Toriko 369 Review: Worship the Frog

Toriko, Chpater 369: What is God

This chapter basically shows god off, which would be meaningful, again, like a broken radio, if we had some actual buildup beyond 'hey yeah all these ingredients whose effects we're not even going to mention leads to god which will show up randomly now'. But no. Instead we have a random hermit crab Cthulhoid thing that unlocks Toriko's third demon because that's more important than buildup.

In normal Toriko fashion, though, god is weird as fuck. It initially manifests as a sperm with Saturn as the head, before a lot more spermy planets with beady eyes shoot out, and ultimately pile up into a big-ass ugly bearded frog. Jiji comments how many of the mini god-sperm-tadpoles are compared to previous gourmet eclipses, and then god shoots out its giant tongue, and ends up eating the moon. Or a moon, since Don Slime blew up a different moon a couple episodes ago. It's basically kinda like Neo, then, in that it can eat anything despite being smaller. Apparently god shows up every couple of centuries to harvest all the rich flavour on earth, creating an almost cataclysmic event. God continues to rampage and we see our heroes try to block it, but Aimaru and Komatsu apparently get dragged up by the tongue? And Brunch goes in to save them? Or something? Highly doubt they would die (Zerba and Sunny make sure as much) and Komatsu will probably cook god from inside anyway. Toriko's all 'let's eat god!' and everything. Which apparently has a capture level of 10,000.

I honestly... also don't particularly care? I mean, god appearing is a lot more interesting than what's going over on Bleach, since god at least has kinda been built up to, but it just doesn't feel as hype-inducing as when Bambina or Neo showed up. It just felt disappointing since I expected something more insane than this -- we already had the eat-everything-like-a-black-hole bit with Neo, and compared to the feats that Bambina or Don Slime did, this is honestly low-key for Toriko. And anyway god's going to be cooked in like two or three chapters anyway so it really feels like we're just getting this out of the way before the whole big fight against neo.

Man, I don't know how much of this is because of the rush factor or how much of it is due to actual bad writing, but damn, Toriko's really became a sad shell of what it used to be.