Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma Season 2 Listed With 13 Episodes

The official website of the Shokugeki no Sōma: Ni no Sara (Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma: The Second Plate), the second season of the Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma anime series, announced the series' home video release plans on Monday. The home video releases reveal the anime will have 13 episodes.

The series will have seven Blu-ray Disc volumes, which will contain two episodes each, except for the seventh volume, which will only contain one.

The series will premiere in Japan on July 2. The anime will air on Tokyo MX at 10:00 p.m., and on MBS at 26:28 (effectively July 3 at 2:28 a.m.). The show will also air on BS11 and Animax.

The main cast and staff from the first season will reprise their roles in the sequel. Hiroki Yasumoto is joining the cast as Subaru Mimasaka.

The television anime series adapts Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma manga. The first anime season aired for 24 episodes from May to September last year. Crunchyroll streamed the first anime adaptation as it aired in Japan, and Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for North America.

The manga centers on Sōma, who works with his dad at his family's restaurant. His dad is a culinary master, and he often hosts cooking battles with his father. His father then enrolls him in an elite culinary school that is very difficult to enter, and the graduation rate is only about 10 percent.

Tite Kubo's Bleach Manga Nears Ending

Series serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 2001, inspired 366-episode TV anime

This year's 31st issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Monday that Tite Kubo's long-running Bleach manga is approaching its ending. The magazine teased the number of chapters before the manga would end, but purposefully obscured the number.

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The manga entered its final story arc in February 2012.

Kubo launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2001, and Shueisha published the manga's 72nd volume on May 2. Viz Media is publishing the manga in North America digitally in English as new chapters are published in Japan. The company is also publishing the manga in print, and it published the 66th volume on March 1.

The manga inspired a television anime adaptation that ran for 366 episodes from 2004 to 2012. Viz Media obtained the television and home video rights to the anime in 2006. The series premiered with an English dub in Cartoon Network's Adult Swim that same year, and eventually aired all the episodes by 2014. Viz Media announced last month that it will release the television anime series on Blu-ray Disc starting on July 19.

The manga has also inspired four anime films, a series of novels, and several video games. A series of stage musical adaptations launched in 2005, with the latest entry debuting in July.