Souma Yukihira

Souma Yukihira is the main protagonist from the Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma series.
==Charactah Account==
Souma is the son of Jouichirou Yukihira and, until it closed, worked at his father's restaurant, Restaurant Yukihira. As the main protagonist of the story, Souma must fight his odds in the elite school to becoming the best chef in the world even with strong background discrimination of his academy. He is currently a student at Tootsuki Culinary Academy and a resident of Polar Star Dormitory.
Souma is a rather energetic child who has the constant drive to move forward with his cooking, mostly due to his rivalry with his father. Due to his drive to move forward Souma is willing to try odd things with food including "Grilled Squid Tentacles Dressed in Peanut Butter," though these dishes usually don't go over too well. It is because the will of Souma to try to move forward, his dishes are often considered as creative and innovative by some peers and lecturers; leading his rivalry with all the students in the Tootsuki Culinary Academy. Through all this, Souma maintains a laid back attitude towards just about everything but cooking.
Souma can cook many different foods in many different styles, though he prefers what he calls "Yukihira Style," which is the cooking style which he learned from his father. Souma shows an immense capability for cooking and a special adaption with learning from his mistakes, and improvising through learning from said mistakes. It is due to his creativity and also resourcefulness, Souma is able to create the same dishes with different ways of cooking that would create even. Unlike most student whom used lavish ingredients, Souma didn't care about the classes of the ingredients which he claimed that it wasn't expensive ingredients, classy backgrounds, nor fancy techniques made the food better, but rather it's the wise usage and alternatives made the food interesting, and the customer's satisfaction about the food that matters. Further more, he also claimed that undefeated food in just the looks and taste in regal made him bored, which the boredom would made the chef stop improving their dishes. To eliminate such boredom, Souma continued to search for different styles of cooking around the world in order to improve his cooking skills.
==Appearance==
===Anime===
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma OVA
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma: The Fifth Plate
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma: The Fourth Plate
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma: The Second Plate
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma: The Second Plate OVA
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma: The Third Plate
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma: The Third Plate - Totsuki Train Arc
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma: The Third Plate OVA - Erina's New Life
===Manga===
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma
*Food Wars! Shokugeki no Souma: à la Carte
===Video Games===
*Jumputi Heroes
*Shokugeki no Souma: The Dish of Friendship and Bonds
*Shokugeki no Souma: The Ultimate Recipe
==Trivia==
*Souma ranked 1st in the first popularity poll with 956 votes. He ranked first again in the second popularity poll, with 6451 votes. In the 3rd popularity poll, he dropped down to 4th with 2795 votes.
*Souma is the only student to be appointed as the 1st Seat of the Elite Ten in his first year. He has surpassed Azami who became 3rd Seat in his first year and 1st Seat in his second year.
*Souma's One-shot version of himself is relatively the same, however his hair is a different color and is much shorter.
*Souma's voice actor in the Vomic, Yuuki Ono, voices Isami Aldini in the anime.
*According to Subaru Mimasaka's investigations by the time of the Tōtsuki Autumn Election, Souma:
**is 171 cm tall;
**weighs 57 kg;
**has blood type B;
**has a shoe size of 26.5 cm;
**slept an average of 6 hours and 14 minutes in the past month;
**junior high classes were 1-5, 2-2 and 3-7
**has five pairs of shoes;
**tends to start brushing his teeth from his lower right molar;
**has a habit of lifting one of his eyebrow when observing someone.
*The Volume 23 bonus feature revealed that Souma:
**likes to do laundry;
**likes spacious bathtubs.
*According to the Last Fanbook, in the final manga epilogue of the Le Dessert, Tsukuda wanted Souma and Erina to get married. However, he couldn't fit it into the storyboard, so in the end, he's decided that it's still too early for them to take that stage.
==Gallery==
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==External Links==
*Sōma Yukihira at Shokugeki no Soma Wiki
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