Toriko 154

[Toriko 154 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Komatsu: Finally!!
We're announcing iiiiit!!
SFX: WAIIII
Side: The long awaited big announcement!!
Toriko: Hm? Announce what, Komatsu?
Komatsu: Isn't it obvious!!?
The character popularity poll results!!
Toriko: Did we do something like that?
Komatsu: Of course we did!! Is there something wrong with your memory, Toriko-san!?
We had vote collecting around, like, this Spring, remember!!?
Toriko: Around, like, Spring? I, like, forgot!!
Komatsu: So, now we're announcing the results!!?
Zonge: I've been waiting impatiently for sooooo long!!
(In Bubble): For this day
My neck got really damn long!!
Toriko: That's so creepy!!
SFX: UWAHAHAHA DODODODO
Zebura: Now then, the readers better have done a good job adapting to me.
Sani: Now my time has finally coooome!!
Penguin: YUUN
Butt Bug: PIKYUU
Komatsu: Anyhow! Here are the results of the 1st character popularity poll!
SFX: WAAAA Here you go!
Bottom: It's here, it's here~! The Popularity poll voting results announcement!! "Toriko"

Page 2:
Top Insert: We give thanks for all the votes sent in!
Itadakimasu!!
[I'm just gonna do these in numerical order]
3373 Votes
1st
Toriko

2256 Votes
2nd
Coco

1930 Votes
3rd
Komatsu

1797 Votes
4th
Terry

1254 Votes
5th
Zebura

802 Votes
6th
Sani

435 Votes
7th
Staajyun

421 Votes
8th
Uumen Umeda

275 Votes
9th
Tommyrod

257 Votes
10th
Melk (The Second)
Bottom: ☆The Opening Color pages for the 1st popularity poll voting results announcement!
Title: Toriko
Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi

Page 3:
Zebura: What the hell's with these resuuuuuults!!?
Coco, you bastard...!!
You barely ever even show up in the manga, why'd you get 2nd place, you bastard!?
(On Page): OOh!?
Coco: I... I don't know...
(On Page): Regardless of how you make it sound...
Sani: This can't be happening, right!?
I friggin' lost to a puppy!!?
Terry: ......
Signs: 6th Sani
5th Terry
SFX: AAAA
Sani: Come on, there's gotta have been some vote tampering going on!!
Uumen: Well... I guess that's what they call true power...
Sani: You're the one I understand least of all!! Why the hell are you 8th!?
SFX: HUHU...
Staajyun: Huhu... It seems we two are the only ones from the "Bishokukai"...?
(In Bubble): To get into the top 10, that is.
Tommy: Looks like that Bei guy didn't get in.
(In Bubble): KUKIII
Sani: Like hell that thing could ever get in!!
That guy's lower than the Butt Bug!!
Komatsu: ....And so, these were the results from the 1st poll!
Well then, please enjoy the main story!
Sani: I'm even active in the main story right now!!
Sign: 16th Zonge
Bottom: Want to see Sani's beaut'ful activity!? The main chapter starts on page 25!!

Page 4:
Guys: UOOOO!!!!
We did it
aAA!!!!
We broke apart the mountain and reflected iiiit!!!!
Title: Gourmet 154 Komatsu's Food Luck!!
Sani: And... It's in sight!!
That's...
"The cave inside the waterfall"!!
SFX: OOO

Page 5:
SFX: DODODODODOO
Sani: !!
Hey, here it comes!!
The "Death Falls" are pushing the broken mountain right back!!
SFX: UOAA
Sani: Hurry into the cave!!
Toriko: Guu...
Komatsu: Toriko-san!?
Toriko: Kuh
It's no good... I used too many techniques...
HAA
HAA
I've got no stamina left...
Sani: Damn!
What a slovenly bastard!!
Friggin' stamina...

Page 6:
Sani: I haven't had any left for a while now!!
Okay, let's go!!
Komatsu: WAaAA
SFX: DAPAPAPAPA
Someone: .............
SFX: GOOOO
Sani: UoOoO
SFX: OO
SFX: ZUH

Page 7:
SFX: BAAAAAAAAAA
SFX: DOBAAAN DOBOOON
SFX: DOBOON
SFX: ZUUUN

Page 8:
SFX: OOOOOOOOO
Quin: ..........
SFX: DODODODODODODODO
Sani: ..........

Page 9:
Sani: ....Hew
By a hair's breadth...
We made it...
!!
SFX: DOH
Komatsu: Sa... Sani-san!!
Sani: ...Damn.
I should've known better...
Toriko: A... Are you okay, Sani?
HAAA
HAAA
'S no good.
I've got zero stamina left.
SFX: BATAN
Toriko, your "Twin Kugi Punch"... ["Twin Kugi Punch" in bold.]
That's the first time I've rebounded somethin' that intense...
Somehow we managed to break apart the mountain, but...
In exchange, I used up all my energy...
Toriko: Me, too... I planned to increase my maximum limit of energy, but...
I'm already empty... I don't think I can take another step...

Page 10:
Komatsu: ............
Toriko-san... Sani-san...
The two of them used up all they had...
and beat the "Death Falls"...
Starting now...
it's gonna be me!!
People: Komatsu...
Komatsu!!
Komatsu: Eh!?
Ah...
Yes!?
Toriko: Do you have anything to eat? We're screwed if we don't eat anything...
Komatsu: S... Something to eat...?
I...
I have something...!
Something top-quality!!
Toriko: Hm?
Komatsu: The "Shining Gourami"!! ["Shining Gourami" in white.]
Please wait for me!! I'll have it ready soon!!
Both: Eh?

Page 11:
Toriko: Ah, Komatsu!!
Sani: Matsu, you...
Komatsu: You two...!!
SFX: ZUDAAAH
Komatsu: Please rest!!
The rest of this is my job!!!
Toriko: ...!!
Komatsu...
Sani: You're planning on going alone!?
Hold on a sec, Matsu!!
Toriko: Sani!!
Sani: !
SFX: BUWAH
Sani: What're you doing, Toriko!? Are you crazy!?
You're just gonna let Matsu go alone!!?
The inside is probably gonna be like a maze!
Do you still say you've got a combo with Matsu....!!?
Toriko: I don't particularly smell any beasts from inside the cave...
There doesn't look to be any danger, he'll probably be okay...
Sani: He'll probably be okay? How the hell do ya know that!?
Toriko: ............
I guess "intuition"!!
Sani: AH.

Page 12:
SFX: KYUIII
Komatsu: Even I----
As part of a combo with Toriko-san, need to serve a purpose, too...!!
I've traveled together with Toriko this whole time...
And I've at least been prepared for the rare danger...!!
WAH
WAWAH...
SFX: ZUZUZU
Komatsu: Wh... What an incredible vibration...
So because of the rapids flowing on top of the cave and the force of the waterfall
the inside of the cave is rumbling?
First I've gotta leave a trail so I don't get lost...
SFX: GASA GASA
SFX: SU...
Komatsu: "Melk Stardust".
This'll be a guide for my life...
Of course, this would be an awful waste, so I'm gonna collect it on my way back, though...

Page 13:
Sani: There!
SFX: BUNN
SFX: BICHI BICHI
Sani: All right, caught it. A *Potato Eel that happened to fly out of the waterfall.
Asterisk: Aichi Prefecture 渋谷築-san's work!!
TL Note: Potato Eel = Imo Unagi
Sani: It's small and ugly, but we'll be able to recover out stamina a little if we eat this.
SFX: BICHI BICHI
Sani: How 'bout a bite, Toriko?
Toriko: No, I'll hold on.
Sani: Hm?
Toriko: Komatsu said so, didn't he? "Please wait for me."
I'm gonna wait patiently for the "Shining Gourami" Komatsu's gonna bring.
Sani: Hah, you sure have faith in him.
Is there any basis for that beaut'ful faith?
Komatsu: Ah...
Huh?
I came out a different cave exit...
I took the wrong path...

Page 14:
Toriko: Komatsu is a possessor of a rare "Food Luck". ["Food Luck" in white.]
He's a genius that's liked by and guided by ingredients.
Sani: So that's it...?
Food Luck...
Simple, isn't it...?
Toriko: I have a feeling that the fact that we ran out of stamina... and that Komatsu headed there on his own...
wasn't a coincidence...
Well... That's just my intuition saying that...

Page 15:
Komatsu: Th......
This place is...
!
SFX: CHAPU
SFX: FUWA
Komatsu: Wha...
What a light...!!
There's no doubt about it...
That's...
the "Shining Gourami"!!
Narration: With the condition of crossing the "Death Falls"...
The Capture Level of the "Shining Gourami" is actually over 80, but...

Page 16:
Narration: the Capture Level for the thing itself is below 1----
But the Shining Gourami is...
A "Specially Cooked Ingredient"----
In this cave with it having virtually no natural enemies
and having all of the nutrients of the Mors Mountain Range to itself,
it has no sense of wariness.
With this fish being free from all fear...
what do you think would happen if it met a "strong creature" face to face...? ["strong creature" in bold.]
An incredible "death of shock"--- ["death of shock" in bold.]
In that moment, the body's light goes out and the flavor immediately deteriorates...
In other words, the power it takes to cross the "Death Falls" and the ability to capture this fish alive are contradictory.
Even for Human National Treasure Setsuno, though she can easily pass through the "Death Falls", because of her strength she cannot capture a "Shining Gourami" alive.
And for example, if Toriko or Sani had come to that place...
This fish would have been surprised and died...

Page 17:
Narration: Toward a "normal human" like Komatsu whom you could say is "feeble" in terms of wildness...
the Shining Gourami had absolutely no sense of wariness...
Of course, Komatsu did not know that.
And he gripped a fishing net.
Food Luck is----
Komatsu: EIH
Narration: with the quality of being blessed by food, the ability to hear ingredients' voices.
SFX: JYAPO
Komatsu: WAH!!
I... I did it!!
I caught it!!
SFX: ZABAH PICHA PICHA
Narration: Perhaps somewhere, Komatsu sensed that
capturing the Shining Gourami alive was something only feeble humans could do.
Komatsu: Amazing...... It just keeeeps shining...
What a pretty fish...
I'd like to carry this back in a "Gourmet Case" but... I don't have preservation data for it so...
I'll have to try entering it myself, I guess...
Before that, I'll take on trying to use Knocking on it!
Succeeding in that would make this easiest...!!
Narration: However----

Page 18:
Narration: Komatsu's ability to hear the voices of ingredients...
only truly started to pulsate after that---
Komatsu: !
Huh? The pond's water...?
Sani: Hey, Toriko.
Toriko: Ah?
SFX: DODODODODO
Sani: How do we get back from here?
Toriko: I dunno. I guess we've gotta break the mountain again, right?
Sani: Like hell we could do that!!
Toriko: You're right...
Sani: Geez...
Anyhow, Matsu sure is taking a while...
Ya think somethin' happened to him?
Toriko: Oh...!!
Yeah...!
Looks like something did happen...!!
Something good...!!
Sani: Hm?
Komatsu: Toriko-saaan! Sani-saaan!!
Toriko: !!

Page 19:
Komatsu: Sorry for keeping you waiting so long!!
I caught the "Shining Gourami"!!
SFX: CHAPU CHAPU
Toriko: Komatsuuu!!
Sani: Seriously!?
You did it, Matsuuu!!
Toriko: Wh... What a light!! So this is the "Shining Gourami"!!?
Sani: What an awes'me luminesc'nce!
Komatsu: Please, listen!!
I used Knocking on the "Shining Gourami"!!
My luck really paid off!!
Toriko: That's awesome, Komatsu!
Sani: Is it still glowing because you used Knocking on it?
Hm? What's that water, Komatsu?
SFX: TAPPUN TAPPUN
Komatsu: Ah, this is the pond water the Shining Gourami lived in.
I thought I'd use it for cooking later.
Toriko: Cooking?
Komatsu: Okay, let's hurry back and eat!
Sani: Nn... Ah... Well about that, Matsu...
Right now, how're we gonna get out of...
huh, UWVUAAAH!!!
Quin!!?
SFX: NUUU

Page 20:
Sani: How'd you get here...!!?
Ah!
You came through the spaces of the broken mountain!!?
The mountain scattered the "Death Falls'" strength!!
Toriko: If we ride inside Quin's mouth, we can get back!!
Great job, Quin!!
Side: The fin-ish line is near!!
Toriko: Oookay, let's go back
and try the actual food, the "Shining Gourami"!!
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 154
/ End
Next issue, the Shining Gourami actual food!
What will be that ulti-light taste...!?