Yukihira Souma

Japanese name:

幸平 創真

Age: 16
Gender: Male
Height: 171 cm
Weight: 57 kg
Family: Jouichirou Yukihira (Father)
Cuisine Style: Yukihira Style Recipes
Food Forte: All

Souma is an energetic and optimistic boy who has the constant drive to improve his cooking, mostly due to his strong relationship and rivalry with his father, Jouichirou Yukihira. He is confident in his skills and always seeks to challenge others to prove his abilities and test the limits of his cooking. Because of this, Souma constantly finds himself in very difficult situations in his various duels and challenges which would break the spirits of most chefs. However, he remains positive and cool under pressure, never backing down from a challenge and is always constantly thinking and evolving his cooking. Souma is also flexible and innovative, able to break away from ordinary procedures to cook dishes, thus allowing him to make his own solutions when he needs to find an edge. As such, he can create some of the most unorthodox, but also incredibly delicious dishes the school has ever seen.

Souma is extremely reckless, often getting himself into very dangerous situations that could jeopardize his entire cooking career. In two Shokugekis Souma risked being expelled from Tōtsuki if he lost while in another Shokugeki he put his entire cooking career on the line, a penalty most chefs would never wager. Because of his unknown humble origins, Sōma is never the favorite to win most of his matches as he constantly faces fellow classmates of more noteworthy backgrounds, most of which do not consider him a threat because of their own advantages. Time and time again, Souma has proven that he is more than capable of overcoming the most difficult challenges with the steepest handicaps. Jouichirou attributes Souma's strength not to natural cooking talent, but to his courage that allows him to boldly face whoever challenges him, no matter how much of a genius they are. Souma is not afraid to admit that his opponent is better than him and that he is not perfect, but he refuses to give up. Souma's lifelong goal is to become a better chef than his father and thus will fight to the very end to achieve his dream, plunging head first into trial and error until he gets to the end results that he displays in his duels. Even in defeat from his father, Souma takes it as a sign that there is still much more for him to learn.

Even though many of his classmates had hostile feelings towards him, mainly due to his entrance speech, Souma is a very friendly individual. He has struck up friendships with everyone in the Polar Star Dormitory within the first few hours and has friendly interactions with his rivals Takumi Aldini and Alice Nakiri. He is always willing to help out a friend, even at the risk of his place in Tōtsuki for them, and is more than willing to assist anyone in need. Souma does not believe that one's background should dictate their skills, and thus, treats his classmates more as equals, something that is rarely reciprocated. While he is constantly belittled by others, namely Erina, either he is not aware of the fact that they are insulting him or chooses not to respond to it. Either way, Souma never retorts when insulted and usually uses his cooking to do the talking for him. Whenever Sōma wins, he never gloats his victories and even takes time to help his opponents see what they did wrong, thus helping them become better chefs themselves.

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