Sentai Filmworks Adds Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma


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Sentai Filmworks announced that they acquired the domestic rights to Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma. The company will release the title to digital outlets in the near future, with a physical edition planned for a later date. No details on either release were announced.


Sentai Filmworks announced that they acquired the domestic rights to Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma. The company will release the title to digital outlets in the near future, with a physical edition planned for a later date. No details on either release were announced.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SENTAI FILMWORKS LICENSES “FOOD WARS! SHOKUGEKI NO SOMA”

HOUSTON, April 6, 2015Sentai Filmworks is proud to announce its latest acquisition Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, as part of their Spring 2015 anime season acquisitions. Adapted from the original work of Shun Saeki and Yuto Tsukuda, this comedy tournament series will pit a promising young cooking prodigy against a class of potential master chefs in a boiling hot battle to see who will reign supreme in the cooking arena!

Yoshitomo Yonetani will be directing the series, with series composition duties going to Shogo Yasukawa. Character designs will be provided by Tomoyuki Shitaya, with music duties going to Tatsuya Katou. Animation production will be handled by J.C. Staff, known for their work on A Certain Magical Index.

Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma is scheduled for an April 2015 release and will soon be available through select digital outlets with a home video release to follow.

About Sentai Filmworks

Sentai Filmworks is one of the fastest-growing anime companies in North America, producing hit series like Persona 4, Girls und Panzer, Devil Survivor 2, Bodacious Space Pirates, Majestic Prince and High School of the Dead as well as high profile theatrical films such as Grave of the Fireflies, K-ON! and Appleseed. Sentai Filmworks’ programs are distributed through Super D, Diamond Comic Distributors, Section23Films and Waxworks through retailers Amazon, Best Buy, Fry’s, FYE, Hastings, Suncoast, The Right Stuf, Wal-Mart and other good and fine stores. Digital product offerings may be found at Amazon, Anime Network, Crunchyroll, Google Play, Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, PlayStation Network, Rovi, Samsung, Vudu, XBOX Marketplace and YouTube.

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