Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma (Japanese: 食戟のソーマ Hepburn: Shokugeki no Sōma, lit.

"Sōma of
the Shokugeki") is a Japanese shōnen manga series written by Yūto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun
Saeki. Yuki Morisaki also works as a Contributor, providing the recipes for the series. Individual chapters
have been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since November 26, 2012, with tankōbon volumes being
released by Shueisha. As of April 2019, 34 volumes have been released in Japan. The series is licensed by
Viz Media, who has been releasing the volumes digitally since March 18, 2014, and released the first
volume in print on August 5, 2014.[3]

An anime adaptation by J.C.Staff aired between April 3, 2015 and September 25, 2015. A second season
named Food Wars! The Second Plate aired between July 2, 2016 and September 24, 2016.[4][5] The first
cour of the third season, referred to as Food Wars! The Third Plate aired between October 4, 2017 and
December 20, 2017.[6] The second half aired between April 9, 2018 and June 25, 2018.[7]

Characters and Setting

See also: List of Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma characters

The series is set mainly at Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute, an elite culinary school located in Tokyo,
Japan, which only a handful of students graduate each year.[a] Its students mostly come from Totsuki's
junior high school, but transfers are taken provided they pass the entrance exam. The campus is a wide-
ranging resort with many research societies (clubs); cooking classrooms, and large arenas used for
competitions. Housing varies, but the most affordable is the Polaris Dormitory, where characters have to
impress the dorm matron with a dish in order to secure residence. Totsuki also runs a chain of resort
hotels; with the biggest being the Totsuki resort; run by Gin Dojima, which is visited during the course of
Soma's first year at Totsuki.

The top student chefs occupy seats on the Council of Ten Masters. Students can initiate a shokugeki with
any other student or alumni; a cooking fight with stipulations on the line. Battles fought in this way
could be for cooking utensils, research society facilities, council membership, or even expulsion from the
school.