Line #47 ExtremeOmnivore/AnimeAndManga


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6	* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': Although he prefers sweets and other actual food, Koro-sensei seems to be able to eat just about anything, including coconut shells, metal, explosives, paper, and poison.
7	* Dead Master in ''Manga/BlackRockShooter: Innocent Soul'' doesn't just [[YourSoulIsMine eat souls]], she also, while sleeping in the same bed as Rock, ate a teddy bear and half of Rock's pig tail.
8	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Nel is capable of eating anything. The databooks mention that when she's hungry she looks at her servants in an odd way that make them fear she's going to eat them. One of her trademark powers, which no other arrancar shares, is her ability to ''eat'' ceros, combine the eaten cero with her own power and regurgitate back at her enemy at double the power it originally was. Her AnimalMotif is the goat-antelope and she has the ExtremeOmniGoat jokes to go with it.
9	* Hororo on ''Manga/BottleFairy'' is usually a BigEater, but her constant sleepiness and the fact that everything reminds her of food sometimes leads her to unconsciously try to eat the first thing in front of her, whatever it may be.
10	* As a half-devil hybrid, Denji, the protagonist of ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', like most other devils in the manga feeds on blood and flesh, but even as a human, he's willing to eat about anything that has nutritious value, from food that fell on the ground or that he found on the trash, to things like flowers and scabs. That is justified, however, by his past, as a street kid who had to do (and eat) [[TooDesperatetoBePicky anything to survive]].
11	* Laios from ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' wants to eat ''animated armor''. [[spoiler: He kind of manages to do it. It turns out that the animated armors are actually a group of clam-like molluscs who use the armor as their "shell". [[TeamChef Senshi]] cooks them like shellfish.]]
12	* Yuko of ''Manga/TheDemonGirlNextDoor'' is a type 1 after [[TooDesperateToBePicky years of extreme poverty]], perfectly willing to eat Momo's [[LethalChef horrifying-looking attempts]] at cooking.
13	--> '''Yuko:''' I was really nervous going by looks alone, but this doesn't taste bad at all!
14	--> '''Momo:''' Y-you think so?
15	--> '''Yuko:''' It's hard on the outside and mushy on the inside, plus I can really taste the onions and salt.
16	--> '''Momo:''' I'm not so sure that's a good thing...
17	--> '''Yuko:''' It's just fine! Truly terrible food makes you go numb the moment you bite into it, and your throat will force you to throw it back up right away! Anything that doesn't cause that reaction is totally edible!
18	--> '''[[ContentWarnings Warning]]''': This girl has undergone special training in this field as part of her family's circumstances. Please be very careful to confirm whether food prepared and left out during the summer is safe to eat.
19	* Ga-chan, the weird flying space baby from ''Manga/DoctorSlump'', has been known to eat cars and other inanimate objects. The only thing she - or they - won't eat is rubber.
20	* Gluttony's {{Expy}} [[MeaningfulName Gula]] from ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'' can eat everything, including Precure attacks (though it backfires in Episode 26). [[IAmAHumanitarian He even tries to eat Cure Diamond]] in Episode 23.
21	* In the aptly named anime and manga ''Manga/EatMan'', the hero Bolt Crank could consume just about any tool (usually a gun of some kind) and later reproduce it out of his arm, intact even if he ate it in pieces.
22	* While some of the cast of ''Franchise/DragonBall'' are prime examples of [[BigEater Big Eaters]], some of them would also fall under this heading.
23	** In his youth, Goku was very naive about the outside world and thought with his stomach a lot, which more than once lead to him believing a person, thing or concept he'd never heard of before [[IsItSomethingYouEat was something to eat]]. In the second chapter/episode, he ate a wolf.
24	** In his first appearance, Yajirobe kills, cooks, and eats one of Piccolo Daimao's monstrous dinosaur/demon-like henchmen. Even ''Goku'' thinks this is weird. When Goku seemingly dies, Yajirobe says that Goku's corpse doesn't look tasty, so he's gonna bury him instead.
25	** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Buu; sure, he ''did'' eat almost 80% of the Earth's population, but he has to turn his prey into food ''first''. [[HulkSpeak Dog food no taste good]].
26	** Yixinglong/Syn Shenron from ''Anime/DragonBallGT'' consumes the seven Dragon Balls to gain the power of the previously defeated Evil/Shadow Dragons, becoming Super Yixinglong/Omega Shenron. Later when Yixinglong attempts to do so again, Goku decides to eat the Four-Star Ball (his grandfather's keepsake) to prevent Yixinglong from reaching full power and to keep Sixinglong/Nouva Shenron from being corrupted. While Goku's attempt is more painful, he was successful in what he planned.
27	** Vegeta's first appearance has him eating an insectoid soldier he had presumably killed earlier. It would seem that extreme omnivory is a Saiyan trait.
28	* All Dragon Slayers in ''Manga/FairyTail'' have this as an ability. However, they're best at eating their natural element (Natsu eats fire, Gajeel eats metal, etc.), and anything else will mostly likely leave them sick afterwards (though if they're lucky, they'll get one hell of a power boost before that happens). This leads to some WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway when we meet the Sky Dragon Slayer...who eats air.[[note]]Though, when you factor in the fact that the Dragon Slayers need to eat their elements to stay at full power (Natsu was once nearly defeated because he couldn't find any fire to eat), and remember just how ''abundant'' air is...[[/note]]. This is taken to particular noticeable levels with [[HolyHandGrenade Sting]], who is the ''White'' Dragon Slayer and can eat ''anything'' that's colored white.
29	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
30	** Gluttony can (and will) eat anything. ''Anything''. Live people and scenery included. Having acid for saliva certainly helps.
31	** When Edward, Ling, and Envy are [[spoiler:trapped inside Gluttony]], Ed seems pretty comfortable with eating boots to survive (probably as a result of his foraging on the island Izumi left him and Al on). Ling eats one too, though he's less pleased about it.
32	* Guu from ''Anime/HareGuu'' is capable of eating ''anything'', up to elephants, whales, and people with a single bite. In one occasion she even ate such metaphysical things as another person's dream of herself. She is fully capable of spitting out anything she's eaten completely unharmed, making the effect comically disturbing rather than disturbingly sinister.
33	* When the characters from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' are discussing what they would do if aliens invaded, England pointed out that they would have a lot of dead aliens laying around afterwards, which prompted China to exclaim, "Leave the cooking to me!". Kinda justified since China is a SupremeChef in canon ''and'' one of the NationalStereotypes about Chinese people is that they'll eat anything.
34	* Mehitak, one of the five Nodos in ''Anime/HeroicAge'' may avert the ''letter'' of this trope, but embodies the spirit of it to a degree only surpassed by Matter Eater Lad himself. Specifically, his Tribe, the Poros, don't eat anything living - which includes fruits and vegetables. Instead, they can - and will - eat any dead matter. Including metal. At one point, he eats a plate of bulletproof superalloy from a pile of HumongousMecha spare parts and comments that it is 'a bit bitter'. He still decided to have another one, though, much to the consternation of the HumongousMecha's OWNER.
35	* Hanako from ''Manga/KemonoMichi'' is a BigEater almost purely motivated by never-ending hunger, and desire for new and exciting flavours and foods. As she is a "half-dragon", this means she can and will try to consume ''anything'', from monsters, to sentient beings, to ''buildings,'' without any ill-effects. The worst that can happen to her is that the taste and/or the texture is unappetizing.
36	* Eriko Futami from ''Manga/KimiKiss'' has been called taste blind due to her eating stuff like Berry Ramen and putting honey and mayonnaise on chips.
37	* Crunch in ''WesternAnimation/MightyOrbots'' is an extreme omnivore robot by design, as his main function is the team's power source. He can convert anything he eats into energy to use in the team's [[CombiningMecha united form]].
38	* Suu the SlimeGirl in ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' is immune to being poisoned and can eat anything that's organic. She's the only member of the cast who can safely eat [[LethalChef Miia's]] cooking. She told Kimihito that she'd be happy to just survive on a diet of garbage in order to make his life easier by reducing how many members of his UnwantedHarem he has to feed, but he said that since she's part of the family she should eat with everyone else.
39	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' has Soramitsu Tabe of the Shie Hassaikai. His Quirk "Food" allows him to instantly eat and digest anything he can fit into his mouth.
40	* Yue from ''Franchise/{{Negima}}'' drinks weird beverages such as salt water.
41	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
42	** Villain Wapol has the powers of the Munch-Munch Fruit, which gives him the power to eat anything and duplicate its effects. For example, he can swallow a cannon and fire it at will, and at one point he eats his flunkies Chess and Kuromarimo, then [[TwoBeingsOneBody combines them]] into a four-armed super-flunky, Chessmarimo (though as Sanji points out, they're just wearing one costume while one stands on the other's shoulders). Wapol even manages to eat ''himself'' in order to slim down enough to fit through a narrow door.
43	** Luffy swallowed a plate whole during the celebration at the end of the Arlong Arc. He later ate the bones of a giant fish at Reverse Mountain, and much later on at Thriller Bark ate the bars of the cage holding him.
44	** Near the end of the Fishman Island arc, Zoro and Sanji get into another spat, with Sanji threatening to put knives and other sharp things in Zoro's food. When Zoro is next seen eating, he's making loud crunching noises, and an SBS confirmed that yes, Sanji made good on his threats.
45	** There's not much attention drawn to it, but Cavendish spends a lot of his screen time eating. In a proper, dainty manner. At one point, he starts plucking the petals from the rose he was carrying around and eating them before finally stuffing the whole thing in his mouth. A borderline example, since you ''can'' technically eat rose petals raw, but...
46	* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'':
47	** Gible is able to eat things like rocks, bicycles (though he leaves the rubber intact), and an ''entire Team Rocket mecha''.
48	** To a lesser extent is Jessie of Team Rocket, who can stomach the [[LethalChef horrible cooking skills]] of Misty and May where others (humans or Pokémon) cannot, and even ''enjoys'' them.
49	** Snorlax will attempt to eat anything that moves or doesn't. If it's mouth-sized, it's going in.
50	* More of Extreme Omni-drinkers, but hey. From ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', Shuusuke Fuji and Kei Tanishi are able to drink down GargleBlaster-type concoctions that usually knock ANYONE else but them out. The only exception would be Inui's Aozu, which knocked the lights outta Fuji once.
51	* One of the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' OAV series has the minor character Kurumi, a BigEater who can wolf down an entire feast prepared by Akane Tendo, the resident LethalChef (with minors in CordonBleughChef), and not only consider it delicious, but actually ask for more.
52	* Plue, the mascot of ''Manga/RaveMaster''. His diet consists almost entirely of suckers, but it used to be based around beetles. He's also eaten a sign and a porcelain doll.
53	* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': The OrganicTechnology monsters left behind by the NeglectfulPrecursors called the Old World are this, which is explained by them having organs filled with {{Nanomachines}} which process what they eat. It's typically used to modify or grow themselves, grow new monsters out of their body, and replace ammo for WeaponizedAnimal types. This is explored when the MadScientist Yatsubiyashi injects said nanomachines into the young Tiol, creating a TragicMonster who experiences HorrorHunger from this causing him to eat metal and human flesh, which really causes some SanitySlippage. Being actually sapient, it's used to create RemoteBody copies of himself amongst many other designs.
54	* Gourry Gabriev from ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' is sometimes shown as an Extreme Omnivore. For example, when a crooked cook serves fake, unpalatable Dragon Cuisine to the party, he is the only one who does not feel anything wrong. But subverted in the first season, when he refuses to eat fish guts.
55	* ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'':
56	** Kumoko, the monstrous spider protagonist, subsists practically exclusively on whatever she can kill or find in the labyrinth. Most of her catches taste absolutely horrible, and tend to be extremely poisonous, paralyzing, or otherwise hazardous to consume. (Although one upside is that she gains resistance from the exposure.) Also, eating another spider got her the less-than-pleasant "kin eater" title, which gifted her with the ominous "taboo" skill (it's strongly hinted that something terrible will happen if it reaches maximum).
57	** The Demon King Ariel possesses the Gluttony skill which allows her to eat ''anything'' and convert it into SP. This is a carryover from her childhood, where her body's massive calorie requirements drove her to eat all sorts of garbage just to not feel like she was starving. Her siblings had to keep a close eye on Ariel to make sure she didn't eat something that would kill her out of desperation.
58	* Though most of the time she's eating carrots, Ryo-Ohki of ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' is this as she's shown taking a bite of Mihoshi's gun when she finally confronts the "dreaded criminal".
59	* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
60	** Simon won't eat anything in sight, but he's able to eat [[LethalChef Nia's]] ''[[LethalChef horrid]]'' [[LethalChef cooking]] and enjoy it. It's assumed Nia herself eats this too.
61	** In the HighSchoolAU ''Gurren Gakuen-hen'', Kamina also likes Nia's cooking.
62	* Similarly, the title character of ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' can eat any food. In the very first season, she ate '''decomposing salad''' and complimented Touma for the "revitalizing" sour taste. Touma, who was purposely trying to scare her away with inedible food, was thoroughly {{squick}}ed out by it.
63	* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'':
64	** The titular character graduates to this in the "Gourmet Casino" arc. With the help of Komatsu's cooking skills [[spoiler:and Coco's BatmanGambit]], Toriko is able to eat ''explosive and poisonous'' ingredients. When Livebearer taunts him for eating the equivalent of dynamite, Toriko retorts that there is no such thing as a "miss" ingredient -- to him, all ingredients are blessings.
65	** When the [[KnightOfCerebus Gourmetcorp]] attack the Cooking Festival, Grinpatch effortlessly sucks up Coco's poison- and asks for seconds.
66	** Eating Acacia's fish dish ANOTHER allows you to become this. It's actually required to become this since other parts of his full course can't be eaten otherwise.
67	** [[spoiler:Demon King Neo]] may be the most extreme example in the series and possibly all fiction, surpassing even Matter Eater Lad. One of its main methods of fighting is to eat the energy of its opponents' attacks. It even eats [[spoiler:a supernova]].
68	** [[spoiler:Demon King Neo]] may have a rival in [[spoiler:the fully mature GOD]]. In its debut it eats [[spoiler:the ''Moon'']].
69	** IGO President Ichiryu has a tendency to eat unusual ingredients that most people wouldn't consider fit for consumption, such as a bowl full of Million Seeds. At one point he even eats a ''wine cork''.
70	* In the manga ''Manga/{{Toto}}'' (not to be confused with its successor ''Toto! The Wonderful Adventure'') by Yuuko Osada, Toto is a dog/dragon that becomes the main hero's left arm. Its power? Devouring ''anything'' and reproducing it. Eating a squad's worth of machine gun and becoming a 10-barrel version of all those machine guns combined? Check. Eating a panzer armor to become a big slab of steel shield? Check. Eating an entire theme park to use anything from go-karts to roller coasters as a weapon? Check too. And oh, it once ate a {{BFS}}; carnage ensues.
71	* Tobimaro Mizunokoji from ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' is notorious for his ability to eat baseballs, due to his inept TrainingFromHell regime that saw him stranded with nothing else to eat other than the baseballs he'd brought along to try and remedy his AthleticallyChallenged status. He's also shown eating a bowl of rice, ceramic bowl and all, in one story, but he's most famous for the baseball eating, to the point he instinctively tries to catch and eat any baseball thrown or hit his way.
72	* Taro (and his family) from the manga ''Manga/YamadaTaroMonogatari'', due to being [[PerpetualPoverty exceedingly poor and half-starving most of the time]], is capable of digesting pretty much ''anything'' without trouble. Including a [[MushroomSamba whole bag of narcotics]] that he mistakes as flour.
73	* Makihara aka Gourmet of ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' also eats people, but as a side effect, he gains ''any'' powers that the person had. [[spoiler: Too bad that, when he ate Toguro-ani, Toguro's powers reverses the effects and allowed him to [[HoistByHisOwnPetard kill Gourmet slowly and painfully from the inside]], eventually taking control of his body until Kurama unmasks and defeats him by giving Toguro a FateWorseThanDeath]].
74	* [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaFranchouchou Tae Yamada]] from ''Anime/ZombielandSaga'' is a type 2; being a zombie, she doesn't have to worry about little things like food poisoning. And in keeping with her feral, barely sapient nature, most of the time she's looking for the next meal.
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