The Jump Festa ’20 event held last December 22 made good on the earlier-promised Food Wars announcement, as a stage presentation during the event revealed that Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma is getting a fifth season! The event also announced an April 2020 premiere for the new season, which has the official title, Shokugeki no Soma: Go no Sara (Strong Plate, with the “go” a pun on the Japanese word meaning “five”).
The event also released a teaser visual for the upcoming fifth season, which you can check out below:
The series’ fourth season, Shokugeki no Soma: Shin no Sara (The Fourth Plate) premiered on October 11. The season’s finale episode is set to air on December 28.
While the manga has already ended its run in the Weekly Shonen Jump, the series released three more chapters in another magazine, Jump Giga. The three new chapters were collectively called Shokugeki no Soma: Le dessert, and ran starting June 27.
Viz Media, which holds the manga’s distribution rights in English, describes the series as such:
”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?!”
Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma is written by Yuto Tsukuda, with illustrations by Shun Saeki. It was first serialized in the Weekly Shonen Jump in November 2012. The series received an anime adaptation from JC Staff, with the first season airing from April to September 2015 and the second season airing from July to September 2016. The third season was divided into two cours and was released from October to December 2017 and from April to June 2018.
Source: Anime News Network
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