Plot
This year's Blue cooking competition has deviated sharply from days of old, and its new harsher trials have many traditional chefs falling by the wayside. Soma, Takumi and Megumi, however, manage to win their way forward. Now they face a brand of chef whose true abilities have remained cloaked in mystery -- the noir. Just what sort of strange talents do these underworld chefs wield to make them worthy of the Blue?