Food Wars Season 2
Released By: Animatsu
Rating: 15
Running Time: 325 Mins
Audio: English and Japanese DD 2.0 with English subs
Due Out: 13/08/2018
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes
It might seem easy, but this time around sees the plucky eight contestants processing and serving their best bento boxes to wow eager judges so they can decide who the best chef is. Souma Yukihira has a lot to say about the other contestants, though he's quite an easy-going guy at heart who doesn't see what all the fuss is about the humble bento box - or does he?
In front of a crazy audience, Souma fights off against Alice, the granddaughter of their school's director, so she is tipped to win, but Souma might have something up his sleeve. After all, he's a traditional chef, while Alice has all the latest equipment.
Just as in the first season, the anime is educational too, mixing the science behind cooking with the actual cooking itself using fresh ingredients to make it interesting. There's plenty to get excited with the visuals of the meals looking tastier than I've seen before in an anime (Antique Bakery would be one to mention) that appears so realistic and tasty you might want to eat before you watch this! The contestants explain how they prepared and cooked the dishes, then let the judges sample them. This is where it gets funny as the dishes are appreciated by the judges to bizarre scenes of lush green fields and dancing men while they enjoy each dish; it's positively indecent to watch, and so very comical.
While most anime are based on action and fantasy with school drama too, this sticks out as something different I would recommend to anime lovers and those just starting to get into it who might think anime is only about huge mecha, robots and characters with huge swords.
Each character has something different to offer the judges, Alice is a chef who uses a more scientific approach, Souma likes to be able to give a more traditional approach to cooking and leave his clients with memories of their youth, though is being different enough? One has to be able to give what the others can't and to do that, they must look beyond the cooking and look more into the preparation as Souma knows, what goes into it matters much more.
This as well as the previous series goes a long way to teaching us how to cook by showing us how best to choose the fresh produce around. There were things even I didn't know and the education is one of the best things with this show, the humor and larks and general put-downs are fun too. Food Wars does leave you with the pangs to want to watch more helpings of the same.
Bonus Material: Clean Opening and Clean Closing Animations plus Also Available on Sentai Filmworks.
Summary: Food Wars is one to watch; it;s funny, fast-paced and Bake Off with attitude!
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