Toriko 163

[Toriko 163 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Gourmet Halloween [Green]
You've got to dig in [Yellow]
or you'll be eaten! [Pink]
Opening Color [Starburst]
Jump Comic's newest, Volume 17 and the Fan Book are about to be released!! [Lower right yellow and white]

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Top Right: ☆The Opening color commemorating the simultaneous release of Jump Comics Volume 17 and the Fan Book!!
Top Left: ☆Every Sunday at 9AM on Fuji TV
The TV Anime is airing exploding with food!!
Airing on 11/6 the death match in the struggle for the "Century Soup"!!? What will be the result between Match and Takimaru's fights...!?
Insert Text: The honey flavor that spreads throughout gold----
can be tasted as food and wealth!!
Bottom Right: ☆Toriko's first Fan Book "Gourmet Hunting Book" is finally on sale!! For the manga, secrets, and some really interesting facts, check out the details on the next page!!
Title: Toriko
Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi
Bottom Left: The manga continues on page 19!!

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[This is an ad for the Fanbook, really. Apparently it has new information and drawings in it.]

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Top: They're here, they're here!! Volume 17 and the Fan Book go on sale simultaneously on 11/4!!
Side Text: A torrent of appetite, food gambling!!
Bottom: Thanks to everyone, the Jump Comics Volumes total sales have surpassed 10 million!! "Toriko"

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Live: Let me invite you
to beyond the VIP Area...
Title: Gourmet 163 The Secrets of the Underground Cooking World!!
Guy: O...
Owner!!
Toriko: .........
He's strong...
Coco: Owner...
So that means that he's......
Live: Why don't we both...

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Live: Bet some even better things [Heart]
Coco: the "Underground Cooking World" Boss,
"Live Bearer"!! [Stuff in quotes is white.]
Coco: Better things...?
Do you mean things with even more value than "ingredients"?
Live: .........
SFX: NIKO (Grin)
Right this way [heart]

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Toriko: Hmph.
Getting guided by the owner personally,
ain't it an honor?
Komatsu: To... Toriko-san.
SFX: ZUI
Match: Are you sure about this?
Just blindly going with him...?
We don't know what's waiting
in the Underground Cooking World.
Toriko: Don't you wanna find out, Match?
Just what has more value than ingredients?
SFX: HEHE JYURU
Komatsu: Haa...
Toriko-san sure is always straightforward...
Match: Coco...
Coco: From what I saw...
Though the prizes here in the VIP area are all illegal ingredients...
none of them are the ingredient we're currently aiming for...
Sign: Poison
Jeri
Jellyfish
nce Snake [They're all at least a little cut off]
Coco: So if there's somewhere "beyond" this,
we've got no choice but to go...

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SFX: OOOOOO
Live: This is the "Underground VIP Area"----- [quote in white.]
Only the most special among the VIP customers are allowed to enter.
SFX: AAAAA
HEAAA
Coco: And what are the criteria-----?
Live: Uhu
You'll soon find out. [heart]

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Coco: ............
Live: You all "satisfy" it.
Especially Toriko and Coco.
Toriko: !
Live: And I'm sure that the thing you want...
is here, as well. [heart]
Someone: HAaAA
Oo
oou
HAA... AA
AAA... I can't believe
that tastes like this existed in the world...
delicious...!!
Delicious!!
More!!
Bring me another portion right awaaaaa~~y!!
Komatsu: ..........
Wha... What is that...!?
Toriko: .......

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Guy: HAA
HAA
SFX: ZAH
Guy: I... I forgot...
all I've ever eaten...
G...
Toriko: !
SFX: FURA FURA (Tottering)
Guy: Give it baAaAck.
my "food history"~~
SFX: DOH
Komatsu: A... Are you okay, mister?
Toriko: .........
Food history...?
Coco: I see...
So the rumors were true...?
Toriko Hm?
Coco: Most likely what they bet here are "memories"----!! ["Memories" in white.]
Memories of ingredients you've eaten in the past!

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Live: Exactly [heart]
Just as I'd expect from Heavenly King Coco.
You've been to Jidar before, haven't you?
Coco: .....Yes.
In order to get information on a certain ingredient...
Though that time, I wasn't able to fulfill my goal...
Live: Incidentally,
what ingredient was that?
Coco: -----"Atom"...!! [quote in bold.]
Coco: "Bishokushin Acacia's" "Full Course" Drink!!!
The ingredient I'm seeking for my Full Course...!!
Toriko: A...
Atom...!!

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Live: I see~~~~.
It's true that one doesn't come across information about that ingredient too often...
But...
There may be a hint in someone's "memories"...
And the only place you have a chance to get a hold of those is here in "Gourmet Casino"----
Uhu [heart]
Coco: I understand why the "Underground Cooking World" is able to control every kind of rare ingredient.
Using customers' "food information" as bait, you gather ingredients from all over the world here...
Toriko: It's certainly true that in the Gourmet Age, that has more value than anything else...
People all over the world want to learn the food information of famous Bishokuya and chefs.
Match: Retrieving it from a Gourmet ID card is impossible...
So the only way to do it is by directly accessing it from their brains...?
Live: Yes[heart] From the *hippocampus" in the brain
we decipher memories relating to food.
Asterisk: Part of the limbic system. The organ having to do with memories.

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Live: The brain research originally started in order to falsify "Gourmet ID"s.
There were many requests from wanted gourmet criminals who wished to have the data that they had eaten illegal ingredients erased from their memories, you see...
Komatsu: ......Th... That's a felony......
Live: Falsifying "Gourmet ID"s could give you capital punishment of life imprisonment if done in a constitutional state...
Oh? But memory erasure is a normal occurrence in the psychiatric world for the sake of mental health.
Of course, in the underworld society.
Memories are nothing but "signals" stored within the brain.
As are "tastes".
We fetch a signal for "delicious" as data, and read it into another brain.
And thus are able to savor
tastes felt by others. [heart]
Match: So that creepy-ass device on the back of your head is for reading those, huh?
Live: In people's memories
there are mountains of treasure.

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Live: There are extinct foodstuffs and illegal ingredients that were popular in the past
that are now gone. But using the "taste" data,
it is possible to revive powerful narcotic ingredients from the past.
Match: And if news of that scatters into the world,
curious VIP customers will soon catch wind of the new ingredients, and gather here [heart]
Seeking even more stimulating highs. [heart]
Uhu, that is the nature of man.
Match: You abomination...
Live: Well... Among them are the data from people with unbalanced diets that like and eat pathogens or poison.
So there are definitely hits and misses.

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Now then...
Do you all...
have the courage to lose delicious memories?
Aha [heart]
Wager "memories"
and take me on in a game. [heart]
SFX: ZAZAH

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Guys: ------!!
Komatsu: ......EH?
What!?
Coco: ...It would seem
they don't intend to wait for us to answer.
SFX: CHAKI
Toriko: Hold on, Match.
Do you have something called "Meteor Garlic" [quote in white]
as a prize here?
Live: !
Meteor Garlic?
We do. [Heart]
As "taste" data...

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Live: inside my "memories", though-----[heart]
Toriko: So that's how it is.
Damn you Old Man----
Okay, we'll take you on, won't we?!
It's on!!
Match: Toriko!!
Komatsu: Toriko-san!!
They might disappear...!!
Your memories of the past...!!

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Komatsu: All those delicious...!!
numerous memories of ingredients...!!
Toriko: Komatsu...
The past doesn't matter.
We're only looking toward the future!!
Just as always!!
That said, I'm counting on you, Coco!
Coco: So you're just relying on me in the end!?
After you said something so cool.
(On Page): We entrust our futures to you.
Live: No need to worry.
I'll make it a game where everyone can play. [Heart]
SFX: SU...
All: !

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Live: A simple game of cards.
"Concentration", you know of it, don't you?
But this is "food" concentration. [quote in white]
It's called "Gourmet Tasting"!! [quote in white]
I'll explain the rules. [heart]
You all bet your memories...
TL Note: The Japanese name for the game called "Concentration" in English is "Nervous Breakdown".
Insert Text: Betting lives!!
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 163
/ End
Next issue there will be a hiatus from print.
The story restarts in issue 49.