Toriko 317 Review: Monkey Beam & Weird Black Dimension

Toriko, Chapter 317: Your Hand

Last chapter promises a fight between Bambina and Kaka. Which happened, but lasted for like three pages. I honestly didn't think Kaka stood much of a chance -- having one of the Blue Nitro beat up one of the Eight Kings would kind of invalidate their badassery, especially since Kaka is not even one of the Blue Nitro nobles or whatever those dudes are called. Kaka makes a good show of herself, stopping and grabbing on to Bambina's tail swipe (which took out mountains before) but apparently Bambina can do a fucking monkey mouth beam thing that not only blows Kaka to oblivion (or probably just far far away) but is willing to blow the tip of his tail off to get Kaka.

And all that while he's got that stupid grin on his face.

Man, Bambina is awesome.

The rest of the chapter is less crazy, though, mostly dealing with Komatsu's revival with the aid of Pair. It's not wholly unexpected that it would happen, and frankly I didn't buy Komatsu dying last chapter at all. We get to see some cool stuff while that's happening, though it's all a bit too... romace-vibey for my tastes. Also I didn't notice last chapter, but apparently Yun's safety beast mode involves him kind of becoming some kind of igloo, with a transparent dome to contain Komatsu and his penguin body flattening out and becoming a door. And he can inhale in the Four Kings as well.

Also we get to see the Back Channel or whatever the fuck that thing is -- we really need to get some explanation -- and I'm going to assume that is activated by Pair whenever something significant happens to it. It's just a weird thing all around. They see Komatsu's heart floating and Toriko figures out he needs to insert his hand through Komatsu's chest hole to grab it and put it back in. And Komatsu is alive.

I thought it was partly hilarious and partly over-dramatic that all Four Kings had tears streaming down their faces throughout the scene thanks to the Sandoriko stuff from last chapter. Overall it's a sufficient chapter, and I especially liked how Kaka just got beaten like a bitch, but I still want some explanations. What is the Back Channel, what happened to Bambina's girlfriend, what happened to Terry and the others, why didn't Yosaku show up and all that jazz.