Discussion Enter Azami's Freakish Four

[Chingaruna517]

I know this is ridiculous to say this but after I read the latest chapter via the Korean scans, I have an interesting topic to talk about the four new Central Characters. Lets introduce our repetitive antagonists shall we? Enter Central's Freakish Four, one of many Azamu's champions defend the Central Administration under Azami's regime. Of course, the names will be revealed in some chapter after this but lets find out shall we?

1. A Tattoo Boy who has one of the strongest and vicious ego who claims the Central's Superiority.
2. A Hulking dude with a face so nasty that intimidation is written all over his Face.
3. A Smug Girl who has a vicious tongue who acts as the four guys' cheer-leader.
4. A long Hime-Girl whose also have a same viciousness as her fellow students.

Regardless how you think about them, they are one force to reckon with after nearly cleaning house during the Survivors' Purge, but apparently only Soma and Takumi confront the Freakish Four nonchalantly after hearing the Tattoo Boy's declaration, meaning the series of Shokugeki is more than just defending the club existence from Azami's threat. So, how do you think of the Freakish Four right now?

 

[Wookitake]

They are the Silver Saints of SnS, to the E10 Gold and PSD Bronze Saints. They are stepping stones just as Souma mentioned in his speech.

Strong, but destined to be weaker than the younger protagonists.

 

[Aonori]

Those four elite 10 replacements are cheap, Sous-chef level in the world of gourmet food for sure, consideering their atitude they most likely are just taking advantage of Azami´s takeover to get Elite 10 seats (seats that should only be given to very talented cooks, that can at least have the potential to be head chefs), funny thing that Hayama wasnt included in the replacements, case I´m pretty sure he´d be above at least the 10th and maybe the 9th replacement right off the bat with his "God Nose", maybe Azami couldnt get him to his side and bribed (offering a seat is already the bribe in of itself in Totsuki) other replacements for the elite 10 or he just right off the bat choose the students that were on their 2nd and 3rd years, with the most achievements, while completely ignoring the 1st years.

 

[TotalEconomist]

Those four elite 10 replacements are cheap, Sous-chef level in the world of gourmet food for sure, consideering their atitude they most likely are just taking advantage of Azami´s takeover to get Elite 10 seats (seats that should only be given to very talented cooks, that can at least have the potential to be head chefs), funny thing that Hayama wasnt included in the replacements, case I´m pretty sure he´d be above at least the 10th and maybe the 9th replacement right off the bat with his "God Nose", maybe Azami couldnt get him to his side and bribed (offering a seat is already the bribe in of itself in Totsuki) other replacements for the elite 10 or he just right off the bat choose the students that were on their 2nd and 3rd years, with the most achievements, while completely ignoring the 1st years.

I think he ignored all the first years with exception of Erina, because A. he believes she will return to his side and B. Clearly is on a different level then most of the chefs at Tootsuki.

Erina is a top down chef, who needs to head down back to the roots of cooking (which is what Soma represents). Soma, on other hand, is a bottom up chef starts from the base and needs to reach top level of cooking.

 

[Aonori]

I think he ignored all the first years with exception of Erina, because A. he believes she will return to his side and B. Clearly is on a different level then most of the chefs at Tootsuki.

Erina is a top down chef, who needs to head down back to the roots of cooking (which is what Soma represents). Soma, on other hand, is a bottom up chef starts from the base and needs to reach top level of cooking.

But these 1st years are full of "jewels" (they are named the jewel generation for gods sake) besides Erina, the Autumn finalists (Kurokiba, Hayama and Soma), there are a few more highly skilled 1st years that should be able to take elite 10 seats (like some polar star dorm guys, takumi, alice and Hisako for instance) and Azami neglected every single one of them with the exception of Erina, the guy that is all about Gourmet food, is fine with scamming in shokugekis, is fine with having weaker chefs take Elite 10 seats while kicking all the other ones (who are way more proeminent than the ones they were replaced) and ignoring gourmet food potential chefs, I think it could have worked better, where the replacements for the elite 10 are concerned, those 4 arent any better than Eizan (in fact they are worse they came in later than Eizan, after the poor guy got humiliated in his shokugeki against Soma and started bad mouthing the entire chapter, even though that alone is a good indicator of them getting rekt afterwards) and it´s really sad to see they are just being presented as simple antagonists for Soma and co with no depth at all, though, I can see the 7th seat guy having problems with Erina since he would have remained 10th seat in the first place had Erina not got that position out of him so early, the rest of them though have nothing going on with them right now and they should require proper build-up as characters (which they will most likely only have once they get crushed by the anti-central guys).

 

[kikix12]

(...)Azami neglected every single one of them with the exception of Erina, the guy that is all about Gourmet food, is fine with scamming in shokugekis, is fine with having weaker chefs take Elite 10 seats while kicking all the other ones (who are way more proeminent than the ones they were replaced) and ignoring gourmet food potential chefs

You're completely ignoring the fact that most, if not all, of those jewel 1'st years are opposed to Azami. What would be the point of kicking tried and true elite 10 that are better than those 1'st years right now, only to invite them and then kick them again for their anti-central stance?!

 

[Aonori]

You're completely ignoring the fact that most, if not all, of those jewel 1'st years are opposed to Azami. What would be the point of kicking tried and true elite 10 that are better than those 1'st years right now, only to invite them and then kick them again for their anti-central stance?!

Some could´ve been influenced, into the dark side, there was a lot of speculation regarding Hayama, joining Central under some sort of conditions in favor of Jun´s spices seminar (she even had a very WTF when she heard the news on Azami´s central policies way back, it could´ve worked as foreshadowing and a eficient way for Soma to win against Hayama before moving to the 2nd and 3rd year higher cooks).

The replacements for the elite 10 are below Eizan´s level and he was just trolled by soma in a shokugeki a few chaps ago, it most have been a very good time to introduce them right?, also they are just bad mouthers, one of which (the strongest of them) got owned by Erina and lost his/her seat, do you really think these guys are a threat now? Eizan at least, had something particular going with him, by being a yakuza businessmen sort of guy, these guys that were introduced just look too bland of antagonists right now, SNS had better antagonists than these way back, which is why it´s sad to see this and can one not simply predict the way things will go now? The elite 10 guys that got kicked out of their seats will face the previous seats that were into the majority in the votecast for Azami being director, while these new guys are going to be treated like scraps (if not on first shokugeki, it will be on the 2nd one guaranteed) for 1st year students just wait and watch.

 

[TotalEconomist]

Just a little detail to point out on Central's chef uniforms: The cross badge is an inverse Iron Cross used by the Germans in World War 2.
If that's intentional, that means Azami is the culinary Hitler and Central is the cooking SS

 

[Chingaruna517]

Just a little detail to point out on Central's chef uniforms: The cross badge is an inverse Iron Cross used by the Germans in World War 2.
If that's intentional, that means Azami is the culinary Hitler and Central is the cooking SS

That pretty much emphasizing the antagonism of the Central Administration, and that reason enough for Soma and his friends revolt against the current system in the first place. Now that you mentioned it, if not all have been speculated, I doubt the Freakish Four are the only people Azami selected to crush the revolting faction.

 

[Chingaruna517]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the food culinary world, how is everything? Today we are taking Group D's last hope, Alice and Kurokiba who will be facing Kusunogi Rentarou, one of the "prestige" member of the Freakish Four and an enforcer of the Central Elites. While Soma and Takumi did trying to shut Kusunogi's bad mouth, Kurokiba is the latest opponent for the Shokugeki as the Group D's last chance of redemption. Although we want Kurokiba to win the Shokugeki, a sly smirk from Kusunogi will hides a more sinister plot for the victory.

So folks who do you think will win the Shokugeki?Will Kurokiba deliver his Shokugeki victory against our foul-mouthed antagonist? Or is Kusunogi's vicious win bring the desperation of the

 

[JediKnightWhoSaysNi]

I think Ryou will win this! I like his passion for cooking and he has a bright spark!