And we end with the stupid chainsaw cooking challenge, what the fuck is this. Then there’s the fact that as much as I love Megumi and Aldini, they are invited and Kurokiba and Hayama are not? That makes no logical sense in the book also since they were so highly touted in the books. Then there’s the Blue competition which starts off with an interesting idea and set up but the challenges themselves I’ve already discussed above as being absurd and pointless where as older book in the series had a point to the challenges and lessons were learned, nothing is learned in the combini challenge. Story: The story tries to fix it’s main problem by having Dad come talk to Soma and say he’s already beat him since he’s the first seat, that makes no sense even in the internal logic of the world. Add to the fact that this book has been hitting us so hard with the ranking of the Totsuki 10 for the last 30+ books and suddenly there is another group which has never been allowed in the Blue that is ranked higher than them.the logic leaps are ridiculous. The combini challenge makes no logical sense and it’s stupid. in the past the tastes themselves served a purpose to teach students something, from buffet style to creating new menu items. The tournament idea is okay with the different doors to reach the castle, that piece of the world building feels like this series, but the tasks themselves are ridiculous and make no sense once again.

The world building here is trying to course correct and put some logic and structure back to the insanity and stupidity that is the idea of the noir chef.

World: The art is still a bit off, the tone is completely different, this book went from a school book to a yakuza manga and it’s art style is matched. An slight course correction but then it falls back into ridiculousness.

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