#erisako

Proposal

Even after they've been together for years, every day Hisako wakes up and is stunned that Erina actually returns her romantic feelings. She feels lucky just to be in her presence and walk beside her in life, and thinks it would be presumptuous of her to propose marriage.

With all of that being said, Erina would definitely be the one to propose. She would plan to do it during the pre-open of her second restaurant, The Evening Star, which she designed to have a particularly romantic atmosphere.

The entire week before the soft opening, Hisako would be trying to help Erina prepare and organize her schedule (even though she's quite busy with her own work), but Erina would softly tell her that she could manage on her own.

On the night of the soft opening, she would have Hisako seated at a table on the upper level—where the moonlight could cast its glow on her—and have course after dazzling course of a personalized meal brought out to her. Each dish would tie back to a special moment in their long relationship, and as Hisako ate them, she'd be filled with nostalgia and love.

At the end of the night, Erina would come out in her chef's whites with a brilliant diamond engagement ring and ask Hisako to be her wife.

Shipruary day 16: Hisaeri (Erina x Hisako)

I meant to post this yesterday oops— ^^’

Takumi: what is?

Souma: that Arato keeps dropping obvious hints that she’s into Nakiri but she’s completely oblivious

This post is just a general analysis of why Shokugeki No Soma’s Ending 2: Sacchan no Sexy Curry is clearly a reference to the existing relationship between the series’ main female lead Nakiri Erina, and her girlfriend loyal secretary Arato Hisako. 

Purely going off aesthetics, this is one of the few intro or outro songs in the series where the main protagonist, Yukihira Soma, is almost never seen or featured; instead the song begins with Erina traversing through a field of tiny white flowers on thin stems, which look awfully similar to Achillea millefolium, i.e. Yarrow flowers. 

Yarrow has traditionally long been associated with healing, new beginnings and more recently, love. It also has strong ties to Chinese Traditional Medicine, this is interesting since Hisako’s specialty is medicinal cooking. 

Most likely, this was done to symbolise the beginning of Erina’s redemption arc where she learns to let people in through her interactions with the main cast (possibly foreshadowing her seeking refuge at Polar Star) of the anime. What I found particularly interesting, however, was how she passed by everyone else and only stopped at the end, where Hisako was standing and waiting for her. This alludes to Hisako being the only person she can rely on– the only constant in Erina’s life. 

This is followed by a series of moments that these two spend together - cooking, playing, bathing - all of which we see through the eyes of one very stir crazy Sadatsuka Nao, further fortifying the previous argument that these two are always together, regardless of the occasion, and might even be one another’s only friends, prior to the anime beginning. 

This already holds enough evidence of a special relationship between the two, but now let’s go on to take a look at the lyrics of the song itself.

The first two lines literally translate to the following:

Dicing up the springtime with a silver knife, Which flavour of boredom did I dine on today?

It goes without saying that this is a clear reference to Erina’s God Tongue ability, due to which new tastes quickly lose their lustre, and the countless gourmet tastings she’s been subjected to since she was a child. Following that:

In a remote place like this, I was so happy to finally meet, Someone stronger than me.

“In a remote place like this,” relates to Erina’s period of isolation after her mother fled and her father was exiled, once she’d only just been rescued by her grandfather. Only after this did she meet Hisako.

We played with the same toys, separately - Days of gaining experience points and levelling up! I even achieved my own unique finishing move, But I'm still unable to fight...

After Hisako’s humiliating defeat at the Autumn Elections we get a glimpse into the lives of Erina and Hisako when they were younger. In the anime, they make it a point to emphasise how there was noticeable distance between them, even as children, and how Erina wanted nothing more than to close said distance, but was bound by her societal role to accept things as they were. 

The chorus then went on to say:

Don't grow up, Sacchan! Don't dye your hair brown, Sacchan! Don't get a boyfriend, Sacchan! My precious... my precious...

Admittedly, this threw quite a heavy wrench in my original analysis as I sat up and scoured the shokugeki wiki in hope of identifying this mysterious “Sacchan”. Some people thought it was Sadatsuka Nao, some thought Sacchan was Erina, and some just shrugged because this is an ecchi anime about food and did it really matter? 

After running through the full version of the song, I found my answer in the form of a stanza that hadn’t actually been included in the original ending. It was as the following:

So there was no Sacchan– just a Sachiko. Who was Sachiko? The name appears only once, in the manga that Erina was reading during the second season, right after Hisako’s resignation and during the Mimasaka arc, i.e. the shoujo manga she’d borrowed from her friend to come to terms with romantic aspects of her life. The main heroine is dubbed Sachiko.

Was the name just a coincidence? But more importantly, who was the metaphorical Sachiko of this piece? The symbolic main heroine of Erina’s own life?

I compared the Japanese written words for Sachiko and Hisako and noticed something interesting.  

The two names, Hisako ( 緋 沙 子 ) and Sachiko ( 幸 子 ) share the same Kanji, ko (子); particularly the spelling of Sachiko that means happiness. 

It maybe a bit of a reach but I think this is a subtle nod to Hisako being Sacchan, and an indication of how Erina really saw her friend during their time together growing up - as someone who would grow up and leave her behind (again possibly foreshadowing the Stagiaire arc, where Hisako left her on her own). We also can’t forget how Erina was unable to stand up to her father in the very beginning of the third season, when Hisako was concerned, and was fully prepared to live without her as though she’d been expecting this to happen at some point.

This just makes it incredibly sweeter (during the ending sequence) when it is Hisako who is waiting for her by the edge of the river; Hisako who will not move on without her, even when the rest of their friends keep growing and changing and Erina herself can only walk in the opposite direction. 

The song is her love letter to Sachiko who she desperately tries to keep with her, her very first friend, her happiness– only to find that even though she cannot stop her from going; at the end of the day, Sacchan will always be waiting for her on the other side.

[note: Erina shows growth from this mindset in the third season, during their Advancement Exams where she tells Hisako that she’s allowed to leave and do stuff without her.]

TLDR: Sacchan no Sexy Curry is a love letter from Erina to Hisako, you can’t change my mind. They’re lesbians, your honour.

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Me, who hadn't read the manga at the time: Guess I'm making sure Erina goes up against at least a hundred people in a fanfiction then.

So i force myself to like SouEri but I don't know why but i can't seem to like their pairing. It's seems force huhu 😣. Even though i know that they might be the end game.

SouMegu still is the best pairing for me. The chemistry between them is the best! Though i like Erina alone and i ship her with Hisako (YURI PLS sensei make them them a thing.)

But what if there is a plot twist? Souma ends up with his childhood friend back in episode 1 of Season 1 from his Hometown (forgot her name. The short haired girl) 😂