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Manga News/Discussion |OTY| Creatively Bankrupt

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dani_dc

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Shhhhhhh it's a secret
Best kept secret!
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phaze

Member
Historie is very good, but as a historical manga it can sometimes delve into "look at how much RESEARCH I did"

Historie is great. Why is it great? Because it has good flow, the main character is intelligent and charismatic, the events told center around some great historical characters and really, it's a great read. Everyone should give it a try, I highly recommend it.

Sounds good, will give it a shot, cheers !
 
shokugeki no soma

It set up the battlefield for us and has us eager to find out what he has got up his sleeve, and if it will be enough. I still think it's really strange that he decides to ignore the tenth and the ninth members, but I can still enjoy it.
 

Revo

Member
Gamble Fish 128-138

This is so insanely stupid.
But in the good, entertaining way.
God damn, I knew he wouldn't lose but I could totally see this manga killing Obama.
 

bigkrev

Member
Gakkyu Hotei (End)

Well that wrapped up in a super convenient, unsatisfying and unearned matter! Gold stars for everyone involved!
 
Caste Heaven 7
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Excellent color page for a really intense at times chapter. Scene on the nurses bed was the best part.

Cameo from the first couple was nice, if only they could have been nicer but they did say thanks in the end of that class group.

Poor Atsumu with the Jack and having Kuze taken away from him
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
On one hand this face is hilarious. The problem with the constant threat of expulsion means Soma is going to exceed in at least SOME aspect to pass. Here's hoping the booth leads to more surprises than Soma surviving.

I have no idea why you guys are actually expecting an arc in which Soma is useless and gains 0 ground. That's not the point of the series.
 
On one hand this face is hilarious. The problem with the constant threat of expulsion means Soma is going to exceed in at least SOME aspect to pass. Here's hoping the booth leads to more surprises than Soma surviving.

What, his survival is the only acceptable thing. Anything else would be weird and strange, people really want him to take on or get a seat on the elite council of 10 this early in his career at Tootsuki?
 

rrvv

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Honestly Soma probably pull out making food from leftover so he get ingredient for free.

So yeah cost never actually Soma problem
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
What, his survival is the only acceptable thing. Anything else would be weird and strange, people really want him to take on or get a seat on the elite council of 10 this early in his career at Tootsuki?

Okay, let's say Soma fails and Yugioh is like "I told you you suck." What does this actually add to the story? I would say its nothing beyond proving the Elite 10 is good at cooking. Except we've already been told about a billion times that the Elite 10 is good at cooking and there's no plausible way Yugioh is going to be better at cooking than Shinomiya is, so its not like Soma's going to be shocked at cooking that's better than anything he's ever had. He has to beat Yugioh in at least some aspect of the festival or the arc isn't worth writing.

The only reason I can see Soma not making it onto the Elite 10 is that it ruins some of the surprise - for example, pretty much every arc so far involves Soma getting himself involved in shit that he doesn't know enough about in advance and joining the 10 means it would start to become implausible that he doesn't know about the stipulations at the festival or tournaments, etc.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Hopefully they find a way to actually keep Erina involved in this arc since its pretty annoying how much they promote her and then never have her do anything useful.
 

striferser

Huge Nickleback Fan
Shokugeki no soma 121
What, he's going to do it solo?
Several scenario i could think how he do it.
- Premade chinese food/bento: Soma only need to warm it during the day of festival, and food like curry usually taste better after letting it cool down in refrigerator
- Self service booth: customer choose their own food and Soma only need to handle the register
- Soma being crazy awesome handling all the customer using his mad skillz

lol at Soma face.

I wonder if Totsuki will give loan to students so that they can create their booth? Considering the amount of customer, i can see them doing it.


Brynhildr 145

Dude just pull'd a chuck norris
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
Stinky tofu stand bruh.

Bitches love choudoufu.
 

Dresden

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Shokugeki no soma 121
What, he's going to do it solo?
Several scenario i could think how he do it.
- Premade chinese food/bento: Soma only need to warm it during the day of festival, and food like curry usually taste better after letting it cool down in refrigerator
- Self service booth: customer choose their own food and Soma only need to handle the register
- Soma being crazy awesome handling all the customer using his mad skillz

lol at Soma face.

I wonder if Totsuki will give loan to students so that they can create their booth? Considering the amount of customer, i can see them doing it.

soma's crew:

- knife-chan
- childhood friend
- that one woman from the first chapter
- the restaurant that he btfo when he went back home for a bit
- Hinako visiting and getting roped in
- knife-chan
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Soma already used the gimmick of performance cooking and he's already aping part of the Camping Trip gimmick (stealing from a big line).

My guess is that he will have more than himself as employees and we're almost certainly going to see more of Qipao (who is explicitly not in a RS and a Chinese specialist) to tell him how to not be shitty at Chinese food.

I'm gonna laugh if Qipao ends up in the harem.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
The Chinese Harem Dream Team:

Miyoko
Hisako
Megumi
Fried Chicken Girl
 

thesaucetastic

Unconfirmed Member
I think he (and most people) assumed him telling her outright he didn't want anything to do with her and the attempts on her life might maybe dissuade her a bit. They didn't. XD
To be fair, he didn't want anything to do with Naruto either (e.g. him asking wtf was wrong with Naruto at the Land of Iron bridge,) and she tried to kill him, too (but couldn't go through with it.)

And there's the fact that she was the only girl he didn't find repulsive to touch.
 

G.ZZZ

Member
Stalker dude would feel perfect for this. Copy your opponent dish and improve it. Even if you can't match the production, him and Soma should both be easily able to not go in the negative.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
I considered it but Erina has her own booth.

Also considered Nao but she's facing off against Meat for a booth spot so they're probably both taken.

Maybe they can get Ryoko to do the aging for the tofu...
 

Dresden

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mention of stalker-kun reminded me that Soma has all those scrubs indebted to him for returning their heirlooms. I guess that would be his workforce, at least the ones who aren't tied down to other booths already.

I think Hisako would be a nice move - like she has to compete against Erina at some point, and she's buddies with Soma.
 

Angry Grimace

Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
He will bribe Erina to help via Shoujo Manga.

He already gave her all of it.

I considered it but Erina has her own booth.

Also considered Nao but she's facing off against Meat for a booth spot so they're probably both taken.

Maybe they can get Ryoko to do the aging for the tofu...

They said all of the Research Societies have their own booths, so that takes out a lot of people, e.g. Megumi (she's in the "local delicacy RS").

That said, I think the author made a Quidditch mistake*, which is that the graduate count is just way too low. How the fuck are there all these people in the school if the graduate count is essentially just "people on the Elite 10."

*Quidditch in Harry Potter is a throwaway sport with impossible rules, but once the series got really popular, the author realized that it made no sense as a competitive sport, so she started finding reasons to not have matches in the books at all.
 

Zweizer

Banned
Would Hisako really compete against Erina now? I feel it's still too soon for that.

Stalker-kun would make a neat addition though.
 

Haly

One day I realized that sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.
They're not really competing though, all the booths are their own thing. The only direct competition happening is between Soma and Yugi.
 
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