Toriko 173

[Toriko 174 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Top Right Insert: ☆At LAGUNA GAMAGORI in Aichi Prefecture, the opening of "Toriko & One Piece Adventure In Lagunasia" finally opens until 2/27 (Mon.)! Don't miss you last chance to meet a life-sized Toriko, Coco, and Sani!!
Top Left Insert: ☆The total sales for Jump Comics volumes have exceeded 11 million! And the newest volume, volume 18 goes on sale 2/3!! The results from 11th~30th place in the uproarious popularity poll can only be seen in the Jump Comics!!
☆Every Sunday at 9 AM of Fuji TV
The TV Anime is airing Exploding with food!!
Lower Left Insert: ☆To even greater delicacies! A new chapter starts! Opening color!
Author: Shimabukuro Mitsutoshi
Bottom Left: The manga starts on page 23
Main Insert: Here Come GOURMET Four Heavenly Kings!!

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Narration: December 24th
Side: I know this is sudden, but here's a Christmas story!!
Title: Gourmet 173 Gourmet Santa!!
Narration: IGO 1st Biotope----
SFX: ZAPPAAAA
Mansam: How's it going? Done loading yet?
Someone: This is the last one.
Mansam: Okay, then let's get going.
Toriko: Chief, what the hell's with those clothes!?
Mansam: Hm?
Handsome?
All: No one said that!!
Mansam: Wait, why are you all in regular clothes?

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Mansam: You morons!
It's Christmas! It only comes once a year!
And in the Gourmet Age, the greatest present anyone could want is "food"!! ["Food" bold]
Especially for the poor kids outside the IGO member nations.
We're going to be Santa himself!!
Toriko: But we don't really need to cosplay as him to do that...
Mansam: It's fine, you guys just hurry up and change, too.
Toriko: Eh~~?
Mansam: Now that we've got that settled...
SFX: DODEN
Mansam: I planned to call all Four Heavenly Kings, but...
I guess that Zebura guy ain't comin'...
Toriko: There's no helping it, Chief. After getting out of jail a little while ago
Zebura's been ordered to discover 100 new species of ingredients, and capture 500 wanted Gourmet criminals...

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Mansam: He finished that stuff a while ago.
Toriko: Eh?!
Mansam: After he got out, in almost no time at all there were registration applications for the new species, all A-rank and above.,
and 500 wanted criminals were brought in, I heard... Also, more than half of the wanted men were nearly dead, apparently.
Sani: Keh. That guy's as crude as ever..
I feel bad for the criminals.
Mansam: For some reason, he seems to be working hard to assemble his own "Full Course"...
I didn't know he was interested in that sorta thing...
Toriko: That Zebura...
Mansam: And now that I think about it, there are people here that I didn't even call...
Komatsu: Ah... Uh, well, I...
thought I'd like to participate in "distribution" once...
Rin: And I came because I want a date with Toriko!
Toriko: It ain't a date.
Mansam: Well, all right...
Rikky.
SFX: ZUMU

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Mansam: Rikky and I will take care of the nearby countries.
You guys split up and deliver the rest.
Toriko: UOH! Did Rikky get even more gigantic?
Coco: No, more than that...
Mansam: Did you notice? He's grown and his true power's increased as well.
He's probably around Capture Level 70 now.
Rikky's still gonna keep getting stronger!
Toriko: Well if it's a growing contest, Terry ain't gonna lose!
I dunno her Capture Level though.
Mansam: Terry's DNA originally comes from a ruler of Gourmet World... Of course she'll grow.
SFX: ZUN

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Mansam: Coco has the "Gang Leader of the Skies", the "Emperor Crow". ["Emperor Crow" in bold.]
Sani has the "Legendary Serpent" the "Mother Snake". ["Mother Snake" in bold.]
You guys all have some good partners.
SFX: GAAA SHAAA
Mansam: With those guys, you can bet that eventually
they'll be on par or better with the wild beasts of the Gourmet World...
Now then, let's quit wasting time talking. It's time to depart!
Rin: I'm going with Toriko!
In bubble: Just the two of us!
Toriko: Hey, hey!
Mansam: Oh? Then youngster...
You wanna go with me?
Komatsu: Eh?
With you, chief...?
Mansam: Now then, for the children with empty stomachs all over the world,
to deliver to them delicious tastes,
the "Gourmet Santas" shove off!! [quote in white]
Sani: Gourmet Santas!?
SFX: ZAPAAAN

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Narration: The main duties of the IGO are: (1) The discovery of new ingredients. (2) The research and development of said ingredients. (3) The circulation of food and the public order.
Their operating funds are collected from the member nations in the form of an enormous "Gourmet Tax". [quote bold]
SFX: BABABABA
Narration: In exchange for the member nations paying the tax they secure a stable circulation of Gourmet Ingredients, but
actually, they even distribute Gourmet Ingredients to the non-member nations that are too poor to pay the IGO "Gourmet Tax".
The funds for that is the large sum of money collected from betting at "Gourmet Colosseum"...
With the tops and major leaders of countries as customers of that less-than-ethical Colosseum,
they close their eyes to the delivery of food provisions to the non-member nations.

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SFX: RUDOH
SFX: BUA
Mansam: Even so,
SFX: BASA BASA
Mansam: it's not something that the citizens of member nations that pay the "Gourmet Tax" approve of.
So this large amount of food is distributed all at once every year, taking advantage of "Christmas" and doing it in the middle of the night.
Komatsu: I se... Because if it's Christmas, there's nothing strange about delivering presents, huh?
Mansam: But now there are voices starting to come out calling the distribution into question...
From inside the IGO...
You could say that the difference between the wealthy and poor in the world has just shrunk that much, but...
there are still many poor countries...
Speaking of which, Toriko and the others originally came from poor countries.
Komatsu: Eh!? Is that true?

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Mansam: It sure takes me back...
There's no way I could forget the first day I met him.
Komatsu: ............
Toriko-san, who's always so extravagant...
grew up poor...?
Mansam: The one who originally started the food distribution was our current President, but...
a little while ago, the President said something that got me concerned...
Ichiryuu: That guy... he sure has evolved quite a bit.
In order to stop it, I guess even I'll need some considerable resolve...
Mansam: What's wrong, President?
Ichiryuu: Mansam.
Sorry... That time is sure to come... ["That time" in italics.]
So while we can, fill the stomachs of the children of the world as much as you can...
Mansam: ..........That time...
Hah...... Is there no way to stop it......?
Komatsu: .........
That time...?

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Mansam: Hm...?
Ah... Nevermind.
It's nothing...
Which reminds me, youngster!! That oil called "Mors Oil" you discovered recently!! [First sentence big/bold.]
Apparantly it was recognized as new kind of natural seasoning!!
Komatsu: Eh?! That oil I found in the Death Falls?!
Mansam: Yeah. It's some pretty good quality oil, apparently!
Komatsu: I'm so glad~~~ It's all thanks to Toriko-san and Sani-san.
Mansam: Maybe you'll get a Chef ranking soon.
Maybe even inside the top 100.
Komatsu: Eh... Eeeh!? Me in the top 100!?
N... No~ I'm not nearly that skilled yet!!
SFX: BYUN BYUN
Mansam: No, it's not so much your skill...
A lot of things have happened and you've moved up, it seems... ["moved up" in italics.]
Komatsu: Ah... So it's not my skill...
(On Page): Haha...
Komatsu: But moved up...?
What do you...
Mansam: Be glad, youngster! If you get into the top 100,
you'll be able to appear on that "Cooking Festival"!
Komatsu: "Cooking Fest"!?
That Gourmet program that gets 95% ratings?!
Hya~~ It's like a dream~~
Mansam: Hahhahha. That information was the best Christmas Present I could give you, huh?

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SFX: DOH
SFX: BYUOH
Rin: I can't believe I got a date where it's just me and Toriko~
I'm so totally happy~~ [heart]
And it's been so long since I've appeared in the series.
Toriko: Like I said, this isn't a date, Rin.
Rin: Oh no! This really isn't a dream, is it?!
Oww... It's not a dream! [Heart] ["Oww..." in scary font.]
Toriko: We're headed to the slum city called "Ligu". [quote bold.]
It's pretty far, but...
Terry's top speed now is over 350 km/h.
We'll get there soon.
Rin: Ah!
That's right, Toriko.
You said you didn't know Terry's Capture Level before, right?
Toriko: Hm?

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Rin: Look at this. This is a measuring instrument they're making at the research lab now.
Toriko: Oh? What is it?
Rin: It's a machine that measures "Capture Level". Though they're still developing it.
Like, you know how the highest Capture Level they can measure at Gourmet Colosseum is 100, right?
Toriko: Yeah. That's because the highest Capture Level of any beast living in Human World is 100.
It's a famous wild beast...
I'll definitely fight that thing in the near future, though...
............
Rin: If this measuring instrument is completed,
It'll be able to measure and display the Capture Levels of wild beasts even above 100 in an instant!
Toriko: Really? That's awesome!
With that I could even tell the Capture Level of wild beasts in Gourmet World!!
Rin: Yep! So let's test it out now and try measuring Terry.
Toriko: But it's not complete yet, right?
Rin: Well we're just testing...
SFX: SUDO
SFX: SHU
Rin: Eh?
SFX: PIPI
Toriko: Oh
We made it, Rin!

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Toriko: Now, let's get to delivering!!
A large serving of presents!!
SFX: HYUOOO
Boy: B...
Big brother...
Brother: Hm-----...
Boy: I'm hungry...
Brother: Yeah... Sorry... There's no bread left.
Boy: Big Brother...
I'm hungry...
Hey...
Big... Brother...
Brother: We'll go... steal some again tomorrow, okay...?
Try to hold out...
Boy: ............
Ooh...
I'm hungryy...
Big Brother...
I'm hungry...
hun...gry...

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Brother: You have to endure it!!
Even Big Brother doesn't have anything to eat!!
Fight through it!!
Tomorrow, we'll...
Boy: Uh...
Uuh...
I'll...
go take something again, so...
Hold out!
It'll be okay!
So try to fight it!!
Toriko: Just "encouragement"...
won't fill a stomach...
A thousand words
is no match for one rice ball.
Sorry we took so long.
We've brought heaps of hot food.
You can eat all you want and fill your stomachs.
Today's Christmas.
This is a present from
Gourmet Santa.

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Boy: D...
Delicious...
SFX: PORO PORO
Brother: Delicious.
So delicious...

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[Awwww....]

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Boy: S... Santa-san...
Thank you...
Please...
Please come again...
next year...
Santa-san...
Toriko: Yeah... I'll be here next year and the year after that.
I'll come back every year from now on.
So don't lose to your poverty, live strong.
Let's promise.
Boy: Yeah.
Thank you, Santa-san.
Boy: Hey, hey! Old lady!
Rin: Ol...!? I'm not an old lady!!
Boy: Old lady, are you Santa-san's girlfriend?
Rin: Eh!?
W...Well Maybe I am~~~~
I guess that's how it looks, isn't it?
On Page: Kyaa
SFX: OHOHO
Toriko: Hm?

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Toriko: Ooh! It's snow!
And this is
edible snow that falls once once every several decades. "Flavor Snow"!!
TL Note: Flavor Snow = Aji Yuki
Toriko: So heaven is sharing its ingredients, too, huh...?
A food blessing that can be shared equally among all people...
Side: Pray, deliver...
Toriko: If it could, I wish it'd...
keep piling up forever...
Bottom: Toriko
...Gourmet 173
/ End
Next issue, surprising ingredient information comes! What will happen with Toriko and Komatsu!?