Is Shokugeki no Souma good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Shokugeki no Souma (Food Wars! The First Plate) is a TV series from Spring 2015 by J.C. Staff, J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.: 24 episodes, about 10 hours in total, finished, 8.13/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Slice-of-life: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 10 hours for the run, 12 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 24
- Episode length
- 25 min
- Total time
- about 10 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2015
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- J.C. Staff, J.C.Staff Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 8.13/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- manga adaptation, comedy, cooking, drama, ecchi, found family, harem, school, nudity, romance, shounen, slice of life, tournament
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale.
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More like this: manga adaptation · comedy · cooking · drama · found family · harem · school · romance · shounen · slice of life · tournament.
Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Shokugeki no Souma?
- About 10 hours for all 24 episodes at 25 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
- How many episodes does Shokugeki no Souma have?
- 24 episodes of 25 min.
- Is Shokugeki no Souma finished?
- Yes, Shokugeki no Souma is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Shokugeki no Souma good for a group?
- Yes. Shokugeki no Souma is tagged comedy, tournament, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Shokugeki no Souma listed?
- Shokugeki no Souma is on AniList (id 20923) and MyAnimeList (id 28171); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists