Shokugeki no Souma: San no Sara

After the Moon Festival, Soma keeps challenging Totsuki's best with his sights set on the Elite Ten. The academy's rules change overnight, however, when Azami Nakiri arrives. Erina's father takes control as director and declares that the students' freedom to invent their own food is a flaw that must be eliminated.

Azami creates Central and forces his standards onto clubs and teaching restaurants, threatening dissenters with closure and expulsion. For Soma, whose entire growth has come from experimenting, failing, and trying again, the new system contradicts everything cooking means to him. As the Elite Ten itself divides over Azami's rule, a conflict begins that will decide far more than the winner of a single dish.