What is Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma about?
Young chef Soma enters the prestigious Totsuki Culinary Academy, where he must emerge victorious in over-the-top cooking battles or face expulsion.
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma (2015)
Young chefs engage in absurd, high-octane cooking battles at a prestigious academy, delivering relentless, campy drama.
Crowd-pleasing, with absurdist humor. A late-night trip at full speed. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Hulu and Crunchyroll.
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma parents guide
Moderate sex and nudity, which is more than most TV-14 titles carry. Beyond that, mild language and no real violence.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
StarringYoshitsugu Matsuoka, Ai Kayano, Maaya Uchida, Chinatsu Akasaki, Risa Taneda, Minami Takahashi
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Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma is on our Gentle, Absurdist, Comedy on Hulu, Drama on Hulu and Animation on Hulu lists.
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