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Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

Batmasterson posted:

I should rephrase. I'm not laughing because Zebra cant break out of the vine trap, but because there are plants out there that are currently stronger then the strongest heavenly king.
Those vines have mastered Honoring the Dirt, so they are much stronger than regular vines.

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Its interestng that Joa was brought up as early as the century soup arc and is also clearly after the cook book from the Mellow Cola arc.

Seebach
Jul 14, 2012

http://www.batoto.net/read/_/184324/toriko_ch243_by_hi-wa-mata-noboru

New Toriko!!!!!!!

Holy loving poo poo!

Jirou can knock the world, and it is indeed some sort of Frohze beneath the mask of Joa

Seebach fucked around with this message at 04:21 on Jul 25, 2013

glassyalabolas
Oct 21, 2006
I want to bowl with the gangsters...

Chapter 243

Jirou is loving awesome. I can't describe his manly manliness. He can knock the entire earth to stop everything in its tracks, even water. :allears:

AtomikKrab
Jul 17, 2010

Keep on GOP rolling rolling rolling rolling.

glassyalabolas posted:

Chapter 243

Jirou is loving awesome. I can't describe his manly manliness. He can knock the entire earth to stop everything in its tracks, even water. :allears:

Well, that is a thing. also double chapter post you guys.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Holy poo poo slowing the Earth rotation. This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen yet in this Manga, yet I know it'll be topped soon. :getin:

Seebach
Jul 14, 2012

AtomikKrab posted:

double chapter post you guys

I do believe it was posted seconds within each other.

Was quite hilarious.

Batmasterson
Dec 7, 2010

Bang Bang Bang
Maybe the greatest chapter I've ever read of any manga ever. Jirou is loving awesome. His scream, his serious face, his decapitation knock, knocking the whole world. Amazing.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
Unfortunately, Jirou is probably going to get his rear end kicked here.

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012
It's kind of hilarious how similar Jirou is to Mansam. Not only are they both constantly drunk, but they have the same backstory now.

Joa being Frohze was not really surprising, but those scars on her face are. Did she use Taste Change on herself?

Alpha Kenny Juan
Apr 11, 2007

Okay, I thought he was going to use knocking on everyone around him. I didn't think he would get The Entire World to stop. :drat:

Roland Jones
Aug 18, 2011

by Nyc_Tattoo
I like that Jirou probably just caused more damage than all the villains in the series put together. Someone isn't very responsible, it seems.

alkanphel
Mar 24, 2004

Serious Frolicking posted:

Unfortunately, Jirou is probably going to get his rear end kicked here.

Nah, I think this is the part which makes Joa run away because it's not worth fighting Jirou right now. And story-wise the good guys need Jirou because they're getting overpowered by the Bishokukai and Neo. Though I didn't expect Jirou to be so ridiculously overpowered, compared to current standards.

dragon enthusiast
Jan 1, 2010

Silver2195 posted:

Joa being Frohze was not really surprising, but those scars on her face are. Did she use Taste Change on herself?

"There is always a greater power" is like Shonen 101

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

just a butt posted:

"There is always a greater power" is like Shonen 101

Given NEO's goals, I'm guessing it was aliens.

Chalupa Picada
Jan 13, 2009

Haha jesus christ. :allears: I was expecting something ridiculous out of Jirou but that was so unreal.

MegaCharger
Jul 12, 2006
Animate
So.... We all know the final bosses are going to be stronger than Jiro, so Toriko will have to top that eventually. What's he going to do? Do a leg knife so strong that he cut up the planet? And then Komatsu cooks it back together, thus together they are the new gourmet gods.

Also I can't believe Jiro is so much stronger than Setuno. I though Setuno was at least up there with the bosses but it seems she's at least a few levels below in terms of power.

MegaCharger fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Jul 25, 2013

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

MegaCharger posted:

Also I can't believe Jiro is so much stronger than Setuno. I though Setuno was at least up there with the bosses but it seems she's at least a few levels below in terms of power.

Setsuno might actually be the fifth-strongest person in the world. The gap can't be that large; she was able to partially block an attack from Frohze, so she can't be that much weaker than her, and I doubt Jirou is going to curbstomp Frohze.

Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 05:44 on Jul 25, 2013

Liar
Dec 14, 2003

Smarts > Wisdom

MegaCharger posted:

So.... We all know the final bosses are going to be stronger than Jiro, so Toriko will have to top that eventually. What's he going to do? Do a leg knife so strong that he cut up the planet? And then Komatsu cooks it back together, thus together they are the new gourmet gods.

Also I can't believe Jiro is so much stronger than Setuno. I though Setuno was at least up there with the bosses but it seems she's at least a few levels below in terms of power.

The sun will be his stove.

MegaCharger
Jul 12, 2006
Animate

Silver2195 posted:

Setsuno might actually be the fifth-strongest person in the world.

If the good guys are smart I really don't see how IGO can possibly lose. Ichiryuu and Jiro can probably tag team anybody to death including Midora and Joa. Then you just have Setuno and the rest of the grunts deal with the grunts of the other teams. The only way they are going to be in a bad spot is if they lose Ichiryuu or Jiro and possibly Setuno by having them getting picked off on their own.

AVeryLargeRadish
Aug 19, 2011

I LITERALLY DON'T KNOW HOW TO NOT BE A WEIRD SEXUAL CREEP ABOUT PREPUBESCENT ANIME GIRLS, READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE!!!
243: :tviv: I can't even imagine the power creep we are going to see as the series goes on, I mean, as far as I can tell Jiro just slowed movement by like 99% for everything on earth! I mean, holy loving poo poo. What the hell kind of things can Frohze do? What the hell will Toriko be doing by the later arcs? :wtc:

Also: Jiro is loving awesome. :kamina:

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

MegaCharger posted:

If the good guys are smart I really don't see how IGO can possibly lose. Ichiryuu and Jiro can probably tag team anybody to death including Midora and Joa. Then you just have Setuno and the rest of the grunts deal with the grunts of the other teams. The only way they are going to be in a bad spot is if they lose Ichiryuu or Jiro and possibly Setuno by having them getting picked off on their own.

There's a good chance Frohze will kill or even Taste Change Jirou now, though. If Ichiryu had brought Jirou along to his meeting with Midora things would have gone better.

gimme the GOD DAMN candy
Jul 1, 2007
What will Toriko be able to do? I'm guessing something along the lines of literally turning into cutlery which eats everything it cuts and never stops cutting. Mark my words, Toriko will destroy the world eventually.

Well, that or he will settle down and live a life of quiet domesticity/food adventures with his life partner.

Wrist Watch
Apr 19, 2011

What?

I seriously cannot stop laughing at how in the manga about cooking, an old dude whose specialty is hitting things' pressure points apparently just hit the pressure point of the entire planet and stopped its rotation for a moment.

I have to say that again because holy poo poo he knocked a planet unconscious

Silver2195
Apr 4, 2012

Serious Frolicking posted:

What will Toriko be able to do? I'm guessing something along the lines of literally turning into cutlery which eats everything it cuts and never stops cutting. Mark my words, Toriko will destroy the world eventually.

Well, that or he will settle down and live a life of quiet domesticity/food adventures with his life partner.

We've already seen that Sunny can potentially devour all life on the planet with his hair. I guess Coco's full potential could be poisoning everything on the planet (though he wouldn't want to do anything remotely close to that). Alternatively, his full potential could just be something like combining the lightspeed spear with a much more fast-acting version of the adaptive virus, and being able to use it a basically unlimited number of times; he doesn't need planet-scale attacks to be absurdly broken. Zebra I could see having the potential to affect the entire atmosphere; maybe a global, but selective, version of Death Sound?

Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 06:10 on Jul 25, 2013

Coffee Mugshot
Jun 26, 2010

by Lowtax
I don't why you guys are acting like destroying the world is even a big deal at this point when everyone is already actively planning to ascend to heaven and cook God and poo poo.

DrSunshine
Mar 23, 2009

Did I just say that out loud~~?!!!
I don't know about you guys, but I am eagerly awaiting the cook whose knife can cut spacetime and create space warps, or the food hunter who fights by altering causality. :allears:

Pawl
Sep 9, 2006

I'm seeing this from an AoS perspective.







white primer uber alles
After cooking God they cook Earth and then the Anti-Appetites will show up and they'll throw dinner plates the size of galaxies at each other.

the unabonger
Jun 21, 2009
well poo poo. That was amazing. On so many different levels

Crunkjuice
Apr 4, 2007

That could've gotten in my eye!
*launches teargas at unarmed protestors*

I THINK OAKLAND PD'S USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE WAS JUSTIFIED!
Am I the only one who thinks "frohze isn't the real one of legend? I'm guessing someone found knife and is impersonating her. If not, it opens the possibility of Acacia still being alive right? Considering the ridiculousness of people skills "oh hey, lets just knock the entire planet", its not that much of a stretch to think acacia is still alive and kicking at this point.

On another point, i'm curious why all their pets went to jirou and showed up with him.

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD
Who would have thought, way back in the beginning when we were first introduced to this guy:

that we were looking at a character who could nonchalantly stun the entire planet.

Chalupa Picada
Jan 13, 2009

Crunkjuice posted:

Am I the only one who thinks "frohze isn't the real one of legend? I'm guessing someone found knife and is impersonating her. If not, it opens the possibility of Acacia still being alive right? Considering the ridiculousness of people skills "oh hey, lets just knock the entire planet", its not that much of a stretch to think acacia is still alive and kicking at this point.

On another point, i'm curious why all their pets went to jirou and showed up with him.


The problem here is who is powerful enough to school Setsuno like that and who would have reason to impersonate Frohze? It just makes more sense that it's actually her. Maybe if it was someone Toriko was fighting, or any of the four emperors for that matter, I could see that being the case, but I don't really see who else it could be at this point or how it'd fit into the narrative.

Matoi Ryuko
Jan 6, 2004


Yasser Arafatwa posted:

The problem here is who is powerful enough to school Setsuno like that and who would have reason to impersonate Frohze? It just makes more sense that it's actually her. Maybe if it was someone Toriko was fighting, or any of the four emperors for that matter, I could see that being the case, but I don't really see who else it could be at this point or how it'd fit into the narrative.

Why that's easy, and its already been spelt out for us, its Master Saiseiya Mohyan Shaishai, hes revitalized and taken command of the deceased corpse of Frohze-sama. This is the only way he is able to use "Cinderella", by piloting Frohze's corpse. Oh, and Joa has only partial access to Frohze's memories, this will be important later.

By the way, did Jirou just use knocking on the entire loving planet?

Matoi Ryuko fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Jul 25, 2013

Death Bot
Mar 4, 2007

Binary killing machines, turning 1 into 0 since 0011000100111001 0011011100110110

AVeryLargeRadish posted:

243: :tviv: I can't even imagine the power creep we are going to see as the series goes on, I mean, as far as I can tell Jiro just slowed movement by like 99% for everything on earth! I mean, holy loving poo poo. What the hell kind of things can Frohze do? What the hell will Toriko be doing by the later arcs? :wtc:

Also: Jiro is loving awesome. :kamina:


Eh, if anything we now have something close the the upper bounds of the universe defined, and now we're just on our way to the characters being there

Yasser Arafatwa posted:

The problem here is who is powerful enough to school Setsuno like that and who would have reason to impersonate Frohze? It just makes more sense that it's actually her. Maybe if it was someone Toriko was fighting, or any of the four emperors for that matter, I could see that being the case, but I don't really see who else it could be at this point or how it'd fit into the narrative.

Yeah the two things we know about the character are that they know the personality-changing cut and they're evil-Frohze. It's safe to assume that either there's some strangeness here or someone just used that technique on them until we get a twist

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
This is how you do Shonen power creep and keep things fun for both the grownup manchildren who read this stuff (It's me :smith:) and the literal children it's written for.

Please take notice uh; everyone else writing popular battlemanga.

Seebach
Jul 14, 2012

Crunkjuice posted:

Am I the only one who thinks "frohze isn't the real one of legend? I'm guessing someone found knife and is impersonating her. If not, it opens the possibility of Acacia still being alive right? Considering the ridiculousness of people skills "oh hey, lets just knock the entire planet", its not that much of a stretch to think acacia is still alive and kicking at this point.

On another point, i'm curious why all their pets went to jirou and showed up with him.


Considering the properties of the kitchen knife "Cinderella", as well as the actual story Cinderella, it might not be too bold to theorize that the knife can cut you into the image of Frohze. It could end up being that the person is in fact Joa, who may have lived during the time of Acacia and Frohze, who took her knife, and then changed his/her features with said knife.

It would strike me as Odd that Frohze would cheat at the first cooking fest, or at the very least, get caught cheating at the first cooking fest.

For all the secrecy as well as the blatant "saw that coming" moments, Joa's character remains fairly interesting.


As far as Acacia still being alive is concerned, I'm not so sure. It could just be that when they go to extract god, they actually go to heaven and see Acacia as well.

Nilbop
Jun 5, 2004

Looks like someone forgot his hardhat...
Why is this manga so enjoyable, oh my God.

I used to laugh at this and now it's almost the first update I check for everyweek. I'm definitely enjoying this big watershed arc much more than Naruto's end-of-manga arc, and that's not because Naruto's is bad or anything.

Law Cheetah
Mar 3, 2012
he used knocking on the loving earth

Cody Banks
Mar 7, 2013
What can the next few chapters do to top this?

The bad guy's secret identity has been revealed though, and according to convention that means it's time for a dramatic exit. I'd imagine that the Bishokukai would retreat as well.

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
There is still the Mohyan Shaishai reveal that seems pretty much certain

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