Warner Bros. is handling the distribution of the anime adaptation of Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s manga Food Wars!, which means we’re going to see a lot of promotion for it in the coming months. They’ve streamed the first promo for it, which was seen previous at the Jump Special Anime Festa earlier in November, and adding it to the official site also netted us the formal confirmations of the main cast with Yoshitsugu Matsuoka signed on as the lead, Soma Yukihira along with Risa Taneda as Erina Nakir, Megumi Tadokoro as Minami Takahashi and Ikumi Mito as Shizuka Ishigami.
Directed by Yoshitomo Yonetani, the series is being animated at JC Staff with Shogko Yasukawa handling the scripts and Tomoyuki Shitaya working on the character design adaptations.
The series is currently running in Weekly Shonen Jump by Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki with ten volumes to its name so far. Viz Media publishes the manga in North America digitally and in print form.
Plot concept: Soma Yukihira’s old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his father’s culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one day, out of the blue, his father decides to enroll Soma in a classy culinary school!
Can Soma really cut it in a place that prides itself on a 10 percent graduation rate? And can he convince the beautiful, domineering heiress to the school that he belongs there at all?!
[Source: ANN]