Warner Bros. Japan is handling the promotion for the Food Wars! series and that means we get some pretty good little promos arriving on a regular basis. The latest is for the twenty-first episode of the series, which debuts on August 28th, 2015 in Japan. Crunchyroll is currently streaming the series outside of Japan and Sentai Filmworks has picked up the home video release for it.
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?!
It’s nice that they put on these previews, but it’s no more than what’s at the end of the episodes, and is available with subtitles at the end of each episode for those who catch their streaming on Crunchyroll.
I really like what GATE does, putting out an extended preview a few days after their last episode, giving a more detailed preview of what’s to come.