New Shokugeki no Souma Anime Cast, Staff & Character Designs Revealed

The official Twitter account for the anime adaptation of Yuuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma) manga has revealed additional of the series’ leading cast and staff members.

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In addition to the reveal, the first set of character designs were also released. The first set of the revealed cast includes:

  • Matsuoka Yoshitsugu (Kirito in Sword Art Online) voicing as Souma Yukihira

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  • Risa Taneda (Mirai Kuriyama in Kyoukai no Kanata) will voice Erina Nakiri

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  • Minami Takahashi (Mew from Pri Para) as Megumi Tadokoro
  • Shizuka Ishigami (Namu Mayu from Kenzen Robo Daimidaler) as Ikumi Mito

The first staff members of the production crew that will be producing the anime have also been revealed and are as follows:

  • Director: Yonetani Yoshitomo (Tiger & Bunny Movie 1: The BeginningHoshi no Umi no Amuri)
  • Series Composer: Shogo Yasukawa (Rokujouma no Shinryakusha!?Terra Formars)
  • Anime Character Designer: Tomoyuki Shitaya (Kiss×sis, Bakuman)
  • Art Director: Jin Aketagawa (Aldnoah.Zero, AnoHana)
  • Music Composer: Tatsuya Katou (Mirai Nikki, Free!)
  • Animation Studio: J.C. Staff (Toradora!Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo)

The first promotional video for the anime was earlier released:

Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma) is a comedy, ecchi cooking manga written by Yuuto Tsukuda, illustrated by Shun Saeki with Chef Yuki Mirosaki adding recipes to the manga. The series began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in late 2012 and to date has a total of 9 compiled volumes released, with the 10th volume releasing in Japan on November 4th. A light novel adaptation of the manga began in February this year in Shueisha’s Jump j-Books, written by Michiko Itou and illustrated by Saeki himself. The manga itself has sold over 2 million copies to date.

Here is a synopsis of the series from MAL:

Yukihira Souma’s dream is to become a full-time chef in his father’s restaurant and surpass his father’s culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma’s fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive?

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The Shokugeki no Souma anime will be airing sometime during 2015. More information about the anime will be revealed at Jump Festa 2015 on December 21st, where series creator Yuuto Tsukuda will be in attendance.

You can visit the anime’s website here: http://shokugekinosoma.com/
And follow their Twitter: @shokugeki_anime

 
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