Toriko, Chapter 373: The Place God Points To
We start off with Aimaru and Brunch, and apparently Aimaru has an appetite demon within him. Which I would really probably care about if Aimaru ever actually, y'know, did anything beyond being a cool concept and a cool design. We get a long backstory from Aimaru about how Area 0 was the place that the place that all gourmet cells originated from, which created the giant continent Pangaea (the name of the actual first continent in real life, as well as an acronym made from all of Acacia's full course sans Center). And the center of what used to be Pangaea, well, has the dish Center. Which might be more important than god itself, because it leads to the 'farthest land', i.e. space.
Again, this felt like a sidequest that really should've played out alongside one of the other dishes that Team Zebra, Team Coco or Team Sunny should be going after in actual fleshed-out arcs instead of just having it introdumped randomly upon our lap. It's cool seeing Brunch and Aimaru actually do stuff, but nine times out of ten in a Toriko chapter it's like we're just getting introdumps about the history of the universe without actually exploring it slowly, and it just feels like a tiresome dump.
Oh and after being camera-shy for the past 372 chapters, the Dragon King Derous finally makes its appearance, complete with its weird ten eyes and tentacly beard. It's gigantic as all fuck, and the Eight Kings fanboy in me is happy and sad at the same time. Happy that we're seeing Derous at long last, but sad because I know that he really won't get to do much in the grand scheme of things with so many things going on and none of them being given adequate screentime.
In the Neo headquarters, Zaus and Teppei (who I honestly forgot existed) are going around purifying the brainwashed chefs. Reaaaally could've been more effective and purified the Bishokuya dudes that are fighting Starjun right now. But no, they purify the likes of Apollo and KomatsuFriend (not bothering to look up his name). We get more random introdumps about how Joie is stockpiling golden cookware to go to space, how Apollo found golden materials while going to space and for whatever fucking reason, they decide to let KomatsuFriend go with Teppei to cook god instead of Zaus. Who can actually, y'know, fight.
Zaus heads off to fight Uumen, though, who randomly shows up and Zaus decides to fight Uumen. Definitely more interested in Zaus and Uumen compared to Teppei and whatshisface.
Meanwhile, Toriko and Neo exchange some generic dialogue, and Toriko decides to make Neo his meat dish. I don't care about this particular leg of the manga. I'm sorry. I mean, it's the big main character and the big villain, and while I don't particularly hate it when they show up, their confrontation is honestly just so repetitive. It's not quite Fairy Tail level of repetitive, but still.
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