The least I learned from Shokugeki no Souma

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Gaes,

Tonight I would share things I have learned from Shokugeki no souma.

Well, if you guys loved Anime/ Manga, this one should be on your bucket list of course! To be honest, I was watching the movie first than the manga. And then, since I am not that patient waiting for this, I decided for reading the manga 100 Chapters on 3 days. Haha

As you've probably know. Souma is one of that "Ecchi" manga, which is quite vulgar at the first glance. You may see "foodgasm" which is literally orgasm because eating "delicious" food. Even if it's the disgusting one, yups, they'll have that gasm though.

Despite its "Harem" theme, the plot is extremely enjoyable. Why? Every chapter would lead you to read it more and more. To be honest, lots of thing you could learn through this, such as:

1. Leadership & Strategy

Some are natural leaders, some are trained their leadership skill through their professional experiences. Yups, in this movie, you'll learn Leadership especially Strategy.

FYI, Tootsuki (the school name of this series), have extremely tight values. From thousands of students, only top 1% would be graduated as alumni. Which means, the rest 99% would be expelled through the years.

Despite these extreme values, they have "Shokugeki" event, which is leading to "Food wars" between several Chef. Within their extreme skills, each other should have strategies for cooking their own foods. Even they would rehearse for several days to trials and errors.

During day by day, they even compete and implement all of strategies they have learnt during school. For example, If you watch the anime, on episode 16 and 17, Souma, who's living on Business District to open "Yukihira's Dinner". Feeling something wrong with his surrounding. He saw how quiet his district had been, because of the infrastructure changing. Compounded by his local competitor, Mozuya Kaarage, that's been literally dominated their culinary demand for the locals.

Yups, he wanted to change something. But ..... what he'll do first is analyzing the condition, feeling & trying Karaage Mozuya directly (I called it Customer Experience survey), and analyzed what they could do to compete them.

Souma's reaction to Mozuya Kaarage (Yups, delicious af 😮)

Some might think "How to create better Kaarage" and stuff ..... At first they tried sih, but they can't manage compete that, since their competitor has been researched best recipe year by year. Yups, experienced wins!

And then, they tried to research more, starting with the best ingredient but cheap af, thinking about packaging (for better CE), and last but not least, thinking "How could the customer remember their products". Simple but creative sih in Business environment. Till they concerned about how to improved their products further and beyond!

In the end, they found the answer and ..... Started to do the marketing! Yups, everything should be executed as soon as possible, or they lose the MOMENTUM! And voila, thanks to souma, Business district became crowded anymore, and once again, this proof one thing, monopolized company didn't always win in competitive market IF they didn't focus on their business value, also .... less innovative than the others.

Souma wins! It's not impossible to build your market with GOOD strategies

2. Profit is not always your primary Goal

What I used to read on linkedin about Gojek, they have this shared vision to the employees, more or less it said like this, "Everything you contributed to the company, are always for thousands of drivers". To be honest I inspired them so much, since what they're doing is extremely impactful to the societies. Me myself and I even can't move on from Gojek loh everyday.

Oke next.

What souma did, moreover is same lah. He used to serve hundreds of plates every single day, for 12 years. He always told "Customer first" than how much money they had everyday. And it works! Everyday, everyone would come to their diner, having some food, and yes, being a Loyal Customers. Revenue would be generated like machine lah if you have got these loyalists. This, could assure you one thing, they would come regardless any discount or not at all.

Despite learning from souma, the next character would be Tadokoro Megumi, which is one of good protagonist in the series. And no one could fight her "Customer" awareness except herself. And it helped her to attain "Top" chair, without being backstabbing bitch like other used to. Haha.

Empathy. Empathy. Empathy. Learn empathy at its finest here.





The list could go on .... But I rather continue this in the next article I guess. Hope you learn something too ya :)))