Warner Bros. Japan is handling the home video release for the third season of Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma on DVD and Blu-ray for its home territory. This season is a split-cour one with the first half previously announced as a twelve-episode box set that landed on March 28th, 2018. The second set is now scheduled as part of the spring season and it’s set for a July 11th, 2018 release for the thirteen episode run. While the first half previously got a DVD listed, this one has only the Blu-ray set, which is priced at 18,000 yen. The Blu-ray set has it spread across seven discs plus the original soundtrack CD included.
Check out our review of the first season.
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?!
Third Season:
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| Box 1 | 03/28/18 | Soundtrack CD, Clean Opening, Clean Closing |
| Box 2 | 07/11/18 | Clean Opening, Clean Closing, Cast Video, Audio Commentary |
Second Season:
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 09/28/16 | Drama CD 1, Clean Opening, Clean Closing, Audio Commentary |
| 2 | 10/26/16 | Drama CD 2, Audio Commentary |
| 3 | 11/23/16 | Soundtrack CD 1, Audio Commentary |
| 4 | 12/28/16 | Drama CD 3, Audio Commentary |
| 5 | 01/25/17 | Drama CD 4, Audio Commentary |
| 6 | 02/22/17 | Drama CD 5, Audio Commentary |
| 7 | 03/29/17 | Audio Commentary |
| DVD-Box | 11/23/16 | Clean Opening, Clean Closing, Audio Commentaries (7) |
First Season:
| Volume | Date | Extras |
|---|---|---|
| Box 1 | 11/08/17 | |
| Box 2 | 12/13/17 | |
| 1 | 07/29/15 | Original Soundtrack, Clean Opening, Clean Closing, Audio Commentary |
| 2 | 08/26/15 | Original Soundtrack, Clean Opening, Clean Closing, Audio Commentary |
| 3 | 09/30/15 | Drama CD, Clean Opening, Clean Closing, Audio Commentary |
| 4 | 10/28/15 | Drama CD, Mouse Pad, Audio Commentary, Live Action Bonus Materials |
| 5 | 11/25/15 | Original Soundtrack, Audio Commentary, Live Action Bonus Materials |
| 6 | 12/23/15 | Drama CD, audio commentary, mouse pad (BD only), Live Action Bonus Materials |
| 7 | 01/27/16 | Drama CD, audio commentary, poster |
| 8 | 02/24/16 | Drama CD, audio commentary |
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[Source: Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma]
