Mangaarev's Manga Review
Toriko
Introduction
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| Toriko Ready To Fight |
Setting, Plot And General Storyline
Toriko manga was staged on the future earth where the standard of the world was cuisine, called Gourmet Age. Gourmet Age worship the delicacy more than anything, while good taste could end even the world war.
Delicacies often requires a hard to get material, when specific strength and method was required to obtain them. This is where Bishoku-Ya comes into play, however bishoku-ya itself has rankings and the main character, Toriko is one of the “Four Heavenly Kings” some of the strongest bishoku-ya in the world.
The gourmet age itself, was ruled by IGO (International Gourmet Organization) led by Ichiryuu. IGO itself is a non-country based organization, so they wasn’t bounded by nationality or border and currently the biggest and most influential organization in the world.
IGO regulates all the Bishoku-ya (Food Mercenary) including license, authority and even jailing and punishing them. They also have biotope (an artificial landmass with many creatures) that preserve and cultivate food ingredients. The IGO also develop a technology that could measure an ingredient capture level.
But when there’s light there will be evil within, so in this manga, the opposing faction is Bishokukai and their mission is monopolize all the ingredient in the world
Could Toriko and his allies save the world from falling apart?
Delicacies often requires a hard to get material, when specific strength and method was required to obtain them. This is where Bishoku-Ya comes into play, however bishoku-ya itself has rankings and the main character, Toriko is one of the “Four Heavenly Kings” some of the strongest bishoku-ya in the world.
The gourmet age itself, was ruled by IGO (International Gourmet Organization) led by Ichiryuu. IGO itself is a non-country based organization, so they wasn’t bounded by nationality or border and currently the biggest and most influential organization in the world.
IGO regulates all the Bishoku-ya (Food Mercenary) including license, authority and even jailing and punishing them. They also have biotope (an artificial landmass with many creatures) that preserve and cultivate food ingredients. The IGO also develop a technology that could measure an ingredient capture level.
But when there’s light there will be evil within, so in this manga, the opposing faction is Bishokukai and their mission is monopolize all the ingredient in the world
Could Toriko and his allies save the world from falling apart?
the Famous "Four Heavenly Kings"
III - Characters
The character development in this manga is unexpectedly good,
the slow moving pace of the story make it has the room to fully explore
each of the character emotional bonds and the grows of physical powers.
Reason : Deep exploration and background explanation.
Some of the characters would be listed below
1. Toriko
- a ridiculously strong ingredient hunter, he has an unique nose that was very sensitive to air, have two main skill, knife and fork that was formed using his fist and developing over time. he was one of the four heavenly kings.
2. Sunny
- Yet another four heavenly kings, his power is the hair that could bend according to his will, and different hair have different power characters, a narcisstic, beauty lover but rather becoming a comic relief later on the story.
3. Coco
- one of the four heavenly kings, have power over the poison and antidote inside his body, he has unique power that could forsee the future using electromagnetic wave reading.
5. Zebra
- The troubled child of the heavenly kings, and the last joined on the later adventure, his voice is frightening, and his looks too is rather disturbing, but he has a gentle heart in mind and caring towards his friends, despite his rude attitude.
6. Komatsu
- Komatsu is a chef of a 5 star restaurant in the gourmet city, he was first assigned to relay message recruiting Toriko to hunt some kind of ingredients. he has a minor role in the beginning, but developed through the course of the story. Later in the plot, he acquired some special skill of hearing voice of the ingeredients.
6. Acacia
- The Greatest ingredient hunter throughout history. his presesnce is unknown, leaving only legend and a legendary full course.
7. Ichiryu
- The eldest of Acacia's disciple, he is very strong but have weak resistace to alcohol. leading IGO in his daily life.
8. Knocking Master Jirou
- The second of Acacia's disciples, he could do "knocking" prefered skill using weapon to make the enemy helpless. but he was such a drunk
The character development in this manga is unexpectedly good,
the slow moving pace of the story make it has the room to fully explore
each of the character emotional bonds and the grows of physical powers.Reason : Deep exploration and background explanation.
Some of the characters would be listed below
1. Toriko
- a ridiculously strong ingredient hunter, he has an unique nose that was very sensitive to air, have two main skill, knife and fork that was formed using his fist and developing over time. he was one of the four heavenly kings.
2. Sunny
- Yet another four heavenly kings, his power is the hair that could bend according to his will, and different hair have different power characters, a narcisstic, beauty lover but rather becoming a comic relief later on the story.
3. Coco
- one of the four heavenly kings, have power over the poison and antidote inside his body, he has unique power that could forsee the future using electromagnetic wave reading.
5. Zebra
- The troubled child of the heavenly kings, and the last joined on the later adventure, his voice is frightening, and his looks too is rather disturbing, but he has a gentle heart in mind and caring towards his friends, despite his rude attitude.
6. Komatsu
- Komatsu is a chef of a 5 star restaurant in the gourmet city, he was first assigned to relay message recruiting Toriko to hunt some kind of ingredients. he has a minor role in the beginning, but developed through the course of the story. Later in the plot, he acquired some special skill of hearing voice of the ingeredients.
6. Acacia
- The Greatest ingredient hunter throughout history. his presesnce is unknown, leaving only legend and a legendary full course.
7. Ichiryu
- The eldest of Acacia's disciple, he is very strong but have weak resistace to alcohol. leading IGO in his daily life.
8. Knocking Master Jirou
- The second of Acacia's disciples, he could do "knocking" prefered skill using weapon to make the enemy helpless. but he was such a drunk
Section IV Artwork, Anime Adaptation
It’s
disappointing to say but the artwork in this manga is fairly clumsy.
It’s not that bad though, but the lines are rough and lack of details.
Some of the size aspect is unsteady and changing (with overly muscular
posture of almost every character) However, the storyline and character
development makes up for it.
Unfortunately Toriko Anime require a lot more research, so we will update it as soon as it’s available.
Unfortunately Toriko Anime require a lot more research, so we will update it as soon as it’s available.
Section V - Conclusion
Toriko
was first released on 2008, surely it has a long history, but in fact.
They has lost fame to other major manga hits like naruto, One Piece and
Bleach. I don’t know the exact reason are, but I guess it because the
manga has a great weakness using some unknown monsters as ingredients,
making the “food” theme almost completely overridden by the fighting
theme. It also make the food inside the manga is pretty hard to imagine.
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