The next chapter is going to start off with everyone sitting around in lawn chairs watching a sunset while saying:
"Gee, that sure was a wacky adventure, huh guys?"
"It was stroke of luck for us to beat NEO and save the world with that crazy thing that suddenly happened."
"Yeah, that sure was a… sticky situation."
::everyone laughs and eats ice cream::
Rin on the other hand looks much better with long hair, would suit the wedding
This series is going to end sometime next year at this pace. I can understand the last…5 or so chapters, but this chapter, imho, seemingly hints at the author having to rush a bit and conclude the series. We skipped the entirety of Blue Grill, the capture of ANOTHER, and the meeting of Whale King Moon. We have Toriko getting weird levels of hype this chapter, and being able to punch the Wolf King making him flinch even etc.
Unless we get a longish flashback explaining these events, the events that took place in and around Blue Grill (mostly the tracking down and capture of another, the new appearances etc), I'm saying this series will be over by summer/fall next year EASILY. Heck... Maybe even late spring.
All in all, I DID NOT like this chapter. This chapter felt really weird and rushed the plot along tenfold, imho (and the opinion of much of the internet readerbase apparently. I did like the appearance of the Wolf King though.
Wolf King's rape face game is top notch, holy shit :O I don't mind Toriko landing a hit on Guiness, no King has gone untouched in the previously shown battles and in the end they always stood up to their name. Toriko is not gonna win this by himself, if they even manage to actually win against Guiness (like by knockout ot something). Their fight might get interrupted by the appearance of GOD, since Toriko smelling it kind of confirms that it will actually appear there. Would be seemingly out of order regarding the plot, but so are a lot of things right now.
Don Slime in his, I guess, real form looks awesome, but I'm still in pain the cooking tournament was skipped. I also wished for Moon to make an actually menacing first appearance that tied in with the ongoing plot, not in a flashback :/ but we will see how Shima decides to further handle this little mess that he has gone himself into and I'm positive it will be entertaining at the least.
Wolf King's rape face game is top notch, holy shit :O I don't mind Toriko landing a hit on Guiness, no King has gone untouched in the previously shown battles and in the end they always stood up to their name. Toriko is not gonna win this by himself, if they even manage to actually win against Guiness (like by knockout ot something). Their fight might get interrupted by the appearance of GOD, since Toriko smelling it kind of confirms that it will actually appear there. Would be seemingly out of order regarding the plot, but so are a lot of things right now.
Don Slime in his, I guess, real form looks awesome, but I'm still in pain the cooking tournament was skipped. I also wished for Moon to make an actually menacing first appearance that tied in with the ongoing plot, not in a flashback :/ but we will see how Shima decides to further handle this little mess that he has gone himself into and I'm positive it will be entertaining at the least.
It was said that Acacia stopped a grand war with the taste of God. I guess they can both smell it when it appears and stop fighting?
Don Slime with malice… I won't be surprised if Don Slime is some kind of a Nemesis for Acacia's Demon, but it was hinted anyhow.
Rushed, was it? Yeah. But I said the same thing for last week's episode and I do my best to enjoy the ride with Shima's pace. We will get a flashback. I think thats without a doubt, but what will it's content be? How long? Like back when it was with Toriko meeting Midora? And for fuck's sake Shima if you really planned this for Toriko couldn't you just showed that comment back then?
It does really feel like an ass pull right now. I like the idea Toriko can smell the information around the World. But that's just it. Using his inner Red Demon to full capabilities? Where did that come from? I get his relationship with Komatsu is very very unique. But that being the only reason for him to be eight kings level all of a sudden is bullshit. It's not even related to his Blue Demon! Shima established him as the unique power up in dire times while the Red symbolized his own capabilities. Red was used in full power back then and is being called forth again because Toriko just remembered how he felt back then? Why the hell does he need Acacia's Full Course now? It's all weird.
Why does anyone need Acacia's Full Course anyway? When you get to be Ichiryuu's level which supposedly can defeat Acacia tranformed to NEO without Acacia's FC?
I just feel lost about some aspects. Power levels are important too. Lately, unfortunately it comes down to having special relationships and being special individuals -which of course determined by plot i.e mangaka.
Anyway I'll let this sink in and revisit the chapter later. Strangely I'm curious now more than ever... It just is sad that we're rushing. It means Toriko is going at a faster rate to it's end. That's sad. I know I'm gonna miss it once it's over.
I must say the amount of salt is quite high. Yes, the skip is weird, but come on, do we have to repeat the same again and again each week? Yes, the pacing is quick, yes more details/exploring would be nice, we know that by now. How about we focus on some actual stuff, you know, the other stuff that was shown?
This remains the most tired and fundamentally untrue argument in the Toriko thread. Can you read the 7 chapter introduction to Blue Grill, culminating in a whole chapter dedicated to tertiary chapter Yuda and call it "quick pacing"? Can you look at something like chapter 303, where 4 entire pages are devoted to just the Bleach-esque (Not saying it wasn't effective so hold it!) visual effect of Sani blinking, and call it quick?
The issue is not that the series is perpetually fast-paced, its that the pace is so uneven, proceeding at a speed comparable to any other shonen one moment, and wildly acellarating the next. I guess you can say that "Oscillating Pace" is then itself something a reader of Toriko should expect and so people shouldn't complain, but what that effectively means is that you should never let yourself become attached to anything in the series, because theres a chance the series might abruptly blow past it.
Lots of overreacting, but I expected some more.
The blinking wasn't out of bleach. Was out of hunter hunter giving extremely detailed info about weird moments
@Daz:
you should never let yourself become attached to anything in the series, because theres a chance the series might abruptly blow past it.
Oh, when it pays to have attachment problems… Maybe that's why I never get any problems with Toriko's pacing :-)
Lots of overreacting, but I expected some more.
There were a lot of these, here in this thread. I feel it was the first time it is justifiable though -in my perceived Toriko standards. I guess Shima wants to parallel capture levels raised to sky-high.
I joked a while ago when we cut away from the another stuff that it felt like they skipped like 10-20 chapters. And now I'm pretty sure that joke was actually true. WTF Shimabukuro
Yes. Though he actually did this with a good reason, even if we didn't like it. It just takes a look to tell why the author did that, and it has nothing to do with the pacing, but with the surprise element.
What the fuck is going on?!
So far it always paid to trust Shima -ofcourse by Toriko standards. After 5 more chapters, i believe it all will make sense.
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I joked a while ago when we cut away from the another stuff that it felt like they skipped like 10-20 chapters. And now I'm pretty sure that joke was actually true. WTF Shimabukuro
I don't believe majority would think you were joking :)
It's pretty clear they're trying to wrap up the entire series a lot sooner than planned. I'm guessing it's an editorial mandate as well, given the way blue grill was going on before. It just seems odd since Toriko isn't doing that poorly
It's pretty clear they're trying to wrap up the entire series a lot sooner than planned. I'm guessing it's an editorial mandate as well, given the way blue grill was going on before. It just seems odd since Toriko isn't doing that poorly
Which is why I am 100% sure the author did this on purpose, by showing how, all of a sudden and for unexplained causes, all those characters featured look they aged like 10 years or even more.
Isn't Toriko doing fine? Are there enough reason to think there is editorial side to all this?
@Myu:
Isn't Toriko doing fine? Are there enough reason to think there is editorial side to all this?
That's why I'm confused. If this was just Shima getting tired of the series and wanting to end soon, it seems the switch during the blue grill stuff was way too sudden. He could just as easily have rushed through that stuff first if that was his intention. The way it's going it feels like stuff is being skipped because the amount of chapters left is already decided
Then there's not much to worry about. It's Shima doing his magic.
Yo may call it trolling like a boss, because it takes guts to do what he just did.
Also, about Toriko's potential, Starjun said it's half-flattery. And he's right, Heracles just proved it by delivering Toriko a crushing defeat, twice.
It seems so much time has passed but when you knew about the warp kitchen it should be easy to understand or expect what happened.
By the way those chefs from blue grill have two arms now not four
What really flips my main switch is… Komatsu!!"
Why did he agree to marry Rin again? Clearly he's already decided who Best Girl is.
The only one who seems to not be aged is Yuda.
Yun now is the perfect safe zone in toriko world I guess.
Nono and Rin look so gorgeous, the same goes for that 10 star female chef. Mitsutoshi shows he can actually draw women.
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The only one who seems to not be aged is Yuda.
Over 100 years old and a long-ass mane and beard, he sure wasn't going to change this much.
There are three out of five chefs from blue grill what heppened the other two? That all will be answered as flashback. So I can't wait to see what happened at blue grill.
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It must be the work of that cave Mappy mentioned once.
something is definitely wrong with Toriko pacing it is as if it is on fast forward. I wonder if they are forcing the ending
One more thing the human world chefs look dirty and on the other hand the blue grill chefs are clean.
Took me a while, but I figured out why the author did this. The truth is, Don Slime aside, he just showed us a bunch of people and told us an obvious outcome.
But the real reason is the people themselves. Take a good look around. Why it does look like Komatsu, Rin, Wabutora, etc, aged a lot? How did Yun became so huge? And the Blue Grill chefs, they no longer look possessed. This screams flashback and we're eventually going to have it next chapter.
,I should learn not underestimate the author's weird yet smart writing skills. You are not mad?
It's terrible writing, but no I'm not upset. I've been a part of the "Shima is rushing!" camp for a couplw of months now so I got all of the rage and disappointment out of my system a few weeks ago, hah.
If we dont get flashback of what has happened in the Cooking Contest and the other Areas then I seriously believe Shima is being forced to end the manga ASAP.
What really bothered me is the Toriko random powerup that has already put him into 8Kings level, which makes 0 sense
I don't think there's any doubt now that something fishy is going on.
It's going to be a long week, is it?
I'd like to hear Kewl's thoughts on this.
http://bato.to/read/_/344194/toriko_ch339_by_hi-wa-mata-noboru/11
Joa states that 'warp kitchen' is needed to capture/cook another. So the cave where time passes 200 000 times faster is definitely involved, apparently warp kitchen slows time down enough to not die in seconds, but rather stills flows faster than usual, resulting in everyone looking a couple years older (at least 10) in the present, in such a short amount of time.
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http://bato.to/read/_/344194/toriko_ch339_by_hi-wa-mata-noboru/11
Joa states that 'warp kitchen' is needed to capture/cook another. So the cave where time passes 200 000 times faster is definitely involved, apparently warp kitchen slows time down enough to not die in seconds, but rather stills flows faster than usual, resulting in everyone looking a couple years older (at least 10) in the present, in such a short amount of time.
Makes sense. ANOTHER travels at the speed of light. If you use warp kitchen it should move at least a bit less fast.
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Whatever, Shima. Whatever.
http://bato.to/read/_/179319/toriko_ch239_by_hi-wa-mata-noboru/14
Komatsu in danger and Toriko's Red Demon goes nuts, being able to smell everything enables him to awaken his Red Demon for a short period of time? After all the smell of food is slowly decaying matter of sorts so it would be plausible.
Toriko is ending. There's no other answer to this change of pace.
None, there are none. How a series that sells 300k per volume could get the axe all of a sudden? Like I said, this last move was intentional and a long-ass flashback is coming.
You keep saying this over and over. Just like you said this after Komatsu was suddenly rescued. Well we just got the flash back and it wasnt long it was a silly random power up.
This is poor writing plain and simple. Shima has left it open ended so he can ret con anything in he wants. Also, when are we supposed to be getting these long explanations and flash backs? As God appears?
Toriko has a pattern of wonderful set up and potential with poor execution.
Also, i believe the aged due to warp kitchen.
Every manga I finished had a rushed ending for some reason.
Yeah it's feeling a bit like YuYu ended right now. I give it maybe 15 chapters.
That's just absurd.
I say it again. Toriko sells more or less as much as Gintama, a series that is spanning over 500 chapters already. And while in the polls is not doing great, there's a bunch others that are doing far worse.
So no, it's not getting the axe, no matter how much you insist.
I'm out till next week. If we don't get a flashback of some sort soon, I agree with the doomsayers. If we do, I hope this thred can go back to normal :)
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Where is Asarudy? She seemed to be the boss of the 10 star chefs.
If it just at Dragon Ball the sells would hit the top. Unfortunately great manga at one era.
I say it again. Toriko sells more or less as much as Gintama, a series that is spanning over 500 chapters already. And while in the polls is not doing great, there's a bunch others that are doing far worse.
So no, it's not getting the axe, no matter how much you insist.
Maybe he is just tired of drawing it, you know… Sure looks like it.
