Talk:SouEri/@comment-44913534-20200926030308

Also, it took him a few panels and scenes to show how Joichiro met, fell in love with, and married his wife, and ditto with Mana and Azami even how Azami had Asahi and yet not one scene or panel for Soma and Erina ( aka 1. Confessing to each other or romatic in their own way to one another- based on Soma's character ( who is so like his mom with elements of Joichiro in there) he would have clearly made it known how he feels to himself, her, and everyone he's as blunt and straight forward as ever or he probably would've reacted similar to Tamako when realized she loved Joichiro and expressed her feelings for him 2. Dating 3. Or married ( / kids). In the end non of that came to be, because the author never included it in anything. The reason why is because Tsukada said it himself, he didn't know how to fit that in there and while he likes the ship he couldn't figure out how to create it. Because as he also said he was only interested mainly in duos for shokugeki's not couples and he started to like it when it was all over and all was done, in the end what he wanted to focus on was the food, challenges, and friendship between the characters which leads to personal growth. As for the theme of someone to cook for ( manga woman to cook for, in anime someone to cook for) it is open for a reason too, for joichiro it was his wife, for Akira it is Jun, Ryu is Alice, Shinomiya his mother, even Erina ( in both anime and manga) all she ever wanted was to cook for her mother and win her approval. Cooking for someone can mean many things the series shows that Soma has mainly cooked for himself to surpass his father, for his mother, and to save/ help his friends ( megumi, Akira, Erina, Sumire district, etc.), and he is still thinking/ cobtenpletaing who to cook for/ how much to train to improve as a chef and be worthy of Yukihira diner