
The Food Wars watch order covers all six anime seasons — 86 episodes total — plus five OVAs, and this is the correct order to slot each one in. Begin with the opening 24-episode season, then watch the Takumi's Downtown Battle and Erina's Summer Vacation OVAs before the second season's Episodes 1-13. Next come the Autumn Moon's Chance Encounter and Totsuki Elite En OVAs, followed by two consecutive 12-episode cours. The Erina at Polar Star Dormitory OVA falls just ahead of the fifth season, and the series wraps with a final 13-episode run. Watching in this chronological order keeps the Totsuki Academy cooking battles and their side-story OVAs in the sequence the studio intended. You can skip the OVAs for a leaner run through the main tournament arcs, but for the complete experience this is where to start and exactly how everything fits together.
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Food Wars!
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Takumi's Downtown Battle OVA
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Erina's Summer Vacation OVA
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Food Wars! The Second Plate
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Autumn Moon's Chance Encounter OVA
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Totsuki Elite En OVA
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Food Wars! The Third Plate
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Food Wars! The Third Plate: Totsuki Train Arc
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Erina at Polar Star Dormitory OVA
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Food Wars! The Fourth Plate
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Food Wars! The Fifth Plate
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