[Predictions] Shokugeki no Soma Manga Chapter 173 Discussion and 174 Predictions

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Shokugeki no Soma Manga Chapter 173 Discussion and 174 Predictions

Discuss Shokugeki no Soma Manga 173 here and predict the next chapter, Shokugeki no Soma Manga 174

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[Mirai]

Omg these people are sooooooo snakey asf. They deliberately gave the "rebel" squad the worst ingredients yet they aint even bothered with it as they gonna trump. The groupings was kinda obvious to have and I love how the author tried to put the whole "We have the best squad for this dish" situation on a small pedestal for like half a page with Yukino hyping Kurokiba and Megumi but then showed they have the worst quality ingredients.

Really hyped to see how Soma, Alice and, Ryou pull through

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^^ Just loved this page, since the team is ready to kick ass and cause Alice ofc <3

 

[Gintõki1]

Really nice chapter before the real stuff's starting.

I like the team. Soma, Kurokiba and Alice will rock that thing, but i also wanna see Megumi and Yukino being a part of it and a big help to get through this.
Seems like we will get more Erina staring at Soma moments from now on. xd

 

[Caliburn]

Omg these people are sooooooo snakey asf. They deliberately gave the "rebel" squad the worst ingredients yet they aint even bothered with it as they gonna trump. The groupings was kinda obvious to have and I love how the author tried to put the whole "We have the best squad for this dish" situation on a small pedestal for like half a page with Yukino hyping Kurokiba and Megumi but then showed they have the worst quality ingredients.

Really hyped to see how Soma, Alice and, Ryou pull through

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^^ Just loved this page, since the team is ready to kick ass and cause Alice ofc <3

It was to be expected that they all would be separated from the rest of the students, however that these groups exactly would be made, wasn't that obvious. In particular I'm surprised and glad that Yukino is in their group as characters like her, Sasaki etc. mostly functioned as characters to interact with rather than being on the front lines themselves.

Azami's ploys are weak though. I mean bad ingredients? That's their scheme?

 

[Panthalassa]

It was to be expected that they all would be separated from the rest of the students, however that these groups exactly would be made, wasn't that obvious. In particular I'm surprised and glad that Yukino is in their group as characters like her, Sasaki etc. mostly functioned as characters to interact with rather than being on the front lines themselves.

Azami's ploys are weak though. I mean bad ingredients? That's their scheme?

Technically they have three schemes acting together:

1. Passing grade dishes taught in a secret class, to ensure only the kids they want to pass know exactly how to pass.
2. Choice of ingredients out of season, to ensure the loophole that students can use their own ingredients is subdued.
3. Giving bad ingredients that will always produce lower quality results.

That and the fact that the best students are grouped together, to create inequality in the comparative grading system, and the time limit, that hinders the ability to make a bad quality ingredient better. It's a good plot, even if it feels unfair. It does reveal that Azami sees them as threats to his system, and that he is not right. If his system was inherently the perfect one, no sort of alternative cooking would be even considered a threat. He might have to meet these rebel cooks directly, but, for now, cheap tactics are enough of an atempt to get rid of them easily, without revealing his "fear" too much.

 

[Caliburn]

Technically they have three schemes acting together:

1. Passing grade dishes taught in a secret class, to ensure only the kids they want to pass know exactly how to pass.
2. Choice of ingredients out of season, to ensure the loophole that students can use their own ingredients is subdued.
3. Giving bad ingredients that will always produce lower quality results.

That and the fact that the best students are grouped together, to create inequality in the comparative grading system, and the time limit, that hinders the ability to make a bad quality ingredient better. It's a good plot, even if it feels unfair. It does reveal that Azami sees them as threats to his system, and that he is not right. If his system was inherently the perfect one, no sort of alternative cooking would be even considered a threat. He might have to meet these rebel cooks directly, but, for now, cheap tactics are enough of an atempt to get rid of them easily, without revealing his "fear" too much.

The first one isn't really a scheme as they simply have to make a good salmon dish. The lecturer said however that if you made one of the dishes out of Azami's seminar, you are almost guaranteed to pass. In the end though you still have to make a good salmon dish.

The second one is meant to strengthen the third one. It's rather useless to give bad ingredients if you can easily get alternative ingredients yourself, so in the end it all falls back on them receiving bad ingredients. There would by default be a time limit and all the groups pass or fail together, so you would only need one decent cook in each group and the majority of the 'rebels' scored high on the Autumn Election. The members of Soma's group are also not what I would deem to be the strongest possible combination, so there's really no inequality there.

So yeah it all comes down to providing bad ingredients and hoping they can't work with them, which really is a rather weak scheme. First it was biased judges, now this....if Azami's teaching methods are that supreme as he claims them to be, there really wouldn't be a reason for him to be using such sleazy methods in trying to remove the opposition. The more that these tactics fail, the more Azami's system will lose credibility as it's being bested by a bunch of students that are intentionally being handicapped.