WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 5, Episode 2 of Food Wars!, now streaming on Crunchyroll.

The fifth and final season of Food Wars! is only two episodes in but already, some major revelations and developments are turning the cooking world upside down.

The legendary BLUE cooking tournament is looming and expert chefs from around the world are invited to this incredible event. Totsuki is ready to send a few student chefs of its own but only three can earn that right. And in this episode, one unlikely chef dominates the rest.

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A Dark Horse Wins Big

Since there is such a huge field of student chefs, Erina and Doujima arrange a massive cook-off with the theme of soup, and all participating students are welcome to make the dish using their own ingredients and unique cooking styles.

The Polar Star Dormitory students and the new Council of Ten chefs give it their all -- from Soma's Yukihira-style diner soup to Takumi's cheese and tomato-inspired Italian soup. But the winner is the last person anyone expected to win, even the winner herself: Megumi Tadokoro.

Megumi makes a miso soup based on many flavors of Japanese regional cooking, from Edo and Satsuma to Nagasaki and Hokkaido. On the outside, Megumi's soup hardly even looks like soup; the bowls were filled with solid spheres. But inside is miso soup of all different flavors, with each one being a pleasant surprise for the judges. With this kind of creative and whimsical dish, Megumi scores an incredible 959 points.

This means that Megumi easily earns a spot in the upcoming BLUE, and her two companions will be Takumi Aldini (who scored 958 points) and Soma, who landed a scored of 957. All three of them are among the most prominent characters in Food Wars! so, naturally, they won their spots on the team. Other major characters like Akira Hayama and Alice Nakiri also scored high; most major characters, in fact, got into the top 10.

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A New Challenger Appears

Meanwhile, that cooking competition isn't the only conflict taking place in this action-packed second episode. The moment Megumi, Soma and Takumi are named as the three winners, Joichiro Yukihira suffers a humiliating defeat at the hands of a masked chef who won with a decisive 5-0 score. A hat and bandana hide this chef's face, but he appears to be a slender young man with pale ears. Is it the new teacher at Totsuki, who goes by the name of Suzuki? At any rate, he wins Joichiro's prized knife, and who knows what his next target will be? Most likely, Soma and his friends.

Soma already has his hands full, though. He and Suzuki come face to face, and Suzuki quickly shows his true colors. At first, he's just a mysterious guy who's popular with the girls, but then he reveals his true aim: to win over Erina Nakiri... and make her his bride!

Suzuki is smitten with her (or at least claims to be), and he claims that from the moment he saw her, he wanted to make her "his." To that end, Suzuki politely but rashly challenges Soma to a proper shokugeki, though as Megumi points out, there isn't an easy way to sanction this impromptu match. So, Suzuki settles for an unofficial, personal duel, and he likes Soma's reckless and personal cooking style.

For Soma, though, it seems that the stakes may go beyond defending his image as the top chef of his class. When Suzuki makes his intentions with Erina clear, Soma is quick to defend her, saying that her "God Tongue" is something he must protect. Suzuki doubles down, and Soma responds with "Erina is mine!" and both of them declare that they won't let anyone else have her. Overall, it's a comedic scene, but both men's passion is genuine and quite clear, and Erina herself overhears it, causing her to collapse in a goofy daze. Clearly, she's not used to men fighting over her this much.

Aside from this interpersonal battle, the stage is set for a cooking duel, and Soma's motives as a chef seemed to have matured just in time.

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