Sentai Filmworks released an all-new clip from the upcoming English dub of Food Wars! The Fifth Plate.
The new footage provides fans with an exclusive look into the English dub of first episode of the final arc of Food Wars! The clip features Soma Yukihara and friends as they begin their final exams for the first semester of their second year at the elite Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute. The school's newest instructor, Suzuki, is introduced as the overseer of the exams, but while the rest of his classmates fawn over him, Soma has the distinct feeling that he has met him before. Either way, Soma has his work cut out for him as he and his friends must renovate an abandoned beach restaurant to make at least 3 million yen in sales in just three days.
Sentai Filmworks also dropped a cast list for the English dub of the fifth and final season on its website. Fans of the dub will be able to enjoy the latest arc with the return of many of their favorite voice actors, such as Blake Shepard (Darling in the Franxx) as Soma, Stephanie Wittels (Tanaka-kun is Always Listless) as the Divine Tongue, Erina Nakiri and Jad Saxton (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War) as Megumi Tadokoro, Soma's best friend. The English dub of Season 5 is directed by Kyle Colby Jones of Akame ga Kill! and Parasyte -the maxim- fame.
Yuto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's Food Wars! is a Japanese manga series following Soma Yukihara, a teenage boy who dreams to work as a full-time chef in his father's restaurant, "Restaurant Yukihara." His aspirations are put on hold, however, when his father closes the restaurant to travel around the world for his new job. Soma secures a place at the prestigious culinary school, Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute, where students take part in food competitions called "shokugeki." There, Soma makes friends and rivals alike, as he challenges students of the elite academy and other aspiring chefs to shougeki competitions in order to become the best of the best.
An anime adaptation of Food Wars! was announced in October 2014, and it ran for a total of 86 episodes to span five seasons. The Japanese language version of Food Wars! The Fifth Plate aired between April 11 and Sept. 26, 2020, but, unlike its preceding seasons, it received a generally mixed response from audiences due to what some fans deem a weak ending to the series and the less than compelling storyline of the last arc.
All five seasons of Food Wars! are available to stream now on Crunchyroll.
Source: Youtube, Sentai Filmworks Official Website
