r/Toriko • u/OkIndependent4785 • 15d ago

Is this fandom still alive?

I was in Toriko fandom for a long time but it feels even emptier now

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u/RoninPI 15d ago

What do you expect? The manga ended nearly 10 years ago and the anime even longer. Neither were exactly critical darlings. There isn't exactly any new content on the horizon and the creator is a nonce.

The fandom isn't exactly going to grow it's a pretty uphill battle.

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u/OkIndependent4785 15d ago

Yeah and it’s sad

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u/RoninPI 15d ago

Toriko is a really important franchise for me. It got me interested in learning to cook. I went from not really being able to do much more than microwave a hot pocket to creating curry dishes from scratch for my family.

Most people aren't going to have a similar experience. To most it's going to be a generic battle shonen at a time when there was a lot of new franchises on the horizon.

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u/OkIndependent4785 15d ago

I totally understand you, I still love this anime and manga even if there is nothing new. It still has a special place in my heart and I will forever love it

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u/veritasmahwa 14d ago

wow its been 10 years already? I still remember following weekly

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u/SoulsLover 15d ago

I read the manga first time last year and I was amazed how good it was, should have been up there with Naruto, bleach and one piece…

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u/Deadx10 14d ago

It was supposed to. Anime killed it.

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u/Nedelka03 14d ago

From 2012 to 2014, the anime was pushed very hard because it was seen as a future replacement for Naruto or Bleach. Hell, it could even rival One Piece if it was given the proper development.

The main problem was that: it was pushed as a shonen, not as a seinen. Thus, the anime was HEAVILY censored in order to be kid-friendly. And where the original manga went hardcore on the bloodshed and violence, the anime displayed nearly no blood. The animation wasn't the best either and the music, not memorable (despite some good tracks).

So the anime failed to meet expectations and, in 2015, the plug was pulled. As a manga reader, it was mortifying to see the manga being rushed to hell and reaching a conclusion not even satisfactory. Toriko is the summum of wasted potential, for me; I'm still sad about it because it had indeed the potential to match One Piece in terms of world-building and narration.

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u/StationNo7982 15d ago

I’m still here. My dog is named komatsu and I love reading it still.

I heard the author at a 1 shot come out earlier this month but then never saw it. Any clues?

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u/fedps27 15d ago

Well, we started to read Toriko again, if you search the posts you will find the last one we read, Chapter 80.

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u/Acceptable-Gap-2397 15d ago

It’s here but it definitely isn’t growing

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u/DoogieMcDoogs 14d ago

I’m still here

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u/Fenix_ikki_ 15d ago

A little

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u/Pojofi 14d ago

If you’re in any Japanese, Korean, Thai, or Chinese speaking internet space it’s very much still active lol. For English…. Let’s just say you might have to start putting in the work 🫡

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u/ParadoxM01 14d ago

I mean no which is sad been a day 1 fan and enjoyed cooking before tho I did get better at cooking tho

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u/Nakija214 14d ago

Yeah gang we just chillin in the back channel until some TikToker makes this manga viral again

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u/Fantastic_Guide_378 14d ago

i wish they would reprint the manga

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u/tronglp1982 14d ago

It's one of the best manga for and I reread it from time to time.

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u/unknowposterxxxx0 14d ago

first time reader here it’s amazing so far

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u/Yooniverse47 14d ago

Just started my reread a week ago. Every other page in Ice Hell I found myself saying out loud "Tommyrod, you son of a bitch" with gleeful contempt. Looked up the price of Volume 10 since Toriko vs. Tommyrod is just an impeccably iconic fight and found myself saying that sentence with real contempt with just a dash of awe. No reprints sucks.

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u/monkeymachinery 14d ago

The strongest form of Alu, who merged with the gourmet demon, turned into a super Ajin and punched infinite nails

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u/Canceo88 14d ago

There's a new one shot called Baka Battle that's supposedly gunna drop off not already from Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro (the Toriko author)

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u/PastWorldly7520 14d ago

My Gourmet Cells are still alive.

Toriko (Manga) was what instilled in me the value of not wasting food and ingredients, and also to learn how to cook (combined with Food Wars: Shokugeki no Soma).

It's just quite unfortunate that the build up and climax of the battles felt a little rushed for me (same as Food Wars)

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u/Illustrious-Feed8946 13d ago

I'm rereading after finishing it almost 8 years ago, I just remembered what a wonderful manga this was

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u/Ok_Reading2986 13d ago

Jumping on here late, but whether it grows or not, the fandom will remain. Creator is a nonce as u/RoninPI so eloquently put it (kindest non expletive terms)

But it’s been 10 years since it ended. So we can appreciate the beauty of it as the standalone work of manga that it is: uniquely bizarre, perfectly comedic, and intentionally engaging and sentimental at all the right moments (until some rushed ones at the very end)

We get to appreciate Toriko and the cast for what they are without wondering or arguing over what they’ll be next.

And it’s a damn fun read if you ask me. Real fans of manga from every generation will appreciate it for how it defines the time it was written in, the potential of what it could have been, and the fact we won’t get another chapter but we have all of these ones. Growth or decline, it won’t die anytime soon.

This went on way longer than I thought but I was buying time for my food to cool down. I give thanks for this worlds bounty :)

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u/Bleeborg2 13d ago

I think the last 74 chapters were dog water but damn I wish Build King hadn't gotten axed so soon.

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u/astronautbdelue 11d ago

Still one of my favorite manga