Megumi Tadokoro

**Megumi Tadokoro** is a 92nd Totsuki Generation first-year student, a Polar Star Dormitory resident, and one of the heroines in *Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Sōma*. She is also the 10th seat of the Elite Council of Ten.

## Statistics

* **Name**: Megumi Tadokoro
* **Origin**: Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Sōma
* **Gender**: Female
* **Age**: 15
* **Birthday**: December 19
* **Classification**: Human
* **Blood Type**: O
* **Height**: 154 cm (5'0.6")
* **Weight**:
* **Skin Color**: Light
* **Eye Color**: Yellow
* **Hair Color**: Dark Blue
* **Relatives**: Megumi's Mother, Megumi's Grandfather
* **Alignment**: Good
* **Status**: Active
* **Class**: **A-Class**
* **Notable Attacks/Techniques**:
* **Voice Actor**: Minami Takahashi

## Appearance

Megumi has long, dark blue hair with two braided pigtails and wears a flower hairpin on the right side of her hair. She has yellow-colored eyes and a petite body figure, possessing a tight, plump rear.

She wears a standard Tōtsuki uniform depending on the season. Her chef's uniform is a plain white chef's uniform, though she has also worn a long-sleeved version from her first assignment until the end of the Friendship and Rapport Training Camp. During the Autumn Election, Megumi wore a short-sleeved version. Most of her casual wear are simple blouses.

## Personality

Megumi is a clumsy, timid, thoughtful, kind, and honest girl who always speaks in a polite tone. She is a nurturing sort of person, always looking out for others and willing to assist them in any way that she can. According to Gin Dōjima, Megumi's greatest gift is her warm hospitality as she cooks for the eater to make them feel good. Her kindness, through her cooking, moved even the initially cold Kojirō Shinomiya into nostalgic childhood-fueled tears. Her main aspiration in life is to return to, and eventually run, her mother's ryokan. Because she highly idolized her mother and the work setting she was in, this eventually created her "hospitality" mentality. Megumi's mother taught her to think of someone special to her whenever she cooks and Megumi firmly believes that by doing so, she can create delicious dishes.

Although Megumi is a capable chef, she does not fare well under pressure because she has stage fright. Because she is intimidated very easily, she makes simple mistakes when she cooks, causing many of her classmates to see her as a weak student. She is quick to panic when something goes awry and tends to over think situations when under pressure or stress, such as repeatedly packing and unpacking a suitcase to make sure she packed something, even though she did not need to pack a suitcase in the first place. She was also rather cautious, preferring to choose her words and actions carefully to avoid unwanted consequences and attention. She has a habit of tracing the kanji for "person" (人) on her hand then motioning, as if to eat it, whenever she is stressed. When feeling overwhelmed or frustrated, she often reverts back to speaking in a Hokkaido accent.

Initially, she heavily relied on Sōma's creativity to pull them both through tough assignments both in the academy and at the Training Camp. After her first Shokugeki, Megumi's confidence grew tenfold. Although she still retains her tendencies to panic and overreact, she has more confidence and thus, her cooking skills have been put on full display in front of her previously skeptical classmates who were used to her failures. Unbeknownst to her, she managed to even impress Senzaemon Nakiri who was the only person to truly understand the true untapped potential that Megumi possesses after eating her ramen. Overall, Megumi still feels that she has more room to grow and finally knows what its like to have fun while cooking, eager to face new challenges in the future.

Even before Sōma showed up, Megumi had a serious side, but this generally only appeared whenever she played ping pong. She displays an unusual level of seriousness and concentration whenever she is in her "Hopping Hare" mode, though any sort of surprising news can easily snap her out of this persona. Even when not playing ping pong, her "Hopping Hare" state has appeared on occasion, though usually for brief moments.

## Relationships

*Main Article: Megumi Tadokoro/Relationships*