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EP. REVIEW: Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma [2015-04-11]

^I'm just gonna copy and paste what I said in the Preview Guide when I hadn't tried to make my point in over ten different posts because the more I think about it, the more grossed out I am:

I usually love a story of an underestimated hero who bedazzles the world with his amazingness. My problem with this was that it had such a sexual framing my mind kept going straight to "Look at this cool bro making this bitch subjugate through the power of his manly sexuality". It felt hateful and nasty towards the girl involved

^See, I wrote that when I had forgotten about the assault cherubins scene, 'coz now all I can think about when I try to figure what this show is trying to tell me "haughty bitches who think they're better than you deserve to be force-sexed into submission."

I think the advantage for the manga is that the "foodgasms" only last for a page so they're just there for a brief flash to show how incredible & overwhelming the taste is before returning to the story. Whereas with the anime they're a lot more "there" if that makes sense.

CrowLia wrote:

^I'm just gonna copy and paste what I said in the Preview Guide when I hadn't tried to make my point in over ten different posts because the more I think about it, the more grossed out I am: I usually love a story of an underestimated hero who bedazzles the world with his amazingness. My problem with this was that it had such a sexual framing my mind kept going straight to "Look at this cool bro making this bitch subjugate through the power of his manly sexuality". It felt hateful and nasty towards the girl involved ^See, I wrote that when I had forgotten about the assault cherubins scene, 'coz now all I can think about when I try to figure what this show is trying to tell me "haughty bitches who think they're better than you deserve to be force-sexed into submission."

So where is any forcing happening? He's not subjugating her at all, he is doing nothing to her, no drugs, no rape, no hypnosis, no assault, NOTHING. I do not understand your thought process. Her fantasy scenario is entirely in her own mind, it is a visualization of her enjoying his food but not wanting to attribute that pleasure to having been caused by anything associated with him, i.e. his cooking.

If you have a problem with the artist Tosh and subsequently JC Staff for depicting this fantasy scene in a manner which implies that Erina *thinks* she is being "subjugated" by Souma, well, so be it, your tastes are your own. However, you are falsely interpreting what is going on in a scene then using that false basis to label the show as, I'm not sure what exactly, misogynist? Sexually abusive? Anti-feminism?

From what I've seen on forums the foodgasm scenes apparently become less frequent or less over the top (can't remember which). It's better in the manga, as I saw someone else say, because it's usually just 1-3 pages of foodgasming, not like a whole minute or two. I like the foodgasms, but they should be over and done with quicker.

The only reason the foodgasms feel downplayed in the manga is because, well, it's a manga. Adding voices and animation would obviously make them more noticeable.

I think the advantage for the manga is that the "foodgasms" only last for a page so they're just there for a brief flash to show how incredible & overwhelming the taste is before returning to the story. Whereas with the anime they're a lot more "there" if that makes sense.

Yeah, I dropped this after the tentacle scene. He did that to his friend. Ugh. Forget it.

(It would have been wrong to do it to anyone, but really, his friend? What kind of monster is he?)

I think I'm going to watch something more wholesome like Punch Line or High School DxD.

I also hope that Megumi gets more development, because although she's cute, she is also kind of annoying right now.