List of ''Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma'' characters

Fumio Daimido

Voiced by: Mari Yokoo, Hitomi Nabatame (young) (Japanese); Joanne Bonasso (English)^[5]

Fumio Daimidō (大御堂 ふみ緒, Daimidō Fumio), who goes by Miss Fumio, is the caretaker and dorm matron of Polaris; an elderly lady with greying, backwards-combed, spiked hair. As the "Maria of Polaris", she administers a cooking test that students must pass to become residents. At first glance she is intimidating and stern, but Fumio is actually a caring mother-figure to all the residents.^{Ch. 6} Fumio has pride in the past achievements of the residents of the dormitory, which for a time held the top three seats on the Council of Ten. She still maintains contact with Gin, and will receive Joichiro on his sporadic visits.^{Ch. 41}

Satoshi Isshiki

Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese); Scott Gibbs (English)^[5]

Satoshi Isshiki (一色 慧, Isshiki Satoshi) is a second-year student at Polaris and the oldest student in the dorm. A handsome guy, he occupies the seventh seat of the Council of Ten.^{Ch. 7} He has a few quirks such as visiting people's rooms through the ceiling tiles, and often appearing half-naked, wearing nothing but an apron and sometimes a fundoshi (thong loincloth).^{Ch. 7} He supports his underclassmen at the dormitory, and strongly believes in enjoying youth, often waking them up to help with managing the dorm's back garden at the crack of dawn. While his tendencies and habits indicate a carefree, happy-go-lucky youth, he demonstrates immense cooking skills. He is popular among the food industry, especially with Orie Sendawara who flirtatiously recruits him to her business during the Fall Classic.^{Ch. 49} Outside of cooking, Satoshi is talented in table tennis, comparable in skill to Megumi.^{Ch. 39} He has a start-up selling the vegetables that he grows in Polaris garden to small businesses.^{Ch. 60-61}

Yuki Yoshino

Voiced by: Maaya Uchida (Japanese); Luci Christian (English)^[2]

Yūki Yoshino (吉野 悠姫, Yoshino Yūki) is a petite, energetic girl and a first-year resident in room 116.^{Ch. 7} Characterised by her double-bun hairstyle and hyperactive attitude, she often acts childishly, teases the other students. Her specialty is cooking wild game, and to do so she raises and breeds a large number of game animals and poultry, including deer and boar, which she often lets roam freely in the dorm halls.^{Ch. 7} A running gag shows her to be envious of well-endowed girls like her best friend Ryoko.^{Ch. 39, 53 side story} In the Fall Classic preliminaries, she prepares a duck curry.^{Ch. 56} and finishes seventh in her block.^{Vol. 8 intro} When Azami takes over Totsuki, she is expelled from the school as a member of the rebel team during Azami's reign.

Shun Ibusaki

Voiced by: Taishi Murata (Japanese); Houston Hayes (English)^[5]

Shun Ibusaki (伊武崎 峻, Ibusaki Shun) is a first-year resident, occupying room 208.^{Ch. 7} He has messy hair that usually covers his eyes, and a quiet nature.^{Ch. 7} His specialty is smoked food,^{Ch. 7} where he is nicknamed the Prince of Smoke.^{Ch. 55} In the Fall Classic preliminaries, he presents a curry smoked with applewood,^{Ch. 55} and places fifth overall in his block.^{Vol. 8 intro, Ch. 59}

During a stagiare at a French restaurant, Shun took inspiration from his friends Soma and Megumi, and pushed himself to try and surpass their cooking level.

Shun was later defeated during the promotional exams and is expelled. He and his fellow expelled students are left to watch by the sidelines as Soma and the others take on Central in the Regiment de Cuisine. Four months after the Rebels' victory, Shun received so many Shokugeki challenges and won easily.

Zenji Marui

Voiced by: Yūsuke Kobayashi (Japanese); Greg Ayres (English)^[5]

Zenji Marui (丸井 善二, Marui Zenji) is a first-year student who lives in room 205. He has bobbed hair and oversized glasses, and prefers to study quietly, however, his large room is often commandeered by his dorm-mates for parties and social activities.^{Ch. 7} He is the star pupil of Professor Takao Miyazato's Seminar, despite being a first-year. Without innate special talents, and having below average physical strength and stamina, he uses knowledge to research cooking styles to make his dishes. His peers in the club call him "The Professor of Taste". During the Fall Classic preliminaries, he presents a potage-blanc curry udon,^{Ch. 55} and places fifth overall in his block.^{Vol. 8 intro, Ch. 59} In the anime Central arc, Marui won the Shokugeki against Central, and saved his home club.

Ryoko Sakaki

Voiced by: Ai Kayano (Japanese); Kelley Peters (English)^[2]

Ryoko Sakaki (榊 涼子, Sakaki Ryōko) is a tall, mature-looking girl with long hair and large bust, residing in room 112.^{Ch. 14} She is gentle and kind, acting like a big sister,^{Vol. 6 profiles} responding to the eccentrics of the other Polaris residents in a level-headed manner and comforting the other students when they are troubled. Her specialty is shio koji (rice malt) and has a warehouse near the dorm where she does fermentation processing.^{Ch. 14} Her parents owning a well-known fermented-goods shop, and she maintains a workshop near the dorms to produce her own ingredients. She also keeps a bottle of "fermented rice drink" that she would sometimes bring out during parties and celebrations, which Soma suspects is illegally brewed sake.^{Ch. 7} In the anime series, her hair is purple and her eyes are orange.

During the Fall Classic preliminaries, she presents a natto curry flavored with shoyu koji. The dish garners praise from the judges, who are reminded of a Japanese festival.^{Ch. 54} She ultimately finishes seventh in her block.^{Vol. 8 intro, Ch. 59}

Daigo Aoki and Shoji Sato

Voiced by: Junichi Yanagita (Japanese); Andrew Love (English) (Daigo)^[5]
Voiced by: Kengo Kawanishi (Japanese); Corey Hartzog (English) (Shōji)^[5]

Daigo Aoki (青木 大吾, Aoki Daigo) and Shōji Satō (佐藤 昭二, Satō Shōji) are two muscular dormmates who tend to fight over everything, but are united when it comes to defending the honor of the dormitory and its members, having a supporting or background role in the story.^{Ch. 50} These two fought since they were in middle school when Aoki stole Sato's favorite toy. During one of their cook-offs, Aoki thought it would be funny to get revenge by ruining one of Sato's dishes by adding salt to it. Since then they continue to fight over everything.

Hisako Arato

Voiced by: Saori Ōnishi (Japanese); Brittney Karbowski (English)^[2]

Erina's aide with short pink hair,^{Ch. 2-4, Vol. 7 profile} whose name is revealed to be Hisako Arato (新戸 緋沙子, Arato Hisako) during the Fall Classic preliminaries in chapter 52. She helps Erina with many of the administrative duties, having retained her position in her second year of junior high by defeating rival student Nao Sadatsuka in a shokugeki.^{Ch. 52} She specializes in medicinal cooking, which is based on natural remedies and Chinese medicine to improve health. This comes from her family who is in the Chinese medicine business.^{Ch. 52}

In the quarterfinals, she is defeated by Akira Hayama, who tells her that someone who only aims to be second could never beat him.^{Ch. 75} This hurts her pride and causes her to take a leave of absence, feeling unworthy of being near Erina.^{Ch. 83, 105} When partnered with Soma for their first stagiaire assignment, she uses her administration skills to come up with an idea for the restaurant to better service its customers, and they pass their assignment. Afterwards, Soma encourages her to walk alongside Erina as an equal instead of following her, and she becomes more friendly with Soma.^{Ch. 105-109} At the Moon Festival, she is back with Erina.^{Ch. 122}

Hisako once read an old cooking-magazine that featured Erina's father, Azami, but Hisako's own father warned her against ever asking about Azami. When Azami returns and replaces Senzaemon as the academy's director, Hisako is fired as Erina's aide and becomes extremely depressed. Hisako, Alice and Ryō convince Erina to leave the Nakiri mansion, taking shelter inside the Polaris Dormitory where Hisako reveals Erina's history. Hisako leaves Erina in their care, though she would visit every day to bring Erina a change of clothes. Hisako was defeated by Saito during the promotional exams and is expelled. She and her fellow expelled students are left to watch by the sidelines as Soma and the others take on Central in the Regiment de Cuisine. Four months after the Rebels' victory, she regain her position as Erina's aide once more.

In the footnotes for chapter 52, Hisako is regarded by the story writer that by looks alone, she is "one of the prettiest traditional beauties in the series."

Ikumi Mito

Voiced by: Shizuka Ishigami (Japanese); Rachel Landon (English)^[5]

Ikumi Mito (水戸 郁魅, Mito Ikumi) is a first-year student with light hair and dark skin who often wears a variety of flamboyant bikini tops covered by a tied dress shirt.^{Ch. 11} Known as the "Master of Meat", she is among the top students of her year, with her meat-based dishes always scoring A's. She strongly dislikes the nickname "Nikumi", a portmanteau of the Japanese word for "meat" and her given name.^{Ch. 10} She is the heir to a large meat distributor and conglomerate, which has a near-monopoly on the national beef market, allowing her access to exceptionally high-quality ingredients, especially A5 grade beef, which is so tender that it doesn't have to be chewed.^{Ch. 11} Nikumi's talent with meat lies in her incredibly sensitive lips, allowing her to accurately judge the temperature of meat with a single taste.^{Ch. 12}

She initially appears as a representative of Erina in trying to drive out the Donburi Bowl Research Society, but loses a shokugeki to Soma, and is forced to join the club.^{Ch. 10-13} She develops a crush on Soma afterwards, and helps him save his local business district from a competing fried chicken chain store.^{Ch. 35-38} In the Fall Classic preliminaries, she finishes seventh overall in her block, tying with Ryoko.^{Vol. 8 intro, Ch. 59} At the time of the Moon festival, the Donburi Society has expanded, mostly because of her appeal to the junior high students,^{Ch. 122} her club places third in sales for her area on the first day.^{Ch. 125} Nikumi opposes the new curriculum of the Azami Administration, and was able to win a Shokugeki to save the Donburi club. However, targeted as a rebel during Central's Promotional Exams, she was defeated by Momo on the third exam and expelled. She and her fellow expelled students are left to watch by the sidelines as Soma and the others take on Central in the Regiment de Cuisine.

Takumi Aldini

Voiced by: Natsuki Hanae (Japanese); Bryson Baugus (English)^[2]

Takumi Aldini (タクミ・アルディーニ, Takumi Arudīni) is a chef from Florence, Italy; he has blond hair and blue eyes, coming from a Japanese mother and Italian father.^{Ch. 17} He initiates a rivalry with Soma, viewing him as someone similar to himself. He has worked along with his twin brother Isami since they were five years old at their uncle's restaurant, and transfer into Totsuki's Junior High in their second year.^{Ch. 16-17} His specialty is Italian cuisine, although he retains a broad vision that lets him incorporate ingredients and methods from other culinary styles to create inventive dishes, much like Soma. He is noted as being extremely handsome, having fan clubs in his hometown and at the school.^{Vol. 3 side story, Vol. 10}

During the Fall Classic, Takumi is provoked by Subaru Mimasaka to turn his quarterfinal match into a shokugeki where he wagers his mezzaluna. However, when Subaru copies his lemon semifreddo recipe and improves on it, Takumi scrambles to change his version, but Subaru anticipates that move as well, and Takumi loses.^{Ch. 79} Although Soma is able to win the knife back, Takumi has Soma hang on to it until he can face him in a later match.^{Ch. 89}

Takumi survives the botched 3rd phase of the Promotional Exams under Azami's Central, along with Megumi and Soma. He eventually learnt that Eizan was the mastermind for his humiliating defeat back in Fall Classics, and Takumi picked Eizan as his opponent for a revenge match in the Regimen de Cuisine. He demonstrated his resolve and growth in the match; and ironically, by using stalking tips from Mimasaka. He overcame Eizan's attempted sabotage of his dish by incorporating his opponent's dish as part of his meal plan in the match, unanimously winning. Although Takumi lost to Rindo Kobayashi in the 4th fourth bout of the Regiment De Cuisine, he manage to get a tip from his fellow senior teammate and former Council of Ten third seat Tosuke about Rindo's weaknesses for his remaining teammates' final battle, should Takumi also lost to her. Four months after Rebels' victory, Takumi is promoted to the seventh seat, honorably succeeding Isshiki while dethroning Eizan into eight seat, who is made pardoned on behalf of Soma's wisdom.

Takumi and his brother Isami are the main characters of the Shokugeki no Soma – Fratelli Aldini spinoff manga which focuses on their time in Italy before going to Totsuki.

Isami Aldini

Voiced by: Yūki Ono (Japanese); Clint Bickham (English)^[2]

Isami Aldini (イサミ・アルディーニ, Isami Arudīni) is Takumi's younger twin brother; but he has dark hair and is overweight at the first-year camp,^{Ch. 16} He too has worked at his uncle's restaurant in Italy since they were five, and strives to be praised for his cooking like Takumi. The spin-off manga Shokugeki no Soma – Fratelli Aldini focuses on the brothers' time in Italy. He and Takumi transfer to Totsuki's junior high program in their second year.^{Ch. 16-17}

At the Fall Classic preliminaries, where he is noticeably thinner in appearance,^{Ch. 47} he presents a tomato-curry calzone, and placed fifth overall in his block.^{Ch. 56, Vol. 8 intro} He and Takumi open a booth during the Moon Banquet Festival, naming it a branch of Trattoria Aldini, and gained first place in sales in their area. He is targeted as a rebel by the Azami Administration's Promotional Exams, defeated by Eishi on the third exam and expelled. Isami and his fellow expelled students are left to watch by the sidelines as Soma and the others take on Central in the Regiment de Cuisine.

Alice Nakiri

Voiced by: Chinatsu Akasaki (Japanese); Christina Kelly (English)^[5]

Alice Nakiri (薙切 アリス, Nakiri Arisu) is Erina Nakiri's cousin, introduced in the first-year cooking camp.^{Ch. 28, 33} She has pale skin and short light hair.^{Ch. 29} Her mother is Danish and her father is Japanese. She lives with Erina while her father went to Denmark to found a culinary research organization focused on molecular gastronomy, a scientific approach to cooking. At five years old, she joins her parents there,^{Ch. 33} and wins many awards in gastronomy.^{Ch. 62} She returns to Japan to enroll in Totsuki's junior high at age 14 with the intent of besting Erina and taking the top spot in the school.^{Ch. 33}

Like Erina, Alice has a haughty attitude, but she is more concerned about her image, often checking with her aide that he has positioned himself to present her with the perfect angle.^{Ch. 33, 40} Unlike Erina, Alice is much more friendly and sociable with her competition.^{Ch. 33} She likes to tease Erina for her lack of knowledge on common matters such as dating and romance, but she herself also lacks that experience.^{[lower-alpha 2]}

Alice's dishes look like art pieces. At the cooking camp, she presents a trio of egg dishes which turn out to be different from their appearances, and in the Fall Classic preliminaries, she presents a strange looking curry dish that scores the highest among the chefs.^{Vol. 8 intro} However, in the quarterfinals, she loses to Soma because her bento dish merely showcases her skills and the food presented but does not fully utilize the novelty and features of a bento stack.^{Ch. 66}

Alice knew from her parents of Azami's cruel treatment toward Erina as well as the fact that he destroyed her letters to Erina. Alice, Ryō, and Hisako convince Erina to escape from the Nakiri mansion and shelter at the Polaris Dorm. She despises Azami and was not afraid to publicly berate him after Kurokiba managed to win his Shokugeki and save their Cutting Edge RS. During the Promotional Exams targeting the rebels, Alice and Ryō are defeated by the Council of Ten and expelled from the academy. She and her fellow expelled rebels only managed to watch from the sidelines as the others take on Central in the Regimental Shokugeki. Four months after the Rebels' victory, Alice is promoted to the sixth seat of Council of Ten, succeeding Nene Kinokuni.

Ryo Kurokiba

Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (Japanese); Leraldo Anzaldua (English)^[5]

Alice Nakiri's aide,^{Ch. 33, Vol. 7 profile} whose name is revealed to be Ryo Kurokiba (黒木場 リョウ, Kurokiba Ryō) in chapter 53 during the Fall Classic preliminaries. As a young boy, he is the head chef of a pub by the docks in Denmark.^{Ch. 69} At first, he appears to be inattentive, lazy, and subservient to Alice, quipping back at her and commenting in a deadpan manner, but his demeanor changes when he puts on his headband to cook: he takes on an aggressive appearance, with sharp eyes and a savage grin. He considers the kitchen to be a battlefield and that cooks should compete rather than cooperate.^{Ch. 68-69} It is later revealed that he regularly competes with Alice and they are about even in results, with Alice having beat him for two years back in Denmark.^{Ch. 90-92, 98}

Ryo's specialty is seafood dishes, and his cooking has frequently been described as "violent" and "forceful", characterized by rich and sharp flavors.^{Ch. 53, 70} At the Fall Classic, Ryo places second in his block.^{Ch. 59} He defeats Megumi in the quarterfinals of the tournament. His style of cooking is likened to a tiger compared to Akira Hayama's eagle, and his semifinal match results in a draw, leading to a three-way final with Akira and Soma.^{Ch. 90-92} After losing to Akira, Ryō sought to improve his skills with spices at an Indian restaurant during the stagiaire period. Ryō later accompanies Alice in aiding Erina's escape from Azami at the Nakiri mansion. Ryō challenges a Central sophomore Rentarō Kusunoki to a Shokugeki for insults underestimating the freshmen chefs, defeating him and defended the Cutting Edge RS. However, Ryō and Alice are defeated by the Council of Ten during the Promotional Exams, and are expelled. He and his fellow expelled students are left to watch by the sidelines as Soma and the others take on Central in the Regiment de Cuisine. Four months after the Rebels' victory, Ryo is promoted to the fifth seat of Council of Ten, succeeding Somei Saito and Shoko Kaburagi.

Nao Sadatsuka

Voiced by: Saori Gotō (anime)

Nao Sadatsuka (貞塚 ナオ, Sadatsuka Nao) is a girl with long dark hair covering her face who is obsessed with Erina.^{Ch. 40} She despises Hisako,^{Ch. 40} after losing a shokugeki to her in junior high over who gets to be Erina's aide. She is then required to stay at least 50 meters from Erina at all times, but Nao still stalks Erina from afar and writes her 30 letters per day.^{Ch. 52} Known as the Cauldron Witch, she specializes in dishes that involve boiling and simmering with ingredients that generate hideous smells, but taste good, making her earn the first high score in the Fall Classic preliminaries,^{Ch. 51} although ultimately finishing eighth in her block.^{Vol. 8 intro} After Hisako upstages her, she starts thinking of obsessing over Hisako instead.^{Ch. 52} During the academy's Moon Banquet Festival, Nao becomes friends with Soma due to their shared interest in making weird dishes.

Miyoko Hojo

Voiced by: Asami Seto (anime)

Miyoko Hojo (北条 美代子, Hōjō Miyoko)^{Ch. 40} is the heir of a Chinese cuisine restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown, Her specialty is Chinese techniques and wok maneuvers, although some of the guys admire her because she is busty and wears a cheongsam dress.^{Ch. 49} Because she was looked down upon by the cooks at her father's restaurant because of her sex, she has a low opinion of men in general; she dislikes that Megumi credits her success in the shokugeki with Shinomiya to Soma.^{Ch. 50} However, after Megumi advances to the quarterfinals, she tells her she will be rooting for her.^{Ch. 60} She later appears at the Moon Festival, where she says that her relationship with the employees of her father's restaurant has started to improve since the Fall Classic. She also declined joining the school's Chinese Food Research Society because of its leader Kuga's narrow focus on Sichuan cuisine.^{Ch. 120-122}

Akira Hayama

Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe (Japanese); Kregg Dailey (English)^[5]

Akira Hayama (葉山 アキラ, Hayama Akira) is a first-year student and the assistant for Professor Jun Shiomi. He is a tall and handsome man with tanned skin and silver hair. He looks after Shiomi like a big brother, covering her forgetfulness on things such as watering their spice plants.^{Ch. 45} Akira specializes in curry dishes, with a wide knowledge of spices and aromas, taking Shiomi's theories and trying them in the kitchen. He can determine the condition of a curry pot without looking inside, and can also detect different kinds of spices by smell alone,^{Ch. 45, 90} Eight years prior to the series, he lives overseas in the slums as an orphan when he meets Jun Shiomi and warns her about diluted spices in a market.^{Ch. 57} He moves to Japan where he is adopted by Shiomi's seminar professor Hayama and is given the name Akira by Shiomi. He lives with Shiomi while he develops his cooking skills, and is noted to be a very good student.^{Ch. 103-104}

At the Fall Classic preliminaries, Akira receives the highest score in his block.^{Ch. 59} He defeats Hisako in the quarterfinals, thinking her aspirations to be second to Erina are holding her back from winning.^{Ch. 75} In the semifinals, his style of cooking is likened to an eagle as he competes against Ryo Kurakiba. His use of spices is likened to his deployment of cards in a trading card game battle. The result of the match is a draw, leading to a three-way final with Akira and Soma,^{Ch. 90-92} which he eventually wins.^{Ch. 104}

The Azami Administration disbanded the Shiomi seminar, compromised the seminar's business partnerships, and held their research data hostage to extort Akira's allegiance. Compelled by his love for Jun, Akira joined the ranks of Central as a temporary 9th seat on the Council of Ten, vowing to protect the Shiomi seminar, despite Jun's objection because Azami is not trustworthy. In the Promotional Exams, Akira is ordered to defeat Soma again. Though he seemed to have the upper hand, Dojima Gin noted that Akira had lost the desire to cook to make someone (i.e.: Jun) happy, harkening back to a similar warning by Gin to him back in the Fall Classics. Tasting Soma's dish, Akira realizes what he'd lost; and Akira thanks Soma for redeeming him, but knowing his lost meant he is expelled for his failure from beginning as a result due to his previous status as a blackmailed Central member. He and his fellow expelled students are left to watch by the sidelines as Soma and the others take on Central in the Regiment de Cuisine. Four months after the Rebels' victory, and due to Akira's status from being forcefully siding with Central has been quickly cleared, he re-enters back to a now restored Council of Ten, while being ranked up to the fourth seat, succeeding Somei Saito and Momo Akanegakubo.

Subaru Mimasaka

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (Japanese); Rob Mungle (English)^[6]

The chef who secures the fourth spot in his block at the Fall Classic preliminaries, Subaru Mimasaka (美作 昴, Mimasaka Subaru) is a heavily-built student with hair styled in a braided mohawk.^{Ch. 59, 73} He provokes his opponents into shokugeki challenges in which they stake their best cooking knife and soundly defeats them.^{Ch. 76-77} He has no specialty, but it is soon revealed that he painstakingly stalks his opponents, learning the dishes they plan to make, and then makes the identical dish with improvements.^{Ch. 73, 77} With this strategy, he has amassed 99 blades.^{Ch. 77} He got this idea when he was 12 and he was copying dishes at his father's restaurant, but his father disliked that he was not making anything original. When he defeats his father by making an improved dish, his father sends him off to Totsuki (he believes it was to get rid of him as an annoyance) where he is recruited by Council member Etsuya Eizan.^{Ch. 89}

By insulting Takumi and his brother, he turns his quarterfinal match in the Fall Classic into a shokugeki in which Takumi wagers his mezzaluna knife.^{Ch. 76} Although the judges dislike his actions and methods, they declare Subaru the winner.^{Ch. 79} He is challenged by Soma in which he wagers his 100 blades, but the latter circumvents Subaru's research by waiting until the competition starts to improve on his dish, and Subaru is defeated. He tries to leave Totsuki, but Soma convinces him to continue his studies, but to not crush other chef's prides.^{Ch. 87-89} Subaru later appears when Soma asks for assistance at his stall during the Moon Banquet Festival. In preparation for this, Subaru went to the Yukihira diner in order to do his "image training", and was able to accurately copy Soma, allowing the booth to increase production and sales.

During Azami's regime on "Promotional Exams", Subaru started out as neutral, until the third half where most of Soma's rebel friends except Takumi and Megumi are expelled, Subaru joins the rebel team led by Erina, as its 8th member during Regimental de Cuisine match as a mean to settle his debt he repaid to Soma. He upgraded his copying skills to another level: like a flash from a strobe camera, he is now able to copy his opponents just by a brief glance. Despite his lost in the second bout, his opponent, Saito conceded that his upgraded trace skills has made Mimasaka so formidable, that it's like facing his own shadow. Before the third bout of the Regiment match begin on day 2, Mimasaka trains both Soma, Takumi and Megumi few tips and weaknesses he traced from one of the remaining Central's Council of Ten members during his time training for the regiment match , especially from his previous second bout match against Saito.

Kanichi Konishi

Voiced by: Shinji Kawada (anime)

Kanichi Konishi (小西 寛一, Konishi Kan'ichi) is the second-year student and president of the Donburi Bowl Research Society. He has a pompadour hair style. When he first meets Soma, his club is on the verge of being disbanded because of ongoing pressure from Erina Nakiri, leading him with no choice but to have a shokugeki with one of her lackeys Ikumi Mito.^{Ch. 10} When Soma wins the match, the club is saved, and Ikumi is forced to join as a member,^{Ch. 13} during which Kanichi embarrasses her by acting like a doting parent. At the time of the Moon festival, the Donburi Society gains more members, although mostly because of Mito's appeal to the junior high students.^{Ch. 122}

Urara Kawashima

Voiced by: Rina Hidaka (Japanese); Jennifer Gilbert^[2] (English)

Urara Kawashima (川島 麗, Kawashima Urara) is the master of ceremonies for the shokugeki competitions and other events at Totsuki.^{Ch. 12, 40} She greatly enjoys the attention she gets from her male fans and audience, and greatly dislikes it when other women take this attention from her.^{Ch. 12, 49, 56} After the Azami takeover of Tōtsuki, Urara is one of the students to be brainwashed by Central but her malicious nature vanishes and after smelling Momo's Apple Tart, then eventually Rebels' victory.

Yua Sasaki

Voiced by: Rina Hidaka (Japanese); Margaret McDonald (English)^[6]

Yua Sasaki (佐々木 由愛, Sasaki Yua) is the other Master of Ceremonies at the Fall Classic during the preliminary round when the event is split into two blocks. Unlike Urara, she is fairly quiet, stutters and has trouble keeping the attention of the audience.^{Ch. 53-55}

Mitsuru Sotsuda

Voiced by: Daiki Yamashita (Japanese); Patrick Poole (English)^[6] Mitsuru Sotsuda (早津田 みつる, Sōtsuda Mitsuru) is a third-year student at Totsuki Junior High and a member of the Journalism Club. He worships Soma and follows him with his reporter equipment.^{Ch. 81}

Tetsuji Kabutoyama

Tetsuji Kabutoyama (甲山 鉄次, Kabutoyama Tetsuji) is a second-year student known as "The Iron Skewer" for his skewer-cooking techniques. He has a shokugeki winning rate of 80%. He takes an interest in Soma after seeing his cooking during the Fall Classics, and is the first student to challenge Soma to a shokugeki after the latter was done with his stagiaire. After losing in a unanimous decision, he has to teach Soma all his skewering tricks.^{Ch. 116-117} Tetsuji's skewer club participates in the Moon Festival by opening a stall that got second place in sales for their area on the first day.^{Ch. 125} He opposes the disbandment of the club under the Azami Administration, and challenges Eizan Etsuya to a Shokugeki while betting his expulsion from Tōtsuki should he lose. However, Eizan's victory was announced before the judges even tasted the dishes, causing Tetsuji to accuse Eizan of bribery which he indirectly confirms. Nonetheless, Tetsuji is expelled. Ever since Soma defeats Eizan and his rigged cooking game, just as Satoshi manage to create a fair Survival's Purge match before Azami kicks him out of the Council of Ten on the next day where the Purge begins, many Rebels demands Tetsuji's return to the academy.

Senzaemon Nakiri

Voiced by: Banjō Ginga (Japanese); John Swasey (English)^[2]

Senzaemon Nakiri (薙切 仙左衛門, Nakiri Senzaemon) is Erina's grandfather, the patriarch of the Nakiri family, and the Dean of Tōtsuki Saryo Culinary Institute. He is known as the "Gastric Godfather" in the culinary world.^{Ch. 4} He has the tendency of stripping his upper body clothing when he eats a good dish.^{Ch. 66} Despite his appearance and reputation, he is reasonable and gives accurate commentary and assessment for the food he tastes without being overly critical to the losers.

Many years previously, Senzaemon and Gin noticed Joichiro Saiba's critical condition at the start of a tournament, and took upon themselves some of the blame for pressuring Joichiro into becoming mentally trapped in the creation of his dishes. Feeling Joichiro's talent was beyond the tasks of the academy, Senzaemon freed his former student to travel abroad and learn independently, a proposal Joichiro happily accepted, as well as Gin, whom Senzaemon offered him as the head of resort planner as a mean to atone their sins to ensure no one will face the same fate that befell Joichiro before. For a period thereafter, Senzaemon hired Joichiro as his private chef.

Six years ago, Senzaemon exiled his son-in-law, Azami, for abusing Erina with brainwashing. Senzaemon became Erina's legal guardian and had Azami's name struck from the Tōtsuki records. However, Azami returns with the majority of the Council of Ten vote to support Azami as headmaster, replacing Senzaemon. In the aftermath, Senzaemon revealed to Soma that he advised Joichiro to have him apply to the academy. Senzaemon remains active behind-the-scenes with Joichiro, working through tips from informants to take control from Azami. During a third bout of Regiment match day 2, it is revealed that most of the 92nd generation students were handpicked by Senzaemon, and the former headmaster always puts his faith on those students he trust. When Soma, Erina, Eishi and Rindō are the only chefs left on their respective teams, Senzaemon declares the 5th bout as a Tag Team Final Bout, under agreement with Azami on letting the latter be one of three new judges for the final match, safe for Anne. After the Rebels' victory, Senzaemon officially announced his retirement, with Soma, now the newly appointed current Council of Ten first seat appoints Erina as her grandfather's replacement as a new headmaster.

Sometimes during his granddaughter's childhood life, he warned her about the existence of an illegal group of chefs known as Le Cuisine Noir, who keep threatening Totsuki's related culinary businesses.^{Ch. 281}

Roland Chapelle

Voiced by: Yū Mizushima (Japanese); John Gremillion (English)^[2]

Roland Chapelle is a French chef and lecturer at Totsuki, head of its French Cuisine Division. He is nicknamed "The Chef Who Doesn't Smile" due to his high standards and stern demeanor, giving either A's or E's (lowest grade) in his class. Soma is one of the few students to ever make him smile from a dish, in which, Chapelle apologizes that he could not give a higher grade then a A.^{Ch. 4}

Roland is among the staff first told of the Azami Administration's new curriculum, which leaves him shocked and ultimately in opposition to the "gourmet utopia" plan which he calls a dystopia. Roland is happy when Soma wins a critical Shokugeki against Eizan, who had bribed the judges, and believes that Soma and the other rebels will restore Tōtsuki's lost honor. After the second survivor purge, Roland is horrified at Azami's actions in brainwashing the middle-school chef students into copies of Azami. Four months after the Rebels' victory against Central in Regiment match, Roland is seen happily chatting with Jun.

Jun Shiomi

Voiced by: Mikako Takahashi (Japanese); Monica Rial (English)^[5]

Jun Shiomi (汐見 潤, Shiomi Jun), age 34, is a professor at Totsuki who teaches second-year general classes and a seminar specializing in spices. An alumna of the 74th graduating class and a former resident of Polaris during the dorm's golden age, she taste-tested many of Joichiro's cooking experiments, which left her traumatized enough to hate anything to do with him. She wears her hair in a ponytail and wears glasses, but her petite stature and dressing in t-shirts makes her appear like a junior high school student.^{Ch. 44-45} She grows spices from all over the world in her lab.^{Ch. 45} She is a very timid, shy, and reserved person,^{Ch. 44-45, 95} and klutzy, remarking that she barely graduated.^{Ch. 103} While researching spices overseas at age 26, Jun meets Akira Hayama and, recognizing his talent, brings him to Japan to mentor and take care of him.^{Ch. 57, 104}

Under the Azami Administration, Jun's research seminar was threatened. Azami used this to extort Akira into joining Central, leaving Jun broken-hearted after trying to warn Akira that Azami cannot be trusted many times. Jun left the academy in protest, reappearing at Dojima Gin's invitation during the third phase of the Promotional Exams to witness Akira and Soma's match, where a repentant Hayama lost. Jun rebuked Akira for being reckless in joining Central and expressed that despite losing the research society, she only wanted him to continue to grow as a chef with his classmates and enjoy cooking from his heart. Four months after the Rebels' victory against Central in Regiment match, Jun finally re-open back her seminar, and is seen happily chatting with Roland, presumably chatting about how her seminar gained more members.

Takao Miyazato

Takao Miyazato (宮里 隆夫, Miyazato Takao) is the president of the Shokugeki Administration Bureau. He wears glasses and has a bushy mustache. He runs a seminar that focuses on the academic knowledge of culinary and gastronomical topics. Zenji Marui attends as a first-year and is one of his top students.^{Ch. 55}

Joichiro Yukihira

Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama (Japanese); Jay Hickman (English)^[2]

Joichiro Yukihira (幸平 城一郎, Yukihira Jōichirō) is Soma's father and owner of Yukihira Family Restaurant.^{Ch. 1} in the Sumire Shopping District. He teaches Soma the family business and challenges him to many cook-offs that have always ended in the former's victory.^{[lower-alpha 3]} Like Soma, he takes his cooking seriously but also enjoys creating horrible experimental dishes. At the start of the series, he closes the diner in order to travel and work as a guest chef at the world's top restaurants. He sends Soma to Totsuki Saryo Culinary Institute, telling him that he needs to succeed there if he ever wants to surpass him.^{Ch. 1}

As Joichiro Saiba (才波 城一郎, Saiba Jōichirō), he attended Totsuki under this name as a 69th generation student, Polaris resident, and occupied the second seat on the Council of Ten.^{Ch. 34, 41} Gin Dojima, who held the top seat and who is Joichiro's best friend, knows that Joichiro's cooking skills are far superior, having a record of 20 wins and 101 losses in their cooking matches, but that Joichiro was too laid-back and care free to try to claim the top seat.

A talented and creative chef, he earned the nickname Shura,^{Ch. 41} after he single-handedly defeated up to 100 opponents in a regimental shokugeki. During the middle of his third year, the pressure of continuously creating new dishes took its toll on Jōichiro, to the point that he skipped B.L.U.E, the world youth cooking championships, in which he was favourite to win. Gin and Senzaemon blamed themselves and suggested Jōichiro withdrew from the academy and travel the world to learn about cooking on his own terms. Azami, who was two generations behind Joichiro and wanted to push Joichiro's skills to fulfill his ideal of "true gourmet", was resentful when Joichiro left without graduating. Eventually, Jōichiro returned to Japan where he met his wife and opened a family restaurant. At time of his wife's passed away, his son Soma carries her will.

Joichiro is a close friend of the Nakiri family, often requested by Senzaemon to privately cook for him. On one such occasion, a young Erina curiously followed the aroma of his cooking and was allowed to join them. Joichiro's cooking and manner inspired Erina to follow a brighter path as a chef, and this became one bright memory she held onto through Azami's brainwashing. Years later, Joichiro returns and coerces Azami to accept an irregular team Shokugeki, with the terms being his betting a lifelong servitude to Azami if the rebel team loses, in opposition to Azami and his cohorts' expulsion from the academy if the rebel team wins. Joichiro, Senzaemon, and Gin then act as coaches, giving special lessons to the rebel students in preparation of the upcoming team match.

Ten years ago, it is revealed that Joichiro met a boy named Asahi in America and adopted him as both disciple and son. Joichiro would visit Asahi anytime if the former return to America each years. Unfortunately, Asahi uses Joichiro's reputations and influences to do the illegal means which cause a never-ending corruption of culinary world as Azami did before him, instead of using them for the right thing, eventually created a group of underground chefs known as the "Le Cuisine Noir" (translated from French as "Midnigh Chefs"). Four months after the Rebel team defeated Azami's Central team, at time the Le Cuisine Noir began to rise from the shadows, Joichiro lost 0-5 to Asahi, who then began targeting Soma afterwards. One of Joichiro's colleagues in America, Dr. McFree began to inform Gin a direct warning to Soma and Erina will face against Asahi. ^{Ch. 271 - 272} Thankfully in few days later after the upcoming BLUE was announced, Joichiro manage to recover and found Le Cuisine Noir's hideou, and planning to have Soma and his friends prepared for the said upcoming event, after the Noirs manage to kidnap Erina into challenge their bets at BLUE, should Erina lost the bet and forced to marry Asahi.^{Ch. 281}

Gin Dojima

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese); Ty Mahany (English)^[5]

Gin Dōjima (堂島 銀, Dōjima Gin) is the head chef and company director of the Totsuki Resorts, first appearing in the camp event for the first-year students. A graduate of Totsuki's 69th class,^{Ch. 84} he holds the record of the highest marks in the entire school, and has turned down offers to work for over 800 restaurants.^{Ch. 15} He is a tall and extremely muscular man with a buzz cut,^{Ch. 15} and had brown spikey hair in his youth.

Gin was a resident of the Polaris Dormitory with best-friend Joichiro, Jun and Azami, and held the top seat on the Council of Ten.^{Ch. 34, 84} He regards Joichiro highly, respecting his skill and his spirit as a chef. Gin believes that Joichiro has better cooking skills, having a record of 20–101 in their matches. During Joichiro's last day of their third year at Tōtsuki, Gin and Senzaemon noticed Jōichiro's critical condition, blaming themselves for pressuring Jōichiro into becoming mentally trapped in the creation of his dishes. Gin agreed with Senzaemon's suggestion to release Joichiro from the academy so he could travel the world and let his talents grow naturally. Gin's current job in Tōtsuki as of the present was an offer from Senzaemon, in order to ensure none of the current and former students sharing the similar fates as Joichiro had and most importantly not to end up like Azami.

He meets Soma during the first year training camp and where he deems that he has much to learn in order to surpass Joichiro. He returns to Totsuki as a guest judge for the Fall Classic semifinals and finals,^{Vol. 11} and the Promotional Exams in Hokkaido. Although officially neutral, Gin was appalled by the sudden removal of Senzaemon and the installment of Azami as headmaster. He helped the rebels behind-the-scenes, keeping in touch with them until an unexpected scheme caused Soma's allies (except Takumi and Megumi) to be expelled. At this point, Gin, Senzaemon and Joichiro came forward as coaches for the remaining rebels before the battle starts.

Four months after the defeat of Azami, Gin informed by one of Joichiro's American colleagues Dr. McFree a direct warning to Soma and Erina upon the emergence of Joichiro's adopted son Asahi, who instantly defeated him at 5-0 in America, and now he aimed to eliminate Soma and took over Totsuki soon in Japan. Unfortunately for Gin, Erina and Soma, they are too late to realize that Asahi is already in Japan, disguised as someone else whom Erina unintentionally contacted.^{Ch. 273}

Kojiro Shinomiya

Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura (Japanese); Benjamin McLaughlin (English)^[5]

Kojiro Shinomiya (四宮 小次郎, Shinomiya Kojirō) is the owner of a French haute cuisine restaurant called Shino's.^{Ch. 15} After graduating at the top of the 79th class, he moves to Paris, earning the moniker "Le magicien de légume" (The Vegetable Magician) for emphasizing vegetables and having a Japanese approach to a cuisine that has been mostly meat dishes. When his staff compromises his dishes, he hardens himself emotionally, and fires the staff, taking more of the burden himself. After achieving much success in his field and winning the Pluspol prize, he realizes he has been stagnant over the years.^{Ch. 21-26}

During the first-year camp, he immediately fires a student for using a scented hair care product.^{Ch. 15} When he expels Megumi Tadokoro for altering his recipe, Soma challenges him to a shokugeki, but director Gin Dojima has him compete against Megumi. Although he wins over the judges, Dojima and other alumni support Megumi's dish, and after trying her dish himself, he is reminded of his mother's kindness and withdraws his firing of Megumi.^{Ch. 21-26} Although he does not participate as a judge for the Fall Classic,^{Ch. 84} he returns in the story when Soma is assigned as a stagiaire (intern) at his new restaurant, Shino's Tokyo, where Soma tries to find his specialty and to get his dish added to Shinomiya's menu.^{Vol. 14} He reveals that he chose to specialize in French cuisine in order to make his mother happy.^{Ch. 113}

In the aftermath of Azami's seizure of Tōtsuki, and Central's dubious actions (such as shutting down any Totsuki affiliate and replacing them with the businesses owned by his Central members), Shinomiya aids the remaining first-year rebels for their preparation against the eight remaining Central Council members before the Regimental de Cuisine starts for one month; specifically, Shinomiya is tasked to coach Megumi for the said upcoming match events. It is revealed despite admitting to himself that he agrees with Azami's ideal of "true gourmet", Shinomiya feels conflicted and realized something doesn't seem right behind the truth of Azami's ideal, and as such Shinomiya refused to let Azami control Shino's like a puppet, and does not want to involve himself in any feuds between opposing food businesses and Azami Administration, instead remaining independent and neutral. During a month of coaching the first year rebels for their preparation against Central's Council of Ten in Regimental de Cuisine, Soma introduced Shinomiya to his father Joichiro. Shinomiya appears to have met Joichiro somewhere in some past, but cannot remember when.

The Shokugeki no Soma – Etoile spinoff manga focuses on his time in France after graduation.

Tsukuda and Saeki noted that Shinomiya's character was modeled loosely from several Japanese chefs, one of whom had opened restaurants in France with English or Japanese names to emphasize that he was a foreigner. In a similar way, they chose the restaurant to have an apostrophe.^{Ch. 111 notes}

Hinako Inui

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (Japanese); Allison Sumrall (English)^[5]

Hinako Inui (乾 日向子, Inui Hinako), of the 80th graduating class, heads the Japanese-cuisine restaurant Kiri No Ya.^{Ch. 15, 84} During the first-year camp, she hosts a challenge where students have to cook a Japanese dish to her approval using ingredients found on-site. She is a bit absent-minded, purposely dawdling between choosing whether Soma or Takumi's dish is better until she is called to wrap up her assignment. She takes a liking towards Megumi Tadokoro. She is also fond of teasing Kojiro Shinomiya, which often results in the latter comically punishing her.^{Ch. 21-26} She reappears in the Fall Class semifinals as a judge,^{Ch. 84} and in the pre-opening of Shinomiya's restaurant in Japan.^{Vol. 14}

As a student, she held the second seat in the Council of Ten,^{Ch. 84} and was a feared chef known as the "Empress of Mist".^{Ch. 18} At the graduation of Shinomiya, Fuyumi and Donato, she cried upon learning of Kojiro's departure to France, predicting that his abusive and unfriendly nature would cause quarrels with his staff, to which the others agree.^{Ch. 25-26} She later challenged Kojiro to a shokugeki to not leave, but intentionally held back as she felt he should indeed go.

Fuyumi Mizuhara

Voiced by: Ayako Kawasumi (Japanese); Chaney Moore (English)^[5]

Fuyumi Mizuhara (水原 冬美, Mizuhara Fuyumi), of the 79th graduating class and second seat on the Council, is the owner of the Italian restaurant Ristorante F.^{Ch. 84} She is often irritated with Shinomiya because of his arrogant smirks, but at the same time respects him as a chef. She is often deadpan, sarcastic and serious compared to her light-hearted schoolmate Hinako Inui; she has short hair and is the only female judge who wears a tie and pants. She tried but failed to recruit the Aldini brothers and Soma for her restaurant at the conclusion of the first-year's summer camp.^{Ch. 34} She reappears as a judge at the Fall Classic semifinals.^{Ch. 84} A short story reveals that her dislike of Shinomiya stemmed from the fact that he upstaged her in Italian cuisine when they were students.^{Vol. 13 bonus}

Taki Tsunozaki

Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese); Kira Vincent-Davis (English)^[6]

Taki Tsunozaki (角崎 瀧, Tsunozaki Taki), an 88th-generation graduate who held the second seat in the Council, she owns the Spanish restaurant Taki Amarillo which she opened a year after graduating. She first appears as a judge in the Fall Classic semifinals. She has long dark hair and has an aggressive and short temper, talking about beating up people she does not like. She bullies Sonoka because of the latter's large breasts; disrespects Hinako by calling her an old hag; but respects Fuyumi.^{Ch. 84-85}

Sonoka Kikuchi

Voiced by: Asuka Nishi (Japanese); Molly Searcy (English)^[6]

Sonoka Kikuchi (木久知 園果, Kikuchi Sonoka), a graduate of the 89th class and the second seat on the Council, owns a Western cuisine restaurant Shunkatei in which she opened within a year after graduating. She first appears in the Fall Classic semifinals. She has light hair tied in a ribbon and is fairly busty. She tends to get bossed around by her senpai Taki Tsunozaki.^{Ch. 84-85} While judging Akira and Ryo's semifinal match in the Fall Classic, Sonoka is unable to decide until Gin Dojima intervenes.^{Ch. 92}

Etsuya Eizan

Etsuya Eizan (叡山 枝津也, Eizan Etsuya) is introduced as a second-year student who occupies the ninth seat on the Council.^{Ch. 39} He has been a culinary consultant for a number of businesses since junior high, including Mozuya's fried chicken businesses, which Soma foiled their expansion into the Sumire Market District. His nickname is "The Alchemist".^{Ch. 39} Satoshi Isshiki perceives Eizan as a delinquent who had organized his own gang in junior high, and a yazuka mastermind.^{Ch. 40}

He is manipulative, nefarious, often with a fiendish aura, and presents himself as a puppet-master, working behind the scenes to get his way. In the Fall Classic, he fixes the semifinal match between Subaru Mimasaka and Soma Yukihara so that Subaru takes advantage of Soma's rivalry with Takumi Aldini into provoking Soma into turning the match into a shokugeki. Isshiki warns Eizan that Soma will not fall for his traps.^{Ch. 89, 101}

Eizan supported Azami as Totsuki's new director, and arrogantly visited the academy's clubs to announce their disbandment. This provoked Tetsuji Kabutoyama, head of the Skewer RS, to challenge Eizan to a Shokugeki, not knowing that the judges were Eizan's business partners who voted against Tetsuji without tasting his dish. Although this was designed to crush the spirit of rebellion, Soma challenged Eizan for the survival of the Polaris Dorm, and unanimously won his Shokugeki through creativity and tenacity. The integrity of the Shokugeki was restored at the conclusion of the match, and a humiliated Eizan vowed revenge against Soma. On the next day after Azami dismissed Isshiki from the seventh seat, after the latter manage to recreate the fair rules of Shokugeki matches yesterday, Eizan is promoted to Isshiki's former seat. However, before he got the chance, he was defeated by a vengeful Takumi at the Promotional Exam's Regiment De Cuisine. At some point during the final bout of Regiment match, Eizan began to admit of Soma's clean tactics, despite his recklessness, realizing that Soma always have a clean trump card on his sleeves, and eventually leading the Rebels' victory. Four months after Rebels' victory, it is revealed that he is pardoned to return to Council on behalf of Soma's wisdoms, but being demoted to eight seat, which was once belonged to Terunori and Julio, ever since Takumi defeated him in a previous revenge match, due to his previous allegiance with Central.

In the anime, Eizan is voiced by Tomokazu Sugita in Japanese, and by Anthony Hunter in English^[5]

Eishi Tsukasa

Eishi Tsukasa (司 瑛士, Tsukasa Eishi) is a third-year student with short light hair who is introduced as occupying the first seat in the Council.^{Ch. 119} An extremely talented chef, Eishi was nicknamed "the teacher killer" during middle school as teachers were knocked-down at the power of tasting his dishes. Despite his high position, he suffers from stage fright and avoids public speaking, and often questions whether he can do his job, prompting the other council members to either reassure him or to let him be.^{Ch. 119} However, he has absolute confidence in his cooking and never asks his customers how his food tastes, asking instead about other things like ambiance. He specializes in gourmet-European cuisine, and due to his all-white color scheme is known in the culinary world as Der Weiße Ritter der Tafel (lit. 'The White Knight of Table').^{Vol. 16} As a fellow food elitist, he supported Azami's ideals, including the closing of all cooking establishments throughout Japan, then worldwide, that are deemed to be inferior. Originally, he wants to recruit both Soma and Satoshi as his pawns within Central's ranks, but both juniors reject his offering, due to their loyalties towards their fellow rebel friends and the endangered cooking establishments that are part of Central's closing list. At time before meeting Azami, Eishi was originally want to improve his cooking skills. However, at time after obtaining the current seats he and Rindo in during their third year, where they eventually met Azami in America, Eishi himself quickly ended up being manipulated by the exiled Nakiri's ideal on getting rid of the "fodders" who didn't acknowledge the gifted chefs as Eishi, causing Eishi losing his original determination and becoming what he is now. As Satoshi manage to get Eishi's weakspot, despite losing to him, Eishi, alongside Rindō finally experience their first loss by the hands of Soma and Erina's fully powered dishes during the final Regiment match, and thus, Eishi lost his seat. Eishi also learned his lesson from Isshiki about what true fun means to the culinary world, taking an example from the bonds which Soma created. Four months after the Rebels' victory, whereas Eishi and most of other Central members are being pardoned and graduate alongside other 3rd-year students, he is last seen with Rindo fishing at Amazon river.

Rindo Kobayashi

Rindo Kobayashi (小林 竜胆, Kobayashi Rindō) is a third-year student who is introduced as occupying the second seat in the Council.^{Ch. 119} She is described as "friendly, sociable and easy-going", with medium-length red hair that covers part of her face.^{Vol. 17 profile} She is friends with Tsukasa since meeting in junior high. She has a vast knowledge of all things pertaining to ingredients, from carving techniques to butchering methods... and an unfathomable curiosity towards all tastes under the sun. She is known as the Rare Ingredients Master.

From the moment she entered the Council of Ten, Rindō made full use of her authority to travel across the globe to search for new rare ingredients. From the top of Chinese mountains to deserts and the north pole, and the Amazon rainforest. Having already made herself quite versed in whatever rare ingredients that could be found in Japan itself, she managed to achieve further, almost explosive, growth by acquainting herself with the sort of unique ingredients that are inaccessible outside of their place of origin. There are even a few new species that she and on-site staff discovered as part of their projects. Once determined that removal of these new species does not affect the ecosystem, they would find their way to Rindō and her party's stomachs. During the Moon Festival in Soma's first year, instead of running a booth, she made it her mission to try food from all 120 booths.^{Vol. 16}

When Azami takes over as headmaster, she was one of the Council members who supported him, on the grounds that it would "shake things up".^{Vol. 17} She is not fully influenced by Azami's ideals: she disagrees with the expulsion of Isshiki, Megishima, and Kuga from the Council of Ten; is reluctant to wear Central's badge; and gives easy tests to Takumi and Megumi in the third phase of the Promotional Exam. Eventually, her loyalty starts to waver in earnest when she sees how Central treats other culinary businesses. Her true reason for siding with Central is related to Eishi, as he had fallen for Azami's manipulation ever since they met him in America after obtaining their current Council of Ten seats, and her desire to prevent any further manipulation. Thanks to her and Eishi's defeat at the hands of Soma and Erina's fully powered dishes during the final Regiment match, Rindō no longer has to worry about Azami's corrupting influence on Eishi anymore, as Central has officially fallen . Four months after the Rebels' victory, with Rindo and most of other Central members having been pardoned and graduating alongside other 3rd-year students, she is last seen with Eishi, fishing on the Amazon river.

Tosuke Megishima

Tōsuke Megishima (女木島 冬輔, Megishima Tōsuke) is a third-year student who is introduced as occupying the third seat in the Council where he wears a knit hat with dangling balls.^{Ch. 119} He did not support Azami, and was dismissed from the Council of Ten after Azami's installation as the new director. Megishima has a deep passion for ramen, and is known as the 'Shokugeki hating Chef' in Totsuki. He despises the Shokugeki as he believes the only competition any chef should have is how to make their customers happy. He is well known nationally in the ramen industry and has helped other ramen restaurants to grow and flourish, developing a young Yakuza boss persona. After the Azami Administration take-over, a lot of these restaurants are being coerced and bullied out of business and Megishima has been working to help them to stay afloat despite the pressure.

Originally, Megishima declined to join the rebel team as he wished to focus on the helping the ramen industry and did not wish for his ramen to become a weapon. Soma came to recruit him along with Megumi, and managed to irritate him by his reckless big talk. An angry Megishima bested Soma in various ramen-themed matches before being intrigued and touched by the young Yukihira's passion for unique, creative, free-style cooking. He then joins the rebel team in the Regiment de Cuisine against Central. Despite losing in the second bout to Rindō, his 'African Ramen' still managed to significantly weaken her. He is also the one who first noticed Rindō's doubt about how Azami treated other food businesses, since she's not really influenced by the second headmaster's ideal, and thus warned his remaining rebel allies through Takumi about her weaknesses for the next match, should the latter lose to Rindō as well. Four months after Rebels' victory, Tosuke, alongside Somei and Momo started their own culinary business respectively, at time after the two latters being pardoned to graduate alongside him and other 3rd-year students. He opens his ramen-stall business at Paris, France.

Momo Akanegakubo

Momo Akanegakubo (茜ヶ久保 もも, Akanegakubo Momo) is introduced as a third-year student who occupies the fourth seat on the Council. She is a petite girl who enjoys toys and cute things; she is often seen with a stuffed toy cat^{Ch. 119} named Butchy (ブッチー, Bucchi), whose hands also double as oven mitts. As a child, Momo has a knack for picking toys which later becomes very popular, leading to many manufacturers consulting her for toy designs. Eventually, Momo created social media accounts such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for her selfies. Momo specializes in western-style desserts and sweets, and her pâtisserie was ranked first-in-sales during the Moon Banquet Festival. At time after Azami Nakiri is voted as a second headmaster of Totsuki, by Momo and other five Council of Ten members, Momo is promoted to the third seat due its former holder Tosuke did not vote Azami and being dismissed by him. She can be anti-social and arrogant at first, but once she becomes more familiar with someone, she can become quite chatty. She likes to give pet names to people she deems inferior to her, ending with '-yan'; e.g. 'Soum-yan'. Due to her nature towards those whom she deemed to be inferior, Momo is unable to find light that does not impress her supposed-unique talent onto her dishes, leading her to a humiliating defeat at the hands of a redeemed Erina, with the karma of the said Nakiri had when she first tasted Soma's dish. After the Rebels' victory, Momo is one of Central members to be pardoned and allowed to graduate alongside other 3rd-year students. Four months later, Momo, alongside Somei and Tosuke started their own culinary business respectively. Momo has a fear of flying on airplanes.

Somei Saito

Somei Saito (斎藤 綜明, Saitō Sōmei) is introduced as a third-year student who occupies the fifth seat on the Council, carrying some sort of wooden stick.^{Ch. 119} A skilled sushi chef who strictly follows the bushido code. Hailed from a small, but popular, sushi family diner owned by his mother, Saito vow to be a great chef as her. As Saito enters Totsuki at middle school, his mother got an apprenticeship at a famous sushi restaurant, Shigarami. However, things turn for the worst for them as the misogynistic Shiragami refuses the latter any access to the kitchen and assigned her doing menial tasks. Eventually, Saito's mother became ill from overwork. Vowing to protect his family diner, Saito honed his skills at Totsuki and crushed all opposing sushi restaurants who tries to ruin his diner's reputation, including Shiragami, in various competitions. With his sword, "Isanakiri" (whale cutter), used in his cooking, Saito developed his "Sushido" code, and earning a place in the Council of Ten council, where he is often considered a little eccentric with his samurai voracity and persona. Considering rebellion is a transgression against the bushido code, Saitou fights for Azami; despite not fully espousing to the latter's ideals, accepting the Shokugeki as part of his training. At time after Azami is voted as a second headmaster of Totsuki, by Somei and other five Council of Ten members, Somei is promoted to the fourth seat, whereas Momo is promoted to the third seat. He is defeated by Soma during the third bout of the Regiment match's day 2, fully acknowledging Soma's strength. After Rebels' victory, Somei is one of Central members to be pardoned and graduate alongside other 3rd-year students. Four months later, Somei, alongside Momo and Tosuke started their own culinary business respectively, with Somei continue his family dining business.

In the anime, Somei is voiced by Katsuyuki Konishi in Japanese.^[7]}}

Nene Kinokuni

Nene Kinokuni (紀ノ国 寧々, Kinokuni Nene) is introduced as a second-year student who occupies the sixth seat on the Council; she wears glasses and has hair styled in short braided pigtails.^{Ch. 119} She hails from the eastern Kanda, whose family runs a famous Soba restaurant, serving “Edo Soba,” and it’s a well-known restaurant and serves one of the best Soba in Japan, which mainly serving the 1st flour Soba. Ever since she was little, she was taught the principles of tea ceremonies, Kaiseki cooking and basically anything that involves traditional Japanese food and the arts.

Her family, along with the Isshiki family, are the two most revered and respected culinary families in traditional Japanese food. As heir to his family, Isshiki Satoshi was sent to the Kinokuni household at 4 years old to train. Although initially Nene tried to get along with Satoshi, she grew jealous of him who seems to be surpassing her quickly in skills. This resentment is compounded when they both entered Totsuki and the Council of Ten. Even though Nene was ranked higher than Isshiki in the Council of Ten, everyone knew the only reason that was the case is because Isshiki did not do his best, and often held back his true skills. However, it is revealed that Isshiki was actually floundering in his cooking, and secretly admires Nene's determination and passion, as he has none originally until now. As most of the three of six earliest present day Council below second seat who voted Azami ranks up, Nene is the only lower ranked Central supportive Council member to remain in her rank. She is defeated by Soma in the first bout of the Regiment de Cuisine, leading her to be concerned about Soma's true potential of his cooking skills that can pit against the high-ranked chefs, despite being a freshman.

Four months after Rebels' victory, it is revealed that she is pardoned to return to Council on behalf of Soma's wisdoms, but being demoted to ninth seat, which was once belonged to Eizan and Hayama, due to her previous allegiance with Central. In her current third year, Nene is too late to realize in four months earlier about Soma's true potential, just because he is the son of the legendary Joichiro.^{Ch. 270 - 271}

Terunori Kuga

Terunori Kuga (久我 照紀, Kuga Terunori) is introduced as a second-year student who occupies the eighth seat on the Council. His hair is mostly light in front and dark in the back. He leads the Chinese Food Research Society, which has turned into a club that focuses on Sichuan cuisine, where he trains dozens of students with army-like efficiency to follow his recipes. He is the most talkative of the Council and has a short fuse, offering to give Soma a chance to challenge him to a shokugeki if he can beat him in any single category that involves cooking.^{Ch. 119-122}

As a child, Kuga traveled widely and was interested in Chinese cuisine, including Sichuan, Hunan, and Guizhou cuisines. When he enrolls in Totsuki, like Soma, he challenges the Council to a shokugeki during the meet and greet, with Tsukasa accepting and defeating him. He gets another chance after achieving first in sales in his area for the Moon Festivals, thus he extends Soma the same opportunity. During the festival that involves Soma as a first year, he hosts a large booth that specializes in mapo tofu as well as a handful of other very spicy but addictive dishes, but Soma manages to best his sales on the fourth day.^{Vol. 16} When Azami takes over as dean, Kuga was one of the members who did not approve and was soon dismissed from the council. So far, the Chinese RS has not been shut down. He later appeared during the Promotional Exams to help Soma prepare for a match against Akira Hayama, then fully joins the rebel team in Regimental de Cuisine for his rematch against Tsukasa. Kuga still lost, but managed to land a significant blow to Tsukasa in their match. Four months after Rebels' victory, Terunori returns to the Council once more and effectively promoted to third seat, succeeding Tosuke and the pardoned Momo, who are now graduated.

Julio Shiratsu

Julio Shiratsu (白津 樹利夫, Shiratsu Jurio) is a second year student who is introuced as a temporarily appointed eight seat for Central's Council of Ten. He is very flamboyant and loud, who also very obsessed and at the same time held a grudge towards Isshiki. His family is well known as the chefs for the Italian embassy for generations. Julio later lost to Isshiki during a Regimental de Cuisine.

Shoko Kaburagi

Shōko Kaburagi (鏑木 祥子, Kaburagi Shōko) is a second-year student who is introduced as a temporarily appointed fifth seat for Central's Council of Ten. She looks like a boy while wearing her chef uniform, and mostly her hat. She likes apple tea and watching tennis, but has a strong dislike of spiders and the smells of tobaccos. She lost to Megishima during the Regimental de Cuisine.

Azami Nakiri

Azami Nakiri (薙切 薊, Nakiri Azami) a.k.a. Azami Nakamura (中村 薊, Nakamura Azami)

Voiced by: Shō Hayami^[8]

Azami is Erina's mysterious father who returns from banishment, and becomes the main antagonist from the 16th tankōbon of the series. He replaces his ex-father-in-law Senzaemon as the director/headmaster of Totsuki with six of the Council of Ten supporting him, and uses bribery, fear and intimidation to effect sweeping changes in a scheme to achieve his ideal of a gourmet utopia. Azami took the prestigious Nakiri name upon marrying Senzaemon's daughter; previous to that he was known as Azami Nakamura.

Azami was a Totsuki student, resident of Polaris dorm and member of the Council of Ten – 3rd seat as a freshman then promoted to 1st seat as a sophomore until his graduation. Joichiro and Gin were his seniors, and he particularly admired Joichiro who he believed could achieve his ideal of "true gourmet". Azami believed that it was Tōtsuki that had ruined Joichiro 's reputation that resulted in Joichiro leaving, and began upon a plan to radically alter the academy.

Azami claimed to have molded Erina's "God Tongue" and indoctrinated her as a food elitist in isolation. He taught her to neither forgive nor show mercy toward inferior food, no matter how minor the failure. This ultimately brainwashed her. Azami was eventually banished from Tōtsuki when Senzaemon discovered what he had done, and his name was struck from the academy records. Made unwelcome in Japan, Azami created a gourmet society for the wealthy of the United States, later expanding to the Middle East and South Asia.

Azami returned to Totsuki having convinced a majority of the Council of Ten to make him the academy's new director, replacing Senzaemon. He immediately moved to purge any potential insubordination by eliminating inventive cooking classes, disbanding seminars, clubs, research societies and associations, and replace these independent organizations with a Central Gourmet Institution that would teach all students Council of Ten-level skills and techniques. This meant the merit-based system which graduated 1% of students would be replaced with an authority-based system which would graduate everyone that submits to its teachings. Azami began brainwashing Tōtsuki's students to be compliant to his ideology, intending to create an army of chefs who would dominate the restaurant industry in Japan, making identically perfect dishes, driving out inferior restaurants, and eventually spreading his gourmet utopia to the rest of the world.

Azami attempted to isolate Erina and use her God Tongue to further his plans. When she ran away, he visited her at Polaris Dorm and learned that Soma is Joichiro's son. Further purging any potential of rebellion, he dismissed Isshiki, Megishima and Kuga from the Council of Ten, and launching the "survivor's purge" against the holdout societies. Soma, Megumi, Nikumi, and Ryō Kurokiba managed to save their respective societies. He held the Shiomi Seminar's research data hostage to extort Fall Classic-champion Akira Hayama's allegiance to Central.

With only Soma, Megumi, and Takumi managing to hold out in the promotional exams against his total control of the student body, Azami accepted Joichiro's proposal for an irregular team Shokugeki – Regimental de Cuisine – of the Council of Ten against the rebels, Joichiro betting his lifelong service to Azami against Azami and his Council of Ten being ousted from Tōtsuki. Erina resigned from the Council of Ten to be with her friends, but Azami swore he will get her back. On day 2, Azami made an agreement with Senzaemon to let the former be one of the judges for the final, then hired two WGO female higher-ups to replace its two lower-ranked male members as judges, save for Anne, despite the two higher-ups remaining neutral like their fellow members. On the day of the last match, Azami secretly attempted to rig the match to get everything he wants quickly. Unfortunately for him, despite his selfishness and because Erina finally broke free from his dark influences thanks to her newfound friends and bonds, his plan backfired, as Erina and Soma's dishes manage to surpasses Eishi and Rindo's dishes, and Azami himself was unable to accept his defeat, but was too late from preventing his lost. Soma later revealed to Azami that Joichiro had been cured since his departure from the academy thanks to the latter meeting Soma's late-mother, something Azami had not known previously. Despite disdain from his daughter, Erina herself still believe there's a good left. As stated by the higher-rank member of WGO, Courage, the lost Azami's regime is just the beginning, as there is someone who is far beyond him will appear.

Shawn Aida

Shawn Aida (相田 ショーン, Aida Shōn)

Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu

Azami Nakiri's loyal secretary.

Rentaro Kusunoki

Rentarō Kusunoki (楠 連太郎, Kusunoki Rentarō)

Voiced by: Shintaro Asanuma

An arrogant second-year student who often underestimates his opponents, and can be recognized by his bandanna, a tattoo on his left cheek, and crosses on his cooking outfit. His speciality is low-temperature cooking techniques. He is sent by Azami to demolish the Cutting Edge RS, and calls the first-years lowlifes when de facto captain Alice Nakiri is indifferent about the RS. This insult leads Ryō Kurokiba to challenge and defeat Rentarō in a Shokugeki, causing Central to lose face.

Mea Yanai

Mea Yanai (梁井 メア, Yanai Mea)

Voiced by: Mao Ichimichi

A second-year student with pink hair and a haughty attitude. She lost to Nikumi in the second survival match.

Shigemichi Kumai

Shigemichi Kumai (熊井 繁道, Kumai Shigemichi)

Nicknamed 'Shige', he is a second-year student with a brutish appearance. However, unlike his fellow Central members and despite his appearance, Shige is a very reasonable chef with a code of honor. He lost to Megumi in the second survival match against the Regional Cooking RS.

Rui Kofuru

Rui Kofuru (小古 類, Kofuru Rui)

A mysterious second-year student with long white hair and bangs over her eyes (like Shun Ibusaki). In anime, it is revealed that she is defeated by Marui during Survival's Purge against his Literature Culinary Club.

Asahi

Asahi (朝日, あさひ) is a mysterious illegal chef and the leader of Le Cuisine Noir, a group of underground chefs who are dabbling through intimidation, kidnapping, and even both torture and murdering at time they manage to achieve an end without shying away.

Ten years ago, Joichiro met a young Asahi as an orphan in America, adopted and raised him as both son and apprentice. Soma also have met Asahi before, but cannot remember when. Joichiro often visits Asahi anytime, should the former return to America while he is hired in his freelance service there. Unaware to Joichiro, and even his true son Soma, Asahi starts using Joichiro's name to do an illegal means instead of the right thing, starting to refer himself as Asahi Saiba (才波 朝日, さいば あさひ, Saiba Asahi), until Joichiro finds out in four months later in the present since the defeat of Azami Nakiri's regime.

In the wake of Azami's defeat, Asahi and his fellow underground chefs began to resurface, planning to bring Totsuki into a similar ruin situation as Azami did. Asahi's plan is to eliminate Joichiro's lineage and took their knives, starting with Joichiro himself, then Soma (thought his knife is spared), and even to take Erina and her newly reformed Totsuki Administration under his control. When the defeat of Joichiro by the hands of Asahi reaches the culinary world's ears, one of Joichiro's American colleagues, Dr. McFree attempt to send Gin a direct warning to both Soma and Erina, but too late to realize that Asahi already arrived in Japan, under the guise of a college student hired by Erina as a "guest" teacher name "Suzuki" ("鈴木").^{Ch. 271 - 272} After the first day of new Totsuki's exam at the beach, he and his fellow illegal chef began to kidnap Erina at night into his hideout, attempting to challenge Erina for an upcoming BLUE tournament and forcing her to marry him, should she lost the bet on that event. Unaware to him nor his fellow illegal chefs, a recovered Joichiro manage to track their hideout, then have Soma and his friends to prepare for the said upcoming event against Asahi's group.^{Ch. 277Ch. 281}