Erina Nakiri

Erina Nakiri is one of the main characters from the Shokugeki no Soma anime and manga.

Wielding the best palate in the world, "God's Tongue" and a member of the illustrious Nakiri family, Erina stands above everyone in her class as the top prospect of the 92nd Tōtsuki Generation and is a former 10th seat of the Elite Ten Council. Following the rebel alliance's victory during the Regimental Shokugeki, she has been formally appointed the Headmaster of Tōtsuki Academy by Sōma and her grandfather and former Headmaster Senzaemon Nakiri.

Appearance
Erina has purple-pinkish eyes and long honey blonde hair that flows just above her lower back. Her side bangs partially cross her cheeks and go down all the way to her neck. She has a large bust, along with generously large thighs and a sizeable butt. She is considered by most of the students in Tōtsuki to be extremely beautiful. According to her fans and followers, this trait coincides with her status.

She wears whatever Tōtsuki uniform corresponds with the current season. Whenever she cooks, she wears a standard white chef's uniform and occasionally wears a chef's hat. She has never been shown in casual clothing except for a cotton jacket and a bikini during her pool outing and a simple nightgown when sleeping.

Her measurements are: bust 88cm, waist 56cm and hip 87cm (35-22-34).

Personality
Hailing from a wealthy and noble background, Erina comes across as a highly privileged and pampered girl, used to only the best things in life. She is admired and feared throughout Tōtsuki for her talent, looks and her influential status. Erina comes across as an egotist, holding dogmatic ideals on absolute culinary perfection. She enjoys a great reputation across the culinary world for her "God Tongue" which was said to either make or break a chef's career. The mere mention of her name was enough to terrify the applicants of Tōtsuki except for one who was unaware of her reputation.

Much of Erina's personality is a result of the abusive training that her father Azami subjected her to in her early childhood. She also developed a deep rooted fear of her father, becoming petrified in his presence and unable to think or do the right thing.

Due to Erina's haughty personality, she cannot make friends easily as she looks down on almost everyone. She lacks knowledge on some social conventions. While she detests the idea of romance, she secretly likes reading Shōjo manga. Due to her sheltered background, Erina was not used to living on her own, unable to operate a washing machine. However, during her time in the dormitory, she gained many general living skills and even showed pride in knowing what all the laundry symbols on clothing meant.

After defecting to Polar Star Dormitory, Erina's perspective on cooking changed after she met the residents over there. She also made new friends who empathised with her after finding out what Azami did to her. Erina comes to care a lot for her friends and shared her knowledge with them, which allowed the rebels to pass the rigged promotion exams. Erina later overcame her fear of her father and vehemently opposed him, denouncing his beliefs.

Like her father, Erina adulates Saiba Jōichirō as the ultimate chef, when the latter had once cooked for her in her early childhood. As such she judges everyone according to his standards. When she discovered Jōichirō's paternal connection with Sōma, she was shocked to the core.

Cooking Style
Erina has no particular cooking or cuisine specialty. Instead her cooking is based upon using high quality ingredients and incredible creativity with the feeling of regality. Erina's cooking and skill easily allowed her to acquire the 10th seat of the Elite Ten Council at the end of her third year of middle school, signifying that she is indeed the best chef of her class and one of the best chefs currently in Tōtsuki. Despite being no more than a mere high school girl, Erina's skill level is already on par with most professional chefs. The clearest demonstration of Erina's cooking prowess came during her Stagiaire assignment where a French cuisine head chef, who single-handedly built the reputation of the said restaurant almost to their first Micheline star, submitted and gave Erina full command of the kitchen in just a few short hours. The current 1st Seat, Sōma Yukihira admits that her skill surpasses his own.

Skills

 * God's Tongue - Erina's tongue is considered the best in the world, able to taste a dish to the highest degree. Thanks to this ability, Erina has been a culinary prodigy since she was no more than 4 years old.
 * Perfection - Due to Erina having no cuisine specialty, she is capable of making any dish on any genre of dish and making them better and achieve perfect deliciousness.
 * Multiple Cuisine - Erina is capable of creating any dish into a pro class dish in any genre or cuisine types. This ability synergizes well with her Perfection skill and God's Tongue.
 * Ingredient Knowledge - Erina is more adapted to the multiple ingredients' history, composition, taste, and dish capability due to her training since she was a child. This skill is shown clearly on her Hokkaido Seminar on her giving ammunition to the rebels of Central.
 * Adaptation - Erina learned this skill from Sōma when he inspires her to his cooking ability and when she's beginning to open up to him. She clearly shows this on her Red and White Battle when she nows showing herself to adapt to cooking of both Sōma and Jōichirō's way of cooking Team Saiba's Hachis Parmentier.


 * Culinary Logic - Due to her childhood, Erina is very natural when it comes to logic of the cuisines to create a perfect dish. She excels in this ability when she's judging on Sōma's cooking and then she criticizes his dish on what is the logical ingredient to achieve a dish to achieve a correct limit of the dish's flavor. This is highlighted when she began teaching her dorm-mates in Polar Star Dorm, Ikumi, and Aldini Twins in the Hokkaido seminar that she prepared for them to excel in the Hokkaido examinations.
 * Culinary Creativity - Erina just learned this ability from Sōma's Yukihira Style cooking experience during her times together that involves both him and her. She highlighted this ability more on when she created Le Plat Véritable ~Delinquent Daughter Style~ to show Azami the freedom of cooking.

Trivia

 * Erina ranked 2nd in the first popularity poll with 803 votes. She ranked 2nd again in a second popularity poll, with 5046 votes. And ranked 1st in the third popularity poll with 3350 votes,
 * According to the Volume 23 Extras, Erina's favorite song is Amaryllis, and she enjoys Card Games (Especially Seven).
 * Erina currently holds the record for earliest inauguration into the Elite Ten, entering the council while she was still in Middle School.
 * Erina is from Eleanor, which was a very common name among women of high nobility during the High Middle Ages - thus reflecting Erina's prestige in the cooking industry. Nakiri uses the kanji for "to mow down" (Na) and "to cut" (Kiri).
 * Nakiri is also a name for a Japanese-style vegetable knife.