Toriko, Chapter 385: Midora's Full Course
The little subplot with Pair is trudging on along, with Brunch asking the perfect question -- what idiot would trust Pair at this point in time? Pair tells us that the Riddle Chapter data we got at the beginning of the timeskip was data of Pair... which is a very disappointing end to that little mystery, but if anything you shouldn't free Pair even more if he's that powerful. And like two seconds ago he was very much in 'seal Neo and fuck everyone else' mode. But Toriko trusts that he can take on Pair with his little power-up, but he needs all the help he can get to take out Acacia.
We don't see Pair getting his knocking undone (can Brunch even do that? He's not Teppei, after all) and the majority of the chapter is Joie fighting against Midora. And, wow, what a curb-stomp battle that was. In one of the best moments ever in the manga, Midora tells Acacia to shut the fuck up, using Minority World to return his giant punch back to his face. And then... well, while Joie attacks Midora with all sorts of Satan attacks -- Satan Vomit at one point, even -- Midora gives this long speech about how his full course are all things related to the warmth of family. And, well, Frohze. Frohze's smile, Frohze's love, Frohze's words... in the words of Joie, Midora might be an "Oedipal mama complex boy" but Midora literally just shrugs off everything Joie launches at him. Apparently Joie ran out of gourmet luck.
You can run out of luck? Well, if you say so. Komatsu better not run out of luck inside the giant frog god...
Toriko shows up to punch Acacia in the face to allow Midora and Joie to finish their little confrontation, and Joie tries to pull the 'Midora, I'm in Frohze's body!' card, but Midora's just chill and blasts her on one side. Joie's attempts to feign helplessness and regret to get close enough to do the 'trap Midora in a pacman' thing again gets absolutely crushed, and Midora leaves Joie to die and disappear, ignoring all her fake bullshit talk about how her body is Midora's only memory of Frohze, but Midora doesn't need a physical reminder -- all the memory of his mother is in his heart. Well, stomach, because this is Toriko. But that's more or less the point.
That was a cool little end to the Midora/Frohze/Joie arc, actually. I think the manga is infinitely better if Acacia and his stupid plot-breaking power level isn't in it.
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