Toriko

Toriko
トリコ (Toriko )
Genre	Comedy, Action
Manga
Written by	Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump
Demographic	Shōnen
Original run	May 19, 2008 – Current
Volumes	2

Toriko (トリコ, Toriko) is a manga series by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro.

Synopsis

In a world where the taste and texture of food is extremely important there exist individuals known as Bishoku-ya (luxury food providers) who specialize in the acquisition of rare ingredients and animals. Toriko is one of these hunters and it is his dream to find the most precious foods in the world and create the ultimate dinner course. As one of the most skilled hunters in the world he is regularly hired by restaurants and the rich to seek out new ingredients and rare animals. A man with inhuman ability, he utilizes his incredible strength and knowledge of the animal kingdom to capture ferocious, evasive and rare beasts to further his final goal, the ultimate dinner course composed of the most delicious food in the world. He is currently accompanied by a weak and timid chef who, inspired by Toriko's ambition, travels with him to improve his culinary skills and find rare ingredients.

Characters

Toriko

A Bishoku-ya with a big appetite. He is known as one of the "Four Heavenly Kings", his nickname is "The Glutton". Despite having a huge appetite and massive power he doesn't indiscriminately kill and eat every animal he sees or is attacked by, only those that taste good or look appetizing to him. He has immunity to seventy different poisons (by injecting himself with a near fatal dose, causing his body to create antibodies for the poisons). He also has an animal like sense of smell. He seems to live in a house completely made of desserts even the kitchen wear.

Hunting Method: Toriko relies on his sheer monster-like strength to capture his targets.

Intimidation: When Toriko fights his intimidation is so strong that Toriko appears as a hanya demon to both friend and foe.

Fork and Knife: The first of Toriko's hunting attacks. He places his right hand in a claw position (Fork) and his left in a chop position (Knife), with his strength he can easily dig into and grab hold of a beast with his 'fork' then quickly cut them with his 'knife'.

Nail Gun: By focusing his power into one of his arms he can create a punch so powerful that it can give any large beast a concussion.

Komatsu

A five-star chef who works for Hotel Gourmet, part of the prestigious IGO (International Gourmet Organization). He is timid but greatly interested by what he finds in his travels with Toriko. As a result, he tries to overcome his fear and does his best to help.

Coco

The "Gentleman" of the "Four Heavenly Kings" he is good friends with Toriko. But while Toriko mostly relies on his brute strength, Coco prefers using stealthy techniques and cunning stratagies to subdue aggressors. He is also strong defensively; his immunity to five hundred different kinds of poison protects him very well.

Hunting Method: Due to having so many poisons in him Coco's body has developed its own kind of poison stronger then anything any animal can produce. But he does have a limit on the amount of poison; he can only produce 15 milliliters.

Poison Dressing: Coco cause his body to 'sweat' poison therefore covering himself with it, most of his attacks follow this one.

Other Characters

Tom: a ship captain and old friend of Toriko's he can tell how much someone wights the moment they set foot on his ship.

Foods/Ingredients

Most of the foods in the Toriko world are mixed from different animals and parts or have been mutated into some totally different. They level depends on how hard it would be to find them. Only level one has been describe: a group of ten pro hunters with shotguns can barely take the beast down (this mostly applies to aggressive animals).

Animals

• Toro Eel
• Friday Monkey
• Red Haired Pig
• Galala Alligator: Capture Difficulty Level: 5

The beast with the top ranked alligator meat, it is said that it lives to 150 years and that the older it is the tasty it's meat becomes, but so does it's aggressiveness and appetite. It appears like a normal alligator only much bigger (larger then a elephant) and has eight legs

• Baron Tiger: Capture Difficulty Level: 3
• Serpent Frog: Capture Difficulty Level: 1

A mostly passive animal it's liver is a delicacy.

• Swamp Snake: Capture Difficulty Level: 5
• Sharkenodon: Capture Difficulty Level: 4

A dragon like winged beast

• Troll Kong: Capture Difficulty Level: 9

The strongest gorilla of all a child can easily flip over a tank. It has four arms.

Silver Back: the leader of the the Troll Kongs it lacks the extra arms but has maybe three times the normal strength and long silver fur all over it's body.

Fruits

• Fruit of Shellfish
• Almond Cabbage
• Fruit of Rainbow

A fruit that changes it's taste to seven different colors depending on humidity and temperature. Its juice is so concentrated that putting just one drop into a 23 meter pool full of water will change all the water into juice.

Termanology

Igo: the group in charge of creating and development of new foods and animals.

Knocking

Manga Volumes and Chapters

Further information: List of Toriko chapters

External links

• A official website introducing Toriko and Dogashi Kaden! Template:Ja icon