Toriko

ialah sebuah siri manga Jepun yang dilustrasikan oleh  Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro. Ia mengikuti pengembaraan Toriko, seorang Pemburu Gourmet, semasa dia mencari yang jarang dan pelbagai makanan untuk menyelesaikan sajian penuh. Dalam perjalanannya, beliau ditemani oleh seorang chef penakut yang mahu memperbaiki kemahirannya. Toriko disirikan dalam majalah manga Shueisha, Shōnen Jump Mingguan dari Mei 2008 sehingga November 2016, dengan babnya dikumpulkan dalam 43 jilid tankōbon

Sebuah filem pendek oleh Ufotable untuk Jump Super Anime Tour 2009, dan sebuah lagi untuk lawatan 2010. Siri juga diadaptasikan kepada siri televisyen anime yang dihasilkan oleh Toei Animation, dimana disiarkan di Jepun sejak tahun 2011. Tambahan pula, Toei juga telah menghasilkan filem animasi 3D pendek 2011 dan filem 2013.

Plot 

Toriko ialah Pemburu Gourmet yang sedang mencari makanan yang paling berharga di dunia supaya dia boleh membuat kursus hidangan penuh. Seorang lelaki dengan keupayaan melebihi manusia dia menggunakan kekuatan yang luar biasa dan pengetahuan alam haiwan untuk menangkap dan mengelak binatang yang buas, dan jarang ditemui untuk meningkatkan lagi menunya. Dia ditemani oleh chef Komatsu, yang lemah dan malu-malu yang mana, terinspirasi oleh cita-cita Toriko ini, mengembara dengannya untuk meningkatkan kemahiran masakan dia dan untuk mencari bahan-bahan yang jarang ditemui. Toriko dan kawan-kawannya sering memerangi , yang berusaha untuk mengawal bekalan makanan seluruh dunia dan mencari  yang sangat diingini ramai, yang mana digunakan oleh Acacia, Pemburu Gourmet legenda untuk menghentikan peperangan yang berlaku lima ratus tahun sebelum siri bermula.
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Latar belakang 
The planet of Toriko is separated into two parts; the  and the . The Human World is where modern civilization exists and occupies just 30% of the planet, the rest is the Gourmet World, which is inhospitable to most humans due to the strength of the wild life and extreme climate changes. In the , which began five centuries ago at the end of the hundred-year war, the taste and texture of food is extremely important. The , or IGO, maintains order and defends civilians from dangerous animals and gourmet criminals. Originally set-up by the United Nations, the IGO is now independent from them and holds more influence as it is composed of 360 nations. They apply a numerical rating from 1 to 100, referred to as , to most ingredients based on the difficulty of acquiring it. The IGO has a group of seven individuals with highly sensitive taste, called the  or G7, that are in charge of assigning the star ranking of restaurants and the ranking of chefs.

Individuals known as , who have usually trained their abilities to that of superhuman, are regularly hired by restaurants and the rich to seek high-level ingredients and rare animals. One can also increase their strength by implanting  into their bodies.  are those who dedicate themselves to protecting ingredients from extinction or exhaustion, and who can also arrest people that partake in the transaction of illegal goods or violate poaching laws.

Media

Manga 

Written and illustrated by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, Toriko began serialization in the manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump on May 19, 2008. The individual chapters have been published into tankōbon volumes since November 4, 2008. As of July 4, 2013, the series spans over 200 chapters and 25 tankobon volumes. Readers and fans of the series can submit ideas and designs for monsters and ingredients that appear in the manga.

Shimabukuro collaborated with Eiichiro Oda, author of One Piece, for a crossover one-shot of their series titled One Piece x Toriko: The True Food! Devil Fruit, which ran in the April 4, 2011 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump. There is also a spin-off manga series of Toriko titled , written by Toshinori Takayama and illustrated by Akitsugu Mizumoto. It has been serialized in  Saikyō Jump since 2011, with four collected tankōbon as of August 2, 2013.

At San Diego Comic-Con International 2009, Viz Media announced they had licensed Toriko for an English-language release. The first collected volume of Toriko was released on June 1, 2010, and Viz has released fourteen volumes as of February 5, 2013. The manga premiered in the February 2010 edition of a digital supplement available only to subscribers of Viz's printed Shonen Jump magazine. When the printed magazine ended, Toriko was one of the launch titles of its digital successor Weekly Shonen Jump (originally named Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha), starting with chapter 171 in its debut issue on January 30, 2012. The Toriko and One Piece crossover was sent out free to annual subscribers of the magazine who signed up before April 30, 2012. Madman Entertainment released the first volume in Australasia on July 10, 2010, and have released fourteen volumes as of March 10, 2013.

Filem 
A short film simply titled Toriko, directed by Mitsuru Obunai and produced by Ufotable, was shown on October 12, 2009 at the Jump Super Anime Tour 2009. It was streamed on Weekly Shōnen Jumps English website one month later. A second short, titled , was shown at the following year's Jump Super Anime Tour on October 23, 2010.

An animated 3D film short, , produced by Toei Animation, was released in Japanese theaters on March 19, 2011 as a double feature with the One Piece film One Piece 3D: Mugiwara Chase. A feature length film, , was released in theaters on July 27, 2013.

 Anime 

In December 2010, it was announced that Toei Animation would be adapting Toriko into an anime television series in 2011. It is directed by Akifumi Zako and began broadcasting in Japan on Fuji Television on April 3, 2011. It took over Dragon Ball Kai'''s 9:00 am slot on Sunday in the "Dream 9" time-slot, airing before One Piece. A cross-over special between Toriko and One Piece, considered episode 1 of Toriko and episode 492 of One Piece, aired as the series' premiere, with another between the two series airing on April 10, 2012, episode 51 of Toriko and episode 542 of One Piece. A two-part hour-long crossover special between Toriko, One Piece and Dragon Ball Z, referred to as Dream 9 Toriko & One Piece & Dragon Ball Z Super Collaboration Special!!, aired on Fuji TV on April 7, 2013.

In 2011, Funimation Entertainment announced that it has licensed Toriko for streaming in North America within four days after the Japanese broadcast. It premiered on Hulu and Funimation's official website on April 14. Eventually, the series was rescheduled to stream within three days after the Japanese broadcast. Funimation began releasing the series on DVD with an English dub from January 8, 2013. Madmen Entertainment announced they licensed the anime for Australasia on February 3, 2013.

 Media lain 
A book titled  was published on October 2, 2009, it includes an interview with Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, the 2007 one-shot of Toriko, and other unrelated one-shots by the author. The guidebook  was released on November 4, 2011 and includes the original one-shot for Toriko from 2002 and the One Piece crossover chapter.

The television show Sakiyomi Jum-Bang! created a Vomic, a portmanteau of voice and comic, of the first couple chapters of Toriko in 2009. The segment has voice actors act over a manga series as the pages are shown on screen, Toriko was played by Takashi Kondō and Komatsu by Daisuke Kishio.

There have been five video games created by Namco Bandai based on Toriko. Two for the PlayStation Portable, Toriko: Gourmet Survival! (2011) and Toriko: Gourmet Survival! 2 (2012), and three for the Nintendo 3DS, Toriko: Gourmet Monsters! (2012), Toriko: Gourmet Battle! (2013) and Toriko: Ultimate Survival (2013). Toriko is also a playable character in the upcoming Weekly Shōnen Jump crossover Playstation 3 and PlayStation Vita fighting game J-Stars Victory Vs.

 Sambutan Toriko is currently enjoying considerable success. Readers have consistently ranked it among the top five Weekly Shōnen Jump titles in the magazine's popularity polls alongside the best-sellers like One Piece, Naruto, Bleach and Hunter x Hunter. In 2009, Toriko was nominated for the second annual Manga Taishō award. The first and second collected tankōbon volumes, both released on November 4, 2008, were ranked 10th and 11th respectively on Oricon's manga chart for their first week, with nearly 70,000 and 67,000 copies sold. It was the 10th best-selling manga series during the first half of 2011, with over 1.8 million copies sold. Toriko was the eleventh best-selling manga series of 2012, with over 3 million copies sold, and the thirteenth best of 2013, selling 2.8 million. The series has 18 million volumes in circulation as of November 2013. In 2011, Bandai Namco estimated Toriko would bring US$25.6 million in toys for the 2012 fiscal year.Otaku USAs Joseph Luster called Toriko "an absolute feast for fans of beasts", not able to tell "whether Shimabukuro just comes up with everything on the spot or if it's all meticulously planned out", and said that the series' charm is "how it effortlessly applies classic shonen tropes to such an outlandish world." However, he commented that "The formula of Toriko is apparent right from the start in true shonen fashion[...] tougher and tougher creatures will quickly follow." Deb Aoki writing for About.com also praised the imaginative beasts and monsters of the series, as well as the occasional informational bits on the true science of foods, but called the art "grotesquely goofy."

Lisa Pattillo of Anime News Network (ANN) called Toriko an "in-your-face action story riding on the back of a gastronomic fetch-quest." She compared Toriko's design to that of characters from Dragon Ball and Fist of the North Star, and suggested this might deter some readers. ANN's Rebecca Silverman stated that "Shimabukuro has clearly devoted time and thought to crafting the story's world, as complex creatures, animal profiles, and distinctive landscapes attest.", and called his art an "odd mix of old school JoJo's Bizarre Adventure-style manly men and newer One Piece-style chibis." Carlo Santos, also for ANN, praised the action, saying "For over-the-top action, it's hard to beat the thrill of Toriko punching out a swarm of giant insects, or the creep factor of a villain who literally wears another human's skin.", and called the art one of the series' highlights. Reviewing the anime, Santos said "Fans will know what to expect in each adventure: ravenous strongmen flexing their superpowers, ferocious foes being slaughtered by said strongmen, and a rich, imaginative world full of impossibly delicious foods. But the simplicity of Toriko is also its downfall: there are no clever twists in store, the characters don't develop at all, either personally or interpersonally, and even the most calculating villains are just mindless targets waiting to be knocked down one by one. The on-again, off-again animation also does a disservice to the bright colors and creative designs of the series."
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