
Sentai Filmworks licensed the series for digital and home video distribution in North America. The video streaming service Crunchyroll simulcast the series with English subtitles to the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Latin America, Europe (excluding French speaking territories and Italian speaking territories), the Middle East, and North Africa. The series was first broadcast in Japan on TBS from April 3 to Septemwith additional broadcasts on MBS, CBC, BS-TBS, and Animax. The season adapts the first eight volumes (chapters 1–60) of Yūto Tsukuda and Shun Saeki's manga series of the same name.

The first season of Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma anime television series was produced by J.C.Staff and directed by Yoshitomo Yonetani, the series was first announced in October 2014 by Shueisha.
