

that fact kicks you in the teeth every fucking time you remember how good the first half of the series was.

then that fact dropkicks you when you realise that Shokugeki no Soma literally started on a 90degree drop into a dumpster fire when the series was at the apex of its popularity and plot buildup.

that’s why it sucks.

#shokugeki no soma #shokugeki no souma #shokugeki still sucks. change my mind.#shady business #long post

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imagineproduce101 · 7 years

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Hwang Minhyun Harry Potter AU

everyone at hogwarts has heard of hwang minhyun but not that many people have ever really seen him

you, a simple hufflepuff, are definitely no exception

your best friend says she once saw him in the kitchens with kang dongho

you were like

“seems fake but ok”

yeah lmao it wasnt fake

one time at like 3am you couldn’t sleep so you went to the kitchens to get a cup of tea

and you didn’t have your contacts in so you couldn’t really see

so you’re just standing there in the kitchens blindly sipping your tea

when you hear kang dongho go “uh, (y/n)?”

you kinda rub your eyes and squint and dongho and minhyun are sitting there eating pizza and staring at you

“uhhhhhhhh”

you realize that you’re standing there in your huge hufflepuff t-shirt and short-shorts and you turn bright red

like you don’t know dongho that well even though he’s only a year older than you

and you’ve seen minhyun like ONCE

“sorry, i’ll be going now”

you’re speeding away and trying not to die of embarrassment

and you could have SWORN you heard minhyun go “who’s that, they’re kinda cute”

whatever its not like hes drop dead gorgeous or anything

anyways that was the first time you saw hwang minhyun

the second time was at the beginning of your fifth year

you were selected to be a hufflepuff prefect

go you

anyways

the prefects are all expected to meet on the hogwarts express

so you get there w/kang daniel, the other hufflepuff prefect

minhyun is there just kind of lounging gracefully

you’re the only new prefect that year so you kind of just sit there awkwardly while yoon jisung, the head boy, explains everything

and when he informs you that your night patrol partner is minhyun you almost pop a blood vessel

“let’s have fun, (y/n)~”

you thought that having weekly night patrol with minhyun would be awkward or scary but he’s actually a total gentleman

you were patrolling the underground hallways near the slytherin dungeon and it got kind of chilly so he went to his dorm and grabbed you a sweatshirt

it smelled nice as fuck

he’ll ask you about your day and how your classes/owls are going

you guys become pretty good friends from all the time you’ve spent together

and it’s not like awkward or uncomfortable at all around him

just an all around wholesome guy tbh

he knows that you struggle in potions so sometimes he’ll stop by the classroom and send you a wink since you have class when his free period is

your friends tease you mercilessly about that

you guys have the night patrol on halloween and you end up having to break up aprox. 431895 couples from making out in hallways/closets

its kind of embarrassing tbH

then the yule ball is approaching

all your friends have dates and ur like excuse you what happened to friendship and solidarity how could you betray me like this

you complain about this to minhyun during patrol one night and he kind of stops and looks down at you

“you should go with me then”

and youre like excuse you

“we would be a real-” he punches your arm gently “-hit”

you glare at him for a bit before accepting

the dance is fucking amazing first of all

he collects you from the hufflepuff dorm wearing the world’s most amazing dress robes

dad jokes to daddy real quick (cannot believe i just typed those words out)

he does the thing ™ where he offers u his arm and you tuck your arm under his

and you feel the butterflies 🌚

everyone is like holy fuck is that hwang minhyuN

is that HWANG MINHYUN WITH (Y/N)

behind the two of you dongho and ren are like

iS tHaT hWanG MinHyUn wItH Y/n

because minhyun has been talking about his crush on you for like 20 years

he’s a gr8 dancer and super courteous the entire night

some sidehoe first year named seonho tries to steal ur man lmao not tonight girlie

you don’t wear fancy shoes often so they pinch your feet and he whips out this Pain-Relieving Potion from his pocket

“the boy scout’s motto is always be prepared, so here i am”

you make fun of him because he was never actually a boy scout

when the night ends he takes you back to your dorm

you’re standing near the painting of the fruit and he kind of half-smiles at you

and you quickly hug him and thank him for such a nice night

he’s a gentleman obviously so he lets you head off to your dorm bc he doesn’t want to overstep his boundaries

somewhere in the back of his mind he can hear dongho and ren chorusing “iS tHaT hWanG MinHyUn wItH Y/n “

“Y/N, wait”

he jogs up to you and does the classic kdrama wrist grab™

the two of you kind of stare at each other and lean in?

and youre like five cm away from each other??????

and hes like can i kiss you?

“are you fucking stupid, would i be this close to you if i didn’t want you to kiss me?”

minhyun laughs, super relieved, before leaning in all the way to kiss you

dating slytherin minhyun is adorable

you guys are the poster children for the hufflepuff/slytherin relationship

if minhyun hears someone starting gossip about you, you can bet that you’ll be hearing some nasty rumor about that person in like two hours

if you see someone being rude or casting a stupid hex at minhyun just because he’s a slytherin, your wand is out and house points are going to be docked, because no one does that to my boyfriend

you two are fiercely loyal to each other and will stick up for each other no matter what

and neither one of you are too into pda but you ARE into cuddles

cuddles in the slytherin common room

cuddles in his dorm

cuddles on the way to hogsmeade

yall just hecka cute ok

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