Shokugeki no Soma 95

Shokugeki no Soma 95

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Star: Which is the most delicious "pacific saury" dish!? An explosion of appetite with a center color page!!
Shokugeki no Soma
Star: Over 4.4 million copies printed!! JC Volumes (1)~(10) are on sale with rave reviews!!
Big Text: The morning sun lights his fighting face---!!
Story: Tsukuda Yuuto
Art: Saeki Shun
Collaborator: Morisaki Yuki
(cutlery) 95 A Battle Surrounding the "Season"

p2 //anime cast announcement and character designs

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Souma: It's done grilling.
Megumi: Yeah...!
Megumi: The sun has fully risen already...
Megumi(thinks): Most of the shopkeepers have already closed their shops,
Megumi(thinks): But Souma-kun and I are working on how to face the seasonal pacific saury
Megumi(thinks): In the already silent riverside fish market---

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Megumi: ...
Megumi: ~~~...
Megumi: I can't have enough of this......!!
Souma: This is the power of the season, huh...I only sprinkled some salt and grilled it on charcoal fire and it's already this good!
Souma: Next...
Souma: I'll try grilling another fish the same way.

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Megumi: ......
Souma: ...It's not bad on itself,
Souma: But compared to the last one it really falls behind.
Megumi: They looked pretty much the same...! But for the result to be this different!
Souma: This is also because of the season, right...?
Souma: While the flavor of all of the fishes is heightened
Souma: A big difference is made between the good ones.
Souma: ......
Souma: With that said...The true moment when our ability to judge will be tested
Souma: Is on "the morning of the match".

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Souma: I'm sure both Kurokiba and Hayama will come here once more that day...
Souma: Well, I'm sure they'll come buy some fish to make tests many times before that,
Souma: But the real moment in which it's tested whether you can pick a good one or not is on the very day of the match.
Graph:{ //from left to right
First line: Theme Announcement
Second line: Today
Between Arrows: Test dishes
Bubble: Go to the market on the morning
Last line(up): The day
Last line(down): Of the finals
}
Megumi: ......If you want to catch up in terms of judging skills to them starting now,
Megumi: You'd have to come to the fish market every day and study...
Souma: Yeah...
Souma: But......It'll probably be tough...
Jouichirou: Hey, Souma! That sardine is no good.
Box: Five years ago, Souma 11 years old
Souma: Eh! Why? Pops, you said...
Souma: That when picking fish I should choose the ones which have clear transparent eyes!
Jouichirou: I said that but sardines are an exception.

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Jouichirou: The reason why this sardine's eyes are white is because it was put in salt water after it was caught.
Jouichirou: The eyes get white-ish because of the salt...
Jouichirou: You judge sardines looking at their "gills"...The best ones have light-pink-colored gills.
Jouichirou: The one you chose is all yellow, isn't it?
Jouichirou: That makes the taste get worse.
Jouichirou: Like this, the part of the fish you must take a look at varies a lot.
Jouichirou: You should take your time and learn them one by one.
Souma: ......But I want to
Souma: Be able to judge them like you do fast...
Jouichirou: ---...Let's see,
Jouichirou: If you were to limit yourself to one kind of fish and master judging it,
Jouichirou: It'd take more than ten years.

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Souma: Don't say that and teach me some tricks!
Jouichirou: Shut up, learn by yourself.
Souma: Haha...It's so funny,
Souma: I only have ten days before the match...
Souma: This isn't such an easy world that you can learn all about it in a day.
Souma: And, no matter how good I get at judging it...
Souma: If I neglect the all-important dish idea I won't be able to fight at all...
Megumi: Y...You're right...
Megumi: I'm sure Kurokiba-kun and Hayama-kun will use the best ingredients as a base
Megumi: To finish up a dish which makes the very best of that flavor!
Megumi: W...Wh-Wh...What should we do!? This leaves us on a stalemate even before the match!
Souma(thinks): What should I do...?
Souma(thinks): While I'm here, those two-

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Souma(thinks): Are beginning to create their strategies for their pacific saury dishes---...!
Box: Inside Tootsuki Tea Ceremony and Cooking Academy
Box: Shiomi Seminar
Jun: Yesh...! Erm, Hayama-kun is a r-really excellent student.
Jun: A-And he's a great assistant, and umm emm
Box: Stage Fright + Stranger Anxiety
Akira: Don't get nervous over a mere interview, Jun... (cd: This is why research maniacs are...)
Jun: Don't call me Jun......
Girl: Hayama-kun! You really
Girl: Can determine if a pacific saury is good only on its smell?
Girl: I just can't believe that...

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Akira: To begin with, on fishes' smell
Akira: You can notice the effects of aldehydes and other components...When polyunsaturated fatty acid oxidizes the number of these components increases and as that further progresses
Akira: It becomes the raw fish smell anyone can recognize.
Girl: Y-Yes...
Akira: My nose can smell the volatile components which are the harbingers of that phenomenon...
Akira: Other than that there's the stench of blood, the smell released when flavor components are created, etc.
Akira: Information is overflowing from the ingredients.
Akira: With that, taking freshness as a given...
Akira: Which pacific saury is best suited for my dish,
Akira: I am able to "scent it out".
Thought: Is he...Really human!?
Thought: He's on par...With Kurokiba Ryou who can find out high-grade ingredients by instinct!
Thought: They both surpass human knowledge,
Thought: Their judging skills are on a cheating level!!

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Guy: Hey, what happened with Yukihira Souma?
Guy: Well you see...It seems he isn't back from the fish market...
Guy: It seems he isn't making test dishes yet.
Akira: ......
Sign: Only Authorized Personnel
Akira(thinks): Yukihira, you better not be thinking you caught up on me with the curry match in the preliminaries...
Akira(thinks): Our difference as cooks is evident.
Akira(thinks): It's clear just looking at our judging skills!
Akira(thinks): I have only one opponent this time......
Ryou: You don't heat up at all towards challenges.
Akira(thinks): Very well, Kurokiba Ryou.

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Akira(thinks): I'll make you cinders.
Girl: It seems contestant Yukihira is having a hard fight.
Girl: Does this mean you have one less rival?
Ryou: I don't think of him as a rival.
Ryou: A guy who's having trouble judging ingredients isn't even worth considering.
Ryou: My only enemy this time is Hayama Akira.
Ryou: It seems he's well aware of what judging ingredients really means.
Girl: I...I'm sorry, Kurokiba-kun...Can you speak a bit louder?
Guy: Ooooh!?
Girl: This is...!

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Girl: Moule, Manila clam...And anchovy!
Girl: They're all flavorful ingredients...
Girl: Are you using all of these in your pacific saury dish!?
Girl: Just what......
Girl: Kind of dish are you trying to make...?
Box: Berserk Mode //we finally get a name for it XD
Ryou: How long are you going to stay here, damn iiiiiiit!!
Ryou: Get fucking out of here, you pests!!
Both: Eeeeeeeeeh!!!
Guy: He was fine with it just before!
Ryou: An interview? Let's see...
Ryou: It's ok, take a look as much as you want.
Girl: They're almost split personalities!

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Ryou: If our ingredients are equal...Then,
Ryou: That just means I have to show the difference with my cooking...!!
Ryou: The humiliation you made me taste on the semi-finals.
Ryou: I'm making you pay for it
Ryou: Hayama Akira!!
Guy: However...We get to have a three-man final but is Yukihira going to be fine?
Guy: Just after he fought Mimasaka Subaru he was the center of attention,
Guy: But now there's no trace left of it...
Mitsuru: ........

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Guy: It's like he's an outsider......
Newspaper:{ //what's in parenthesis is out of frame or behind a bubble
Right text: (Autumn) Election F(ina)ls
Left text: Eagle and tiger attack each other!?
}
Megumi: Sorry, Fumio-san...
Megumi: We made you come pick us up.
Fumio: What are you saying? That doesn't bother me!
Fumio: If he plays a good role on the election the Polar Star Dorm's name will be hold high!

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Fumio: I've already ordered an extra-large banner too...
Fumio's sd: Fufufufu......
Banner: Our POLAR STAR DORM'S Yukihira Souma do your best!! Contact->03-0000-00
Megumi: Are you really going with that design?
Megumi: I think Souma-kun's name was really small on it...
Fumio: ---However, it seems
Fumio: He's hit a wall.
Megumi: That's right...
Megumi: Souma-kun's been staring at the fish all this time...
Fumio: I understand how you're feeling but the fish are going to go bad,
Fumio: Close the lid, Yukihira.
Fumio: Certainly...If he's against people so good at judging ingredients...
Fumio: He's got a big disadvantage.
Fumio: If he was only a bit more on equal terms with them...There could be ways to catch up with them with the preparation.
Megumi: Ways?

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Fumio: For example, the "timing for sprinkling the salt".
Fumio: You sprinkle salt on pacific saury before cooking it, right?
Fumio: Depending on how many minutes you leave it like that the flavor changes.
Fumio: Five minutes...
Fumio: Ten minutes...
Fumio: Fifteen minutes.
Fumio: As time passes the fish loses humidity and the body tightens.
Fumio: And you can also count on its flavor getting better!
Megumi: I see...! It might be a similar principle to lightly pickled vegetables.
Fumio: Well, on the other hand, if you leave it too much time
Fumio: It'll lose freshness.
Souma: ...
Souma(thinks): Time...
Souma(thinks): Time, huh...
Souma(thinks): The flavor components aren't produced when it's just caught,
Souma(thinks): But as more time passes it loses freshness.

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Souma(thinks): There are some people who say "it's best when it's beginning to rot"...
Souma(thinks): But that's pretty accurate.
Souma(thinks): Hm?
Souma(thinks): Wait a second...

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Souma: There's no time! Hurryyyy!!
Shun: ........
Shun: What was that......?
Souma: Ibusakiiii!! You were here, huh!
Souma: Come with me for a sec!
Shun: Huh...!? What's going on here?
Shun: .........
Souma: Sakakiiii!! You heeere!?
Ryouko: Wh-Why is Yukihira-kun so in a hurry!?
Ryouko: There's about ten days before the match...He should carefully settle and make test dishes.
Shun: Yeah...And go get the best pacific saury the day of the match.
Shun: If he doesn't he's got no chance to win.

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Souma: I won't be going to the fish market the morning of the match.
Souma: I'll probably go buy the pacific saury for the match...
Souma: Four or...Five days before---
All: Huh!!?
Ryouko: Wh-Wh...What do you mean!?
Ryouko: If you don't go buy a fresh one first thing in the morning you won't be able to fight back...!
Souma: Well...

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Souma: Truth to be told, I have a few more days to do trial and error...
Souma: But if I don't start right now I probably won't finish in time.
Girls: ......?
Souma: If this goes well,
Souma: On the moment of the finals
Souma: I'll have a pacific saury that surpasses the season...!
Souma: Please...
Souma: Lend me a hand!!
Cutlery: What's the way to breach this...!?
Shokugeki no Soma
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