Toriko Hangout Thread

[Zatono]

It's getting frustrating that Mangastream continues churning out Reborn before Toriko, the ratings of the two are night and day. I can only hope that it's because Mangastream's staffers who work on the two chapters the Reborn people are available earlier than the Toriko staffers.

Well if its like that then the Toriko should be before Bleach as well, right? It's probably just availability, or perhaps this is just the order the staff thought would be best.

[Zatono]

Yeah, it's definitely about time Toriko got its own section. Now we can take our random ramblings that we have in here and make actual threads out of them

[kewl0210]

My group (Hi Wa Mata Noboru) should at some point be able to go back to getting Toriko scanlations done on Wednesdays. Just my cleaner's been busy and now we're behind and gotta catch up. We principally only have one cleaner for Toriko, though sometimes other guys on Juin Jutsu Team help out. But we should be able to get raws then and get it done weekly once he's less so.

[Koen]

You're all welcome... A great manga deserves great love but I hope that the section will deserve your love too.

Create threads, discuss the manga and make it a lively place

[fizban]

One thing we haven't run across so far in this series is people with dietary restrictions. Are there no vegetarians in the gourmet era? What about food allergies? Heck, the closest thing we've seen to a person NOT wanting to eat anything is Rin being grossed out by Mansam's booze-centric full course menu.

This might be another weird thing to complain about, but the cooking in this series seems pretty basic. I watch a lot of cooking competitions, and have seen some really amazing things that people do with food these days. But Komatsu doesn't seem like the type who would ever dabble in something like Molecular Gastronomy. One thing I like about food series is seeing all the research the authors do to really make the food come alive. If we get to see more of the chefs in this series I hope they bring their own unique cooking styles.

[Drakno]

not true, there was Aimaru or whatever his name was with his disease diet, as for komatsu's skills I would agree if the ingridients weren't so impossible to handle without spoiling.

[N0R7H]

Where I can download the oneshot of Toriko? The link at the first post is dead...

[Akiyama]

RAW: http://www.mediafire.com/?g3ercn7tt4382vc
There are no english scans of the oneshot.

[ErosVp]

So.... what happened to Saladesu? This forum isn't very lively without her....

[Koen]

Saladesu is quite busy with school life but she'll be back. I decided to come back for that reason too. It is time to pimp up the series section but therefor we need member participation, people who discuss etc

[Zehahaha]

Is there anyone who thinks that Mansam may be the disciple of Knocking Master Jirou ? They both love alcohol, and have the same technique that literally change their bodies and make it pretty damn huge.

[Dasbones]

I don't think he's Jirou's disciple, although he may have learned the technique from him. It's a pretty supplementary technique, and he seems to be similar to Toriko in that he uses hand to hand fighting (from what we've seen so far.) It isn't out of the question, but I doubt it.

And I'm basing that completely off of the fact that he can't have a pompadour; due to his devastating case of bald.

[Salce]

I can't remember if I ever published my character map here. But anyway, I've been doing it since last year, and I just update it.

It's basically a concept map showing all the characters, with their affiliations and relationships:

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/8...ermapbysal.jpg

In a future version I'm planing to differenciate Gourmet National Treasures, somehow.
Also, there are character that beside his main title, are also bishokuya. I guess I have to do something about that.
Pets are going to be in the next version too. And maybe nameless characters.

Please let me know if there is any mistake.

[Grizzin Farl]

I don't wanna write this in the 194th spoiler section, even though it deals with it.

There's one thing that bugs me a bit and thats Rins device to estimate the capture level of beasts. Firstly, I do think that it's a nice way of story tellingg, a good development for the story and a nice way to estimate "power". Anyways, we learned that the capture level of beasts is not necessairly restricted to its "power". The best examples coming to my mind right now are the "Madame Fish", which is said to have a capture level of nothing less than 83, and the "Shining Gourami", which is said to have a capture level of above 80 because of the "Death Falls"(I know that it's stated, that the Gourami has a capture level below even 1, but that's not the problem here).

I think that for things like the "Ozone Herb", the "Shining Gourami", the "Madame Fish" and other Beasts and Ingridients, capture levels will be a little bit harder to estimate.
Who will set the level? Toriko out of experience, once he gained the ingridient?, like "this was harder than the "Cracked up Roadrunner", but easier than the "Saddle-sored Nag", so it should be about capture level 132."

That device, even though I don't understand how it can estimate "power" (which doesn't really matter because it's shounen and some things just don't need an explanation), is a great way for the measuring of wild beasts, but I think that it lacks the power to estimate things like "special cooking" or "a hard way to get there" (That would be to illogical, even for shounen).

So, how do you think capture levels of those "special cases" will be estimated? Will they stop estimating them? Will they use experience or will the omnicient narrator just declare it? I have complete trust in Shima to figure out a good way.

[Jorge D. Dragon]

I believe this device will be used to measure only capture level of wild beasts and not of the actual ingridients. Of course these beasts can be also ingridients, but still its purpose is find how strong overall the beast you are facing is.
For the ingridients I believe the capture level is set in another way counting the different things (how difficult is to find it, hoiw difficult is to get it, how to prepare it and so on).