Immediately after graduating from Tootsuki Culinary Academy as the First Seat of the Elite Ten, Kojirou Shinomiya moved to France to work towards becoming the first Japanese chef to win the French Pluspol Award. However, it was achieving his dreams that made his cooking stagnate; with no goal to fight for at the top of the food chain, he soon lost the drive to improve his cooking.
 
Shokugeki no Souma: L'étoile focuses on Kojirou's self-reinvention following the aftermath of the unofficial Shokugeki at the first years' training camp. To revitalize his passion for the culinary arts, Kojirou must re-examine his old methods, and in turn, move toward the future to find out what he wants to express with his cooking.
 
Note: Volumes 4, 5, and 6 each contain a bonus chapter.

Yukihira Souma's dream is to become a full-time chef in his father's restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skill. But just as Yukihira graduates from middle schools his father, Yukihira Jouichirou, closes down the restaurant to cook in Europe. Although downtrodden, Souma's fighting spirit is rekindled by a challenge from Jouichirou which is to survive in an elite culinary school where only 10% of the students graduate. Can Souma survive? 
(Source: Population GO) 
Included side stories: 
Volume 1: Shokugeki no Souma (pilot). 
Volume 3: Kimi to Watashi no Renai Soudan. 
Volume 8: Natsuyasumi no Erina. 
Volume 13: Shokugeki no Soma X Isobe Isobee Monogatari. 
Volume 13: Betsubara! #1 & #2 (counts as one chapter). 
Volume 15: Betsubara! #3 & #4 (counts as one chapter). 
Volume 20: Betsubara! #5. 
Volume 21: Betsubara! #6 & #7 (counts as one chapter). 
Volume 31: Kareinaru Bansankai.

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