History Characters / ShokugekiNoSomaStudents

%%
%%
%% Zero Context Examples are not allowed on wiki pages. All such entries have been commented out. Add context to the entries before uncommenting them.
%%
%%
[[center: [-[[Characters/ShokugekiNoSoma Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/ShokugekiNoSomaPolarStarDormitory Polar Star Dormitory]] | [[Characters/ShokugekiNoSomaEliteTen Elite Ten]] | '''Students''' | [[Characters/ShokugekiNoSomaTootsukiAcademy Tootsuki Academy]] | [[Characters/ShokugekiNoSomaOther Other]]]]-]

This page is for the students of Tootsuki Culinary Academy who are not currently part of the Polar Star dorm, such as the other six finalists of the Fall Classic tournament.
----
[[foldercontrol]]

!Fall Classic Finalists


[[folder:Takumi Aldini]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/23ac477b1b4670457a48085fd7d30232.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NatsukiHanae (Japanese), Bryson Baugus (English)

First-year Takumi is the eldest son of a Japanese chef from Florence-based ''Trattoria Aldini''. He goes to Tootsuki with his younger twin brother Isami during middle school to demonstrate their skills, and when Soma declares his intentions at the opening ceremonies, Takumi becomes fired up to do even better than that upstart from a backwater restaurant.
----
* {{Adorkable}}: When his BadassBoast turns into an EpicFail. [[RunningGag It happens a lot.]]
* AloofBigBrother: Subverted; Takumi is aware he's the more talented of the twins, but he's still proud of Isami's (considerable) skills. Isami, in turn, doesn't resent Takumi in the slightest, and supports his brother to the extent that Takumi refers to him as "my other half".
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Downplayed, but [[spoiler: he asks Rindou what she's "so afraid of" when he faces against her. The question doesn't break her, but clearly rattles her.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: After his match with Mimisaka, [[spoiler:he takes the lesson that he needs to learn more about his opponents. By the time of his battle with Eizan, not only does he know from past patterns that Eizan will try to cheat, he's also able to figure out based only on the ingredients available in the pantry that it'll be by using the cynarine in artichokes to alter the judge's taste buds. He tailors his pizza to be enhanced by the chemical and wins handily]].
* BadassBoast: During his introduction to Soma as a defender of his family trattoria.
-->"Sorry for the tardiness. My name is Takumi Aldini. This is my twin brother Isami Aldini. We worked in a kitchen of a trattoria in our hometown. It's a word in Italian that refers to the so-called 'restaurant of the masses'. I am just like you, Yukihira. I, too, am a chef that's protected his shop from the kitchen. You said that you 'don't plan to lose to some bunch that has never stood in front of clients'? Say that after you have defeated me. Between Aldini and Yukihira, I'll show you which is better."
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:His plan to counter against Eizan banked on the possibility of his opponent using artichoke, knowing well that Eizan would try to sabotage him. Not only did he impress the judges by adjusting the shigureni topping's flavor to compliment the aftertaste, but also paved the way for the second half of his pizza.]]
* BerserkButton: Don't dare to insult Isami by calling him "a second-rate cook".
* BigBrotherInstinct: Takumi, who could have rejected the Shokugeki, accepted Subaru's conditions to defend Isami's honor.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:With only one hour left before the rankings were announced, he, along with Isami and Ikumi, arrived to aid Soma's booth]].
* {{Bishonen}}: His good looks have earned him a fan club.
* BreakTheBadass: [[spoiler:Subaru not only defeats him, but also hurt his pride by predicting all his actions (including improvised options), stained his Mezzaluna knife and took it away and insulted his brother. After said Shokugeki, Takumi spent the entire week depressed in his apartment with a broken look in his eyes.]]
* ButNotTooForeign: The Aldini twins are half-Japanese, but grew up in Italy. They've used their unique upbringing to make more flexible dishes such as using Japanese ingredients in an Italian style or vice versa.
* ButtMonkey: Every time he wants to boast, the moment turns awkward.
* ChallengeSeeker: He constantly wants to engage Soma in a competition, but they usually [[RunningGag fall flat]].
* ChickMagnet: He is said to have a fanclub in Tootsuki, and also older females are seen gushing over him as he enters the arena.
* CoolBigBro: Downplayed. Isami doesn't hold back whenever Takumi embarrasses himself and even calls him "lame". Outside of that, he does admire Takumi's superior skills as a chef and declares to be proud of him, while Takumi himself makes sure to remind Isami that he is his other half.
* CryCute: He cries when he loses or gets embarrassed. It's not exactly dignified but it does make him all the more adorable.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Soma defeats Subaru and gets Takumi's Mezzaluna back, he rejects it, declaring that he will earn it back by his own merits]]. It's not a case of outrage, or contempt for Soma's action, rather just his pride as a chef and a rival to Soma that he wants to honor.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Takumi is first introduced stomping on Soma's foot, marking himself as an intimidating opponent... before his brother Isami laughs at him.
* FamilyEyeResemblance: The only physical resemblance he has with Isami are the skin tone and their light blue eyes.
* TheFashionista: In contrast to Soma (who wears hanten[[note]]informal yukata for home[[/note]]), Takumi's plain clothes are very stylish, since Italians are very wary of their appearance. After the Internships period, Takumi's first words to Soma are to comment on his hair being messy, while he had a new haircut on the time being.
* FriendlyRivalry: He tries competing with Soma, but the two of them seem to get along pretty well, though the latter finds it difficult to take their rivalry as seriously as Takumi does, mainly because Takumi's challenges often goes over his head.
* {{Foil}}: To Soma. Unlike him, Takumi is extremely popular with the girls (in his first month at Tootsuki, Takumi garnered a fanclub of 85 members, while in Soma's case, most of the school hated his guts); while Soma is cool and a bit of a tease, Takumi mostly embarrasses himself whenever he tries to pose as cool. Despite all this, both guys are {{Sore Loser}}s, very loyal towards their family and friends and the most creative and resourceful chefs from their generation.
* AGlassInTheHand: Soma gives Takumi a bag of kaki seeds to hold onto while he goes to search for ingredients during training camp. In frustration, Takumi crushes the bag with his grip, but it was what Soma wanted to do, anyway.
* GratuitousItalian: From the two, Takumi is the one who uses more Italian words, most commonly "grazie" ("thank you").
* GloveSlap: Right before their match and in front of the whole school, Takumi throws a glove to Subaru to make the duel official, asking in exchange for his win a public apology to Isami.
* GuileHero: During his match with Eizan in the [[spoiler: Regime de Shokugeki, he anticipated that Eizan would use some sort of method to disrupt his dish by studying his previous matches, and made his dish based around that. Eizan's dish originally was meant to make Takumi's taste worse after the Judges ate his first, but Takumi worked to make it compliment his dish instead. This was made possible by Takumi adapting to Subaru's tracing and doing an extensive study of Eizan's duel records.]]
* HeroicBSOD: After Subaru beats him, Takumi is seen depressed in his apartment, while a worried Isami passes him a message from Soma. He snaps out of it after Soma defeats Subaru, promising that he will beat them someday.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With his brother, Isami -- the two are rarely ever apart. He also seems to be developing a rivalry version of this relationship with Soma.
* HiddenDepths: Takumi is a NiceGuy and SpiritedCompetitor, which is why he and Subaru eventually reached an understanding after the latter's match with Soma, and even formed a genuine friendship later on during the Central arc. But make no mistake, Takumi can hold one ''hell'' of a grudge. [[spoiler:Unlike with Subaru, Takumi had nothing but contempt for Eizan after learning about his plot to get Soma expelled during the Autumn Elections using the close relationship of the Aldini brothers. It was this grudge that led to him learning aspects of Subaru's Tracing ability to stalk Eizan and humiliate him during the Regiment de Cuisine. After Takumi revealed what he'd done to the InUniverse audience, Ibusaki even commented that he didn't seem like the kind of guy to hold a grudge]].
* HonorBeforeReason: Takumi stated he would ''hate'' the idea of Soma getting expelled before they compete officially.
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: He and Isami become this to the Polar Star Dorm after the Fall Classic Preliminary Round, when they attend one of their parties. After [[spoiler:Soma's Shokugeki with Eizan]], the brothers rush there to check on Soma (although Takumi seemed like he was going to nag at him as usual) and promptly join the party. They also joined the residents to survey on Central's Shokugekis, with Ryoko commenting that they almost feel like residents as well.
* HotBlooded: PlayedForLaughs, as part of his humor comes from him getting suddenly excited before challenging Soma, only for others to ruin his moment. When he talks to Soma again after the Stagiaire Period, he gets fired up after learning that Soma became an apprentice to Kojirou and The Council berating all of them for being First Years.
* HyperAwareness: Takumi reveals he was already aware that Subaru had been following him around for the past few days. Subverted, though, because Subaru had been following him for much longer than that.
* HypocriticalHumor: [[spoiler: In Chapter 153, he was the one who reminded Souma that what they are doing is recon, a few panels later he joins Souma in scolding the {{Jerkass}}.]]
* ImportantHaircut: Chapter 201 reveals Takumi's shorter hair after the Stagiaire period is this, due to feeling that he was falling behind in his rivalry with Soma.
* InnocentBlueEyes: The only physical thing the twins have in common from their Italian heritage. They are ''innocent'' whenever he messes up and ends up embarrasing himself or when he gets excited about getting to challenge Soma. On the other hand, he got his IcyBlueEyes when Subaru insulted Isami.
* JerkassFacade: In his introduction, he stepped on Soma's foot to show his confidence and acts like a jerk. Immediately into the first assignment at training camp, he dislikes the idea that Soma could be disqualified. Instead of throwing away the kaki seeds, he holds onto them; when he accidentally crushes the bag, he desperately apologizes for it (though Soma was intending to do it). An extra chapter also reveals Takumi ''planned'' to stomp on his foot long before as a challenge.
* KnightTemplarBigBrother:
** After Subaru spits gum on his Mezzaluna and directly insults Isami to his face, Takumi gets furious and challenges him to a Shokugeki during the Fall Classic. [[spoiler:This is why the defeat affects him even harder, because of him failing to defend Isami's honor and losing the tool that symbolized the link with him.]]
** When it comes to family, Takumi can be ''vindictive''. [[spoiler:Someone (implied to be Subaru) evidently informed him about Eizan's plot to get Soma expelled during the Autumn Elections, using the Aldinis as {{Unwitting Pawn}}s. Obviously, he was ''not'' happy to learn that, and subsequently plotted his revenge on Eizan in turn, even going as far as to ''stalk him'' like Subaru does. This leads to the Regiment de Cuisine, where Takumi ''humiliates'' Eizan by turning his tactics against him and manipulating him into enhancing his own dish (one inspired by his relationship with Isami) during their match in the third bout]].
* MultiEthnicName: "Takumi" is Japanese, while "Aldini" is Italian, from his mother's side.
* NervesOfSteel: Despite how easily he normally gets embarrassed, before a match he's completely confident while the normally calm Isami runs around flustered. Despite a moment's panic he also recovers easily during his match with Subaru, managing to make a last-minute improvement to his dessert [[spoiler:which still isn't enough to let him win. Subaru knew that Takumi would be able to keep his wits about him and improvise something, so he prepared accordingly.]]
* NiceGuy: Unlike Isami, Takumi tries to cover this by appearing as the cool and aloof rival (all the opposite of who he is in reality), but even he can't help but let out his good traits. He refuses to get an easy win, apologized to Soma after accidentally crushing the kaki seeds, scolded Soma for letting Megumi carry heavy boxes, is a good big brother to Isami, helped Soma when he needed extra hands, showed sympathy towards Soma [[spoiler:having a Shokugeki to defend his home]], and, like Soma, isn't afraid to confront bullies.
* NotSoDifferent: Soma criticizes most of his peers for their high education without proper experience. However, Takumi comes from a similar background (working at a common diner for years) despite his seemingly arrogant demeanor. Both wear the pride of their respective family restaurants' names on their uniforms. He is also as resourceful as Soma, since his imagination and range of vision during a challenge is very wide, as seen during the training camp. After [[spoiler:Soma's Shokugeki against Eizan]], instead of scolding him like he would normally do, he mentions that he would have done the same if his home was also on the line.
* NumerologicalMotif: 1/2. Which he shared with this brother. Takumi and Isami are both half blood, frequently refered to as one half of a whole. The way they welcome their guess to their trattoria also invoked this. Taken to logical extreme during Takumi's match with Eizan in which his winning dish is a "half-moon" pizza.
* OliveGarden: While he isn't the stereotypical Italian, many elements are attached to him, like his frequent use of GratuitousItalian, the foodgasms from his food have a lot of Italian motifs (Pavarotti's Aria, harbours, lemon fields) or [[ChickMagnet his popularity with girls]]. Even his CharacterSong Single has him naming a lot of Italian dishes.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted only in the anime. A very minor character is given a NamedByTheAdaptation "Takumi Ishiwatari".
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou: Unlike Erina, who wants Soma to go away, Takumi isn't satisfied to have Soma expelled until he can defeat him in a Shokugeki. He gets jealous if Soma has another rival, since he considers himself the only one.
* PrimalFear: PlayedForLaughs in ''Shokugeki no Soma ~à la carte~'' and the OVA. Isami knows that Takumi is afraid of heights and uses this to tease him at the Tokyo Skytree by jumping to make him look at the glass floor.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: He gives an awesome one to Rentarou, after the guy insulted all the students outside of Central, pointing out that repeating the words "Elite" and "Chosen" only show lack of confidence on his real cooking skills. Judge Ooizumi and Soma were pleasantly surprised by this.
* TheRival: Self-proclaimed towards Soma. He also proclaims himself to be Soma's "only rival". However, he's not taken as seriously as he would like. He also develops a subtle rivalry towards Subaru after his defeat to him.
* SacrificialLion[=/=]TheWorfEffect: His first appearance showcases himself as Soma's equal in resourcefulness and experience. His loss against Subaru foreshadows the amount of planning Soma would need to overcome him.
* SexyManInstantHarem: Takumi has his own fan club, which consists of ''85'' club members who follow him a lot. The ''Trattoria Aldini'' booth for the Full Moon Banquet has all the brothers' fangirls as the staff.
* SoreLoser: He isn't happy when his first challenge against Soma ends up in a tie. After his defeat against Subaru, it took him a week to recover from this, and when he finally did, he promised to earn back his Mezzaluna by properly defeating both him and Soma.
* SpiritedCompetitor: The one thing that gets him excited is a chance to compete against Soma, especially if Soma has become stronger.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Both Aldini brothers' names end with "-mi".
* ThoseTwoGuys: He either is this with his brother Isami, or with Soma, to the point others have started to refer to them as "The Diner Duo".
* TookALevelInBadass: Two notable examples
** After losing to Subaru in the Autumn Elections, he undergoes his Stagiare period where he learns a variety of new techniques. When he returns to help Soma at the Moon Banquet Festival, he's easily able to keep pace with him when it took Subaru days to properly trace Soma's moves.
** During the Regiment De Cuisine Shokugeki, he's paired against Eizan, the one who sicced Subaru on him to begin with. He shows that he's well aware of Eizan's treacherous ways and would try to sabotage his dish, so he deliberately led him on thinking he was going to make one type of dish and ended up using Eizan's dish to make his own superior. Ironically, adopting the same tactics Subaru used to beat him. He easily defeats Eizan, and is the second character besides [[TheHero Soma]] to not be apart of the Elite 10 and defeat one. [[note]]Erina, Isshiki, and Megishima were all former members before they were removed/resigned from their positions.[[/note]]
* UnknownRival: Takumi considers himself to be Soma's No. 1 rival and constantly makes boasts and speeches to that effect (which often end up failing and/or making Takumi look silly). Although Soma considers him very skilled and worth challenging, he doesn't seem to be aware of just how seriously Takumi takes the rivalry.
* WeWillMeetAgain: Parodied. After the first cooking match between Takumi and Soma ends in a draw, the former declares this after saying they will someday settle things in a Shokugeki. A couple of panels later, they are forced to sit next to each other on the bus.
* WeaponOfChoice: His Mezzaluna, which he uses along with Isami. However, he lost it in a Shokugeki against Subaru Mimasaka and hasn't got it back since, because he wants to defeat both him and Soma to earn it properly.
* WrongGenreSavvy: He tries to set himself up as Souma's rival, knowing the proper style a rival should have and the lines they should give out. Unfortunately, the manga is half comedy and doesn't stick to the shounen cliches he's basing his character on, meaning he ends up more of ButtMonkey than a rival, though Souma does acknowledge his skill.
----

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Akira Hayama]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shokugeki_akira.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JunichiSuwabe (Japanese), Kregg Dailey (English)

Assistant and adopted son of Jun, Akira is a young foreigner she met overseas as a kid, warning her of adultered spices. He specializes in curry dishes, with a wide knowledge in various spices and aroma.
----
* TheAce: He has a high level of mastery when it comes to spices, seemingly greater than actual graduates. His sense of smell is also refined enough to make judges consider him a possible rival to Erina's "God's Tongue." However, his abilities don't stop there: He takes all his classes just as seriously, acing subjects that Jun failed as a student and quickly mastering Japanese. She's actually worried that he works too hard. Notably, he hadn't lost a single competition he's participated in [[spoiler: prior to his third confrontation with Soma]]; at worst, he tied with Ryou in their semi-final match at the Autumn Elections.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The fact that he's lost to him twice really doesn't sit well with Soma [[spoiler: until chapter 191 that is.]]
* AmbiguouslyBrown: He has a Japanese name and is given flashbacks detailing how he used to live in another country (it's unclear if the market he was nearby was India or Thailand), since he identified Jun as a Japanese tourist. The anime strongly implies his Indian roots by giving him an appropriate {{Leitmotif}}. The reason he has a Japanese name however, is because he was an orphan with ''no'' name until Jun found him.
* AmbitionIsEvil: His attitude towards cooking is noted to be rather obsessive and Doujima wonders if he might be heading down the wrong path. However, he figures that so long as Ryou and Souma are around he'll probably be okay. [[spoiler:When Azami takes over, however, he shows up as the temporary ninth seat of the Elite Ten, having supposedly discarded the Shiomi Seminar in order to advance his cooking. Subverted as it's revealed that he was blackmailed into joining. Despite this, Soma straight up tells Akira how disappointed he is because he gave up the Seminar that easily in exchange of an Elite Ten seat, despite having the skills to fight against Central like the others did.]]
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: [[spoiler: How he acquired Elite 10 status. He defeated every other student in a Battle Royale for the spot, including most of the upperclassmen.]]
* BadassBoast: He declares to Hisako that he is going to dethrone Erina from her seat. After beating her, Akira once again reaffirms his intention to be TheAce of Tootsuki, telling her that her insistence on being Erina's NumberTwo became her undoing. [[spoiler:That first boast would be proven true when he takes the 9th seat, making him officially outrank Erina as a first year.]]
* BadassBookworm: Not only does he ace every cooking subject, he also aces every non-cooking one, including geography, history, contemporary literature and math.
* BadassMindsThinkAlike: Soma and Akira make curry dishes for the Autumn Election preliminary using an aroma surprise factor. Also he, like Soma, aims for the top of the Elite Ten by using every last resource they have. [[spoiler: In addition during their rematch during the exams they both opt to go for fried dishes in what is described as "an all or nothing attack"]]
* BeleagueredAssistant: Even though Jun is a genius, she's still TheDitz and Akira is the mature one of the duo who takes care of her duties like attending guests, shopping, watering the plants or putting her TechnoBabble into practical use. He even carries her to the couch when she sleeps on the floor in the middle of research.
* {{Bishonen}}: He's slim, long-haired and good on the eyes.
* BloodKnight: When he feels challenged, such as during the semi-finals against Ryou, he becomes fiercely competitive, losing his "kingly dignity" and adopting a serious PsychoticSmirk.
* BoundAndGagged: The first shot of Chapter 90. Turns out he trained by being subjected to this (except he was blindfolded instead of gagged). Jun then gets that he was tied up so he wouldn't be able to recognize the spices by touching them.
* BrutalHonesty: He usually scolds Jun whenever she is not behaving correctly or any random moments, such as calling her a "spice idiot" for having terrible grades in everything except cooking classes and completely failing to take care of any of her responsibilities on her own.
** After he told Alice that she had to think more of the customers than whatever expensive experimental project she wanted to do, Ryou suggested that he needed to humor her whims. He refused outright, pointing out that their stand was doomed to failure if she didn't take it seriously. With Hayama scolding her, she actually does get serious for once.
* CharacterTics: Touches his nose with his index finger and is constantly holding and smelling spices like cinnamon.
* ChildProdigy: At age 10, not long after being adopted, he quickly learned Japanese, being capable of having casual conversations. By the time he enrolled to Tootsuki, he aced all the subjects, while also taking care of all his and Jun's chores without failing.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Discussed, then inverted. The combination of spices and their smells are the focal point of all his dishes, without exception. Following his tie in the semi-finals of the Autumn Election, Akira is called out as a "one-trick pony" by Ryo. [[TranquilFury Akira does not take this well.]] He then proceeds to refine his talents further though, rather than branch out. As a result, when he wins in the finals, it's because "the face of the chef" was most apparent in his dish. In other words, his unique mastery of a single skill made him stand out more against his more well-rounded opponents.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: His hair is white rather than blond, but his skintone clearly defines his non-Japanese (presumably Indian) heritage.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: Seems to finally let go of his haughty attitude toward Soma after losing to him in their third confrontation. This also makes him appreciate Alice and Ryou as well]].
* EvilCostumeSwitch: When Soma and the others see Akira again and learn that [[spoiler:he has joined central]], he no longer ties his hair and is wearing a BadassLongcoat [[spoiler: and the Central badge]]. After he joins Alice and the other rebels, he ties his hair, showing that he's part of the group again.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: He leaves the Shiomi Seminar, and joins Central, with clear intent to get rid of Soma and his allies. It's later revealed that he was blackmailed by Azami into joining.]]
* FatalFlaw: While Dojima gave hints of this during the Autumn Election, they finally come to play during the Promotion Exams. Azami takes advantage of his [[UndyingLoyalty devotion]] towards Jun to manipulate him into joining Central, knowing that his need to protect her work would make him accept Central without even ask her. And also his [[IWorkAlone distrust of others]] outside the seminar isolated himself from asking help to Soma or the others before taking Central as the only option.
* FirstNameBasis: He calls Jun by her first name, despite the latter's protests.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Jun -- Both are experts in spices, but where the latter is naive, ditzy, easily angered, dependent and is content with theoretical knowledge, he is mature, reliable, cool-headed and has a more hands-on approach to spices.
** To Ryou -- Both were rescued from bad environments when they were children by women associated to Tootsuki. While Ryou is more aggressive and wants to win because of his competitive nature, Akira is motivated by his loyalty to Jun.
** To Souma -- Souma's father tries to impart a lesson about the PowerOfLove as the secret to improving Souma's cooking to no avail, while Akira is already explicitly motivated by his loyalty and implied affection for Jun. By the time of the Promotion Exams, Akira is a lone wolf who refuses to get help from anyone except for Jun's ([[spoiler:which greatly tampers with his game the moment he distances from her]]), while Soma is constantly improving because he always develops his cooking with and for his friends.
* ForcedIntoEvil: Despite his arrogant and cold demeanor towards Soma, [[spoiler:he isn't happy at all to be part of the Elite Ten because he got there by being blackmailed with Jun's research in Azami's hands.]]
* FriendlyRivalry: After winning the Autumn Election, he and Soma start getting along pretty well. Both he and Ryou often come over to his place so the three can compete in cooking, much to Akira's annoyance.[[spoiler: However, that small friendship had likely been spoiled with Akira's defection to Central. Only this is Soma we're talking about: Soma immediately promises to ask Fumio to let them stay in the dorm (too bad Central expels anyone who loses to mere "Rebel")]].
* TheGift: He has an extraordinary sense of smell, which people think might give him potential close to that of Erina. With just this, he has a mastery of spices apparently superior to the actual Tootsuki alumni and already has the same level of ability to pick out the best ingredients as Ryou, who has been working with seafood since he was a child.
* HappilyAdopted: Jun rescued him from the streets, gave him a home in Japan and the head of the Hayama Seminar gave him his new name and became his godfather. In exchange for all this, Akira is determined to be the very best for her. For her part, she's worried that he pushes himself too hard.
* IOweYouMyLife: Akira feels that he owes everything to Jun, since she gave him a home, a real family and a new purpose in life.
* IWorkAlone: He is rarely seen with anyone of his age, since he spends much of his time working by himself at the Shiomi Seminar. After the Autumn Election, he unwillingly has Soma and Ryou frequent his (and Jun's) house, constantly trying to shoo them away or reminding them that they lost to him. It gets worse when Alice (and Ryou) forces herself into ''his own Full Moon Banquet stand'', and his objections are overridden by Jun, who's excited at the prospects of him finally having friends of his age.
** [[spoiler: This ties into his loss to Soma during the "Revenge match". Akira went at it completely alone, not even having Jun around to ask for advice and ideas. Soma, on the other hand, was able to gain the help of Kuga's subordinates, as well as a professional hunter to help gather rare ingredients.]]
* InsufferableGenius: Frequently boasts about how awesome his nose is and how great he is at cooking. It's a way of putting pressure on himself, but it's also pretty annoying, especially to Ryou.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler: After Azami shut down the Shiomi Seminar, Akira decided to join Central rather than the Rebels]], figuring that was his only way to protect Jun.
* {{Leitmotif}}: In the anime, Akira always has a Hindi-style music when presenting his dishes.
* LetsGetDangerous: He ties his hair in a ponytail whenever he's about to cook.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: He has white hair that reaches his shoulders. He untied his hair when verbally challenging Soma once the Autumn Election was announced.
* MeaningfulName: Since he didn't have a name before being adopted, Jun and the head of the Hayama Seminar gave him the name "Akira", which means "Gift", because they saw his smell sense as a gift for the culinary world.
* MommasBoy: Everything Akira does is for the sake of his adoptive mother, Jun.
* TheNoseKnows: His nose is very sharp when it comes to spices. He can identify ingredients and grade of cooking by the first smell. This ability equals to those of Erina's God's Tongue.
* NotSoStoic: Even though he keeps relatively calm and cool most of the time, one passing student could note his TranquilFury aura, and also after he was declared winner of the Autumn Election the audience were quick to note that his spontaneous hug to Jun came out of nowhere.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: He managed to beat several 3rd year Central members in a battle royale to claim one of the empty Elite 10 seats.
* OnlySaneMan: To both Alice and Ryou during the Full Moon Banquet, due to the former putting their Shiomi Seminar stall in the red with her capriciousness and the latter passively going along with her ideas. On the morning of the fourth day he warns Alice that either she gives up overdoing the dishes or they won't recover their debts (and risk getting themselves and Ryou expelled).
* OutOfFocus: He's been mysteriously absent ever since [[spoiler: Azami Nakiri took over as the new director.]] Which is jarring considering [[spoiler: one of Azami's reforms made it so that all seminar groups, including Jun's, would be shut down]] which is an event you'd expect him to have a prominent role in.[[spoiler: But with his turn to Central revealed, that might explain his lack of participation in the Survivor's Hunt.]]
* TheRival: During the Autumn Election arc, he has been built up as one of Soma's major rivals, even surpassing Soma and Ryou in the preliminaries. Come the finals, he's developed an even more fierce rivalry towards Ryou.
* RivalTurnedEvil: [[spoiler:He shows up in the exams as one of the provisional Elite Ten, having apparently discarded the Shiomi seminar in pursuit of his ambition. While it's revealed that he didn't choose Central by free choice, Soma accuses him of not fighting to protect the seminar from the beginning.]]
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: He's much more down-to-earth than the childishly excitable Jun. He falls in this role again after being paired with the energetic Alice (with Ryou remaining neutral).
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Chides Hisako for being content with being Erina's second, meaning she'll never truly strive to reach the peak of her ability. He also uses this as an insult to both Soma and Ryou whenever he wants to provoke them.
** [[spoiler: Ironically gets it thrown back at him during his re-match with Soma when he's told that he lost sight of what he was cooking for and let his previous victory stifle his talent, whereas Soma constantly keeps looking for ways to improve his cooking.]]
* StraightMan: To Jun, since he is more focused and down to earth compared to her. During the Full Moon Banquet he also has to curb Alice's capriciousness, especially after she ended up plunging their booth into debt.
* StreetSmart: He knows from early age how the spice market works and how the store owners scam tourists with low-grade spices.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Has dark skin and his chef uniform is black. Also add his mysterious aura and fierce competitive streak. When referring to him, a lady at the fish market described him as "The dark skinned ''handsome'' guy".
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: He wasn't thrilled when Alice and Ryou took over his stall at the Full Moon Banquet and kept bickering with her on who was really in charge.
* TookALevelInBadass: He was already amazing, of course, but [[spoiler: during the Central Eliminations, he curb-stomped ''third-years'' with seemingly ease, and Dojima talks about him as if he was a whole new man]].
* TookALevelInKindness: After his defeat against Soma and his HeelRealization, Akira realizes that he didn't value Soma and the others as real friends and also that he took Jun for granted at some point. By the time he reunites again with the rebels, he still feels bad for betraying them.
* TranquilFury: While Soma calls him out for trying to appear cool after tying up in the semi-finals and Ryou calls him a [[CripplingOverspecialization one-trick pony]] for depending only on spices, a bystander perceives all his bottled up anger as he walks through the hallway.
* UndyingLoyalty: When Natsume offers him a high-paying position in her company, he declines, declaring his loyalty to no one but Jun.
* WackyParentSeriousChild: Even though Jun is his adoptive mother, she is aware that Akira is taking care of her instead and feels like she's not giving him enough. Akira disagrees and, while he scolds her for only focusing on her studies and her occasionally childish behaviour, he appreciates that she changed his life.
* WhenHeSmiles: He cannot help but give a gentle grin after seeing Alice taking the Full Moon Banquet seriously (and coming up with a compromise that incorporates both their ideas for the Shiomi Seminar stall), in the process fixing the financial damage she inadvertently caused to the booth for its first few days.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** He gets this from Soma [[spoiler:when the latter called him out for not considering fighting for Jun and instead opted to jump into Central's wagon. Given that Akira had currently the best ranking between all of them, and both Soma and Ryou defeated Central in their own fields, Soma's anger at him is understandable.]]
** [[spoiler: Jun likewise gives him one figuring that even if Azami had gave his word, he wouldn't be trustworthy enough to keep it.]]
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Alice Nakiri]]

[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d77dbf8de03340b758828519c4cbc587.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ChinatsuAkasaki (Japanese), Christina Kelly (English)

Erina's half-Danish cousin, Alice is a first-year high school student at Tootsuki, with her specialty being able to create very elaborate dishes, both beautiful and complex, using molecular gastronomy techniques.
----
* AchillesHeel: Despite being one of the best cooks of the 92nd Generation, she gets so wrapped up in strange techniques and impact that she can easily lose track of what she's supposed to be doing. When tasked to create a bento in the Autumn Election quarterfinals, she technically fulfilled the criteria of the assignment, but failed to realize the point was to create a ''bento.'' What she made was simply sushi in a box that would stay cold for six hours, not the novel experience that Soma produced by simply starting with the basics and then improving from there on.
* {{Adorkable}}: Just like her cousin, Alice has a tendency to be petty and childish, made all the more noticeable by her interactions with her usually deadpan assistant Ryou.
* AlwaysSecondBest: She's never been able to beat Erina at cooking, something she wants to change. She has yet to manage it, so she taunts Erina about her lacking social skills instead.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite her "rivalry" with Erina, [[spoiler:upon hearing that Azami came back and tried to close her off, Alice wasted no time spiriting her out of the Nakiri mansion with Ryou and Hisako's help. Later on, at the end of the first day of Central's survivor purge, she outright tells Azami in front of all of Venue D that she hates him for what he did to Erina, and that she won't let him have his way with her cousin or Tootsuki. A note at the end of the chapter then states that despite their rivalry, Alice loves Erina very much]].
* BreakTheHaughty: She had a very superior attitude from the beginning towards anyone, until Soma defeated her in the first round of the Autumn Election, to the point she started to cry like a little child in the middle of the stage and later getting lectures from both Erina and Ryou.
* ButNotTooForeign: She's half-Danish by way of her mother Leonora.
* CharacterDevelopment: Is slowly but surely getting there. She starts off thinking that her molecular gastronomy alone will be enough to make food taste amazing, never focusing on what customers would enjoy most in terms of taste and experience, which is a big part of why she loses to Soma in the Bento challenge. Come the Full Moon Festival, she still seems to think this way, putting herself plus Akira and Ryou in danger of expulsion, until a stern talking to from Akira makes her compromise. By the final day, she helps the guys with their dish of curry by adding a garnish of an elaborate chocolate sculpture, allowing her to use her molecular gastronomy to still add a touch of whimsy to the dish, but this time she's genuinely focusing on making sure that her customers enjoy the flavors and experience rather than just to show off.
* ChekhovsGun: In Chapter 64, Alice beat the captain of the Cutting-Edge Cooking RS in order to take his club's equipment and room. At the time, she didn't realize that the Shokugeki also gave her leadership of the RS. [[spoiler:Of course, this RS is also targeted during the Survivor Purge, though Alice probably would have opposed Azami regardless of running the club.]]
* ChildProdigy: Alice already received awards in molecular gastronomy in Denmark when she was nine, with ''42 patents'' to her name by the time she was ten.
* CoyGirlishFlirtPose: She does one right before the judges try her curry dish, crowning the servings by mentioning "how much ''love'' she put into doing it".
* CrazyPrepared: During the Autumn Election preliminaries, she brought a gas mask in case there was a huge stench, like Nao's foul-smelling dish.
* CryCute: PlayedForLaughs -- after losing to Soma, she immediately throws a tantrum in the middle of an audience of hundreds. Though she quickly regains her composure, her mother Leonora later recounts how Alice whined to her for nine straight hours over international lines.
* DefeatMeansRespect: Alice stopped treating Ryou like a pet when he finally won against her; after two years of continually beating him at cooking no less.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: While she is quick to take charge, Alice frequently neglects to think her schemes through, with Ryou often needing to ask what she intends to do next.
* EpiphanyTherapy: After Akira scolds her for her capriciousness putting their (and Ryou's) school tenures at risk, Alice decides to take the Full Moon Banquet seriously. Come the final day, she and Akira make a compromise with curry rice and 3D printed food, having realized that the latter has a point.
* EvilAlbino: Downplayed. Alice has silver hair and marble skin with [[RedEyesTakeWarning crimson eyes]], and can be quite arrogant, selfish and stubborn, but isn't actually "evil" or particularly malicious, just hyper-competitive and too smug for her own good.
* FailedDramaticExit: She first introduces herself to Soma by suddenly popping up in front of his cooking table out of nowhere, exchanging a few words with him, and then haughtily turning on her heel and walking away in confident fashion... only to crash right into Ryou.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Her hair is short and has a longer sidetail on her left.
* {{Foil}}: Three examples.
** To Erina -- while both are arrogant and haughty, Alice is a bit more social than her cousin, if only because she learned them from TV. Due to their different upbringings, Alice also tends to be a lot more emotional and childish, while Erina rarely shows herself as anything but in control.
** To Ryou -- Aside from their clear appearance contrast of white (Alice) and black (Ryou), Alice is shown to be playful and childish, while Ryou to be aloof and low energy, or fierce and violent. In addition, Ryou's cooking is very straight-forward, maximizing flavor through traditional or even primitive means of preparation, meanwhile Alice relies on her superior technology to bring out flavor. However, they both share a proud sense of superiority and passion for victory.
** To Soma -- she is a firm believer in culinary science, in contrast to Soma who prefers to experiment and is not afraid to be in the wrong.
* FreudianExcuse: Her arrogance and drive to win stems from her long-seated desire to surpass Erina, as she always stood above her since they were children.
* FriendlyRivalry: In contrast to her relationship with Erina, there's little tension or hostility with Soma during their Autumn Election match, and while there's some condescension from her throughout the match, after she loses to Soma their relationships returns to friendlier banter.
* FullNameBasis: On the receiving end. With the exception of Erina, Senzaemon and Ryou, almost everyone refers to her as "Nakiri Alice".
* TheGadfly: She's not nearly as aloof as Erina, but almost as arrogant in her own way. For Alice, though, that just means she endlessly teases people.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Erina was mean to her when they were growing up and she still looks down on Alice, preferring to stand as the superior chef. In exchange, Alice teases Erina where she knows her cousin is less experienced -- social life and behaving like a normal teenager.
* TheHeart: Despite being sometimes selfish and childish, Alice does care for others, to the point her cheerful attitude helps others. She managed to pull Erina out of her HeroicBSOD by showing her how much they love each other, and [[spoiler:keeping the expelled rebels together before the Regimental Battle, while also welcoming back Akira without a second thought]].
* HiddenDepths: To face-off against Central, Alice challenged them in the name of the Cutting-Edge RS so she could use her new title of "Captain Alice", but later she admitted to Soma and Takumi that she also wanted to do something against her uncle and help Erina.
* HypocriticalHumor: During their Autumn Election match, she complains to Soma that staring at her while cooking is very rude, only for Soma to remind her that she did just that when they met at training camp. Then after she loses and Soma makes a comment about getting closer to his goal, she takes it as a taunt to her and completely chides him for it -- ''she'' who's done nothing but exactly that since they've first met. She won't even take others' comments with grace, seen with her interactions with Erina and Ryou afterwards.
* INeverGotAnyLetters: She complains to Erina that she never got any correspondence from her during her time in Denmark, which is justified as it is revealed that [[spoiler:Azami deliberately blocked off their communication]].
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Basically how she got Ryou Kurokiba to be her assistant.
* InsufferableGenius: Alice will make sure everyone knows she is the best student (after Erina, of course).
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Alice declares she made all her research about love and teases Erina for not knowing about it when her knowledge comes from watching rom-coms, yet she falls asleep in the middle of them.
* LetsGetDangerous: After Akira reminds her that the Full Moon Banquet was meant for customers, not themselves, Alice decides to take the event seriously and comes up with a compromise dish incorporating Akira's curry rice and her 3D printed chocolate. It worked so well she managed to almost single-handedly reverse their debts into a profit.
* LovableAlphaBitch: She is introduced as another arrogant school princess like Erina with her tendency to look down on others, a provocative attitude and her willingness to shut down a school club so she can take their room and equipment, the latter which she didn't even need. However, she's much more social than her IceQueen cousin, rather goofy and is willing to cook her dishes for people that ask.
* MistressAndServantBoy: Her type of relation with Ryou Kurokiba.
* MsFanservice: In a bonus chapter, where she visits a local swimming pool with Erina and quite proudly showed off her figure by wearing a skimpy bikini.
* MultiEthnicName: Her name is Western, while her family name is Japanese.
* NeverMyFault: She refuses to accept the fact that her capriciousness plunged her, Akira and Ryou's Shiomi Seminar stall into last-place among the 60 main street stalls for the first day of the Full Moon Banquet, instead shifting the blame on the former (simply for trying to rectify her screwups). It doesn't help that the latter is passively going along with her. Once Akira calls her out on this, however, Alice finally accepts her responsibility and manages to find a way to fix the situation.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: No thanks to her meddling, what was supposed to be a no-brainer for Akira throughout the Full Moon Banquet turned into an academic life-or-death struggle after her on-a-whim improvisations and last-minute changes plunged the Shiomi Seminar stall into a financial deficit.
* NoBadassToHisValet: After losing to Soma, Ryou chides her about being too weak.
* {{Ojou}}: Ryou treats her as "Milady Alice", she is accustomed to getting everything she wants (from expensive machines to the room of a Research Society Club) and sees going to a public pool like "an adventure". She is also perplexed from seeing "educational cheap candy" for the first time.
* PracticalTaunt: Approached Ikumi and Hisako in the middle of the contest to tease them.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: She has a unique eye design, and her red eyes along with her [[EvilAlbino white skin and silver hair]] look really intimidating.
* RichBitch: Downplayed. She's proud, egoistic and frequently looks down on conventional cooking methods, but she's generally quite friendly and is not as stubborn as Erina is.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: For the Full Moon Banquet, she insisted Erina to have a revised version of the ''all'' the culinary guides so they can feature her name in Akira's Shiomi Seminar stall, insisting that she could cover the cost of the reprint. Then, after she ended up ruining the stall's finances, she planned to make another of her special curry dishes, charging 2 Pine Tickets per serving (roughly ¥20,000 or ~$200). Akira quickly rejected the idea, as they were in the main street area, where each serving couldn't surpass ¥500 (~$5). She didn't even see anything wrong with her plan until the latter reminded her that their stall is an actual business, not a vanity project.
* TheRival: To Erina since childhood, and to Soma as of the Autumn Election.
* SacrificialLamb: Her expulsion (along with Hisako's) hits Erina hard enough for her to join Soma's idea of grabbing the majority of seats of the Elite Ten.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: With Ryou (when he's not wearing his bandana). She's clearly the more outgoing, emotional and childish of the two.
* SawItInAMovieOnce: Twice. The first time when she teased Erina about her lack of experience in love, while she herself made a lot of investigation, which involved ''romantic comedy movies'' she didn't even finish watching. And the other is when she helped Erina escape the Nakiri mansion, suggesting that they can be runaway teenagers ''like the ones she saw on a TV Documentary'', which Hisako bluntly rejects.
* SexyScandinavian: Like her mother, she has Danish ancestry.
* SharedFamilyQuirks: Alice makes [[SuperDeformed comical chibi-faces]] when she teases people, shows her cluelessness/adorkability or starts to pout. Her mother makes the same faces.
* SiblingRivalry: She is consistently trying to defeat her cousin Erina and establish herself as the best freshman in Tootsuki.
* SoreLoser: Subverted. After Soma defeats her, she is clearly upset and proceeds to cry and throw a tantrum, but she still thanks him for the match and keeps the FriendlyRivalry with him.
* SpoiledBrat: As Ryou admits, Alice is very stubborn and will get what she wants no matter what, often pouting and whining whenever she gets upset (like Ryou "ruining her taunting atmosphere" or why he didn't slice her apples like bunnies). She even started throwing a tantrum after losing to Soma, then cried about it to her mother over the phone for ''nine hours straight''.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Alice looks like a younger version of her mother.
* TeamPrimadonna:
** Once Alice decided to have a booth for the Moon Banquet Festival, she managed to convince Jun to sign her and Ryou up and takes over the Shiomi Seminar stall, much to Akira's annoyance. Instead of thinking of the customers and the event itself, her only motivation was to compete directly against Soma and Erina.
** After discovering that she actually earned the leadership of the Cutting-Edge RS, she got so delighted by this that she wanted everyone to call her "Captain Alice".
* TheTease: Most of her interactions with other characters involve gloating or seductive tones to get a reaction. In a flashback, Alice also did this when she first met Ryou, treating him like a pet[[note]]Which is funny considering she was a child, but is said with an expression that ''[[GettingCrapPastTheRadar feels wrong in another context]]''[[/note]].
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: Even if she gets one of the highest scores, she will lecture her opponent about how their efforts weren't enough. Downplayed when Soma isn't the type of person to get frustrated from gloating.
* ValleyGirl: Her speech patterns in the Viz volume translations are peppered with [[LikeIsLikeAComma like]]" and "totally".
* VitriolicBestBuds: Alice and Erina butt heads frequently, but they actually do get along, as Alice visits her frequently and tries to get her out to have lunch or hang out.
* WeCanRuleTogether: In a flashback, Alice offers Ryou companionship in exchange for helping him complete his training while on a trip in northern Europe.
* TheWorfEffect: Despite being built up as future member of the Elite 10 for her skills, she's soundly defeated off-screen by the current Elite 10 during the Hokkaido Exam finals and expelled from the academy.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Alice firmly believes in this trope, and thinks that Soma is trying to invoke HeartIsAnAwesomePower to defeat her in their Autumn Election match. She's wrong, though, because she actually failed to realize the point of the assignment. While both of their dishes were excellent, only one of them bothered to do more than technically meet the criteria of the match.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ryou Kurokiba]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shokugeki_ryou.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NobuhikoOkamoto (Japanese), Leraldo Anzaldua (English)

Alice's laid-back assistant, the scraggily-looking Ryou follows her everywhere and does what she asks. On occasion, Ryou becomes an entirely different person when he wears his bandana. His speciality is seafood cooking.
----
* AnimalMotifs: Any kind of feral animal, such as a dog or a tiger, due to his aggressive nature.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: He spends most of his time during the Régiment de Cuisine in a cage along with the other rebels taken out by Central's Elite Ten during the Promotion Exams.]]
* BadassesWearBandanas: His personality changes radically once he puts the bandana on, giving him a fierce look and aggressive character.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Ryou is shown to be more reasonable and mature than Alice, but he still goes along with every whim of hers, even when it transpired that he's a much better cook than his employer.
* BerserkButton: It turns out that it was ''him'' who challenged Rentarou to a Shokugeki, not Alice, because Rentarou insulted them by calling them "Small-Fry cooks". It was enough to make him flip into "Berserk Mode" in a blink.
* BrattyHalfPint: When he was a kid, he was really bratty and disrespected even adults.
* BrilliantButLazy: According to Erina, he only did a passable effort at classes, which was why she was surprised by his performance in the Autumn Election.
* CharacterDevelopment: He starts off as an arrogant child-chef consumed with power, but is humbled by Alice, choosing to lower himself to her aide to develop himself as a chef. He retains his lust for power and arrogance, but is again humbled by Akira, which causes him to reevaluate his cooking style and incorporate more dimensions to his dishes aside from just overwhelming flavor.
* ChildProdigy: He was a chef even as a kid, and he commanded the adult sous chefs what they have to do. In his own words, the owner gave the whole responsibility to him.
* ColorMotifs: His colors are black and red. His hair and cooking uniform are black, while his eyes and bandana are red. His personality is neutral on regular basis, and changes into fiery and aggressive the second he puts his bandana on. Also his last name starts with "Kuro", the kanji for "Black".
* TheComicallySerious: Whenever he is with Alice and without his bandana, he tends to clarify details to her and take her whining with a neutral face.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: He has black marks under his eyes (might be eyebags) in contrast to his red eyes.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: When his name was first listed among the Autumn Election candidates, almost nobody knew who he was. Even Erina is surprised because, while she ''does'' know him, it was as the quiet outlier with above-average grades. As the tournament went on, however, he proved himself a force to be reckoned with -- he was the very first candidate to score very high marks on the preliminaries in many years (and on the ridiculously tough Block A, even), crushed Megumi in the quarterfinals, and performs on an even keel with eventual winner Akira and co-runner-up Soma.
* DefeatMeansRespect: In flashbacks, it's revealed that Ryou didn't have any respect towards Alice when they met, calling her a SpoiledBrat to her face. After many defeats against her, Ryou started to treat Alice as "milady" (Alice-{{ojou}}) and agreed to be her assistant.
* EarlyBirdCameo: He appeared at the opening ceremonies and training camp, but isn't formally introduced until the Autumn Election.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Like Hisako's case, until the Autumn Election, Ryou was simply "Alice's assistant" and had NoNameGiven.
* ExtremeDoormat: Without his bandana, Ryou simply lets Alice do as she pleases, for better or worse. This is exemplified during the Full Moon Banquet, where he went along with Alice, even as she is plunging Akira's stall into the red with her capriciousness, to the point that he tells Akira, who was scolding her for her immaturity, to simply flatter her.
* FaceOfAThug: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Alice. She wants him to be her scary muscle so that she can look more intimidating to other students.
* {{Foil}}
** While Megumi focuses on heart and hospitality to soothe her guests, Ryou uses an overwhelming style based on sheer impact to incite craving for more. He scoffs at her weak style, saying she'll never reach true mastery like that. The difference lies in their upbringing: Megumi was raised in a warm, supportive environment surrounded by people who wanted what was best for her while Ryou grew up in a harsh seaside town among sailors with cooks who would have loved nothing more than to drive him out into the streets.
** Both he and Soma come from humble restaurants for the masses, but where Soma lives in a friendly neighborhood where he is free to learn from mistakes, Ryou came from a restaurant with a SocialDarwinist tinge; also, both have a habit of wearing pieces of cloth whenever they get serious. While Soma's headband is tied on his left arm, Ryou's headband is tied on his right arm.
** Ryou's black color motif visually clashes with Alice's white, and their respective personalities of aloof but fierce, and friendly but childish are constantly juxtaposed.
** Also with Akira. Both were rescued from bad environments when they were children by women associated to Tootsuki. While Ryou is more aggressive and wants to win because of his competitive nature, Akira is motivated by his loyalty to Jun.
** To Hisako. Both are assistants to the Nakiri cousins and follow all their orders, but while Ryou is motivated by his competitive drive and keeps surpassing Alice, Hisako follows Erina to be close with her, but without trying to surpass her, with their relation eventually changing to equals in the friendship.
** Most recently to Rentarou. Both are HotBlooded and aggressive, but Rentarou is normally loud and goes into an almost meditative trance when cooking, which is completely opposite to Kurokiba. Rentarou considers himself a leader, Kurokiba seems content to be Alice's aide. Where Kurokiba is loyal and quiet, Rentarou is opportunistic and smug.
* FreudianExcuse: A flashback shows the cooks in his restaurant used to bully him, to the point he had to toughen up.
* FriendlyRivalry: Even though he was so adamant to defeat them in the Autumn Election, Ryou is seen to be hanging out with both Soma and Akira, and is seemingly getting along with them just fine.
* GameFace: Whenever he puts on his bandana, he gains a SlasherSmile and an incredibly fierce expression.
* {{Guyliner}}: A frequent offender, Ryou is rarely seen with unpainted eyes.
* HadToBeSharp: The restaurant he worked in as a child had a strict survival-of-the-fittest environment where "useless" chefs are immediately laid off, driving Ryou to rise up the ranks of so merciless a kitchen.
* HotBlooded: Even when ''talking to a judge'' he is rude and menacing, even to the point of screaming at Taki to eat his food and yelling at Sonoka to already decide for the winner of the match.
* HypercompetentSidekick: On one hand, he essentially acts as Alice's butler and valet; on the other hand he is also implied to be better at cooking than Alice, after he lectures her following her loss to Soma in the first round of the Autumn Election alone.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He accuses Akira of being a [[CripplingOverspecialization One-Trick Pony]] who only relies on his spices to win, yet he himself only relies on stacking up powerful flavors to beat his opponents into submission. [[spoiler: When Rentarou calls him out on his one-dimensional way to cook in their Shokugeki, Ryou reveals the new-found depth in his dishes.]]
* {{Irony}}: He lost to Hayama's knowledge of spice in the Autumn Elections. He ends up in a curry restaurant during his Stagiaire period and learns more about them as a result. [[spoiler: It's also the reason he was able to win against Rentarou in their Shokugeki.]]
* IWorkAlone: He firmly believes every chef is on their own, as it's a constant competition of "eat or be eaten".
* ImStandingRightHere: Twice. First time when Alice was requesting him like a puppy, and the second time when Akira complains that Jun should serve him and Soma the cheap snacks instead of his good cookies.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Aggressive and confrontational as he is to the judges in the Autumn Election semifinals (in particular the submissive Sonoka), he’s right. It’s their duty to make the decision for a match and failure to do so makes their position worthless. Gin steps in with a solution that puts the problem off by declaring a tie between him and Akira, but the same thing happens in the finals.
* LetsGetDangerous: Whenever he puts on his bandana, he turns from culinary doormat to berserker.
* MistressAndServantBoy: Ryou treats Alice as "milady" and does many chores for her.
* MoodSwinger: By default, Ryou's mellow and TheStoic, until he puts on a bandana, of any type of headwear, as the BeachEpisode reveals, and turns "feral".
* NotSoDifferent: He has common upbringings similar to Soma, Megumi and Akira. Like Megumi, he grew up in a fishing town; like Soma, he managed to be the chef at a humble but popular restaurant; and like Akira, he came from a tough childhood before being introduced to Tootsuki by a complete stranger.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: This is accentuated in the anime. After Alice first tries to intimidate Soma (with no success), Soma notices Ryou behind her, who is glaring at him with his red eyes. Worth noticing that their eye contact lasted longer than his first impression of Alice.
* TheRival: Initially to Alice, [[MistressAndServantBoy also being her assistant]]. After the Autumn Election he becomes this to both Soma and Akira, at the same time also developing a VitriolicBestBuds dynamic with them.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Without his bandana, he's the savvy guy to Alice.
* {{Sidekick}}: To Alice; also fills the role of a personal butler. He slices fruit for her (she complains to him for not shaping them like bunnies), carries her bags and keeps an eye on her stuff while she goes to the pool.
* SleevesAreForWimps: His cooking attire, revealing his muscular arms.
* SoreLoser: After Akira wins the Autumn Election, he gets enraged to the point he yelled at Alice for scolding him and, along with Soma, demanded a plate of Hayama's carpaccio to compare. While both of them kept saying they could have done better, their bickering went along like the three of them became VitriolicBestBuds.
* StraightMan: Next to Alice. Even though he goes along with everything she wants (to the point that he stood by while Alice inadvertently put Akira's reputation in danger), he is not far from pointing out whenever Alice is being childish. After Alice takes the initiative to [[spoiler:take Erina away from the mansion]], Ryou is the only one who questions what to do next.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: He is imposing, stern, mysterious, and very good looking.
* TranquilFury:
** When Alice defeated the president of the Edge-Cutting Research Society and [[KickTheDog insisted to keep their expensive equipment in a corner even though she had even better machines]], Ryou grabbed him by the collar with a serious-menacing face and ''apologized to him for Alice's spoiled attitude''. The senior even lampshades this by pointing out that his actions don't match his body language.
** After tying with Akira in the semifinals, Ryou was furious, but quickly mellowed out once Alice removed his bandana. However, Ryou (while still calm) requested a cooking contest with Alice to vent out his frustration.
** He also sports this against [[spoiler: Rentarou for his Jerk-ass attitude.]]
* WorfEffect: [[spoiler: Despite being around equal ground with Soma and Akira, and winning one of the first major victories against Central by taking down Rentarou, he's unceremoniously swept under the rug during the Promotion Exams, being defeated and expelled along with most of the other rebels.]]
* WorthyOpponent: Implied to have feelings of this sort towards [[ShrinkingViolet Megumi]] after she demonstrates surprising skill and tenacity in her match with him.
----

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Hisako Arato]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/92585aa6250aa8ab5b8c1cfea38a9755.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriOnishi (Japanese), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (English)

Erina's secretary and close friend, Hisako specializes in medicinal-based dishes.
----
* AlwaysSecondBest: She wants to stay as Erina's NumberTwo and will crush any who dare oppose her -- a fact not lost on Akira, who, after defeating her, chides her for being content with where she is.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: Blood is all over her face and clothes after she cold-heartedly beheads a living turtle. It's not that much blood, but it still fits the trope and makes her look badass.
* BreakTheHaughty: She's so confident in her skills and her place in Erina's inner circle that, when she lost to Akira at the Autumn Election quarterfinals, she was so heartbroken she distanced herself from Erina out of shame. Ironically, it took being paired with Soma -- Erina's walking BerserkButton -- for her to even start recovering.
* CharacterDevelopment: She was introduced as nothing more than Erina's overprotective assistant with little personality beyond her subservience to Erina. However, after Hisako is defeated in the Fall Classic, its shown that Hisako and Erina are legitimately best friends, despite Hisako treating Erina as her superior. Once Hisako reappears during her Stagiaire week with Soma, Hisako realized that she needs to step up not only as a student-chef, but as Erina's closest friend. She genuinely grew to like Soma instead of holding grudges based on Erina's own issues with him, to the point Erina herself is shocked that Hisako talks friendly to him around her instead of overreacting at him like she usually did. After this point, Hisako becomes friendlier to the other students and her relationship with Erina evolves from a sycophantic one to a more equal-terms friendship.
* ChildhoodFriends: Played with. She's been with Erina since childhood, but was too much in awe of Erina to really be her friend. Soma later encourages her to be more a friend than a sidekick and cheers her up after her loss to Akira.
* DeathGlare: PlayedForLaughs. She occasionally exchanges them with Ryou.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Initially cold and hostile towards Soma due to his flippant attitude around Erina, she eventually mellows out to him after their Stagiaire assignment, having not only seen him show some skills she doesn't have, but also advised to not give up on her relationship with Erina following her loss to Akira, for which she warmly thanks him. The next time they meet, she confuses Erina by giving him a friendly greeting.
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Hishoko" (literally, "secretary girl"), given to her by Alice, used as a RunningGag by the author before a CanonName was established. [[DoNotCallMePaul To her annoyance]], the nickname spread throughout the student body. When Soma casually greets her this way, she flips out; luckily for her, unlike with Nikumi, Soma agrees not to call her it.
* EpiphanyTherapy: For her Stagiaire assignment, she and Soma had to work for a restaurant located next to a bullet train station. Realizing that her experience with staged situations in cooking classes pale before the realities of a working restaurant, which require more flexibility, she is forced to swallow her pride and learn from Soma, who actually grew in such an environment. The whole experience, coupled with Soma's words of advice, helped her recover from her loss to Akira and see herself as more than just Erina's sidekick, for which she is incredibly grateful to Soma.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Until the Autumn Election, Hisako was simply "Erina's secretary" and had NoNameGiven.
* FamilyBusiness: For generations, the Aratos served as personal medics to the Nakiris. To be able to serve Erina as well, Hisako oriented her family knowledge of medicinal herbs into her cooking.
* {{Fangirl}}: She practically worships Erina, at times almost looking like she's outright crushing on her. She's also quite jealous and overprotective of Erina (she makes ''a weapon search'' on Alice before she can even talk to her own cousin), including an aggressive attitude towards Soma without ever having spoken to him thanks to how casually he speaks to her boss.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Megumi -- both are overshadowed by a friend in skill (Soma and Erina, respectively) and mild-mannered. Their cooking styles are also similar, with one focused on soothing mental and physical aspects, while the other uses medicinal properties from herbal ingredients. But where Megumi is sweet and loving, Hisako has some of Erina' haughtiness rubbed onto her.
** To Akira -- both specialize in herbs and spices, and are [[UndyingLoyalty very loyal]] to their "masters", but where Akira is inspired by Jun to push himself beyond his limits, Hisako is content with being Erina's NumberTwo.
** To Ryou -- Both are assistants to the Nakiri cousins and follow all their orders, but while Ryou is motivated by his competitive drive and keeps surpassing Alice, Hisako follows Erina to be close with her, but without trying to surpass her, with their relation eventually changing to equals in the friendship.
* GirlFriday: Through the lens of a cooking manga, of course, meaning she cooks instead of fights. She's Erina's secretary and helps arrange all her affairs, provide emotional support and complete menial tasks like picking up Erina's manga. Her experience proves helpful during her Stagiaire shift with Soma, when she helps organize the reservation system at an overly busy restaurant, giving it a modern update to allow younger customers easier access.
* HeroWorshipper: When she and Erina were little, Erina wanted to be her friend, but Hisako was too respectful and decided to support her from behind. After she loses to Akira, she feels unworthy to be by Erina's side until Soma convinces her to see herself as more than just a sidekick.
* HeroicBSOD: According to Alice, when they met after the Full Moon Banquet she was despondent following [[spoiler:Azami firing her as Erina's secretary]]. And yet ''again'' after [[spoiler: she gets expelled from Tootsuki.]]
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: She becomes this to the Polar Star Dorms when [[spoiler:they had to defend their home from Eizan's gang, since Erina is hiding there. She also joins the victory party and joins them to check Central's Shokugekis]].
* HumblePie: She has two separate incidents that make up a single part of her character arc from Erina's sidekick to her friend.
** Firmly convinced that she was second only to Erina, she didn't work as hard as she could have in the Autumn Election and lost to Hayama, who chided her for [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers being content with second place.]] The next time she's in focus, she's clearly miserable because Erina's perfectionist attitude has rubbed off on her, causing her to consider herself worthless. Erina doesn't actually care if Hisako is perfect because the only one she won't accept failures from is herself, but the fundamental gap in how they view their relationship causes Hisako to separate herself from Erina out of a sense of inadequacy.
** After this, she gets an assignment with Souma during Stagiaire week when they have to help a restaurant and then leave some kind of clear improvement in it before the end of the week. He warns her about the demands of actually working in a real restaurant, but she dismisses him by saying she's had enough experience at the school with staged situations. However, it's clear that she's in way over head in such a busy restaurant, forcing her to swallow her bitter comments towards him and actually start learning. He uses the opportunity to prod her into returning to Erina, pointing out that if she failed once she just needs to try again in a different way. Notably, while this experience was humiliating for her at first, she's actually very grateful for what Souma did for her.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Erina is highly dependent on her. When Hisako goes into self imposed exile Erina grows increasingly frustrated, lonely and moody in general. Later, Azami strips her of her role as Erina's secretary in order to get rid of the few people around her that she can depend on. Erina's face makes it only too clear how much of a blow this was.
* MeaningfulEcho: During Stagiaire week, she passionately tells the owner of ''Mitamura'' that if the situation has changed, they need to change their approach and emphasize what's important to them without worrying about appearances. In the next chapter, Soma tells her to stop worrying about losing to Akira and go back to Erina, repeating her own words right back at her.
* TheMedic: She comes from a line of specialists in Chinese medicine, incorporating her knowledge into her cooking; during the Autumn Election preliminaries, her dish "breaks Nao's curse", so to speak, on the judges.
* {{Meganekko}}: She wears glasses when doing computer work.
* NotSoAboveItAll: She has a reputation for being serious, so the Polar Star Dorm is quite surprised to see that she's surprisingly silly at times, including basically cosplaying when she's trying to be stealthy.
* NumberTwo: She is the secretary to Erina. This results in her defeat against Akira, since she lacked the ambition to be the very best, just wanting to live in Erina's shadow.
* OhCrap:
** Like Erina, she ends Chapter 131 with a look of shock on her face when she discovers that [[spoiler:Azami has barged into his daughter's Full Moon Banquet stall]].
** Has it again in Chapter 135 when [[spoiler: Azami thanks her for all her hard work "until today".]]
* OnlyFriend: She's the closest thing Erina has to an actual friend, but even she mostly just hero worships Erina and wants to serve her. Erina isn't quite happy about that, but, until Soma told her otherwise, Hisako doesn't find herself worthy to be anything more than Erina's secretary. [[spoiler:Humorously, seeing Hisako and Souma casually chat with one another in Chapter 138 makes Erina a little jealous of Souma, as she perceives Hisako's friendship bond with Souma after the Stagiaire arc to be stronger than the bond she has with her.]]
* {{Pride}}: Just like Erina, Hisako is as elitist and perfectionist as her, also looking down on Soma based on social status and academic records alone.
* PutOnABus: After Akira defeats her at the Autumn Election, Hisako gave to Erina a letter stating she was "leaving on a journey", since she can't face Erina because of her failure, without listening to what Erina had to say.
** TheBusCameBack: Then she reappears as Soma's partner in the first Stagiaire week. Her experience working with Soma has helped her recover from her loss, and with Soma giving her not only useful words of advice, but the full set of Erina's favorite shoujo manga, Hisako now have both the courage and incentive to return to Erina not just as an assistant, but as a friend, for which she is grateful.
* TheReliableOne: No notice at all is given to it but, like Erina and Soma, Hisako ''also'' finished the training camp's 50-serving challenge well ahead of the pack. No bath for her though, because Erina had her run an errand down to the front desk.
* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: All her interactions with Erina can be seen like this, as Hisako gets excited with the prospect of tasting her cooking or worships everything Erina does. On the other hand, Erina enjoys Hisako's company as she is the only friend she has whom she can be her {{adorkable}} self. Their actual relationship towards one another is a bit more complicated and isn't really this trope at all: Hisako pre-Stagiaire hero-worshipped Erina and was a little afraid of her at the same time, which put a limit on how close they actually got to one another. Post-Stagiaire, Hisako now actively seeks to become a true friend of Erina, though Erina perceives Hisako's newly formed friendship with Soma to be stronger than her own friendship with her (and makes Erina jealous of him, in part because she does recognize Hisako as one of her only real friends).
* SacrificialLamb: Her expulsion (along with Alice's) hits Erina hard enough for her to join Soma's idea of grabbing the majority of seats of the Elite Ten.
* SatelliteCharacter: She's not lacking in development, but her entire character is focused around Erina and their relationship. She even adopts Erina's viewpoints as her own, though she does warm up to Souma before her boss does.
* TheSixthRanger: Despite not being one of them, [[spoiler:she helps the Polar Star tenants defend the dorm (and Erina, who was hiding there at the time) against Eizan's lackeys while Soma is challenging him to a Shokugeki]].
* {{Squee}}: Her reaction at the end of Chapter 133 after [[spoiler:Soma comes in to fill the remaining table at Erina's Full Moon Banquet stall. Also when Soma wins against Eizan, she gives this kind of reaction, making Erina wonder about her.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: Towards Soma after their week together at the Stagiaire Period, even to the point of telling Erina to thank him for the mangas he got for her, which shocks Erina. Also she allowed Soma to request feedback from Erina, who is actually confused on why she didn't shoo Soma away like she would usually do with anyone. The vast improvement of their relationship naturally never went unnoticed by Erina, much to her envy.
* UndyingLoyalty: Very loyal to Erina, since it's also tradition in her family, as the Arato line are personal doctors of the Nakiri's.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Subaru Mimasaka]]
[[quoteright:270:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/270px-subaru_mimasaka_profile_1263.png]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HirokiYasumoto (Japanese), Rob Mungle (English)

A burly freshman, Etsuya Eizan's protege, and Soma's Autumn Election semifinals opponent. Despite his looks, he's smarter than he appears and has a strong sense for details. He has no "specialty", but copies the other chefs he faces.
----
* AnimalMotif: Aside from his devil motif, during his match with Soma, he has a snake motif.
* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Any dish you can cook, he can cook better: his Shokugeki strategy is to study his opponent to learn their recipe, then add his own improvement to it.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: One of his key strengths, despite having no specialty of his own, he can creates dishes that have surpassed chefs at their own specialties solely through analyzing their abilities and creating a dish one step ahead of theirs.
* BadassBiker: The second time he appears, he's driving a motorbike. And he really loves it.
* BatmanGambit: How he defeats his opponents. He knows what they would do in any situation and he develops counter measures against them.
* BattleTrophy: He always bets on Shokugekis the opponent's precious tool, mostly to hurt the loser way beyond the defeat.
* BloodKnight: He loves intense cooking duels and is only interested in winning, that's why he challenges so many students he faces into ''Shokugeki''.
* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:With the Full Moon Banquet drawing to a close, Soma hired him as an extra hand for his booth, since he was not only the only student-chef without a booth, but he also has the skill to perfectly mimic Soma's mapo tofu dish. He was also chosen to join the rebel team during the Exam Battle]].
* CollectorOfTheStrange: He collects data of the rivals (even the most worthless details) and their tools as BattleTrophy.
* CombatPragmatist: In Eizan's words, though he certainly has the skill for cooking, he has no respect for ingredients or tools and only cares about winning. To do so [[StalkerWithoutACrush he spies on his opponents]], [[AwesomenessByAnalysis figures out what they plan on making as well as gathering information of their styles of cooking]], copy his opponents dishes to perfection and then making improvements to it until his dish is one step ahead of his opponents in every category [[CrazyPrepared whilst simultaneously making sure to take into account any other variables based on his information on his opponents skill and abilities to ensure he will remain ahead of them even if they try to improvise something]]. On top of that, during the match itself, he will also give {{Breaking Speech}}es on how utterly predictable they are and how pathetic it is for them to lose against their own specialties to put even more pressure on them. When one of the judges tries to call him out on his dirty strategies, he counters by stating that his particular style of cooking IS analyzing his opponents to ensure the greatest chance of success.
* CoolBike: He has an impressive looking bike. But how he protects his bike is more impressive.
* CrazyPrepared: His motto is "Right down to a gnat's eyebrow", a phrase which means "going into the most minute of details". Not only he puts a high standard of security for his motorbike (breaks, chains, raincoat and GPS tracking in case of robbery), he knows a lot of details about other cooks, even if some of the details are random or casual. Seriously, who needs to know Soma's shoe size, how many pair of shoes has or what kind of pattern Takumi's underwear has?
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: After losing to Soma, he later becomes an ally to be called upon when needed, proving especially helpful due to his copying abiltiies.
* DelinquentHair: He has a mohawk of dreadlocks.
* {{Determinator}}: After getting eliminated in the Regiment de Cuisine, Subaru traces Eizan, Momo, and Soumei in order to prepare Aldini, Megumi, and Soma for the next round, despite how consecutive traces consume almost all of his stamina.
* DiabolusExMachina: At the end of the Autumn Election preliminaries, he appears out of nowhere and steals the fourth spot of Block A from Shun and Zenji.
* DidNotSeeThatComing: He's so used to studying opponents that [[spoiler:Soma constantly improving his dish all through the night and up to their duel blindsides him completely, since he was so sure Soma would cook a certain dish beforehand and simply improvise the rest and just rushed ahead in making it.]]
* DreadlockRasta: He's a huge biker with a dreadlock mohawk.
* DittoFighter: Due to his analyzing and extensive stalking, he is able to copy dishes AND make them better. This works to his advantage in team battles as well, because he can perfectly mimic his teammate's dishes and therefore can add on to them without cramping their style.
* EasilyForgiven: Downplayed. Only Soma seems to be on good terms with him. The others still can't get over him being a creepy stalker and Takumi still cannot forgive him for what he did to his Mezzaluna. This gradually fades over the course of the Full Moon Banquet arc, however, and by the Central arc he's more-or-less become an HonoraryTrueCompanion, [[spoiler:even joining the Rebel team during the Regiment de Cuisine]].
* EvilGloating: People say that in one Shokugeki, he [[EvilLaugh laughed loudly]] as he [[KickTheDog took away a knife which was a memento of his opponent's late mother]]. [[spoiler:Right before he's awarded the win, he gloats how he knew Takumi would try to one up in his dessert.]]
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: When he lost against Soma, his dreads untied, letting his long hair flow (and causing some disgusted reactions from the girls in the audience), as a sign that he has given up his dishonest motivations. By the time of the Red Leaf Hunt, Subaru is still wearing his hair loose.
* TheFaceless: The first time he appears, his face wasn't shown and his name wasn't revealed. His second appearance reveals finally his face and his name.
* FanDisservice: He is prone to this:
** One of the judges gets disturbed when his dessert made them picture Mimasaka as a YamatoNadeshiko.
** After Soma wins against Subaru and gives him a plate of his stew, his dreads get loose and ''his hair starts to flow while he sparkles'', much to the disgust of the female judges.
** While doing his "Image training" of the Elite Ten we're treated to him copying the mannerisms of each of the Original members of the Elite Ten. The images he provides are perfect reason to perform a Brain Bleach.
* FatalFlaw: Same as being a CombatPragmatist which even Soma notices. He's good at duplication and observation, but is so obsessed with just winning he's practically just wasting his talent and thus doesn't bother trying to take his creations further then just slightly outshining the competition. Sure enough, this leads to his downfall as he only studied what Soma was planning on making, not considering the possibility that he may continue to improve his dish ''right before and even during the time he started to cook during the competition''.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He's a gracious host and not averse to having casual chat with future opponents. However, before and during a match he mocks, belittles and sets out to destroy someone by beating them with the exact thing they chose to make. Further, he makes people bet items precious to them in Shokugekis and then simply stockpiles his rewards.
* {{Foil}}: His copying of opponents seems to provide a dark mirror to Soma's experimenting and learning.
* FreudianExcuse: He has a distant father who continually denied his cooking skills because they lack originality. After he defeated his father in a cooking contest by modifying his father's special recipe, the latter sent him away to Tootsuki rather than giving him the praise he wanted (or, in his own words, his father ran away on him). He was then taken in by [[EvilGenius Eizan]], who encouraged him to be the BloodKnight we know.
* GeniusBruiser: He's very tall and muscular, but his knowledge of details is crazy. One of his greatest strength is predicting the moves of his opponents.
* {{Gonk}}: Especially next to most of the [[{{Bishonen}} male cast by comparison]], it's accentuated by his OverlyLongTongue, large build and creepy expressions.
* GracefulLoser: After a brief breakdown following his loss to Soma, Subaru tries his dish, and is so awestruck he calms down, concedes defeat, and even volunteers to quit cooking (the same losing condition Soma set upon himself for their playoff-turned-Shokugeki), though Soma dissuades him from doing so.
* HateSink: While there's no shortage of arrogant cooks in the series, Subaru's behavior is much darker to the point that even the judges comment on his tactics. This fades away after his defeat and the reveal of his [[WellDoneSonGuy backstory]].
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Thanks to Soma's words of advice, Subaru gives up his unscrupulous ways and even wholeheartedly joins Soma's Full Moon Banquet stall. To fully cement his turn, he joins the rebels in their Team Shokugeki against Central]].
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: It takes a while, but he eventually becomes this [[spoiler:during the Central arc. Not only does he join the Rebel team, he also helps his fellow first years train for their matches in the third bout after he loses. Even Takumi no longer holds any animosity towards him (especially after learning it was Eizan who was pulling the strings during the Autumn Elections), showing concern for him when he offers to trace so many cooks in such a short amount of time, and thanking him for helping him increase his skills enough to beat and even humiliate Subaru's former boss in their match]].
* IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler:While Soma compliments him for effectively mimicking him and quickly accepting his offer, Subaru quietly mumbles that he owes him a lot -- presumably for helping him not to give up on his cooking even after losing to Soma.]]
* InsufferableGenius: He really is a good cook. He has good aesthetic sense, a fine sense of taste, wide knowledge, inventiveness, attention to detail and analysis. He just has such a foul personality it is said that no sensible restaurant would ever want to hire him. He's referred to as an awful cook because all he cares about is winning, not preparing good food.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: A lot of more delicate work during cooking is oddly dainty for someone of his size, causing a judge to be put off by how maiden-like he was making a dessert. Outside of cooking he's also very skilled at embroidery and even meticulously and beautifully stitched the kanji of his name into his uniform.
* JackOfAllTrades: Given that his special skill is to copy and upgrade other chefs' styles, Subaru has a great set of skills, such as baking, decorating, garnishing and smoked ingredients, with many of the audience comparing his smoke techniques to Shun Ibusaki's, who is known as the "Smoke Prince".
* {{Jerkass}}: He provokes the opponents he has to face and challenges them to ''Shokugeki'' to get their precious cooking tools back. [[spoiler:Until he lost to Soma, and Soma lectures him to continue the path of cooking for the people's smiles, leading him to show a HiddenHeartOfGold for Soma's kindness]].
* LaughablyEvil: During the Autumn Election at least, his stalking methods were both creepy as all hell and darkly humorous. After that arc, he's no longer an antagonist, but his imitations of other cooks, such as the Elite 10, are still hilarious.
* LogicalWeakness: His "Perfect Trace" is an awesome skill on its own, however two drawbacks to his skill have been noted:
** For one, it's most effective against an opponent who is unaware of his methodology. If he's facing an opponent who knows his MO and can take appropriate precautions (though granted he does have experience working around that as well) there's a greater chance he will misread his opponent and cause his "Perfect Trace" to fall apart. Which is exactly what Soma does, with Subaru being blindsided by Soma constantly improving his dish all the way up to and during the match whereases he had assumed Soma would simply not bother making a proper dish and simply improvise something on the spot with an assortment of random ingredients.
** Secondly, understanding what his opponent is doing doesn't help if he doesn't actually have the skills to replicate or improve on what's being done. [[spoiler: This is what eventually causes him to lose to Satou Soumei; Mimasaka's skills are impressive, but not enough to make better sushi than a Fifth Seat whose speciality is sushi.]]
* MeaningfulName: His surname sounds like ''mimic'', reflecting his signature skill.
* MethodActing: Invoked. To be more effective [[spoiler:and help Soma faster at the Moon Banquet Festival, he needed to research Soma's style more deeply, so Soma gave him the keys to ''Yukihira'' so he can get more in character, by copying every mannerism.]]
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: His habit of collecting knives from his defeated opponents calls to mind [[UsefulNotes/{{MusashiboBenkei}} Musashibo Benkei]]. Ryoko makes the comparison directly in the anime. [[spoiler: The fact that he pulls a HeelFaceTurn and becomes loyal to Soma after his defeat only strengthens the similarities.]]
* OverlyLongTongue: When taunting Takumi right before their duel.
* PowerCopying: Subaru doesn't specialize in any particular kind of food or style. Instead, he observes his opponent and copies their abilities and style, allowing him to first reproduce what they've made and then work from there on how to make it better. He calls it his Perfect Trace.
* PracticalTaunt:
** Right before their match, Subaru pressed Takumi's BerserkButton by insulting Isami, so he can have a ''Shokugeki''.
** He tries this again with Soma, hoping [[spoiler: his win over Takumi]] would make him fly off the handle and accept his Shokugeki out of anger. While Soma does take the challenge, he's unimpressed by Subaru's verbal bullying. Not only does he keeps a cool head during their encounter, Soma, with no hesitation whatsoever, ''raises the stakes in their Shokugeki'', much to Subaru's shock.
* RealMenWearPink: He's an intimidatingly huge guy with the FaceOfAThug, but he's very skilled in embroidery and other delicate works. Megumi also gets surprised by seeing him in a frilly apron. And his precise handwork with desserts lets him look like a maiden, much to the horror of the audience.
* RedBaron: According to Eizan, he's called "King of Stalkers". His second nickname is "Perfect Tracer".
* TheSixthRanger: [[spoiler:To Soma and Megumi's Full Moon Banquet stall as well as the Regimental Battle against Central.]]
* SlasherSmile: Accompanied by his OverlyLongTongue whenever he is challenging his prey.
* SmarterThanYouLook: He looks like a {{Delinquent}} (he probably is), but he's very intelligent guy.
* SmugSnake: He's very good, but he's also overconfident. He begins gloating during his match with Souma, but [[spoiler:he assumed Souma had stopped preparing some time before whereas Souma was testing new improvements in his head right until the end.]] He has a VillainousBreakdown when he inevitably loses [[spoiler:but upon recognizing that Souma's dish ''was'' better, he tries to quit as a chef, but Souma tells him not to be stupid and to learn from the experience.]]
* StalkerWithoutACrush: It's stated that he's this; he knows details about people that any other shouldn't know.
* SupportPartyMember: Not that he's helpless by himself, but in Regimen de Cuisine, [[spoiler:he shows that he can also copy his teammates, and help improve their cookings as well.]]
* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:By the time of the showdown between the Rebels and Central, Subaru has mastered his tracing abilities to such an extent that he can do so with a glance to match a member of the Elite Ten in a variation he calls, "Perfect Trace: Flash". However, doing so is physically and mentally taxing, which could prove troublesome as the bouts go on. In addition, he still doesn't perfectly replicate the experience of the people he's copying. As a result, Subaru's sushi cuts were masterful, but designed for typical nigiri sushi, not the orb sushi Saitou was using. As such, Subaru made too many cuts, throwing off the flavor and texture.]]
* TookALevelInKindness: After spending most of his early appearances challenging people to Shokugekis and making their lives miserable, Subaru later becomes a staunch ally of Soma and co, regularly popping in to help out when necessary.
* {{Troll}}: He intentionally upsets people, both to bait them into matches they don't need to enter and to keep them off balance during the match itself.
* WellDoneSonGuy: As a child, Subaru had tried to be the best in cooking to gain his father's praise and recognition.
* YoungerThanHeLooks: He's the same age as Soma and the other first year students, but he looks much older than he is.
[[/folder]]
----

!Other Students

[[folder:Ikumi Mito]]

[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c72fe4452a7733350cbf24de6c21af67.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShizukaIshigami (Japanese), Rachel Landon (English)

A freshman tasked by Erina with ridding of the Donmono Research Society (Don RS) Club to make room for another cooking lab, but is challenged and defeated by their guest chef Soma to a Shokugeki, with the match conditions forcing her to join said club. Ikumi's specialty is meat, but she slowly shifts her cooking into donburi (rice bowl) dishes and how meat complements other ingredients.
----
* AbsoluteCleavage: She wears the slightly modified summer Tōtsuki uniform that exposes her cleavage.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Her name implies she's Japanese, but [[DarkSkinnedBlonde dark skin and blonde hair]] is natural (rather than the deliberate [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganguro style]]), so it's not entirely clear.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Originally, Ikumi used expensive grade-A5 wagyu beef[[note]]A grade of "A5" in Japan is the near-equivalent of "prime"-grade beef in North America[[/note]]. Her first idea to use A5 meat for a local karaage business is discarded automatically because it costs too much for a middle-class shopping district. After some advice from Soma, she starts to learn how to use the whole dish as a unit, no matter what kind of meat she is using.
* BareYourMidriff: All her outfits (school uniform, cooking attire, casual clothes, etc.) are this.
* BeleagueredAssistant: Although she technically isn't this in Don RS, Ikumi is far more skilled than Kanachi, who is the president (and the only other member left) of the club.
* BerserkButton:
** [[DoNotCallMePaul Don't call]] her "Nikumi". Unless you happen to be Souma.
** Never put sauce on wagyu beef, as Daigo found out in a painful way.
* BeYourself: Throughout the series, she has difficulty acting honestly, always falling back on the prideful, aggressive persona she's spent years developing under the pressure of being heir to a powerful family. After her shokugeki with Soma, she begins acting more independently and with more kindness, no longer forcing herself to meet the expectations of her peers.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:With only one hour left before the rankings were announced, she, along with Takumi and Isami, arrived to aid Soma's booth]].
* BigBreastPride: Ikumi is certainly confident in her assets, and is [[https://i.imgur.com/4VISsIl.jpg constantly wearing clothing that reveals her cleavage]].
* CharacterDevelopment: Originally an arrogant student-cook employed by Erina, after a humbling Shokugeki and being forced to join the same club she was tasked to destroy, Ikumi starts to realize her own desire for approval by simply being herself, turning her talents into donburi.
* ChekhovsSkill: Her entry for the Autumn Election was ''Dongpo Pork Curry Don'', based on Chinese spices and Sichuan pepper. This would later help Soma and Megumi prepare their hujiao bing buns for the Moon Banquet Festival against Terunori's stall.
* CoolBigSis: The new members of the Don RS certainly treat her as this.
* CripplingOverspecialization: She loses the match against Soma because the only thing she bothers to focus on in cooking is meat. While the rest of her dish is still plenty delicious, the dish as a whole isn't really balanced right, causing the flavors to conflict. The judges don't eat all of it as a result, leaving Soma the clear winner before the results are even announced. She has since remedied it come the Autumn Election preliminaries, as the judges who heard of her reputation beforehand were surprised at how better-balanced her dish has become.
* DarkSkinnedBlonde: Has dark skin and is blonde. True to tradition, Ikumi has a stereotypically aggressive personality to match her appearance.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: By Soma, simultaneously developing a crush on him. By extension, she also befriends his dorm mates and the Aldini twins.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She starts to mellow out towards Soma, and integrates well into the Don RS as well as the circle of friends from the Polar Star Dorm.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Knocks Daigo out because he dipped a piece of wagyuu beef on sauce ''and'' called her "Nikumi".
* EmbarrassingNickname: "Nikumi", where "niku" means "meat" in Japanese. [[{{Tsundere}} The only one allowed to call her that is Soma.]]
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Her charms have attracted quite a number of people into joining the Don RS. In Chapter 122, we see a couple of other girls being a part of her admirers.
* {{Fangirl}}: She respected and admired Erina since the two were children, and she saw with how much dignity the letter dealt with the pressure of being the heir of a prominent family (something Ikumi herself struggled with). This admiration reaches a level where it's almost indistinguishable from an outright crush, complete with blushing, stuttering, stealing glances, observing her from afar while commenting on how cool she is, and at one point running away in embarrassment after she revealed her feelings to Erina.
* {{Foil}}: Clearly contrasted Mayumi -- both have unrequited crushes on Soma, but while Ikumi is more imposing, voluptuous and aggressive, Mayumi is shy, petite, humble and quiet.
* TheFace: She eventually becomes this for the Don RS, as Kanachi noted that many students started to sign up for the club after Ikumi became more charismatic.
* FlagBikini: One of her common bikini top features the American flag for some reason.
* FreudianExcuse: On her ninth birthday, her mother gave her a teddy bear as a gift. Unfortunately, her father destroyed it, telling his wife to never give their daughter another gift like that, and advising Ikumi to let go of any weaknesses to become worthy of the family business. This explains her appearance and attitude.
** This also explains her crush on Soma: Since her father prohibited her from showing her soft side, Soma was the first person ever to say openly that she was "cute" ''in a positive way'', just as she felt for the first time that she could be herself when trying his donburi.
* {{Gainaxing}}: [[https://i.imgur.com/YWqQ18u.gif Pronounced]] [[https://i.imgur.com/hJe0xga.gif in]] [[https://i.imgur.com/yLtlKhD.gif the anime]], especially in her usual [[https://i.imgur.com/O5uKg8g.gif bikini-top getup]]. Just sticking her arm out and leaning over ''slightly'' is enough to send her breasts into a frenzy!
* GracefulLoser: Implied. After being forced against her will to join the Don RS, she serves don in several friendly competitions and does it well, indicating that she takes her membership in the Don RS seriously in spite of being forced into it.
* HeelFaceTurn: After losing against Soma and being ditched by Erina, Ikumi becomes a valuable ally, member of the Don RS and a part of Soma's circle of friends.
* HiddenDepths: Her attitude is bold and aggressive, but it's hinted that she would like to be more feminine. However, her father raised her to avoid associating with anything that could be considered weak.
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: She becomes this to the Polar Star Dorm after her Shokugeki with Soma. Since she got her one-sided crush on him, she still gets along well with the girls and attended to their Fall Classic Celebration party. After the Tournament, she frequented the dorms regularly to have cooking practices with them.
* HopelessSuitor: A RunningGag in the series has Ikumi trying to do something nice for Soma, only for Soma to not notice her obvious crush on him, something else gets in the way (Ikumi finds out Soma didn't join the Don RS, leaving her with Kanachi; or when she found out that she wasn't going to be alone with him, as Mayumi was also there), or others teasing her about it.
* HotBlooded: She gets angered easily by anyone but Soma calling her "Nikumi", having Kanachi being his melodramatic self or Alice taunting her.
* HumblePie: She was Erina's henchwoman who liked to bully the clubs she was going to close. Not only did she lose the shokugeki against Soma, but he defeated her A5 wagyu dish with ''a cheap steak from the market'', which made the judges finish their bowls while hers was barely touched. After the defeat, Erina ditched her and she had to join the Don RS.
* KnifeNut: Has a knife strapped to her right leg and her favorite is a butcher knife.
* TheLadette: Has BoyishShortHair, physically strong, HotBlooded, intimidating, loves meat and can beat guys up. She easily knocks out Daigo.
* MsFanservice: She has a noticeably large bust and is not shy about showing it. Plus, she is almost always seen in {{Stripperific}} clothing, even while wearing her school uniform.
** Lampshaded in a bonus, where Soma asks her why she cooks in bikini when hot oil can reach her, to which Ikumi replies "a Chef mustn't be afraid of the kitchen".
* NonUniformUniform: Wears her shirt unbuttoned, revealing different bikini tops, and her tie is on her right leg. It's surprising to others when she shows up wearing her uniform properly.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Her two Shokugeki victories in the story (excluding the one against Soma) all happen offscreen. First the one against Nao Sadatsuka for the last spot in the Main Area of the Full Moon Banquet, and then [[spoiler:her victory against Mea Yanai in representation of the Don RS.]]
* {{Ojou}}: Judging from appearance and personality, one wouldn't see this, but the Mito family founded its business by distributing and selling meat across Japan. A flashback reveals Ikumi lives in a BigFancyHouse and wore an elegant dress when she was a child.
* OralFixation: Has to the tendency to lick her lips. It's justified since her lips are the most sensitive part of her body in terms of rating meat temperature and taste.
* PunnyName: "Mito" is a [[FunWithHomophones pun on the English word "meat"]]. Her nickname "Nikumi" contains the Japanese word "niku" for "meat". Doubles up as a MeaningfulName as she is best known for creating meat dishes.
* RichInDollarsPoorInSense: At one point, she offers a poor shopping district an amazing deal on A5 beef. It’s still far, far out of their realistic price range, but when Souma politely declines she gets puzzled at him apparently holding back out of politeness.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She's the Tomboy to Mayumi's Girly Girl.
* {{Tsundere}}: Ikumi denies being attracted to Soma, and will often yell how she doesn't care about the Don RS, even though she's embracing the donburi style. When Mayumi asked her what it was like to be at Tootsuki, Ikumi proceeded to describe Kanachi as an irritating loser (without mentioning him specifically), but added that ''Soma is not that bad''.
* SlasherSmile: Does this often, usually when cooking
* StarterVillain: The first opponent who requires extensive planning from Soma to defeat rather than his usual improvisation.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Almost always wears a bikini top and mini-shorts.
* WhoWearsShortShorts: Her cooking uniform is a bikini top and mini-shorts.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Isami Aldini]]

[[quoteright:230:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isami_aldini8.png]]
[[caption-width-right:230:[[labelnote:Click to see Slim Isami]]http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/isami_aldini_delgado_anime_hd.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukiOno (Japanese), Creator/ClintBickham (English)

Takumi's younger twin brother, Isami always stands alongside his brother to make Italian cuisine, with the same skill set learned from ''Trattoria Aldini''.
----
* {{Acrofatic}}: When chubby, despite his large size, Isami is very quick at cleaning and cutting the ingredients, let alone synchronizing his movements perfectly with Takumi.
* AdrenalineMakeOver: More accurately "Under Pressure Slim Down".
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Isami sees his brother Takumi as the one to beat since they learned to cook. He learned to accept the fact, but he still hopes to surpass him someday.
** It's also inverted since in most other things not related to cooking Isami is better than Takumi.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: When they're not in the kitchen, Isami enjoys teasing Takumi by reminding him to not cry or how he is more mature than him. He also openly laughs at Takumi whenever his boasts fail.
-->'''Isami''': (pointing to Takumi, who is babbling alone) "You can just ignore him when he starts talking nonsense like that." \\
'''Yuuki''': (thinking) ''That's family for you... He doesn't go easy on him.''
* BigBeautifulMan: As seen from Takumi's fan club, a part of it is also gushing over how adorable Isami is as well.
* BigLittleBrother: Not only he is OneHeadTaller than Takumi, he also acts like the more down-to-earth of the twins whenever they're interacting with others.
* BigBrotherWorship: Downplayed. Isami doesn't hold back when it comes to mock Takumi by calling him "lame". However, he does look up to him as a chef. As the series progresses, Isami trains to be stronger so he can support Takumi.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:With only one hour left before the rankings were announced, he, along with Takumi and Ikumi, arrived to aid Soma's booth]].
* {{Bishonen}}: When he loses weight during the summer, he looks much more attractive.
* ButNotTooForeign: The Aldini twins are half Japanese, but grew up in Italy. They've used the unique upbringing to make more flexible dishes such as using Japanese ingredients in an Italian style or vice versa.
* ChickMagnet: He, like his brother, is also popular with the girls, as a good part of Takumi's fanclub is also attracted to him, [[ChubbyChaser regardless if he is in his chubby mode or not]].
* CultureClash: A minor one, as he is confused about Japanese custom of "cheering fans with names". Otherwise, according to ''Shokugeki no Soma ~à la carte~'', he is very fascinated by Japan's culture, as he also considers the {{Maid Cafe}}s as such.
* EyesAlwaysShut: Mostly when he's chubby. Less often when he loses weight.
* FamilyEyeResemblance: The only physical resemblance he has with Takumi are the skin tone and their light blue eyes.
* FormerlyFat[=/=]FormerlyFit: Zigzagged, in that he slims down during summer due to fatigue from the heat, then regains weight around autumn and winter.
* GentleGiant: Unlike his ChallengeSeeker brother, Isami is always calm and polite to everyone despite his chubby and intimidating looks.
* TheGadfly: He knows exactly what to say to get Takumi flustered for his own amusement.
* HonoraryTrueCompanion: He and Takumi become this to the Polar Star Dorm after the Fall Classic Preliminary Round, when they attend one of their parties. After [[spoiler:Soma's Shokugeki with Eizan]], the brothers rush there to check on Soma (although Takumi seemed like he was going to nag at him as usual) and promptly join the party. They also joined the residents to survey on Central's Shokugekis, with Ryoko commenting that they almost feel like residents as well.
* InnocentBlueEyes[=/=]IcyBlueEyes: The only physical thing the twins have in common from their Italian heritage. He has InnocentBlueEyes when he is looking at Takumi with affection, while he has his IcyBlueEyes when he is about to get serious.
* JapaneseTourist: Subverted in ''Shokugeki no Soma ~à la carte~'', since he is half-Japanese-Italian. On their holidays, he drags Takumi to Tokyo Skytree (while Takumi kept complaining about the 70 minute line) and a MaidCafe (where Takumi labels him as an Otaku, which Isami just denies).
* MessyHair: In contrast to his blonde twin, Isami's hair is dark brown and spiky.
* MomentKiller: Usually for his brother. Whenever Takumi wants to pose as the aloof rival, Isami goes ahead and starts being friendly to Soma, to Takumi's embarrassment.
* MultiEthnicName: "Isami" is Japanese, while "Aldini" is Italian, from his mother's side.
* NiceGuy: Unlike Takumi, Isami doesn't try to appear cool and intimidating, and instead is ready to help anyone, even his brother's declared rival. When Takumi was trying to provoke Soma when the Breakfast Buffet Trial was announced, Isami nicely started to answer Soma's question about Italian breakfasts before Takumi told him to stop. Also during the Moon Banquet Festival preparations, he quickly helped Megumi with her boxes and during the 4th day he [[spoiler:offered his help with the noodles before Takumi could finish his boast]].
* ObliviousToLove: Justified, since he is customed to all girls looking at Takumi instead of him, as in ''Shokugeki no Soma ~à la carte~'' he also thinks that his ChildhoodFriend Bianca does. [[spoiler:She tells Takumi that she didn't confess to Isami because "He is too dense".]]
* SacrificialLamb: His defeat and expulsion in the Promotion Exams gives Takumi more personal motivation to get a seat in the Elite Ten.
* SiblingRivalry: Although Takumi is the better chef, Isami expresses his desire to surpass his brother.
* StraightMan: He is this whenever Takumi ends up embarrassing himself with his Hot-Headed persona.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Only during the summer.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Both Aldini brothers' names end with "-mi".
* {{Troll}}: Implied. In an extra, he invites two of Takumi's fangirls to exchange lunch with them, knowing very well that they cook better than the girls. He is smiling widely while the girls got depressed over this.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Miyoko Houjou]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shokugeki_miyoko.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AsamiSeto (Japanese), Creator/KaraGreenberg (English)

Heiress to a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama, Miyoko's specialty are Chinese techniques and wok maneuvers.
----
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Serious, tall, imposing and with a big fanbase, despite the fact she DoesNotLikeMen; all checked.
* CharacterDevelopment: She started as a cold and tough girl with trust issues on men, and was quick to dismiss Megumi when she revealed that she relied on Soma's help. After Megumi demonstrates her real talent at the Autumn Election preliminaries, Miyoko decides to change her attitude towards men and get closer to the staff members of her restaurant.
* CurtainsMatchtheWindow: Both her hair and eyes are purple.
* DefrostingIceQueen: After seeing Megumi's performance in the preliminaries and the support she gets from ''men'', she starts to question if her StrawFeminist mindset will really take her anywhere. She eventually stated that she is aiming to be closer to her staff thanks to Megumi's influence.
* DoesNotLikeMen: The restaurant her father owns is full of {{Straw Misogynist}}s who looked down on her cooking skills because of her gender and had tried to drive her out of the kitchen, causing her to have a low opinion of men in general. Most of all to her senior Kuga, because he's too annoying for her. She does, however, respect Soma.
* DudeMagnet: Has a huge group of guys cheering for her.
* {{Foil}}: For Megumi -- where Miyoko is a stern, strong, and man-hating lone wolf, Megumi is shy, humble, trusting and surrounded by men who appreciate her work.
* FreudianExcuse: The head chef at her family's restaurant told all the other cooks in private that he intended to drive her out, meaning she had to both be better than him and to maintain a defensive attitude against him and the others to keep her place.
* GracefulLoser: After the preliminaries conclude, she approaches Megumi to give her support for the next round, indicating Megumi earned her respect as a chef.
* HeirClubForMen: Wants to graduate from Tootsuki to be able to manage her family's Chinese restaurant, where all the male cooks underestimate her because of her gender.
* HugeSchoolgirl: Mixed with StatuesqueStunner -- she's at least a head taller than Megumi, so much so that when she was reintroduced in the runoff to the Full Moon Banquet she was playing basketball.
* JerkassRealization: Admits that she misjudged Megumi when she sees that not only did Megumi outscore her in the preliminaries, but also had the full support of the men in her village. The way she is now, Miyoko simply can't really run a kitchen properly.
* OutOfFocus: Following her elimination from the Autumn Election preliminaries, she wasn't seen again until the Full Moon Banquet, where she serves as a link between Soma (and, by extension, Megumi) and Terunori (who wanted her to join his stall).
* PerpetualFrowner: She rarely ever smiles, in fact.
* {{Qipao}}: Wears one during the preliminary rounds of the Autumn Election, causing at least one judge to get {{Nosebleed}} and most of the guys to go excited.
* StrawFeminist: Miyoko starts defending Megumi against anyone questioning how she got into the Autumn Election, but withdraws her statement when she hears about Soma helping Megumi, assuming the latter is weak for apparently depending on a guy to help her when in truth Souma mostly just helped her regain her confidence. A flashback reveals most of the chefs she worked with at her family restaurant were {{Jerkass}}es, giving her this mindset. However, when she sees that Megumi is her equal or better ''and'' has the support of all the men in her village rather than their grudging obedience she resolves to change herself.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: In a weird way towards Megumi. She's initially eager to meet her after hearing the stories about how she [[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun drew with Shinomiya in a Shokugeki]]. Megumi then starts to [[HumbleHero undersell herself]], claiming that it was mostly because of Soma that she didn't lose. Miyoko reads this as Megumi riding Soma's coattails and then starts to look down on her. It's later on during the Autumn Elections that she reaffirms that Megumi really is [[RebuiltPedestal as skilled as she initially believed]].
* WeaponOfChoice: Her signature dishes are made with a special metal wok, and heavier than regular ones.
* WhenSheSmiles: She finally does this when admits to Megumi that her kindness inspired Miyoko to be friendlier with her staff.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Nao Sadatsuka]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nao_7.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriGoto (Japanese), Karlii Hoch (English)

Erina's first-year stalker, forced to watch her idol from a distance after losing a Shokugeki to Hisako and being handed a 50-meter restraining order. Her speciality is boiled dishes, and despite the food being horrifically pungent, they taste unusually phenomenal.
----
* AmbiguouslyGay: Has a crush on Erina, constantly speaking about how much she wants Erina to taste her dish and ''[[DoubleEntendre scold her]]''. Later, she begins creeping on Hisako after being thoroughly defeated a second time.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: She stalks Erina. Hisako got an unofficial restraining order for her in middle school, so Nao just sends tons of letters to Erina every day. Later, she grows obsessed with Hisako, who is even more disturbed.
* BeautifulAllAlong: When she's drawn in a serious style instead of her cackling witch pose, she's shown to be gorgeous. It only lasts for a single panel, though.
* CordonBleughChef: Her dishes smell horrible and use unusual ingredients, but the quality of flavor is superior than the average Tootsuki student.
* DarkIsNotEvil: She gives the creepy vibe to everyone and is obsessing over Erina (and later Hisako), but she never does any real harm to anyone, aside from sending cursed letters or stalking them. Even after being jealous of Soma for a while, she was open to form a friendship with him after bonding.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Inverted, then played straight, in a manner of speaking. Being beaten in a Shokugeki by Hisako during middle school made Nao hate her even more, but when she ate Hisako's curry dish in the Autumn Election, whereupon Nao develops a crush on Hisako, to her utter disgust.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: As if her StalkerWithACrush tendencies didn't make her creepy enough, she has long jet black hair and sickly pale skin that makes her look like ghost.
* EvilCounterpart: To Hisako, as she is her opposite in both appearance and cooking styles. While both specialize in boiled dishes, Nao is gloomy, socially awkward and cooks like a witch, while Hisako is refined, graceful and specializes in medicinal dishes. Also, while Hisako has a big admiration for Erina and is regarded as her only friend, Nao takes this to creepy levels of obsession and Erina barely knows she exists.
* {{Expy}}: To [[Literature/TheRing Sadako Yamamura]] in terms of [[PeekABangs appearance]], as well as to [[Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular Tomoko Kuroki]] by way of her [[EvenTheGirlsWantHer creepy obsession with Erina (and later Hisako)]].
* FemmeFatalons: She is shown to have long pointy nails to accentuate her witch appearance.
* GigglingVillain: When alone, Nao tends to do a "Hihihi!" laugh out of nowhere, creeping out anyone around her.
* HollywoodRestrainingOrder: Two years ago, she lost to Hisako, and as per Shokugeki stipulation was forced to be no less than 50 meters away from Erina. Too bad it didn't include stalking with binoculars or sending more than 30 letters per day.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: When she sees Hisako behead a living turtle during her Autumn Election quarterfinals match with Akira, Nao grows even more creepily infatuated.
* MessOnAPlate: The curry dish she made for the Autumn Election prelims looks and smells terrible, but tastes so good the judges can't stop eating it. The reaction of the judges compares it to BDSM.
* OddFriendship: Althought she initially intended to harrass Soma for working with Hisako, she connected with him immediately because of their common interest in "repulsive food", which made her "forgive him" and be friendly with each other.
* OutOfFocus: Like Miyoko, she was seldom seen between the Autumn Election preliminaries and the Autumn Banquet.
* PeekABangs: Her long hair covers half of her face.
* RapunzelHair: Her hair reaches her waist and covers half of her face.
* RedBaron: "The Boiling Witch".
* RedEyesTakeWarning: She has red eyes and she's a creepy stalker.
* SheCleansUpNicely: She's drawn in a slightly more comical style than the rest of the characters, generally hunched over and cackling with her hair a mess. When she gets cleaned up for a single panel imagine spot thanks to Hisako’s cooking, she looks incredibly beautiful. She instantly goes back to normal, however.
* SlipknotPonytail: During the Autumn Election she had her hair tied. Once she tasted Hisako's curry, her purification showed her with her hair free.
* StalkerShrine: In the anime, it's shown that Nao is making her test runs surrounded by photos of Erina and [[FaceDoodling a doddled-out one of Hisako]].
* StalkerWithACrush: She stalks Erina, but she has to keep to a distance of 50m. Later, she grows infatuated with Hisako, though the latter doesn't seem to have entirely caught on yet, despite being creeped out. Amusingly, the second ED is all about Nao's attempts to stalk Erina and observing her through binoculars.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Wants to take Hisako's spot as Erina's secretary that she challenges her to a Shokugeki; it doesn't work. Since then, Nao attempts to find a way to defeat Hisako. {{Irony}} abounds when she turns into a StalkerWithACrush on Hisako after being beat again at the Autumn Election.
* WickedWitch: When cooking, she looks more like a witch stirring a cauldron, leading to her title "Boiling Witch". This was even her attire for her Full Moon Banquet stall.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Urara Kawashima]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6f8dd1e4d4a670ce71696e60a2b7938f.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaHidaka (Japanese), Jennifer Gilbert (English)

Master of Ceremonies of Shokugekis and other competitions at Tootsuki. She starts to play a prominent role as announcer for Block B of the 43rd Autumn Election preliminaries.
----
* AttentionWhore: She gets irritated if someone else steals her thunder.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Acts all cute and innocent, but curses at Ikumi in a bonus chapter for getting more attention. She also lies about her tastes to make herself look better. She drops the sheep's clothing part after being "brainwashed" by Azami's regime and doesn't bother to hide her unpleasant thoughts.
* BurgerFool: In the OVA, Urara is working as a maid in the cosplay cafe and doesn't want anyone to find out about this. Fortunately, Takumi doesn't recognize her at all
* EvilCostumeSwitch: By the time she is hosting the Regimental Battle, she is wearing a dark Gothic Lolita dress with a new wicked face to show that she fully supports Central.
* FeigningIntelligence: According to the {{Omake}} Chapter 14.5, she states her favorite book is ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' (she never read it) and her favorite movie is ''Film/{{Amelie}}'' (it's really ''[[Film/DrunkenMaster Drunken Master 2]]'').
* FlippingTheBird: She flips off [[spoiler:the rebels]] after [[spoiler: Soma's and Satoshi's victory against their opponents]]
* {{Foil}}: To Yua, her polar opposite in personality.
* GenkiGirl: She's a very cheerful and energetic host and keeps the male audience very invested.
* GreenEyedMonster: As soon as Ikumi appeared on stage, she internally cursed Ikumi and called her a "Holstein cow". She also had the same reaction towards Miyoko Hojou and Alice Nakiri.
* TheHost: Was the MC for the Shokugeki between Soma and Ikumi, and for the Block B of the Autumn Election. She's also the one who announces the details for the Classic. It also seems to be her only role, as she is also a Tootsuki student but we never get to see her cooking level.
* InformedAbility: While her only role is to be the MC of the tournaments, her actual cooking skills are never shown, as she is also a student at Tootsuki (She must have some skills, since she survived the Training Camp). Also her comments on the Shokugekis have no useful notes, which are often provided by the contestants or even members of the audience.
** Subverted in the OVA, where it's shown that she works at a Cosplay Cafe part-time. Even though they didn't recognize her, Takumi notes that the omurice she made was surprisingly well done.
* {{Jerkass}}: She is a jerk who insults other female students mentally when they gain more attention from the boys. During the Autumn Election Preliminary, as she was ready to wrap the round, Megumi interrupted her because she was still waiting her turn. Afterward, she was hurrying Megumi to present her dish in a rude tone, just because she wanted to have a tie-break between Isami and Miyoko as the finale.
** After Azami's takeover, she is one of the students sided with Central, to the point that when she is chosen as the host for the Regimental Battle, she openly insults the Rebel Team by calling them "Insolent no-better-than-vomit, detested scoundrels, scum" on open microphone.
* MRSDegree: Her goal according to Volume 2's Extras is to "Become a Wife". So while cooking skills are seemingly enough to get her through the Training Camp (See InformedAbility) it's clear that her only reason to attend Tootsuki isn't to become a chef but to marry one.
* OhCrap: When [[spoiler:Shoko is easily beaten after the latter's introduction]].
* RunningGag: Her getting irritated whenever she loses the audience's attention. Also, if there's a shot of the crowd reacting to her, half of them will be boys cheering wildly, the other half will be girls growling in irritation that she's hogging all of the attention.
* SchoolIdol: Very popular among the guys due to her role as MC. On the other hand, behind every crowd of boys screaming her name you'll find a bigger crowd of girls boiling with bloodlust.
* SoreLoser: Even after seeing [[spoiler:Soma's and Satoshi's victory against their opponents in their respective battles]], she remains in denial and believing [[spoiler:Shoko of all people would turn the tide]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Shoko is easily beaten after her lengthy introduction about her.]]
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Yua Sasaki]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RinaHidaka (Japanese), Creator/MargaretMcDonald (English)

The other Master of Ceremonies and Urara's counterpart at Block A of the Autumn Election qualifiers.
----
* {{Foil}}: To Urara, the other Autumn Elections announcer.
* GirlishPigtails: How she wears her hair, perhaps to highlight her relatively more innocent personality compared to Urara.
* NiceGirl: In an Omake, Yua gives the microphone to Madoka Enomoto so she can introduce herself to the viewers, in contrast with Urara, who reluctantly gives her a bit of her spotlight.
* ShrinkingViolet: In stark contrast to Urara, Yua is rather shy and meek, which doesn't help considering that the block she was in charge of announcing includes the likes of Soma and Ryou. Why she's an MC with a personality like hers is anyone's guess.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mitsuru Soutsuda]]
[[quoteright:270:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/270px-mitsuru_2779.png]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaikiYamashita (Japanese), Patrick Poole (English)

A ninth-grader from Tootsuki's middle-school division and member of its Newspaper Club, as well as the sole exception to the student media's negative publicity on Soma.
----
* {{Adorkable}}: He is a cute middle-school student who worships Soma and follows him with all his reporter equipment. In Chapter 82 (and extended in the anime), Mitsuru goes to comical lengths to get Soma to agree to be the subject of his report, bowing profusely in public, getting him a hot towel, and even preparing lunch for him!
-->'''Mitsuru:''' ''[bowing to Soma in the middle of campus]'' Please let me write a story about you!
-->'''Mitsuru:''' ''[bowing to Soma outside of the bathroom with a hot, wet towel]'' PLEASE let me write a story about you!
-->'''Mitsuru:''' ''[Bowing to Soma in class with a boxed lunch]'' [[SerialEscalation PLEEEEEEASE let me write a story about you!]]
* AudienceSurrogate: As he is investigating Soma, he brings the point of view of someone new to his cooking style during the test runs.
* {{Fanboy}}: Of Soma. He was fascinated by him since the preliminary round of the Autumn Election. Later it's revealed he is the only member of the newspaper who is focused on Soma, since all his senpais are interviewing Subaru.
* FanOfUnderdog: He's one of the few students who actually likes Souma and for the same reason most of the other students don't: He's always at the disadvantage yet overcomes the odds, which he finds inspiring.
* {{Keet}}: He is cheerful and optimistic about everything Soma does, taking note and pictures of everything.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He started crying in despair when he realized that he unintentionally leaked data about Soma to Subaru.
* NiceGuy: There isn't a mean bone in his body, being nothing but polite to Soma and basically everyone he meets.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: Subaru later points out that accessing his PC was the easiest part, because Mitsuru used ''his own birthday date'' as password.
* SchoolNewspaperNewsHound: He is one of the juniors of the Tootsuki Sports, the school's newspaper. He wants to be great reporter rather than a good cook, hounding Soma in hopes of getting an exclusive story prior to Soma's match with Subaru.
* TagAlongKid: Soma doesn't consider him of much help, since he got full of his test dishes instead of giving him any constructive criticism. Still, Soma allows him to tag along to Erina's house.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Madoka Enomoto]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bfdb45afe4f5d76184e30393d1076278.png]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriOnishi (Japanese), Carolyn Medrano (English)

A first-year student and a member of the Miyazato Seminar.
----
* EarlyBirdCameo: While the manga version doesn't give away her name or year, she appears at the Training Camp cooking next to Marui.
* {{Fangirl}}: Of Marui during the preliminaries of the Autumn Election, as she is seen cheering for him along with the club members.
* FanOfTheUnderdog: Subverted. She admires Marui a lot. At the school in general, Marui is one of the least popular of the students, while he is also the most skilled from the Miyazato Seminar.
* {{Meganekko}}: Like many of [[{{Bookworm}} the members of the Miyazato seminar]], she also wears glasses.

----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chinese Cuisine RS]]
Members of Terunori Kuga's Chinese Cuisine RS, heavily focused on Szechuan style.
----
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: They used to underestimate Soma as well before the Moon Banquet. By the time of the promotion exams, they supported him as well.
* BaldOfAwesome: All of them have shaved heads, have been extensively trained by Kuga himself, being capable of replicating his main dishes exactly the same.
* CripplingOverspecialization: All the members only know how to replicate Kuga's recipes, but lack on restaurant managing.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Kuga. They follow Kuga's lead even after Azami's takeover.

----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Regional Cuisine RS]]
Members of the Regional Cuisine RS and Megumi's club mates.
----
* NoNameGiven: The President's name still has to be revealed.
* SupportingLeader: Like Konishi, the president is not the face of the club, with Megumi representing the RS against Central.
* TrueCompanions: Despite Megumi not joining their booth for the Moon Banquet, they showed support to her in the 4th day by lending their lamp collection, knowing well that she must have an important reason.

----
[[/folder]]
----

[[folder:Kanachi Konishi]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ac2833d21b193904cf3c0bcaec6e0e23.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinjiKawada (Japanese), Gareth West (English)

A second-year student, president of the Donmono Research Society (Don RS) and, aside from Ikumi, the only member left.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Konishi is something of a fanboy for Ikumi, which just pisses her off or embarrasses her.
* AlliterativeName: '''K'''anachi '''K'''onishi.
* CovertPervert: Even though he is afraid of Ikumi, he can't help but peeking at her bikini or even noting her appeal.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Downplayed. The dude's definitely kind of a goof and while his skills probably aren't good enough to match Ikumi's or Souma's, he's still a second year student who's already gone through and survived all the challenges Souma and the others are dealing with as freshmen.
* ExpressiveHair: When he's excited his pompadour goes up, but when he's depressed, his pompadour goes down.
* AFatherToHisMen: Given that Ikumi is the only other Don RS member left (and only in it by way of a Shokugeki loss), he constantly fills the OverEnthusiasticParents role for her. Ikumi is far from amused by this.
* HellBentForLeather: He firmly believes in this. In a bonus, Ikumi tells Kanachi made her use leather jackets because, as a part of the Don RS, they all must look like bikers.
* HotBlooded: Whenever he talks about donburi.
* ImprobableHairstyle: As a ShoutOut to Joe of ''Manga/AshitaNoJoe'' (whose iconic pose [[spoiler:in death]] he imitates). In an {{Omake}}, Megumi is helping him tape a chunk of hair back after Ikumi angrily cuts it off. In the anime, it's still on his head in episode 7 during the Shokugeki after Ikumi chopped it off in the previous episode.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Has the look but not the tough demeanor, but he believes in donburi as a biker's meal.
* MrExposition: He informs Soma on how Erina manages to close clubs she doesn't like and also explains the meaning of the meat rankings.
* SaveOurClub: One of Soma's first Shougeki involves saving the Don RS Club from becoming another of Erina's cooking labs. Soma not only succeeds, but also increased the club's budget and gets Ikumi to join it, after most of the members left Kanachi by himself.
* SupportingLeader: He is the president and was the only remaining member of the original club, until Ikumi was forced to join. While he is not technically the best cook at the RS, he is still the most experienced about donburi and provides accurate feedback regarding recipes and research.
* TearsOfJoy: Has this moment when Soma recognizes that the club did make many interesting recipes.
** Does this again during the school festival, after learning that the Don RS booth is one of the top sellers.
* TraumaticHaircut: Ikumi chopped off half of his hair after he called her "Nikumi". He is seen with a bandage around the portion that was cut off for a while afterwards.
----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Miyoko Houjou]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shokugeki_miyoko.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AsamiSeto (Japanese), Creator/KaraGreenberg (English)

Heiress to a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama, Miyoko's specialty are Chinese techniques and wok maneuvers.
----

[[folder:Tetsuji Kabutoyama]]
[[quoteright:175:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/abb055c14ab1a5868344fb7fc3748967.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Masashi Nogawa (Japanese), Jovan Jackson (English)

An eleventh-grader and Soma's first Shokugeki opponent after Stagiaire Month.

* ChallengeSeeker: He is one of the many who looks forward to challenge Soma, so they can refine their skills.
* GracefulLoser: After Soma defeats him, he accepted the defeat with a smile and agreed to teach him his specialty.
* RedBaron: The "Iron Skewer".
* SacrificialLamb: He is the first leader of an RS to lose a Shokugeki and get expelled because the judges are all in on Azami's agenda.
* TheWorfEffect: He's the first of Soma's second-year challengers... which means he's also the first to be off-paneled. At the end of Chapter 117, the real focus of the arc comes up as challenges to the Elite Ten begin. Averted with his loss against [[spoiler:Eizan, since the latter won via corrupt judges rather than cooking skill.]]
* WorthyOpponent: He considers Soma to be this, since he already passed the three main events (Training Camp, Autumn Election and Stagiaire Month) that sets him up as a contender. However, he's beaten off-panel in just a few pages, along with all the other challengers.
----

[[folder:Kiyoshi Godabayashi]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c0bbc47d3f75268029695bc2b2687c7d.jpg]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiNomura (Japanese), Wendel Calvert (English)

A second-year and president of the sumo-themed Chan RS Club specializing in chankonabe (stew traditionally part of a sumo wrestler diet), which was rendered defunct after losing a Shokugeki against Erina.

* BigNo: His club was demolished and he could only scream as it went down.
* ButtMonkey: He gets defeated twice while trying to defend his RS, and gets tied to a pole in his underwear after he tries to keep his RS meetings in secret, despite this being forbidden by Central.
* CurbStompBattle: His Shokugeki against Erina turns out to be this for him. Even if he was a year older than her, he still had no chance against "God's Tongue", landing her all the votes.
* {{Gonk}}: Compared to most of the [[{{Bishonen}} male]] [[{{TheGenericGuy}} students]], he also has very marked facial features, thick lips and rougher design.
* SacrificialLamb: His Shokugeki against Erina serves only to showcase her power and authority to close any club she wants.
* YankTheDogsChain: After fighting hard to reconstruct the Chan RS, Azami dissolves all the clubs the following week. Even after Central gives all clubs the opportunity to defend themselves in Shokugekis, his beloved club is one of the many casualties of the purge.

[[folder:Madoka Enomoto]]
[[quoteright:225:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bfdb45afe4f5d76184e30393d1076278.png]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriOnishi (Japanese), Carolyn Medrano (English)

A first-year student and a member of the Miyazato Seminar.

* EarlyBirdCameo: While the manga version doesn't give away her name or year, she appears at the Training Camp cooking next to Marui.
* {{Fangirl}}: Of Marui during the preliminaries of the Autumn Election, as she is seen cheering for him along with the club members.
* FanOfTheUnderdog: Subverted. She admires Marui a lot. At the school in general, Marui is one of the least popular of the students, while he is also the most skilled from the Miyazato Seminar.
* {{Meganekko}}: Like many of [[{{Bookworm}} the members of the Miyazato seminar]], she also wears glasses.

[[folder:Chinese Cuisine RS]]
Members of Terunori Kuga's Chinese Cuisine RS, heavily focused on Szechuan style.
----
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: They used to underestimate Soma as well before the Moon Banquet. By the time of the promotion exams, they supported him as well.
* BaldOfAwesome: All of them have shaved heads, have been extensively trained by Kuga himself, being capable of replicating his main dishes exactly the same.
* CripplingOverspecialization: All the members only know how to replicate Kuga's recipes, but lack on restaurant managing.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Kuga. They follow Kuga's lead even after Azami's takeover.

----
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Regional Cuisine RS]]
Members of the Regional Cuisine RS and Megumi's club mates.
----
* NoNameGiven: The President's name still has to be revealed.
* SupportingLeader: Like Konishi, the president is not the face of the club, with Megumi representing the RS against Central.
* TrueCompanions: Despite Megumi not joining their booth for the Moon Banquet, they showed support to her in the 4th day by lending their lamp collection, knowing well that she must have an important reason.

----
[[/folder]]
----

!Central Recruits

[[folder:The Central Army]]
A group of students personally handpicked by Azami Nakiri.
----
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Soma and Takumi realized that the survey was pointless, since Central soldiers have been challenging the Research Societies on their own specialties.
* {{Jerkass}}: Most of them, but special mention goes to Rentarou and Mea, who are openly antagonistic and delight in being jerks. Rentarou noticeably mocks and humiliates his opponent after defeating him, and then insults the rest of the student body, while Mea casually says that beating opponents after mocking them is much more exhilarating .
* TheProudElite: They berate all the other students who are not part of Central.
* SmugSnake: They even mocked '''''[[{{Jerkass}} Eizan]]''''' [[spoiler:for losing against a freshman]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Rentarou Kusunoki]]
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rentarou.png]]
[[caption-width-right:250:You all are not among the chosen! So submit already! That's the right thing to do!]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShintaroAsanuma (Japanese)

One of the Central recruits, a boisterous man sporting tattoos. His specialty is in heating techniques, especially low temperature cooking (particularly meats and fish), and is very adept at using kitchen equipment that can let him use said specialty, such as steam convection ovens, immersion circulators and others.
----
* AssumedWin: He already counts the match against Kurokiba as another win under his belt, even more so after he reveals the secret behind the juices in his dish when the match seems to initially comes to a stalemate, and he mocks Kurokiba, saying that he hasn't changed at all since the Autumn Elections. [[spoiler: He quickly eats those words when the judges re-taste the dishes and declare Kurokiba the winner.]]
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Just so he could show that he could do it, he challenged all the Research Societies on ''their'' specialties, with his own abilities still unknown to others. [[spoiler: Gets this turned back on him in his match against Kurokiba.]]
* CardCarryingVillain: Unlike the [[BitchInSheepsClothing Central teachers]], he doesn't even try to pretend Central's policies are beneficial to the majority of students. [[BrutalHonesty He outright admits]] that the whole point of Central is to make everyone else submit to a chosen few.
-->'''Rentarou''': All that's left for you fools to do is kiss the ground at Central's feet!
* CreepyCoolCrosses: He has an earring chain with an inverted cross at the end of it and a lot of cross motifs on his chef coat.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Subverted. His fellow Central soldiers are aware of his real talent, but people who don't know Rentarou tend to think he is just a big-mouthed {{Jerkass}} until they see him cook with advanced machines. Even Sōma is shocked and admits that Rentarou is an amazing chef.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Has orange hair and orange eyes.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In the anime adaptation, he gets a brief cameo during the Moon Banquet eyeing at Alice and Ryou.
* {{Foil}}: His hot-tempered attitude is similar to Kurokiba's, but where Kurokiba is laid-back and mellow until he starts cooking, Rentarou is a loud-mouthed jerkass who slips into an almost creepy serenity while working. Also, where Kurokiba is loyal and honest, Rentarou is opportunistic and smug.
* HotBlooded: He almost fell for Takumi's taunt and would have attacked him and Soma had Shigemichi not taken him away.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Takumi implies that he has this; and judging by his reactions to his statement, it seems true.
* {{Jerkass}}: He may be an even bigger one than Eizan.
* TheProudElite: Considers himself heads and shoulders above most of the student body and often boasts about being an "elite" and "one of the chosen ones". Takumi even calls him out on how much he throws the word "elite" around.
* ThisCannotBe: [[spoiler: After the judges re-taste the dishes and declare Kurokiba's the winner. Rentarou is in utter disbelief that his dish lost against Kurokiba's in the matter of juiciness until he tastes it for himself.]]
* ShirtlessScene: Chapter 158 has his clothes being ripped off after tasting Kurokiba's dish.
* SmugSnake: He taunted Eizan for losing against a First Year, and also berated the entire student body for not having been chosen by Central.
* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: When he initially targets Alice's Cutting Edge Cooking RS during the survivors purge he finishes with an offer to rescind the shutdown if she beats him in a Shokugeki and when Alice casually states that she has no problems with the dissolution (partly due to her not even knowing she was the captain) Rentarou launches into a magnanimous speech on how he has no choice but to accept if she wants to challenge him so badly before losing steam when her words catch up to him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Mea Yanai]]
[[quoteright:250:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mea_yanai.png]]
%%[[caption-width-right:250:some caption text]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MaoIchimichi (credited as "M.A.O") (Japanese)

One of the Central recruits, an energetic girl who has no qualms in openly displaying her mean streak.
----
* AssumedWin: As with Rentarou, she presumed his match against Kurokiba will go to him after Rentarou reveals the secret behind the juiciness in his dish and quickly begins mocking until Soma states the judges haven't declared a winner yet. [[spoiler: When Kurokiba is declared the winner, her fellow Central students and she are left in utter disbelief.]]
* BetaBitch: Since Rentarou seems to be the leader of their quartet, Mea seems to be this to him, since they both enjoy their abuse to others, while Shigemichi and Rui just follow quietly.
* CharacterTic: She often brings a hand up to the lower part of her face, fingers almost touching her lips.
* CheshireCatGrin: She always smiles with narrow eyes, giving her a smug expression.
* ComedicSociopathy: She delights in seeing others be put down, even her own comrades in Central.
* GenkiGirl: Almost every panel of her features her smiling.
* {{Jerkass}}: She's certainly in the running for the most mean spirited female student seen thus far.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After mocking Eizan for losing against a first year, [[spoiler:she also loses against Ikumi during the purge]].
* MeaningfulName: Ya-"nai Mea", the last bit sounding very much like "nightmare". Considering her nasty demeanor combined with her advanced culinary skills, her name can very much fit this for her opponents.
* OhCrap: [[spoiler: This is the face she makes, when she realizes that she and Shigemichi are about to lose against Nikumi and Megumi in their shokugekis.]]
* PetTheDog: She tries to defend Rentarou by pointing out that he won all of his matches, [[spoiler:except the one loss to Ryou]], but is quickly shut up by Azami's glare.
* SmugSmiler: She goes around with a grin while mocking people outside of Central.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Rui Kofuru]]

One of the Central recruits, a long-haired woman who is far more skilled than her quiet demeanor and lack of presence lets on.
----
* AdaptationExpansion: In the anime, she duels Marui in a Shokugeki to determine the fate of Miyazato Seminar and loses 1-2.
* BlindingBangs: Her eyes are never shown.
* RapunzelHair: She also has long wavy hair that reaches her waist.
* TheVoiceless: She hasn't said a word since her introduction.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Shigemichi Kumai]]
One of the Central recruits, a large, brutish looking student.
----
* AffectionateNickname: His name is shortened to "Shige" by his friends.
* TheBigGuy: Soma and Takumi note that he's huge and can hardly believe he's a 2nd year high school student.
* {{Expy}}: Many have noted his similar design to Comicbook/IncredibleHulk. It's even accentuated by him wearing a green shirt.
* MeaningfulName: In a way. His surname is Kumai, with "kuma" being the Japanese word for bear, and he's certainly got the size, strength and intimidating aura of said animal.
* OnlySaneMan: He seems to be the most down to earth and level headed of Central's soldiers so far. When Rentaro tries picking a fight with Soma and Takumi, Shigemichi says he shouldn't do unnecessary things, grabs Rentaro and carries him away, refusing to put him down.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: Julio Shiratsu]]
One of the Central recruits and one of the students who filled the vacant seats of the Elite Ten, obtaining the 8th seat. He is also the son of the famous Shiratsu Family and specializes in Italian cuisine.
----
* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Julio's provocations to Satoshi aren't heeded properly [[BerserkButton until he mocks the Polar Star students]], resulting in the latter's rage. Even when Julio delivered his best dish, which received rave reviews from the WGO judges, he still lost to Satoshi, who defeats him by creating a dish composed of ingredients prepared by Satoshi's fellow Polar Star dormmates, the same ones Julio mocked. He has to be carried away while in catatonic bliss after tasting it.]]
* {{Foil}}: He shares a lot in common with Takumi, since both are Half-Italians with a fierce competitive strike against opponents who can't take them seriously as rivals. The main difference is that Takumi slowly gains Soma's respect and friendship, fighting with honor, while Julio is more focused on provoking Isshiki on a personal level.
* LongHairedPrettyboy: Subverted. His hair is pretty, in contrast to his rough face.
* RapunzelHair: His ponytail reaches below his waist.
* {{Retool}}: Julio Rossi Saotome (from the One-Shot pilot), was used as a base for Julio Shiratsu, since both are half-Italian and spin their utensils.
* SupremeChef: It's worth mentioning that he gained his seat along with Akira and another student by beating the competition in a Battle Royale Shokugeki, beating out even third year students despite being a second year.
* UnknownRival: He feels a fierce rivalry towards Isshiki, who fails to even remember his name.
[[/folder]]

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Shoko Kaburagi]]
One of the Central recruits and one of the students who filled the vacant seats of the Elite Ten, obtaining the 5th seat.
----
* CharacterShilling: Urara gives a big hype-rant about Shoko's talent as the new 5th Seat, [[spoiler:only to forget that she has no chance at beating Megishima, a former ''3rd Seat'']].
* NiceHat: She is often wearing a baseball cap that covers her eyes.
* TheQuietOne: She hasn't said a word since her introduction.
* SupremeChef: Much like with Julio and Akira, 2nd year Shoko defeated many opponents, including highly skilled third years in a battle royale to achieve a seat in the Elite Ten. The fact that she obtained the fifth seat also indicates that her skills may well surpass those of the already established Elite Ten members Kinokuni and Eizan. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for her, her skills amount to nothing as she ends up facing former 3rd seat Megishima and she's easily defeated]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:The moment her true identity is revealed, Shoko is easily beaten by Megishima without even a challenge. She never gets to talk and the reader never finds out anything about her personality or cooking style.]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Subverted. His fellow Central soldiers are aware of his real talent, but people who don't know Rentarou tend to think he is just a big-mouthed {{Jerkass}} until they see him cook with advanced machines.

* ThemeTwinNaming: Both Aldini brothers' names end with "-mi".

* FriendlyRivalry: After winning the Autumn Election, he and Soma start getting along pretty well. Both he and Ryou often come over to his place so the three can compete in cooking, much to Akira's annoyance.[[spoiler: However, that small friendship had likely been spoiled with Akira's defection to Central. Only this is Soma we're talking about: Soma immediately promises to ask Fumio to let them stay in the dorm (too bad Central expels anyone who loses to mere "Rebel")]].

* BrattyHalfPint: When he was a kid, he was really bratty and disrespected even adults.

* DefeatMeansRespect[=/=]DefeatMeansFriendship: In flashbacks, it's revealed that Ryou didn't have any respect towards Alice when they met, calling her a SpoiledBrat to her face. After many defeats against her, Ryou started to treat Alice as "milady" (Alice-{{ojou}}) and agreed to be her assistant, while Alice stopped treating him like a pet when he finally won. By their conversations, it's also implied that their cooking contests are also part of their routines.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriOonishi (Japanese), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (English)

* BreakTheCutie[=/=]BreakTheHaughty: She's so confident in her skills and her place in Erina's inner circle that, when she lost to Akira at the Autumn Election quarterfinals, she was so heartbroken she distanced herself from Erina out of shame. Ironically, it took being paired with Soma -- Erina's walking BerserkButton -- for her to even start recovering.

* EvilCounterpart: To Hisako, as she is her opposite in both appearance and cooking styles. While both specialize in boiled dishes, Nao is gloomy, socially awkward and cooks like a witch, while Hisako is refined, graceful and specializes in medicinal dishes. Also, while Hisako has a big admiration for Erina and is regarded as her only friend, Nao takes this to creepy levels of obsession and Erina barely knows she exists.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiNomura

* TheQuietOne: She hasn't said a word since her introduction.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: He managed to beat several 3rd year Central members in a battle royale to claim the empty Elite 10 seats.

* ChekhovsGunman[=/=]ChekhovsSkill: [[spoiler:With the Full Moon Banquet drawing to a close, Soma hired him as an extra hand for his booth, since he was not only the only student-chef without a booth, but he also has the skill to perfectly mimic Soma's mapo tofu dish. He was also chosen to join the rebel team during the Exam Battle]].

** IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler:While Soma compliments him for effectively mimicking him and quickly accepting his offer, Subaru quietly mumbles that he owes him a lot -- presumably for helping him not to give up on his cooking even after losing to Soma.]]

** During the Regiment De Cuisine Shokugeki, he's paired against Eizan, the one who sicced Subaru on him to begin with. He shows that he's well aware of Eizan's treacherous ways and would try to sabotage his dish, so he deliberately led him on thinking he was going to make one type of dish and ended up using Eizan's dish to make his own superior. Ironically, adopting the same tactics Subaru used to beat him. He easily defeats Eizan, and is the second character besides [[TheHero Soma]]to not be apart of the Elite 10 and defeat one. [[note]]Erina, Isshiki, and Megishima were all former members before they were removed/resigned from their positions.[[/note]]

* {{Fanboy}}: Of Soma. He was fascinated by him since the preliminary round of the Autumn Election. Later it's revealed he is the only member of the newspaper who is focused on Soma, since all his senpais are interviewing Subaru. It also acts as a ShoutOut to [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia My Hero Academia's]] Izuku Midoriya, who is a fanboy of All Might. Interestingly, they are both voiced by the same actor.