16. The Cook Who Traveled Thousands of Miles
When Soma's father, Joichiro, suddenly shows up on Polar Star Dormitory's doorstep, Soma finds out that his father was an alum of Totsuki Academy and Polar Star Dormitory. Joichiro challenges Soma to a cooking duel to find out how far his son has come. How will the family duel end?
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Food Wars!
Shokugeki no Souma
Format:
Anime
Status:
Finished
Episodes:
24
Rating:
79
Studios:
J.C. Staff
Country:
JP
Duration:
25 min
Season:
SPRING 2015
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Takumi's Downtown Battle
This episode takes place sometime between the first season. The Aldini brothers head out for a trip to a tall skyscraper, where other students such as Alice, Ryo, and the boys from Polar Star Dormitory with the exception of Sōma are visiting too. There, they bump into Megumi, Ryoko, and Yoshino, the girls from Polar Star Dormitory and have lunch together at a traditional Japanese restaurant. When Isami requests for cheese with his rice, an old man scoffs at the Aldini brothers for not respecting Japanese culture, and Takumi requests a food battle with him. The former's food, although nostalgic, is lacking in skill compared to the Aldini brothers', and he confesses that Takumi reminded him of his daughter's fiancé, a blonde-haired foreigner, whom he objected strictly against her marrying. After a long day, the brothers return home.
Summer Vacation with Erina
This episode takes place sometime before the second season, before the Autumn Elections Preliminaries. Erina is at a loss for what to do during summer vacation after finishing her schedule early for the day, so Alice takes her to a public pool. There, Alice enjoys watching Erina embarrass herself with wearing an old coat, a bathing suit in public, and admitting that she admires someone. Alice also attempts to educate Erina on the concept of love despite not knowing about it herself. In the end, Erina decides to focus on perfecting her cooking instead of understanding love. Meanwhile, the girls at Polar Star Dormitory are practically dying from the summer heat and stress for the Autumn Elections Preliminaries, and make a few failed attempts to cool down until the boys, including the Aldini brothers and Ikumi, arrive and take them to a cool stream where they eat shaved ice, and then barbeque. Likewise, Jun is prepared to pass out from heat stroke until Hayama generously makes her some cold porridge with soup.
Autumn Moon's Chance Encounter
The Polar Star dorm residents, along with the Aldini brothers, Ikumi, Kurokiba, and Hayama, take a trip to the hot springs inn where Megumi did her Stagiaire. After a business trip, Alice, Erina and Hisako decide to go to the hot springs for a break, too. With all of the Inn's cooks suffering accidents, the Polar Star gang and the others took over the kitchen for the arriving guests: Erina, Alice and Hisako; who are impressed by the finely crafted meal supposedly made by amateurs, not knowing it is made by Tōtsuki students. Yukihira, intrigued by the legendary fish dubbed the 'River Master' in the nearby river, invites Kurokiba and Hayama to a fishing match Later at night, Megumi meets Erina in the hot springs bath.
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