The main protagonist. Soma is an energetic and optimistic boy who has the constant drive to improve his cooking, mostly due to his strong relationship and rivalry with his father, Joichiro Yukihira. He is confident in his skills and always seeks to challenge others to prove his abilities and test the limits of his cooking. He always remains positive and cool under pressure, never backing down from a challenge, and is constantly thinking and evolving his cooking. Soma is also flexible and innovative, able to break away from ordinary procedures to cook dishes, thus allowing him to make his own solutions when he needs to find an edge. As such, he can create some of the most unorthodox, but also incredibly delicious dishes the school has never seen.  Soma's lifelong goal is to become a better chef than his father and thus will fight to the very end to achieve his dream. He is always willing to help out a friend, even at the risk of his place in Totsuki for them, and is more than willing to assist anyone in need. At the same time, Soma has a natural charm around him that causes people to believe in his ability to win even the most hopeless of duels.