Chapter 5
? That was common knowledge—the sort of factoid that would be written in my character profile on our anime’s promotional website...
To absolutely no one’s surprise, this bit of trivia is, in fact, genuinely written in Andou’s character profile on the anime’s Japanese promotional website.
? She didn’t know the first thing about the fundamentals of cooking, but she had internalized every piece of trivia that’d been brought up in Food Wars.
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma is a manga that ran in Shonen Jump written by Tsukuda Yuuto and drawn by Saeki Shun. The series was equally as notable for its elaborately constructed, well-rendered recipes as its gradually escalating absurdity, which starts on a level of characters having their clothes blown off by the power of delicious food and only gets sillier from there. It’s also a series that (at least from a layman’s perspective) comes across as having really done its homework when it comes to cooking trivia—all the examples that Andou brings up are indeed fun facts that the series teaches.
? I used the Saikawa Souhei method, basically.
Saikawa Souhei is the protagonist of The Perfect Insider, a mystery novel by Mori Hiroshi. The novel was a smash hit, and it inspired a wide variety of adaptations (including an anime that came out later on in the same year this volume was originally released). Souhei himself is a university professor who, as professors in mystery novels tend to do, helps solve a murder case, in the process employing the particular style of deductive reasoning that Sagami very briefly sums up.
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