Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 6 - The Meat Aggressor - full transcript

KAHVE BOWL

So...

You gonna do it with me?

You don't want to?

Well?

Let's do it...

A Food War.

Good morning, Soma-kun.

I could use a bit of help.

Could you get dressed and come over?

I was up late last night
and I'm still sleepy.

Please ask someone else.

Come on, don't say that.

You were up there the whole time?

THE MEAT AGGRESSOR

He woke you up too, Yukihira?

Back at ya, Yoshino.

So, what are we supposed to help him with?

Collecting vegetables
from the field out back.

That's awesome.

We even grow our own ingredients?

Well, delicious food starts
with good ingredients.

That's our dorm's motto.

That's how Ibusaki gets his own wood
for his smoked foods.

Ryoko's specialty is making dishes
with malted rice,

so she has her own workshop just for that.

As for me,

I want to breed a "Kyokusei Chicken"

that's on par with
the French poulet de Bresse.

I let them out to run free-range, too.

And then...

Isshiki-senpai's main area of operation...

is this!

This plot grows dozens
of different vegetables.

Good morning, Soma-kun, Yoshino-kun.

A bit of hard work in the morning
helps soothe the spirit.

Let's all sweat together.

That suits him!

Knowing how different ingredients grow
is all part of learning how to cook.

This is Kyokusei Field.

Though I wouldn't object if
you called it "Isshiki Field."

-So...
-Ah, Soma-kun!

Oh! Tadokoro came too, huh?

Look!

These vegetables Isshiki-senpai grew.
Looks delicious, right?

You know, it's like...

that look suits her so well
that it's almost comforting.

Yup, Megumi is Kyokusei's
breath of fresh air.

Here, try a bite.

Oh, thanks.

Delish!

It's plump and super sweet!

I'd love to stock up on
these for our restaurant!

You've really made a quality product.

Yeah, well, I've been spending
all my time on these.

As a result, I haven't
really been going to class.

I think he's got
his priorities backwards...

Sorry to keep you waiting.

It's delicious!

Whoa! This is delish, too!

Soma-kun, you haven't stopped eating.

Yeah, so what?

Everyone, it's time for breakfast!

-My back hurts!
-Sure gets you hungry, huh?

Oh, you made this, Tadokoro?

Yes, you're hungry, right?

Help yourselves.

I see.

It's your special
three-variety onigiri, huh?

Nice, nice!

Onigiri after working in the fields!

Don't mind if I do!

It's delicious!

You used a salt and
green onion sauce, right?

The sauce was added
to flash-boiled chicken tenders,

and it coats the onigiri's exterior, too!

The saltiness of it
really stirs the appetite!

Doing physical work makes
you want something salty, right?

And this is seaweed, huh?

That's a staple of onigiri.

You boiled the seaweed in
sweet soy sauce and added cheese?

Yes!

Cheese actually goes well with
the rich sweetness of the seaweed.

So, just what is this last one?

Awesome!

This garlic flavor is
so great I can't stand it!

It's garlic-marinated pork.

Huh?

When I saw you use honey
the other day in class,

I tried changing it up in my own way.

I boiled some pork belly,

then steeped it in a mixture
of garlic, miso, saké, and honey.

It goes great with rice,

so I chopped it finely
and put it in an onigiri.

There's barley and green tea, too,
so help yourselves.

AAH...

This is the appeal of
Tadokoro-chan's cooking.

It soothes the heart of whoever eats it.

The chicken ain't dried out,
and the pork is perfectly tender.

They're all made with such care.

Why can't you cook like this in class?

STAB

I've always had stage fright.

When I get nervous,
my mind goes blank and I just mess up.

Man, that's too bad.

You need to relax more
when you cook, Tadokoro-chan.

That's right.

You could make either a good chef
or a good bride, Megumi.

Oh, I don't know...

Huh? A "research society"?

Yup! There are lots of them at Tohtsuki,

researching every theme
related to cooking.

For example, everyone gets together
after class to develop a new menu.

Or to participate in cooking contests
outside of school.

They're kind of like club activities, to
use a term from the regular school system.

I'm a member of the
Regional Cuisine Research Society.

You weren't kidding.

There's Japanese, Western, Chinese,

haute cuisine, vegetarian cooking,
even fermented and preserved foods.

And boxed lunches
you buy at train stations!

Huh? "Rice Bowl Research Society"?

That could be good study
for the restaurant.

Well, let's go check it out.

Come on, Tadokoro.

RICE BOWL RESEARCH SOCIETY

Me, too?

Um...

SORROWFUL SORROWFUL

Sorry, but y'all should beat it.

Bowl-Soc is doomed to get shut down.

Huh?

Yukihira and Tadokoro, was it?

KANICHI KONISHI 2ND-YEAR,
DON OF BOWL-SOC

I'm Konishi.
I run things here.

Are you okay, Senpai?

You seem kinda down...

Feel free to laugh.

I couldn't even protect Bowl-Soc.

BOWL-SOC

This is a recipe book?

It looks like menus that
Bowl-Soc has come up with.

Let's see...

There's everything from high-end items
to off-the-wall stuff.

But they've all got their own unique spin.

All these recipes are interesting!

Why do you guys gotta be shut down?

MOVED MOVED

You actually get it?

Yukihira!

He's crying.

The beauty of rice bowls is that
they're fast, tasty, and cheap!

They're manliness encapsulated
in a single bowl!

It's manly food for men who wage war!

I... As a man, I...

I won't die until
I've thoroughly mastered them!

He's a little strange, huh?

A bit too intense for comfort.

My Bowl-Soc...

If only it weren't for Erina Nakiri!

Nakiri?

Yeah, this is how she does things:

First, she suggests
that the Council cut the budget

or take space away from groups
she doesn't like.

And she forces the motion through.

She grinds people down till they
have just one option left:

a Food War that could turn things around!

FOOD WAR

But in exchange for accepting
a Food War challenge,

Nakiri makes even more outrageous demands,

till in the end she gets
exactly what she wants.

That's how she keeps gaining more power.

As soon as the other members of Bowl-Soc
learned we were up against Nakiri, they...

RICE BOWL RESEARCH SOCIETY ROSTER
KANICHI KONISHI

They all friggin' quit!

This guy must really be unpopular!

So, you're facing Nakiri?

Well...

Hey!

Sure enough, it would be faster to tear
everything down rather than remodel it.

Oh? Then do it.

What do you think you're doing, Mito?

What else? I'm making
a preliminary inspection.

I already know how this will play out.

It's like Erina-sama said.

IKUMI MITO
1ST-YEAR, HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION

No matter how you dress them up,

rice bowls are B-class dishes,
just lowbrow cooking.

You're not needed here at Tohtsuki.

Follow me?

Well, if you're confident you can beat me,
that's a different story.

You follow me, Mr. Team Captain?

Your "society" isn't wanted here.

Damn it, Nikumi.

NIKUMI

My name ain't "Nikumi"!

If you say that again...

Don't tell me she's who
he'll face in the Food War!

Who the heck is she?

Ikumi Mito-san, the chef nicknamed
"The Meat Master."

She's made top grades since middle school,

and she's so good, especially with meat,
that she's only gotten A's.

Her intimate knowledge of meat
is top class here at the academy!

All ingredients pale against
meat of true worth!

No matter what dish you make,

it will never beat my top-quality meat.

As a chef, gettin' all happy just about

how much your ingredients
cost is a disgrace, I'd say.

What?

Senpai...

About this Food War...

Would you please let me do it?

What's the big idea?

Butting in when
you're not even a member...

It's you, that transfer student
from the opening ceremony.

I've wanted to have words with you.

You must be very confident in your skills

for you to suddenly take
on someone else's Food War.

If you like, we can go with your area
of specialty and do a meat battle.

After all, I'll win.

All right, bastard.

If you lose,

will you leave Tohtsuki?

If you ain't got the guts,
you shouldn't go mouthing--

Sure, that's fine.

What?

In exchange, if I win...

Well, let's see...

You'll join Bowl-Soc.

Huh?

Huh?

Join Bowl-Soc and contribute to
the development of rice bowl culture.

As an apology for the inconvenience.

You really think you can beat me?

Okay, everyone, that's all for today.

Fine, I'll yield to you on the theme.

The main ingredient will be meat,

and we'll be making rice bowls!

The battle begins in three days.

Yukihira, why did you...

Well, thinking expensive meat
is everything

is an insult to mom-and-pop diners
that I can't ignore.

But more than anything,

it would be a waste to see
this place gone.

MOVED MOVED

Yukihira!

But Soma-kun,

do you have some plan for winning?

I'll start thinking of one now.

I knew it!

I'm grateful to Erina-sama
for trusting this one to me.

I'm gonna teach that uppity transfer
student the pleasures of the flesh.

A bit to the right.

A bit more to the right.

Just a bit more to the right.

Yukihira, that dope!

What was he thinking?

The whole school is talking about this!

TRANSFER STUDENT
FOOD WAR

Yuki, calm down.

I'll help as much as I can.

But there's just not enough time
until they battle!

So then...

How will you tackle this, Soma-kun?

2 DAYS UNTIL THE FOOD WAR

THEME: RICE BOWLS
INGREDIENT: MEAT

It's been a day since then.

I've given this a lot of thought, too.

Nikumi's a specialist in meat,
especially beef.

So, I don't think we should be
determined to use beef, too.

For example, we could do
a chicken-and-egg rice bowl.

It would still fit the theme.

We should try to make our dish
as different from Nikumi's as possible.

That makes sense.

Something outside the box, huh?

Tadokoro, is there a rice bowl you like?

Um, I don't know if you
could call it a rice bowl,

and it's not really meat, but...

I like to grill scallops,
then as soon as they open,

pour in a bit of butter and soy sauce.

Put those on a bed of fresh,
hot rice and it's so delicious!

That's right, you could've done
a seafood-based rice bowl.

SORROWFUL SORROWFUL

But you had to go and
say it'd be a meat battle...

Look, the rules are already decided,
so don't go carrying on about it.

You don't know how formidable Nikumi is!

If she brings out some A5 beef,
there's no way you'll win!

"A5"? Is that English?

ENGLISH

A5 is a rank that shows
meat quality, isn't it?

Yup, that's right.

When a cow is broken down,
cuts are ranked on fat-to-meat ratio...

MEAT QUALITY
YIELD PERCENTAGE

And this is super-fine quality!

There are three rankings, A to C.

Marbling! Firmness and texture!

The brilliance of the meat's fattiness!

All these determine...

a cut's Beef Marbling Standard!

These are then ranked, from 1 to 5.

Meat that's been given top ranking
by these two standards...

is classed as A5!

I once ate Nikumi's steak
at an academy function.

Meat... Meat on that level...

You could drink it!

Drink it?

Yes!

The moment I bit into it, the flavor from
the meat took on a life of its own.

It slid right down my throat!

If you ordered meat like
that in a restaurant,

the Yukichi would be
flying out of your wallet!

Also, and this is important.

All ingredients used in the Food Wars

must be prepared by the participant.

After all, chefs should be
skilled in food prep, too.

The Mito family turned their wholesale
meat business into a massive company,

and they've cornered the market
on the beef industry.

They have money! They have facilities!

They have distribution routes!

All these make up Nikumi's
first-rate meat dishes.

NO GUARD

He got depressed telling his own story.

Can you really beat such incredible meat?

You know...

Sure enough,

we should do a beef bowl, too.

Huh?

Yo, Yukihira, did you hear
what I just said?

When it comes to meat, Nikumi is--

You said it yourself, Konishi-senpai.

Rice bowls are fast, tasty, and cheap.

Nikumi's made a mockery of that.

If we want people
to acknowledge rice bowls,

we have to win with a menu
using affordable beef, right?

And we're not using any
weird top-quality ingredients.

That ain't part of a rice bowl's appeal.

Sometimes, even when a man's
convictions are tested,

there are things he must protect though,
they may--

Well, I'm gonna go buy some things.

What does Bowl-Soc have left
in its budget?

Well...

That's it?

I'll just have to take it
out of my account!

This is all I've got left?

Thank you for your business.

I'll wire you money for
expenses now and then.

"Now and then"?

So, that's what he meant by
"now and then"?

GLOOM

This could be...

kinda not good.

These are Bowl-Soc's collected recipes.

There might be somethin' you can use.

Senpai, there's this, too.

Oh, thank you!

Set that pile over here.

All right! Shall we get to it?

Order up!

Please give it a taste.

Instead of pork, I used beef to make
a "beef cutlet rice bowl."

I tweaked Bowl-Soc's recipe,

using a mixture of chicken and quail eggs
to give it a richer taste.

Not bad, but it ain't enough!

When you put it in your mouth,
the impact of it...

When Nikumi's food hits your tongue,
it's like, blam!

"Blam," huh?

Then we need fat!

This is my "sukiyaki rice bowl,"

cooked in sugar and beef fat
with a raw egg dropped in.

Nah, still no good.

It's got no refinement to it!

Then I'll reduce
the beef fat, and instead...

Um, how about this recipe?

THE DAY BEFORE THE FOOD WAR

Senpai's so sad he's turned white again!

Splash some water on him
and snap him out of it!

We've tried all of
Bowl-Soc's best recipes.

I've even tweaked them
as much as I can think to.

Soma-kun, why don't you
take a little break?

Once you've recharged
you might get a good idea,

like in class the other day.

Right?

Ah, like using honey to make
the meat tender, huh?

So.. Soma-kun?

You've been a real help, Tadokoro.

That's it.

The way to make a big impact
using inexpensive meat!

Konishi-san, do we have
any steak cuts left?

It doesn't matter if it's sirloin or rump.

Steak cuts?

Slice the steak in a grid pattern

then pound it to spread it out.

Next, cover it with minced onions
on both sides and let it sit a bit.

Remove the onions,

then season the meat with salt and pepper.

Cook the meat, melting
a pat of butter along with it.

Then caramelize some onions by
cooking them in the leftover juices.

Onions?

Spread the cooked onions
all atop the meat, and it's done.

This is...

Chaliapin Steak!

A.D. 1936

When opera singer Feodor Chaliapin
came to Japan,

he was suffering from a toothache.

"I want to eat a tender steak," he said,

and this is what the chef came up with.

You can't get this overseas!

It's a unique style of steak
found only in Japan!

Well, you two give it a taste.

Okay!

Yeah...

So light and fluffy...

It's so tender!

It comes apart easily
just using chopsticks.

And with every bite, it...

melts in the mouth!

Onions have enzymes
that break down protein.

Same as pineapples and honey.

That's how the meat gets this tender.

You'd never think this was cheap meat.

The delicious flavor
of it fills your mouth!

And it goes great paired with rice.

But will this really...

Can it beat Nikumi's A5-quality meat?

I'll use fillets of Kuroge Wagyu.

The quality is, of course, A5.

What's more...

I've aged it for over a month,

to give it the most
delicious flavor possible.

It's an A5 beyond any other A5.

And I'll prepare it in a way that
draws out every ounce of flavor.

"Bowl-Soc" will be crushed in an instant.

I look forward to it.

Well, if you'll excuse me.

To think, an opportunity would
come up this quickly...

Soma Yukihira...

The chance has come
to drive you out of Tohtsuki.

TO BE CONTINUED