A rumor has been circulating since last week that the Shonen Jump cooking manga "Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma" by Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki, will get an anime release in 2015, due to an excited tweet that was posted, and subsequently deleted, by the Gofuku office of the Yajimaya bookstores, according to Crunchyroll.
The cover of the November issue of Shueisha's Comic News magazine confirms this revelation, as reported by Anime News Network. Issue 49 of Weekly Shonen Jump has revealed the first color still from the anime.
The manga was first launched in a November 2012 issue of Shonen Jump, and was soon published in the U.S. by Viz Media as a graphic novel less than two years later. Despite the series being considered "a bit racy" by Viz, "Food Wars" has been announced as joining Shonen Jump's digital anthology lineup this week.
The series follows teen chef Soma Yukihira, who has been cooking since he was three years old. He has helped in his father's small family restaurant for years, and has never beaten him in a cooking contest, but when his old man suddenly closes the restaurant to travel the world as a chef, he sends Soma to an elite culinary school with a graduation rate of less than 10 percent, indirectly challenging him to graduate at the top of the class as a stepping stone to matching his cooking skills. Soma can create divine-tasting culinary masterpieces with dirt-cheap ingredients or even leftovers, but can he compete with the school's high-class students and their expensive ingredients? He's absolutely confident in his food, and he is going to need that confidence when the entire student body has targeted him for expulsion through high-stakes cooking competitions.
The new anime debuts in Japan in 2015, and fans are already waiting to "dig in."
"WARNING: This manga and anime are rated "OT" for "Older Teen," and should not be viewed by teens younger than age 16.
