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Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011



Toriko is a weekly manga published in Shounen Jump by Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi, and now an Anime. It tells the story about the eponymous character, a Gourmet Hunter that strives to find the yummiest foods in the World and his friend Komatsu, a young and somewhat cowardly Chef that's slowly becoming a rising star. If you like:

FOOD THAT LOOKS SO TASTY THAT YOU WANT TO EAT IT IN REAL LIFE!

RIDICULOUS CREATURES BEING BEATEN AND COOKED!

BRUTAL rear end-KICKING!

MALE BONDING BETWEEN MUSCLED MEN WITH ALMOST NO WOMEN IN SIGHT!

BUTT BUG AND BUTT SALT

Then this is the Manga for you!

Main Characters:

Toriko



Our hero, and a Gourmet Hunter, a man charged with the hunting of rare ingredients by the International Gourmet Organization. Lives in a house made of food and is an incredible glutton. Has superhuman strength and scent tracking, and is the Heavenly King associated with 'smell'.

Pet: Terry the Battle Wolf.

Komatsu


The Head Chef from the Gourmet Hotel that is partnered with Toriko. Despite having no combat capabilities, he has incredible cooking prowess and recently made it into the IGO's top 100.

Pet: Yun the Wall Penguin

Zebra


The biggest goddamn badass in the Manga, a feared Gourmet Hunter that singlehandedly extinguished many monster races. Hates "Cocky people". Is the Heavenly King associated with 'sound' and has many voice-related powers.

'Pet': Dharma Horse.

Sunny


A fabulous Gourmet Hunter who strives to only eat beautiful food. His long hair is capable of many feats of strength and can be controlled at will. Is the Heavenly King associated with 'touch'. Just discovered the taste of 'Long Pig'.

Pet: Quinn the Mother Snake.

Coco

The reasonable/boring dude of the Four Heavenly Kings. He's a Gourmet Hunter who's immune to a manifold poisons, and crafts them inside his body in order to battle. He's the Heavenly King associated with 'vision', and uses his abilities in order to become a Future-Teller with a high rate of success.

Pet: Kiss the Emperor Crow

Zombie ZONGE


The comic relief character. Declares himself a high-level Gourmet Hunter but is hilariously weak. His claim to fame is farting on an apple.

Links:
The Previous thread.
Read the Manga here
Watch it on Funimation's website!

Plutonis fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Sep 15, 2016

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Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

That could work as a title because I'm a huge retard baby who left to do that on the end and then forgot it.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

I'm another one who wouldn't mind Buranchi becoming part of the Main Cast as well. Just make him Combo with Zebra and we are having the best duo.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Hahaha holy poo poo being electrocuted forever is pretty drat harsh!

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

So what is cooler? An attack that scars your GENES THEMSELVES or the fact that Setsuno regenerated from that? Good on them to show the absurd powers of the NEO guys, want to see how the split 3-way war will work out. Also... Does anyone knows what the Taster Bishokukai woman has done? Her power is absorbing attacks, fermenting and returning them back, i guess?

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Oh hell yeah Jirou entering the fray with the Companion Animals. :getin:

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Batmasterson posted:

Something about seeing Zebra chilling in a branch body suit makes me laugh every time I see it. Maybe its because he can destroy thousands of beasts with one sound, but cant break out of a bush.

Plants have no ears!

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:

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsticks#Etiquette

"One should not 'dig' or 'search' through one's food for something in particular. This is sometimes known as "digging one's grave" or "grave-digging" and is extremely poor form."

Calling it, Ichiryu will have a move that drills inside the opponent with that stuff. Also Midora's bazillion spiky tongues are pretty great and in line with the Bishokukai having gross as gently caress powers.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Mr. Maltose posted:

Once you realize that Gourmet Cells are Adam from Bioshock you can just start nodding your head and go with it.

It really does, I mean, you get stronger by getting more of those and eating stuff?

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Well that's a bit different from the light-hearted mood of the manga. :stare:

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Well that was actually really pretty sad :smith:

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Did that dude just reattached his arm by spitting on it?

EDIT: Holy hell those loving last pages! I was counting on Ichiryuu to survive!

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

YOU MANIACS! YOU blew ATE IT ALL UP! drat YOU ALL TO HELL!

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

RatHat posted:

Welp, the raws for the next chapter are out and the power creep is insane. Capture level 6090 :shepface:

And it seems to be a Battle Wolf, aka Terry Cloth's species. Gatdamn, how did his mother even got defeated in first place?

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Silver2195 posted:

They did mention that the largest Mother Snake (Quinn/Queen's species) wraps around the world. I can also buy the idea of a giant Daruma Horse. I'm having trouble imagining an uber-powerful version of Kiss, but his species being called Emperor Crow implies one is out there.

iirc Kiss and Quinn are really young as well so maybe they have adult counterparts with ludicrous CLs?

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

The last chapter mentioned that the new arc would start on Weekly Jump 10. Was it printed already or something, because it's been a whole month...?

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Wow, it's been a while. Did not expected a one-year skip. And want to know how the hell did Komatsu got rescued from the Bishokukai.

Mountain Eating Pelican and Caveman Toriko are cool, though!

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Alopex posted:

Food rain can't be terribly hygienic.

People were willing to lose their fingers to eat a goddamn radish, why bother with hygiene?

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Toriko shaves his beard on the previous chapter...

Toriko gets a beard on the current one.

Makes you think.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Hahahahaha the Billion Bird is awesome. Look at it with its giant wings but still with that shabby-looking face.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Rei_ posted:

Toriko is just an alien plot for a world to make itself delicious so it can later be consumed by the Gourmaliens or something.

A few chapters ago that was raised as a real theory though. The Gourmet World is a weird-rear end landmass that got attached to real Earth somehow.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

glassyalabolas posted:

porn everywhere.

How widespread is old masters being huge creeps in manga anyway? Master Kame, Happosai from Ranma...

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

I asked the mod to change this thread's name to The Healing Sound of Chimp Balls

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

This chapter was incredibly loving win.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Balls as heavy as the legendary midgard serpent

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

the Blue Nitro ate my balls webring

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Estrogen Soup.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Sweet Monkey Love.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Hell yeah Brunch

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Pewdiepie posted:

Bring on the Livebearer chapters.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Whales don't lay eggs dude

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011


Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Pewdiepie posted:

That was hosed up.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Holy poo poo.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Are the crazy body modifications part of the taste changing that Joa can do? It's pretty badass to see badguy vs badguy fights on Manga though.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Awakened Jirou.... Holy hell! Also the Blue Nitro... Might be good guys?!

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

The NEO Spawn ate Jirou's arm, can't say it was really clowned.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Hah, just remembered that Ichiryuu means First Dragon so Second Wolf isn't that far away from him.

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Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Hah, so Emperor Crow is as much as poisonous as Coco. Goddamn I want to see the 8 Kings vs the Acacia monsters fight so much

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