After originally being put on hiatus two episodes in due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the fifth season of Food Wars! Shougeki no Soma will resume broadcasting.

Originally reported by Comic Natalie, Food Wars! Shougeki no Soma will resume weekly broadcasts beginning with the first episode.

Food Wars! Shougeki no Soma follows Soma Yukihira, a middle school student and son of a chef who wants to follow in his father’s footsteps. After closing down his store, Soma’s father leaves for Europe to practice his craft. Before he leaves though, he enrolls Soma in an elite culinary school where many students drop or flunk out before graduating.

You can watch the new trailer below.

While broadcasting will resume on July 3rd, the series will resume from the first episode of the season. As episodes one and two have already aired, episode three won’t premiere until July 17th following the weekly schedule of the series.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic (also known as COVID-19 officially, or Chinese Flu to others) has affected many worldwide, from businesses to public gatherings and events.

This includes postponements of GDC, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the physical events for EVO 2020 and Tokyo Game Show 2020, and cancellations E3 2020 (including digital events), BlizzCon 2020, the physical event for Gamescom 2020, Comiket 98, and MAGStock 2020.

We also reported the second Seitokai Yakuindomo (Student Council Staff Members) movie and Log Horizon: Roundtable being delayed.

The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering are mapping the virus’ spread [1, 2]. As of this time of writing, there are over over 3.656 million active cases worldwide. There have been over 437,000 deaths; however over 3.907 million people have made a “total recovery.” There have been over 8 million total confirmed cases.

Japan has 895 active cases (17,481 total cases), 934 deaths, and 15,652 recoveries.

All five seasons of Food Wars! Shougeki no Soma are available to watch on Crunchyroll and VRV.