[DVD/BD] Sentai Filmworks licenses Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma (Seasons 1 & 2)

[WTK]

Announcement via Anime Matsuri

https://twitter.com/Sentaifilmworks/...92929159229440

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via PR...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SENTAI FILMWORKS LICENSES
?FOOD WARS! SHOKUGEKI NO SOMA?

HOUSTON, April 6, 2015 ? Sentai Filmworks is proud to announce its latest acquisition Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, as part of their Spring 2015 anime season acquisitions. Adapted from the original work of Shun Saeki and Yuto Tsukuda, this comedy tournament series will pit a promising young cooking prodigy against a class of potential master chefs in a boiling hot battle to see who will reign supreme in the cooking arena!

Yoshitomo Yonetani will be directing the series, with series composition duties going to Shogo Yasukawa. Character designs will be provided by Tomoyuki Shitaya, with music duties going to Tatsuya Katou. Animation production will be handled by J.C. Staff, known for their work on A Certain Magical Index.

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma is scheduled for an April 2015 release and will soon be available through select digital outlets with a home video release to follow.

[27CansOfTuna]

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Thought this would go to viz since the manga ties, guess they dont want it :/

[WTK]

Re: Sentai Filmworks licenses Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

Food Wars! (http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Anime/Food-Wars/Info)

Schedule: Mon @ 3:25 PM Eastern, starting 5/4/2015
Languages: Japanese w/ English Subtitles

[WTK]

Re: Sentai Filmworks licenses Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

Food Wars! (http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Anime/Food-Wars/Info)

Schedule: Mon @ 3:25 PM Eastern, starting 5/4/2015
Languages: Japanese w/ English Subtitles

It's now starting to stream on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/food-wars.

[WTK]

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http://ask.fm/SentaiFilmworks/answer/131303941341

Any news about a DanMachi, Shokugeki collector's edition?

Right now all of our energy is going toward trying to make a Nozaki-kun box set happen (cross your fingers!), but those two titles are definitely popular enough to warrant it. Right now we don't have a definitive answer, but keep asking, we're always listening.

[27CansOfTuna]

Re: Sentai Filmworks licenses Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

Am i missing some context? When was a Food Wars collectors edition announced?

[Mc-Taz]

Re: Sentai Filmworks licenses Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

Am i missing some context? When was a Food Wars collectors edition announced?

It wasn't. The person was just inquiring about the prospect of one being released. I'd pick one up because I really enjoyed the series.

[WTK]

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http://ask.fm/SentaiFilmworks/answer/131544321501

All of your recent dubs have been outstanding. So, is there any plans on Food Wars getting a dub!!?? Please let it be true!!!

Thanks, we're glad you guys are into them!

Food Wars was a big surprise. We had a strong feeling that it was going to be something really good, but the level at which the show took off with you guys was amazing. That always bodes well for a title when it comes down to deciding whether or not to dub it, so it's already got one feather in its cap.

[Chisel]

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I honestly would be pretty surprised if Food Wars doesn't end up getting dubbed considering how popular it was while airing.

[Rhys2753]

Re: Sentai Filmworks licenses Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

Ok so the second season is a given pick-up when the time comes. My question today is whether it's in the realm of possibility that Sentai can pick up and release the jump special that screened this fall and is coming out on DVD with Volume 18 in may. And include it with their release of Season one at some point. Have they picked up manga OVAs before? I'm drawing a blank.

[AgentX]

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only thing that comes to mind is the HotD OVA.
other than that...?

[27CansOfTuna]

Re: Sentai Filmworks licenses Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

They didnt pick up Haikyuu's.

[Buckeye]

Re: Sentai Filmworks licenses Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

Ok so the second season is a given pick-up when the time comes. My question today is whether it's in the realm of possibility that Sentai can pick up and release the jump special that screened this fall and is coming out on DVD with Volume 18 in may. And include it with their release of Season one at some point. Have they picked up manga OVAs before? I'm drawing a blank.

Well, I hope that they can pick it up. But the thing to remember is that there are times when negotiations for OVA episodes go through a different party rather than the publisher. Viz explained that as I remember that there were people asking questions about why a certain series is released without its OVA episodes, and the rights were owned by the game or manga publisher, and their demands were just too cost-prohibitive from what I can remember. Similar situations have arisen for other such shows, but in general it all depends on who Sentai has to negotiate with in order to get it.

[Art-chan]

Re: Sentai Filmworks licenses Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma

Ok so the second season is a given pick-up when the time comes. My question today is whether it's in the realm of possibility that Sentai can pick up and release the jump special that screened this fall and is coming out on DVD with Volume 18 in may. And include it with their release of Season one at some point. Have they picked up manga OVAs before? I'm drawing a blank.

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't The World God Only Knows OVAs originally released with manga volumes?

[EmperorBrandon]

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Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't The World God Only Knows OVAs originally released with manga volumes?

They initially were, but then later got standalone Blu-ray releases.