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Someone once said...
That there are lions that grow a mane of okra.
Oklions.
That there are ladybugs with seven rich, sweet smelling banana slices on their wings.
Banana Starrybirds.
The world is in the Gourmet Age.
The age of seeking out yet unknown tastes.
Overflowing Food Luck!
A Pilgrimage to Gourmet Shrine!
It looks like there's really no easy path even when you've got great Food Luck.
I never would've thought a Gourmet Shrine would be in a place like this.
Hey, might this be your first time here, Komatsu?
Well, I've always wanted to come, but I've never quite had time...
Somebody claiming to be a chef should go at least once.
It's your first time here, too, isn't it, Toriko-san?
That's because I'm not interested in visiting shrines and stuff like that...
Listen to me.
It's huge.
That's one huge torii gate.
Gourmet Shrine
This is the entrance to Gourmet Shrine?!
Take a look everyone.
The inner area of Gourmet Shrine is an astounding 80,000 square kilometers.
An astonishing 9 billion people a year come from all over the world for Gourmet Prayer and Food Cleansing Ceremonies.
It's a truly a heaping helping gigantic shrine.
And here, today, a massive event that's only held once a year is about to begin.
The moments of this year's greatest scoop
will be brought to you by me, Tina of Gourmet TV,
without missing a single gram!
I know how huge it is, but with crowds this big it feels like an amusement park.
They say that in the Gourmet Age,
increasing your Food Luck links directly to success in life.
So Bishokuya and food merchants are a given,
but even the leaders of political and business circles come here en masse.
It's truly a food power spot.
Toriko! And Komatsu-kun!
Zange!
Oh lord, please forgive me. I repent.
( Zange = Repent/Confess )
Hey, my name's Zonge!
I'm sure I saw Toriko and Komatsu just now...
Just how intent is this paparazzo on following me?!
What, are you selling pictures to a weekly photo magazine or something?!
It's just because you're so famous, Zonge-sama.
I guess so.
You sure are famous. In a bad way...
Look at all these street vendors!
There are famous food stand chains, too!
Okay, let's go eat!!
That was fast!
Welcome, welcome!!
Have some Garlip stir-fried Bean Sprout Worm!!
Amazing! Natural Garlip!!
Old man, gimme that whole portion you're stir-frying!
Come again!
I give thanks to all of the ingredients in this world,
Itadakimasu!
Yum!
Those crisp and fresh bean sprouts
with the alluring scent of garlic is irresistible!
Baked Easter Islantatoes!
Here. Thanks for your patronage.
They're hot, so watch out.
Itadakimasu.
Freshly roasted Baked Easter Islantatoes have such a heavy and sweet fragrance.
Oh, they're roasting those chestnuts, packed full of dreamy flavored cream, Kuriimus?!
( Kuriimu is meant to sound like the word "cream" and uses the kanjis for "chestnut" and "dream". )
Lady, lemme have 10 of those!
Yes, sir!
Anyhow, this place is unbelievably busy.
It honestly looks like a festival.
Gourmet Shrine has over 300 events a year.
There's some kind of festival or something that attracts tourists every day.
I'll bet that opening up a shop at such a well-boding place increases their Food Luck, huh?
Ya know, I think they'd need super-strong luck in the first place in order to get a shop here.
There are as many stars in the sky as there are people who run stands that want to open in Gourmet Shrine.
And even among those, only 777 are chosen each month to be allowed to set up shop inside the grounds.
777? As in lucky 7?
I guess the moment you're chosen among all those, you've already got great luck.
This mystical place called a "power spot",
it makes everyone feel really magnanimous and really get their wallets open.
Thanks to all the people coming to visit the shrine, the shops really prosper.
Apparently money really comes to those who have better luck.
However, there are some shops that really miss out on all the luck.
Gourtree Fruit
3000 Yen Each
I finally set up a shop underneath the sacred trees, the Gourtrees, and yet...
I guess the taste just wasn't good enough, huh?
Ain't those Gourtree Fruits?!
Ah, yes.
Mister, sell me those fruits! All of 'em!
Eh?! Can you pay for all of them?!
You've gotten totally magnanimous now, Toriko-san!
Thank you so much!
That crunchy skin texture,
with that moist, creamy and sour fruity feeling inside.
It's got just the gentle, refined taste you'd expect.
T... Th-Th...That's such a huge chouzuya!!
A chouzuya is place for ritual cleansing of hands and mouth with water when visiting shrines, usually Shinto.
It's sacred spring water called Holy Water.
Visitors that visit the shrine come here to wash and purify their hands and mouths and then start on the pilgrimage,
Acacia's Full Course Pilgrimage.
A-Acacia's Full Course Pilgrimage?!
The Gourmet Shrine is a place to celebrate Bishokushin Acacia.
It contains the statue of Acacia,
and the way to the main shrine celebrates his Full Course.
How it works is, you go to worship each Food Shrine in turn starting with the Hors D'oeuvres.
Yum!
Though it's called celebrating the Full Course,
the actual ingredients aren't there.
Even their names aren't written anywhere!
What?
I was all excited to get to see Acacia's Full Course...
What's that?!
Thank you for waiting, Toriko-sama.
This is our guest-carrying sheep, a Taxeep.
Taxeep?
Yes.
Riding on one will let you explore the vast grounds comfortably.
I got a reservation to rent one.
Thank you for your patronage.
They say that this huge site is 80,000 square kilometers.
It'd take months to go around the whole thing if you went by foot.
In fact, there are hotels and various lodging establishments inside the grounds,
for some guests that make their pilgrimages several months long.
Well then, I wish you a pleasant pilgrimage.
Make sure you've got your seatbelt fastened.
It's so fast!
The Taxeep's maximum speed is 150 kilometers per hour.
But it's a safe method of driving, so relax.
Really?!
Ah, look! Food fortune telling, Food Mikuji!
Food Mikuji
( Mikuji are random fortunes written on slips of paper given out in Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. )
Let's test our luck!
Hey! We don't have time to get sidetracked!
Gourmet Charms
Oh, they're selling charms, too, huh?
"To have many gourmet guests" and "To happen across delicious ingredients"?
Those are wishes everyone living in the Gourmet Age have.
"Bountiful food and fruitfulness".
This is a prayer for someone in fishing or agriculture to have a big catch or a bountiful harvest.
This one is "Fat loss and slenderness". A charm for good looks.
I got a bad harvest.
What about you, Toriko-san?
I got a bountiful harvest.
You're so lucky.
Well, I guess at least I didn't get terrible harvest.
You just need to buy one of these charms.
"Greater food technique fortune"?
"To have greater skill as a chef" or "To encounter a rare ingredient".
These are good luck charms for chefs.
This, please.
That will be 600 yen.
Okay, let's go.
The sacred trees of the Gourmet Shrine, the Gourmet Cedar.
Nicknamed Gourtrees.
Th-They sure are huge trees...
You can find Gourtrees growing all over inside the grounds,
but these are the largest class of them.
The one said to be in a combo with Acacia, God of Chefs Frohze,
was said to have used them to make cutting boards and various cooking tools.
They're lucky trees.
Cooking tools made out of these trees?
That reminds me, a Full Course is a menu of 8 items, right?
But there were only 7 Food Shrines...
Look, there it is, Komatsu!
That's...
Gourmet Shrine's main shrine!
Heave-ho! Heave-ho! Heave-ho!
What is that?!
A portable shrine, huh?
I guess you'd expect it to be this busy around the main shrine.
It sure is amazing up close.
It's bigger than the torii gate at the entrance.
I'd expect nothing less for the symbol of the Gourmet Age celebrating Acacia.
Inside here is Acacia's statue...
This place... has a starkly different feel to it.
This is the first time that, outside of eating,
I've felt I'd be doing something that would make my life fulfilling.
This space is teeming with something...
That can only be...
Food Luck.
The source of this Food Luck...
A completely unexaggerated... life-size statue.
This man is... Bishokushin Acacia.
Thank you.
The only words that flowed from our hearts were those two.
Food Luck
Oh?
Toriko-san, do you think we increased our Food Luck?
I wonder...
Wanna test it?
Now, let us begin this year's activities!
The big once-a-year event, the choosing of the Foodman!
The one to successfully pull the kitchen knife from the giant chopping board made from the sacred tree, the Gourmet Cedar,
will be deemed this year's Foodman!
Who could it be this year?!
It's really stuck in there...
Outta the way, I'm next!
I'm definitely getting this thing out!
Pure strength alone will never dislodge it!
Without reading the grain of the wood and using a perfect level of power,
you won't be able to make that knife budge!
Because the temperature and humidity of the day also affect it, to say the least, you will need luck!!
Out of the way!
I, Zonge-sama, will clear this task in an instant!
Go get 'em, Zonge-sama!
That guy's got nothing but bad luck.
Leave this to me!
What's with this crappy game?! It's so boring!
Take this!
Huh?!
Zonge-sama!
3... 2... 1...
Now then, our second challenger has finished.
Who will be the next to try their hand?!
She acted like he wasn't even there.
What do you think, Komatsu? Wanna give it a shot?
It's the Foodman Selection that decides who has Food Luck.
Worth a try, ain't it?
O-Okay!
I'll take on the challenge!!
Now then, the next challenger has stepped up!
He has quite a small frame...
Huh? Komatsu-kun?
Komatsu?
Isn't that Chef Komatsu?
From Hotel Gourmet?
It's Chef Komatsu, maker of the Century Soup!
It's true!
Why's he in a place like this?
It's Chef Komatsu!
Awesome!
The grains in the wood are even and cleanly aligned.
This hard and good-quality chopping board was made from a section close to the center of the tree.
This is a good kitchen knife that's gotten a lot of use.
But the curve from the ridge to the tip has a peculiarity to it.
The best way to release the blade would be not quite vertical, but at a bit of a slant.
Lightly, like this...
He got it out!
Chosen by Gourmet Shrine... By Bishokushin Acacia, this year's Foodman is
Hotel Gourmet's Chef Komatsu!
This is the moment of a decisive scoop!
This is really something, ain't it, Komatsu?!
Chef Komatsu has won a food ticket for a year's time inside the shine grounds!
Congratulations!
Th-Thank you very much!
Now, it's not over yet!
The other event in the Foodman selection has already begun!
There are some tens of thousands Gourmet Cedars growing inside the grounds.
Among their fruit, there is one winning fruit.
The one to find it will be the other Foodman!
By the way, the seeds inside of the winning fruit are seeds of gold!
What?
Gold...?
I ate one'a those a little whole ago! Hey!
Huh?! It's been found so soon?!
Incredibly, the other Foodman is Bishokuya Toriko!
Toriko has been endowed with powerful Food Luck as well!
That's amazing, Toriko-san!
You're the one with the great luck, Komatsu.
Even though your Food Mikuji fortune was bad harvest, you ended up as Foodman.
In a way, that's even more incredible than me!
That's amazing, Toriko-san!
Let me shake your hand, Chef Komatsu!
Priest Pahpoh.
I'd say this year's Foodman Selection ended on quite the high note, wouldn't you?
To live is to feel hunger.
Happiness starts with eating.
Food Luck is the satiation of the stomach, the heart, and the life.
Therefore all of the guests that come to pray embrace Acacia-sama's Food Luck.
Trying desperately for it to be shared with them for their own gain.
Across these huge grounds, just which Gourtree did the winning fruit grow from?
It was from a shop right near the shrine entrance.
They were all tasty. You guys should go get some.
Ah! Everyone, please help me use my year-long food ticket!
Are you sure?
Yes!
Thank you, Chef Komatsu!
It's nothing, really.
They're...
Yes.
It has been a long time, hasn't it...?
Since I've seen ones so freely sharing
their overflowing Food Luck with those around them.
Acacia-sama...
Is that it?
Could that be the reason you seem so unusually happy?
That those two
are inheriting your will...?
Toriko-san! The stand we got the Gourtree Fruit was past here, right?!
Yeah! We can't leave without thanking the guy running the stand for his help in me being selected as Foodman!
Wh-Why is there finally a line?!
This is a good omen!
A Gourtree Fruit, please!
Food Luck has come my way!
What...?
And I wanted to buy all the Gourtree Fruits he had to take home...
It's all right, isn't it, Toriko-san?
Well, I guess so.
Ti
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Pa
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Welcome to the heaping helping of a talk show, Tinapan!
Today's guest is one of the seven taste masters chosen by the IGO,
one of G7, Patch-san.
Taste Master G7 Patch
They say the members of G7
are the possessors of a miraculous sense of taste,
capable of tasting the difference
of the water in a 25 meter pool when one grain of sugar is added.
Today, we'll be seeing before the cameras if that skill really lives up to its reputation.
We call it...
Rating Check
The G7 Rating Check!
With full cooperation from Hotel Gourmet,
we have been able to dissolve just one drip of a certain taste
into a 25 meter pool.
He will be drinking this and guessing what was dissolved into it.
There is nothing impossible for my tongue.
Then let's start!
A blend tea of Ozone Herb and Black Grass at a 7 to 3 ratio, deep steamed.
And kept at a low temperature in order to curb bitterness?
And your extensive knowledge pays off!
Now, question two.
What is this?
Hail Pepper and a grain of spiciness erasing ginger? How dastardly.
How did you know so fast?!
Then...
How about this?!
There is nothing impossible for my tongue.
This is...
Woah, what's with that reaction?!
I don't know how to describe this smell...
It's unmistakable, the source of this taste is that man...
Yes. That is the water drank by a certain guest when he was on the show.
Now, who was it?
Z-Zombie...
I'm so sorry! The correct answer was Zange!
Who the hell's Zange, dammit?!
H-Hold on!
Now then, on to the next corner.
It gets tastier the more you surprise it?
Huh? This way doesn't work?
Okay, in that case...
UWAAH!
The Astonishing Surprise Apples!!
Next time will be a heaping helping of fun, too!