Toriko, Chapter 370: God Almighty
We get a short two-panel scene of Joie commenting about how Midora will be sealed and killed when the Earth is destroyed. Then Brunch and Aimaru are zipping around in the air inside a thunderbolt, and Aimaru basically asks Brunch to take him into a location that the gourmet mold is telling him to. It's a bit of a weird subplot to drop the two characters in, and it's like the manga is trying desperately to make fan-favourite characters actually do something... which, y'know, Brunch probably would've gotten to do something if we actually got a ten-chapter arc with him and Zebra finding that one Acacia dish, but at risk of repeating my rant about skipping all the ingredients...
They head off, while the Four Kings, their appetite demons (who actually talk!), Starjun and Ootake face off against the godfrog. They note that Komatsu is still inside god and probably will Mary Sue and cook god from the inside out. Toriko and Sunny do this Jet Fork/Spatula mega-combo, but the godfrog can apparently stretch its body and reflect all attacks. Zebra's voice cutter doesn't manage to cut the godfrog, and Coco's Aimaru-fungus-enhanced poison spears are easily dodged. Starjun creates a gigantic tornado of fire and asks Ootake to cook godfrog... but Ootake's a weakling and is all 'I can't do it'. Plus he's not Komatsu, so he probably won't be able to do jack shit. Honestly I'm pissed off that Ootake is thrust so prominently into this epic battle while Brunch heads off on a sidequest. Raise your hands, anyone who gives a flying fuck about Ootake. No one? Yeah, I thought so.
Jiji rants about gourmet inflation and how the insanely powerful creatures like the Eight Kings and god are created thanks to basically evolution, and he's about to tell Toriko how to prepare god when suddenly Neo! In one of the scariest jumpscare panels in manga ever. We get a short lamentation as Jiji reflects on how Ichiryu gave him, Kaka and Chichi identities and they developed personalities from then on, and it's sad how his last thought was trying to give our heroes how to prepare god... but nah, he just gets consumed.
Whoops. I want to say that I'm sad, but honestly Jiji's always struck me as kind of manipulative and useless especially during the Blue Grill arc where he sent the Gourmet Knights on a multi-year quest without telling them. Certainly can't hold a candle to Jirou or Don Slime's deaths. But it's a decent fatality scene, and definitely one for shock value.
(Please eat Ootake too, Neo!)
Joie also shows up, so the Four Kings and Starjun are going to face off against individuals to finished off the true powerhouses of the Toriko-world. I would call bullshit for the fighters there if they managed to kill Neo-Acacia right there, because power-level-wise it doesn't really make sense unless they manage to eat god first and get a power-up from there, or Toriko's third demon is like the reverse-Neo or whatever. But eh. I just hope for cool fights in the next chapters.
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