Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma Previews Autumn Election In New PV

Strap on your aprons, and get your ingredients ready! It’s time to head back to the fires of shokugeki!

Earlier today, Warner Brothers began streaming a new promotional video for Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Second Plate (Shokugeki no Sōma: Ni no Sara). The 102-second teaser offers a look at first Autumn Election battle, set to opening theme Rough Diamonds by Screen Mode.

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Second Plate will hit Japanese TV on [date]. The teaser ends with the show’s broadcast schedule, as well as a brief teaser of nano.RIPE’s closing theme.

The series returns to Japanese TV on July 2. The première schedule is as follows:

Tokyo MX: 7/2/2016 at 22:00 (7/2/2016 at 10:00PM)
MBS: 7/2/2016 at 26:28 (7/3/2016 at 2:28AM)
BS11: Time to be announced
Animax: Time to be announced

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma adapts Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki’s manga of the same name. The series kicked off in April 2015, and ran for 24 episodes. Yoshitomo Yonetani (Nurse Witch Komugi, Tiger & Bunny The Movie -The Rising-) directed the series at J.C. Staff, while Tomoyuki Shitaya (Bakuman, Kiss×sis) provided character designs. Scripts were provided by Shinichi Inotsume and Shogo Yasukawa.

Yonetani will return to the director’s chair for season 2, with Tomoyuki Shitaya back on character design duties. Shogo Yasukawa (Terra Formars, Hyperdimension Neptunia) will step in to write the new season’s scripts. Jin Aketagawa will serve as sound director on the project, while Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club composer Tatsuya Katou scores the soundtrack.

The confirmed cast includes: