History Manga / Toriko

* [[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.