Audience reviews
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pumpkinhill
This show would be a 10 for me if it actually finished with the manga. All personal bias aside, Toriko is the epitome of mindless fun, I found myself binging episode after episode without getting bored. Every arc brought new interesting characters and conflict; furthermore, watching the crew solve the conflict with their different personalities and quirks gives this show its charm.
Something a lot of shows lack is memorable side characters, Toriko does not have this problem. I found myself engaged to every character we were introduced to regardless of importance to the story. Which leads to my main reason for my rating, and why I would recommend this anime to you. The world building... the world building in this show is insane. To avoid spoilers, I will be as general as possible.
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Toriko is one of those shows where there's nothing too deep going on, but it's just a blast to watch. The story largely revolves around the eponymous Toriko, a "Gourmet Hunter" that battles monsters and a chef named Komatsu that cooks the monsters Toriko defeats into delicious food, which then makes Toriko even stronger. It's a very action-forward series, as one might expect from a WSJ adaptation. Most episodes feature at least one battle and most problems are solved with fists.
A key to why the series remains mostly entertaining throughout in spite of that frankly braindead approach to things is frequent action combined with strong pacing. Even longer story arcs like Ice Hell and Cooking Fest generally don't suffer from the pacing problems that shows of this type often deal with. Progres…
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This show got the manga canceled , cannot ever forgive Toei Animation for that mistake , Anyway the show blood got turn down , and the tone is way more childish too , your better off start reading the manga , because this show is incomplete, its so not cool the show was gonna be the next big shonen hit too , from crossover with anime , and games to even getting movies , the Toriko anime is the worst Toei Adaptation ever , your better sticking to Kira Kira Pretty Cure A la mode if you want a cooking anime without much in terms of Violence , Toriko himself acts differently in his own show , he not even a beast , he just another shonen protagonist by the hundreds , its a real bummer they did him dirty the most , the animation is also trash
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Toriko
I'm only writing this review now after I've read the manga in full to get a better understanding of the implementation and the overall picture.
To everyone interested. !
- Anime has a lot of fillers and even some non-canon characters.
- An alternative non Canon ending with "Joa" as the final antagonist.
- Huge censorship of fights, the manga is just as brutal as the final arc in Bleach Manga in terms of brutality and fighting.
- The manga has a much more extensive and appealing implementation and is much less drawn out.
Toriko has by far one of the best World Buildings among manga and anime and is roughly on the same level as One Piece in this area. Likewise, the creative approaches of skills, powers, developments and various imagined imaginative creatures and preparation methods…
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I bet you’re wondering “how can a shounen about food be interesting”. I thought the same thing until I watched it, and honestly it completely blew my expectations away... at first. I’ll explain what I mean later
Pros:
- Unique concept and setting (Can you name another battle manga about food?)
- Godly world building. Seriously, it’s one of the best in anime/manga
- Amazing, brutal action sequences
- The hype is over 9000!!
These are the only pros I can think of for Toriko unfortunately, because i felt this series had a lot more flaws. Plot: 3/10
The story takes place in the Gourmet age, a world where people live and explore various delicious foods to eat. Our main protagonist Toriko, and his partner Komatsu explore the world to find rare and exquisite ingredients, to accomplish Toriko’…
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Honestly if you watch this without thinking too much about it you well get a pretty normal shonen anime. The only character I have too much of a problem with is Komatsu, as alot of people say.
Now, he is not a detestable character and I do not loathe him, although I do hate incompetence he displays at times. However I do believe that they should have made Komatsu a women, this would have drastically changed the dynamic of the story and probably have made it better.
Now, I read somewhere that the author had intended at first to make Komatsu a woman, but in doing so would create a reverse harem, because of the time she would spend with Toriko and his brothers. However I still believe that would have been the better choice for it would have changed the dynamic of the entire show making a fe…
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Okay, so to start I originally watched the first 20ish episodes of Toriko a couple years ago but then put it down because it just wasn't that appealing to me. Two weeks ago I decided to pick up the manga because I heard it was better than the anime. Still skeptical I powered past what happened in the anime, in the manga. After that, it was all downhill for me.
I read through over 300 chapters of Toriko in a week. The characters and progressing story had me going through dozens of chapters a day. While the concept of a food world/combat may be a turn off for some, Toriko utilizes this to a high degree making each arc dynamic and different. I would highly recommend anyone to read this shonen. And I also recommend people to stay away from the anime because of the inconstancies between the s…
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Toriko is one those Shonen battle anime like DBZ, Naruto, One piece, Bleach, etc... But whats makes this different this series is that the mayor point in the story is to eat food to gain more power, to be more accurate the main characters have this thing call gourmet cell inside their bodies that certain food will give them power up's when eaten. The main character are these gourmet hunters that travel around the world founding good food to eat, sometimes they have to fight monsters, other time they have to fight the environment and there time that they fight with other humans. The sound and the animation are really good with this anime is no master piece but it has it moments when you see a really good food that will make you hungry just by looking at it. I will recommend anyone who loves…
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WARNING: Anime doesn't cover all of the manga. Toriko is a series where MANLY MEN have gritty fights against villains & monsters for the sake of heroism & food.
Many people have told me how much they hated the anime & prefer reading its manga, which is fine but I'm here to give my honest opinions about the animes pros & cons.
Toriko's concept is one of hunting & cooking where our heroes "The 4 Heavenly Kings" (Toriko, Coco, Sunny & Zebra) explore the unknown lands of the Gourmet Age where exotic food stimulates power resulting into a war which purpose is to obtain "GOD"; the most sacred dish on the planet.
As a story, Toriko slowly builds up into hype moments where strength is taken to gargantuan levels & takes careful consideration of minor details which later deliver in the payoff in…
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The story of Toriko takes place in the Gourmet Age. In that world people live to eat. Wars can erupt over delicious food. The main character Toriko and his partner Komatsu travel around the world to find exquisite ingredients. Toriko hunts, his partner cooks. This is the basic premise and I’ll be honest, it sounds stupid. Teenage heroes of other anime are trying to save humanity, planets, their family and friends from cool-looking edgy evil forces. But Toriko, a twenty five years old adult male, is chasing after food. It isn’t primarily a comedy anime to excuse the premise. Although soon it becomes clear that evil people can use rare food for their evil ends, it still isn’t enough to make most viewers take Toriko seriously.
I’d like people to watch it but I will be honest. Toriko is medi…
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"Cooking is as masculine as judo, kickboxing or tae kwan do. Anyone can fight but it takes a special man to craft the perfect Bolognese sauce"
Quoted from a manly midget chef...
You know the first thing that crossed my mind when I read that quote was covering a cow with ketchup then proceed to pound the cow into bolognese sauce.
Im just kidding of course, that isn't call MANLY... that's called animal abuse...
So chances are if you stumble upon this anime, you're not watching it just to fill up your boring life with some boring junk. No.. You hunt for exotic food on a daily basis. And you need an anime that teaches you the RIGHT way to do it...
Well, introducing Toriko, the only anime currently airing that will not only satisfy that hunger urge but will also teach you how to be more MAN…
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