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I decided I would get down to writing about this now since I usually find it strange how people can review a whole story that's not finished yet. Toriko I find to be a surprisingly under appreciated battle shonen in comparison with other greats as its world building and usual comedy and good times you find in shounens is just as good in some aspects.

Before we get into the other parts of the story I'm going to first highlight the art style which at its best is one of my favorites. In a shonen that finds itself being in 300+ chapters the art has ... improved greatly from its beginnings. The style of the characters throughout the entirety of the series have a kind of smooth outlining which changes greatly in moments of intensity and action to a strong penciled art. The gore is used well and can to most people be seen as going overboard since it's used a lot to portray all the hardcore fight scenes and to me in that aspect more resembles seinen than shounen. "The muscles" my god, these muscles are the near perfect culmination of all the post apocalyptic venturing, space traveling heroes to come before. I would say the food is drawn very well if that's what your looking for, just in case anyone was wondering since it is a good manga. The environments of the world are drawn to a huge scale from the locations to the wildlife to give everything a sense of adventure and intrigue.

Now to get to what the author uses to tell the story and just things that I like about it and attempt to not spoil the story. The narrative style that Shimabukuro uses is what I can only classify as the definition of hype. He will often narrate very important actions of the characters and environment in great detail using a understandable fictional science that he creates arc by arc. At its best moments he uses this to execute near perfect description of the scale that always tops itself opponent after opponent.

The main characters are somewhat archetypal at times but that seems to usually be overshadowed by the world, which isn't always negative as they serve as good cast to enjoy the world with. This story also has a decent amount of straight up laugh out loud moments and almost all the characters little tropes and quirks will grow on you. The main cast members have a pretty cool bromance, but overall lacks in not having nearly any significant females.The world also presents itself with a reasonably good power leveling that keeps it going and doesn't break its own rules too often to keep developing characters and overpowered characters in believable fights for them.

Overall, and so far as the story has progressed I'm enjoying it and even if it turns out to have a boring or bad ending I will still remember how great it was.