Yeaah, I really hope Shima'll handle the other fights like this. So if Sani's awakened "appetite" manifested itself in the form of his hair. How will that work with the others? Will Coco develop a poison that'll devour everything? Toriko, a fork/knife that devours everything, and Zebra….. sound that devours everything???
Toriko II: Ichiryuu's Slimy Insides!!
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Coco will poison poison, Toriko will have a whole table set weapon (table included) and Zebra will increase the sound pressure level.
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The oneshot-stye side quests were amazing before food honor. Then Shima makes me almost give up on the manga after the Four Beast arc and robbing us of the cooking tournament. And then a completely amazing fight like this happens.
Geez, Toriko is such a roller coaster.
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Awesome chapter, Tommy is just a beast
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Amazing chapter! Like others have said it is a bit of a shame the cooking festival was skipped but with battles like this i don't care so much.
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Why is it that every single time Tommyrod goes melee,it results in the best,most visceral fight scenes that the series has to offer?
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Tommyrod saved this fucking week.
He washed away our boredom with blood,flesh and torn out hair.
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Why is it that every single time Tommyrod goes melee,it results in the best,most visceral fight scenes that the series has to offer?
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Tommyrod saved this fucking week.
He washed away our boredom with blood,flesh and torn out hair.
Super true.
This guy is a fucking riot.
Sani being a really interesting fighter also helps.
One question though: The remotely controled hair Sani used to stop Tommy is not Satan Hair, but regular hair, right? So I guess he'll use Satan Hair one last time as a finisher next week?
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Am I the only one who really didn't care a f**k about the cooking competitions?
Yeah, who cares about that stuff? It probably would have been totally boring and bland and most of the cooks were not looking interesting at all, and noone of them will probably ever play any role again in the story. Who cares about their character development or seeing unique and bizarre techniques? Over-the-top contests? It wouldnt fit in the major narrative either way. And atleast we have FIGHTS!!!!!, thats all that matters, right? Its shounen after all, so please let us not treat off the beaten pathes with something new.
! Mind you: These fights are freakin awesome, and for the first time I am looking forward to the Coco fight next, but still: wrong arc, wrong place (should have happened in the Gourmet World and not in a stadium filled with millions of people) and wrong time (such an all-out war should have happened later with all bishokukai involved)
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The ONLY thing worrying me is that Tommy might actually die next week. Standard shonen rules dictate that whoever transformed last wins.
Oh well. I'd love to see Tommy win, or a stalemate, but if this is his end, he goes out with a bang.
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I always thought Sunny was a bit lame 'cause fighting with hair and stuff. But he gained a lot of points in this chapter. I hope the other HK will also have this kind of fights with similar badass transformations.
I so love this Manga with all the fucking exaggerations, the design of the bad guys, the "story".
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A little less conversation, a little more amazing Tommyrod action and grotesque faces please
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I actually like how skills and beasts and the whole other stuff is narrated in there.
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@The:
The ONLY thing worrying me is that Tommy might actually die next week. Standard shonen rules dictate that whoever transformed last wins.
Oh well. I'd love to see Tommy win, or a stalemate, but if this is his end, he goes out with a bang.
I think we'll have yet another fight with the three sous chefs on the Gourmet World, with these ones not having a clear result, having the winner fall unconscious or something of the sort. I simply would like to see more Tommy, he's the fucking best
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Coco will poison poison, Toriko will have a whole table set weapon (table included) and Zebra will increase the sound pressure level.
Toriko must get a move called "Rage Table Flip".
I called it wrong, so long ago. I guess this needs to be changed.
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I'm thinking of getting into this manga. I need a new manga to read and I was wondering how good Toriko is. How is it? And are there any other manga you guys recommend? And how's the anime, does it do the manga justice?
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I'm thinking of getting into this manga. I need a new manga to read and I was wondering how good Toriko is. How is it? And are there any other manga you guys recommend? And how's the anime, does it do the manga justice?
Toriko's a big collection of battle shonen clichés that's fun because it doesn't take itself seriously. So it's like the antithesis of Bleach in that respect. The anime was pretty bad last I checked.
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@Fire Fist:
Toriko must get a move called "Rage Table Flip".
this so much!
I actually always wondered that all HK despite of Toriko use their superhuman sense in fights. But Torikos superhuman sense doesn't seem very helpfull in fights and his abilities aren't centered on that. I would love to see some "smell" related (no pun intended) abilities.
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I actually always wondered that all HK despite of Toriko use their superhuman sense in fights. But Torikos superhuman sense doesn't seem very helpfull in fights and his abilities aren't centered on that. I would love to see some "smell" related (no pun intended) abilities.
During his fight against Tommyrod, Toriko superhuman smell helped him to develop phytoncyde to numb the insects.
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well, that's true. but it's so rare that he uses it and it is also a bit 'lame'.
think of what zebra would have done.
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That's why I think Toriko is the weaker among the Four Heavenly Kings. He relies only on his brute strenght.
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I think based on Coco's comment a few chapter's back about having to rely on "that" poison, that the awakened power applies to all of the four kings. It'll be interesting to see how it applies to the others, especially Toriko. I'm curious to see what types of moves Toriko pulls out against staa besides the nailgun. And I doubt either will die. Probably Sunny's win, but by such a narrow margin (considering his current condition) that it might as well be a stale mate, with someone else retrieving Tommy for later. SUnny will definitely be out of commision for the rest of the arc after this fight though, regardless of who the winner is. Honestly, I kind of like Sunny's idea of using pulled out/cut hair to increase his effective range, especially since its the type of ability that's useful, but also limited (Considering Sunny feels tremendous pain from getting his hair cut, and he'd need a lot of hair cut, and then he has to be able to control it which would be harder then normal even without the tremendous pain he must be experiencing)
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@Fire Fist:
Toriko must get a move called "Rage Table Flip".
Aww, you beat me to it! :(
I think I´m gonna make a chart of Tommy´s appearance evolution. Whoever is into pokeman can name the 3-4 evolutions he did c:
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I'm thinking of getting into this manga. I need a new manga to read and I was wondering how good Toriko is. How is it? And are there any other manga you guys recommend? And how's the anime, does it do the manga justice?
Short answer: If you like hyperbolic fights and hyerbolic world building and manliness everywhere, it's highly recommended. It's not very emotionaly engaging, but it's super entertaining and badass. The fights are top notch IMHO. The premise is ridiculous and you shouldn't think too much about it, but it's undeniably well build.
Just get to the Regal Mammoth arc and decide for yourself: if you get bored with that arc, forget about this manga.
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Regal Mammoth? Nah, definitely go for the Century Soup Arc…you will cringe and orgasm at the same time. That is a guarantee. XD
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Regal Mammoth? Nah, definitely go for the Century Soup Arc…you will cringe and orgasm at the same time. That is a guarantee. XD
Century Soup is better no doubt, but as far as predicting if you will like the remainder of the manga the Regal Mammoth arc works really well. Besides its kind of silly to tell someone to read through like half of a more than 200 chapter manga to see if they will like the other half.
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Century Soup is better no doubt, but as far as predicting if you will like the remainder of the manga the Regal Mammoth arc works really well. Besides its kind of silly to tell someone to read through like half of a more than 200 chapter manga to see if they will like the other half.
Exactly. Century Soup is the best arc, but Regal Mammoth is almost as good, uses almost the same ingredients (pun intended) and it happens much, much earlier.
As a gauging arc, it's almost perfect.
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Tommyrod is the fucking best
At least 50% of all affection i have for Toriko is because of him
100% agreed! Tommy makes this manga
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Did anyone else really like the Bubble Fruit arc? Thats probably my second favorite arc next to the Century Soup arc. Then the Meteor Garlic arc, thats mostly due to Livebearer :)
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I'm thinking of getting into this manga. I need a new manga to read and I was wondering how good Toriko is. How is it? And are there any other manga you guys recommend? And how's the anime, does it do the manga justice?
As kouch_lee said, it's incredibly badass and manly, in all aspects. It's been compared to Fist of the North Star many times for it's fights. The fights in this manga are amazing, and never fail to deliver. Things start getting really interesting at the end of the Puffer Whale arc, which is mid-Vol 2.
The anime is a bit different. While the manga's battles entice us with bloody flying fists, forks, and knifes, the anime features no blood whatsoever, and it does getting dissapointing at points where fights are censored. However blood is really the only thing absent, pretty much everything else is present. Otherwise the acting is pretty good, good animation, a really catchy theme song, and (as with any anime) some filler arcs.
I highly reccomend the new English dub from FUNimation.
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Did anyone else really like the Bubble Fruit arc? Thats probably my second favorite arc next to the Century Soup arc. Then the Meteor Garlic arc, thats mostly due to Livebearer :)
I also liked it, Chiyo's faces can easily hold up with Livebearer's, Grinpatch's or Tommy's. Only really bad thing about it is the f*cking Ehou Maki. Yeah, I can enjoy the exaggerations, but making a Ehou Maki which is a few 100 kilometres long in only 2 days and that with only the "few" ingredients Toriko brought, is just…the stupidest thing ever...
And yeah, Tommy is still the best. Only downside is, as already mentioned, that he could die next week. It would make sense seeing how he is the only Sous Chef that already has gone all out once.
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If this manga wasn't about the antagonists getting as much powerups as the protagonists, i'd be 100% sure that Tommyrod will die next week since up till now the guy served his purpose : he's shown everything he had, going all out for the second time and we didn't have any indication about a goal that he wants to attain (unlike Staa).
So yeah i don't think that Tommy and Grinpatch might die of this, still Century Soup stalemate like will be redundant.
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Bubble fruit is a mixed bag for me. Some good moments, but, again, the ending was really rushed, they off-screened the fight I was interested in, the Ehou Maki was indeed super stupid and Komatsu's old friend turning into a badass evil cook was more lol worthy than anything else. (Also, the mandatory "let's stab a Komatsu!" moment getting old).
Also, the way Toriko benefited from the training was disappointing: they told him to waste less useless movements, to fight in a more "gentler" way. . .and that translated into "I can use a more powerful Kugi punch!". Yeah, not a fan.
Still, Chiyo was really scary, and she gave us some really gory moments. And the really abstract way Toriko found the Bubble Fruit made for some surprisingly beautiful imagery. Props for this moment.
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Outside of Ozone Herb and Mellow Cola (Honey prison exempted), I'm not that crazy about most of the post-soup micro arcs. They all had, in some way or another, wasted potential hanging over them.
If Meteor Garlic, Bubble Fruit or 4 Beast arcs had been twice as long, they would have been amazing. Even 1.5X as long would have helped.
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I loved Meteor Garlick due to the gambling bits.
One more thing to note in praise of the fuckmothering awesome that is Tommyrod-Not only is he himself grotesquely brutal and overflowing with bloodlust,but he also has this weird quality of being able to bring out the matching wildness in whoever he is fighting.
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Bubble fruit is a mixed bag for me. Some good moments, but, again, the ending was really rushed, they off-screened the fight I was interested in, the Ehou Maki was indeed super stupid and Komatsu's old friend turning into a badass evil cook was more lol worthy than anything else. (Also, the mandatory "let's stab a Komatsu!" moment getting old).
Also, the way Toriko benefited from the training was disappointing: they told him to waste less useless movements, to fight in a more "gentler" way. . .and that translated into "I can use a more powerful Kugi punch!". Yeah, not a fan.
Still, Chiyo was really scary, and she gave us some really gory moments. And the really abstract way Toriko found the Bubble Fruit made for some surprisingly beautiful imagery. Props for this moment.
How about
"These new characters at the temple were just introduced and name- oh wait they're dead." And it had to be the least bland and bishie looking ones too.
Also the "Komatsu stabbing moment" was rationalised in a realy dumb way, and it's obvious it was just a cliffhanger Shima wanted to resort to without realy finding a way to do that seamlessly.
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Outside of Ozone Herb and Mellow Cola (Honey prison exempted), I'm not that crazy about most of the post-soup micro arcs. They all had, in some way or another, wasted potential hanging over them.
If Meteor Garlic, Bubble Fruit or 4 Beast arcs had been twice as long, they would have been amazing. Even 1.5X as long would have helped.
Meteor Garlic was alright in length, had my favourite moments in the series by far (I got so much amusement out of freaking out here about just how impossibly dialed up and beyond 11 Livebearer's creepiness was in those chapters week after week after week, that was realy something !) and only had little to no fighting outside of just "getting ingredients".
Problem was they skiped the VIP area entirely and then the revelation of "Oh, we actualy have the Meteor Garlic right here, we just pretended not to. For some reason." felt once again realy weak, like Shima didn't actualy want to follow up with actualy looking for the damn thing.
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^Those things, along with Livebearer getting an actual fight, is what I would expand on. As well as the Gourmet Yakuza/drugs subplot, to add some emotional stakes.
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Century Soup is better no doubt, but as far as predicting if you will like the remainder of the manga the Regal Mammoth arc works really well. Besides its kind of silly to tell someone to read through like half of a more than 200 chapter manga to see if they will like the other half.
Well, in my defense, I was aiming for the most suitable arc to capture his/her attention base on random chapters selection (just so you know, I refer to it as WINDOW READING…just random scheming of chapters to test if is intriguing to read), looking at those fight scenes alone, makes you think...literally this; "what?...what!?...what the hell is this?...Oh sh!t...this bug like pervert is creeping me out but then again...NO WAY!! He cut off that guy's...MUST READ ASAP!!!, this random guy/girl can't resist to read this series from the start.
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Did anyone else really like the Bubble Fruit arc? Thats probably my second favorite arc next to the Century Soup arc. Then the Meteor Garlic arc, thats mostly due to Livebearer :)
Same here, I loved those three, though like they said the Bubble Fruit arc could've been longer, but whatever, I still liked it, even with its flaws. Meteor Garlic is a 10/10 for me mostly due to Livebearer-san, Shima is a master when it comes to creepy villains
Still, Chiyo was really scary, and she gave us some really gory moments. And the really abstract way Toriko found the Bubble Fruit made for some surprisingly beautiful imagery. Props for this moment.
I had completely forgotten this moment. One of the best in terms of art, it is my favourite scene of the arc.
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You know,back in the HnK days,Toei used to handle censorship by swapping blood for what honestly looked like jizz.
Maybe they should revive this fine tradition and give us some sort of bodily fluids.
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You know,back in the HnK days,Toei used to handle censorship by swapping blood for what honestly looked like jizz.
Maybe they should revive this fine tradition and give us some sort of bodily fluids.
Unfortunately Toriko's anime is already too much kindly.
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THE SOUNDS I MADE WERE NOT HUMAN
And I got Kaitora right!!
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Anyway, with this overpowering upgrade for the "minor" characters, I don't know what we could expect from Midora, who will be what the real monster would be.
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I think Midora will eat earth itself.
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Thanks guys. I'm interested in Toriko and will start to read it. I'm an action guy lol
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When Midora demanded the century soup he somehow snatched it out of Alfaros hands, similar to how Ichiryuu froze Bile and returned him to his original standing place, so maybe Acacias disciples all have some power related to teleportation, probably done by some sort of cosmic ability like spatial manipulation, matter and anti-matter control, all that fancy stuff.
Many comics and manga do this, although I have a hard time imagining how you could do this with the whole food theme in Toriko going on, usually shimas ideas are based on something that already exists in the real world but is heavily exaggerated, like tommys compound eyes, shivering upped to eleven, etc -
When Midora demanded the century soup he somehow snatched it out of Alfaros hands, similar to how Ichiryuu froze Bile and returned him to his original standing place, so maybe Acacias disciples all have some power related to teleportation, probably done by some sort of cosmic ability like spatial manipulation, matter and anti-matter control, all that fancy stuff.
Many comics and manga do this, although I have a hard time imagining how you could do this with the whole food theme in Toriko going on, usually shimas ideas are based on something that already exists in the real world but is heavily exaggerated, like tommys compound eyes, shivering upped to eleven, etcI take it you've never read JoJo's Bizzare adventure or at least you haven't finished part 3
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I take it you've never read JoJo's Bizzare adventure or at least you haven't finished part 3
time manipulation counts as cosmic
If you refer to the fact that! all main antagonists in JoJo have time-themed powers (except cars)
