This anime is quite underrated with ONLY 600 users?!!?!. The anime is decent, consisting with a fair story, nostalgic 1980-1990's art style, average sound and alright characters. The characters in this anime are very slow at character development, as the mc always comes up with ideas after trying out different ingredients. Basically the show is slow pasted, and character development is trash in this anime. The story is basically Shokugeki, if the dad died instead of the mother. Since this was the first cooking anime, shokugeki definitely copied the character stories from this anime, as well as making the mc OP at the start. Similarities in shokugekno Soma:
- Both have a running store
- Cooking ability came from their fathers
- 1 parent dies
- Both characters like experimenting with other ingredients ti make the food taste better
- Exaggeration is used in both anime when food is eaten
- Basically each cook off is a shokugeki. Both participants of the cookoffs always make an agreement if one looses

Overall the anime is alright, and its highly recommended if you either like Shokugeki no Soma or cooking in general