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 (That food serving for 100 people could only get him 1/10 full). 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. Toriko has a strict in that he will only kills animals that he wants to eat and will not kill animals he has no desire to eat.

• 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, he will often fire it in multiple blows. He can use it up to 5 times in a row, but doing so requires that he gather up his strength, which takes a while, and his muscles will be sore afterwards. There is a "Scattered" and a "Concentrated" type for the Nail Gun, Toriko usually use the "Scattered" type as the "Concentrated" type requires many times higher levels of concentration. Furthermore, the burden on the arm increase. However, "Concentrated" type compared to the "Scattered" type impact scope is drastically narrower. That part give birth to stronger piercing power.

"Knocking": Using a special knocking gun, he paralyzes a animal, this is only used for animals he doesn't want to eat.

• Full Course Menu: Currently, Toriko has yet to fill his menu in any slot but one, dessert.

Dessert: Fruit of Rainbow

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. It is shown that he is a highly skilled and competent chief capable on carrying out delicate procedures such as the removal of a pufferwhale's poison sack. Because he is otherwise normal, Toriko has him write a will whenever he come along on Toriko's hunts.

• Toriko Cracker: special fire crackers created by Toriko for the purpose of scaring away animals by creating a loud noise. It's force is equivalent to a bomb, and the sound can stop Komatsu's heart and destroy his eardrums, because Toriko forgot to warn him to wear earplugs before using it.

Coco

The "Gentleman" of the "Four Heavenly Kings" he is good friends with Toriko. While Toriko mostly relies on his brute strength, Coco prefers using stealthy techniques and cunning strategy to subdue aggressors. He is also strong defensively; he is immune to five hundred different kinds of poison which protects him very well. He earns most of his living by working as a fortuneteller, and his fortunes have a 97% accuracy rating, this has also made him extremely popular with women and results in him being mobbed by costumers when he is in public. He also has the ability to see non-visible spectrums of light and can read electromagnetic auras in order to predict an animal's next action.

• 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 liters, as the poison is made by converting his body fluids into poison, thus making too much would result in severe dehydration. This poison can be secreted from any part of his body and can control the concentration and effect of it, however, its main weakness is that the poison is easy to dodge. His body can also instantaneously create antibodies to venoms he is not immune to.

Intimidation: Most animals instantly sense the danger of Coco's poison, frighting them in a similar manner to Toriko's. Coco projects the image of a japanese ghost.

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

Poison Cannon: Coco fires a blob of poison at the target.

Poison Rifle: Coco fires a miniscule amount of poison from a small area and gives adds spin to it in order to increase the chance of it hitting. Compensates for the fact that Coco's venom lacks speed.

• Full Course Menu: Currently, Coco's is missing three dishes.

Hors-D'oeuvre: Blank

Soup: Lee Dragon's Tear (CLVL 21)

Fish Dish: Bureau Kadziki (CLVL 18)

Meat Dish: G2 Phoenix (CLVL 25)

Main: Blank

Salad: Neo Tomato (CLVL 12)

Dessert: The Fruit of Domu

Drink: Blank

Tom: a ship captain and old friend of Toriko's he can tell how much someone weights the moment they set foot on his ship. He is also a good "knocker"

Jirou: Known as the Knocking Master, he is a legendary retired Bishoku-ya who is a complete master of Knocking, able to use it to not to stun animals but alter his muscle size to become a giant and even revive the recently deceased, meaning that he is a master acupuncturist. He is old and a heavy drinker, when first introduced he asked Toriko for some sake, although at the time he seems to have absolutely no significance. He is later seen in the cave Toriko, Komatsu, and Coco were in with a bucket full of unpoisoned. He revives Komatsu (who was going into cardiac arrest) as a way to thank Toriko for the sake.

• Full Course Menu: Note, all the food on Jirou's menu have incomprehensible CLVLs.

Hors-D'oeuvre: Hundred-leaf Clover

Soup: Consumme Magma

Fish Dish: King Land Shark

Meat Dish: Ashurasaurus

Main: ET-Rice

Salad: Grana Lettuce

Dessert: Oasis Melon

Drink: Dotham's Sake

Mansam: IGO's Development Bureau Director and Gourmet Research Facility Chief, he is IGO's #3 person, with authority below the CEO and President. He is an old friend of Toriko's and has the same body type; He runs IGO's Garden One, a facility where 30% of the worlds gourmet foods is made, it also clones long extinct animals and preforms selective breeding. He has an incredibly high pain tolerance, able to live through being stabbed in the gut and a hole blown through his throat by a laser beam. It is possible (but currently only speculation) that he was once Toriko's teacher, as they have similar fighting styles and techniques. When someone says his name he thinks they are calling him handsome; this is a pun as his name sounds similar to the english word handsome.

• Techniques:

Fry Panch: a pun as in japanese pan and punch are pronounced similarly, the technique is similar to Toriko's "Fork and Knife" except this is of course a punch, but the arm is shaped like a frying pan.

Fry Pan Sandwich: Fry Panch using both hand slam in of opposite sides, hence the sandwich.

Intimidation: The same as Toriko's and Coco's except Mansam projects the image of a Ashura except the projection has eight arms instead of the six arms.

Rin: A pheromone and other odor composition user who acts as a beast handler at the gourmet colosseum, a fighting ring run by IGO that pits beast against each other to both validate the accuracy of CLVL rankings and as entertainment for world officials. She apparently has a crush on Toriko as when she heard he was at the colosseum she busily began applying makeup.

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.

• Zombie Taipans

snakes with and incredibly powerful venom

• Emperor Crow

considered the ruler of the sky and believed to be extinct. (one lives with Coco and acts like his pet)

• Puffer Whale (Daphnia Whale): Capture Difficulty Level: Unknown classified as a "special caution food"

a fish thats about as small as a normal puffer fish, it is sold in the black market every sixteen years plus being incorrectly handled by many chefs about 100,000 people die from food poisoning. It has the highest nerve poison in a sack in its body and when it breaks not one inch of the fish is left edible. Puffer Whale is extremely difficult to catch and cook based on three factors: The chance of someone getting close enough without scaring it (an action that would cause the whale to release its poison) is probably 25%, The chances of someone effectively 'knocking' the fish is around 5%, and the chances of removing the poison sack without it breaking are about .1 %.

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.

• Cigar Tree

a tree thats branches are like natural cigars anyone how wants to smoke need only light them then enjoy.

• Platinum Lemon

Terminology

Bishoku-ya: Means "Luxury Food Providers", people who are hired to hunt exotic or dangerous ingredients.

IGO: The International Gourmet Organization, a group in charge of creating and development of new foods and animals. They also are the ones that decide a food's Capture Level.

Capture Level: AKA CLVL, the difficulty of capturing a specific animal or food. To put things in perspective: at Capture Level One, ten pro-hunters with shotguns can barely take a beast down.

Knocking: the usage of stick needles to sting the nerves control the movement in the cerebellum to paralyze a beast. This allows normally dangerous animals to be shipped alive. This technique requires a great deal of knowledge and experience as many beast have complex internal structure.

Manga Volumes and Chapters

Further information: List of Toriko chapters

External links

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