Parents' Guide to Food Wars!

This comedy cooking series pits characters against each other in a routine battle tournament setting, but this anime focuses on food fights instead of fist fights. Food Wars! Follows a tried-and-true tournament arc plotline that's a staple in many anime. Characters face off in direct competition with other characters in culinary competitions called shokugeki (food wars) to reach a higher ranking within the cooking academy. Throughout these culinary duels characters show off their culinary prowess and hone their skills. The food battles are the best part of the series -- the anime portrayed the array of world cuisines and the different ways of thinking that each character brings to preparing meals. Some characters cook from a refined, classically trained perspective, while other characters are like wrecking balls in the kitchen, using their creativity and vision to create new flavorful dishes by combining ingredients you normally wouldn't. It's entertaining but since the show is entirely focused around cooking, those with an interest in cooking are likeliest to stay invested. Additionally, the comedy in this series is repetitive and mostly sexual. Lots of innuendo throughout, and when characters eat dishes they like, they appear to have over-the-top "foodgasms" that might elicit a shocking laugh the first few times it's used, but gets old quickly.