Also: Event anime about Aldini brothers gets DVD release in May with 18th volume
The cover of the second 2016 issue of
Shueisha
's
Weekly Shonen Jump
magazine (pictured at right) is revealing on Monday that the anime based on
Y?to Tsukuda
and
Shun Saeki
's
Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma
manga will get a second season. The first 2016 issue had
revealed
on Monday that the second issue would have an "important announcement" for the manga.
The announcement is commemorating the third anniversary of the manga's launch.
Weekly Shonen Jump
will reveal more details about the upcoming anime in its future issues.
The same issue of
Weekly Shonen Jump
is also revealing that the event
anime
special about the Aldini
brothers
will get a DVD release with special editions of the manga's 18th volume on May 2. Pre-orders for the special edition end on February 29.
Shueisha
screened the event anime at this year's Jump Special Anime Festa tour, which toured nine cities in Japan in November.
The first anime season aired for 24 episodes from May to September.
Crunchyroll
streamed
the first anime adaptation as it aired in Japan, and
Sentai Filmworks
licensed
the series for North America.
The 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.
Shueisha
published the manga's 15th compiled volume (pictured at left) on October 3, and will publish the 16th volume on January 4.
Viz Media
publishes the original manga in North America, and it published the ninth volume in print on December 1. The company is also simultaneously publishing new chapters in English digitally as
Shueisha
publishes them in Japan.
The
Shokugeki no S?ma
: Y?j? to Kizuna no Hitosara
(
Shokugeki no S?ma
: The Dish of Friendship and Bonds)
Nintendo
3DS game will
ship
in Japan on December 17.
Cover image pictured via
Yaraon!