Panning, Tilting and Shaking - "Shokugeki no Soma (Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma)"

"Shokugeki no Soma" is an anime of moving camera. The camera is moving most of the time. Not only in cooking battle scenes, the camera pans and tilts also in a scene of conversation or monologue. As a result, this anime gives us a thrilling impression from the beginning to the end.

In this respect, this anime contrasts with "Nagato Yuki-chan no Shoushitsu (The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan)." In "Nagato Yuki" 11th episode, the camera moves sparingly. It moves only in some scenes. A typical example is that it moves very slightly at the beginning of a cut and then stops for the rest of the scene. We know both are techniques of cost saving, but how effectively they are used!

In "Shokugeki" 11th episode, the camera sometimes shakes in a tense cut like a handheld one for a very short time (less than a second), which is a very effective spice for the thrilling flow of the story.

Shokugeki no Soma, 11th episode


And I like the ending song "Spice" by Tokyo Karankoron

(updated on June 22, 2016)