Toriko, Chapter 371: The Confrontation of the Era
It's a bit of a standard 'encounter the villain' chapter, which is kind of marred by Acacia-Neo spending the entire chapter just doing nothing but yapping and monologuing. He even lampshades that he's spent all this time just talking. Um, okay? There is no real reason for Acacia to do that. Not when Jirou couldn't manage to do anything to him. There's a bit with Acacia seeing god as, well, the frog that it is, swarmed by flies, which represented the Four Kings and Starjun. Oh, and Komatsu's buddy who's still hanging around and no one gives a fuck about.
Also, Joie, who beat Midora to shit, apparently just took Starjun's threat seriously and didn't continue making her back channel. Acacia just... talked. And talked. Toriko confronts Acacia for killing Jirou, then Acacia talked a long time about his motivations and how he eventually failed to outrun Neo, his appetite demon, after eating every single food in the world.
We get a bit of a flashback about Acacia apparently simply whispering a single word to Ichiryu... which I don't think we know about. He then rants about how Jirou dying was simple fate and all that... and considering how he wasn't so chatty when talking with his adopted son Jirou it's a bit odd he would be talking this much to a bunch of kids he doesn't know. And Toriko grabs Acacia by the neck and just goes 'you are just blaming everything on your appetite demon' which is far enough of a criticism. And then Acacia goes a bit crazy, asking Joie why she hasn't cooked the humans (Coco's countering her fungus) and then exchange names and then Toriko has time to flashback to Jiji's death, where he apparently gave everyone present the way to cook god by their super-senses. Which is... okay, whatever. Seriously, Acacia? With everyone else you're like OM NOM NOM NOM SUPER FOOD MONSTER and now you're just yapping?
Meanwhile, the remaining blue Nitro are just talking about how Center-the-Nitro is getting Center-the-ingredient, which presumably is where Brunch and Aimaru buggered off to.
Oh, and Joie summons someone from Tokage. A fist. Whoever that is. And then god yawns. I yawn too... it's a very uneventful chapter which really should have been interesting -- Toriko finally meets Neo! And I... end up kind of not really giving too much of a shit thanks to how bland and boring the confrontation is.
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