Toriko, Chapter 396: Yet-Unseen Ingredients
We apparently have a bit of an epilogue in this chapter. We start off showing how Komatsu's two friends, Take and Ume (Take's the Bishokuya-kidnapped one who never did anything, and Ume is... the one who never did anything) and how they made orphanages and cooking schools and IGO apparently selectively bred god and shit. I don't care, to be honest.
Toriko is fishing with a gigantic grasshopper as bait, which is a nice callback to the very first chapter, and both Komatsu and Toriko note how they're going off to outer space. Toriko notes how he's figured out the secret of the gourmet solar eclipse, and apparently the Nitro sent up satellites made up of gigantic pot lids to cook the planet. Yeah this manga doesn't run on normal logic that's for sure.
Apparently the gourmet astronomers have been looking into the sky after the extra senses granted by Acacia's full course (remember that? It's all kind of ignored after the Pair arc) and apparently there are giant demon kings that snack on suns and cook planets inside giant cooking dishes. And they find the image of a harmonious family made up of energy gathering around a dining table having a meal. That dining table is, of course, a fucking galaxy. Toriko apparently talked to the Blue and the Third Appetite Demon within him, and they told him of a place called the Farthest Land, basically gourmet-heaven, where gourmet gods lived and an appetite inflation took place and causes a gigantic explosion of Gourmet Energy, which led to the Gourmet Big Bang and the creation of the world.
And a certain family of gods, each member associated with a certain colour (father's Black, mother's White, first son's Red, second son's Green and third son's Blue), protected a Planetary Full Course, and Komatsu notes how similar the familial structure was to Acacia's family. Toriko notes that the 'buddha-looking guy' within him, the Third Appetite, was White. Toriko and Komatsu note how the initials of Acacia's full course (or the Planetary full course, I guess) spells out PANGAEA, which was something the fandom figured out.
And apparently food luck is the fragmented energy of the gourmet gods. I don't care.
The introdump is interrupted by a giant shell -- the baby version of Blue Grill -- eats Toriko's giant grasshopper, which Toriko wants to fashion into a spaceship and apparently has been breeding for this time. The Back Channel thing will allow them to return back so Rin doesn't have to worry. Toriko and Komatsu are setting off alone, without Coco, Sunny or Zebra... who's apparently already in space. And Terry apparently returned to the pack to stake his claim as a member of the Eight Kings. Having suffered losses, the old Eight Kings are all no longer kings, so replacements (including old monsters like the Troll Kong, Devil Orochi and Regal Mammoth) are fighting it out for the right to become kings.
We get a short montage of all the insane shit in space, and we end in a final two-page spread of the little scallop shooting through space, with shit like skewered planets, planetary turtles, gigantic nebula snake things and whatnot, just noting how utterly crazy as all hell Toriko and Komatsu's new journey would be. This is what we're all expecting Toriko's final chapter to be, really, just a wrap-up and an 'the adventure continues!' moment with Toriko and Komatsu. We unexpectedly get a couple of loose ends and introdumps and origin stories thrown here and there, which clarifies the mystery about Toriko's appetite demons and what they really are... but yeah. Toriko's over, and I'm honestly kinda sad. Will do a separate article some time in the future reflecting on what Toriko did right as a series and when the rushing and the breakneck pace started to somewhat ruin it.
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