Toriko, Chapter 378: We'll Fight & Cook Together
We start off with a short scene of Aimaru and Brunch arriving on Area 0, and Aimaru giving this long speech about having appetite and his appetite finally awakening. Then we get a long, long, overly long and unnecessary scene with Ootake going all 'I'm preparing god! Komatsu is my rival!' blah blah I don't care about Ootake at all, he's not sympathetic, and he's taking scenes away from so many more interesting characters I would rather read about. Even among the chefs, this could've been Setsuno. Or Yuda. Or Zaus. Or Alfaro. Or Brunch, who deserves to be more than just lightning people-ferry. Or Grinpatch, who's technically a cook. Or literally anyone else.
Terry, Kiss and Quinn show up to back Toriko out in fighting the Blue Nitro. The ever-mighty Zonge show up and has a line of dialogue or two, before Jiji shows up in a full super-duper-ultra-muscle form, bringing food and apparently about to revive Coco, Sunny and Zebra.
Not the most eventful chapter. It's just filled with Ootake nonsense. Neo versus the Eight Kings versus god the frog! Starjun versus Joie! Toriko versus the Blue Nitro! Teppei's sacrifice! Zaus versus... whoever he's fighting, I forgot! Komatsu cooking! We could've fit the Team Starjun vs Team Kuromado fight here! Hell, cut away to practically any other character in the manga and it would be fine. Not Ootake, literally no one but the author cares about him. We never had a reason to care about him beyond him being 'Komatsu's rival'.
His name is Uumen Umeida! He's the one that kicked off the story of Toriko when he asked for Galala Crocodile!
ReplyDeleteHe's been here and there throughout the story. He murdered quite a few of the IGO higher ups when the mass NEO betrayal went on during the Cooking Fest arc.
And now he's finally getting a fight! With Zaus!
Maybe. Hopefully.
Please Mitsutoshi...?
Oh shit! I know who Uumen is, it was like the biggest bombshell when this joke-faced dude suddenly showed up during the big NEO rebellion thing, having killed the G9 or whatever board of directors, and I've always waited for him to become relevant.
DeleteI just forgot he was the dude that Zaus stayed behind to fight.