I see a love triangle in this chapter :ninja:
Toriko II: Ichiryuu's Slimy Insides!!
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Pair seems to be the good guy among that group . The book why is it so important ? I mean the blue nitros come with methods of cooking Acacia's full course and they knew about the full course before it names after Acacia , and why they still need that book .
that civilisation kept being hyped as one of the former major nitro cities and that book is implied to be one of the taste hermits' books (best nitro chef/taster). No idea why it was located in human world (meta-guess is that shima hadn't fully planned out GW fully back then).
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Why Joa is so close with blue Nitro
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The Sea Mountain looks freaking awesome. I'd love to see some of that stuff in the New World.
Sea slopes are fine and dandy, but the meat and potatoes are in the Sea mountains.
Ed: Lol at the Hipster Nitros. These guys don't have many mirrors where they live, I gather.
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The author just brought back a Nitro, the very first one to appear in the story, after 200 chapters, and with a bombshell, revealing him to be none other than Acacia's valuable source of info: Pair.
I demand a round of applause to Mitsuthoshi Shimabukuro.
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this chapter was so great omg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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But zonge made it to gourmet world. Is he top tier now or what.
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But zonge made it to gourmet world. Is he top tier now or what.
yeah I had the same, how come Toriko once could not survive gourmet world and now there are all this dudes thereâŠ
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yeah I had the same, how come Toriko once could not survive gourmet world and now there are all this dudes thereâŠ
Most of them are strong enough to survive in it now (especially now that they have eaten air) and the ones who aren't are protected by the ones who are. Komatsu is also a weakling and he was able to survive there because Toriko and the others had his back.
Also, it was explained that once a strong enough group of people travels through Gourmet World, the path they took will be easier for the next group.
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Loving Sea Mountain. That's the kinda stuff that makes me like Toriko.
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Most of them are strong enough to survive in it now (especially now that they have eaten air) and the ones who aren't are protected by the ones who are. Komatsu is also a weakling and he was able to survive there because Toriko and the others had his back.
Also, it was explained that once a strong enough group of people travels through Gourmet World, the path they took will be easier for the next group.
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http://img.bato.to/comics/2014/04/02/t/read533bbafe86cf7/img000009.pngthanks, I forgot that thing
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this chapter was so great omg !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was it really that great? just seemed like a fill in chapter to me. They told you the state of the human world, showed a few characters following toriko's trail and then had a set up for the fight next chapter, and had a discussion between a few bad guys, nothing note worthy or even remotely impressive about this chapter at all.
I mean it was nice to see supporting characters again, but if there not ever gonna do anything then there's no real big deal, they do that a lot in Naruto and bleach, show the characters again and again but don't do anything
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But zonge made it to gourmet world. Is he top tier now or what.
Are you implying he wasn't?
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The Sea Mountain looks freaking awesome. I'd love to see some of that stuff in the New World.
Reverse Mountain
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Wait a minuteâŠwhat if Guemon is one of the Enbu?
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Are you implying he wasn't?
I had no doubts about the ultimate bishokuya zonge-sama eventually showing up to one shot the 8 kings. I just wasn't expecting it so soon.
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I demand a Tables, Ladders, and Chair Match between the 4 Heavenly Kings and Bambina's Instructors.
I'll clap for that.
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I had no doubts about the ultimate bishokuya zonge-sama eventually showing up to one
shotfart the 8 kings. I just wasn't expecting it so soon.Fixed that for you :)
You think that's AIR you're breathing?
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Lol it kills me to think of that scene
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While nice to see the other stuff going on, I have never cared for the whole overarching story of Toriko. It's just not that interesting, and it was only recently that anything of an actual story was happening. Toriko's strength was from the art style, places, and fights, along with the crazy character designs. This chapter was mostly story stuff which I couldn't care less.
Monkey WWE though has me hyped, with tag team match. I expect all the monkeys from the continent to be there, and chairs to be used, along with other things.
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Tbh I found the most interesting part of this chapter to be Toriko sending Brunch to take Air to Midora.
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Best part was seeing Livebearer in the background.
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The author just brought back a Nitro, the very first one to appear in the story, after 200 chapters, and with a bombshell, revealing him to be none other than Acacia's valuable source of info: Pair.
I demand a round of applause to Mitsuthoshi Shimabukuro.
What was the original chapter in which they met that Nitro?
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End of Gourmet 108.
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[/hide]Cheers. The smug one from the Ozone Herb chapter.
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Cheers. The smug one from the Ozone Herb chapter.
Indeed.
To be fair, if you could bite an Ozone herb twice so fast that it didn't rot then you'd be pretty smug too.
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I'm not really sure the big Blue Nitro is talking about the other Nitro when he says 'Pair'.
Could just be him remembering something about 'Pair' and then adressing the other Nitro because he has some history with it.Maybe a translator could clear this up?
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I have no idea what happened this chapter
But the gang is finally going to play with the Monkey King that's good
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man i really wanna see starjun again
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While nice to see the other stuff going on, I have never cared for the whole overarching story of Toriko. It's just not that interesting, and it was only recently that anything of an actual story was happening. Toriko's strength was from the art style, places, and fights, along with the crazy character designs. This chapter was mostly story stuff which I couldn't care less.
Monkey WWE though has me hyped, with tag team match. I expect all the monkeys from the continent to be there, and chairs to be used, along with other things.
people like you are the reason why people think toriko is just a "dumb fighting manga with no real plot" when you cleary see the amount of important things shima foreshadowed early in the serie for later to be relevant, and the cooking fest arc was the first to awaken it. if i tought like you i would have dropped one piece in the beginning.
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people like you are the reason why people think toriko is just a "dumb fighting manga with no real plot" when you cleary see the amount of important things shima foreshadowed early in the serie for later to be relevant, and the cooking fest arc was the first to awaken it. if i tought like you i would have dropped one piece in the beginning.
Perhaps I am one those people, but I don't think there's anything wrong if a series is just action based. It's not that Toriko has a plot, I'm all for stories having a plot and not be mindless drivel, I don't care for the story that the author has created. Beginning of Toriko shined because of the diverse world, and epic fights, along with interesting information about the world they occupied. When the cooking fest arc started, I was actually excited for a different pace, and that a story was going to come out of it. The cooking was basically nonexistent, it devolved into fights quickly (the weakest fights for me), and all the plot came out at once, that I didn't know what to think.
Toriko does have its depth, and it's not all about action. Discovery of the world and appreciation of it was a huge part of it at first. I think if it was more of a simple exploration Manga, showing a diverse world, with cooking and fighting both equally represented, and having a simple message of appreciation of the world would've been perfect. Now, I don't really care about the story.
Maybe down the line it will change, and I will like the story. For now, not so much.
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people like you are the reason why people think toriko is just a "dumb fighting manga with no real plot" when you cleary see the amount of important things shima foreshadowed early in the serie for later to be relevant, and the cooking fest arc was the first to awaken it. if i tought like you i would have dropped one piece in the beginning.
Perhaps I am one those people, but I don't think there's anything wrong if a series is just action based. It's not that Toriko has a plot, I'm all for stories having a plot and not be mindless drivel, I don't care for the story that the author has created. Beginning of Toriko shined because of the diverse world, and epic fights, along with interesting information about the world they occupied. When the cooking fest arc started, I was actually excited for a different pace, and that a story was going to come out of it. The cooking was basically nonexistent, it devolved into fights quickly (the weakest fights for me), and all the plot came out at once, that I didn't know what to think.
Toriko does have its depth, and it's not all about action. Discovery of the world and appreciation of it was a huge part of it at first. I think if it was more of a simple exploration Manga, showing a diverse world, with cooking and fighting both equally represented, and having a simple message of appreciation of the world would've been perfect. Now, I don't really care about the story.
Maybe down the line it will change, and I will like the story. For now, not so much.
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The cooking was basically nonexistent, it devolved into fights quickly (the weakest fights for me), and all the plot came out at once, that I didn't know what to think.
I demand some respect for Tommy vs. Sani. That fight was the tits. And Mansam Fry-Paning robots left and right. The rest, I agree (Brunch vs. centaur guy was meh, and for how impossibly long it was, Toriko vs. Starjun was a bore.) I was also left in the cold with Ichi vs. Midora, but that happened in another scenario.
As for Toriko's plot. . .well. I can't take it too seriously atm, I mean, it's too serious for its own good. I guess I'll never get emotional or intrigued by "what will happen with this ingredient?" or I'll never get behind the idea of there existing groups of impossibly evil super villains in cahoots with superpowered mystical creatures that. . .want to eat delicious food (with pretentious names such as "God") and have to be stopped for mankind's sake. But I know many got into the whole lore and are really excited about all the revelations and plot twists, so maybe that's just me.
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I demand some respect for Tommy vs. Sani. That fight was the tits. And Mansam Fry-Paning robots left and right. The rest, I agree (Brunch vs. centaur guy was meh, and for how impossibly long it was, Toriko vs. Starjun was a bore.) I was also left in the cold with Ichi vs. Midora, but that happened in another scenario.
As for Toriko's plot. . .well. I can't take it too seriously atm, I mean, it's too serious for its own good. I guess I'll never get emotional or intrigued by "what will happen with this ingredient?" or I'll never get behind the idea of there existing groups of impossibly evil super villains in cahoots with superpowered mystical creatures that. . .want to eat delicious food (with pretentious names such as "God") and have to be stopped for mankind's sake. But I know many got into the whole lore and are really excited about all the revelations and plot twists, so maybe that's just me.
I did like that part, and a few other things, it was overall just the arc did not work. The fight you mentioned did make Sani get some emotional depth, and show what he will do when push comes to shove.
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Never once did I get the feeling that Toriko is too serious in any of its elements (plot or otherwise). It has tense moments that complement the action and the badass felling and that's pretty much it.
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Well the series was mostly character driven with characters/ingredients design, hunting adventures and badass fights being the main selling points. The plot was pratically not there until that 0th biotype meeting (where Ichiryuu brought up the spy issue). Before that it was basically an excuse plot for hunting advenures, you might see the author foreshadowing back then but there just wasn't any focus on the plot.
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Melk the first and melk the second did they met he just ignored these specific details well it doesn't matter .
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people like you are the reason why people think toriko is just a "dumb fighting manga with no real plot" when you cleary see the amount of important things shima foreshadowed early in the serie for later to be relevant, and the cooking fest arc was the first to awaken it. if i tought like you i would have dropped one piece in the beginning.
The Cooking Fest arc is probably the series worst. Yes, Shima is good about doing callbacks and actually incorporating the myriad concepts, characters and objects he namedrops all over the place into the series. But the strength of Toriko is not in the complexity of main characters, the sweeping drama of the overarching plot, and certainly not in the fact that a Nitro which got drawn a few years ago happens to get drawn again now. Torikos real strength has always been over-the-top characters, abilities, beasts, locations and challenges - the instant gratification of whatever outrageous thing is happening here and now (just check the unanimous Toriko-love back when the four kings' Gourmet World expedition started).
Of course, theres different tastes. To some people, the mere introduction of a new admiral/warlord in One Piece can be the most amazing thing, but to me what counts is them actually doing something entertaining in the story. Which is why Cooking Fest fell flat on its face for me; so many characters introduced, so many reveals and revelations - but all overly serious, and tremendously unengaging. The overall narrative just isn't emotionally, dramatically powerful enough to make me care all that much about Neos cryptic reveal and plans, so the time spent here drags, while a balls-to-the-wall insane fight like Sunny vs Tommy shines like a diamond.
As for this weeks chapter, I'm glad to see the secondary cast chasing after the heroes, 8 continents with just the 4 kings, Komatsu, Wildlife and enemies would get a little dull.
But seriously, Chiyo too? What?? Combined with Brunch bringing food to the guy who scorched the planets entire habitable surface area, I guess theres no murderous behavior too gruesome to be forgiven in a shonen series.
I'm looking forward to whatever antics Bambina has planned. The only good thing about the several chapters worth of fakeout encounter is how well characterized that ape has gotten. But thats to be expected, since more than half the arc (7 chapters) have taken place at Bambinas home, in the continents center.
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it seems taste is different for each person because most people iknow incl me say that the cf arc is the best arc in toriko so far with ice hell as nr 2
@daz and the strenghts of toriko didnt change in any way, there is just also focus on a real plot now which was foreshadowed since the beginning.
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How does the fact that the overarching plot has been foreshadowed since the beginning ensure the quality/entertainment value of said plot? Yes, the overarching plot has always been there. That doesn't mean that Franky Tank has to like it, or like it more than other aspects of the story. But really, thats beside a bigger point:
In this last post, you agree that Torikos strengths are the over-the-top characters, abilities, beasts, locations and challenges. Franky Tank says the exact same thing in his post above. Yet in your response to him, you say that
people like you are the reason why people think toriko is just a "dumb fighting manga with no real plot"
. This I can only interpret as you thinking Franky Tank does the series a disservice, since he can't get the series' true worth, and thus spreads the viewpoint of Toriko being something its not. By adding that @Heracles:
if i tought like you i would have dropped one piece in the beginning
, you again insinuate that Franky Tank is basically "reading the manga wrong". All this, despite us all three evidently agreeing that core strengths of Toriko include its over-the-top characters, abilities, beasts, locations and challenges. So in the end, you sneer at Franky Tanks view of the series, which you share to a high degree, for no reason other than to defend all aspects of Toriko.
I can tell by your avatar and name that you really like this series, but maybe try and look before you leap.
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Melk the first and melk the second did they met he just ignored these specific details well it doesn't matter .
I was wondering about that myself. The Melk Stardust arc is one of my faves, so I was kinda disappointed when there was no on-screen interaction between the two of them. Makes sense though, with all the other characters hogging panel time.
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Didn't notice that both Melks were there. Probably should've paid more attention to who was there. I do believe the girl with the ice ability was Setsuono's apprentice, if I recall correctly. Some of the characters shown I remember being introduced in the cooking fest arc, but unfortunately, because of very short screen time, I can't be excited about most of them. I feel that with all these characters coming now, no one is going to get the screen time they deserve. That or they come, say hi, and leave.