Toriko/Characters

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Here are some of the characters who have appeared in the Toriko anime and manga. Under Construction

Warning! Spoilers ahead!


Main Characters

The main duo of the story, the Bishoku-yu Toriko and the five star chef Komatsu, the series follows their gourmet adventures and are the center of the group. However, they're joined by others, depending on the arc.

Toriko

"10 Ren, Kugi Punch!" ("10 Hit, Nail Punch!")
Voiced By: Ryotaro Okiayu (JP, TV), Takashi Kondo (JP, OVA)

  • Action Duo: With Komatsu
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: His Fork and Knife techniques, where he uses his hands as a fork (for stabbing) and a knife (for cutting). This later extends to his legs, which are three or four times more powerful due to legs being muscularly stronger than the arms.
  • Adaptive Ability: Due to his Gourmet Cells, he can adapt to the harshest environment, whether it be in a sub-zero ice cavern, low-oxygen environments or even places with high gravity. He can also gain Acquired Poison Immunity.
  • Anti-Hero: While he's definitely not bad, Toriko only fights for his own goals. That said, he does have a heart of gold.
  • Badass
  • Battle Couple: With Rin
  • Bare-Fisted Monk: He only ever uses his bare fists and fighting techniques in combat.
  • Big Eater: Even moreso than Goku and Luffy, which is saying a lot.
    • What would normally be a full course meal, would be considered to be 10% full to him.
  • Character Title
  • Game-Breaking Injury: He loses an arm fighting Tommyrod, but thanks to a Body Horror fueled process, he's able to get it back.
  • Game Face: When he's really psyched, his face contracts into a devilish grin, and a Hannya-like intimidation starts.
  • Healing Factor: After mastering Food Honor and Immersion, Toriko gains a high degree of regeneration.
  • The Hero
  • Heroes Fight Barehanded: Fights entirely without any weapons, except for his Knife and Forks.
  • Image Song: "Fight And Eat!!"
  • Megaton Punch: Kugi Punch (Nail Punch). Its power depends on how much he charges. The effect of is to hit the opponent with consecutive hits that build in one area. Later, his Nail Gun technique takes this up to eleven, which combines the power of the hits at once without any delay.
  • Nice Guy: Despite his profession and his gluttony, he is a kind man.
  • The Nose Knows: In fact it can gauge power levels and the ingredients used in recipes through the oils of the skin.
  • The Other Darrin: Voiced by Takashi Kondo in the Jump Festa OVA, the TV anime has him voiced by Ryotaro Okiayu.
  • Power Makes Your Hair Grow: During the Bubble Fruit Arc when Toriko finally masters food honor, he eats an incredible amount of Bubble Fruits to give him a power boost. In the process the nutrients from the fruit make his hair grow really long.
  • Rated "M" for Manly: Of course!
  • Razor Wind: He learns how to use techniques similar to this trope, although they're more like flying forks and knives.
  • Thou Shall Not Kill: While he will kill, Toriko believes in only killing when he wants to eat. This separates him from some other Bishoku-ya.
  • Unstoppable Rage: During one of the earliest arcs, after The mother Battle Wolf was shot Toriko loses it.


Komatsu

Voiced By: Romi Park (JP, TV), Daisuke Kishio (JP, OVA)

Four Heavenly Kings

Coco

voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai

  • Acquired Poison Immunity: To the point where he can make new antidotes and poisons in only a few minutes.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: He is a kind gentleman capable of producing extremely deadly poison and acids.
  • Big Damn Heroes: During the Regal Mammoth arc.
  • Bishonen
  • The Chessmaster: Coco is a brilliant strategist, as shown in the Regal Mammoth Arc and even more so in the Livebearer Arc. Hell, his actions against Livebearer put him very near Magnificent Bastard territory.
  • Celibate Hero: Doesn't return the affections of his in-universe fangirls, which considering his main power, is understandable.
  • Elemental Powers: Poison.
  • Fortune Teller
  • Image Song: "Poison Teller"
  • Nice Guy: He's called the 'Gentleman of the Four Kings.' Though, compared to Toriko, Sunny, and Zebra, anyone would seem like a gentleman.
  • Poisonous Person: He's afraid that he can hurt people with his great amount of poisons, so he shuts himself in, only interacting to tell people their fortunes...that is, until the Puffer Whale arc.
  • Power Dyes Your Hair: Inverted, his hair turns white if he overuses his poison.
  • Prophecy Twist: The two times he saw a Death Omen on somebody, they took fatal wounds, but they recovered from them.
  • The Smart Guy: The smartest of the Heavenly Kings (which is saying something, as the others are already smart in their ways), and the one to use wits the most.
  • Technicolor Toxin: In the manga his skin turns red and supposedly his poison too is red. In the anime, it's purple.
  • Tonight Someone Dies: He gets "Death Omens" when somebody is close to getting killed. However, see Prophecy Twist.

Sunny

Voiced by: Mitsuo Iwata

Zebra

Voiced by: Kenji Matsuda

  • Anti-Hero: For one thing, he doesn't give "humble thanks" before eating something.
  • Ax Crazy: Holy shit.
  • Badass: Possibly the biggest badass in the whole series. His first act after getting out of prison? Slaying beasts left-and-right.
    • That's not even getting into why he got into prison in the first place. He wiped out 26 entire species. Ones that were strong enough to damage the ecosystem. In the Toriko universe.
  • Barrier Warrior: Yes, really. He can use his voice to create armor made of sound that can protect other people. He uses it to protect Komatsu from afar during the Gourmet Pyramid arc. Much later he uses it to protect civilians during the battle with the Four Beasts.
  • Berserk Button: "Cocky" people. Also, creatures that annoy him. And especially liars, because he believes lying is the most "cocky" thing to do.
  • Blood Knight
  • Broken Ace: Technically type 1, he's the strongest of the four, but lacks the moral restraints of the other three.
  • Can't Hold His Liquor: He's insanely Badass, but staying sober is one of the few things he can't do.
  • Catchphrase: "Don't get cocky!"
  • Deal with the Devil: Komatsu has to offer his services to Zebra to encourage him to take part in the Gourmet Pyramid.
  • Death From Above: His Thunder Noise and Meteor Noise, the form looking like lightning bolts.
  • The Dreaded: The very news of him getting release is enough to cause a global social and economic crisis. Entire developing countries disappear because of it.
  • Elemental Powers: All of his attacks are themed after (and made out of) Sound, except for Thunder Noise which looks to be sound vibration-induced electricity.
  • Jerkass/Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He tends to swerve in between.
  • Lightning Bruiser: He's pretty quick and agile, despite being the burliest of the Heavenly Kings. Even more so with Jet Voice, where he flies at high speed, and Speed of Sound Movement, where he literally can move at the speed of sound.
  • Make Me Wanna Shout
  • Megaton Punch: His Beat Punch, where he channels sound vibrations through his punch to inflict both physical and internal damage simultaneously.
  • Not Distracted by the Sexy: Warden Love's pheromones have absolutely no effect on him.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: Which is why IGO put him in jail in the first place.
  • Rated "M" for Manly: Even more so than Toriko.
  • Smug Super: And he can back it up.
  • Sociopathic Hero: Emphasis on "sociopath".
  • Token Evil Teammate: He shows absolutely no remorse for his actions. None.

IGO

Ichiryu

Voiced by: Kenyu Horiuchi

Mansam

Voiced by: Jurota Kosugi

  • The Alcoholic: All his dishes in his Full Course Meal are to do with alcohol, for one!
  • Badass
  • Catch Phrase: "Did you just call me HANDSOME?!"
  • Oh Crap: When Toriko breaks the glass of the arena.
  • Super Mode: He also can use Knocking, this time to boost his stats up.

Rin:

Voiced by: Asami Tano

  • Back from the Dead: She is technically 'killed' by Starjun, but comes back thanks to her Gourmet Cells and a kiss from Toriko.
  • The Beast Master: Her job at the first Biotope colosseum. She uses different scents to either excite or calm down the various monsters before/after they fight.
  • Image Song: "Ring Ring"
    • Stealth Pun: The kanji that make up her name mean "little bell"
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: She's quite a tomboy, as opposed to her incredibly campy brother Sunny.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: Toriko. This actually saves her life, believe it or not.
  • Sweet Tooth

Bishokukai

Midora

Voiced by: Masaki Terasoma


Starjun

Voiced by: Shinichiro Miki

  • Badass
  • Bishonen: Cue fangirl Squee.
  • Cool Mask
  • I Let You Win
  • Noble Demon: So far, he seems to be the least murderous of the Bishokukai. Time will tell though.
    • That said, he has absolutely no qualms about killing anyone who gets in his way over anything. This includes Komatsu, who wasn't about to let him take his knife so easily. If you're going to back off and let him through with no problems, then you should be safe.
      • He does atleast try to get Komatsu to back off with his intimidation and warns him it's a bad idea so it's still up in the air.
  • Worthy Opponent: He sees Toriko as this.

Tommyrod

Voiced by: Akira Ishida

  • Ax Crazy
  • The Bad Guy Wins: To Toriko, albeit losing an arm in doing so, and losing swiftly to Teppei, though he was tired from his fight with Toirko.
  • Body Horror: He contains the insect eggs in his stomach and they hatch when he spits them up. Urrrgh...
  • The Beast Master: Of the parasitic variety, and god is it scary.
  • Bee-Bee Gun: One of his techniques allows him to do things similar to this.
  • Everything's Worse with Bees: Not just bees though. ALL KINDS OF INSECTS.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Unlike Starjun and Grinpatch, his politeness covers up the fact that he is a disgusting sadist.
  • Knight of Cerebus: The series was fun, then THIS guy comes along, BEATS Toriko (albeit he got pretty fucked up as well) and after that, the series starts to include darker stories.
  • Lack of Empathy: He doesn't even seem to care about his subordinates, and Toriko notes this about his personality in their battle.
  • Nightmare Face: When he's ready to kill.
  • Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: From keeping hideous bugs within him to having razor sharp fangs, he can even become bigger and more disgusting.
  • Monster Clown: Looks like one, and is definitely a monster compared Starjun and Grinpatch.
  • More Teeth Than the Osmond Family: And actually uses them to bite Toriko.
  • My Death Is Only the Beginning: Okay, he didn't die, but his release of The Parasite Emperor, where he knew he would be drained by it, counts.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: Not him, the sad bug in his mouth. AKA: The Parasite Emperor, a Level 81 Mutant Hybrid Insect
  • Winged Humanoid

Grinpatch

Voiced by: Yuji Mitsuya

Bogey Woods

Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto

Joejoe

Voiced by: Bin Shimada

  • Gadgeteer Genius: In charge of the GT Robos' R&D. Grinpatch also ordered him to make a new straw, which suggests his skills aren't limited to robots.
  • Glasgow Grin: His mouth has stiches around it...
  • Non-Action Guy

Lady Chiyo

  • Cool Old Lady: Chiru and Gourmet National Treasure Chin miss her greatly and laud her cooking, until...
  • Face Heel Turn: She used to be a nice old lady who cooked at Disappearance Cuisine and was versed in Food Honor at a Master's level. When she comes back, she's riding a gigantic zombie condor with a lyebeast and a new member of the Bishokukai, and her first act is to show how delicate her 100 Million Yen Slice is... removing all but the bones of an Apprentice Master's midsection... some fifty feet away. Without visibly moving.
  • Never Mess with Granny: Lady Chiyo might not be one of the Gourmet National Treasures, but a single swipe of her knife was valued at 100 MILLION yen. She also completely removes the flesh, muscle, and organs of Apprentice Master Wagon from his underarms to his hips... without him feeling a THING. Only Coppwo was able to tell Wagon to watch out AS she was attacking him, but to everyone else, Chiyo moved so fast no one saw a thing.
  • Supreme Chef: Master of Food Honor and Food Immersion, capable of cooking and eating all of Disappearance Cuisine's dishes.
  • When Elders Attack: Lady Chiyo arrives at the temple of Food Honor in order to kill one of the Gourmet National Treasures and all of the Apprentice Masters, as doing so will render the ultimate technique of Food Honor, Food Immersion, no more threat to the Bishokukai.

Misc. Characters

Accai

Voiced by: Hideyuki Tanaka

Setsuno

Voiced by: Sakiko Uran

Knocking Master Jiro

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa

Terry Cloth

Zonge

Voiced by: Wataru Takagi

Match

Voiced by: Kousuke Toriumi

Takimaru

Voiced by: KENN

  • Bishonen: Borderline Dude Looks Like a Lady thanks to his face shape.
  • Body Horror: His abilities are able to dislocate bones and skeletal structures, especially if he concentrates enough.
  • The Fettered: He's a member of the Gourmet Knights, who have very strict rules about what they can and can't eat.
  • Mismatched Eyes: The result of a disease that originated in the Gourmet World.


Teppei

Voiced by: Masaya Onosaka

  • The Ace: Guy is able to take down Tommyrod at full power (to be honest though, Toriko fucked up Tommyrod badly).
    • Forget that, this guy took down ZEBRA.
      • With help from Yosaku.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Oh hell yeah, he is.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Leans toward this. Tells other people to be silent only to blab important info recklessly, and when talking about how reckless revivers are bringing back dangerous ingredients, he admits that it's mostly his doing.
  • Technical Pacifist: While Teppei's not a killer, he will use Knocking on his enemies until they can't stand.
  • Thou Shall Not Kill: He adopted this belief when he, on a trip with his grandfather Jiro, found a barren wasteland from hunting.

Yosaku

Voiced by: Banjo Ginga

  • Badass: Handed Sunny his ass in a sparring match (Himself only getting a single wound- which he admits is quite a feat, on Sunny's part) and is cited by the IGO as someone capable of entering the Gourmet World.
  • Jerk With A Heart Of Gold: Drifts towards this. He honestly a decent person, but so very rough with his patients. He's also a loudmouth with no manners.
  • Old Master: He's Teppei's.
  • Warts and All: When first meeting him, no one in Toriko's group could believe that the loud, obnoxious man was a legendary reviver who could heal any disease.

Livebearer

  • Body Horror: His face constantly warps in an Off-Model way, and he just does not look right.
  • Curb Stomp Battle: Coco beats the tar out of him so badly, the battle is not even shown.
  • Mega Manning: How he got his culinary abilities, by eating the information off genuine chefs.
  • Mind Rape
  • Supreme Chef
  • Defeat Equals Friendship: After watching Komatsu work so diligently to prepare the Meteor Garlic, and being reminded of his former self, he helps prepare the Meteor Garlic, and hands the Gourmet Casino over to Match, hoping to return to being a respectable cook.

First Generation Melk

Voiced by: Hiroshi Naka

Melk the Second

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima

Master Chin

  • Absent Minded Sensei: He constantly gets people's names wrong...but only in casual conversation. When he's watching from a distance, it is the only time he gets Toriko's name right.
  • Alliterative Name: His full name is Chinchinchin; the title name removes the other two "Chin" from his name
  • Badass Grandpa
  • Enlightenment Superpower: The apparent by-product of his teachings of "Food Honour", if "Spoon" is anything to go by.
  • Retired Badass: A world renowned Bishokuya; he now spends his days teaching at the Shokurin Temple, but...
  • Training from Hell: His method of test for Toriko and Komatsu? Tossing a 5 km class mountain at them while at "Death Falls", and seeing if they survive.

Tina (anime-only)

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki

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