Petrified of the Paprika Prince: Akira Hayama, Food Wars Royalty

Now anyone that watches Food Wars knows there’s only two ways to watch: either eyes pressed to the television with the volume on the lowest setting or turnt up on 100 to make your neighbors uncomfortable. Shokugeki no Soma is the most uncomfortable educational comedy I have come across in a while. If you love cooking and are looking to learn more, I highly recommend you dive into this delicious anime. But here, I’d like to highlight one of the sickest characters to hit the all-clad. I’m talking about no other than the Paprika Prince himself Akira Hayama. Tōtsuki be all up under the god tongue and the rest of the Nakiri family, but I truly believe the school was sleeping on the flavor power of Akira Hayama’s. First of all, I ain’t saying the students at Tōtsuki are afraid of seasoning, but I’m just saying they shouldn’t be so shocked when the Cumin King whips out the flavor bombs and eliminates the competition. The minute I knew Akira came equipped with the sauce was when he sat down blindfolded in a chair with plates with different samples of spices and he just started naming whatever spice that was within a few feet radius from his nose. First of all, there were at least eight spices with different scent profiles, and my man was chill naming them off like it was nothing. Akira Hayama probably sniffs turmeric in the gym while he does his pull-ups. He probably be on the treadmill stirring spices and crafting 30 different types of Garam Marsala for his post-workout lettuce wrap…