History WMG / Toriko

[[WMG: The Four Beast is [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-682]].]]

Compare the shadowed figure in [[http://www.mangareader.net/toriko/207/17 chapter 207]] to the one at the end of [[http://www.mangareader.net/toriko/240/15 chapter 240]], which is specifically stated to be [[spoiler: Joa]]. What's more, [[spoiler: Teppei appears with him at the end of chapter 240, suggesting some sort of hypnosis or somesuch implanted when he was knocked unconscious by Joa's mere presence in chapters 207/208 - after all, there's no way Teppei would willingly work with someone like that.]]

[[spoiler: Apparently neo is a black gourmet Cell demon, which is pure appetite. So, it makes sense that the white gourmet Cell demon would be the oppisote, or the closest to an opposite an appetite obsessed universe would allow, manners. The two lines that inspired this theory, were the lines, you've over eaten for billions of years to neo, and the gourmet Cell demons comment on how he loved Toriko giving thanks to the food. Both of these imply an emphasis on good manners, which had been proven earlier in series to increase a gourmet hunters powers by a significant margin, which in turn might explain why the white gourmet cell demon is so much more powerful than neo.]]

Frankly, the two series Toriko ever had a crossover with (OnePiece and DragonBall) had a movie that depicts the main villain as "the strongest enemy ever faced". Dragon Ball Battle of Gods had Goku fight against Bills and One Piece: Film Z had Luffy fight against Z [[spoiler:AKA Zephyr]]. Bonus points if the main villain [[spoiler: ends up becoming friends with Toriko and co at the end]].

* {{Jossed}}: [[spoiler: he may have known about Star and Toriko's parentage, but he and Acacia certainly don't have an understanding between them. It is still possible for him to figure that something has happened to Acacia though, since he did seemingly turned evil compare to his old self, but Midora most likely don't really care anyway, because for him his family is gone forever.]]

[[WMG: The series is a {{Alternate Timeline}} for {{Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs}}]]

[[spoiler: Apparently neo is a black gourmet Cell demon, which is pure appetite. So, it makes sense that the white gourmet Cell demon would be the oppisote, or the closest to an opposite an appetite obsessed universe would allow, manners. The two lines that inspired this theory, were the lines, you've over eaten for billions of years to neo, and the gourmet Cell demons comment on how he loved Toriko's giving thanks to the food. Both of these imply an emphasis on good manners, which had been proven earlier in series to increase a gourmet hunters powers by a significant margin, which in turn might explain why he is so much more powerful than neo.]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Toriko's white gourmet Cell demon represents manners.]]

[[WMG: Toriko's [[spoiler: white gourmet Cell demon]]represents manners.]]

[[WMG: Toriko's [[spoiler: white gourmet Cell demon]] represents manners.]]

[[WMG: Toriko's white gourmet Cell demon represents manners.]]
Apparently neo is a black gourmet Cell demon, which is pure appetite. So, it makes sense that the white gourmet Cell demon would be the oppisote, or the closest to an opposite an appetite obsessed universe would allow, manners. The two lines that inspired this theory, were the lines, you've over eaten for billions of years to neo, and the gourmet Cell demons comment on how he loved Toriko's giving thanks to the food. Both of these imply an emphasis on good manners, which had been proven earlier in series to increase a gourmet hunters powers by a significant margin, which in turn might explain why he is so much more powerful than neo.

* {{Jossed}}: [[spoiler: GOD is apparently Blue Nitro.]]

Apparently neo is a black gourmet Cell demon, which represents pure appetite. So, it makes sense that the white gourmet Cell demon would be the oppisote, or the closest to an opposite an appetite obsessed universe would allow, manners. The two lines that inspired this, were the lines you've over eaten for billions of years to neo, and commenting on how he loved Toriko's giving thanks to the food. Both of these imply an emphasis on good manners, which has been proven earlier in series to increase a gourmet hunters powers by a significant margin, which might explain why he is so much more powerful than neo.

[[spoiler: Seemingly character derailment aside there are telltale signs of something hidden beneath the current narrative: 1. Acacia knows Joie and have some sort of pact with him that goes over even NEO, making NEO docile enough for Acacia to consume it without resistance, there is no way for Acacia ,a mortal man who is at most able to condense a planet's worth of energy into his body, to consume NEO, a eldritch cosmic being which consumed numerous worlds in its billions of years of multiple lifetime, without so much as a fight without its full cooperation. It comes to reason that Acacia must have knowledge of the universe equal to or even over that of the nitros, and connections with beings like Joie, a undying gourmet being who knows how ancient in existence, but how is that even possible without any common ground between them all? 2. Acacia's forehead wound is not connected to NEO, when NEO jump away from Acacia's body, Acacia still has the same scar on his forehead, not to mention the fact that nothing in the world right now is seemingly able to wound NEO at all since it just regenerate from any and all wounds. So the question is whose wound it was? Up until now the only one with more than one demon inside them is Toriko, but who is to say that Acacia don't have another inside of him as well? 3. Acacia although seemingly evil still does multiple seemingly counter productive actions to his plan, for example he will not actively remove threats and only attack when opposed directly and even then refuse to eliminate them in a efficient way, such as killing Jirou's physical body (letting his spirit free to reincarnate) instead of eating him, wounding Toriko instead of killing/eating him outright, ignoring the support cast (Chichi, Starjun) completely with some of them quite likely will f'ed up his plan somewhere down the way, knocking Pair instead of killing/eating him, talking way too much unnecessarily revealing his plan and acting way too card carryingly evil, using a inefficient technique that takes way too long and way too spread out to try eat the earth instead of a quick and concentrated attack to quickly put most of the Toriko world out of business (an action so baffling that even Midora comments on). And finally the way he cuts off Starjun's exposition about he and Toriko's parentage, it is so perfectly abrupt that it sounds intentional than anything else, likely to stop Joie from hearing the truth. In conclusion of all the evidence above, it may have been simply been the effect of a sticky villain ball, but it also becomes a lot more likely that Acacia is playing double agent to the "true enemy" this whole time acting accordingly in front of Joie who is likely an agent of the "true enemy", and that he knows from the very start that the blue nitro's plan wouldn't work, I mean if Midora is able to break out of a golden can with little difficulty, there is no way in hell it could contain something like the fully resurrected NEO (remember that the NEO we see right now is still incomplete), there must be another way, most likely connected to something out there in space (think, why would Joie need to make an Ark in the first place), namely Acacia's True Full Course which maybe connected to the gourmet paradise that Joie is searching for. As for the identity of "true enemy", what we see right now of NEO is a primal beast of little concerns other than eating anything around it, while it is certainly terrifying it contrasts with the idea of gourmet evolution, there are two types of true powers in the Toriko universe, appetite energy - raw spiritual energy that exist in everything that is alive, and techniques - mental capability to utilize appetite energy to the maximum level, such as Knocking, Food Honor, Food Pressure, Food Immersion, Ultimate Routine, Enbu, and Food Luck. It seems that as a being slowly climbs the evolutionary ladder, it grows in both raw appetite energy and technique, getting more powerful and smarter in the process, NEO however seems to be less and less concern about anything other than raw power, from a trickster who uses cunning to grow from a nobody to a cosmic horror, to a mindlessly eating primate looking thing who doesn't even talk anymore. What I propose is that the "true enemy" is NEO's head/brain (head wound on Acacia's forehead), and that it has not yet been revived physically, and thus still trapped in the spirit world right now, and that Acacia's True Full Couse could either revive gourmet demons completely in the body of their host taking them over and thus explain why Joie and the "true enemy" are so interested in it, or making the host the true master of their appetite thus giving Acacia the chance to over come his curse at last. Oh and the one who was strong enough to give NEO head its scar? Toriko's third demon is the prime suspect as of now. Though now there is a new possibility with the release of the newest chapters (up to 387), Acacia may have started out trying to oppose NEO, but something happened to him during his hibernation and he came out of it a certainly different man, why? My theory is that he was cooked and taste changed or simply overwhelmed by NEO itself, turning him into the monster he is today, evidences are all there: how could a man with the capture level of only 8000 consume his own demon with the capture level of 22000 without its consent? By the fact that the red ogre willingly consumed by Toriko to boost his power, it seems NEO had done the same with Acacia, let him consume itself to get his power level up to 30000, thus NEO and Acacia is indeed working together at least presently. Acacia however did warned Ichiryu for the coming of NEO before his hibernation, and Froese foresaw him getting corrupted by hiding their sons from him (most likely because she knew before hand that he has a demon inside him that he has no chance to resist and will given time take over him completely, how could she have gotten this information without Acacia himself telling her about it in the first place?) , tells me that at least once upon a time Acacia was a good man (or at least well intentioned) even if all that is left of him now is an abomination wearing his face running around kicking dogs left and right.]]

* {{Jossed}}: [[spoiler: he may have known about Star and Toriko's parentage, but he and Acacia certainly don't have an understanding between them. It is still possible for him to figure that something has happened to Acacia though, since he did turned evil compare to his old self, but Midora most likely don't really care anyway, because for him his family is gone forever.]]