This is a list of characters from the manga series Toriko by Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro.
Main characters Toriko
is a Gourmet Hunter and the title character of the series. He has blue hair and wears an orange vest and short pants.In the anime, Toriko's uniform is orange in color, but in the crossover stories with One Piece and Dragon Ball Z, his uniform is more reddish-orange compared to Goku's He is one of the Four Heavenly Kings (also The Legendary Four), and his nickname is "The Glutton."Toriko anime, episode 3
Toriko's hunting rule to only killer animals he is hunting, and to "knock" (immobilize) the rest. When he sees life taken for granted, he goes into a state of untamed rage. His regular technique is called "Fork and Knife" where he forms one of his hands as a claw (fork) and the other in a chop position (knife).Toriko anime episode 1 His "Spiked Punch" attack is a seriesIn Toriko's Hit Nail Punch, each of Toriko's punches is called a "fold", so a "five-hit nail punch" is five punches in a row to the same spot. of punches to the same location that he employs to break through walls or defeat opponents.
He has immunity to 70 different poisons and also has an animal-like sense of smell. He adopts a Battle Wolf's newborn pup and names it Terry.Toriko anime, episode 8.
Toriko has been featured in a crossover TV specials with One Pieces Monkey D. Luffy and Dragon Ball Zs Goku.
It is revealed that Starjun is his brother and his father is none other than the great Gourmet God Acacia and his mother is the Chef Goddess Froese.
Komatsu
is a master chef at the Hotel Gourmet, which is part of the IGO (International Gourmet Organization). He is timid, but greatly interested by what he finds in his travels with Toriko. As a result, he tries to overcome his fear and does his best to help. He is a highly skilled and competent chef and has a large knowledge of foods that he knows which foods would work well. He is the only chef in the world who knows the complete recipe of the Century Soup. He keeps a baby Wall Penguin as a pet, which is also a key element of the soup. Toriko decided on Komatsu as the chef in his bishoku-ya and chef combo, which Komatsu accepted, (though Zebra and Sunny have also indicated a desire for Komatsu to form a combo with them). Despite Komatsu's small stature, he has shown remarkable courage in situations in which he might very well be killed. It is also revealed that despite his looks, he and Toriko are of the same age. He is also one of the few people who is able to get along amicably with all four Heavenly Kings. After gaining global recognition for finding a simple method to prepare Yuda's "Medical Cooking Mochi," Komatsu was put into the list of top 100 chefs in the world, ranked at 88.
Century Soup: This legendary soup causes anyone who eats it to form a silly smile of utter satisfaction. Komatsu manages to recreate it after half of a year of experimentation. He decides not to apply to patent the recipe because the Wall Penguins would become over-hunted. Derous Knife: A knife made by Melk II. Using a Derous Fang and Komatsu's broken knife, she made this knife that Komatsu uses to prepare countless dishes, as its sharpness has the potential to reach even legendary ingredients. Due to being created from Komatsu's broken knife, he is able to handle its unbelievable sharpness. Food Luck: Apparently Komatsu has the ability to listen to the 'voice' of ingredients, thereby determining their whereabouts and how to prepare them. His Food Luck is so high that he is able to sense extremely hard to find, high-level ingredients instinctively.
Organizations and Groups
Four Heavenly Kings
Coco
"The Gentleman" of the "Four Heavenly Kings," is good friends with Toriko. He earns most of his living by working as a fortune-teller, which also makes him extremely popular with women. While Toriko mostly relies on his brute strength, Coco prefers using stealth techniques and strategy to subdue aggressors. He has exceptional vision, where he can see in the dark and can read electromagnetic auras in order to predict a beast's next action. His specialty is poison: he has developed immunity to over 500 different kinds, and with newer poisons, generates antibodies to counter them.Toriko anime, episode 4, "The Deadly Cave Battle! Fire, Five-Fold Spiked Punch!" He attacks by converting his body fluids into poison and shooting them like projectiles with various dosages.
Sunny
One of the "Four Heavenly Kings," he is Rin's older brother. He is a calm and collected pretty boy who judges the beauty of people's actions and speaks in an elegant, almost flirting manner. He has a way of knocking without touching the target, mostly related to his "sensor" talent which allows him to know the physical state of those around him. His sensor is actually thousand upon thousands of super thin hairs with incredible strength and maneuverability. Although the individual hairs are very strong and no Human World creatures can cut them, if his hairs are cut, he feels a sense of pain equal to pulling a tooth for each hair. Sunny has developed techniques to manage the pain so it does not overwhelm him. Since mastering "Food Honor" at Shokurin Temple, the total number of "sensors" or "feelers" he can control is 1,000,000 and the range of his feelers is 300 meters. Sunny's body has a very high body temperature and powerful sense of touch, being touched by his hair or any part of his body can only be described as Sunny tasting whatever he is touching. He seeks "harmony" in his dishes, defined as the perfect use of ingredients, perfect handling of the food, and most importantly producing the perfect taste. He also expresses a great sense of disgust towards the Bishoku-kai, displaying anger after seeing the slaughtered creatures without a bite taken out of them that followed a GT Robo's path of destruction. Sunny has an animal partner, a juvenile Mother Snake named Quinn. He and the other Four Heavenly Kings were trained by Ichiryū, the president of the IGO. The Heavenly King who Sunny gets along with the least is Zebra as his appearance and brutal behavior disgusts him.
Hunting Method: Sunny hunts by using his hair to capture his prey. He can also use it to stop and counter enemy attacks. Intimidation: Like most of the other hunters, including the other kings, Sunny uses a form of intimidation to scare an enemy into surrender. However, because of his love of beauty Sunny only uses intimidation when his foe has truly disgusted him, such as when he encounters the GT Robo responsible for taking a single bite out of the creatures of an area and leaving them to rot. His intimidation is the creation of an evil spirit out of his hair, which also makes his intimidation the only one openly visible and not just sensed by killing intent.
Zebra
Described by Toriko as the most powerful of the "Four Heavenly Kings" for his pure destructive capabilities, Zebra is a very large and well-built man with scars that cover most of his body, one of the more striking ones being the half Glasgow smile on the left side of his face. His personality is very angry and small-tempered, he enjoys fighting the most out of all the Heavenly Kings and has a self-professed hatred for anyone or anything acting "cocky". He is incredibly strong, and until recently, he was held in "Honey Prison" for eating 26 species of beasts to the point of extinction. He and the other Four Heavenly Kings were trained by Ichiryū, the president of the IGO. Zebra has the power to both hear and send out ultrasonic waves, as well as the ability to hear even the faintest sounds from tens of kilometers away. Originally, Zebra did not intend to have a Full Course Menu, preferring to just seek out delicious food around the world and eat it. However, as part of the conditions he made with Komatsu to give his help in obtaining the Mellow Cola, Zebra promised to make a better Full Course Menu than Toriko, and if he did so, Komatsu would have to form a combo with him instead of Toriko.
Hunting Method: Zebra hunts by using his mammoth body and strength, as well as his ability to create massive bursts of "sound", capable of breaking steel and killing animals with one hit. His voice can travel up to 70 kilometers.
Gourmet Hunters
A very arrogant and annoying Gourmet Hunter who wields a large axe to hunt. Zongeh has straight black hair and a beard, as well as a very ugly face with scars, and a slightly fat, muscled body with lots of body hair. He is very self-centered and boasts about his completed full course menu which is made of dishes that are mostly easy to obtain. Despite all his boasting he is a very big coward using others as shields and making excuses when confront by a beast he can't take down. A running gag is that people forget his name, thinking his name is a zombie or a zombie movie or something else entirely. He's not very knowledgeable in the world of Gourmet Hunters, such as not knowing about National Treasure Setsuno and thinking that the Growlus (Level 13) is the strongest animal in the world. He also seems to confuse real life with the RPGs that he often plays. For the most part, he serves as comedy relief for the series. Around the end of the series, it is revealed that Zongeh possesses one of the largest amounts of Gourmet Luck in the series according to Midora.
"Knocking Master" Jiro is a retired Gourmet Hunter whose Full Course Menu of Life has beasts of immeasurable levels. He initially appears as a small, drink-loving old man with a scraggly white beard on his chin and a ducktail hairstyle, however, he is able to transform into a giant. He carries an assortment of knocking tools in his vest, and is also able to revive and heal people with his tools.Toriko anime, episode 5, "The Knocking Master! Time to Taste the Puffer Whale!"
Jiro is the grandfather of the Saiseya Teppei, who has also inherited his Knocking talent. He is one of the three disciples of the legendary Bishoku-ya, Acacia, along with Ichiryū, head of IGO, and the boss of the Bishoku-kai, of the three he is the only one that does not the head of an organization, as well as being the only one in retirement. When Jirō was younger, he had a wild, dangerous personality and had part of his power sealed by Acacia so that he could be taught Knocking and other techniques. In addition to his various Knocking tools, Jirō also has a handheld gauntlet with various spikes coming out of it that he only uses in incredibly serious battles, known as the "Fangs of the Wolf King".
Hunting Method: Jirō uses his mastery of Knocking to paralyze and defeat wild beasts, but can also use Knocking to revive and alter organic tissue. He also has a good amount of physical strength, having a hand chop that feels like an axe chop to Toriko, and is able to freely survive in the Gourmet World, although he has to stop drinking when he enters so he has more focus. Intimidation Knocking: Jirō uses Knocking to enlarge his muscles and other tissue to appear like a giant, and then uses "Intimidation" to paralyze beasts and humans alike, like he would with a Knocking gun. Knocking Rifle Hard Type: Using a long range, high-difficulty Knocking rifle, Jirō fires at wild beasts and paralyzes them through Knocking. Despite his rifle being described as having a high difficulty, he is proficient enough to fire on hundreds of beasts and paralyze each in one shot. Rising Wolf - Guinness Punch: Using his "Fangs of the Wolf King," Jirō punches upward and sends out a large attack in the shape of a wolf upward toward the opponent or target. Jirō claims the attack can reach all the way up into space.