Warner Bros. Japan continues to do some solid promotion for the Food Wars! series and they’ve got another live action piece out that we hope makes its way to the North America home video releases eventually. This one brings us to Animate after a bit of time at the offices where we get to see some cosplayers doing some promotion at the store for the series.
It also leaps elsewhere to give fans a look at the different kinds of promotion that goes on for the show when it comes to the home video releases. It’s definitely interesting to see some of the prominent displays out there – and some of the selfie potential for it as well.
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, Yūsuke Kobayashi as Zenji Marui, Ai Kakuma as Mayumi Kurase, Rina Hidaka as Urara Kawashima, Banjo Ginga as Senzaemon Nakiri and Rikiya Koyama as Joichiro Yukihira.
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?!
The girl cosplaying Nikimi…I don’t think they sell everything off the shelf that she’s using for that role (purchased surgery, OTOH…). Nice bit. Later on you have cosplay of Souma and Aldini, all narrated and interviewed by, I believe, Megumi’s seiyuu, Minami Takahashi.