Toriko, Chapter 381: Neo and Acacia
We have a bit of Neo rampaging around, and apparently, well, that's it for Heracles, whose head just drops down. And we were expecting some regenerative power thing going on. Bambina is also unresponsive for most of the thing. The Emperor Crow tries to do his shadow of death thing, but Neo jumps up and eats half of the poor bird. Man, talk about the worf effect. Poor Emperor Crow. The Mother Snake does this weird yet somewhat impressive thing where she swallows Neo and summons the rest of her body to coil around itself like a giant ball of yarn, but honestly who's really buying that Neo dies like this? Yeah, next chapter we'll have an exploding snake.
The Blue Nitro (who I still can't tell apart) do a little bit of a drama where Pair-the-Nitro kills Center-the-Nitro (in the name of having him revive in the future, apparently) while bringing Center-the-food to Acacia, so Acacia can eat Neo and revive Neo into its perfect form or something like that.
We then cut to Joie and Starjun, where they talk a bit about Food Luck... and Starjun mocks Joie for underestimating Midora, who bursts out of his prison, apparently having copied Joie's Food Luck powers. Because apparently that's a thing you can do?
It's all decent development and some really great artwork especially with the Crow and the Snake, but I'm just bummed at seeing the Eight Kings batted around like this.
I mean, he copied something like Minority World. Should Probability manipulation be all that hard to copy?
ReplyDeleteThat said. Pair is the only living Nitro at the moment.
Atom-the-Nitro was the one taken down by Teppei. Good ol' spikey-face.
News-the-Nitro was the Gorilla-esque one Jirou Eternal Knocked.
God-the-Nitro was never identified, but he's either the Nitro with a ton of LIFE orbs in his hair hat Jirou headshaked or the all black Nitro he Guiness Punched.
The same can be said for Earth-the-Nitro.
Another-the-Nitro was the only "feminine" one. She was Big Banged by Jirou.
And Center just got straight up murdered by Pair.
And that's how you tell them apart.
Yeah, I just didn't quite figure out that Midora actually has, y'know, power-copying powers. I thought he learnt Minority World the same way that Ichiryuu does. So does that mean Midora has the powers of, well, practically anyone he's met? Jirou, Toriko, Setsuno, the entire Bishokukai, hell, even Acacia himself?
DeleteAtom and Pair are the only ones I can tell apart - Atom's weird prolapsed spike-face, and Pair's the one Nitro that's been around since the Sky Garden and has a cooler design and these leafy pants. I remembered distinctly there was a grandma Nitro, that's apparently Another-the-Nitro.
That's a good little recap, though, because there's no way I'm going to go back and track every one of them. I was like, right, Jirou killed four of them, moving on.
Naming the Nitros with the same names as the dishes sounded cool and a nice way to subvert expectations and make us theorize whether Acacia was talking about the dish or the Nitro, but it ended up being kind of confusing, didn't it?
I've never had that problem, to be honest. But then again, I've been theorizing and fact checking everything to do with the Nitro up until Center was introduced.
DeleteIt's been so disappointing seeing them hyped up only to be smacked down at every possible turn.
I can see where you're coming from though.
I've been waiting for the Nitro to be relevant ever since the Blue Nitro were introduced, because up until then so far only Pair has been really anything important. But, y'know, Atom and Another get a couple of lines here and there and Atom ends up looking super-memorable, but overall the Blue Nitro is one of those that end up feeling rushed among with the rest of the full course, the Eight Kings, Coco/Zebra/Sunny, Brunch, the mind-controlled people by NEO, the mass amount of characters introduced during the big food festival war and end up doing jack shit...
DeleteToriko fares a LOT better than Bleach did, having like probably several years given to rush down its story, but man, it's still not fun to read. Honestly I'm just shaking my head at how unfair Shonen Jump can be, when a very stagnant manga like Hunter x Hunter (come on, before the Hisoka-Lucifer fight the manga kind of lost all interest and ground to a standstill after the Nanika mini-arc) can be allowed to just go on a hiatus for years at a time, come back for a couple of chapters and then disappear... while things like Toriko and Bleach and other stuff get the 'rush to the end' treatment. At least give Bleach like five chapters, jeez.