While we’ve had a date or two floated, the formal premiere date for Food Wars! has finally arrived with confirmation via the official site. The series is now set to debut on April 3rd, 2015 on MBS, TBS and CBC with more broadcasters and dates to come. The series comes from the manga of the same name by Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki and we’ve seen a couple of TV spots so far, including one narrated by Risa Taneda, who is taking on the role of Erina Nakiri in the series that’s arriving in April 2015.
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. It’ll star Yoshitsugu Matsuoka as Soma Yukihira, Risa Taneda as Erina Nakir, Minami Takahashi as Megumi Tadokoro, Ikumi Mito as Shizuka Ishigami, Maaya Uchida as Yūki Yoshino, Ai Kayano as Ryōko Sakaki, Taishi Murata as Shun Ibusaki and Yūsuke Kobayashi as Zenji Marui.
The cast has also grown a bit through the site update as we now know that
Ai Kakuma as Mayumi Kurase
Rina Hidaka as Urara Kawashima
Banjo Ginga as Senzaemon Nakiri
Rikiya Koyama as Joichiro Yukihira
have joined the cast.
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: Official Site via Crunchyroll]