Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Nakiri Erina is one of the heroines
in Shokugeki no Souma. She is a 92nd Tootsuki Generation student and wielding
the best palate in the world, “God’s Tongue”, the ability to accurately judge a
food’s quality to the highest degree.
Biography
Erina’s
birthday is March 23rd, it’s mean her zodiac sign is Aries and she share the
same birthday with Yakumo from School Rumble. Her blood type is “AB”, it’s same
with Satoshi. Her height is 162 cm and her measurements are bust 88, waist 56
and hip 87. Erina’s favorite song is Amaryllis and she enjoys Card Games,
especially Seven. The voice actress from Erina is Taneda Risa, she is also
became the voice actress for Rory from Gate, Kaori from Shigatsu wa Kimi no
Uso, Rize from Gochuumon wa Usagi desuka?, Xenovia from High School DxD and
Mirai from Kyoukai no Kanata. Starting from the 3rd season, her
voice actess is Kanemoto Hisako, she have the same voice with Tuka from Gate,
Ami from Sailor Moon, Ika Musume from Shinryaku! Ika Musume and Veronica from Nanatsu
no Taizai. While the English voice actress is Stephanie Wittels who have the
same voice with Shino from Gate, Makoto from Flying Witch and Megumi from
Gakkou Gurashi!.
Background
Erina
was born in the prestigious Nakiri Family. Since her age was 3 months, she
already can speak and gifted with ”God’s Tongue”. Around the age of 4, she
begun assisting people in the culinary industry, taste testing countless dishes
and critiquing them. Though she took her role seriously as a member of the
Nakiri family, she had no passion for cooking at the time. However, things
changed when she met Saiba Jouichirou, Jouichirou prepared a dish for her, and with just a single bite of the dish, she felt an
overwhelming sense of warmth and fun from his dish. After all, Erina developed
a deep respect and affection for Jouichirou, thus giving her the motivation for
cooking.
Six
months after Jouichirou’s departure, her father, Nakiri Azami, subjected Erina
to a particularly brutal regimen, forcing Erina to compare foods and determine
precise errors in each, then throwing away the inferior dish, even using
physical force to prompt her to do so. With time, this training created Erina’s
haughty personality. Once Senzaemon found out, he exiled Azami from the Nakiri
Family and tried to repair the damage done to Erina in Tootsuki.
Personality
Erina
has cold personality and ruthless towards any sort of dishes that can’t satisfy
her. She could end the career of a chef with her words. This all can’t be
separated from the role of his father when she was a child.
Despite
her proud demeanor, she does have a soft side, which was more apparent only
whenever Jouichirou is on her mind.
Though she is normally confident and often haughty, Erina still showed
strong fear when her father reappears again. This fear has caused her to be
extremely submissive in his presence. However, it seems that this grip has
lessened thanks to her time spent in Polar Star, enough so for her to willingly
defy her father and fight to take down his regime with the help of her fellow
92nd Generation standouts.
Facts
& Trivia
- Erina ranked 2nd in
the first popularity poll with 803 votes. Then she ranked 2nd again
in the second popularity poll, with 5046 votes, and finally, she ranked 1st
in the third popularity poll, with 3350 votes.
- Nakiri Erina’s name is a
combination from Nakiri (薙切) meaning “to mow down and
to cut” and Erina (えりな) is from “Eleanor”, which
was a very common name among women of high nobility during the High Middle
Ages.
- Nakiri is also a name for a Japanese-syle vegetable knife
- Erina currently holds the
record for earliest inauguration into the Elite Ten, entering the council while
she was still in Middle School.
