History Manga / Toriko

* AbsurdlyBrightLight: Jewel Meat and anyone who eats it.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: All Melk Knives; [[spoiler: especially Komatsu's, which split the side of the mountain Melk the Second was facing when she swung it ''lightly'']].
** Don't forget about Toriko's Knife technique. He could chop and cut off limbs, with JUST HIS HAND.
** Also Match's [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]].
** Zebra can do this with his ''voice''!
** It seems like Old Lady Chiyo is able to do this, essentially de-boning Wagon in what seems to be the span of one panel.

* TheAce: Teppei.

* TheAlcatraz: Three of them, the only one visited so far is the [[SuperFunHappyThingOfDoom Honey Prison.]]
* AlienGeometries: Many areas of the Gourmet World. [[spoiler:Coco hypothesizes that the Gourmet World is literally alien.]]

* AmbiguouslyGay: '''SUNNY'''

* AntiHero: Believe it or not, Toriko, whose actions are usually motivated by his craving for food. It just so happens that he is a nice person and that he usually ends up helping the other good guys.

** Special mention goes to the water/wine storage camels who have ''faucets'' growing out of them!
*** In the manga at least, its alluded to those faucets are installed by the natives.

* [[AttackItsWeakPoint Attack Its Weak Point:]] The GT Robot's core antenna.

* BalloonBelly: Happens after Toriko and Komatsu eat the entire Gararagator [[spoiler: except for one of the leeches]].

* {{Bifauxnen}}: Melk the Second and [[spoiler:Chiru]].
** [[spoiler:Although Chiru is debatable, as it's more that she's covered up rather than than her looking ambiguous, as it's obvious she's female once her mask comes off. It's very obvious even beforehand in the anime due to her voice.]]

* BioAugmentation: People infused with Gourmet Cells. See AppliedPhlebotinum.

** Toriko after returning from his Bubble Fruit Buffet.
* BloodlessCarnage: The anime. Although recent episodes seem to be including more blood.
* BodyHorror: Tommy and Bogey live on this trope. Also, there is [[spoiler: Toriko's arm regrowth]].

* BulletCatch: Toriko does this with his Fork technique when confronted by goons in [[WretchedHive Jidar]], the goon shot at him because he was [[{{Squee}} squeeing]] over getting into a fight with normal people.

* CanineCompanion: Terry.
* CanonForeigner: Tina, the TV news reporter.

* ChefOfIron: Virtually any of the chefs can count, but special mention goes to Setsuno.

* CoolOldGuy: Ichiryu and Knocking Master Jiro would definitely qualify.

* CrossCounter: Toriko and [[spoiler:Acacia]] gets this midair during their fight, however Toriko drops to the ground first after the impact.

* DrunkenMaster: Chief Mansam. Even his Full Course Menu is composed of only foods that have alcohol in them.

* EldritchAbomination. [[spoiler: The original Four Beast, and he is quite NightmareFuel inducing at that.]]

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: 'Tengu' Buranchi's reaction to meeting Komatsu.

** Acacia, [[RuleofSymbolism the man who discovered GOD in the distant past, ended wars, and is now worshiped in temples]], represents the Buddha. While GOD itself might be a metaphor for enlightenment or Brahma - the supreme deity/concept of Buddhism.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: The poor sap who falls into the insect pit during the Puffer Whale arc.

* FluffyTheTerrible: Toriko gets a wolf as a pet, a beast so legendary and strong that its ancestors singlehandedly saved an entire continent from extinction, and what does he name it? Terry. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as the name probably sounds more exotic to Japanese ears. And then right back when you realize that he named it Terry because the young wolf's fur felt like terrycloth when he petted it.

* '''FoodPorn''': The manga goes to great lengths to depict the tastiness of the food being enjoyed, often causing the ones eating to drool uncontrollably or cry tears of joy. At least one whole chapter is dedicated to the protagonists eating.

* ForeShadowing: After running into [[ArchEnemy Starjun]], who was [[VillainsOutShopping eating in the same restaurant]] as them, Starjun told Toriko that they could have a rematch at the 'Festival', at some unspecified point in the future. Several story arcs later we find out he was referring to the '[[CookingDuel Cooking Festival]]' that kicked off the [[CerebusSyndrome second stage of the plot]].

* GeckoEnding: The anime ended with one after 147 episodes.
* GenderBender: [[spoiler:Eating "PAIR" does this. It's part of PAIR's ability to grant those who eat it a chance to experience things on the "other side".]]

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Toriko has the good kind, as seen in the picture above. Though he is not the only one.
** Zebra has evil scars, he's covered in them and has half of his lips missing.

* HeavyVoice: Tina in Episode 27 after stuffing herself to the brim with tofu.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: Komatsu and Toriko... Excuse me: [[InelegantBlubbering TORIGO-ZAAA~N]].

* HyperactiveMetabolism: Gourmet Cells and the Food's End technique can do this with their host.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: How about using a Bendy Straw of [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]]?

* KickTheDog: Tommy decides to kill the Baby Wall Penguin's parents. Why? He thought they were too noisy.
** Earlier on, Bei kills Terry's mother because she was "disgusting".

* KillSat: The Human World Military has some that fire lasers.
* KnightOfCerebus: The series mostly involved fun (If occasionally gruesome) hunts for food and rare animals. And then the GT Robot arrives at the end of the Puffer Whale Arc. It's this and their subsequent appearances in the Regal Mammoth arc that introduce the reader to the Gourmet Corp. And whenever the Gourmet Corp turns up, you can bet that the seriousness will turn up as well, such as the Bubble Fruit Arc.
* KnockbackSlide: Toriko's blue demon does this after his Devil Fork clashed with Heracle's hoof.

* LecherousLicking: When Sunny's introduced, his PrehensileHair's secondary function (as virtually invisible probes that he spreads a fair distance around himself) is shown visually as him doing this to Toriko.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Rin and Sunny. Lampshaded when we see them together for the first time.

* TheMole: [[spoiler: It turns out that Neo (An organization comprised of wealthy individuals, such as Mokkoi and the king of Jiddal) have spies in both the IGO, Gourmet Corp, and Biotope 0. Who? See WhamEpisode below...]]
* MonsterClown: Tommyrod.

* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 208, OH SO MUCH. [[spoiler: The Four Beast has been defeated, the Heavenly Kings get their antidote, what remains of the Four Beast explodes and frees all the people he ate, and the rest of the world eat the antidote and the meat of the Four Beast. Everything is happy. Suddenly, we see an assorted food dish with Teppei's severed head and hand.]] Yes, it's that sudden.

* NightmareFace: Besides the [[GameFace Game Faces]] mentioned up above, a lot of beasts in the Toriko [[TheVerse Verse]] are pretty creepy-looking, particularly in [[DeathWorld the Gourmet World]]; noted examples include the Four-Beasts, the Nitro, and '''especially''' some of the [[TheDreaded Eight Kings.]]

* NotJustATournament: The Cooking Festival. [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore Nothing is the same afterwards.]]

* OfficialCouple: [[spoiler: Toriko and Rin]], by the end of the series.

* OldMaster: Knocking Master Jiro, who effortlessly collected a bucketful of depoisoned Puffer Whales while Toriko, Coco and Komatsu only managed to get one.
** And he did it while being completely plastered.
*** He does ''everything'' completely plastered.
*** Except forays to the [[DeathWorld Gourmet World]].

** The properly named "Knocking Master Jirou" is king of this trope, capable of knocking anything. Even [[spoiler:'''''The very PLANET itself'''''.]]

* PluckyComicRelief: Zongeh. [[spoiler: He still managed to discover the Hell Soup ingredient by himself, which is not far from the Century Soup.]]
** He also managed to surprise a Surprise Apple to the point near its absolute peak. The level that it reached was somewhere between a nuclear explosion and the destruction of the world. Although, it's doubtful anyone would have wanted to eat it afterwards.
%%* PoisonousPerson: Coco. See above.

* PocketDimension: Bambina trains the three pets in one of them.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Seems to be heading this, [[spoiler: especially since the epic conclusion to Toriko and Starjun's fight is outright stalled due to Joa's appearance.]]
* PrehensileHair: Sunny.

* RapidHairGrowth: Anyone who drinks the Billion Birds Egg has this happen to them. It even extends to their eyelashes!
* RatedMForManly: Think ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Series/IronChef'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY with a dash of]] ''Manga/OnePiece''.

* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:Second generation Melk first appeared as a Bishonen (that was pretty enough to give Sunny a run for his money). A few chapters and a hot spring later...]]

** See Macro Zone above. Also, even the creatures get more and more outrageous with time, a prime example being the Mother Snake, described as being long enough to '''circle the planet''' and as [[LightningBruiser fast as a meteor]].

* SchmuckBait: The [[StinkBomb Dodurian Bomb]]. Good Lord....

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Toriko and Komatsu combo.

* StayInTheKitchen: Averted. Cooking has never looked so manly, and Setsuno is one of the world's badasses.

** While it's never been specifically states that Komatsu has super taste buds, he can distinguish specific tastes from the Century Soup, a dish with hundreds of unique ingredients, and he's an expert at making food taste as good as possible, thus rounding out the five sense as represented by the main cast.

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Averted. Don Slime attempts this on Neo, only to have Neo eat his ultimate attack.]]
* TemporaryBulkChange: Meteor Garlic has this effect on people.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Zongeh outdoes everyone in the Surprise Apple chapter.

* TookALevelInBadass: Komatsu is now capable of dishing some ''serious'' damage now that he's armed with the knife the second Melk made just for him.
** He could, yes. But he won't. That'd be [[NonActionGuy out of character]].

* TragicMonster: [[spoiler:The Four Beast, amazingly enough, since it's also being controlled by someone else.]]
* TranquilFury: "Honoring the Food" once it's fully mastered.
* {{Transhuman}}: [[RunningGag Again]], people infused with Gourmet Cells.

* WellDoneSonGuy ([[spoiler: Actually "Well Done, Daughter" Girl]]): The second generation Melk idolizes the first generation Melk, but has insecurities over the quality of work because Melk the First never acknowledged Melk the Second's skill. It's later revealed that [[spoiler: Melk the First is actually a DotingParent who thinks the world of her and gushes over how much she deserves to be his successor, but she never realized it because his voice was so quiet]].

* XanatosSpeedChess: Coco is a master-class player, as shown in the Livebearer Arc.
* {{Yakuza}}: Specifically ''[[SeriousBusiness food]]'' Yakuza.
* {{Yandere}}: Zebra, of all people, shows signs of this.
** He could also be seen as a Tsundere.

* YouAreAlreadyDead: Creatures prepared by masters of Honoring the Food are this. [[spoiler: And so are humans...]]

* YourMindMakesItReal: Basically the idea behind "Ultimate Routine", as well as combining it with MasterOfIllusion.

* [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale Manga Artists Have No Sense Of Scale]]: See Macro Zone above. Also, even the creatures get more and more outrageous with time, a prime example being the Mother Snake, described as being long enough to '''circle the planet''' and as [[LightningBruiser fast as a meteor]].
** ZigZagged with Toriko's insane metabolism. On the one hand, burning 100,000 kcal/day should give him heatstroke or else require insane amounts of water in order to regulate his temperature. On the other hand, the Bubble Fruit Arc portrays the realistic consequences of having such a high metabolism while fasting. Whereas a normal human can go two months without food before starving to death, Toriko is at death's door within two days, which is before a normal person would even begin suffering muscle atrophy.
** Played completely straight with Brunch's electrical attacks. 100 kilo-amperes at 100 Mega-Volts is 10,000 Gigawatts, which is 200 times the total electrical power output of the United States, and 100 billion times the typical resting metabolism of a human being. That power output shouldn't even be attainable, and if he were to maintain it for even a microsecond, it should cause him to burst into flames.
** In general, numbers in the millions and billions get tossed around pretty freely.

* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance: A galaxy with the diameter of 10 years is really too small to be considered one. The Milky Way has the diameter of approximately 100,000 light years, while [=M60-UCD1=] the smallest galaxy to be found is about 300 light years in diameter.
** Though it can be justified if the [[spoiler:gourmet gods are about to finish the galaxy as their meals.]]

* AssShove: It is suggested that this is the most effective entry into the Regal Mammoth. Sunny is appalled by the idea but, luckily, the team goes in from the front.

* {{Bishounen}}: Sunny, whose Full Course Menu is composed of food to make whoever eats it ''more and more'' {{bishounen}}.
** Several others may also count, such as Coco. And then there's [[spoiler: Starjun... When his face was revealed, the fandom went WILD]].

Has a [[http://toriko.wikia.com/wiki/Toriko_Encyclopedia wiki]].

!!This series provides examples of:

* ActionSurvivor: Komatsu.

* AndYourRewardIsEdible

* BareFistedMonk: Toriko.

* [[BreatherEpisode Breather Chapter(s)]]: After a very intense arc involving [[ItMakesSenseInContext a surgery for a large mammoth]], the next chapter is about the protagonists eating, then the next is about Toriko getting pet food. [[ManEatingPlant Things got worse from there]].

* CrossOver: With ''Manga/OnePiece''. Heck the anime ''premiered'' with a crossover between the two. Likely due to the real life friendship between Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro (the mangaka) and Creator/EiichiroOda. So much so they've had three, one in the manga and two in the anime (pre and post time skip with the One Piece cast) [[note]]Though curiously neither of the anime episodes were ever dubbed[[/note]].
** ''Anime/Dream9SuperCollaborationSpecial'': A special aired in April 2013 which is a three way crossover between this series, ''One Piece'' and ''Franchise/DragonBall''

* DotingParent: [[spoiler: First generation Melk.]]

* HammerSpace: Thinking about how Tommyrod is able to hold that many bugs inside his body is not a pleasant thought...
** It's stated during one issue that the insects that are secured in his body are in egg form until he releases them, at which point they hatch and mature to full size (not as enormous an exaggeration as it would be with other animals, as insects in general do mature quicker than most other species, due to their shorter lifespans), but even considering that 90% of the bugs inside are not much bigger than say, a tarantula, the ones that are giant sized would have gigantic eggs, and the biggest one would be unimaginably huge.

* {{Homage}}: A lot of the manga can be seen as a send-up to several popular Shonen Jump manga throughout the ages. There are even a number of direct references to old ''Shonen Jump'' works. To list a few: Toriko himself has clothing similar to [[Manga/DragonBall Goku's classic Gi]], the dynamic of the main party members can be seen in several different works like ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', and the [[spoiler: Gourmet Demons]] have similar abilities and appearances to that of [[spoiler: [[Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stands.]]]]

* HybridMonster: Chain Animals.

** Cedre falls for Sunny's ISurrenderSucker and gets in close to wail on him, putting himself in range to be trapped by Sunny's hair lock and struck by his MegatonPunch.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Toriko delivers a ''brutal'' one to Starjun in Chapter 220.
** Midora relentlessly punches Acacia to the point that even if his hands were eaten, he won't stop beating the shit out of Acacia with his stump.
* NoSenseOfDistance: A galaxy with the diameter of 10 years is really too small to be considered one. The Milky Way has the diameter of approximately 100,000 light years, while [=M60-UCD1=] the smallest galaxy to be found is about 300 light years in diameter.

* PoisonousPerson: Coco. See above.

* RedshirtArmy: In addition to the main characters, more than one hundred regular Gourmet Hunters were on the voyage to Ice Hell. [[spoiler:Eleven]] made it back alive.

* {{Retraux}}: Fans of older shonen, rejoice!

* TigerVersusDragon: Ichiryu and Midora

The series is a GenreThrowback, [[RatedMForManly pulsing with testosterone]] and being filled with incredibly buff men reminiscent of older manga such as ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' or the early parts of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. Modern-day {{shonen}} tropes like MusclesAreMeaningless, the post-''Manga/DragonBall'' variant of StockShonenHero, and BishonenJumpSyndrome are avoided. This series also contains gratuitous amounts of FoodPorn, and thus, readers are advised to not read this manga on an empty stomach. [[http://www.shonenjump.com/e/animetour/ There is also an OVA]], a crossover with ''Manga/OnePiece'' has aired, and an anime adaptation debuted in April 2011 ([[http://www.funimation.com/toriko simulcast and licensed by]] Creator/FUNimation).

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] with various Gourmet Hunters. While people infused with Gourmet Cells become superhuman, their specific abilities (Sunny's PrehensileHair, Zebra's [[MakeMeWannaShout vocal powers]], etc.) are implied to be the result of training.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Zebra to the nth degree.
-->'''Zebra:''' *screams* Repeat the echo within, amplify it, now fall down... '''thunderbolt of sound!'''
** Apparently the frequency of the screams is even more dangerous than the sound itself.

* CentralTheme: Food, nutrition, and the joys of eating. Every character at some point is shown openly enjoying some food or drink, food stopped a war, the entire world is based around food in some way, and famine is depicted as one of the worst things in existence. There is also a subtler emphasis on camaraderie. Particularly victorious moments are always celebrated as a group and two of the worst villains in the series are how are due to loneliness.

** Time flows 200,000 times faster than normal in the Cave of Old Age. A mere human can be killed after staying inside for only a few hours.
** Komatsu and co suffer from the side effects of temporarily growing old as a result of their bodies balancing the time difference from leaving Blue Grill.
** Deer King kills its victims by producing a back channel that speeds up time thousands of years passing as a second.

* [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Everything's]] [[InvertedTrope Worse]] [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins With Penguins]]

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Yuu, Komatsu's pet baby [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Wall Penguin]]. Tiny, cute, pink, and makes adorable noises and facial expressions constantly. Tends to endear himself to any women, children and animals who cross his path.

The series is a GenreThrowback, [[RatedMForManly pulsing with testosterone]] and being filled with incredibly buff men reminiscent of older manga such as ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' or the early parts of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. Modern-day {{shonen}} tropes like MusclesAreMeaningless, the post-''Manga/DragonBall'' variant of StockShonenHero, and BishonenJumpSyndrome are avoided. This series also contains gratuitous amounts of FoodPorn, and thus, readers are advised to not read this manga on an empty stomach. [[http://www.shonenjump.com/e/animetour/ There is also an OVA]], a crossover with ''Manga/OnePiece'' has aired, and [[Spring2011Anime an anime adaptation debuted in April 2011]] ([[http://www.funimation.com/toriko simulcast and licensed by]] Creator/FUNimation).

* CoolPet: Animal Partners are basically this.

* HomoeroticSubtext: His and Toriko's partnership is one of the most important in the manga, and the two are incredibly close. There's also the matter of a Gourmet Hunter having partnerships with their chefs, but the way it's framed makes it seem like they're aiming for marriage as well[[note]]and it ''was'' the case for Setsuno and Jiro, for example[[/note]]. When Toriko asks Komatsu to be his chef, it even seemed like he was proposing, and other Hunters make comments about wanting to have Komatsu as their own personal chef as well.

* FoodAsCharacerization: With a few exceptions, a person's Full Course Menu tends to be symbolic of their values and general favourite foods. The most blatant one is Zongeh's menu, full of low-level ingredients that represent his weak and cowardly nature.