Crunchyroll recently announced that it is bringing the exciting culinary competition show Food Wars! (Shokugeki no Soma) The Third Plate to Toonami, the iconic television programming block on Adult Swim, later this month. The linear television premiere of the series will bring all 24 episodes to Toonami, with new episodes airing every Saturday starting on February 27 at 1 AM EST. Food Wars! follows the young Soma Yukihira as he battles to the top of the elite Totsuki Academy.
Food Wars! The Third Plate Details
Crunchyroll describes the anime as:
At Totsuki Academy’s annual gourmet jubilee, students wage fierce culinary war as they try to out-earn their peers. Soma Yukihira, however, has his sights set on a grander prize: challenging the Elite Ten, who rule over the academy with iron fists.
The first anime season of Food Wars! (Shokugeki no Soma) aired for 24 episodes from April to September 2015. Food Wars! The Third Plate is the third season of the Shokugeki no Soma anime. The show’s second cour premiered on April 8, and Crunchyroll is exclusively streaming the anime worldwide outside of Asia.
Source: Press release
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