The official
Twitter
account for the
Shokugeki no S?ma
(
Food Wars!
:
Shokugeki no S?ma
) television
anime
announced
the lead cast member and main staff on Saturday.
Yoshitsugu Matsuoka
will play the titular character S?ma Yukihira.
Yoshitomo Yonetani
(
Gaogaigar
,
Betterman
) is directing the anime at
J.C. Staff
.
Shogo Yasukawa
(
Terra Formars
,
Hyperdimension Neptunia
,
Invaders of the Rokujy?ma!?
) is in charge of the series scripts, and
Tomoyuki Shitaya
(
Bakuman.
,
BlazBlue Alter Memory
,
Hatsukoi Limited
) is designing the characters.
Jin Aketagawa
is the sound director, and
Tatsuya Katou
(
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya
,
Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club
,
Medaka Box
) is composing the soundtrack.
Y?to Tsukuda
and
Shun Saeki
's original comedy manga centers on S?ma, who works with his dad at his family's restaurant. His dad is a culinary master, and he often hosts cooking battles with his father. His father then enrolls him in an elite culinary school that is very difficult to enter, and the graduation rate is only about 10 percent.
Saeki and Tsukuda
launched
the manga in
Shueisha
's
Weekly Shonen Jump
magazine in November 2012, and
Shueisha
published the 10th compiled volume on November 4. Yuki Mirosaki, a
cosplay
chef and model, also contributes to the manga, and each volume of the manga features recipes.
North American publisher
Viz Media
announced
plans to release the manga in November 2013, and
published
the second compiled manga volume in North America on October 7. The company initially decided not to add the manga to its digital
Weekly Shonen Jump
anthology because the series is "a little racy," but later
added
the manga to the anthology's lineup.
[Via
0takomu
]