History Manga / Toriko

* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: Coco's [[SarcasmMode slightly more than]] [[BeyondTheImpossible humanly possible]] gambling skills are [[BlatantLies not exactly cheating]], but [[UnderStatement not exactly fair either]]. But he gets away with it in the Gourmet Tasting because Livebearer has effectively cheated the whole game.

* AdaptationDecay: The TV anime adaptation is heavily and sometimes bizarrely censored, and doesn't really capture the sometimes terrifying quality of Mistutoshi Shimabokuro's artwork. It also adds the filler character Tina, who always manages to fill time being irrelevant somewhere else during critical scenes, reflecting her absence in the manga.

Has a character sheet, which can be found [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/Toriko here]].

* GrowingMusclesSequence: Meteor Garlic has this affect on people who eat it.

* HoYay: lots of it, to the point of [=TorikoXKomatsu=] being practically canon by now. [[spoiler: Komatsu's interaction with the Second Melk did somewhat counteract it, though.]]
-->'''Toriko:''' Komatsu, how about you and me form a "combo"?
** Coco becomes very concerned for Komatsu in episode 4 and 5, after Komatsu becomes friendly with him even though Coco is poisonous.
** Not to mention the last page of Gourmet 34:
--->'''Komatsu:''' Did you do something to me!?*
--->'''Sani:''' I diiidn't. Do you want me to do something?
*** This after he pretty much fawned over Komatsu's cooking skills, saying he's beautiful when he works...
** Toriko compares being "tasted" by Sani's hair sensors as being licked by him. In the show, this is demonstrated by a shot of Sani literally licking Toriko's cheek. Sani's descriptions of people's actions/emotions towards things as "beautiful" doesn't help - Komatsu's cooking, Coco's entrance...

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: Toriko, Komatsu, and Coco must obtain an ingredient this way. The game is like a match card game, where you must also eat the ingredient shown on the cards. the problem is that some ingredients are not healthy...

HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Livebearer, as seeing Komatsu prepare the Meteor Garlic made him realize how much he once enjoyed real cooking himself.]]

--->'''Komatsu:''' Did you do something to me!?

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Livebearer, as seeing Komatsu prepare the Meteor Garlic made him realize how much he once enjoyed real cooking himself.]]

* When Match accuses LiveBearer of cheating at his game, Livebearer acts insulted that such a thing would be suggested. [[spoiler: And it's just that- an act. Not only is Livebearer cheating, but the game is stacked in his favor.]]

** Zebra, who [[spoiler: ate ''twenty-six'' species to extinction]] definitely takes the cake. On second thought, make that ''several'' cakes.

Toriko is a {{Shonen}} manga series by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, serialized in ''Weekly ShonenJump'' since May 2008. The story revolves around the titular character's adventures as a ''Bishoku-ya'', a hunter of rare food ingredients, scouring the world for more delicious things to eat. Joining his adventures is Komatsu, a chef working at the Gourmet Hotel, and a gallery of other characters with varying personalities that make the world of Toriko a lively and colorful place.

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

* ChekhovsGunman: Remember that [[spoiler: silly old man that Toriko gives some booze to?]] Well, turns out he is a [[spoiler:legendary Bishoku-ya who ends up bringing Komatsu BackFromTheDead]].

* '''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.

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

* SeriousBusiness: Serious Business gourmet. ''So'' serious, in fact, that an international organization was formed to control market prices on ingredients, do genetic experiments to revive extinct animals, and many other things. Justified since food [[spoiler: ended a whole freakin' 100 year old world war.]]